This list was submitted by USER00771 on Tuesday, November 30th, 1999 at 9:59 AM PST for The 2000 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Eudora Welty | July 23rd, 2001 | ? |
9 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
8 | Boris Yeltsin | April 23rd, 2007 | 76 |
7 | Buddy Ebsen | July 6th, 2003 | 95 |
6 | Charles Schulz | February 12th, 2000 | 77 |
5 | Aaron Spelling | June 23rd, 2006 | 83 |
4 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
3 | Anne Lindbergh | February 7th, 2001 | 94 |
2 | Ronald Reagan | June 5th, 2004 | 93 |
1 | Leni Riefenstahl | September 8th, 2003 | 101 |
6 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