This list was submitted by Nurseboy on Thursday, December 31st, 1998 at 12:20 AM PST for The 1999 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Joe DiMaggio | March 8th, 1999 | 84 |
9 | Helen Rollason | August 9th, 1999 | 43 |
8 | Sunny von Bulow | December 6th, 2008 | 77 |
7 | Tofilau Alesana | March 19th, 1999 | 74 |
6 | Maurice Richard | May 27th, 2000 | 78 |
5 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
4 | Marvin Wood | October 13th, 1999 | ? |
3 | Not Famous | ||
2 | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | August 24th, 2004 | 78 |
1 | Steve Heaston | July 15th, 1999 | ? |
31 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