This list was submitted by Chicago Jake on Monday, December 29th, 2008 at 8:13 PM PST for The 2009 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Abe Vigoda | January 26th, 2016 | 94 |
9 | Liz Taylor | March 23rd, 2011 | 79 |
8 | Hugh Hefner | September 27th, 2017 | 91 |
7 | Jerry Lewis | August 20th, 2017 | 91 |
6 | George H.W. Bush | November 30th, 2018 | 94 |
5 | Barbara Bush | April 17th, 2018 | 92 |
4 | Nelson Mandela | December 5th, 2013 | 95 |
3 | Walter Cronkite | July 17th, 2009 | 92 |
2 | Mickey Rooney | April 6th, 2014 | 93 |
1 | Les Paul | August 13th, 2009 | 94 |
4 points | 2 hits |
She was the first black woman to star in a TV show (in 1968) in a non-servant role. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress. She worked with women at the LA Mission for decades. And she survived breast cancer. All of that is incredibly impressive, but there's just no getting around it: that is a RIDICULOUS way to spell Diane.
(d) October 4th, 2019