This list was submitted by USER01531 on Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 at 12:08 PM PST for The 2009 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
| Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Seve Ballesteros | May 7th, 2011 | 54 |
| 9 | Ted Kennedy | August 25th, 2009 | 77 |
| 8 | Merle Haggard | April 6th, 2016 | 79 |
| 7 | Claude Levi-Strauss | November 1st, 2009 | 100 |
| 6 | Elizabeth Edwards | December 7th, 2010 | 61 |
| 5 | Dolores Hope | September 19th, 2011 | 102 |
| 4 | Billy Graham | February 21st, 2018 | 99 |
| 3 | Lawrence Walsh | March 19th, 2014 | 102 |
| 2 | Jack Kevorkian | June 3rd, 2011 | 83 |
| 1 | Patrick Swayze | September 14th, 2009 | 57 |
| 17 points | 3 hits |
The noted Mayan scholar and historian, of course. Not only did we not know who she was when she was alive, but she was dead for a week before somebody finally pointed out that she was on a list. What are we, the goddamned FBI?
(d) April 18th, 1998