This list was submitted by Drop Dead on Wednesday, December 26th, 2012 at 9:35 PM PST for The 2013 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Nelson Mandela | December 5th, 2013 | 95 |
9 | Margaret Thatcher | April 8th, 2013 | 87 |
8 | Hugo Chavez | March 5th, 2013 | 58 |
7 | Nancy Reagan | March 6th, 2016 | 94 |
6 | Stephen Hawking | March 13th, 2018 | 76 |
5 | Prince Philip | April 9th, 2021 | 99 |
4 | Abe Vigoda | January 26th, 2016 | 94 |
3 | Regis Philbin | July 24th, 2020 | 88 |
2 | Glen Campbell | August 8th, 2017 | 81 |
1 | Pope Benedict XVI | December 31st, 2022 | 95 |
27 points | 3 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