This list was submitted by Jackalope_Ghost on Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 at 2:07 PM PST for The 2009 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | John Wooden | June 4th, 2010 | 99 |
9 | Phyllis Diller | August 20th, 2012 | 95 |
8 | Jack LaLanne | January 23rd, 2011 | 96 |
7 | Zsa Zsa Gabor | December 18th, 2016 | 99 |
6 | Lou Henson | July 25th, 2020 | 88 |
5 | Robert Schuller | April 2nd, 2015 | 88 |
4 | Ted Kennedy | August 25th, 2009 | 77 |
3 | J.D. Salinger | January 27th, 2010 | 91 |
2 | Fats Domino | October 24th, 2017 | 89 |
1 | James Garner | July 19th, 2014 | 86 |
4 points | 1 hit |
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