I first found the Lee Atwater Memorial Deadpool, AKA stiffs.com in 1997, just after I became the curator of Dead People Server. It was too late to enter for 1997 (since I became curator that March), but I entered the next year and almost every year until 2007. Since late 2005, I also entered the alt.obituaries deadpool.
2007 * * 2006 * * 2005 * * 2004 * *
2003 * * 2002 * *
2001 * * 2000
1999 - best guess * *
1999 - old timers * *
1999 - aaaarrrrgggghhhh * *
1998
Art Buchwald (10 pts)
Tammy Faye Bakker Messner (9 pts)
Jack Kevorkian
Charlton Heston
Oral Roberts
Sunny Von Bulow
Ron Moody
Jack Valenti (3 pts)
Stephen Hawking
Jerry Lewis
Jimmy Carter(Alternate)
Estelle Getty
Eartha Kitt
Margaret Thatcher
Frederik Pohl
Ron Santo
Billy Graham
Dan Fogelberg (4 pts)
Mary Travers
Jack LaLanne
Wilford Brimley
Aretha Franklin (Alternate)
Abe Vigoda
Kitty Carlisle (9 pts.)
Lady Bird Johnson (8 pts.)
Annette Funicello
Olivia de Havilland
Ariel Sharon
Boris Yeltsin
Betty Ford
Stanley Donen
Joey Bishop (1 pt.)
Mitch Miller (Alternate)
Red Auerbach (10 pts)
Charlton Heston
Shelley Morrison
Sunny Von Bulow
Charles Lane
Jack Valenti
Stephen Hawking
Oleg Cassini (3 pts)
Jerry Lewis
Jimmy Carter
Courtney Love (Alternate)
Estelle Getty
Lou Rawls (9 pts)
Margaret Thatcher
Gerald Ford (7 pts)
Ron Santo
Billy Graham
Dan Fogelberg
Dick Clark
Shelley Winters (2 pts)
Wilford Brimley
Aretha Franklin (Alternate)
Abe Vigoda
Kitty Carlisle
Lady Bird Johnson
Annette Funicello
Olivia de Havilland
Ariel Sharon
Boris Yeltsin
Betty Ford
Stanley Donen
Joey Bishop
Mitch Miller (Alternate)
Shelley Winters
William Rehnquist (9 pts)
Pope John Paul II (8 pts)
Annette Funicello
Courtney Love
Jerry Lewis
Billy Graham
Richard Pryor (3 pts)
Stephen Hawking
Boris Yeltsin
Ronald Reagan (10 pts)
Pope John Paul II
Annette Funicello
Ron Santo
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (6 pts)
Courtney Love
Jerry Lewis
Carol Burnett
Billy Graham
Fay Wray (1 pt)
(Alt) Stephen Hawking
Warren Zevon (10 pts)
Ron Santo
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Art Carney (7 pts)
Ronald Reagan
Wendie Jo Sperber (Not considered famous enough to be an acceptable entry for stiffs.com (which I argued but lost on). However, when she finally did die in late 2005, she was a front-page CNN entertainment story within days of her death.)
Bob Hope (4 pts)
Pope John Paul II
Strom Thurmond (2 pts)
Katharine Hepburn (1 pt)
(Alt) Stephen Hawking
For the year 2002, I neglected to send an entry due to being out of town. However, if I had remembered to submit an entry, I would have resent my 2001 entries, since none of them had died.
Ronald Reagan
Peggy Lee (virtual 9 pts!)
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Bob Hope
Boris Yeltsin
Sunny Von Bulow
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Wilford Brimley
Jack Valenti
Gloria DeHaven
Ronald Reagan
Peggy Lee
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Bob Hope
Boris Yeltsin
Sunny Von Bulow
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Wilford Brimley
Jack Valenti
Gloria DeHaven
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Peggy Lee
Bob Hope
Boris Yeltsin
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Bob Casey (5 Pts.)
Wilford Brimley
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Penny Singleton
Marlon Brando
Ironically, two of the people I took off the 2000 list (Lindbergh and Singleton) did go on to die in 2001.
Joe DiMaggio (10 Pts.)
King Hussein (9 Pts.)
Bob Hope
Desmond Tutu
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Aaron Spelling
Boxcar Willie (4 Pts.)
Vaclav Havel
Allen Funt (2 Pts.)
Merv Griffin
Sarah Knauss (10 Pts.)
Sarah Delany (9 Pts.)
Senor Wences (8 Pts.)
Barbara Cartland (7 Pts.)
Eve Curie Labouisse
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Eddie Albert
Fay Wray
Katharine Hepburn
The Queen Mother
Radovan Karadzic
Mullah Mohammed Omar ((Yes, I really did list
him a few years ago - I knew then what a mess he was making in Afghanistan,
particularly the Taliban's gross mistreatment of the women of the country.
I didn't even have bin Laden in his league, which is clearly my mistake.))
Timothy McVeigh
Eric Robert Rudolph
Linda Tripp
Kenneth Starr
Henry Hyde
O.J. Simpson
Idi Amin
Saddam Hussein
Carl Perkins
Madame Chiang Kai-shek
Eugene McCarthy
Sarah Delany
Allen Funt
Billy Graham
Terry Sanford
Katharine Hepburn
Robert Young
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Robert Downey, Jr