Each Year's Most Significant Death.

[Lewd_Squirrel 331]

17 hours ago, Zsa Zsa's leg said:

2016 is easily Bowie, Prince, or Ali. Then at Tier II it would he Castro, Fisher, or Reagan.

Being called Zsa Zsa's leg I'm surprised that you didn't go with Zsa Zsa for most significant death, of last year.

[RobertMugabe 437]

2008: Jeremy Beadle

[Drewsky1211 4,762]

I'll try for the last CENTURY.

 

2017: Chuck Berry

2016:  Tie Between David Bowie, Prince, Fidel Castro and Carrie Fisher

2015: Leonard Nimoy

2014: Robin Williams

2013: Nelson Mandela

2012: Neil Armstrong

2011: Tie between Steve Jobs and Osama bin Laden

2010: Blake Edwards

2009: Michael Jackson

2008: George Carlin

2007: Benazir Bhutto

2006: Saddam Hussein

2005: Tie between Rosa Parks and John Paul II

2004: Tie between Ronald Reagan and Marlon Brando

2003: Johnny Cash

2002: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

2001: George Harrison

2000: Charles Schulz

1999: Joe DiMaggio

1998: Frank Sinatra

1997: Princess Diana

1996: Carl Sagan

1995: Dean Martin

1994: Richard Nixon

1993: Audrey Hepburn

1992: Menachem Begin

1991: Tie between Freddie Mercury and Dr. Seuss

1990: Tie between Jim Henson and Roald Dahl

1989:Tie between Hirohito and Lucille Ball

1988: Enzo Ferrari

1987: Andy Warhol

1986: Wallis Simpson

1985: Orson Welles

1984: Indira Gandhi

1983: Tennessee Williams

1982: Tie between Ingrid Bergman and Grace Kelly

1981: Bob Marley

1980: Tie between Jesse Owens, Alfred Hitchcock and John Lennon

1979: John Wayne

1978: Pope Paul VI

1977: Tie between Elvis Presley, Groucho Marx, Bing Crosby and Charlie Chaplin

1976: Tie between Agatha Christie and Mao Zedong

1975: Francisco Franco

1974: Charles Lindbergh

1973: Lyndon B. Johnson

1972: Harry S. Truman

1971: Jim Morrison

1970: Jimi Hendrix

1969: Tie between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Judy Garland

1968: Martin Luther King Jr.

1967: Che Guevara

1966: Walt Disney

1965: Winston Churchill

1964: Tie between Douglas MacArthur and Herbert Hoover

1963: John F. Kennedy

1962: Tie between Marilyn Monroe and Eleanor Roosevelt

1961: Ernest Hemingway

1960: Clark Gable

1959: Frank Lloyd Wright

1958: Ernest Lawrence

1957: Humphrey Bogart

1956: Alben W. Barkley

1955: Tie between Albert Einstein and James Dean

1954: Alan Turing

1953: Joseph Stalin

1952: Tie between George VI and Eva Peron

1951: Shoeless Joe Jackson

1950: George Orwell

1949: Louis II of Monaco

1948: Gandhi

1947: Tie between Al Capone and Henry Ford

1946: H.G. Wells

1945: Tie between FDR and Hitler

1944: Erwin Rommel

1943: Nikola Tesla

1942: Carole Lombard

1941: Kaiser Wilhelm II

1940: F. Scott Fitzgerald

1939: Sigmund Freud

1938: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

1937: John D. Rockefeller

1936: Rudyard Kipling

1935: Will Rogers

1934: Marie Curie

1933: Calvin Coolidge

1932: Kate M. Gordon

1931: Thomas Edison

1930: William Howard Taft

1929: Wyatt Earp

1928: Roald Amundsen

1927: Lizzie Borden

1926: Harry Houdini

1925: Pancho Villa

1924: Tie between Vladimir Lenin and Woodrow Wilson

1923: Warren G. Harding

1922: Alexander Graham Bell

1921: Nicholas I of Montenegro

1920: Robert Peary

1919: Theodore Roosevelt

1918: Tsar Nicholas II

1917: Buffalo Bill Cody

[Zsa Zsa's leg 884]

On 8/30/2017 at 00:17, Lewd_Squirrel said:

Being called Zsa Zsa's leg I'm surprised that you didn't go with Zsa Zsa for most significant death, of last year.

She wasn't that significant. Had she died when people expected her to (2007-2010) she would have gotten the coverage she deserved. But dying in the middle of christmas season and a presidential transition along with long outliving the expectations set by the tabloids definitely harmed her chances of appropriate coverage. The media definitely overlooked Zsa Zsa's death.

[Life Is Beautiful 718]

On to the big question:

Is Hef the biggest death of 2017 so far?

I say he got more coverage than Berry and Kohl, and way more than Cornell and Bennington.

 

Yeah, I think he's the biggest death of the year, yet.

[gcreptile 10,979]

8 hours ago, Life Is Beautiful said:

On to the big question:

Is Hef the biggest death of 2017 so far?

I say he got more coverage than Berry and Kohl, and way more than Cornell and Bennington.

 

Yeah, I think he's the biggest death of the year, yet.

You have a point. He certainly was a unique figure.

[Handrejka 1,904]

On ‎28‎/‎08‎/‎2017 at 22:55, Life Is Beautiful said:

Since I got no response in the previous thread. I decided to make my own research and come up with a list of the most significant/important deaths of each year.

This is based on the overall impact (cultural/social/political) that this person had during his/her time. Tie breaker: Shocking/unexpected deaths.

List is of course open to suggestions and criticism.

 

1919: Theodore Roosevelt
1920: 
1921: Enrico Caruso
1922: Alexander Graham Bell
1923: Warren G. Harding
1924: Lenin
1925: Sun Yat-sen
1926: Rudolph Valentino
1927: 
1928: Emmeline Pankhurst


 

 

 

Not quoting the whole thing but surprised you didn't have Isadora Duncan for 1927. The manner of her death was certainly shocking and her legacy as "The Mother of Dance" suggests she fulfils cultural impact  aspect too.

[theoldlady 2,314]

So, what do you all think? Who is it for 2017?

[viGnoS 18]

for french people, clearly Johnny Hallyday death was like the eiffel tower collapsed

[Deadpool 166]

Hugh Hefner??

[TomTomTelekom 3,728]

For me Helmut Kohl. 16 years leader of Germany including reunification and co-founder of the united Europe incl. common EURO. I think this live performance is more significant compared to someone like Hefner who presented us "only" naked bunnys  on the cover of the playboy.

[BeretBleu 138]

Johnny Hallyday by far 

[Spade_Cooley 9,550]

5 hours ago, theoldlady said:

So, what do you all think? Who is it for 2017?

 

Dennis Stamp

[FujimoriNoMorey 20]

Chuck Berry

[Life Is Beautiful 718]

2 hours ago, TomTomTelekom said:

For me Helmut Kohl. 16 years leader of Germany including reunification and co-founder of the united Europe incl. common EURO. I think this live performance is more significant compared to someone like Hefner who presented us "only" naked bunnys  on the cover of the playboy.

 

If you think that's all what Hefner did, you must've missed a lot of coverage.

[Life Is Beautiful 718]

I say it's a toss up between the 90 year old rocker and the 90 year old fucker.

[FujimoriNoMorey 20]

On 8/29/2017 at 18:00, Joey Russ said:

He's the lead singer of Soundgarden, and he was talked about a lot when he committed suicide. You should at least recognize this song from him: 

 

 

On 8/29/2017 at 18:00, Joey Russ said:

He's the lead singer of Soundgarden, and he was talked about a lot when he committed suicide. You should at least recognize this song from him: 

 

That was such a sad era for music,depressing emo rockers and the non rock was something that can cause depression like Celion Dion and Michael Bolton

[YoungWillz 21,076]

Impossible to say at this point. The year isn't over!

[ImissMontpellier 73]

Simone Veil. 

[deadsox 894]

In a year that did not have a lot of huge celebrities die, I will go with Mary Tyler Moore.

[Zsa Zsa's leg 884]

Hugh Hefner

[theoldlady 2,314]

On ‎29‎/‎06‎/‎2018 at 20:55, theoldlady said:

For 2018: 

January: Jerry van Dyke or Dorothy Malone (Old Hollywood types)

February: Billy Graham

March: Stephen Hawking

April: Barbara Bush

May: Alan Bean 

June: Joe Jackson (because he gave us The Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson) 

July: No one  (For Norway: Thorvald Stoltenberg)(Britain: Lord Peter Carrington)

August: Tied: Kofi Annan and John McCain with the Honorable Mention of Aretha Franklin

September: Burt Reynolds

October: N. D. Tiwari

November: Stan Lee

December: to be decided end of December

Who will be the most significant Death this year? 

[Clorox Bleachman 2,456]

14 minutes ago, theoldlady said:

Who will be the most significant Death this year? 

Stephen Hawking without a shadow of a doubt.

[charon 4,943]

55 minutes ago, Clorox Bleachman said:

Stephen Hawking without a shadow of a doubt.

 

Rather bold claim, with over a month of Winter left.

[Lafaucheuse 4,052]

 

2 hours ago, theoldlady said:

Who will be the most significant Death this year? 

Aretha franklin !