Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe

What do Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Antoine Lavoisier, Chuck Jones, Mel Blanc, Dr. Seuss, Beatrix Potter, Charles M. Schulz, Isaac Hayes, King Tut, Philo T. Farnsworth, Nikola Tesla, Marchese Guglielmo Marconi, Ennio Morricone, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Edgar Allan Poe, Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Arnold Ziffel, Plato, Socrates, John Dillinger, Elvis Presley, Carole, Landis, Jesse James, Paul Newman, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe, Otto Graham, Natasha Richardson, Sony Bono, Paul Lynde, Dick York, Dick Sargent, Maurice Herbert Evans, Agnes Moorehead, Horton Foote, James Purdy, Alan Livingston, Mr. Ed, Fred Rogers, Michael Crichton, Jimmy Boyd, Eartha Kitt, Beverly Garland, Bettie Paige, Olin Stephens, Dick Weber, Heath Ledger, Wilt Chamberlain, Paul Harvey, Skip Caray, Tammy Faye Messner, Ed Bradley, Merv Griffin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Marshall Applewhite, Gene Siskel, Herve Villechaize, Ricardo Montalban, Ricky Ricardo, Lucille Ball, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Benjamin Franklin, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Alvin Edison, Thomas Jefferson, Carl Sagan, Sigmund Freud, Nicolaus Copernicus, Rasputin, William S. Burroughs, E.C. Segar, Werner Klemperer, Bob Crane, John Banner, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, Adam Smith, Kenneth Lay, John Maynard Keynes, John D. Rockefeller, J. Paul Getty, Tiny Tim, and the U.S. Economy have in common? They’re all dead.