Well, it's January 1 and Amish Tech Support's Dead Pool is closed to entries, so I can now post my list. Here it is:

1. Jacques Derrida, philosopher, 7/15/1930
2. Noam Chomsky, linguist, 12/7/1928
3. Fidel Castro, statesman, 8/13/1926
4. Yasser Arafat, statesman, 8/24/1929
5. Jesse Helms, statesman, 10/18/1921
6. Jack Kevorkian, physician, 3/6/1928
7. Norman Lear, television executive, 7/27/1922
8. Norman Mailer, author, 1/31/1923
9. Augusto Pinochet, statesman, 11/25/1915
10. Harold Pinter, playwright, 10/10/1930
11. Arthur Miller, playwright, 10/17/1915
12. Oral Roberts, religious leader, 1/24/1918
13. Andy Rooney, commentator, 1/14/1919
14. Pete Seeger, folksinger, 5/3/1919
15. Gore Vidal, author, 10/3/1925