Celebrity picks for Derby Dead Pool 2005: Y

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Yarborough, Cale Born 27 March 1939  (Timmonsville, South Carolina, USA) American racing driver - 3 times NASCAR national champion (1976-78) and 4 times winner of the Daytona 500 (1968, 77, 83-84). Crazycarl

Yeager, Chuck Born 13 February 1923  (Myra, West Virginia, USA) World War II flying ace, who later became a test pilot for the US Air Force and is credited with being the first person to break the sound barrier. Atsusdead Reddmyst 20 Time Is NOT On Our Side!

Yeltsin, Boris (Died in 2007) Born 1 February 1931  (Bukta, Sverdlovsk, Russia) The vodka-and-boogie-loving former Russian President, who managed to sack four prime ministers in the space of 17 months, has undergone quintuple heart-bypass surgery and various health scares including pneumonia. 57,288,974 Americans Are Smart Alison The Assassin Bob Mugabe's Swingtime Band The Buddy Holly Flying Experience The Conqueror Worm Impaled On The Antlers Of Doom The Long-Awaited Return of The Plymouth Jury The Newstreet Boys Death Squad Pooil Vaaish Pry It From His Cold Dead Fingers Puzlman's Passing Picks Rest In Peace TiM r The Winged Devil Monkeys

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh (Died in 2008) Born 18 October 1911  (Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India) Guru who popularized traditional Indian thought in the West and founded the Transcendental Meditation Movement, which reached its height of popularity in the 1960s and '70s. There is some dispute over his date of birth, with some claiming he was born in 1918, but the popular consensus seems to be 1911. U

Yorke, Thom Born 7 October 1968  (Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England) Lead singer of Radiohead and political activist. Bazzilliant

Yushchenko, Viktor Born 23 February 1954  (Khoruzhivka, Ukraine) Ukrainian politician who was elected President of his country in December 2004, but not before one election had been scrapped due to rampant vote-rigging and Yushchenko had been (allegedly) poisoned with high levels of dioxin, which left his skin startlingly discoloured and pockmarked. Alison The Assassin Bob Mugabe's Swingtime Band Grizly Peter 'RIP' Trait Vassili Zaitsev

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