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

[Alien Allen]

did you see him in gran torino.....he might as well be

he could still kick your ass

 

[Goddess]

These weren't high profile, but I remember them:

Jim Hensen
Fred Rogers

 

[Alien Allen]

In my lifetime, but not in exact order:

Martin Luther King
Bobby Kennedy
Elvis
John Lennon
John Belushi
Dominique Dunn (Not totally famous, but I had just seen her in Poltergeist)
John Candy
The Challenger astronauts, I remember where I was and for some reason it really effected me.
Lucille Ball (I know she was old, but I LOVED LUCY)
Rock Hudson from Aids
Freddie Mercury
Kurt Cobain
JFK Jr.
Phil Hartman
Princess Diana (that was so sad)
Gianni Versace
Chris Farley
Anna Nicole Smith (not that I cared for her, but it was shocking as she was so young)
Heath Ledger (I thought he was a terrific actor. His death was very sad)

I know I'm missing a few.

Good ones

I had forgotten how much of a reaction I had when Bobby Kennedy died.

It has been mentioned but the day the Twin Towers were taken down I vividly recall. I had to go to the County to drop off some stuff for work and heard on the way there that a plane had hit the first tower. I figured it was just some stupid small plane. It was only a couple minutes back to the office and a guy turned on the TV when I got there and it was only about 5 more minutes when as we were watching the 2nd Tower was hit.

What a surreal rest of the morning that was. It might rate up there with the night of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I can recall doing drills at school in the event of a bomb going off and the day that Kennedy made that speech everybody was on edge. I was only 8 years old so did not comprehend the gravity but knew something bad was being anticipated. I really regret never asking my parents what there perception of the danger was that day or two. Now I am gonna have to ask my sisters since this came to mind. Sorry for getting of the topic

 

[Haus]

The first one I remember was JFK and the list goes on from there.
I'm old.

was my moms graduation year. she heard it in school.

they say the people who were alive back then and old enough to realize remember where they were that day when it happend.

just like 911. people will always remember where they were when it happend

 

[Ryder]

Ronald Regan.

Yes I remember that. I was about 9 when it happened in 2004.

 

[cam elle toe]

How could I have forgotten Bon Scott.

The original and the best:thumbup


and

PHIL LYNOTT and

Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin

 

[AUFred]

In my lifetime, but not in exact order:

Martin Luther King
Bobby Kennedy
Elvis
John Lennon
John Belushi
Dominique Dunn (Not totally famous, but I had just seen her in Poltergeist)
John Candy
The Challenger astronauts, I remember where I was and for some reason it really effected me.
Lucille Ball (I know she was old, but I LOVED LUCY)
Rock Hudson from Aids
Freddie Mercury
Kurt Cobain
JFK Jr.
Phil Hartman
Princess Diana (that was so sad)
Gianni Versace
Chris Farley
Anna Nicole Smith (not that I cared for her, but it was shocking as she was so young)
Heath Ledger (I thought he was a terrific actor. His death was very sad)

I know I'm missing a few.

Good List along with Fuzzywifers

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

John Wayne
Ronald Reagan

Too many to really remember but several got very little attention when they passed.

 

[AUFred]

The first one I remember was JFK and the list goes on from there.
I'm old.

One of my earliest memories.

 

[AnitaBeer]

Definitely agree with 9-11 and those who died. I remember exactly what I was doing and where I was at. It was such a heart breaking day.

 

[Margene]

Good ones

I had forgotten how much of a reaction I had when Bobby Kennedy died.

It has been mentioned but the day the Twin Towers were taken down I vividly recall. I had to go to the County to drop off some stuff for work and heard on the way there that a plane had hit the first tower. I figured it was just some stupid small plane. It was only a couple minutes back to the office and a guy turned on the TV when I got there and it was only about 5 more minutes when as we were watching the 2nd Tower was hit.

What a surreal rest of the morning that was. It might rate up there with the night of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I can recall doing drills at school in the event of a bomb going off and the day that Kennedy made that speech everybody was on edge. I was only 8 years old so did not comprehend the gravity but knew something bad was being anticipated. I really regret never asking my parents what there perception of the danger was that day or two. Now I am gonna have to ask my sisters since this came to mind. Sorry for getting of the topic

The day of Bobby's funeral, my mom took us to my uncle's home where the adults were glued to the TV watching the event, collectively mourning him and what his loss represented to the country. They believed him to be potentially be a better president than his brother.


I agree, 9/11 was surreal. It was impossible for me to absorb in real time and took days for it to really sink in what had happened.

I was too young to remember the Cuban missile crisis. I was alive, but a toddler. My mother described those days and really, I'm glad I don't have a memory of it. My father was in the service at the time, so it had very relevant consequences to us and was terrifying. I do remember though, in elementary school, which was a few years later, they were still holding missile drills. The alarm would sound on the playground and we would drop and cover. In the building, we woul line the walls of the hallways, ducking and covering while they pulled the "blast curtains".

Interesting times.

 

[Natasha]

Princess Diana is one that I remember exactly where I was (watching Howard Stern after having just arrived home from college that night)...they flashed across the bottom of the screen that her boyfriend had died and she was in critical condition. Of course, she was actually already dead, but that didn't come out for an hour or so later.

River Phoenix...mainly b/c of the tragedy of it all. Such a promising young actor and to go out on the sidewalk as a druggie was just so unexpected!!!

Heath Ledger...for the same reason as River Phoenix PLUS the fact that he was so damn hot. *fans self*

Kurt Cobain...b/c...well b/c he was at the height of his popularity.

Dimebag Darrel...what a shocker!!!

 

[Natasha]

OMG, how could I leave out Versace!?!?!? I remember watching as they tracked and eventually surrounded the place where Andrew Kunanan (sp???) was found. OMG, it was crazy!!!

And I also left out Chris Benoit.

 

[Margene]

OMG, how could I leave out Versace!?!?!? I remember watching as they tracked and eventually surrounded the place where Andrew Kunanan (sp???) was found. OMG, it was crazy!!!

And I also left out Chris Benoit.

My family from So. Cal (that's where the murderer was from) was visiting at the time so we were all completely absorbed in the coverage.

I had forgotten about Benoit too. That was so sad.

 

[333halfabeast]

Princess Diana. I remember crying when I heard, she was one of my heroes because of all of the charity work she did.

 

[Peter Parka]

I actually went along to see the Queen Mother lying in state in Westminster Hall, not because I cared but it's not every day you get to go in such a famous building and see the lying in state thing, last person to lie in state there was Churchill, 40 years previous.

 

[keano]

princess diana, queen mother the might be others but i can't think of them...i'm only nineteen...

 

[Tyler Durden]

Strangely, selfishly, Freddie Mercury's was one that I remember most. I was a huge fan of Queen

 

[Dana]

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

You forgot Lisa Lopez :thumbup