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 |
Oldest member of the Academie Francaise, and the author of dozens of books on Catholic philosophy, he was also said to have the ear of Pope Nicholas IV, back in the late 13th century.
(d) March 21st, 1999