This list was submitted by USER00965 on Friday, January 14th, 2000 at 3:25 PM PST for The 2000 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
| Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Charles Schulz | February 12th, 2000 | 77 |
| 9 | Ian Dury | March 27th, 2000 | 57 |
| 8 | Don Budge | January 26th, 2000 | 84 |
| 7 | Tom Landry | February 12th, 2000 | 75 |
| 6 | Buddy Ebsen | July 6th, 2003 | 95 |
| 5 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
| 4 | Ronald Reagan | June 5th, 2004 | 93 |
| 3 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
| 2 | Boris Yeltsin | April 23rd, 2007 | 76 |
| 1 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
| 34 points | 4 hits |
He was the Chief Inspector in The Pink Panther movies, sure. But more importantly, he was the child of Karl ze Schluderpacheru and his spouse Olga née Gottlieb who were members of Austrian nobility. If that's not celebrity, then we don't know what is.
(d) September 27th, 2012