This list was submitted by Digger O Dell on Monday, December 28th, 2009 at 5:26 PM PST for The 2010 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Billy Graham | February 21st, 2018 | 99 |
9 | Fidel Castro | November 25th, 2016 | 90 |
8 | Mitch Miller | July 31st, 2010 | 99 |
7 | Betty Ford | July 8th, 2011 | 93 |
6 | Dolores Hope | September 19th, 2011 | 102 |
5 | Zsa Zsa Gabor | December 18th, 2016 | 99 |
4 | Sherwood Schwartz | July 12th, 2011 | 94 |
3 | Ernie Harwell | May 4th, 2010 | 92 |
2 | Annette Funicello | April 8th, 2013 | 70 |
1 | Roger Ebert | April 4th, 2013 | 70 |
11 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