This list was submitted by USER00587 on Wednesday, January 6th, 1999 at 4:49 AM PST for The 1999 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | John Lee Hooker | June 21st, 2001 | 83 |
9 | Boris Yeltsin | April 23rd, 2007 | 76 |
8 | Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | March 30th, 2002 | 94 |
7 | Philip Johnson | January 25th, 2005 | 98 |
6 | Walter Cronkite | July 17th, 2009 | 92 |
5 | Harold Stassen | March 4th, 2001 | 93 |
4 | Vaclav Havel | December 18th, 2011 | 75 |
3 | King Hussein | February 7th, 1999 | 63 |
2 | David Brinkley | June 11th, 2003 | ? |
1 | Lady Bird Johnson | July 11th, 2007 | 94 |
3 points | 1 hit |
Reportedly, he was so popular in the '40s that charging Japanese troops yelled, "To hell with Roosevelt, to hell with Babe Ruth, to hell with Roy Acuff!" Yeah, sure.
(d) November 23rd, 1992