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 | Ted Kennedy | August 25th, 2009 | 77 |
8 | Patrick Swayze | September 14th, 2009 | 57 |
7 | Claude Levi-Strauss | November 1st, 2009 | 100 |
6 | Seve Ballesteros | May 7th, 2011 | 54 |
5 | Eunice Shriver | August 11th, 2009 | 88 |
4 | Joe Simon | December 14th, 2011 | 98 |
3 | Merle Haggard | April 6th, 2016 | 79 |
2 | Kim Jong-il | December 18th, 2011 | 70 |
1 | Les Paul | August 13th, 2009 | 94 |
30 points | 5 hits |
Though hailed the world over as "The King of the Trumpet," it's less widely known that in his home town of New Orleans, he was called "that fat, boring guy."
(d) April 27th, 1999