THE STATS



Okay, here are the entry statistics for the 1998 O.B.E. Celebrity Death Watch. There are 12 entrants with a total of 131 celebrity names entered. The most entered name is tied between Bob Hope and Old Blue Eyes himself, Francis Albert Sinatra (they each appeared on 11 lists). Bari and Brian left The Chairman of the Board off their list while Robin left Bob Hope off her list. In addition we have:

1 celebrity appearing on 10 lists.
1 celebrity appearing on 9 lists,
1 celebrity appearing on 8 lists,
2 celebrities appearing on 7 lists,
1 celebrity appearing on 6 lists,
1 celebrity appearing on 5 lists,
2 celebrities appearing on 4 lists,
8 celebrities appearing on 3 lists,
AND
22 celebrities appearing on 2 lists.


That's a total of 41 celebrities appearing on more than one list. That leaves 90 celebrities flying solo (with appearance on only one list). And we all know it's the celebrities that fly solo who buy the farm, right? Just ask John Denver!

The breakdown is as follows:


THE CELEBRITIES

NUMBER OF APPEARANCES
Bob Hope
11
Frank Sinatra
11
The Queen Mother
10
Katharine Hepburn
9
Milton Berle
8
Ronald Reagan
7
Strom Thurmond
7
Boris Yeltsin
6
Pope John Paul II
5
Johnny Cash
4
Buddy Ebsen
4
Hume Cronyn
3
Kirk Douglas
3
Robert Downey Jr.
3
Allen Funt
3
John Gielgud
3
Jim Nabors
3
Mickey Rooney
3
Fay Wray
3
Steve Allen
2
Gene Autry
2
Marlon Brando
2
David Brinkley
2
Harry Caray
2
Phyllis Diller
2
Annette Funicello
2
James Garner
2
Mikhail Gorbachev
2
Jesse Helms
2
Rick Hendrick
2
Leon Hess
2
Magic Johnson
2
Madame Chaing Kai-Shek
2
Jack Klugman
2
Richard Pryor
2
James Earl Ray
2
Aaron Spelling
2
Dr. Benjamin Spock
2
Elizabeth Taylor
2
Mel Torme
2
Robert Young
2
Coolio
1
Meatloaf
1
Roseanne
1
Bella Abzug
1
Eddie Albert
1
Mohammed Ali
1
Sparky Anderson
1
Bea Arthur
1
Brooke Astor
1
Lauren Bacall
1
Victor Borge
1
Bobby Brown
1
Art Carney
1
Johnny Carson
1
Jimmy Carter
1
Barbara Cartland
1
Fidel Castro
1
Sid Ceaser
1
Carol Channing
1
Arthur C. Clarke
1
Imogene Coca
1
Perry Como
1
Alistair Cooke
1
Alan Cranston
1
Walter Cronkite
1
Rodney Dangerfield
1
Al Davis
1
Olivia DeHavilland
1
Sarah Delany
1
Morton Downey Jr.
1
Charles Durning
1
Bob Dylan
1
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
1
Sarah Ferguson
1
Gerald Ford
1
Estelle Getty
1
John Goodman
1
Jeff Gordon
1
Billy Graham
1
Emile Griffith
1
Larry Hagman
1
Hugh Heffner
1
Charlton Heston
1
Al Hirschfeld
1
Saddam Hussein
1
Mick Jagger
1
Lady Bird Johnson
1
DeForest Kelly
1
Jack Kevorkian
1
Evil Kneival
1
Don Knots
1
Jack LaLanne
1
Anna Lee
1
Buck Leonard
1
Al Lewis
1
Art Linkletter
1
Jack Lord
1
Greg Louganis
1
Courtney Love
1
Marie-Louise Febronie Meilleur
1
Ann Miller
1
Harry Morgan
1
Christian Mortensen
1
Willie Nelson
1
Carol O'Connor
1
Donald O'Connor
1
Gregory Peck
1
Carl Perkins
1
Anthony Quinn
1
Tony Randall
1
Don Rickles
1
Leni Riefenstahl
1
Oral Roberts
1
Zelda Rubenstein
1
Gene Sarazen
1
Arnold Schwarzenegger
1
Bob Seeger
1
Sam Snead
1
Latrelle Spreewell
1
Marjory Stoneman-Douglas
1
Sylvia Sydney
1
Mr. T
1
Pierre Trudeau
1
Robert Urich
1
Jacques Villaneuve
1
Jan Michael Vincent
1
Richard Widmark
1
Billy Wilder
1
Ted Williams
1
Henny Youngman
1


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