Justin's Dead Pool 2013
A Year In Review


Last Updated:  December 31

Our 2013 Scoring Roster
Pauline Phillips
Pauline Phillips
Mindy McCready
Mindy McCready
C. Everett Koop
C. Everett Koop
Van Cliburn
Van Cliburn

Bonnie Franklin
Bonnie Franklin
Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher

Annette Funicello
Annette Funicello
Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Winters
Pat Summerall
Pat Summerall
George Jones
George Jones


Dr. Joyce Brothers
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Jean Stapleton
Jean Stapleton
Deacon Jones
Deacon Jones
Esther Williams
Esther Williams


Slim Whitman
Slim Whitman
Helen Thomas
Helen Thomas
Scott Carpenter
Scott Carpenter
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela


Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole
Clive Burr
Clive Burr
Ronnie Biggs
Ronnie Biggs
Harold Camping
Harold Camping

Mikhail Kalashnikov
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Eleanor Parker
Eleanor Parker







Headliners
Big deaths rendered meaningless because nobody scored.
Ray Harryhausen
James Gandolfini
Cory Monteith
Elmore Leonard
Tom Clancy
Ray Harryhausen
James Gandolfini Cory Monteith Elmore Leonard Tom Clancy


The B-List
Folks who, while not quite rising to the level of Headliner, were still of note.


Conrad Bain   Frank Thornton  Daily Variety  Richard Griffiths  Conrad Bain  (1/14, 89)  Diff'rent Strokes  Mr. Drummond

Frank Thornton  (3/16, 92)  best known as Captain Peacock from Are You Being Served?

Daily Variety
 (3/19, 80)  venerable entertainment industry newspaper

Richard Griffiths  (3/28, 65)  best known as Uncle Vernon from the Harry Potter films

Richard LeParmentier  Richard "Night Stalker" Ramirez  Dennis Farina  Eileen Brennan  Richard LeParmentier  (4/15, 66)  Admiral Motti (who got Force-choked) in Star Wars

Richard Ramirez  (6/7, 53)  Los Angeles' "Night Stalker", on Death Row for 13 murders since 1989.

Dennis Farina  (7/22, 69)  awesome character actor

Eileen Brennan  (7/28, 80)  Private Benjamin, Will & Grace

Karen Black  Lisa Robin Kelly  Lee Thompson Young  Sir David Frost  Karen Black  (8/8, 74)  in almost every big movie in the early 70s

Lisa Robin Kelly  (8/14, 43)  Laurie from That 70s Show

Lee Thompson Young  (8/19, 29)  Famous Jett Jackson, Rizzoli & Isles

Sir David Frost  (8/31, 74)  Influential British journalist

Marcia Wallace  Paul Walker            Marcia Wallace  (10/25, 70)  Newhart, Mrs. Krabapple.

Paul Walker  (11/30, 40)  Fast and Furious actor



The C-List
Minor celebrities, various other entertainment names.

Tony Lip  (1/4, 82)  -  actor who played mob roles in everything          Ned Wertimer  (1/2, 89)  -  Jeffersons Ralph the Doorman          Shain Gandee  (3/25, 21)  -  cast member on MTV's white trashapalooza Buckwild          Frank Bank  (4/13, 71)  -  Leave It To Beaver's Lumpy Rutherford          Allan Arbus  (4/19, 95)  -  played Dr. Freedman, the shrink on MASH          Jeanne Cooper  (5/8, 84)  -  40 years on The Young And The Restless, mother of Corbin Bernsen          Bernie Sahlins  (6/16, 90)  -  cofounder of Chicago's Second City improv theater          Gary David Goldberg  (6/22, 68)  -  creator of Spin City and Family Ties          Sean Sasser  (8/7, 44)  AIDS activist, partner of Pedro Zamora from Mtv's 1994 Real World San Fransisco          Sylvia Browne  (11/20, 77)  -  Celebrity psychic          Dick Dodd  (11/29, 68)  original Mouseketeer

Sports


Stan "The Man" Musial   Earl Weaver  Jerry Buss  Art Donovan
Stan "The Man" Musial  (1/19, 92)  Greatest player in the history of the St. Louis Cardinals

Earl Weaver  (1/19, 82)  Fiery Orioles Hall of Fame manager

Jerry Buss  (2/18, 80)  longtime Lakers owner

Art Donovan  (8/4, 89)  NFL HoFer, talk show mainstay

L.C. Greenwood       
L.C. Greenwood (9/29, 67)  part of Pittsburgh's "Steel Curtain" defense
 
Lavonne 'Pepper' Paire-Davis  (2/2, 88)  AAGBPL star and inspiration for the Geena Davis character in "A League of Their Own"          Bill Moody  (3/5, 58)  wrestling promoter known as "Paul Bearer"          Dick Trickle  (5/16, 71)  longtime NASCAR driver         Dick Kazmaier  (8/1, 82)  1951 Heisman winner          Frank Pulli  (8/28, 78)  longtime MLB umpire          Tommy Morrison  (9/1, 44)  former heavyweight boxing champ, actor in Rocky V          Ken Norton, Sr.  (9/18, 70)  boxing champ, broke Ali's jaw.  Father of NFL's Ken Jr.           Wally Bell  (10/14, 48)  MLB umpire           Bum Phillips  (10/18, 90)  former Oilers and Saints coach          Todd Christensen  (11/13, 57)  Raiders tight end          Jerry Seeman  (11/24, 77)  longtime NFL umpire


Music

Richia Havens Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly  Jeff Hanneman  Ray Manzarek Richie Havens  (4/22, 72)  folk guitarist, opening act at Woodstock in 1969

Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly  (5/1, 34)  half of child rap group Kris Kross

Jeff Hanneman  (5/2, 49)  founding guitarist of Slayer

Ray Manzarek  (5/20, 74)  keyboardist for the Doors

Eydie Gorme   Lou Reed      Eydie Gorme  (8/10, 84)  half of "Steve & Eydie", 50-year career as a singer

Lou Reed  (10/27, 71)  Velvet Undergound, long solo career

 


Patti Page 
(1/1, 85)  -  bestselling female singer of the 1950s          
Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner  (1/26, 69)  -  frontman of the Ohio Players          Patty Andrews  (1/30, 94)  -  last of the Andrews sisters          Reg Presley  (2/4, 71)  -  lead singer of The Troggs (Wild Thing)          Rick Huxley  (2/11, 72)  -  bass player, Dave Clark Five          Cleotha Staples  (2/21, 78)  -  oldest of the Staples Singers          Bobby Rogers  (3/3, 73)  -  founding member of the Miracles          Peter Banks  (3/7, 65)  -  guitarist, Yes          Bobby Rogers  (3/3, 73)  -  original member of the Miracles          Clive Burr  (3/13, 56)  -  original drummer, Iron Maiden          Chrissy Amphlett  (4/21, 53)  lead singer, the Divinyls          Ed Shaughnessy  (5/24, 84)  -  drummer for Carson's Tonight Show band for 30+ years          Alan Myers  (6/24, 58)  -  drummer, Devo          Allen Lanier  (8/14, 67)  -  keyboards and guitar, Blue Oyster Cult          Phil Chevron  (10/8, 56)  -  guitarist, Pogues      Ricky "Lord Infamous" Dunigan  (12/20, 40)  -  Three 6 Mafia



Business / Politics / History
Jeanne Manford  (1/8, 92)  founder of PFLAG

Ed Koch  (2/1, 88)  three term NYC mayor

Lilian  (3/10, 97)  princess of Sweden

Al Neuharth  (4/19, 89)  founder of USA Today

Geza Vermes  (5/7, 88)  translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Douglas Engelbart  (7/2, 88)  invented computer mouse

Virginia Johnson  (7/24, 88)  half of Masters & Johnson sexuality research team

Ariel Castro  (9/3, 53)  very, very bad man

Joy Covey  (9/18, 50)  Amazon's first CFO

Vo Nguyen Giap  (10/4, 102)  North Vietnamese general

Jovanka Broz  (10/20, 89)  widow of dictator Tito

Paul Crouch  (11/30, 79)  founded Trinity Broadcasting

Al Goldstein  (12/19, 77)  publisher of Screw magazine
Aaron Swartz  (1/11, 26)  founder of Reddit

Lillian Cahn  (3/4, 89)  cofounder of Coach, the leather handbag emporium

Chinua Achebe  (3/21, 82)  Nigerian author of Things Fall Apart that you read in undergrad

David Kern  (5/3, 103)  inventor of Orajel

Frank Lautenberg  (6/3, 89)  Democratic Senator from New Jersey

Chuck Foley  (7/1, 81)  inventor of Twister board game

George Mitchell  (7/26, 94)  inventor of fracking

Rochus Misch  (9/5, 96)  Hitler's personal bodyguard

Hiroshi Yamauchi  (9/19, 85)  longtime president of Nintendo

Malcolm Renfrew  (10/12, 103)  inventor of Teflon

Augusto Odone  (10/24, 80)  inventor of Lorenzo's Oil

Babe Heffron  (12/1, 90)  Band of Brothers' Easy Co, 506th PIR

Alfred Marshall  (12/28, 94)  founder of Marshall's stores
James Hood  (1/17, 70)  one of the first black students at Alabama in 1963, despite Gov. Wallace's protest

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist  (3/8, 90)  last surviving member of the "Valkyrie" plot to assassinate Hitler

Robert Zildjian  (3/27, 89)  founder of Sabian cymbal company to compete with his brother

Robert Bennett  (5/8, 76)  owner of Tony Packo's, the Ohio-based hot dog restaurant which sounds so good right now, you guys

Douglas Dayton  (7/5, 88)  founder of Target

Amar Bose  (7/12, 83)  founder of Bose audio company

Johan Friso  (8/12, 44)  Prince of The Netherlands

Ray Dolby  (9/12, 80)  audio pioneer and inventor

Tom Foley  (10/18, 84)  former Speaker of the House

George Thornton  (10/27, 84)  dynamited that dead whale in 1970

Sam Barshop  (12/9, 84)  founder of La Quinta Inn

It's All Relative

Borislav Milosevic  (1/29, 79)  brother of Slobodan

Margaret Groening  (4/22, 94)  mother of Simpsons creator Matt

Malcolm Shabazz  (5/9, 28)  activist grandson of Malcolm X

Lorna Colbert (6/19, 92) mother of Stephen

Betty Sue Lynn  (7/29, 64)  daughter of Loretta

Edmund B. Fitzgerald  (8/28, 87)  son of the guy the boat was named for

Peter Graf  (11/30, 75)  father of Steffi
Jane Henson  (4/2, 78)  widow of Jim, co-creator of the Muppets

Carol Anderson  (5/7, 79)  widow of Reds manager Sparky

Sharon Benjamin-Hodo  (5/28, 58)  mother of Outkast's Andre 3000

Charlotte Brosnan  (6/28, 41)  adopted daughter of Pierce

Jacqueline Gingrich  (8/7, 77)  Newt wife #1

Patsy Swayze  (9/16, 86)  choreographer mother of Patrick

John Eisenhower  (12/21, 91)  Son of Dwight
Mae Louise Allen Mays  (4/19, 74)  wife of baseball's greatest player, Willie Mays

Alyne Payton  (5/6, 87)  mother of NFL great Walter

Bernadette Hernandez  (6/1, 55)  mother of Bruno Mars

Toshi Seeger  (7/9, 91)  wife of singer Pete for 70 years

Jay Perry Richardson  (8/21, 54)  son of "The Big Bopper"

Diane Disney Miller  (11/19, 79)  daughter of Walt