This list was submitted by USER00965 on Wednesday, January 5th, 2000 at 10:53 AM PST for The 2000 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Simon Wiesenthal | September 20th, 2005 | 96 |
9 | Alistair Cooke | March 30th, 2004 | 95 |
8 | Peggy Lee | January 21st, 2002 | 81 |
7 | Balthasar Klossowski de Rola | February 18th, 2001 | 92 |
6 | Mickey Spillane | July 17th, 2006 | 88 |
5 | Barbara Cartland | May 21st, 2000 | 98 |
4 | Max Schmeling | February 2nd, 2005 | 99 |
3 | Milton Berle | March 27th, 2002 | 93 |
2 | Anne Lindbergh | February 7th, 2001 | 94 |
1 | Leni Riefenstahl | September 8th, 2003 | 101 |
5 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