This list was submitted by MBalmed on Saturday, December 31st, 2005 at 4:58 PM PST for The 2006 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Brooke Astor | August 13th, 2007 | 105 |
9 | Charles Walgreen | February 10th, 2007 | 100 |
8 | Run Run Shaw | January 6th, 2014 | 106 |
7 | John Galbraith | April 29th, 2006 | 97 |
6 | Michael DeBakey | July 11th, 2008 | 99 |
5 | Claude Levi-Strauss | November 1st, 2009 | 100 |
4 | Lady Bird Johnson | July 11th, 2007 | 94 |
3 | Ernest Gallo | March 6th, 2007 | 97 |
2 | Dolores Hope | September 19th, 2011 | 102 |
1 | Earl Butz | February 2nd, 2008 | 98 |
7 points | 1 hit |
He was Ireland's version of Jack Kevorkian, claiming to have helped some 50 people to die, and swearing he would kill himself. He went to Thailand to fulfill his promise, but returned upon discovering that euthanasia is illegal there too. Then he died in his sleep. What a schmuck.
(d) December 17th, 1998