This list was submitted by Radler on Thursday, December 27th, 2007 at 8:22 AM PST for The 2008 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Albert Hofmann | April 29th, 2008 | 102 |
9 | Michael DeBakey | July 11th, 2008 | 99 |
8 | Claude Levi-Strauss | November 1st, 2009 | 100 |
7 | Miep Gies | January 11th, 2010 | 100 |
6 | Earl Butz | February 2nd, 2008 | 98 |
5 | Luise Rainer | December 30th, 2014 | 104 |
4 | Gloria Stuart | September 26th, 2010 | 100 |
3 | John Wooden | June 4th, 2010 | 99 |
2 | Mitch Miller | July 31st, 2010 | 99 |
1 | Studs Terkel | October 31st, 2008 | 96 |
26 points | 4 hits |
This leader of the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, and onetime prime minister of the Black Panthers, left the United States for Africa in 1969, taking the name Kwame Ture. In the late '70s, he moved again and began calling himself Johnny Bravo. Finally, just before his death, he retired to a nursing home in Redondo Beach, and settled on the name Gidget.
(d) November 15th, 1998