Who's celeb death do you remember?
 

Who's death shocked you or you remember the day they died. I think john ritter and johnny cash died the same day. I was in family dollar (surprise) buying cheese crackers.

We were vacationing at Lake Crescent on the Olympic Peninsula. I went to the main lodge for something and the lady at the counter was sobbing. I asked someone what was going on. Elvis died. I wondered if the lady knew him somehow because she was kind of out of it. I was a kid and didn't really know anything about some people's obsession with celebrities.

#58 Derrick Thomas

I remember being in the 4th grade lunch line when I hear a teacher say that the Space Shuttle Chalenger blew up and a teacher was on that mission. Then after recess we watched it in the classroom .

Phil Hartman.

Kobe.

Aaliyah 2001

River Pheonix 1993

Jim Henson 1990

Krissy Taylor 1995

Matthew Perry

The two that hit me the hardest were Norm Macdonald and Robin Williams

Kobe
Sean Taylor
Chadwick Boseman

Kobe was by far the one I vividly remember and was most shocked/saddened by.

Heath Ledger, Chris Farley, and Robbin Williams. It's like I never stopped being surprised.

I remember Matthew Perry like it was yesterday

RIP John Goodman. I read it right here on the most informative web sight Chiefs Planet

The death I most remember was John F Kennedy. I was sitting in high school study hall when the Superintendent came in and made the announcement. There was stunned silence and people walking around in a daze the rest of the day.

Marilyn Monroe was the only celebrity that actually bothered me at the time it happened.

Jacko and Norm Macdonald

54 is a good run!

I'm 55, I hope my run is at least another 20 years

That one I hit with my car.. who was that? Maybe I don’t remember that one either

Phil Hartman, Chris Farley, Norm maDonald

wow! so old!

Tom Petty.

The incorrectly used celebrity apostrophe.

My mind thinks I can still do the same things I did at 20, my body says "try it and die"

these plus Patrice O'neal

Chris Cornell is about the only one that really bummed me out.

David Cassidy

I remember where I was when I learned Kobe died.

God didn't save the Queen.

The Denver Broncos.

Yeah that one for sure.

I was in Vegas when I got the news about Yordano. Remember that really well.

John Lennon

Thurman Munson. My stepdad woke me up at 1am to give me the news. Felt it all over again the next morning.

August Ames

John Goodman’s really shocked me, every time I heard it.

Same for me, and celebrity deaths never have that impact on me. I think a combination of him being fairly young, the unexpected nature, and having grown up on Soundgarden. A supremely talented guy, RIP Chris.

Judith Barsi

She was a child actor who was most known as Ducky from The Land Before Time and the main girl in All Dogs Go To Heaven. She was a successful child actress and at 10 her dad went crazy and killed her, her mother and then himself.

Really sad

Lots of good ones.

I’ll throw in Anthony Bourdain. He was so positive and well adjusted in his public life. I was really shocked.

Any time suicide ruins a good life is terrible.

John Bulishi. I was a young teenager and my brother just passed away. Life felt more fragile then ever and it was confusing how the good ones were just not going to be part of life anymore.

Derrick Thomas.. Elvis when I was little..

Derrick Thomas, Anthony Bourdain, Chester Bennington, Paul Walker, Kobe, Chris Farley, Robin Williams, Chadwick Boseman, Jim Henson, Heath Ledger, and Carrie Fisher bummed me out. I'm sure there are others but can't remember.

Mr Hooper from Sesame Street. That shit had little me very confused, even after Big Bird explained it.

Yeah, that’s the one that got me. He seemed like such a cool dude.


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Derrick Thomas was brutal too. Especially since he was on his way to a ****ing Rams playoff game of all things when it happened.


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How is Paul Walker different from Betty White?

Paul Walker made it to 100 before he died.

Freddy Mercury

Prince

JFK, Bobby, and MLK were quite a run when I was young. My parents were shocked and all the uncertainty with the Cold War and the threat of nuclear war not to mention all the tension of race relations in the country.

Michael Jackson.

Yeah, that's a rough patch for America. I couldn't imagine the impact that would have on me as a citizen.

So was there conspiracy theories about the CIA plotting the murders? What was that like?

Derrick Thomas affected me the most personally. I was most surprised by Michael Jackson I guess? The way Payne Stewart died on that plane really bothered me.

Jerry Garcia

Dick Howser, Donnie Moore, Bo Diaz, Steve Olin, Tim Crews, John McSherry, Mike Darr, Darryl Kile, Steve Bechler, Cory Lidle, Nick Adenhart, Oscar Taveras, Jose Fernandez, Yordano Ventura, Roy Halladay, Tyler Skaggs

I was young 6 going on 7 it seems the conspiracies happened a lot later. Mostly my family trusted our Government. The mistrust I feel didn't come along till the end of the 60s and most the 70s. The Zapruder film wasn't shown widely till the late 60s. So people I feel accepted the Warren Commission report.

We as kids went on being kids doing what we did then. We did pick up our parent's concerns at the dinner table.

2pac and Kurt Cobain

Yordano is a good one. That hit hard.

Derrick Thomas. Seemed like he was getting better. I was even having pipe dreams that he'd be able to recover and play again and then one of my buddies called to tell me he was gone.

Robin Williams, Brad Delp of Boston and comedian Richard Jeni, because they were all suicides.

And even though he was really old, Leonard Nimoy, just because he was Leonard Nimoy.

I remember a lot of them but the only one that impacted me emotionally was Pau Dones.

I know most of you won't know who he was but his music was a big part of my life and I always liked hearing him speak in interviews. I was lucky enough to see him in concert a few years ago and he was so charming on stage. Smiling, laughing, blowing kisses to the crowd... all knowing he had terminal cancer.

He gave an interview just a couple of weeks before his passing. The cancer had withered him physically and he was on oxygen and he still spoke positively about living life to the fullest. An inspiring man.

Descanso en paz, Pau.

I remember Radar announcing Col Henry Blake helicopter crashed and no survivors :deevee:

That actually may be the worst one. I was only probably 13 or 14 and had never experienced a television character dying.

In terms of real celebrities, I generally don't connect that much with celebrities so I don't really get upset or anything. I remember the DT thing because it was unexpected, but even then he'd had the injury before the death so the death itself was dampened.

When Danny Federici died as the first member of the E Street Band, that may have been the one that affected me the most. But again, I wasn't devastated or anything.

I was out to dinner when the Princess Diana thing happened. I got home and turned on the TV, and had no idea what was happening because the news coverage was showing the car and doing a lot of "they're at the hospital" talk, and they weren't saying who was in the accident since I was joining the coverage late. So I was watching that coverage somewhat intently because I knew it must have been someone famous, but I didn't know who.

Princess Diana was a bit stunning because it was so unexpected. Am I remembering correctly... was Diana the same day as the Grbac to Rison 4th quarter game winning bomb?

I don't think so, because that was a Monday Night game and I remember watching it late in my living room. I remember that I had been out when the Diana thing happened, because I turned the TV on when I got home and couldn't figure out what happened.

But of course my memory could be faulty, so someone could prove me wrong on the dates. Sometimes I think I'm in 18th-century Austria.

John Candy...Chris Farley...John Belushi....Tom Petty

Stevie Ray Vaughan

All 27 of John Goodman's

Michael Jackson’s death didn’t even seem like it was possible. I’d say that one…

So many to name but one that really shocked me was Len Bias, really enjoyed watching him play at Maryland.

Derrick Thomas for sure. And then Eddie Van Halen and Neil Peart, especially Neil, hurt a lot because their music was such a huge part of my youth.

Some good ones here Matthew Perry jokes were good. I remember day Kobe died. Shocking was Phil Hartman.

I forgot about Mike Sharperson :-(

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DT, Yordano Ventura, Owen Hart, Reggie Lewis.

The only one I can really remember is Mathew Perry.

Owen Hart because i was watching that PPV live with my friend.

I was drinking a beer at the outdoor hotel bar in Bora Bora while it was raining waiting to leave a vacation when heard this.

Princess Diana most shocking along with JFK Jr. and Kobe.

99% of other celebs like Michael Jackson, Elvis, Prince, Whitney Houston no surprises at all. They were on the death ride already.

Kobe can EAD, asshole died on my birthday

ROFL

That was a mean birthday wish.

Kobe by far was the one that stunned me the most.

I remember just being in complete disbelief.

The manner in which he died made it even more shocking.

Yeah, I had no idea that his death would hit me so hard, but I had to pull over on my way home.

The challenger explosion, and the legendary jokes they inspired.