This list was submitted by USER00348 on Tuesday, December 29th, 1998 at 1:43 PM PST for The 1999 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
| Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | King Hussein | February 7th, 1999 | 63 |
| 9 | Not Famous | ||
| 8 | Lou Boudreau | August 10th, 2001 | 84 |
| 7 | Joe DiMaggio | March 8th, 1999 | 84 |
| 6 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
| 5 | Studs Terkel | October 31st, 2008 | 96 |
| 4 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
| 3 | Boris Yeltsin | April 23rd, 2007 | 76 |
| 2 | Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | March 30th, 2002 | 94 |
| 1 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
| 17 points | 2 hits | ||
He was called "The Master of Malaprop", which is where you purposely use the wrong word in a sentence, making it hilarious. For example, saying "You could have knocked me over with a fender." We assume the word "hilarious" meant something different back in the 60's.
(d) November 7th, 2020