WHAT MAKES A 2008 O.B.E. CELEBRITY

Below are two lists. The first list presents the 22 picks who were eliminated from the 2008 O.B.E. Memorial Celebrity Death Watch and the reason(s) for their elimination. The second list presents all of the remaining picks (520) and indicates the likelihood that each pick will count as a celebrity in next year's Death Watch (2009). Enjoy!

Person	Reason for Removal
Arthur Glen Andrews	Oldest Provision
Augie Nieto	Illness Provision
Charles Friegood	Oldest Provision and Regional Provision
Chuck Strahl	Regional Provision
Debbie Nelson	Fame Test and Relation Provision
Edgar Wayman	Fame Test
Edna Parker	Oldest Provision
Elizabeth Edwards	Relation Provision and Illness Provision
Emillio Navarro	Oldest Provision
Erick Wujcik	Fame Test
G. Larry James	Fame Test and Regional Provision
Glen McDuffie	Fame Test
Jack Weil	Oldest Provision
John Cheney	Fame Test
Orlando Thomas	Illness Provision
Philip Rabinowitz	Oldest Provision
Randy Pausch	Illness Provision
Richard Olney	Illness Provision
Ron Springs	Illness Provision
Rudy Boesch	Oldest Provision
Timothy Johnson	Fame Test and Illness Provision
Tomoji Tanabe	Oldest Provision

GEE GUYS, DO YOU THINK THESE FOLKS WILL BE CONSIDERED FAMOUS NEXT YEAR?

Person	Oh Yeah!	Probably	Probably Not
“Rowdy” Roddy Piper	X	.	.
50 Cent	X	.	.
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim	.	.	X
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed	.	.	X
Abe Vigoda	X	.	.
Abigail Van Buren (Pauline)	X	.	.
Adam West	X	.	.
Al Davis	X	.	.
Al Molinaro	X	.	.
Alain Robert	.	X	.
Alan Greenspan	X	.	.
Alan Young	X	.	.
Albert Hofmann	X	.	.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	.	X	.
Alex Higgins	.	.	X
Alex Trebek	X	.	.
Ali Khamenei	.	X	.
Allan Melvin	X	.	.
Amy Winehouse	X	.	.
Andrew Wyeth	.	X	.
Andy Dick	X	.	.
Andy Griffith	X	.	.
Andy Rooney	X	.	.
Andy Williams	X	.	.
Angela Lansbury	X	.	.
Ann B. Davis	X	.	.
Ann Rutherford	X	.	.
Annette Funicello	X	.	.
Antonin Scalia	X	.	.
Aretha Franklin	X	.	.
Aribert Heim	.	.	X
Ariel Sharon	X	.	.
Army Archerd	X	.	.
Arnold Palmer	X	.	.
Arnold Schwarzenegger	X	.	.
Art Bell	X	.	.
Art Linkletter	X	.	.
Arthur C. Clarke	X	.	.
Artie Lange	X	.	.
Asif Ali Zardari	.	.	X
B. B. King	X	.	.
Barack Obama	X	.	.
Barbara Billingsley	X	.	.
Barbara Bush	X	.	.
Barbara Hale	X	.	.
Barbara Kent	.	.	X
Bea Arthur	X	.	.
Betsy Palmer	.	.	X
Bettie Page	X	.	.
Beverly Cleary	X	.	.
.	.	.	.
Bilawel Zardari	.	.	X
Bill Brown	.	.	X
Bill Daily	X	.	.
Bill O'Reilly	X	.	.
Bill Werber	.	.	X
Billy Graham	X	.	.
Bo Diddley	X	.	.
Bob Barker	X	.	.
Bob Cousy	.	.	X
Bob Dole	X	.	.
Bob Dylan	X	.	.
Bob Feller	X	.	.
Bob Sheppard	.	X	.
Bobby “The Brain” Heenan	.	X	.
Bobby Brown	X	.	.
Bobby Doerr	.	X	.
Bobby Fischer	X	.	.
Bobby Murcer	X	.	.
Boris Efimov	.	X	.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali	X	.	.
Brian Dennehy	X	.	.
Brian Wilson	X	.	.
Britney Spears	X	.	.
Bud Grant	.	.	X
C. Everett Koop	X	.	.
Captain Beefheart	X	.	.
Cardinal Angelo Sodano	.	.	X
Carl Kasell	.	X	.
Carl Reiner	X	.	.
Carol Channing	X	.	.
Celeste Holm	X	.	.
Charles Durning	X	.	.
Charles Manson	X	.	.
Charlie Daniels	X	.	.
Charlotte Rae	X	.	.
Charlton Heston	X	.	.
Cher	X	.	.
Chevy Chase	X	.	.
Christodoulos	X	.	.
Christopher Lee	X	.	.
Christopher Plummer	X	.	.
Chuck Woolery	X	.	.
Chuck Yeager	X	.	.
Clairborne Pell	.	.	X
Clarence “Ace” Parker	.	.	X
Claude Levi-Strauss	.	X	.
Clay Felker	.	.	X
Condoleezza Rice	X	.	.
Conrad Bain	X	.	.
Corazon Aquino	.	X	.
Courtney Love	X	.	.
Dale Robertson	.	.	X
Dan Rostenkowski	.	X	.
Daniel Schorr	.	X	.
Danny Bonaduce	X	.	.
Danny Federici	.	X	.
Danny LaRue	.	.	X
Dave Brubeck	.	X	.
David Crosby	X	.	.
David Gest	.	X	.
David Hasselhoff	X	.	.
David Rockefeller	X	.	.
Deanna Durbin	.	X	.
Della Reese	X	.	.
Denis Healy	.	.	X
Dennis Hastert	.	X	.
Dennis Hopper	X	.	.
Desmond Tutu	X	.	.
Dick Cavett	X	.	.
Dick Cheney	X	.	.
Dick Clark	X	.	.
Dick Francis	X	.	.
Dick Van Dyke	X	.	.
Diego Maradona	.	X	.
Dino De Laurentiis	X	.	.
Doc Severinsen	X	.	.
Dody Goodman	X	.	.
Dolores Hope	X	.	.
Dom Deluise	X	.	.
Don Pardo	X	.	.
Don Rickles	X	.	.
Don Wittman	.	.	X
Donald Rumsfeld	X	.	.
Donald Sutherland	X	.	.
Doris Day	X	.	.
Doyle Brunson	X	.	.
Earl Butz	.	X	.
Earl Scruggs	X	.	.
Earl Weaver	X	.	.
Earle Hyman	.	X	.
Ed Asner	X	.	.
Ed McMahon	X	.	.
Edd Byrnes	.	X	.
Eddy Arnold	X	.	.
Edgar Ray Killeen	.	.	X
Edward Upward	.	X	.
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.	X	.	.
Eleanor Mondale	X	.	.
Eleanor Parker	X	.	.
Eli Wallach	X	.	.
Elizabeth Taylor	X	.	.
Elliott Carter	.	.	X
Eric Sykes	.	X	.
Erich Priebke	.	X	.
Ernest Borgnine	X	.	.
Ernest Hollings	.	.	X
Estelle Getty	X	.	.
Esther Williams	X	.	.
Ethel Kennedy	X	.	.
Eunice Kennedy-Shriver	X	.	.
Evelyn Keyes	.	X	.
F.W. DeKlerk	.	X	.
Farrah Fawcett	X	.	.
Fats Domino	X	.	.
Fidel Castro	X	.	.
Former President Suharto	.	X	.
Frances Reid	X	.	.
Frank Buckles	.	.	X
Frank Cady	X	.	.
Frank Robinson	.	X	.
Frankie Valli	X	.	.
Gale Storm	.	X	.
Garrett Morris	X	.	.
Garry Marshall	X	.	.
Gary Coleman	X	.	.
Gene Barry	X	.	.
George Beverly Shea	.	X	.
George Bush Sr.	X	.	.
George Carlin	X	.	.
George Clayton Johnson	.	.	X
George Gaynes	.	X	.
George Jones	X	.	.
George Martin	.	X	.
George McAfee	.	.	X
George Shultz	.	X	.
George Steinbrenner	X	.	.
George T.D. Moore	.	.	X
George W. Bush	X	.	.
Georgia Frontiere	X	.	.
Geraldine Ferraro	X	.	.
Ginger Baker	.	X	.
Gloria Stuart	X	.	.
Gordon Hinckley	X	.	.
Gore Vidal	X	.	.
Gough Whitlam	.	.	X
Guy Hunt	.	X	.
Hal David	X	.	.
Hal Holbrook	X	.	.
Hank Aaron	X	.	.
Hank Locklin	.	.	X
Harold Pinter	.	X	.
Harry Bernstein	.	.	X
Harry Landis	.	.	X
Harry Morgan	X	.	.
Harvey Korman	X	.	.
Helen Gurley-Brown	X	.	.
Henri Richard	.	.	X
Henry Allingham	.	.	X
Henry Bloch	.	.	X
Henry Heimlich	X	.	.
Henry Kissenger	X	.	.
Henry Winkler	X	.	.
Huey Long	.	X	.
Hugh Downs	X	.	.
Hugh Hefner	X	.	.
Hugues Cuenod	.	.	X
Hulk Hogan	X	.	.
I.M. Pei	.	.	X
Ian Brady	.	X	.
Irena Sendler	.	.	X
Irwin Corey	X	.	.
J.D. Salinger	X	.	.
Jack Kevorkian	X	.	.
Jack Klugman	X	.	.
Jack LaLanne	X	.	.
Jackie Cooper	X	.	.
Jacques Barzun	.	.	X
Jake “The Snake” Roberts	X	.	.
Jake LaMotta	X	.	.
James Brolin	X	.	.
James Earl Jones	X	.	.
James Garner	X	.	.
James Hodgson	.	.	X
James Mitchell	.	.	X
Jamie Oliver	.	X	.
Jane Goodall	.	X	.
Jane Russell	X	.	.
Janez Drnovsek	.	.	X
Jayne Meadows	X	.	.
Jean Darling	.	X	.
Jean Delannoy	.	.	X
Jean Stapleton	X	.	.
Jeff Healy	.	.	X
Jenna Jamieson	X	.	.
Jennifer Jones	.	X	.
Jerry Lewis	X	.	.
Jerry Maren	.	X	.
Jerry Wexler	.	X	.
Jesse Helms	X	.	.
Jim McKay	.	X	.
Jim Nabors	X	.	.
Jim Otto	.	X	.
Jim Wright	.	.	X
Jimmy Carter	X	.	.
Jo Stafford	X	.	.
Joan Fontaine	X	.	.
Joe Eszterhas	X	.	.
Joe Namath	X	.	.
Joe Paterno	X	.	.
Joe Perry	X	.	.
Johannes Heesters	.	.	X
John Anderson	.	.	X
John Forsythe	X	.	.
John Glenn	X	.	.
John Mack Carter	.	.	X
John Mackey	.	.	X
John Madden	X	.	.
John Paul Stevens	X	.	.
John Travolta	X	.	.
John W. Finn	.	.	X
John Wooden	X	.	.
Johnny “Lam” Jones	.	.	X
Johnny Podres	.	.	X
Joseph Wapner	X	.	.
Joyce Randolph	X	.	.
Juan Antonio Samaranch	.	.	X
Jules Dassin	.	X	.
Julie Andrews	X	.	.
Julius Richmond	.	.	X
June Havoc	X	.	.
June Lockhart	X	.	.
Karl Frenzel	.	.	X
Karl Malden	X	.	.
Karl Rove	X	.	.
Karla Homolka	.	X	.
Kazuo Ohno	.	.	X
Keith Richards	X	.	.
Kevin Federline	X	.	.
King Norodom Sihanouk	.	.	X
Kirk Douglas	X	.	.
Kitty Wells	X	.	.
Lansana Conte	.	.	X
Larry Hagman	X	.	.
Larry King	X	.	.
Larry Storch	X	.	.
Lauren Bacall	X	.	.
Lena Horne	X	.	.
Leontyne Price	.	X	.
Leroy Neiman	.	.	X
Leroy Sievers	.	.	X
Les Paul	X	.	.
Linda Lavin	X	.	.
Lindsay Lohan	X	.	.
Little Jimmy Dickens	.	X	.
Liza Minnelli	X	.	.
Lonny Frey	.	.	X
Loretta Lynn	X	.	.
Lou Albano	X	.	.
Lou Henson	.	.	X
Lou Holtz	X	.	.
Lou Jacobi	X	.	.
Louie Anderson	X	.	.
Louis Farrakahn	X	.	.
Louis Jourdan	X	.	.
Luis Echeverría Álvarez	.	.	X
Luise Danz	.	.	X
Luise Rainer	X	.	.
Lyndon LaRouche	X	.	.
Magda Olivero	.	.	X
Magic Johnson	X	.	.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi	X	.	.
Malcolm Scott Carpenter	X	.	.
Manoel de Oliveira	.	.	X
Margaret O'Brien	X	.	.
Margaret Thatcher	X	.	.
Margot Kidder	X	.	.
Marilyn Horne	.	X	.
Marion Barry	X	.	.
Marjorie Lord	.	.	X
Mark Felt	X	.	.
Martin Landau	X	.	.
Mary Kate Olsen	X	.	.
Mary Travers	X	.	.
Mary Tyler Moore	X	.	.
Matt Groening	X	.	.
Maureen O'Hara	X	.	.
Max Bygraves	.	.	X
Max Helton	.	.	X
Meatloaf	X	.	.
Meinhardt Raabe	.	X	.
Mel Brooks	X	.	.
Melvin Van Peebles	.	X	.
Michael DeBakey	.	X	.
Michael Foot	.	X	.
Michael J. Fox	X	.	.
Michael Vick	.	X	.
Mickey Rooney	X	.	.
Mickey Rourke	X	.	.
Miep Gies	.	X	.
Mike Lookinland	X	.	.
Mike Tyson	X	.	.
Mike Wallace	X	.	.
Mikhail Gorbachev	X	.	.
Milt Schmidt	.	.	X
Mitch Miller	X	.	.
Mitzi Gaynor	X	.	.
Monte Irvin	.	X	.
Monty Hall	X	.	.
Mother Angelica	X	.	.
Mr. Blackwell	X	.	.
Muhammad Ali	X	.	.
Nancy Reagan	X	.	.
Nawaz Sharfi	.	.	X
Neil Armstrong	X	.	.
Nelson Mandela	X	.	.
Nick Nolte	X	.	.
Nicole Richie	X	.	.
Norman Corwin	.	.	X
Norman Lear	X	.	.
Norman Lloyd	X	.	.
Norman Wisdom	.	X	.
Nouri Al-Maliki	.	.	X
Nusrat Bhutto	.	.	X
Olivia de Havilland	X	.	.
Oral Roberts	X	.	.
Osama Bin Laden	X	.	.
Oscar Niemeyer	.	X	.
Owen Wilson	X	.	.
Ozzy Osbourne	X	.	.
Pamela Anderson	X	.	.
Paris Hilton	X	.	.
Pat Burns	.	.	X
Pat Robertson	X	.	.
Pat Summerall	X	.	.
Patricia Anne Priest	X	.	.
Patricia Dunn	.	X	.
Patricia Neal	X	.	.
Patrick Moore	.	.	X
Patty Andrews	X	.	.
Paul Harvey	X	.	.
Paul Hornung	.	.	X
Paul Newman	X	.	.
Paul Orndorff (Mr. Wonderful)	.	X	.
Paul Prudhomme	X	.	.
Paula Abdul	X	.	.
Pervez Musharraf	X	.	.
Pete Doherty	X	.	.
Pete Pihos	.	.	X
Pete Seeger	X	.	.
Peter A. Thomas	.	.	X
Peter Graves	X	.	.
Peter O'Toole	X	.	.
Phil Carey	.	.	X
Phyllis A. Whitney	X	.	.
Phyllis Diller	X	.	.
Pierre Cardin	X	.	.
Pinetop Perkins	.	.	X
Pope Benedict XVI	X	.	.
Prince Philip	X	.	.
Queen Elizabeth II	X	.	.
Ralph Reed	.	.	X
Ratu Ilolio	.	.	X
Ray Bradbury	X	.	.
Regis Philbin	X	.	.
Reverand Sun Myung Moon	X	.	.
Ricardo Montalban	X	.	.
Richard Attenborough	X	.	.
Richard Chamberlin	X	.	.
Richard Dawson	X	.	.
Richard Petty	X	.	.
Richard Widmark	X	.	.
Robbie Maddison	.	.	X
Robert Blake	X	.	.
Robert Byrd	X	.	.
Robert Hanssen	.	.	X
Robert Joe Conrad	.	.	X
Robert MacNamara	X	.	.
Robert Mondavi	X	.	.
Robert Mugabe	.	X	.
Roger Ebert	X	.	.
Ron Santo	.	X	.
Ronald Isley	X	.	.
Ronald Neame	.	.	X
Ronnie Biggs	.	X	.
Ronnie Hawkins	X	.	.
Rose Marie	X	.	.
Roy Disney	X	.	.
Roy Horn	X	.	.
Roy Scheider	X	.	.
Ruby Dee	X	.	.
Ruby Muhammad	.	X	.
Rudy Guliani	X	.	.
Run Run Shaw	.	.	X
Rupert Murdoch	X	.	.
Russell Johnson	X	.	.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg	X	.	.
Sam Huff	.	.	X
Sammy Baugh	X	.	.
Sandra Day O'Connor	X	.	.
Sandra Yow	.	.	X
Sarah Brady	X	.	.
Sargent Shriver	X	.	.
Scott Hamilton	X	.	.
Scott Weiland	X	.	.
Shammi Kapoor	.	.	X
Shane McGowan	.	X	.
Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman	X	.	.
Sherrill Headrick	.	.	X
Sherwood Schwartz	X	.	.
Sid Caesar	X	.	.
Sir Alec Bedser	.	.	X
Sir Anthony Mamo	.	.	X
Sir Bobby Charlton	.	X	.
Sir Bobby Robson	.	.	X
Sir Edmund Hillary	X	.	.
Soupy Sales	X	.	.
Sparky Anderson	X	.	.
Stan Musial	X	.	.
Stephen Hawking	X	.	.
Stephen King	X	.	.
Stephen Stills	X	.	.
Steven Tyler	X	.	.
Studs Terkel	X	.	.
Sunny VonBulow	.	X	.
Suzanne Pleshette	X	.	.
Sydney Pollack	X	.	.
Sylvia Browne	X	.	.
Tariq Aziz	.	X	.
Ted Kennedy	X	.	.
Ted Lindsay	.	.	X
Teri Garr	X	.	.
Terry Bradshaw	X	.	.
Terry Pratchett	.	.	X
Todd Bridges	X	.	.
Tom Bosley	X	.	.
Tom DeLay	X	.	.
Tommy Henrich	.	.	X
Tommy Lasorda	X	.	.
Toni Morrison	X	.	.
Tony Curtis	X	.	.
Tony Martin	X	.	.
Tony Snow	X	.	.
Tyronne Jones	.	.	X
Van Johnson	X	.	.
Vera Lynn	X	.	.
Verne Troyer	.	X	.
Viktor Schreckengost	.	.	X
Vin Scully	X	.	.
Vinko Boggtaj	.	X	.
Walter Cronkite	X	.	.
Wavy Gravy	X	.	.
Whitney Houston	X	.	.
Wilford Brimley	X	.	.
Willard Wirtz	.	.	X
Willem Kolff	.	.	X
William Heirens	.	.	X
William Hilton	X	.	.
William Saxbe	.	.	X
William Schallert	.	X	.
William Shatner	X	.	.
Willie Mays	X	.	.
Willie McCovey	.	.	X
Willie Nelson	X	.	.
Willis Lamb	.	.	X
Yasuhiro Nakasone	.	X	.
Yitzhak Shamir	X	.	.
Yogi Berra	X	.	.
Yo-Sam Choi	.	.	X
Zsa Zsa Gabor	X	.	.

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