2022 Jackpot
  • 1st:  $552
  • 2nd:  $230
  • 3rd:  $138
January 8, 2023    Bernard Kalb

Longtime American journalist. Born in 1922.

10,000 points to team #5

January 7, 2023    Naomi Replansky

American poet who gave a reading a month before her death. Born in 1918.

10,000 points to team #35

January 6, 2023    Shige Mineshiba

Canadian supercentenarian. Born in 1909.

10,000 points to team #7

January 6, 2023    Gianluca Vialli

Italian football player and manager. Born in 1964. Dead of pancreatic cancer.

10,000 points to team #10

December 31, 2022    Anita Pointer

American singer-songwriter. Born in 1948. Dead of cancer.

10,000 points to team #20

December 31, 2022    Pope Benedict XVI

Pope from 2005 to 2013. Born in 1927.

6,500 points to teams #12, #18

December 30, 2022    Barbara Walters

Ground-breaking woman journalist. Born in 1929.

10,000 points to team #26

December 30, 2022    Don West

U.S. TV pitchman, and pro wrestling association. Born in 1963. Dead of lymphoma.

10,000 points to team #35

December 29, 2022    Pele

Brazilian soccer legend. Born in 1940. Dead of cancer.

2,000 points to teams #9, #18, #30, #44, #46

December 28, 2022    Tony Vaccaro

U.S. photographer best known for documenting WWII. Born in 1922.

10,000 points to team #31

December 23, 2022    Cotton Davidson

NFL quarterback. Born in 1931.

10,000 points to team #19

December 13, 2022    Frances Hesselbein

American business leader. Born in 1915.

10,000 points to team #11

December 13, 2022    Curt Simmons

American baseball player. Born in 1929.

10,000 points to team #49

December 7, 2022    Harry Yee

Bartender who invented the Blue Hawaii. Born in 1918.

10,000 points to team #11

December 6, 2022    Mills Lane

Boxing referee and boxer. Born in 1937.

10,000 points to team #31

December 5, 2022    Jim Stewart

U.S. record producer and cofounder of Stax. Born in 1930.

10,000 points to team #12

December 1, 2022    Chen Ping Ching

WWII fighter pilot. Born in 1917. No qualifying obits (the death date of Dec. 1 is estimated based on posts on other websites).

0 points to team #48

November 30, 2022    Jiang Zemin

Former president of the PRC. Born in 1926.

10,000 points to team #15

November 29, 2022    Hiroshi Miyamura

U.S. Medal of Honor recipient. Born in 1925.

10,000 points to team #46

November 26, 2022    Freddie Roman

U.S. stand-up comedian. Born in 1937.

10,000 points to team #6

November 26, 2022    Louise Tobin

U.S. jazz singer and musician. Born in 1918.

6,500 points to teams #21, #34

November 26, 2022    Doddie Weir

Scottish rugby player. Born in 1970. Dead of motor neuron disease.

6,500 points to teams #9, #44

November 22, 2022    Bernadette Mayer

American poet and artist. Born in 1945.Dead of pancreatic cancer.

10,000 points to team #30

November 21, 2022    Marijane Meaker

Prolific U.S. author. Born in 1927.

10,000 points to team #19

November 18, 2022    Ned Rorem

American contemporary classic composer. Born in 1923.

5,000 points to teams #16, #34, #48

November 17, 2022    Staughton Lynd

American political figure. Born in 1929.

10,000 points to team #45

November 16, 2022    Robert Clary

French U.S. TV actor. Born in 1926.

6,500 points to teams #6, #23

November 14, 2022    Virginia McLaurin

American supercentenarian. Born in 1909.

5,000 points to teams #21, #29, #46

November 9, 2022    Paul Schrade

U.S. labor leader present at the RFK assassination. Born in 1922.

10,000 points to team #4

November 7, 2022    Leslie Philips

British film actor. Born in 1924.

6,500 points to teams #2, #23

November 5, 2022    Aaron Carter

U.S. singer and rapper. Born 1987. Official cause of death: Not yet announced.

10,000 points to team #39

November 4, 2022    Doris Grumbach

Prolific American writer. Born 1918.

10,000 points to team #11

October 31, 2022    Gethro Muscadin

College basketball player. Born in 2020. Dead of injuries sustained in a car wreck. No qualifying obits.

0 points to team #29

October 31, 2022    Andrew Prine

American actor. Born in 1936.

10,000 points to team #37

October 28, 2022    Jerry Lee Lewis

American rock and roll singer. Born in 1935.

6,500 points to teams #30, #44

October 26, 2022    Pierre Soulages

French artist.Born in 1919.

10,000 points to team #11

October 21, 2022    Peter Schjeldahl

Art critic for The New Yorker and poet. Born in 1942. Dead of lung cancer

6,500 points to teams #12, #29

October 19, 2022    Charley Trippi

U.S. professional football player.

5,000 points to teams #9, #24, #49

October 11, 2022    Angela Lansbury

Acting royalty. Born in 1925.

6,500 points to teams #23, #38

October 10, 2022    William Klein

U.S.-born French photographer. Born in 1926.

10,000 points to team #5

October 9, 2022    Eileen Ryan

American actor. Born in 1927.

10,000 points to team #14

October 4, 2022    Loretta Lynn

Coal Miner's Daughter. Born in 1932.

10,000 points to team #17

October 2, 2022    Sacheen Littlefeather

Native American civil rights activist. Born in 1946.

5,000 points to teams #6, #22, #32

October 1, 2022    Jack Thomas

Longtime U.S. newspaper journalist. Born in 1939.

6,500 points to teams #28, #48

September 29, 2022    Hector Lopez

Baseball player. Born in 1929.

10,000 points to team #35

September 22, 2022    Hilary Mantel

Author of the Wolf Hall series. Born in 1952. Dead of complications after a stroke.

10,000 points to team #16

September 14, 2022    Irene Papas

Greek actor in U.S. films. Born in 1929. 

10,000 points to team #31

September 14, 2022    Henry Silva

U.S. character actor. Born in 1926.

6,500 points to teams #2, #31

September 13, 2022    Jean-Luc Godard

French film director. Born in 1930.

10,000 points to team #4

September 9, 2022    Mark Miller

U.S. actor and writer. Born in 1924.

6,500 points to teams #34, #50

September 7, 2022    Marsha Hunt

American actor and mayor. Born in 1917.

6,500 points to teams #21, #27

August 30, 2022    Pat Carroll

Venerable U.S. actor. Born in 1927.

10,000 points to team #3

August 30, 2022    Mikhail Gorbachev

Soviet leader at the time of its collapse. Born in 1931.

6,500 points to teams #25, #27

August 18, 2022    Virginia Patton

American actor. Born in 1925.

10,000 points to team #31

August 15, 2022    Frederick Buechner

U.S. author on theology. Born in 1926.

10,000 points to team #16

August 11, 2022    Bill Pitman

U.S. guitarist and session musician. Born in 1920.

6,500 points to teams #5, #21

August 8, 2022    Olivia Newton-John

Singer and actor. Born 1948. Dead of cancer.

10,000 points to team #3

August 5, 2022    Clu Gulager

U.S. movie and TV actor. Born 1928.

10,000 points to team #14

August 1, 2022    Robert Simanek

U.S. Marine and Medal of Honor recipient. Born in 1930.

10,000 points to team #50

July 30, 2022    Nichelle Nichols

U.S. actor best known for Star Trek. Born 1932.

10,000 points to team #3

July 28, 2022    Wayne Hawkins

NFL player. Born in 1938.

10,000 points to team #28

July 27, 2022    Bernard Cribbins

English actor and singer. Born in 1928.

10,000 points to team #2

July 27, 2022    Tony Dow

U.S. TV actor and sculptor. Born in 1945. Dead of liver cancer.

10,000 points to team #37

July 26, 2022    James Lovelock

British scientist of Gaia theory. Born in 1919 and died on his 103rd birthday.

10,000 points to team #11

July 25, 2022    Paul Sorvino

American film and TV actor. Born in 1939.

6,500 points to teams #25, #36

July 24, 2022    Charles Godfrey

Canadian politician. Born 1917.

10,000 points to team #22

July 24, 2022    David Warner

British TV, film, and theatre actor. Born in 1941.Dead of cancer.

10,000 points to team #38

July 18, 2022    Vincent DeRosa

American studio musician and hornist. Born 1920.

6,500 points to teams #22, #50

July 14, 2022    Francisco Morales-Bermudez

Peruvian president. Born in 1921.

10,000 points to team #47

July 9, 2022    L.Q. Jones

American actor. Born in 1927.

10,000 points to team #2

July 8, 2022    Luis Echeverria

Mexican president. Born in 1922.

6,500 points to teams #15, #21

July 7, 2022    George Elder

Oldest-living former pro baseball player. Born in 1921.

10,000 points to team #9

July 6, 2022    James Caan

U.S. TV and film actor. Born in 1940. Dead of a heart attack.

10,000 points to team #37

July 2, 2022    Peter Brook

English theatre director. Born in 1925.

10,000 points to team #20

June 29, 2022    Sonny Barger

Hell's Angel and writer. Born 1938.

10,000 points to team #31

June 29, 2022    Hershel Williams

U.S. soldier on Iwa Jima and MoH recipient. Born in 1923. 

5,000 points to teams #4, #24, #30

June 27, 2022    Joe Turkel

U.S. character actor best known for The Shining. Born in 1927.

10,000 points to team #2

June 26, 2022    Margaret Keane

U.S. painter of weird paintings with big eyes. Born in 1927.

10,000 points to team #19

June 23, 2022    Tommy Morgan

U.S. harmonicologist. Born in 1932.

10,000 points to team #5

June 17, 2022    Hugh McElhenny

U.S. football player. Born in 1928.

10,000 points to team #9

June 12, 2022    Philip Baker Hall

American character actor. Born 1931.

6,500 points to teams #20, #25

June 7, 2022    Jean-Louis Trintignant

French film actor. Born in 1930.

6,500 points to teams #29, #44

June 3, 2022    Robert L. Backman

LDS general authority. Born 1922.

10,000 points to team #24

May 30, 2022    Boris Pahor

Slovenian author, Holocaust survivor, centenarian. Born in 1913.

10,000 points to team #21

May 29, 2022    Lester Piggott

British jockey and trainer. Born in 1935.

10,000 points to team #9

May 23, 2022    Joe Pignatano

American baseball player and coach. Born in 1929.

10,000 points to team #31

May 20, 2022    Roger Angell

Prolific author on sports. Born 1920.

6,500 points to teams #8, #22

May 11, 2022    Margot Heuman

Holocaust survivor. Born in 1928.

10,000 points to team #25

May 6, 2022    George Perez

Comic book artist. Born in 1940. Dead of pancreatic cancer.

3,500 points to teams #10, #18, #32, #48

May 1, 2022    Millie Bailey

WWII veteran and WAC promoter. Born in 1918.

6,500 points to teams #22, #48

April 24, 2022    Ronald R. Van Stockum

Decorated brigadier general and author. Born in 1916.

10,000 points to team #21

April 22, 2022    Guy Lafleur

Canadian NHL player. Born in 1951. Dead of lung cancer.

6,500 points to teams #9, #29

April 19, 2022    Kane Tanaka

Oldest living person in the world at her death. Born in  1903.

5,000 points to teams #21, #27, #48

April 15, 2022    Mike Bossy

Canadian hockey player. Dead of lung cancer. Born 1957.

10,000 points to team #46

April 15, 2022    Art Rupe

U.S. record producer and executive. Born in 1917.

6,500 points to teams #22, #34

April 13, 2022    Michel Bouquet

Canadian actor. Born 1925.

10,000 points to team #20

April 9, 2022    Ann Hutchinson Guest

U.S. researcher of human movement. Born 1918.

6,500 points to teams #11, #48

April 7, 2022    Rayfield Wright

U.S. professional football player. Born in 1945. 

10,000 points to team #28

April 6, 2022    Rae Allen

Dead of old age. Born 1922.

10,000 points to team #14

April 5, 2022    Stanislaw Kowalski

Polish supercentenarian athlete. Born in 1910.

10,000 points to team #9

April 5, 2022    Nehemiah Persoff

Israeli-American actor. Born in 1919.

6,500 points to teams #21, #37

April 3, 2022    Betty Rowland

American burlesque dancer. Born in 1916.

10,000 points to team #21

April 2, 2022    Estelle Harris

American voice and TV actor. Born 1928.

10,000 points to team #34

April 1, 2022    C.W. McCall

Country music singer. Born in 1928.

6,500 points to teams #8, #17

March 31, 2022    Richard Howard

American poet and critic. Born in 1929.

10,000 points to team #45

March 30, 2022    Tom Parker

British rock singer. Born in 1988. Dead of cancer.

10,000 points to team #18

March 29, 2022    Joyce Fairbairn

Canadian politician. Born in 1939. Dead of Alzheimer's complications.

10,000 points to team #28

March 27, 2022    Martin Pope

U.S. physical chemist. Born in 1918.

6,500 points to teams #30, #48

March 19, 2022    Scoey Mitchell

U.S. actor and writer. Born in 1930.

10,000 points to team #2

March 17, 2022    Peter Bowles

English actor. Dead of cancer. Born 1936.

10,000 points to team #38

March 15, 2022    Lauro Cavazos

U.S. Secretary of Education. Born 1927.

6,500 points to teams #30, #48

March 13, 2022    Vic Elford

English Formula One racer. Born in 1935. No qualifying obituaries.

0 points to team #35

March 13, 2022    Albert Kresch

American artist. Born in 1922.

10,000 points to team #8

March 12, 2022    Traci Braxton

American reality TV celeb, singer. Born in 1971.
Dead of esophageal cancer.

10,000 points to team #32

March 10, 2022    Robert Cardenas

Air Force general. Born in 1920 and died on his 102nd birthday.

10,000 points to team #21

March 9, 2022    Jimmy Lydon

U.S. movie and TV actor. Born in 1923.

6,500 points to teams #12, #24

March 8, 2022    Yuriko Kikuchi

Japanese-American dancer and choreographer, interred in WWII, worked with Martha Graham Dance Co. Born in 1920.

Dead of ancientness.

10,000 points to team #11

March 4, 2022    Mitchell Ryan

Longtime American character actor on TV, movies, stage. Born in 1934.
Died of heart failure.

10,000 points to team #2

March 1, 2022    Conrad Janis

U.S. trombonist and TV actor. Born in 1928.

10,000 points to team #6

February 19, 2022    Emile Francis

Canadian hockey star. Born in 1926.

10,000 points to team #49

February 19, 2022    Jane Marczewski

American singer-songwriter who became popular on America's Got Talent. Born in 1990.
Dead of metastasized breast cancer.

6,500 points to teams #28, #32

February 16, 2022    Harry E. Goldsworthy

US Air Force lieutenant general, deputy chief of staff. Born in 1914. 
Dead of old, old age.

5,000 points to teams #11, #21, #28

February 16, 2022    Gail Halvorsen

US Air Force pilot, famous for air-dropping candy to German kids after WWII. Born in 1920.
Dead of respiratory failure.

6,500 points to teams #24, #31

February 12, 2022    Carmen Herrera

Cuban-American abstract painter, artist, centenarian. Born in 1915.
Dead of ancientism.

6,500 points to teams #22, #33

February 11, 2022    Isabel Torres

Spanish-Canadian media celebrity, transsexual activist. Born in 1969.
Dead of metastatic lung cancer. 

10,000 points to team #32

February 9, 2022    Henry Danton

English ballet dancer. Born in 1919. No qualifying obituaries.

0 points to team #11

February 4, 2022    Jason Epstein

Book editor and publisher. Born in 1928.

10,000 points to team #8

February 2, 2022    Monica Vitti

Italian film star ("Queen of the Italian Cinema" in the 1960s). Born in 1931.
Dead of complications of Alzheimer's.

10,000 points to team #35

January 29, 2022    John Singlaub

U.S. Army general and founding member of the CIA. Born in 1921.

10,000 points to team #28

January 28, 2022    Richard Duchossois

U.S. businessman and racehorse owner. Born in 1921.

10,000 points to team #28

January 27, 2022    Rene de Obalda

French poet and writer. Born in 1918. No qualifying obits.

0 points to team #30

January 22, 2022    Thich Nhat Hanh

Buddhist monk from Vietnam, the "father of mindfulness." Born in 1928. (photo isn't Nhat Hanh)
Dead of complications from a stroke.

10,000 points to team #44

January 22, 2022    Mary "Mollie" Walker

British supercentenarian and oldest living person in the UK at time of death. Born in 1909.

10,000 points to team #29

January 20, 2022    Russell Bishop

Convicted English child rapist and killer. Born in 1966. (photo isn't Bishop)
Dead of cancer. 

0 points to team #45

January 19, 2022    Hardy Kruger

German film actor who appeared in many U.S. movies. Born in 1928.
Dead of undisclosed causes.

10,000 points to team #20

January 18, 2022    Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia

Spanish supercentenarian, world's oldest living man. Born 1909. 

10,000 points to team #29

January 17, 2022    Thelma Sutcliffe

Last known living American born in 1906. Born in 1906.
Dead of old, old, old age.

5,000 points to teams #21, #28, #33

January 16, 2022    Charles McGee

Longtime U.S. Air Force pilot, Tuskegee Airman. Born in 1919.
Dead in his sleep.

6,500 points to teams #3, #47

January 13, 2022    Cecile Klein

Formerly the oldest living Canadian. Born 1907. (photo is not Cecile)

5,000 points to teams #7, #22, #29

January 12, 2022    Everett Lee

U.S. symphony conductor, first Black conductor on Broadway. Born in 1916.
Dead of ancientness.

6,500 points to teams #21, #30

January 11, 2022    Jana Bennett

American-British media consultant, primarily associated with the BBC. Born in 1955. 
Dead of glioblastoma.

10,000 points to team #30

January 10, 2022    Robert Durst

Bizarre U.S. millionaire and murderer. Born 1943.
Dead of cardiac arrest.

10,000 points to team #30

January 10, 2022    Francis Jackson

British composer and organist at York Minster. Born in 1917. 
Dead of old age.

0 points to team #11