Perhaps this sort of ambiguity could be solved by always assuming (if in doubt) the corresponding wikipedia entry with the highest google page rank?
ETA: In this case it would result in an ambiguous entry defaulting to the Evangelist Billy Graham
I didn’t even know there was a Billy Graham, the wrestler. Of course, I didn’t pick either one, so it’s not an issue. 
My picks (my 1st Death Pool)
Dick Clark
Dick Cheney
Harper Lee
Fidel Castro
Mummar Quaddaffi (close enough I hope)
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Jacques Chirac
Margaret Thatcher
Liz Taylor
Hal Holbrook
Abe Vigoda
Stan Musial
Chuck Bednarik
Sorry **etv78 **, entrance to the 2011 poll is closed already. You will need to save the list for next year.
I didn’t pick one of them either. The preacher isn’t worth enough points and I’d forgotten about the wrestler.
But, it is an issue for those who put “Billy Graham” on their list and didn’t make it clear who they meant. The preacher will be worth 7 or 8 points if he goes this year. The wrestler will be worth 32 or 33 points.
The difference in potential points actually affects everyone if you think about it.
I am sad to think that our champion deadpooler has skipped out, after his cult didn’t wipe themselves out last year. 
Me too.
It is like having the most consistent SuperBowl Team Ever not play for an entire year.
I has a sad.
amarone, since Bill Erwin died Wednesday, please make sure my first alternate Lindsay Lohan gets on my list.
Thank you!
Here goes, everybody!
I have announced previously that in these cases I will assume that the pick is for the more famous one (IMO). In this case it is the evangelist.
will do.
That was actually 2009. In 2010 he had an ordinary list.
Only 154 entries this year, by my unofficial count. That’s about a ten percent drop. Are Dopers getting less macabre?
Not me! Have any future stiffs kicked the bucket yet?
If they had, they wouldn’t be future stiffs now, would they?
No, but I was on the road for almost 3 weeks, just got home on the 30th and remembered about 5 minutes ago I had forgotten to post my list. :smack: :mad: Just had to replace the one celebrity that had died last year and put it in this thread, but I totally forgot. Guess I won’t be winning again this year. 
I do wonder if somehow the fact that New Year’s Eve fell on a Friday meant that more people were out or traveling and forgot to post their lists. I dunno. I’m not quite sure why exactly that would be, but it did feel different to me than when NYE falls during the week.
Anyway. Let the deaths-- er, games, commence!
Ah, but unlike the rest of us, you have an excuse. 
How many points WOULD these people have been worth?
Ask us on Dec. 31., 2011. 