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 |
The shock of his death was universal. No one seemed to know that he was still alive.
(d) September 17th, 1996