This list was submitted by MaudieG on Friday, December 28th, 2001 at 12:08 PM PST for The 2002 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Lester Maddox | June 25th, 2003 | 87 |
9 | Bob Hope | July 27th, 2003 | 100 |
8 | Billy Preston | June 6th, 2006 | 59 |
7 | Madame Chiang Kai-Shek | October 23rd, 2003 | 106 |
6 | Al Hirschfeld | January 20th, 2003 | 99 |
5 | Pat Lawford | September 17th, 2006 | 82 |
4 | John Gotti | June 10th, 2002 | ? |
3 | John Mills | April 23rd, 2005 | 97 |
2 | Sheb Wooley | September 16th, 2003 | 82 |
1 | Strom Thurmond | June 26th, 2003 | 100 |
4 points | 1 hit |
As an influential and successful warrior-author, he was heavily courted by the then-emerging Nazis, but declined to join the party. He opted instead for the more extremist, fringe groups of the time. Sounds like a fun date.
(d) February 17th, 1998