This list was submitted by USER00353 on Monday, December 27th, 2010 at 12:48 PM PST for The 2011 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Christopher Hitchens | December 15th, 2011 | 62 |
9 | Aretha Franklin | August 16th, 2018 | 76 |
8 | Zsa Zsa Gabor | December 18th, 2016 | 99 |
7 | Seve Ballesteros | May 7th, 2011 | 54 |
6 | Run Run Shaw | January 6th, 2014 | 106 |
5 | Ronnie Biggs | December 18th, 2013 | 84 |
4 | Sargent Shriver | January 18th, 2011 | 95 |
3 | Billy Graham | February 21st, 2018 | 99 |
2 | Dolores Hope | September 19th, 2011 | 102 |
1 | Ray Harryhausen | May 7th, 2013 | 92 |
23 points | 4 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