Subject: A Record Year for Losing Celebs?
Posted by: Mixamatosis
Date: Dec 27 16
I can't remember a year when we've lost so many celebrities. I am going to collect as many names here. Please feel free to add any that I've missed and please comment if you wish.
Posted by: Mixamatosis
Date: Dec 27 16
I can't remember a year when we've lost so many celebrities. I am going to collect as many names here. Please feel free to add any that I've missed and please comment if you wish.
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In no particular order: 1) Ronnie Corbett, Comedian 2) Caroline Aherne Actress, Comedienne and writer (most notable for TV shows "The Royle Family" and "Mrs Merton" 3) Actress Liz Smith ("The Royle Family") 4) Gene Wilder 5)Robert Vaughn ("The Man from Uncle") 6) Prince 7) Terry Wogan BBC radio and TV broadcaster, host of "The Eurovision Song Contest" and "Children in Need". 8) George Kennedy, actor 9) Dario Fo, Italian playwright 10) Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director 11) David Bowie 12) George Michael 13) Anton Yelchin (actor - Chekov in "Star Trek") 14) Merle Haggard, actor, 15) Victoria Wood, Comedienne and writer 16) Nancy Reagan 17) Jo Cox, Member of Parliament 18) Rick Parfitt, Status Quo 19) Richard Adams, writer, author of "Watership Down", "Shardik" and "Plague Dogs" 20) Carrie Fisher actress most noted for "Star Wars". 21) Ken Barrie actor and singer, best known as the voice of "Postman Pat" 22) Gordon Murray, creator of children's programmes, "Trumpton", "Camberwick Green" and "Chigley" 23) Nicholas Winton, Humanitarian hero who rescued hundreds of children from Czechoslovakia just before the start of WW2 24) Ron Glass, actor 25) Joseph Mascolo, musician and actor 26) Prince Buster, key figure in the creation and popularisation of ska music 27) Alan Rickman, actor, best known on film as Snape in Harry Potter films and for "Die Hard" 28) Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mocking Bird 29) Maurice White of "Earth, Wind and Fire 30) Frank Kelly, actorin "Father Ted". 31) Tony Warren, creator of longest running soap, "Coronation Street". 32) George Martin, Beatles producer 33) Keith Emerson of "Emerson,Lake and Palmer 34) Sylvia Anderson, Lady Penelope in "Thunderbirds" 35) Paul Daniels, magician 36) Patty Duke, actress 37 Bert Kwouk, "Pink Panther" star 38) Muhammad Ali 39) Arnold Palmer, golfer 40) bobby Vee, 60s singer and teen idol 41) Greg Lake, "Emerson,Lake and Palmer 42) Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress 43) John Glenn, astronaut 44) Andrew Sachs, "Fawlty Towers star 45) Leon Russell, Rock musician 46) Leonard Cohen, singer/songwriter 47) Jean Alexander, star of "Coronation Street" 48) Carla Lane, writer of sitcoms, "The Liver Birds", Butterflies" and "Bread" 49) Billy Paul, musician 50) Lonnie Mack, musician 51) Henry McCullough, guitarist with "Wings". 52) David Gest, TV personality and former husband of Liza Minnelli 53) Guy Hamilton, director of James Bond films 54) Florence Henderson, actress, "The Brady Bunch" 55) Gary Shandling, comedian 56) Glen Frey, "The Eagles" 57) Janet Reno, First woman Attorney General in the USA 58) Fidel Castro, former Cuban leader 59) Shimon Peres, former Israeli Prime Minister 60) Gordie Howe, NHL star Reply #1. Dec 28 16, 12:17 AM |
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and 61) Edward Albee, playwright Reply #2. Dec 28 16, 12:19 AM |
MiraJane
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I realize that each person on your list had family and friends that are now mourning their loss. The general public admired and has fond memories of many on your list. However, I must disagree with your assumption that this is a "record year" for losing celebrities. Your list includes writers, actors, actresses, musicians, politicians, athletes, a magician, an astronaut, movie directors, and people from every profession that has any chance of being mentioned in a newscast of some kind. Several of them were in their nineties when they died. A large number were in their 70s and 80s. With such a varied group of professions and a large number of people on the list qualifying as being of advanced age, 61 dying over the course of a year doesn't qualify, to me, as a "record number". I'm sure if you checked any other recent year with the same varied professions and age range you would as many deaths. Reply #3. Dec 28 16, 12:59 AM |
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Thanks for your comments Mira. It was difficult to decide who to include in the list but I tried to do it on the basis of how well known they were. Of course there were probably many more specialists or professionals who left us in 2016 but whom people would not know so well. I included Paul Daniels the magician for instance because he was very well known in the UK and it was headline news when he died. Not everyone in the list is word famous though. Reply #4. Dec 28 16, 5:21 AM |
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Another 2 whose inclusion might be questioned are Jo Cox and Nicholas Winton but both featured in headline news in the UK when they died. Jo Cox was a young MP who was murdered by a fanatical constituent. She was recognised as an exceptional MP, even by those in opposition parties. She behaved heroically during her murder, showing more concern for the safety of her colleagues than for herself and was mourned by all politicians as well as family and the public. Nicholas Winton also featured heavily in the news when he died though he may not be well known outside of the UK. Before he died he attended a reunion with the surviving members of the 669 children (mainly Jewish) whom he saved from the Nazis. Reply #5. Dec 28 16, 5:31 AM |
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Even if you exclude those people who are not world famous, I can't recall a year when quite so many "big name" stars died in the same year. Of course that may be my impression because recently there seem to have been deaths of celebrities reported one after another quite frequently. Age does have something to do with it. TV was in its hey-day in the 60s and there was a great growth of popular music. Celebrities from TV and the music world boosted the numbers of those from the film and sport worlds and those stars have now reached "old age". It may not be surprising therefore if more celebrities are passing away now. I did not discount age as a factor. I only mentioned the numbers. Reply #6. Dec 28 16, 5:40 AM |
kaddarsgirl
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And now Debbie Reynolds can be added to the list, a day after her daughter. Reply #7. Dec 28 16, 8:39 PM |
Shiningstar7
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One never knows, this year has been extraordinary. Hoping 2017 will not be so sad. Reply #8. Dec 28 16, 9:37 PM |
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Sad indeed. I forgot to include footballer Johan Cruyff who played for Ajax and The Netherlands. He won the Ballon D'or award three times. He created a "feint" that was named after him as the "Cruyff turn" which is still used. He was the best known advocate of "Total Football" and had a great influence on the game. In a World Player of the Century" poll, he came second. (Pele came first). Reply #9. Dec 29 16, 5:12 AM |
dippo
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46,442 is the reported number of deaths in the Syrian conflict in 2016. Reply #10. Dec 29 16, 6:11 AM |
nasty_liar
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There will no doubt be more and more celebrity deaths with each passing year as we have become increasingly celebrity obsessed and the number of platforms to achieve celebrity status has been ever increasing over the past 50 years or so. Reply #11. Dec 29 16, 6:35 AM |
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Glad you mentioned the Syrian deaths, Dippo. Though this is a page for celebrity deaths, let's not forget all the innocent victims of war in the world. Though we don't know them individually, the numbers are truly shocking. Reply #12. Dec 29 16, 8:22 AM |
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In terms of celebs, I forgot film directors Michael Cimino and Curtis Hanson and actor Frank Finlay. Reply #13. Dec 29 16, 8:24 AM |
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I wouldn't like to think of anybody important failing to make it onto this list - after all, people are dying to get onto it. Here's a list of everyone mentioned in Wiki who has died this year. I'm sure it will appeal to some. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2016 Reply #14. Dec 29 16, 9:30 AM |
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Well that's comprehensive, Dippo. Reply #15. Dec 30 16, 3:49 AM |
mask100
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I would also like to mention a great humanitarian who died earlier this year in Pakistan named Abdul Sattar Edhi. He had the largest ambulance network in the country and was a very charitable and humble man during his life plus he never discriminated between the people. A shame this man wasn't awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Reply #16. Dec 30 16, 4:04 AM |
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Good choice. Let's hear it for unsung heroes too. Reply #17. Dec 31 16, 4:44 AM |
redwaldo
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Add another one to the list-The Beatles first 'manager'-Alan Williams Reply #18. Dec 31 16, 6:03 AM |
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I must admit, I'd never heard of him before. He must have regretted losing management of them. Reply #19. Dec 31 16, 7:53 AM |
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I've just noticed that Ireland's oldest citizen has died age 108. My family came from Ireland and one Auntie died a few days before her 103rd birthday in England where she lived. I think she could have lived longer as she was healthy until she had a fall in her later 90s. After breaking a bone in the fall and having surgery, she refused to walk again (refusing all physiotherapy) and became bed-ridden. She had no immediate family, being a spinster, and I don't think she had the desire to fight to live longer in the end. After she reached 100, the Irish President used to phone her each year on her birthday. (I kid you not). She would have been 109 if she were still alive. I had another Irish Aunt who died in the USA aged 104 (nearly 105). The men in the family were not so long lived. Reply #20. Dec 31 16, 8:05 AM |
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