Obituaries by Year — U. S. Version - Statistics

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Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
1973 (actor) martial arts	Bruce Lee	100%
1980 (businessman) KFC	Colonel Sanders	100%
1977 (singer) King of Rock & Roll	Elvis Presley	100%
1963 (politician) Ich bin ein Berliner	John F. Kennedy	100%
2020 (basketball player) Los Angeles Lakers	Kobe Bryant	100%
1994 (musician) Nirvana	Kurt Cobain	100%
1962 (actress) pop culture icon	Marilyn Monroe	100%
1968 (activist) I Have a Dream	Martin Luther King Jr.	100%
2009 (singer) Thriller	Michael Jackson	100%
1951 (athlete) Black Socks	Shoeless Joe Jackson	100%
2018 (comic artist) Marvel Comics	Stan Lee	100%
2011 (businessman) IPhone	Steve Jobs	100%
1996 (rapper) California Love	Tupac Shakur	100%
1966 (animator) Mickey Mouse	Walt Disney	100%
1939 (aviation pioneer) crossed the Atlantic	Amelia Earhart	91%
1987 (painter) Pop Art	Andy Warhol	91%
1991 (writer) How Grinch Stole Christmas	Dr. Seuss	91%
1961 (writer) The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	91%
1945 (politician) World War II	Franklin D. Roosevelt	91%
1953 (musician) Your Cheatin' Heart	Hank Williams	91%
1947 (businessman) Model T	Henry Ford	91%
2025 (athlete) six-time WWF Champion	Hulk Hogan	91%
1955 (actor) Rebel Without a Cause	James Dean	91%
1990 (puppeteer) The Muppets	Jim Henson	91%
1970 (musician) Star-Spangled Banner	Jimi Hendrix	91%
2024 (politician) 39th President	Jimmy Carter	91%
1999 (politician) plane crash	John F. Kennedy Jr.	91%
1969 (actress) Wizard of Oz	Judy Garland	91%
2021 (journalist) CNN show	Larry King	91%
1965 (activist) OAAU	Malcolm X	91%
2016 (athlete) The Rumble in the Jungle	Muhammad Ali	91%
2014 (actor) Good Morning, Vietnam	Robin Williams	91%
2023 (singer) Private Dancer	Tina Turner	91%
2012 (singer) Bodyguard	Whitney Houston	91%
1993 (actress) Breakfast at Tiffany's	Audrey Hepburn	82%
1995 (television host) The Joy of Painting	Bob Ross	82%
1959 (musician) The Day When the Music Died	Buddy Holly	82%
1933 (politician) Silent Cal	Calvin Coolidge	82%
1960 (actor) Rhett Buttler	Clark Gable	82%
2022 (rapper) Gangsta Paradise	Coolio	82%
1964 (military) Philippine Army	Douglas MacArthur	82%
1998 (singer) 'Ol Blue Eyes	Frank Sinatra	82%
1972 (politician) Cold War	Harry S. Truman	82%
2010 (writer) Catcher on the Rye	J. D. Salinger	82%
2003 (singer) Folsom Prison Blues	Johnny Cash	82%
1957 (politician) Second Red Scare	Joseph McCarthy	82%
1967 (scientist) Manhattan project	J. Robert Oppenheimer	82%
1971 (musician) What a Wonderful World	Louis Armstrong	82%
1989 (actress) I Love Lucy	Lucille Ball	82%
1948 (inventor) first airplane flight	Orville Wright	82%
2005 (activist) Montgomery Bus Boycott	Rosa Parks	82%
1997 (rapper) Ready to Die	The Notorious B. I. G.	82%
1931 (inventor) electric light bulb	Thomas Edison	82%
1940 (writer) The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	73%
2006 (singer) I Got You (I Feel Good)	James Brown	73%
1982 (actor) Blues Brothers	John Belushi	73%
1979 (actor) True Grit	John Wayne	73%
1983 (singer) The Carpenters	Karen Carpenter	73%
2015 (actor) Spock	Leonard Nimoy	73%
1949 (writer) Gone with the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	73%
1930 (politician) 27th President of the U.S.	William Howard Taft	73%
2000 (comic artist) Peanuts	Charles M. Schulz	64%
1974 (musician) jazz pianist	Duke Ellington	64%
2007 (stunt performer) Motorcycle Hall of Fame	Evel Knievel	64%
1946 (athelete) Galveston Giant	Jack Johnson	64%
2004 (television host) The French Chief	Julia Child	64%
1941 (athlete) New York Yankees	Lou Gehrig	64%
1938 (musician) Crossroad Blues	Robert Johnson	64%
1984 (writer) Breakfast at Tiffany's	Truman Capote	64%
2017 (singer) Soundgarden	Chris Cornell	55%
2008 (actress) Catwoman	Eartha Kitt	55%
1937 (composer) Rhapsody in Blue	George Gershwin	55%
1929 (inventor) gunfight on the O. K. Corral	Wyatt Earp	55%
2001 (singer) Princess of R&B	Aaliyah	45%
1943 (scientist) agriculture	George Washington Carver	45%
1976 (businessman) reclusive millionaire	Howard Hughes	45%
1992 (writer) Robot science fiction series	Isaac Asimov	45%
2019 (rapper) Lucid Dreams	Juice WRLD	45%
1935 (actor) Oklahoma's Favorite Son	Will Rogers	45%
1932 (inventor) Kodak	George Eastman	36%
1952 (politician) First Oscar for Afro-American	Hattie McDaniel	36%
1956 (painter) Convergence	Jackson Pollock	36%
2013 (actor) Fast & Furious	Paul Walker	36%
1985 (singer) Ozzie and Harriet	Ricky Nelson	36%
1981 (actor) Stalag 17	William Holden	36%
1950 (singer) The Jazz Singer	Al Jolson	27%
1944 (socialite) The World's Worst Opera Singer	Florence Foster Jenkins	27%
1975 () Black Pearl	Josephine Baker	27%
1978 (actor) Colonel Robert Hogan	Bob Crane	18%
1942 (actress) Mr. and Mrs. Smith	Carole Lombard	18%
1986 (painter) Red Canna	Georgia O'Keeffe	18%
1988 (painter) Untitled	Jean-Michel Basquiat	18%
2002 (singer) Alice in Chains	Layne Staley	18%
1936 (politician) first native American VP	Charles Curtis	9%
1958 (psychologist) behaviourism	John B. Watson	9%
1934 (actress) Emma	Marie Dressler	9%
1954 (activist) National Assotiation of Colored Women	Mary Church Terrell	9%