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This list was submitted by USER02193 on Friday, December 31st, 2004 at 9:19 AM PST for The 2005 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.

Points Celebrity Date of Death Age 
10Saul Bellow April 5th, 200589
9Gabriel Garcia MarquezApril 17th, 201487
8Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAugust 3rd, 200889
7Arthur ClarkeMarch 19th, 200890
6Ray BradburyJune 6th, 201291
5Norman MailerNovember 10th, 200784
4J.D. SalingerJanuary 27th, 201091
3Lawrence FerlinghettiFebruary 23rd, 2021101
2Gore VidalJuly 31st, 201286
1Kurt VonnegutApril 11th, 200784
10 points 1 hit 
 

 

Guess the Stiff!

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