This list was submitted by USER01145 on Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 at 2:08 PM PST for The 2009 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Bob Novak | August 18th, 2009 | 78 |
9 | Ted Kennedy | August 25th, 2009 | 77 |
8 | Soupy Sales | October 22nd, 2009 | 83 |
7 | Seve Ballesteros | May 7th, 2011 | 54 |
6 | Merle Haggard | April 6th, 2016 | 79 |
5 | Patrick Swayze | September 14th, 2009 | 57 |
4 | King Sihanouk | October 14th, 2012 | 89 |
3 | Griffin Bell | January 5th, 2009 | 90 |
2 | Steve Jobs | October 5th, 2011 | 56 |
1 | Chemical Ali | January 25th, 2010 | 68 |
35 points | 5 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