This list was submitted by USER01531 on Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 at 12:08 PM PST for The 2009 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Seve Ballesteros | May 7th, 2011 | 54 |
9 | Ted Kennedy | August 25th, 2009 | 77 |
8 | Merle Haggard | April 6th, 2016 | 79 |
7 | Claude Levi-Strauss | November 1st, 2009 | 100 |
6 | Elizabeth Edwards | December 7th, 2010 | 61 |
5 | Dolores Hope | September 19th, 2011 | 102 |
4 | Billy Graham | February 21st, 2018 | 99 |
3 | Lawrence Walsh | March 19th, 2014 | 102 |
2 | Jack Kevorkian | June 3rd, 2011 | 83 |
1 | Patrick Swayze | September 14th, 2009 | 57 |
17 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