This list was submitted by razorben on Saturday, December 22nd, 2012 at 7:28 AM PST for The 2013 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Henry Heimlich | December 17th, 2016 | 96 |
9 | Fidel Castro | November 25th, 2016 | 90 |
8 | Herman Wouk | May 18th, 2019 | 103 |
7 | Pope Benedict XVI | December 31st, 2022 | 95 |
6 | I.M. Pei | May 16th, 2019 | 102 |
5 | Maya Angelou | May 28th, 2014 | 86 |
4 | Van Cliburn | February 27th, 2013 | 78 |
3 | Y.A.Tittle | October 8th, 2017 | 90 |
2 | Gloria Vanderbilt | June 17th, 2019 | 95 |
1 | David Rockefeller | March 20th, 2017 | 101 |
4 points | 1 hit |
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