This list was submitted by Minnesota Neil on Tuesday, January 5th, 1999 at 5:58 AM PST for The 1999 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
| Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Joe DiMaggio | March 8th, 1999 | 84 |
| 9 | Boris Yeltsin | April 23rd, 2007 | 76 |
| 8 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
| 7 | Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | March 30th, 2002 | 94 |
| 6 | King Hussein | February 7th, 1999 | 63 |
| 5 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
| 4 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
| 3 | Evel Knievel | November 30th, 2007 | 69 |
| 2 | Fay Wray | August 8th, 2004 | 96 |
| 1 | Gene Siskel | February 20th, 1999 | 53 |
| 17 points | 3 hits |
He was the Chief Inspector in The Pink Panther movies, sure. But more importantly, he was the child of Karl ze Schluderpacheru and his spouse Olga née Gottlieb who were members of Austrian nobility. If that's not celebrity, then we don't know what is.
(d) September 27th, 2012