This list was submitted by USER02200 on Wednesday, December 28th, 2005 at 1:13 PM PST for The 2006 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Brooke Astor | August 13th, 2007 | 105 |
9 | Claude Levi-Strauss | November 1st, 2009 | 100 |
8 | Lou Rawls | January 6th, 2006 | 72 |
7 | Don Ho | April 14th, 2007 | 76 |
6 | Ernest Gallo | March 6th, 2007 | 97 |
5 | Dolores Hope | September 19th, 2011 | 102 |
4 | Lady Bird Johnson | July 11th, 2007 | 94 |
3 | Jane Wyatt | October 20th, 2006 | 96 |
2 | Art Linkletter | May 26th, 2010 | 97 |
1 | Dear Abby | January 16th, 2013 | 94 |
11 points | 2 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