This list was submitted by DGD on Sunday, December 28th, 2008 at 2:08 PM PST for The 2009 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Chemical Ali | January 25th, 2010 | 68 |
9 | Bob Novak | August 18th, 2009 | 78 |
8 | Ted Kennedy | August 25th, 2009 | 77 |
7 | Patrick Swayze | September 14th, 2009 | 57 |
6 | Dolores Hope | September 19th, 2011 | 102 |
5 | Farrah Fawcett | June 25th, 2009 | 62 |
4 | Elizabeth Edwards | December 7th, 2010 | 61 |
3 | Eli Wallach | June 24th, 2014 | 98 |
2 | Merle Haggard | April 6th, 2016 | 79 |
1 | Rise Stevens | March 20th, 2013 | 99 |
29 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