This list was submitted by USER01223 on Friday, December 31st, 2004 at 3:41 PM PST for The 2005 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Max Schmeling | February 2nd, 2005 | 99 |
9 | Lady Bird Johnson | July 11th, 2007 | 94 |
8 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
7 | . Suharto | January 27th, 2008 | 86 |
6 | Leon Askin | June 3rd, 2005 | 97 |
5 | Augusto Pinochet | December 10th, 2006 | 91 |
4 | Shelley Winters | January 14th, 2006 | 85 |
3 | Ronnie Hawkins | May 29th, 2022 | 87 |
2 | Claude Levi-Strauss | November 1st, 2009 | 100 |
1 | Soupy Sales | October 22nd, 2009 | 83 |
24 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