This list was submitted by Minnesota Neil on Saturday, January 15th, 2000 at 7:32 AM PST for The 2000 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Boris Yeltsin | April 23rd, 2007 | 76 |
9 | Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | March 30th, 2002 | 94 |
8 | Barbara Cartland | May 21st, 2000 | 98 |
7 | Mortimer Adler | June 28th, 2001 | ? |
6 | Morris Udall | December 12th, 1998 | 76 |
5 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
4 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
3 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
2 | Fay Wray | August 8th, 2004 | 96 |
1 | Alistair Cooke | March 30th, 2004 | 95 |
8 points | 1 hit |
Though hailed the world over as "The King of the Trumpet," it's less widely known that in his home town of New Orleans, he was called "that fat, boring guy."
(d) April 27th, 1999