This list was submitted by Chancedog on Saturday, December 31st, 2011 at 7:40 PM PST for The 2012 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Etta James | January 20th, 2012 | 73 |
9 | Robin Gibb | May 20th, 2012 | 62 |
8 | Abdelbaset Al Megrahi | May 20th, 2012 | 60 |
7 | Ronnie Biggs | December 18th, 2013 | 84 |
6 | Harper Lee | February 19th, 2016 | 89 |
5 | Tony Martin | July 30th, 2012 | 98 |
4 | Eli Wallach | June 24th, 2014 | 98 |
3 | Kirk Douglas | February 5th, 2020 | 103 |
2 | Zsa Zsa Gabor | December 18th, 2016 | 99 |
1 | Ray Bradbury | June 6th, 2012 | 91 |
33 points | 5 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