This list was submitted by USER00552 on Monday, January 4th, 1999 at 4:20 PM PST for The 1999 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Richard Pryor | December 10th, 2005 | 65 |
9 | Joe DiMaggio | March 8th, 1999 | 84 |
8 | Dusty Springfield | March 2nd, 1999 | 59 |
7 | Allen Funt | September 5th, 1999 | 84 |
6 | Johnny Cash | September 12th, 2003 | 71 |
5 | Walter Matthau | July 1st, 2000 | 79 |
4 | Boris Yeltsin | April 23rd, 2007 | 76 |
3 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
2 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
1 | Arthur Clarke | March 19th, 2008 | 90 |
24 points | 3 hits |
Though hailed the world over as "The King of the Trumpet," it's less widely known that in his home town of New Orleans, he was called "that fat, boring guy."
(d) April 27th, 1999