This list was submitted by USER00627 on Saturday, January 9th, 1999 at 10:43 AM PST for The 1999 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | King Hussein | February 7th, 1999 | 63 |
9 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
8 | Joe DiMaggio | March 8th, 1999 | 84 |
7 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
6 | Katharine Hepburn | June 29th, 2003 | 96 |
5 | Billy Wilder | March 27th, 2002 | 95 |
4 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
3 | Al Hirschfeld | January 20th, 2003 | 99 |
2 | Fay Wray | August 8th, 2004 | 96 |
1 | Buddy Ebsen | July 6th, 2003 | 95 |
18 points | 2 hits |
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