This list was submitted by KudsKroakers on Friday, December 31st, 2010 at 11:24 AM PST for The 2011 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Dolores Hope | September 19th, 2011 | 102 |
9 | Sargent Shriver | January 18th, 2011 | 95 |
8 | Peter Falk | June 23rd, 2011 | 83 |
7 | Ronnie Biggs | December 18th, 2013 | 84 |
6 | Betty Ford | July 8th, 2011 | 93 |
5 | Sherwood Schwartz | July 12th, 2011 | 94 |
4 | Harry Morgan | December 7th, 2011 | 96 |
3 | Liz Taylor | March 23rd, 2011 | 79 |
2 | Jeff Conaway | May 27th, 2011 | 60 |
1 | Merle Haggard | April 6th, 2016 | 79 |
47 points | 8 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