This list was submitted by USER00947 on Saturday, December 31st, 2005 at 11:51 AM PST for The 2006 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Lou Rawls | January 6th, 2006 | 72 |
9 | Gerald Ford | December 26th, 2006 | 93 |
8 | Lady Bird Johnson | July 11th, 2007 | 94 |
7 | Margaret Thatcher | April 8th, 2013 | 87 |
6 | Slobodan Milosevic | March 11th, 2006 | 64 |
5 | Red Auerbach | October 28th, 2006 | 89 |
4 | Mitch Miller | July 31st, 2010 | 99 |
3 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | August 3rd, 2008 | 89 |
2 | Glenn Ford | August 30th, 2006 | 90 |
1 | Phil Rizzuto | August 13th, 2007 | 89 |
32 points | 5 hits |
This jazz and studio guitar great played on hundreds of recordings — including Phil Spector's "River Deep-Mountain High" and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," Julie London's "Cry Me A River," and many of the Coasters' hits — and was known for beig one of the weirdest dudes in the business.
(d) May 6th, 2004