This list was submitted by yeah yeah buh bye on Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 at 5:52 PM PST for The 2009 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
| Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Griffin Bell | January 5th, 2009 | 90 |
| 9 | Patrick Swayze | September 14th, 2009 | 57 |
| 8 | Ronnie Biggs | December 18th, 2013 | 84 |
| 7 | Dominick Dunne | August 26th, 2009 | 83 |
| 6 | Seve Ballesteros | May 7th, 2011 | 54 |
| 5 | Ted Kennedy | August 25th, 2009 | 77 |
| 4 | Merle Haggard | April 6th, 2016 | 79 |
| 3 | George Steinbrenner | July 13th, 2010 | 80 |
| 2 | Joseph Ferguson | Alive | 76 |
| 1 | Nelson Mandela | December 5th, 2013 | 95 |
| 31 points | 4 hits |
Oldest member of the Academie Francaise, and the author of dozens of books on Catholic philosophy, he was also said to have the ear of Pope Nicholas IV, back in the late 13th century.
(d) March 21st, 1999