This list was submitted by Shams on Saturday, December 31st, 2016 at 7:17 AM PST for The 2017 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
| Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | David Rockefeller | March 20th, 2017 | 101 |
| 9 | Kirk Douglas | February 5th, 2020 | 103 |
| 8 | Irwin Corey | February 6th, 2017 | 102 |
| 7 | I.M. Pei | May 16th, 2019 | 102 |
| 6 | Superstar Billy Graham | May 17th, 2023 | 79 |
| 5 | Mikhail Gorbachev | August 30th, 2022 | 91 |
| 4 | George H.W. Bush | November 30th, 2018 | 94 |
| 3 | Sidney Poitier | January 6th, 2022 | 94 |
| 2 | Stephen Hawking | March 13th, 2018 | 76 |
| 1 | Tom Brokaw | Alive | 85 |
| 18 points | 2 hits |
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