This list was submitted by USER03709 on Thursday, January 10th, 2002 at 5:03 PM PST for The 2002 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Leni Riefenstahl | September 8th, 2003 | 101 |
9 | Vaclav Havel | December 18th, 2011 | 75 |
8 | Milton Berle | March 27th, 2002 | 93 |
7 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
6 | Johnny PayCheck | February 19th, 2003 | 64 |
5 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
4 | Freddy Fender | October 14th, 2006 | 69 |
3 | Princess Margaret | February 9th, 2002 | 71 |
2 | Evel Knievel | November 30th, 2007 | 69 |
1 | Edmund Hillary | January 11th, 2008 | 88 |
11 points | 2 hits |
This jazz and studio guitar great played on hundreds of recordings — including Phil Spector's "River Deep-Mountain High" and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," Julie London's "Cry Me A River," and many of the Coasters' hits — and was known for beig one of the weirdest dudes in the business.
(d) May 6th, 2004