This list was submitted by USER00373 on Wednesday, December 30th, 1998 at 3:29 PM PST for The 1999 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Joe DiMaggio | March 8th, 1999 | 84 |
9 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
8 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
7 | King Hussein | February 7th, 1999 | 63 |
6 | Vaclav Havel | December 18th, 2011 | 75 |
5 | Boris Yeltsin | April 23rd, 2007 | 76 |
4 | Ian Dury | March 27th, 2000 | 57 |
3 | John Gielgud | May 21st, 2000 | 96 |
2 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
1 | Betty Ford | July 8th, 2011 | 93 |
17 points | 2 hits |
He stormed the beach at Normandy, then killed an attacking enemy soldier with a rock after being seriously wounded. After that, he went on to play Santa Claus in Elmo Saves Christmas, and then died on Christmas Eve. We're not sure how that all fits together, but it's pretty weird.
(d) December 24th, 2012