This list was submitted by Cheswick on Friday, December 30th, 2022 at 2:45 PM PST for The 2023 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Pope Benedict XVI | December 31st, 2022 | 95 |
9 | Rosalyn Carter | November 19th, 2023 | 96 |
8 | Ethel Kennedy | October 10th, 2024 | 96 |
7 | Liza Minnelli | Alive | 79 |
6 | Dick Van Dyke | Alive | 99 |
5 | Gene Shalit | Alive | 99 |
4 | Harry Belafonte | April 25th, 2023 | 96 |
3 | Barbara Walters | December 30th, 2022 | 93 |
2 | Ruth Buzzi | Alive | ? |
1 | Buzz Aldrin | Alive | 95 |
13 points | 2 hits |
This leader of the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, and onetime prime minister of the Black Panthers, left the United States for Africa in 1969, taking the name Kwame Ture. In the late '70s, he moved again and began calling himself Johnny Bravo. Finally, just before his death, he retired to a nursing home in Redondo Beach, and settled on the name Gidget.
(d) November 15th, 1998