This list was submitted by Albrecht on Tuesday, December 21st, 2004 at 7:46 PM PST for The 2005 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
9 | Art Linkletter | May 26th, 2010 | 97 |
8 | Gerald Ford | December 26th, 2006 | 93 |
7 | Jimmy Carter | Alive | 99 |
6 | Sid Caesar | February 12th, 2014 | 91 |
5 | Estelle Getty | July 22nd, 2008 | 84 |
4 | Kirk Douglas | February 5th, 2020 | 103 |
3 | Richard Pryor | December 10th, 2005 | 65 |
2 | Eddie Albert | May 26th, 2005 | 99 |
1 | William Rehnquist | September 3rd, 2005 | 80 |
16 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