This list was submitted by EWWWWWW on Tuesday, January 5th, 1999 at 3:34 PM PST for The 1999 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Joe DiMaggio | March 8th, 1999 | 84 |
9 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
8 | Boris Yeltsin | April 23rd, 2007 | 76 |
7 | Madame Chiang Kai-Shek | October 23rd, 2003 | 106 |
6 | Katharine Hepburn | June 29th, 2003 | 96 |
5 | J.D. Salinger | January 27th, 2010 | 91 |
4 | Pee Wee Reese | August 14th, 1999 | 81 |
3 | Fay Wray | August 8th, 2004 | 96 |
2 | Abraham Beame | February 10th, 2001 | 94 |
1 | Senor Wences | April 20th, 1999 | 103 |
15 points | 3 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