This list was submitted by USER00425 on Sunday, December 31st, 2000 at 10:00 PM PST for The 2001 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
9 | Prince Rainier | April 6th, 2005 | 81 |
8 | King Sihanouk | October 14th, 2012 | 89 |
7 | Gene Wilder | August 29th, 2016 | 83 |
6 | Richard Pryor | December 10th, 2005 | 65 |
5 | Vaclav Havel | December 18th, 2011 | 75 |
4 | Osama bin Laden | May 2nd, 2011 | 54 |
3 | Carroll O'Connor | June 21st, 2001 | 76 |
2 | Waylon Jennings | February 13th, 2002 | 64 |
1 | William Proxmire | December 15th, 2005 | 90 |
3 points | 1 hit |
Reportedly, he was so popular in the '40s that charging Japanese troops yelled, "To hell with Roosevelt, to hell with Babe Ruth, to hell with Roy Acuff!" Yeah, sure.
(d) November 23rd, 1992