This list was submitted by Jim on Friday, December 31st, 1999 at 12:55 PM PST for The 2000 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
9 | Ian Dury | March 27th, 2000 | 57 |
8 | Mortimer Adler | June 28th, 2001 | ? |
7 | Fay Wray | August 8th, 2004 | 96 |
6 | Ann Sothern | March 15th, 2001 | 92 |
5 | Charles Schulz | February 12th, 2000 | 77 |
4 | Anne Lindbergh | February 7th, 2001 | 94 |
3 | Leni Riefenstahl | September 8th, 2003 | 101 |
2 | Lew Burdette | February 6th, 2007 | 80 |
1 | Johnny Cash | September 12th, 2003 | 71 |
14 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