Ladybird Johnson
Pope John Paul II
Rosa Parks
Robert McNamara
C. Everett Koop
Estee Lauder
Ernest Borgnine
Olivia De Havilland
Gerald Ford
John Kenneth Galbraith
Fay Wray
Max Schmeling
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Britney Spears (Hey, I’m going for points here!)
- Mick Jagger (Once a knight is enough.)
- Keith Richards (almost too obvious)
- Saddam Hussein (The bastard’s not worth many points–or anything else, for that matter, but it seems pretty likely he’ll go.)
- Michael Jackson (of humiliation on being found out)
- Martin Sheen (hope I’m wrong)
- Mike Tyson (down for the count)
- Scott Peterson (in jail, at the hand of another inmate)
- Dick Cheney (heart attack)
- Robert Downey Jr. (just one more hit)
- Andy Rooney (apoplexy)
- Rodney Dangerfield (in bad health for a long time)
- Kim Jung Il (deposed by somebody worse)
My list looks a little like this:
1 - Ronald Reagan (former actor)
2 - Pope John Paul II (cult leader)
3 - Hamid Karzai (President of Afghanistan)
4 - Robert Byrd (Senator from WV)
5 - Dick Cheney (though he will be replaced by an animatronic double, and we’ll never know about it)
6 - Colin Farrell (will be shot by jealous husband)
7 - Marlon Brando (will implode)
8 - Anna Nicole Smith (will explode)
9 - Joe Garagiola (baseball announcer)
10 - Monte Irvin (Negro League player)
11 - Deep Throat (can I use him? I seem to recall Woodward & Bernstein saying they’d reveal DT’s identity after his death)
12 - Shirley Temple
13 - Tony Danza (just because I think it will be funny when his eulogists laud his many talents)
Now that everyone is jumping off the Saddam Hussein bandwagon, just watch the guy go and croak of a heart attack or some such the first week of January.
What the hell, I’ll do my part to ensure Saddam’s untimely demise. Replace him on my list with Jim Rome. Go for the longshot.
Does that extend to persons serving as mercenaries for unofficial purposes as contracted by foreign governments?
I may regret this later, but I’ll do a master list. I won’t be able to make a website with it, but I’ll give it to whoever does so.
Please do so, somebody. It’s very helpful and snifty.
Heck, I’ll join in for the first time, why not?
Politics:
- Pope John Paul II - poor guy doesn’t stand a chance with all of us picking him, does he?
- Pervez Musharraf (Pakistan) - target of 2 assassination attempts already, third time a charm?
- Atal Bihar Vajpayee (India) - old, doesn’t seem in the best of health
- Ronald Reagan - ailing and fading fast, apparently
- Donald Rumsfeld - my wildcard politician
Entertainment:
6. Winona Ryder - by her own hand, accidental or otherwise
7. William F. Buckley - older gent
8. Dirk Benedict - saw him on the SciFi channel show about the new Battlestar Galactica, & he didn’t look so good
9. Debbie Fisher - older lady
Sports:
10. Phil Rizzuto - older gent
11. Hank Aaron - older gent
12. Lawrence Phillips - self destruction
13. Bobby Orr - older gent
SpazCat, if you do the master list I’ll post it. May as well make use of my free web space. 
Wonderful. I love you. I’m compiling the list as we type! One question: does you have MS Word? That’s what I’m doing the list in.
Yup, no problem!
My first time playing! Will these results be transferred to Celebrity Death Pool.com or do I have to submit to that site too? Here’s my predictions:
- Ronald Reagan
- Pope John Paul II
- Queen Elizabeth
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Jerry Lewis
- Luciano Pavoratti
- Bob Barker
- Marlon Brando
- Yvonne Di Carlo
- Michael Jackson
- Kirk Douglas
- Charlton Heston
- Saddam Hussein
Mona Lott - Which Barbara Bush? The one married to George H. W. Bush or her granddaughter?
Gobear - you’ve duplicated the numbers 5 and 6 on your list, so you have two picks too many. I’m on to you! 
- Ronald Reagan
- Pope John Paul II
- Charlton Heston
- Lady Bird Johnson
- Barbara Bush
- Barbara Walters
- Bob Barker
- Michael Jackson
- Marlon Brando
- Julia Child
- Walter Cronkite
- Peter Ustonov
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Ronald Reagan
- Pope John Paul II
- Charlton Heston
- Lady Bird Johnson
- Barbara Bush
- Barbara Walters
- Bob Barker
- Michael Jackson
- Marlon Brando
- Julia Child
- Walter Cronkite
- Peter Ustonov
- Queen Elizabeth II
Mudshark and Munch - which Barbara Bush?
SpazCat - You missed a number, you only have twelve picks.
Mrs. George Herbert Walker Bush.
- Pope John Paul II
- Rosalyn Carter
- Johnny Carson
- Paul Hogan
- Saddam Hussein
- Tarik Aziz
- Tom Jones
- Jason Priestly
- William H. Gacy
- Jerry Stiller
- Kirk Douglas
- 50 Cent
- Mario Lopez (A.C. Slater from “Saved by the Bell”)
Happy
Name No. of Votes
Pope John Paul II 60
Ronald Reagan 51
Michael Jackson 26
Kirk Douglas 15
Richard Pryor 15
Saddam Hussein 15
Charleton Heston 14
Walter Cronkite 13
Gerald Ford 12
Marlon Brando 12
Bob Barker 10
Keith Richards 10
Lady Bird Johnson 10
Osama bin Laden 10
Jerry Lewis 9
Rodney Dangerfield 9
Yassir Arafat 9
Dick Cheney 8
Boris Yeltsin 7
Courtney Love 7
Julia Child 7
Margaret Thatcher 7
Prince Philip, Duke 7
Robert Downey Jr. 7
Roy Horn 7
Andy Rooney 6
Don Knotts 6
Fidel Castro 6
John Goodman 6
Johnny Carson 6
Kim Jong-Il 6
Ozzy Osbourne 6
Queen Elizabeth II 6
Rosa Parks 6
Scott Weiland 6
Stephen Hawking 6
50 Cent 5
Billy Graham 5
Christopher Lee 5
Elizabeth Taylor 5
Henry Kissinger 5
James Garner 5
Larry King 5
Luciano Pavarotti 5
Paris Hilton 5
Peter Ustinov 5
Stephen King 5
Whitney Houston 5
Abe Vigoda 4
David Crosby 4
Eminem 4
Ernest Borgnine 4
Fay Wray 4
George Jones 4
George Walker Bush4
James Doohan 4
John Travolta 4
Mick Jagger 4
Mike Tyson 4
Prince Rainier of Mo 4
Sid Caesar 4
Tug McGraw 4
Al "Grandpa" Lewis 3
Andy Dick 3
Andy Griffith 3
B. B. King 3
Barbara Bush 3
Bea Arthur 3
Carol Burnett 3
Dan Rather 3
Darryl Strawberry 3
Dick Van Dyke 3
Ed McMahon 3
Eddie Albert 3
Edward Kennedy, S 3
Estelle Getty 3
Hamid Karzai 3
Harry Morgan 3
Helmut Kohl 3
Jimmy Carter 3
Joe Piscapo 3
Maggie Smith 3
Magic Johnson 3
Meat Loaf 3
Mike Wallace 3
Muhammad Ali 3
Nancy Reagan 3
Olivia de Havilland 3
Peter O'Toole 3
Ron Santo 3
Suge Knight 3
Zsa Zsa Gabor 3
Abigail Van Buren 2
Alan Alda 2
Alan Greenspan 2
Angela Lansbury 2
Anne Rice 2
Arnold Schwarzeneg2
Art Linkletter 2
Arthur C. Clarke 2
Augusto Pinochet 2
Barbara Walters 2
Betty Ford 2
Betty White 2
Carol Channing 2
Christopher Reeve 2
Colin Farrell 2
David Blaine 2
Dick Clark 2
Dom DeLuise 2
Don Adams 2
Don Rickles 2
Doris Day 2
Eli Wallach 2
Fred Phelps 2
Gabriel Garcia Marq 2
Gary Coleman 2
Gavin McLeod 2
Gene Wilder 2
George Best 2
Gordon Lightfoot 2
Iggy Pop 2
Jack LaLanne 2
Jack Nicholson 2
Jerry Lee Lewis 2
Jesse Helms 2
Jim Nabors 2
John Kenneth Galbr 2
Kurt Vonnegut 2
Lee Boyd Malvo/Joh 2
Lee Iacocca 2
Liza Minelli 2
Louie Anderson 2
Luther Vandross 2
Macaulay Culkin 2
Martin Landau 2
Mary Tyler Moore 2
Max Schmelling 2
Merle Haggard 2
Mickey Rooney 2
Mikhail Gorbechev 2
Nelson Mandela 2
Patsy Ramsey 2
Prince Charles of W 2
Princess Julianna of 2
Quentin Tarantino 2
Robert McNamara 2
Roger Moore 2
Rosalynn Carter 2
Rose Marie 2
Russell Johnson 2
Scott Peterson 2
Sharon Osbourne 2
Shirley Temple 2
Steve Irwin 2
Studs Terkel 2
Tara Reid 2
Tony Randall 2
Yogi Berra 2
Agnetha Faltskog 1
Aileen Getty 1
Al Molinaro 1
Al Pacino 1
Al Roker 1
Alain Robert 1
Alex Trebek 1
Alex Yoong 1
Alexander Solzhenit 1
Allan Iverson 1
Allan Melvin 1
Andrew Dice Clay 1
Andrew Fastow 1
Andrew Lloyd Webb 1
Ann Coulter 1
Anna Nicole Smith 1
Annette Funicello 1
Archibald Cox 1
Arnold Palmer 1
Arthur Miller 1
Ashton Kutcher 1
Atal Bihari Vajpayee 1
Ben Affleck 1
Betty Comden 1
Bill France Jr. 1
Bill Ward 1
Bill Wyman 1
Billy Bob Thornton 1
Billy Keane 1
Bishop Desmond Tut1
Bob Banfield 1
Bob Dylan 1
Bob Monkhouse 1
Bob Newhart 1
Bobby Brown 1
Bobby Fischer 1
Bobby Goldsboro 1
Bobby Orr 1
Boog Powell 1
Brad Delson 1
Britney Spears 1
Bud Tingwell 1
Buzz Aldrin 1
C. Everett Koop 1
Candace Cameron B1
Carl Reiner 1
Charles Manson 1
Charles Nelson Reill 1
Charo 1
Chloe Sevigny 1
Chris Evans 1
Chris Kattan 1
Christina Aguilera 1
Chuck Berry 1
Cicely Tyson 1
Claus Von Bulow 1
Clint Eastwood 1
Conrad Bain 1
Coretta Scott King 1
Corey Haim 1
Cyd Charisse 1
Dale Earnhardt Jr. 1
Darren McGavin 1
Dave Dravecky 1
David Hockney 1
David Myers 1
Debbie Fisher 1
Debbie Reynolds 1
Deep Throat 1
Dennis Hopper 1
Dennis Kozlowski 1
Dennis Rodman 1
Derek Fowlds 1
Diahann Carroll 1
Diana Ross 1
Dick Francis 1
Dick Smothers 1
Dirk Benedict 1
Don Ho 1
Don Van Vliet 1
Don Williams 1
Donald Rumsfeld 1
Donna Douglas 1
Drew Barrymore 1
Ed Koch 1
Eddie Van Halen 1
Eddie Vedder 1
Edward Furlong 1
Edward Gough Whitl1
Eldon Auker 1
Elizabeth Kubler-Ros1
Ellen Burstyn 1
Elton John 1
Emperor Akhito of Ja1
Eric Lindross 1
Ernie Harwell 1
Estee Lauder 1
Esther Williams 1
Ewan McGregor 1
Fay Vincent 1
Francis Crick 1
Francis Ford Coppol 1
Frank Gifford 1
Frankie Laine 1
Freddie Trueman 1
Geoffrey Boycott 1
George Clinton 1
George H. W. Bush 1
George O'Dowd 1
George Steinbrenn 1
Glen Campbell 1
Glenn Ford 1
Gloria Stuart 1
Goldie Hawn 1
Gordie Howe 1
Gore Vidal 1
Greg Louganis 1
Gwyneth Paltrow 1
Hank Aaron 1
Harmon Killebrew 1
Harper Lee 1
Harrison Ford 1
Harry Dean Stanton 1
Harvey Korman 1
Helen Thomas 1
Henry Winkler 1
Holly Johnson 1
Howard Hesseman 1
Hugh Downs 1
Hugh Hefner 1
Hugo Chavez 1
Hunter S. Thompso 1
Ian McKellen 1
Ian Richardson 1
J. D. Salinger 1
J. P. Montero 1
Ja Rule 1
Jack Osbourne 1
Jack Palance 1
Jack Williamson 1
Jackie Chan 1
Jacques Chirac 1
James Brown 1
James Earl Jones 1
James Hetfield 1
James Watson 1
Jane Wyatt 1
Jane Wyman 1
Janie Jones 1
Jason Mewes 1
Jason Priestly 1
Jean Bertrand Aristi 1
Jean Stapleton 1
Jean-Claude Duvalie1
Jeff Corwin 1
Jeff Gordon 1
Jennifer Aniston 1
Jennifer Lopez 1
Jerry Stiller 1
Jiang Zemin 1
Jim Bakker 1
Jim McKay 1
Jim Rome 1
Jimmie Johnson 1
Jimmy Kimmel 1
Jodie Sweetin 1
Joe Garagiola 1
Joe Paterno 1
John Cleese 1
John Glenn 1
John Larroquette 1
John Madden 1
John Popper 1
John Ramsey 1
John Wooden 1
Johnny Galecki 1
Johnny Ramone 1
Johnny Vegas 1
Jonathan Winters 1
Julian Lloyd Webber 1
June Foray 1
June Lockhart 1
Justin Timberlake 1
Karen Allen 1
Kathy Bates 1
Keanu Reeves 1
Kenneth Starr 1
Kenny "The Snake" 1
Kevin Harvick 1
Kieran Culkin 1
Kirby Puckett 1
Larry Clark 1
Larry Hagman 1
Larry Kramer 1
Lars Ulrich 1
LaVar Arrington 1
Lawrence Ferlinghet1
Lawrence Phillips 1
Lee Radziwill 1
Lemmy Kilmister 1
Leon Askin 1
Leonard Nimoy 1
Leonardo DiCaprio 1
Les Paul 1
Liam Gallagher 1
L'il Kim 1
Little Richard 1
Lloyd Bensen 1
Loretta Swit 1
Lou Reed 1
Louis Gosset Jr. 1
Luise Rainer 1
Margot Kidder 1
Maria Shriver 1
Mario Lopez 1
Mark Schwartz 1
Martin Chambers 1
Martin Sheen 1
Martin Short 1
Matt Lauer 1
Matthew Perry 1
Maureen O'Hara 1
Maya Angelou 1
Maynard Ferguson 1
McCoy Tyner 1
Mel Gibson 1
Michael J. Fox 1
Michael Kopper 1
Mickey Spillane 1
Mike Ditka 1
Mike Metzger 1
Milan Kundera 1
Mohammad Khatami 1
Mollie Sugden 1
Monty Irvin 1
Morley Safer 1
Nick Nolte 1
Nicky "Topper" Head1
Noam Chomsky 1
Noel Redding 1
Norman Lear 1
O. J. Simpson 1
P. W. Botha 1
Pamela Anderson 1
Pat Summerall 1
Patty Andrews 1
Paul Bremer 1
Paul Harvey 1
Paul Hogan 1
Paul McCartney 1
Paul Newman 1
Pervez Masharraf 1
Pete Townshend 1
Peter Boyle 1
Peter Falk 1
Peter Jackson 1
Phil Donohue 1
Phil Rizzuto 1
Pierre Cardin 1
Polly Holliday 1
Prince Albert of Mon 1
Prince Andrew, Duk 1
Prince Bernhard of t 1
Prince Edward, Earl 1
Prince William of Wa 1
Quincy Jones 1
Ralph Friedgen 1
Ralph Nader 1
Ralph Stanley 1
Ray Bradbury 1
Ray Davies 1
Ray Harryhausen 1
Ricardo Montalban 1
Richard Attenboroug1
Richard Ebert 1
Rick James 1
Rip Torn 1
Rob Reiner 1
Robert Byrd 1
Robert Mugabe 1
Robin Williams 1
Roger Ebert 1
Ron Jeremy 1
Ronnie Biggs 1
Ronnie Wood 1
Roy Disney 1
Ruben Studdard 1
Rudolph Giuliani 1
Ryan Phillipe 1
Sammy "The Bull" Gr1
Sammy Baugh 1
Sandy Koufax 1
Sean Connery 1
Siegfried Fishbacher 1
Sparky Anderson 1
Steve McFadden 1
Steve O 1
Steve Palermo 1
Steve Tyler 1
Tarik Aziz 1
Ted Heath 1
Thurl Ravenscroft 1
Tippi Hedren 1
Tom Baker 1
Tom Bosley 1
Tom Cruise 1
Tom Green 1
Tom Jones 1
Tom Laughlin 1
Tony Curtis 1
Tony Danza 1
Tony Oliva 1
Travis Pastrana 1
Trevor Bailey 1
Warren Buffett 1
Wilford Brimley 1
William F. Buckley 1
William H. Macy 1
William Rehnquist 1
William Shatner 1
Wilson "Bob" Tucker 1
Winona Ryder 1
Wolf Blitzer 1
Woody Allen 1
Yanni 1
Yaphet Kotto 1
Yoko Ono 1
Yvonne Di Carlo 1
Mac Guffin - was Michael Jackson on your list or not? If he is, you have 14 names on your list.
I hope I’m not stepping on anyone’s toes, but I just put together a simple webpage with all the votes listed. It’s currently at www.the-becketts.net/deathpool, but I’m not interested in hosting it permanently. If someone else thinks it could be useful, I’d be happy to pass it along.
I also have an Excel Spreadsheet that I’d like to pass on to whomever might be interested in it.