This list was submitted by laptoplg on Tuesday, December 29th, 1998 at 9:50 PM PST for The 1999 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
| Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Joe DiMaggio | March 8th, 1999 | 84 |
| 9 | Joey Bishop | October 17th, 2007 | 89 |
| 8 | King Hussein | February 7th, 1999 | 63 |
| 7 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
| 6 | Don Knotts | February 24th, 2006 | 81 |
| 5 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
| 4 | Jonathan Harris | November 3rd, 2002 | 87 |
| 3 | Boris Yeltsin | April 23rd, 2007 | 76 |
| 2 | Russell Johnson | January 16th, 2014 | 89 |
| 1 | DeForest Kelley | June 11th, 1999 | 79 |
| 19 points | 3 hits |
She was the first black woman to star in a TV show (in 1968) in a non-servant role. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress. She worked with women at the LA Mission for decades. And she survived breast cancer. All of that is incredibly impressive, but there's just no getting around it: that is a RIDICULOUS way to spell Diane.
(d) October 4th, 2019