This list was submitted by JohnRandy on Thursday, December 29th, 2005 at 8:44 AM PST for The 2006 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Brooke Astor | August 13th, 2007 | 105 |
9 | John Galbraith | April 29th, 2006 | 97 |
8 | Lady Bird Johnson | July 11th, 2007 | 94 |
7 | Kitty Carlisle | April 17th, 2007 | 96 |
6 | Michael DeBakey | July 11th, 2008 | 99 |
5 | Augusto Pinochet | December 10th, 2006 | 91 |
4 | Gerald Ford | December 26th, 2006 | 93 |
3 | Mitch Miller | July 31st, 2010 | 99 |
2 | Dolores Hope | September 19th, 2011 | 102 |
1 | Joe Barbera | December 18th, 2006 | 95 |
19 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