This list was submitted by TarotGuy on Tuesday, December 31st, 2024 at 8:44 PM PST for The 2025 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Buzz Aldrin | Alive | 95 |
9 | Marion Ross | Alive | ? |
8 | Gene Hackman | February 17th, 2025 | 95 |
7 | Estelle Parsons | Alive | ? |
6 | Doc Severinsen | Alive | ? |
5 | William Daniels | Alive | ? |
4 | Tippi Hedren | Alive | 95 |
3 | David Attenborough | Alive | 98 |
2 | Dick Van Dyke | Alive | 99 |
1 | Mel Brooks | Alive | 98 |
8 points | 1 hit |
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