This list was submitted by Bird on Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 at 12:03 PM PST for The 2009 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
| Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Patrick Swayze | September 14th, 2009 | 57 |
| 9 | Ted Kennedy | August 25th, 2009 | 77 |
| 8 | Eunice Shriver | August 11th, 2009 | 88 |
| 7 | Jack Ramsay | April 27th, 2014 | 89 |
| 6 | Steve Jobs | October 5th, 2011 | 56 |
| 5 | Seve Ballesteros | May 7th, 2011 | 54 |
| 4 | Ariel Sharon | January 11th, 2014 | 85 |
| 3 | Claude Levi-Strauss | November 1st, 2009 | 100 |
| 2 | John Wooden | June 4th, 2010 | 99 |
| 1 | Fidel Castro | November 25th, 2016 | 90 |
| 30 points | 4 hits |
It's not that he was JUST the cartoonist who created Family Circus, we'll have you know he ALSO did Channel Chuckles and Silly Philly, to say nothing of the fact that he was PRESIDENT of the National Cartoonists Society for 3 years, AND was close friends with Jeff MacNelly, the creator of Shoe.
That's all we got.
(d) November 8th, 2011