This list was submitted by Chris Goulart on Sunday, December 30th, 2012 at 12:26 AM PST for The 2013 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | George H.W. Bush | November 30th, 2018 | 94 |
9 | Richard Attenborough | August 24th, 2014 | 90 |
8 | Stan Lee | November 12th, 2018 | 95 |
7 | Jean Stapleton | May 31st, 2013 | 90 |
6 | Nelson Mandela | December 5th, 2013 | 95 |
5 | Nancy Reagan | March 6th, 2016 | 94 |
4 | Antonin Scalia | February 13th, 2016 | 79 |
3 | Sidney Poitier | January 6th, 2022 | 94 |
2 | Henry Kissinger | November 29th, 2023 | 100 |
1 | Bob Dole | December 5th, 2021 | 98 |
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