This list was submitted by USER00484 on Sunday, January 3rd, 1999 at 4:30 AM PST for The 1999 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Joe DiMaggio | March 8th, 1999 | 84 |
9 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
8 | Milton Berle | March 27th, 2002 | 93 |
7 | Saul Bellow | April 5th, 2005 | 89 |
6 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
5 | Alan King | May 9th, 2004 | 76 |
4 | Liza Minnelli | Alive | 79 |
3 | Liz Taylor | March 23rd, 2011 | 79 |
2 | Charlie Sheen | Alive | 59 |
1 | Robert Downey, Jr. | Alive | ? |
10 points | 1 hit |
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