This list was submitted by Feasting Maggots on Sunday, December 31st, 2006 at 6:52 PM PST for The 2007 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Tammy Messner | July 20th, 2007 | 65 |
9 | Molly Ivins | January 31st, 2007 | 62 |
8 | Benny Parsons | January 16th, 2007 | 65 |
7 | Evel Knievel | November 30th, 2007 | 69 |
6 | Ariel Sharon | January 11th, 2014 | 85 |
5 | Jack Kevorkian | June 3rd, 2011 | 83 |
4 | Art Buchwald | January 17th, 2007 | 81 |
3 | Harold Pinter | December 24th, 2008 | 78 |
2 | W. Mark Felt | December 18th, 2008 | 95 |
1 | Louis Farrakhan | Alive | 92 |
38 points | 5 hits |
Georgia's irrepressible segregationist, who defied the 1964 Civil Rights Act by chasing three black students from his restaurant with a gun. Given twenty days to desegregate, Maddox chose instead to close and sell the place, for which they made him Governor. Later, after his political career waned, he attempted to update his image by launching a nightclub comedy act with a black ex-con he had pardoned while in office. They were billed as "The Governor and the Dishwasher." We're not making this up.
(d) June 25th, 2003