This list was submitted by USER00814 on Tuesday, December 31st, 2002 at 12:12 PM PST for The 2003 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Osama bin Laden | May 2nd, 2011 | 54 |
9 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
8 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
7 | Saddam Hussein | December 29th, 2006 | 69 |
6 | Gregory Peck | June 12th, 2003 | 87 |
5 | Richard Pryor | December 10th, 2005 | 65 |
4 | Andy Rooney | November 5th, 2011 | 92 |
3 | Red Buttons | July 13th, 2006 | 87 |
2 | Gerald Ford | December 26th, 2006 | 93 |
1 | Prince Rainier | April 6th, 2005 | 81 |
23 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