Better Dying through Chemistry

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This list was submitted by Starwanderer on Monday, December 31st, 2007 at 11:52 PM PST for The 2008 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.

Points Celebrity Date of Death Age 
10Chemical AliJanuary 25th, 201068
9Claude Levi-StraussNovember 1st, 2009100
8Michael DeBakey July 11th, 200899
7Richard Widmark March 24th, 200893
6Betty FordJuly 8th, 201193
5Gloria StuartSeptember 26th, 2010100
4Luise RainerDecember 30th, 2014104
3Mitch MillerJuly 31st, 201099
2Studs Terkel October 31st, 200896
1Art LinkletterMay 26th, 201097
17 points 3 hits 
 

 

Guess the Stiff!

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