This list was submitted by BearOfNH on Tuesday, December 29th, 1998 at 10:52 AM PST for The 1999 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Joe DiMaggio | March 8th, 1999 | 84 |
9 | Milton Berle | March 27th, 2002 | 93 |
8 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
7 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
6 | John Gielgud | May 21st, 2000 | 96 |
5 | Annette Funicello | April 8th, 2013 | 70 |
4 | Art Linkletter | May 26th, 2010 | 97 |
3 | Clayton Moore | December 28th, 1999 | 85 |
2 | Sam Snead | May 23rd, 2002 | 89 |
1 | Chelsea Clinton | Alive | ? |
13 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