This list was submitted by Bird on Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 at 12:18 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 | Chemical Ali | January 25th, 2010 | 68 |
7 | Kim Jong-il | December 18th, 2011 | 70 |
6 | Jack Ramsay | April 27th, 2014 | 89 |
5 | Claude Levi-Strauss | November 1st, 2009 | 100 |
4 | Betty Ford | July 8th, 2011 | 93 |
3 | Kirk Douglas | February 5th, 2020 | 103 |
2 | John Wooden | June 4th, 2010 | 99 |
1 | Seve Ballesteros | May 7th, 2011 | 54 |
24 points | 3 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