This list was submitted by USER02524 on Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 at 3:54 PM PST for The 2010 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | George Steinbrenner | July 13th, 2010 | 80 |
9 | Seve Ballesteros | May 7th, 2011 | 54 |
8 | Robert Byrd | June 28th, 2010 | 92 |
7 | James Garner | July 19th, 2014 | 86 |
6 | Zsa Zsa Gabor | December 18th, 2016 | 99 |
5 | Dennis Hopper | May 29th, 2010 | 74 |
4 | Nate Dogg | March 15th, 2011 | 41 |
3 | John Wooden | June 4th, 2010 | 99 |
2 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | September 18th, 2020 | 87 |
1 | Harry Morgan | December 7th, 2011 | 96 |
26 points | 4 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