This list was submitted by Mary Tyler Morgue on Thursday, December 29th, 2005 at 10:40 PM PST for The 2006 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
| Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Brooke Astor | August 13th, 2007 | 105 |
| 9 | Jack Kevorkian | June 3rd, 2011 | 83 |
| 8 | Charlton Heston | April 5th, 2008 | 84 |
| 7 | Lou Rawls | January 6th, 2006 | 72 |
| 6 | Patsy Ramsey | June 24th, 2006 | 49 |
| 5 | Liz Taylor | March 23rd, 2011 | 79 |
| 4 | John Galbraith | April 29th, 2006 | 97 |
| 3 | Gerald Ford | December 26th, 2006 | 93 |
| 2 | Ronnie Biggs | December 18th, 2013 | 84 |
| 1 | Tammy Messner | July 20th, 2007 | 65 |
| 20 points | 4 hits |
Though hailed the world over as "The King of the Trumpet," it's less widely known that in his home town of New Orleans, he was called "that fat, boring guy."
(d) April 27th, 1999