This list was submitted by HOOFBEATS on Saturday, December 31st, 2016 at 1:27 PM PST for The 2017 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Mel Stottlemyre | January 13th, 2019 | 77 |
9 | Herman Wouk | May 18th, 2019 | 103 |
8 | Gina Lollobrigida | January 16th, 2023 | 95 |
7 | Doris Day | May 13th, 2019 | 97 |
6 | Martin Landau | July 15th, 2017 | 89 |
5 | Billy Graham | February 21st, 2018 | 99 |
4 | Lee Iacocca | July 2nd, 2019 | 94 |
3 | Alan Alda | Alive | 89 |
2 | Ara Parseghian | August 2nd, 2017 | 94 |
1 | Christopher Plummer | February 5th, 2021 | 91 |
8 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