This list was submitted by Tennessee Jed on Saturday, December 31st, 2016 at 2:07 PM PST for The 2017 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Kirk Douglas | February 5th, 2020 | 103 |
9 | Prince Philip | April 9th, 2021 | 99 |
8 | Betty White | December 31st, 2021 | 99 |
7 | George H.W. Bush | November 30th, 2018 | 94 |
6 | Jimmy Carter | December 29th, 2024 | 100 |
5 | Olivia de Havilland | July 26th, 2020 | 104 |
4 | Doris Day | May 13th, 2019 | 97 |
3 | Jerry Lewis | August 20th, 2017 | 91 |
2 | Carl Reiner | June 29th, 2020 | 98 |
1 | Carol Channing | January 15th, 2019 | 97 |
3 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