This list was submitted by USER01755 on Wednesday, December 31st, 2003 at 10:57 AM PST for The 2004 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Ronnie Biggs | December 18th, 2013 | 84 |
9 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
8 | Lady Bird Johnson | July 11th, 2007 | 94 |
7 | Augusto Pinochet | December 10th, 2006 | 91 |
6 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | August 3rd, 2008 | 89 |
5 | Julia Child | August 13th, 2004 | 91 |
4 | Walter Cronkite | July 17th, 2009 | 92 |
3 | Rodney Dangerfield | October 5th, 2004 | 82 |
2 | Fay Wray | August 8th, 2004 | 96 |
1 | Red Buttons | July 13th, 2006 | 87 |
10 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