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German actress and singer Chantal de Freitas has died at age 45. Cause of death is said to be unknown yet... Sorry, only a German link. http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article117657287/Schauspielerin-Chantal-de-Freitas-gestorben.html

The 3rd of July will always be remembered as a day with two tragic losts for the music business: Brian Jones, lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones in 1969, and Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors just two years later. Both artists died on drug related circumstances, both deaths left many questions and that’s their entry for the legendary Club 27 (which was created many years later).

Today but 20 years ago actor Fred Gwynne died of cancer at age 66. He is mostly known for his role as Herman Munster in The Munsters but he was also a character performer, singer and writer.

I had a similar situation with Amy Winehouse during a conversation about Club 27 the day before she died... very scary...

Nine years ago the legendary Marlon Brando died aged 80. Oh, he was such a handsome man: Sorry, wrong picture:

Five days after the diagnosis of (lung) cancer, famous and influential dancer, choreographer and dance teacher Pina Bausch died on the 30th of June 2009 at age 68.

Jayne Mansfield, actress, singer, entertainer, sex symbol of the 1950s and 1960s and one of the early Playboy Playmates, died 46 years ago in a traffic accident in which she was NOT decapitated. She was only 34 years old.

Most probably you are right. But in his class and standing they might would rather say "crown jewels" than balls!

On June 28 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins. The attack led to the outbreak of World War I one month later.

The one and only Mr. Jack Lemmon: February 8, 1925 to June 27, 2001.

25.06.2009 – this day will always be remembered as the day the lovely Farrah Fawcett died. Nothing more important and nothing more interesting happened on that day.

Controversial singer and actress Zarah Leander died 32 years ago on June 23 1981.

In 1961 Bert Kaempfert became the first German to top the Billboard singles charts with “Wonderland by night”. He was also the composer of worldwide hits like “Strangers in the night” and “Spanish Eyes”. On June 21, 1980 he died at his home on Majorca aged 56 because of a stroke.

Peter Allen, Australian songwriter and entertainer, died on the 18th of June 1992 from an AIDS-related throat cancer. He had an Australian No.1-hit with “I go to Rio” in 1977, was married to Liza Minnelli (from 1967 to 1974) and won an Oscar for Best Song in 1982 for “Arthur’s Theme (Best that you can do)”.

Hole-bassist Kristen Pfaff died on June 16, 1994 because of a heroin overdose at age 27. That’s her criterion for entering the exclusive Club 27; 72 days after Kurt Cobain, the husband of her band colleague Courtney Love.

The next one: Joan H. Parker, writer and muse, widow of Robert B. Parker. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/books/joan-h-parker-inspiration-for-heroine-of-spenser-mysteries-dies-at-80.html?_r=0

Dame Peggy Ashcroft was 77 years old when she received her Oscar for “Best supporting actress”; in 1985 she was the oldest actress ever to win the award. Six years later, on June 14 1991, she died of a stroke.

Ten years ago Oscar-winner and Hollywood-Beau Gregory Peck died in his sleep at age 87.

Na na na na Mandela day...

And now his "colleague": Actor DeForest Kelley, maybe better known as his most significant role Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy of the USS Enterprise, died at June 11th 1999 because of stomach cancer.

Munich, 10.06.1982: Film director, actor and screenwriter Rainer Werner Fassbinder died at age 37. The cause of death was reported as heart attack resulting from a lethal combination of sleeping pills and cocaine. Fassbinder is considered one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema (Neuer Deutscher Film) of the 1970s and 80s.

The “Blonde Bombshell” Jean Harlow was 26 years old, when she died because of kidney failure on June 7th, 1937. Her “Would you be shocked, if I put on something more comfortable?” from the movie Hell’s Angels would become a famous quote.

Eight years ago “Mrs Robinson” Anne Bancroft died at age 73 because of uterine cancer.

German comedian, actor, entertainer and poet Heinz Erhardt died on June 5th, 1979 age 70. He is still well-known and respected in Germany and his films are rebroadcasted regularly.

Chris Levoir of The Mark Inside dead at 31. http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/06/03/the-mark-insides-chris-levoir-dead-at-31-cause-as-yet-unknown/