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Ron’s Rejects |
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Name |
Born |
Claim to fame |
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20. Ruby Muhammad |
20
March 1897 (110) |
Mother
of the Nation of Islam |
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19. John Wooden |
14 Oct 1910 (97) |
UCLA Basketball God |
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18. Phyllis A. Whitney |
9 Sep 03 (104) |
Suspense writer |
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17. Albert Hoffman |
11 Jan 06 (101) |
Dude was the first to synthesize LSD; now that’s a celebrity |
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16. Dolores Hope |
27 May 09 (98) |
Bob Hope’s bunkmate |
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15. Luise Rainer |
12 Jan 10 (97) |
Two-time Oscar award winning actress; The Great Ziegfeld and The Good Earth |
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14. Gloria Stuart |
4 Jul 10 (97) |
The dumb old bitch that threw the diamond off the ship in the movie Titantic |
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13. Art Linkletter |
17 Jul 12 (95) |
1950’s TV host |
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12. W. Mark Felt |
17 Aug 13 (94) |
Secret source “Deepthroat” that brought down the Nixon Administration |
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11. Jerry Lewis |
16 Mar 26 (81) |
I’m riding this blimp until it crashes! |
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10. Walter Cronkite |
4 Nov 16 (90) |
Signing off…… |
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9. Sammy Baugh |
17 Mar 14 (93) |
Slingin’ Sammy signs off; first great NFL quarterback |
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8. Yitzhak Shamir |
15 Oct 15 92 |
Former Prime Minister of Isreal |
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7. Harry Morgan |
10 Apr 15 (92) |
See M*A*S*H and Dragnet |
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6. Eli Wallach |
7 Dec 15 (91) |
Invented the cotton gin…er, the bad guy in the The Good, The Bad and the Ugly |
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5. Paul Samuelson |
15 May 15 (92) |
Nobel Prize winning economist |
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4. Ernest Borgnine |
24 Jan 17 (90) |
2nd rate movie and TV star |
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3. Chuck Bednarik |
1 May 25 (82) |
Philadelphia Eagles great; last NFL player to play consistently on offense and defense |
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2. Jack LaLanne |
26 Sep 14 (93) |
Because I’m sick of seeing his shriveled body on infomercials |
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1. Oral Roberts |
24 Jan 18 (89) |
Religious zealot |
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Baby Boomer: Russell Watson |
24 Nov 66 (40) |
English Tenor: sooner or later the brain tumors will get you!! |