This list was submitted by USER00409 on Thursday, December 31st, 1998 at 9:50 AM PST for The 1999 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Joe DiMaggio | March 8th, 1999 | 84 |
9 | Johnny PayCheck | February 19th, 2003 | 64 |
8 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
7 | Boris Yeltsin | April 23rd, 2007 | 76 |
6 | Ronald Reagan | June 5th, 2004 | 93 |
5 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
4 | Lady Bird Johnson | July 11th, 2007 | 94 |
3 | Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | March 30th, 2002 | 94 |
2 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
1 | Rosemary Clooney | June 29th, 2002 | 74 |
10 points | 1 hit |
This guy was the greatest. Unlike any other televangelist, he came across as a psycho college professor, unkempt and ranting, possibly on drugs. Sometimes he played sax. Once, when he was upset about the paucity of donations, we watched him smoke an entire cigar, without saying a word, for twenty minutes. This was late-night UHF programming at its most riveting, folks, and Dr. Gene will be missed.
(d) February 21st, 2005