This list was submitted by USER00809 on Wednesday, December 28th, 2005 at 6:43 PM PST for The 2006 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Brooke Astor | August 13th, 2007 | 105 |
9 | Lady Bird Johnson | July 11th, 2007 | 94 |
8 | Oriana Fallaci | September 15th, 2006 | 77 |
7 | Joey Bishop | October 17th, 2007 | 89 |
6 | Gerald Ford | December 26th, 2006 | 93 |
5 | Estelle Getty | July 22nd, 2008 | 84 |
4 | Augusto Pinochet | December 10th, 2006 | 91 |
3 | Olivia de Havilland | July 26th, 2020 | 104 |
2 | Lou Rawls | January 6th, 2006 | 72 |
1 | Al Lewis | February 3rd, 2006 | 82 |
21 points | 5 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