High profile deaths in your lifetime that you remember...

[retro]

Well, after Michael Jackson dying yesterday, it got me thinking about other "high profile" deaths of celebrities or other important people... one of my co-workers was saying this was one of those things where you're always going to remember where you were and what you were doing when you got the news. This is more referring to surprising deaths, not ones that were due to a long-standing condition such as cancer or to older (80+) people.

The ones I can think of that happened in my lifetime that I have a fairly vivid memory of are

Princess Diana
Selena
Kurt Cobain

 

[BlackCherry]

The earliest one I remember, and I was very very young, was John Lennon.

 

[BadBoy@TheWheel]

John Lennon, John Wayne (RIP), Ronald Reagan.

Oh was this a thread about what we remember? Or who we gave a fuck about?

 

[Staci]

princess diana
selena
kurt cobain
tupac
the notorious big
john candy
heath leager
bernie mac
aaliyah
river phoneix
brandon lee
chris farley
anna nicole smith

 

[retro]

John Lennon, John Wayne (RIP), Ronald Reagan.

Oh was this a thread about what we remember? Or who we gave a fuck about?

A little of both... I was more of the shocking type deaths where there was a lot of media attention. Along the lines of Elvis, Lennon, Marilyn Monroe, etc.

 

[BlackCherry]

John Lennon, John Wayne (RIP), Ronald Reagan.

Oh was this a thread about what we remember? Or who we gave a fuck about?

I think any high profile deaths you remember.

John Lennon was the first, but there was Reagan, the Pope, Princess Diana, Mother Theresa, Kurt Cobain, Payne Stewart, Dan Snyder, Herb Brooks...there are more but I figured I'd keep the list short.

 

[BlackCherry]

princess diana
selena
kurt cobain
tupac
the notorious big
john candy
heath leager
bernie mac
aaliyah
river phoneix
brandon lee
chris farley
anna nicole smith

Heath Ledger was a big shocker...as was River Phoenix

 

[AnitaBeer]

Dale Earnhardt!

 

[Dakota Jim]

Go back to FDR,J. Kennedy, T. Kennedy, and all since..... Hey! You can hate me, I am old.

 

[Roxi]

Loads but the only ones that made me cry were:

The Queen Mother
Princess Diane
Jack Lemon (yes i know he was like super old and WAY before my time but Some Like it Hot is a legend film!)

 

[USF Sam]

First one that shook me up was Bob Crane. I was a big "Hogan's Heroes" fan and the news tore me up.
Finding out later that Bob was freaky before freaky was cool was another blow.

Also remember the night that Jerry Garcia died. It was like the Internet exploded...

 

[skyblue]

add sid vicious

 

[USF Sam]

John Belushi and Gilda Radner...

 

[Springsteen]

In my lifetime....

Heath Ledger
Michael Jackson (obv)
Anna Nicole Smith
Queen Mother
Diana
Aaliyah
Tupac
Notorious Big
Chris Benoit
Eddie Guerrero

 

[Roxi]

John Belushi and Gilda Radner...

John Belushi died...... when!!!!! :wtf_anim:

 

[USF Sam]

John Belushi died...... when!!!!! :wtf_anim:

Judging from your profile pic... YEARS before you were born, honey.

 

[Roxi]

Judging from your profile pic... YEARS before you were born, honey.

im 24 i am pretty sure he was alive sometime in like my life time lol...

 

[Staci]

ah spring...i forgot about chris and eddie. there was also another one who died doing the ladder trick...

 

[Roxi]

Date of Birth:

24 January 1949, Chicago, Illinois, USA more
Date of Death:

5 March 1982, Hollywood, California, USA


WTF he died before i was even born........ wow

 

[Staci]

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