Looking back at other lists, I thought I had a scoop when I heard that Gordon Lightfoot was pretty sick. I guess that was more common knowledge then I’d guessed.
SIX!
And Happy New Year to all our Doper friends in the UK and Ireland!
It’s also my anniversary tonight. So, I better post now. I might not get a chance later.
Drum roll please…
Lucky #13 to my list AND my 666th post is
Cardinal Lustiger of Paris
http://www.hackwriters.com/Lustiger.htm
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!
FIVE!
FOUR!
THREE!
TWO!
I must admit that I did look at other posts to come up with this this list, but it is already hourst past midnight here, so I thought, who cares…
1 Osama bin Laden
2 Saddam Hussein
3Ronald Reagan
4 Sharon Osbourne
5 Arthur C. Clarke
6 The crocodile hunter, Irvine or whatever
7 Pope John Paul II
8 Charlton Heston
9 Michael Jackson
10 Queen Elizabeh II
11 Boris Yeltsin
12 Yassir Arafat
13 Zsa Zsa Gabor
And I apologize in advance for everybody who dies who’s on my list. I hope it’s not my fault!
ONE!
Happy New Year to the East Coast!
I am making changes to my original list during the final hour. New names are in bold font
- Warren Zevon (musician)
- Marge Schott (former Reds owner, life-long smoker)
- Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle)
- David Crosby (musician)
- Daryl Strawberry (former baseball player)
- Vaclav Havel (Czech prez)
- Joey Buttafuoco (a celebrity of sorts)
- Bo Diddley (musician)
- Bob Dylan (songwriter)
- Michael Skakel (Kennedy, murderer)
- John Goodman (rotund actor)
- Liza Minelli (actress/singer)
- Hugo Chavez (leader of a troubled Venezuela)
My alternates in case any of those do not qualify or if any die in the next few minutes.
- Warren Spahn (Hall of Fame pitcher)
- Joe Paterno (Penn St. football coach)
- George Martin (Beatles’ producer)
…And I will still go out on a limb and say that the pope will see 2004.
Last second picks(I hope):
1.Warren Zevon
2.Hamid Karzai
3.Saddam Hussain
4.The Pope
5.Hugo Chavez
6.Ronald Reagan
7.Whitney Houston
8.Nick Nolte
9.Valdimir Putin
10.Queen Elizibeth II
11.Suge Knight
12.Yasser Arafat
13.Axl Rose
[list=1]
[li]John Astin, 72[/li][li]Chuck Barris, 73[/li][li]Gary Busey, 58[/li][li]Alice Ghostley, 76[/li][li]Buddy Hackett, 78[/li][li]Don Knotts, 78[/li][li]Grampa Al Lewis, 79[/li][li]Jack Parr, 84[/li][li]Soupy Sales, 76[/li][li]Pete Seeger, 83[/li][li]Suzanne Somers, 56[/li][li]Aaron Spelling, 79[/li][li]Jan-Michael Vincent, 58[/li][/list=1]
Eric
- Ronald Reagan
- Pope John Paul II
- Richard Daley (Mayor of Chicago)
- Sadaam Husein
- Jerry Lewis
- Miss Cleo (And she won’t see it coming either!)
- Elijah Wood
- Gerald Ford
- Keith Richards
- Liza Minelli
- Roberto Benini
- Fidel Castro
- O.J. Simpson
Okay, that’s it, folks! It’s 2003 in Chicago, and no more submissions or changes will be accepted!
I can’t believe how many submissions there are!! I expected to have the master list up this weekend, but that probably isn’t gonna happen. I will get it out as soon as I can.
Thanks for playing, everybody! 
I have just heard some grave news… Buckwheat is dead…
They just said on the news that Maurice Gibb died at age 53.
Yeah, but nobody picked him.
Whew, Mike H really squeezed that submission in there just in time!
Are you gonna post a concise lttle table type thing featuring everyones selections in a handy ‘see how everybodys scoring at a glance’ type way?
Perhaps the admins will give you edit power if you agree only to use it to update the scoring as the death toll rises.
I was originally planning to type up a master list of everybody’s submissions and post it here, but there were so many submissions that it would mean a couple of very long posts, and I’m not sure it’s even necessary. It wouldn’t be a “concise” list 
because we had so many people trying to come up with unique submissions. I suspect there might be a bunch of “Inside Track” winners this year.
I’ll just keep a running scoreboard. I do have a hard copy of all the submissions, just in case. So far, we have no scorers.