Most Significant Death For Every Year From 1963 To Present

[Guest ted]

Indira Gandhi over Richard Burton, would say theres a strong arguement for Bette Davis over Lucille Ball

[Guest Guest]

What about Death Watch Best? I think his demise had the same media circus outside the hospital as the late pope did (though maybe less international coverage).

[Youth in Asia 1,023]

Which of those names elude you exactly?

 

people I haven't heard of:

1975: Moe Howard

1979: Nelson A. Rockefeller (although I know the surname)

1987: Jackie Gleason

1992: Sam Walton (unless it's one of the K-Mart people or from the TV programme)

1996: Carl Sagan

 

people I've heard of only in death list circles:

2007: Lady Bird Johnson

 

people who are of the "I'm sure someone more famous than that died in that year" variety:

1983: Muddy Waters

1989: Lucille Ball

1991: Dr. Seuss

2003: Katherine Hepburn

 

 

Then again my pick for 1962 would have been Stuart Sutcliffe, so each to his own.

[Youth in Asia 1,023]

Comedy deaths

 

I know it's just out of the timeframe, but a really significant comedy death was in 1962...Ernie Kovacs!

Harpo Marx 1964

Stan Laurel 1965

Lenny Bruce and Buster Keaton 1966

Tony Hancock 1968

Harold Lloyd 1971

Michael Flanders 1975

Alistair Sim 1976

Charlie Chaplin and Groucho Marx 1977

Joyce Grenfell 1979

Peter Sellers 1980

John Belushi 1982

Dick Emery 1983

Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Leonard Rossiter 1984

Phil Silvers 1985

Kenneth Williams 1988

Graham Chapman 1989

Frankie Howerd and Benny Hill 1992

Les Dawson 1993

Bill Hicks 1994

Peter Cook and Kenny Everett 1995

Ernie Wise 1999

Dudley Moore 2002

Bob Monkhouse 2003

Richard Pryor 2005

 

 

To be updated...

 

2007 Ricky Gervais at the Diana concert?

[Canadian Paul 93]

Which of those names elude you exactly?

 

people I haven't heard of:

1975: Moe Howard

1979: Nelson A. Rockefeller (although I know the surname)

1987: Jackie Gleason

1992: Sam Walton (unless it's one of the K-Mart people or from the TV programme)

1996: Carl Sagan

 

 

Moe Howard was Moe from The Three Stooges. Nelson A. Rockefeller was USVP (and, as mentioned earlier, not particularly a global candidate for this list). Jackie Gleason played Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners. Sam Walton founded Wal-Mart. Carl Sagan was the astronomer discussed above.

[CarolAnn 924]

Horse Deaths

 

1957 Golden Miller

1989 Secretariat

1995 Red Rum

 

 

Gorilla Deaths

 

1978 Guy

1933/1976/2005 etc King Ko...

 

Hey Harry - don't forget 1990 - Alydar; 2001 - Affirmed

 

I had the biggest crush on Steve Cauthen when I was a young 'un....

[Guest Yogi's secret admirer]

Horse Deaths

 

1957 Golden Miller

1989 Secretariat

1995 Red Rum

 

 

Gorilla Deaths

 

1978 Guy

1933/1976/2005 etc King Ko...

 

Hey Harry - don't forget 1990 - Alydar; 2001 - Affirmed

 

I had the biggest crush on Steve Cauthen when I was a young 'un....

 

Continuing on a tangent there have been some significant departures from the celebrity animal kingdom over the past five years.

 

2003 saw the death of Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal. Welshman will be pleased to know she has been mounted and put on display in Edinburgh.

2004 saw the death of the longest running cast member of Blue Peter, George the Tortoise. Every year they took him out of hibernation and proded him with cotton wool buds, should have called him Torture the Tortoise.

2006 saw the death of Humphrey the Downing Street cat who served under Thatcher, the grey one who like peas and Blair before Cheryl stuck her claws in and shipped him off to Brinsworth Cattery.

[halleluyahjohntudor 5]

Horse Deaths

 

1957 Golden Miller

1989 Secretariat

1995 Red Rum

 

 

Gorilla Deaths

 

1978 Guy

1933/1976/2005 etc King Ko...

 

Hey Harry - don't forget 1990 - Alydar; 2001 - Affirmed

 

I had the biggest crush on Steve Cauthen when I was a young 'un....

 

Champion the Wonder Horse, 1991

 

http://www.dhaps.org.uk/HorseAtWork.htm

[To die for 3]

Aldaniti - 1997

Blue Peter dog's Petra (1977) and Shep (1987)

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,464]

9th Aug 2007 - This thread.

 

Some hope.

[football_fan 41]

Horse Deaths

 

1957 Golden Miller

1989 Secretariat

1995 Red Rum

 

 

Gorilla Deaths

 

1978 Guy

1933/1976/2005 etc King Ko...

 

Hey Harry - don't forget 1990 - Alydar; 2001 - Affirmed

 

I had the biggest crush on Steve Cauthen when I was a young 'un....

 

Continuing on a tangent there have been some significant departures from the celebrity animal kingdom over the past five years.

 

2003 saw the death of Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal. Welshman will be pleased to know she has been mounted and put on display in Edinburgh.

2004 saw the death of the longest running cast member of Blue Peter, George the Tortoise. Every year they took him out of hibernation and proded him with cotton wool buds, should have called him Torture the Tortoise.

2006 saw the death of Humphrey the Downing Street cat who served under Thatcher, the grey one who like peas and Blair before Cheryl stuck her claws in and shipped him off to Brinsworth Cattery.

 

2002 - Buddy - Pres Bill Clinton's dog dies

2006 - Eddy - Dog in Fraiser dies

[Lady Grendel 137]

1983 - Shergar

[Canadian Paul 93]

Horse Deaths

 

1957 Golden Miller

1989 Secretariat

1995 Red Rum

 

 

Gorilla Deaths

 

1978 Guy

1933/1976/2005 etc King Ko...

 

Hey Harry - don't forget 1990 - Alydar; 2001 - Affirmed

 

I had the biggest crush on Steve Cauthen when I was a young 'un....

 

Continuing on a tangent there have been some significant departures from the celebrity animal kingdom over the past five years.

 

2003 saw the death of Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal. Welshman will be pleased to know she has been mounted and put on display in Edinburgh.

2004 saw the death of the longest running cast member of Blue Peter, George the Tortoise. Every year they took him out of hibernation and proded him with cotton wool buds, should have called him Torture the Tortoise.

2006 saw the death of Humphrey the Downing Street cat who served under Thatcher, the grey one who like peas and Blair before Cheryl stuck her claws in and shipped him off to Brinsworth Cattery.

 

2002 - Buddy - Pres Bill Clinton's dog dies

2006 - Eddy - Dog in Fraiser dies

 

2007 - Barbaro (thusfar) - His death (and the circumstances around it) made headlines

[Youth in Asia 1,023]

9th Aug 2007 - This thread.

 

Some hope.

 

I would say Brooke Astor is the most significant person to die in 2007. Even though I'm not sure exactly who she is.

[Cowboy Ronnie 77]

was just reading about Frank Sinatra on wiki. What a titan. The musical career, he won an Oscar for best supporting actor, was married to Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow, father of Nancy Sinatra, was in the Rat Pack, was buddies with JFK, had a character based on him in The Godfather. Etc. Everyone in the world knows New York, New York.

 

One of my fave DL picks ever. Sniff.

 

Here he is singing My Way. http://youtube.com/watch?v=JUlRhetVxNY

[Dave to the Grave 11]

was just reading about Frank Sinatra on wiki. What a titan. The musical career, he won an Oscar for best supporting actor, was married to Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow, father of Nancy Sinatra, was in the Rat Pack, was buddies with JFK, had a character based on him in The Godfather. Etc. Everyone in the world knows New York, New York.

 

One of my fave DL picks ever. Sniff.

 

Here he is singing My Way. http://youtube.com/watch?v=JUlRhetVxNY

Not quite as famous, but this chap did write and perform the original. A significant death for 1978 too. Well it was for him anyway.

[Windsor 2,143]

9th Aug 2007 - This thread.

 

Some hope.

 

I would say Brooke Astor is the most significant person to die in 2007. Even though I'm not sure exactly who she is.

 

Not Boris Yeltsin?

[chicago103 34]

Most significant deaths by decade:

 

1960's: JFK

1970's: Elvis

1980's: Princess Grace Kelly

1990's: Princess Di

2000's: Pope John Paul II

 

Four died tragically and only one in old age.

[Guest The Admirable Creighton]

2007 - Deathlist.Net

 

Please God.

[Guest shakin'bill shakespere]

I would say Frank Zappa for 1993

[chicago103 34]

1963: John F. Kennedy

1964: Herbert Hoover

1965: Winston Churchill

1966: Walt Disney

1967: Spencer Tracy

1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.

1969: Dwight D. Eisenhower

1970: Charles de Gaulle

1971: Nikita Khrushchev

1972: Harry S. Truman

1973: Lyndon Baines Johnson

1974: Georges Pompidou

1975: Moe Howard

1976: Mao Tse Tung

1977: Elvis Presley

1978: Pope John Paul I

1979: John Wayne

1980: John Lennon

1981: Anwar Sedat

1982: Princess Grace Kelly

1983: Muddy Waters

1984: Richard Burton

1985: Yul Brynner

1986: Cary Grant

1987: Jackie Gleason

1988: Roy Orbison

1989: Lucille Ball

1990: Sammy Davis, Jr.

1991: Dr. Seuss

1992: Sam Walton

1993: Audrey Hepburn

1994: Richard Nixon

1995: Yitzhak Rabin

1996: Carl Sagan

1997: Princess Diana

1998: Frank Sinatra

1999: King Hussein

2000: Sir Alec Guiness

2001: Mohammed Atta

2002: Queen Mother

2003: Bob Hope

2004: Ronald Reagan

2005: Pope John Paul II

2006: Gerald Ford

2007: Ask me on December 31st but the best candidates thus far are Boris Yeltsin, Lady Bird Johnson and Luciano Pavaratti. This year is unusual in that a lot of fairly significant people have died but unlike the last three years no one person who stands out yet.

[Guest Guest]

2007: Ask me on December 31st but the best candidates thus far are Boris Yeltsin, Lady Bird Johnson and Luciano Pavaratti. This year is unusual in that a lot of fairly significant people have died but unlike the last three years no one person who stands out yet.

 

Bhutto gets up to win in the final strides of a less than vintage race.

[themaninblack 2,112]

2007: Ask me on December 31st but the best candidates thus far are Boris Yeltsin, Lady Bird Johnson and Luciano Pavaratti. This year is unusual in that a lot of fairly significant people have died but unlike the last three years no one person who stands out yet.

 

Bhutto gets up to win in the final strides of a less than vintage race.

 

Very true...

[Banshees Scream 107]

Talking significance of death the all time greatest of the year is very difficult to vocalize but even with Luciano Paverotti being a big deal along with Yeltsin and of course 'to mention' Tammy Faye who was on Live TV chatting it up with Larry King probably 20 hours before she died

 

In my view Benazir Bhutto provided the last minute extravaganza at the exit of 2007 but I don't think her death will equal the media capacity Anna Nicole Smith received for at least two hardcore months. The whole situation went from how she died to 'who was the father?' .... I mean Zsa Zsa Gabor's fake prince husband Von Anhalt came on and told reporters that he was bangin Anna behind his 90 year old wifes back ... and the the security guard got into it of course .. and it was just an insane story forever and without a doubt Anna Nicole Smith gets my vote for death of the year.

[themaninblack 2,112]

Can anyone spot the odd one out?

 

1969: Dwight D. Eisenhower

1970: Charles de Gaulle

1971: Nikita Khrushchev

1972: Harry S. Truman

1973: Lyndon Baines Johnson

1974: Georges Pompidou

1975: Moe Howard

1976: Mao Tse Tung