This list was submitted by FTG on Saturday, December 30th, 2006 at 12:46 AM PST for The 2007 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Tammy Messner | July 20th, 2007 | 65 |
9 | Ronnie Biggs | December 18th, 2013 | 84 |
8 | Harold Pinter | December 24th, 2008 | 78 |
7 | Dale Hawkins | February 13th, 2010 | 73 |
6 | Fidel Castro | November 25th, 2016 | 90 |
5 | Charles Walgreen | February 10th, 2007 | 100 |
4 | Claude Levi-Strauss | November 1st, 2009 | 100 |
3 | King Sihanouk | October 14th, 2012 | 89 |
2 | Jack Ramsay | April 27th, 2014 | 89 |
1 | Lee Hazlewood | August 4th, 2007 | 78 |
16 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