Meanwhile, Wikipedia now lists her year of birth as 1916.
I’ll only do this once I swear. Please move Robert Blake and Bea Arthur down to alternates. I forgot to add Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to the list.
Forrest J. Ackerman
Ray Bradbury
Sandra Day O’Conner
Buddy Guy
George Carlin
Scott Weiland
Christopher Lloyd
Mary Tyler Moore
Ed Asner
Donald Sutherland
Walter Cronkite
Michael J. Fox
James Brown
Let’s just wait until the (admittedly sad) day LJB dies and then we’ll find out how old she is. I feel like a vulture enough for listing her. Who knows, she may be one of those people who lives to eleventy-one.
As a football fan I’m glad you didn’t list Reggie Bush! 
- Bob Feller, baseball HOFer
- Yogi Berra, ditto
- Stan Musial, ditto
- George Steinbrenner
- Gerald R. Ford
- George H.W. Bush
- James Baker (former US Sec of State)
- James Brown (He used to feel good)
- Prince Charles
- Dan Rather
- Fidel Castro
- David Letterman
- Martha Stewart
Alternates
- Oprah
- Pope Benedict
- Kareem Abdul Jabbar (basketball HOFer)
Mix of new and old from 2005:
- Jesse Helms
- Fidel Castro
- Mickey Rooney
- Maya Angelou
- Princess Lilian of Sweden
- Queen Sofia of Spain
- Dave Chappelle
- Marie Osmond
- Garrison Keillor
- Jeanette Lee, The Black Widow
- Billy Graham
- Jackie Chan
- Loretta Lynn
Alternates (in order):
Joaquin Phoenix
Viggo Mortensen
J.K. Rowling
Hey that’s two people - Piers Anthony and Pohl Anderson!
Mine will be posted soon. It’s still too early yet.
I’ll even give you cause of death
Magic Johnson - Didn’t think those pills would work forever did you
Andy Rooney - Tragic Viagra interaction
Charlton Heston - Gunshot wound
Keith Richards - Hooks up with Courtney Love - commits suicide
Gerald Ford - Falls off bed after being intimate with Betty
Phil Knight - Plane crash
Dick Cheney - Impacted bowels
The Pope - Lightning strike
Vladamir Putin - Bad soup
Tom DeLay - Prison uprising
Dan Rather - Drug overdose
Martha Stewart - Murdered by former cell mate
Ed McMahon - under investigation
- Pope Benedictine
- Peter Boyle
- Bob Newhart
- Christopher Lloyd
- Kirk Douglas
- Lauren Bacall
- Dick Cheney
- Frances Sternhagen
- David Crosby
- George Romero
- Saddam Hussein
- Tom Wolfe
- Dennis Farina
- Gloria Stuart
- Annette Funicello
- Kitty Carlisle
- Ernest Gallo
- Karl Malden
- Gerald Ford
- Muhammed Zahir Shah
- Les Paul
- Natasha Lyonne
- Ramsey Clark
- Bea Arthur
- Mickey Rooney
- John Wooden
Reserves:
- Oscar Niemeyer
- Marc Lawrence
- Ricky Williams
- Ralph Cirella
- Rosalyn Carter
Okay, I have my list ready. I’m even including two alternates just in case one of my picks is unable to fulfill his/her duties which basically is to die in 2006 not before it.
They are:
Oral Roberts
Jerry Lee Lewis
Margaret Thatcher
Walter Cronkite
Tammy Faye Baker Messner
Charlton Heston
Dick Cheney
Richard Pryor
Holly Johnson, singer Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Nelson Mandela
Elizabeth Taylor
Gary Glitter
Pete Doherty, singer Babyshambles
Alternate 1: Peter Falk
Alternate 2: Courtney Love
Frankie Lane
Osama Bin Laden
John Wooden
Prince Phillip
Merv Griffin
Margaret Thatcher
Jerry Falwell
Keith Richards
Dick Cheney
Joseph Barbera (the animator)
Elizabeth Taylor
Liza Minelli
Estelle Getty
Alts:
Oral Roberts
Merle Haggard
- George Carlin
- James Earl Jones
- Lance Bass
- Betty White
- Abe Vigoda
- William Jefferson Clinton
- John Irving
- David Lee Roth
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- William Shatner
- Marilyn Vos Savant
- Corey Haim
- Berke Breathed
Alternates:
- George Takei
- Hank Williams, Jr.
- Prince Charles of Wales
- Anne McCaffrey (science fiction author)
- Paris Hilton (hugely annoying pseudo-celeb)
- Meg Ryan (actress)
- Anne Rice (bad horror writer)
- Stephen King (good horror writer)
- Michael Jackson (singer, suspected pedophile)
- Dick Button (figure skater, sports commentator)
- Tom Cruise (actor, idiot)
- Prince Philip (husband of current Queen of England)
- George Bush (former president)
- Bill Clinton (former president)
- Dan Rather (television journalist)
- Michael Kors (fashion designer)
alternates: Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Barbara Bush
LavenderBlue Meg Ryan? What an odd choice.
Here’s mine.
- Pete Doherty – British rocker and crack addict
- Stephen Hawking – “The Simpson’s” voice over actor and really smart guy
- Charlton Heston – one-time spokesman for God
- Don Ho – world’s most famous Hawaiian
- Kurt Vonnegut – author
- Shelley Winters – 2005 heart attack survivor
- Richard Pryor – crazy African-American
- Harold Pinter – playwright and 2005 Nobel Prize (Literature) winner
- Wendy Wasserstein – another Pulitzer winning playwright
- Dana Reeve – famous widow
- Lady Bird Johnson – former FLOTUS
- Tammy Faye Bakker Resner – former Norfolk VA television personality
Alternates:
a. Ed McMahon – perennial sidekick
b. David Crosby – surrogate father
c. Tara Reid – safer bet than Courtney Love
Never let it be said that the Death Pool is a useless thread. I learn from it. For example, I didn’t know that Kurt Vonnegut was still alive. For some reason I thought he died years ago.
Died earlier this week at the age of 95.
Sean Factotum: You skipped from #2 to #4. Do you want to move one of your alternates up, or did you forget to mention somebody?
Annette Funicello
Eunice Kennedy Schriver
Corretta Scott King
Dana Reeve
Estelle Getty
Tammy Faye Bakker Messner
Billy Graham
Dan Rather
Tom Snyder
Gordon B. Hinkley
Kylie Minogue
Colin McEwan
Dan Fogleberg
I’m entertainment-heavy…but here goes again!
Andy Griffith, actor
Don Knotts, actor
Eminem, so-called rapper
Glenn Ford, actor
Bernard Fox, actor (Dr. Bombay!)
Frank Cady, actor (Mr. Drucker on Green Acres)
Carol Channing, actress, singer
Mike Connors, actor (Mannix)
Dr. Jack Kervorkian, Dr. Death
Noel Neill, actress
Charles Nelson Reilly, D-list actor
Annette Funicello, Actress and former Mouseketeer
Gordon B. Hinckley, President, LDS Church