This list was submitted by Ghoulash on Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 at 10:15 AM PST for The 2009 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Ted Kennedy | August 25th, 2009 | 77 |
9 | Patrick Swayze | September 14th, 2009 | 57 |
8 | Merle Haggard | April 6th, 2016 | 79 |
7 | John Wooden | June 4th, 2010 | 99 |
6 | Claude Levi-Strauss | November 1st, 2009 | 100 |
5 | Dolores Hope | September 19th, 2011 | 102 |
4 | Sargent Shriver | January 18th, 2011 | 95 |
3 | Mitch Miller | July 31st, 2010 | 99 |
2 | Fidel Castro | November 25th, 2016 | 90 |
1 | Luise Rainer | December 30th, 2014 | 104 |
25 points | 3 hits |
Reportedly, he was so popular in the '40s that charging Japanese troops yelled, "To hell with Roosevelt, to hell with Babe Ruth, to hell with Roy Acuff!" Yeah, sure.
(d) November 23rd, 1992