This list was submitted by USER02375 on Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 at 12:55 PM PST for The 2007 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Ariel Sharon | January 11th, 2014 | 85 |
9 | Michael DeBakey | July 11th, 2008 | 99 |
8 | Fidel Castro | November 25th, 2016 | 90 |
7 | Brooke Astor | August 13th, 2007 | 105 |
6 | Jack Kevorkian | June 3rd, 2011 | 83 |
5 | Nelson Mandela | December 5th, 2013 | 95 |
4 | Karl Malden | July 1st, 2009 | 97 |
3 | Estelle Getty | July 22nd, 2008 | 84 |
2 | Dan Fogelberg | December 16th, 2007 | 56 |
1 | Paul Harvey | February 28th, 2009 | 90 |
9 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