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3 minutes ago, time said:

The fact that George Floyd wasn't a celebrity is immaterial; his death has certainly been of more significance than Bryant's, and I expect that will still be the case in 5-10-whatever years time. Greater fame doesn't equal greater significance.


I don’t even disagree with you, I’m just not considering it a celebrity death. 
 

Also, stop fucking saying “I haven’t heard of him so he isn’t known” ESPECIALLY when I’ve already said that Connery is MOST LIKELY more well known worldwide. I swear you’re making it seem like Brits just don’t read. 

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George Floyd didn't really accomplish anything before he died.

 

But I would probably compare him to Anne Frank in terms of his legacy.  

Already, there are scholars who say George Floyd is this century's Anne Frank.  

 

Also, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor did something rare: their deaths brought the country together.  Everybody from liberals to hardcore Trump supporters came together in mourning and in protest.  I've had BLM friends protesting side by side with Trump supporters marching.     

 

Until the riots tore our country apart again.

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8 minutes ago, DCI Frank Burnside said:

Diego now surely 

tie between Maradona and Connery for me on a international level but I would say Naya Rivera, Chadwick Boseman or Kobe Bryant would be great contenders in the "shocking" category 

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12 minutes ago, DCI Frank Burnside said:

Diego now surely 

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On an international stage I imagine Maradona is biggest, but I suspect the American audience doesn't think he's the biggest given that football (or soccer as well call it here) isn't really that big in the US. 

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Maradona is easily the biggest death this year.

 

That being said, I still think Kobe is the most significant of 2020.

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As basket-ball is extremely popular in Asia, there's no doubt that Kobe's death is the most significant worldwide.

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UPDATE Since 1900

 

1900: Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
1901: Queen Victoria, UK Queen
1902: Emile Zola, French writer
1903: Paul Gauguin, French artist
1904: Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright
1905: Jules Verne, French writer
1906: Paul Cézanne, French artist
1907: Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian scientist
1908: Grover Cleveland, US president
1909: Geronimo, Indian Apache leader
1910: Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer
1911: Gustav Mahler, Austro-Bohemian composer
1912: Wilbur Wright, US aviation inventor
1913: Alfred Russel Wallace, British explorer
1914: Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria
1915: Charles Tupper, Canadian father of Confederation
1916: Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic
1917: Mata Hari, Dutch exotic dancer and spy
1918: Nicholas II of Russia, Russian royalty
1919: Theodore Roosevelt, US president
1920: Robert Peary, US arctic explorer
1921: Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor
1922: Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor
1923: Warren G. Harding, US president
1924: Lenin, USSR leader and founder
1925: Sun Yat-sen, Chinese leader
1926: Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor
1927: Victoria Woodhull, American civil rights activist
1928: Emmeline Pankhurst, British civil rights activist
1929: Archibald Primrose, UK PM
1930: William Howard Taft, US president
1931: Thomas Edison, US inventor
1932: John Philip Sousa, US composer
1933: Calvin Coolidge, US president
1934: Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist
1935: T.E. Lawrence, British archaeologist
1936: King George V, UK King
1937: John D. Rockefeller, richest person in modern history
1938: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founding father of Turkey
1939: Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis
1940: Leon Trotsky, USSR thinker
1941: Virginia Woolf, English writer
1942: Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official
1943: Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor
1944: Erwin Rommel, Nazi general
1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt, US president and Adolf Hitler, Nazi leader
1946: Hermann Göring, German leader and war criminal
1947: Henry Ford, US inventor and Elizabeth Short, Black Dahlia
1948: Mahatma Gandhi, Indian ethicist
1949: Richard Strauss, German composer
1950: George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright
1951: William Randolph Hearst, US businessman
1952: King George VI, UK king
1953: Joseph Stalin, USSR leader
1954: Enrico Fermi, Italian inventor
1955: Albert Einstein, German physicist
1956: Jackson Pollock, US artist
1957: Joseph McCarthy, US Senator
1958: Pope Pius XII, Holy Pope
1959: Buddy Holly, US rock singer-songwriter
1960: Albert Camus, French philosopher
1961: Ernest Hemingway, US writer
1962: Marilyn Monroe, US actress
1963: John F. Kennedy, US president
1964: Herbert Hoover, US president
1965: Winston Churchill, UK PM
1966: Walt Disney, US animator
1967: Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary
1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., US minister and activist
1969: Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general and president
1970: Charles de Gaulle, French President and Jimi Hendrix, US guitarist
1971: Jim Morrison, US rock singer and poet
1972: Harry S. Truman, US president
1973: Lyndon B. Johnson, US president
1974: James Chadwick, British physicist
1975: Francisco Franco, Spanish general
1976: Mao Zedong, Chinese Chairman
1977: Elvis Presley, US rock singer
1978: Pope Paul VI, Holy Pope
1979: John Wayne, US actor
1980: John  Lennon, UK singer-songwriter
1981: Anwar Sadat, Egyptian PM
1982: Leonid Brezhnev, USSR leader
1983: Tennessee Williams, US playwright
1984: Indira Gandhi, Indian PM
1985: Orson Welles, US film director
1986: Harold Macmillan, UK PM
1987: Rudolf Hess, Nazi leader
1988: Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, Pakistani PM
1989: Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Supreme Leader
1990: Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress
1991: Freddie Mercury, UK singer
1992: Menachem Begin, Israeli PM
1993: Audrey Hepburn, UK actress
1994: Richard M. Nixon, US president and Kurt Cobain, US singer-songwriter
1995: Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli PM
1996: François Mitterrand, French president
1997: Diana, Princess of Wales, UK royalty
1998: Frank Sinatra, US singer
1999: Wilt Chamberlain, US basketball player
2000: John Gielgud, UK actor


2001: Mohamed Atta, Egyptian terrorist and Todd Beamer, a passenger on the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93
2002: Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother of the United Kingdom
2003: Katharine Hepburn, US actress
2004: Ronald Reagan, US president
2005: Pope John Paul II, Holy Pope
2006: Gerald Ford, US president and Saddam Hussein, Iraqi president
2007: Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani PM
2008: Paul Newman, US actor
2009: Michael Jackson, US singer
2010: J. D. Salinger, US writer
2011: Osama bin Laden, Saudi terrorist and Muammar Gaddafi, Lybian leader
2012: Neil Armstrong, US astronaut
2013: Nelson Mandela, South-African PM and activist
2014: Robin Williams, US actor
2015: Stéphane Charbonnier [Charb], French Charlie Hebdo cartoonist
2016: Fidel Castro, Cuban PM and leader
2017: Helmut Kohl, German chancellor

2018: George Bush Senior, US president and Stephen Hawking, UK physicist

2019: Abu-Bakr al Baghdadi, ISIS leader and Jacques Chirac, French PM

2020: Mr. Zhang, the first COVID-19 death and George Floyd, African-American police brutality victim

2021: Larry King, US broadcaster (so far....)

 

Most significant death by decades:

1900s: Queen Victoria

1910s: Franz Ferdinand

1920s: Lenin

1930s: Sigmund Freud

1940s: Adolf Hitler

1950s: Joseph Stalin

1960s: JFK

1970s: Elvis Presley

1980s: Anwar Sadat

1990s: Yitzhak Rabin

2000s: Pope John Paul II

2010s: Osama bin Laden

2020s: George Floyd (so far...)

 

Most significant death by centuy:

20th century: JFK

21st century: Osama bin Laden

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1 hour ago, Life Is Beautiful said:

UPDATE Since 1900

 

1900: Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
1901: Queen Victoria, UK Queen
1902: Emile Zola, French writer
1903: Paul Gauguin, French artist
1904: Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright
1905: Jules Verne, French writer
1906: Paul Cézanne, French artist
1907: Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian scientist
1908: Grover Cleveland, US president
1909: Geronimo, Indian Apache leader
1910: Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer
1911: Gustav Mahler, Austro-Bohemian composer
1912: Wilbur Wright, US aviation inventor
1913: Alfred Russel Wallace, British explorer
1914: Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria
1915: Charles Tupper, Canadian father of Confederation
1916: Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic
1917: Mata Hari, Dutch exotic dancer and spy
1918: Nicholas II of Russia, Russian royalty
1919: Theodore Roosevelt, US president
1920: Robert Peary, US arctic explorer
1921: Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor
1922: Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor
1923: Warren G. Harding, US president
1924: Lenin, USSR leader and founder
1925: Sun Yat-sen, Chinese leader
1926: Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor
1927: Victoria Woodhull, American civil rights activist
1928: Emmeline Pankhurst, British civil rights activist
1929: Archibald Primrose, UK PM
1930: William Howard Taft, US president
1931: Thomas Edison, US inventor
1932: John Philip Sousa, US composer
1933: Calvin Coolidge, US president
1934: Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist
1935: T.E. Lawrence, British archaeologist
1936: King George V, UK King
1937: John D. Rockefeller, richest person in modern history
1938: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founding father of Turkey
1939: Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis
1940: Leon Trotsky, USSR thinker
1941: Virginia Woolf, English writer
1942: Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official
1943: Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor
1944: Erwin Rommel, Nazi general
1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt, US president and Adolf Hitler, Nazi leader
1946: Hermann Göring, German leader and war criminal
1947: Henry Ford, US inventor and Elizabeth Short, Black Dahlia
1948: Mahatma Gandhi, Indian ethicist
1949: Richard Strauss, German composer
1950: George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright
1951: William Randolph Hearst, US businessman
1952: King George VI, UK king
1953: Joseph Stalin, USSR leader
1954: Enrico Fermi, Italian inventor
1955: Albert Einstein, German physicist
1956: Jackson Pollock, US artist
1957: Joseph McCarthy, US Senator
1958: Pope Pius XII, Holy Pope
1959: Buddy Holly, US rock singer-songwriter
1960: Albert Camus, French philosopher
1961: Ernest Hemingway, US writer
1962: Marilyn Monroe, US actress
1963: John F. Kennedy, US president
1964: Herbert Hoover, US president
1965: Winston Churchill, UK PM
1966: Walt Disney, US animator
1967: Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary
1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., US minister and activist
1969: Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general and president
1970: Charles de Gaulle, French President and Jimi Hendrix, US guitarist
1971: Jim Morrison, US rock singer and poet
1972: Harry S. Truman, US president
1973: Lyndon B. Johnson, US president
1974: James Chadwick, British physicist
1975: Francisco Franco, Spanish general
1976: Mao Zedong, Chinese Chairman
1977: Elvis Presley, US rock singer
1978: Pope Paul VI, Holy Pope
1979: John Wayne, US actor
1980: John  Lennon, UK singer-songwriter
1981: Anwar Sadat, Egyptian PM
1982: Leonid Brezhnev, USSR leader
1983: Tennessee Williams, US playwright
1984: Indira Gandhi, Indian PM
1985: Orson Welles, US film director
1986: Harold Macmillan, UK PM
1987: Rudolf Hess, Nazi leader
1988: Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, Pakistani PM
1989: Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Supreme Leader
1990: Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress
1991: Freddie Mercury, UK singer
1992: Menachem Begin, Israeli PM
1993: Audrey Hepburn, UK actress
1994: Richard M. Nixon, US president and Kurt Cobain, US singer-songwriter
1995: Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli PM
1996: François Mitterrand, French president
1997: Diana, Princess of Wales, UK royalty
1998: Frank Sinatra, US singer
1999: Wilt Chamberlain, US basketball player
2000: John Gielgud, UK actor


2001: Mohamed Atta, Egyptian terrorist and Todd Beamer, a passenger on the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93
2002: Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother of the United Kingdom
2003: Katharine Hepburn, US actress
2004: Ronald Reagan, US president
2005: Pope John Paul II, Holy Pope
2006: Gerald Ford, US president and Saddam Hussein, Iraqi president
2007: Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani PM
2008: Paul Newman, US actor
2009: Michael Jackson, US singer
2010: J. D. Salinger, US writer
2011: Osama bin Laden, Saudi terrorist and Muammar Gaddafi, Lybian leader
2012: Neil Armstrong, US astronaut
2013: Nelson Mandela, South-African PM and activist
2014: Robin Williams, US actor
2015: Stéphane Charbonnier [Charb], French Charlie Hebdo cartoonist
2016: Fidel Castro, Cuban PM and leader
2017: Helmut Kohl, German chancellor

2018: George Bush Senior, US president and Stephen Hawking, UK physicist

2019: Abu-Bakr al Baghdadi, ISIS leader and Jacques Chirac, French PM

2020: Mr. Zhang, the first COVID-19 death and George Floyd, African-American police brutality victim

2021: Larry King, US broadcaster (so far....)

 

Most significant death by decades:

1900s: Queen Victoria

1910s: Franz Ferdinand

1920s: Lenin

1930s: Sigmund Freud

1940s: Adolf Hitler

1950s: Joseph Stalin

1960s: JFK

1970s: Elvis Presley

1980s: Anwar Sadat

1990s: Yitzhak Rabin

2000s: Pope John Paul II

2010s: Osama bin Laden

2020s: George Floyd (so far...)

 

Most significant death by centuy:

20th century: JFK

21st century: Osama bin Laden

Great list which gives importance not only to the death of the person but to the event related (as seen with Charb in 2015 for exemple). Well done !

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3 hours ago, Life Is Beautiful said:

UPDATE Since 1900

 

I really liked this, great idea. Not decided if I agree with every choice but that doesn't matter ha

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On 05/11/2020 at 22:22, BCAlum2000 said:

Until the riots tore our country apart again.

 

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1895 Louis Pasteur, chemist

1896 Alfred Nobel, entrepreneur and inventor

1897 Johannes Brahms, composer

1898 Otto von Bismarck,  politician (Sorry Empress Sisi)

1899 Johann Strauss, composer

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My list (just my opinions), from 1980:

 

1980: John Lennon. Hitchcock, Tito and the last shah are good competitors too.

1981: Bob Marley. Sadat is a number two.

1982: Brezhnev, soviet dictator

1983: Idris of Libya or David Niven.

1984: Andropov, Brezhnev's successor

1985: Orson Welles or Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha.

1986: Olof Palme or Urho Kekkonen.

1987: Andy Warhol

1988: Chiang Ching-Kuo

1989: Ruhollah Khomeini. Competitors are Salvador Dali, Ceausescu and Hirohito.

1990: Roald Dahl.

1991: Freddie Mercury. Competitors are Norway's Olav V, Gene Roddenberry and Rajiv Gandhi.

1992: Willy Brandt

1993: Escobar or Frank Zappa

1994: Richard Nixon

1995: Siad Barre

1996: Mitterrand or former emperor Bokassa

1997: Princess Diana. Competitors are Hastings Banda and Mother Teresa

1998: Pol Pot or Sinatra

1999: King of Jordan

2000: Alec Guinness

2001: Harrison, Tove Jansson is a close number two

2002: Queen Mother

2003: Idi Amin

2004: Ronald Reagan

2005: Pope John Paul

2006: Saddam Hussein

2007: Ingmar Bergman

2008: Suharto or George Carlin

2009: Michael Jackson

2010: Lech Kaczynski

2011: Gaddafi/Osama

2012: Neil Armstrong

2013: Margaret Thatcher

2014: Robin Williams

2015: Christopher Lee

2016: A fucking ton of them. Castro

2017: Mauno Koivisto for me, Hef's the number two

2018: Bush Senior

2019: Robert Mugabe

2020: Kirk Douglas

2021: This far it's either Menem, King or father of Papua New Guinea Michael Somare.

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Following the trend started by @Life Is Beautiful, here's the most significant death(s) by year for the 1800s.

 

Spoiler

1800: Jeongjo, Joseon Korean emperor

1801: Benedict Arnold, American-British double agent

1802: Martha WashingtonFormer US First Lady

1803: Toussaint Louverture, Haitian revolutionary leader

1804: Alexander Hamilton, American politician

1805: Lord Horatio NelsonBritish admiral

1806: William Pitt Jr., British Prime Minister

1807: Oliver Ellsworth, Former Chief Justice of the United States

1808: Christian VII, King of Denmark

1809: Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer and Thomas Paine, British-American philosopher

1810: Johan Zoffany, German painter

1811: Augustus FitzRoy, Former British Prime Minister

1812: Spencer Perceval, British Prime Minister

1813: Tecumseh, Native American Shawnee leader

1814: Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States

1815: Battle of Waterloo casualties and Robert Fulton, American inventor of the steamboat

1816: Maria I, Queen of Portugal

1817: Jane Austen, British author

1818: Abigail Adams, Former US First Lady

1819: Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii

1820: George III, King of the United Kingdom

1821: Napoleon Bonaparte, French dictator

1822: Percy Bysshe Shelley, British poet and William Herschel, British astronomer (discovered Uranus)

1823: Edward Jenner, British inventor of the vaccine

1824: Louis XVIII, King of France

1825: Eli Whitney, American inventor of the cotton gin

1826: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Former US Presidents

1827: Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer

1828: Shaka Zulu, King of the Zulu Kingdom

1829: Pope Leo XII

1830: George IV, King of the United Kingdom and Simon Bolivar, Venezuelan revolutionary leader

1831: James Monroe, Former US President and Nat Turner, American slave rebel

1832: Walter Scott, British poet

1833: William Wilberforce, British politician and abolitionist

1834: Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil

1835: Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor

1836: James Madison, Former US president, Aaron Burr, Former US vice president, and Alamo defenders including Davy Crockett

1837: William IV, King of the United Kingdom

1838: William Clark, American explorer

1839: Frederick VI, King of Denmark

1840: Kokaku, Former Emperor of Japan

1841: William Henry Harrison, US President

1842: Letitia Tyler, US First Lady

1843: Francis Scott Key, American songwriter and William I, King of the Netherlands

1844: Joseph Smith, American founder of Mormonism

1845: Andrew Jackson, Former US President

1846: Pope Gregory XVI

1847: Archduke Charles of Austria

1848: John Quincy Adams, Former US President and John Jacob Astor I, American businessman

1849: James K. Polk, Former US President, Dolley Madison, Former US First Lady, and Edgar Allen Poe, American author

1850: Zachary Taylor, US President

1851: Mary Shelley, British author

1852: Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Former British Prime Minister and general

1853: Maria II, Queen of Portugal

1854: Samuel Wilson, American base of Uncle Sam

1855: Charlotte Bronte, British author

1856: William Buckland, British paleontologist

1857: Auguste Comte, French philosopher

1858: Matthew Perry, American naval officer (responsible for trade with Japan)

1859: John Brown, American abolitionist and raider

1860: George Hamilton-Gordon (Lord Aberdeen), Former British Prime Minister

1861: The first American Civil War casualties and Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom

1862: John Tyler and Martin Van Buren, Former US Presidents, and Henry David Thoreau, American author

1863: Stonewall Jackson, American Confederate general

1864: J. E. B. Stuart, American Confederate general

1865: Abraham Lincoln, US President, and his assassin John Wilkes Booth

1866: Winfield Scott, American general and politician

1867: Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico

1868: James Buchanan, Former US President

1869: Franklin Pierce, Former US President

1870: Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general and Charles Dickens, British author

1871: Charles Babbage, British mathematician

1872: Samuel Morse, American inventor of Morse Code and Horace Greeley, American politician

1873: Napoleon III, French emperor

1874: Millard Fillmore, Former US President

1875: Andrew Johnson, Former US President

1876: George Armstrong Custer, American general and the Native Americans killed at Little Big Horn

1877: Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman

1878: Pope Pius IX

1879: Sarah Josepha Hale, American songwriter and Thanksgiving advocate

1880: Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger/serial killer and Lucretia Mott, American activist

1881: James Garfield, US President

1882: Charles Darwin, British scientist and Jesse James, American outlaw

1883: Karl Marx, German communist

1884: Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist

1885: Ulysses S. Grant, Former US President and general

1886: Emily Dickinson, American poet and Chester Arthur, Former US President

1887: Doc Holliday, American gunfighter

1888: Wilhelm I and Frederick III, German Emperors

1889: Jefferson Davis, American President of the Confederacy

1890: Sitting Bull, Native American chief and Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter

1891: P. T. Barnum, American circus showman

1892: Lord Alfred Tennyson, British poet

1893: Rutherford B. Hayes, Former US President

1894: Robert Louis Stevenson, British author

1895: Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist

1896: Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite

1897: Johannes Brahms, German composer

1898: Otto von Bismarck, Former Chancellor of Germany

1899: Garret Hobart, US Vice President

 

By decade.

1800s: Alexander Hamilton

1810s: Spencer Perceval

1820s: Napoleon Bonaparte

1830s: James Madison

1840s: Andrew Jackson

1850s: John Brown

1860s: Abraham Lincoln

1870s: Robert E. Lee

1880s: Charles Darwin

1890s: Otto von Bismarck

 

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Well guess Phil is the most significant death this year, and this decade so far.

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10 minutes ago, Putin said:

Well guess Phil is the most significant death this year, and this decade so far.

 

How do you figure?  Nearest I can tell he served no significant purpose to anything and, not that I'm a fan, but DMX moved the needle far more on this side of the pond.

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1 hour ago, Salmon Mousse said:

 

How do you figure?  Nearest I can tell he served no significant purpose to anything and, not that I'm a fan, but DMX moved the needle far more on this side of the pond.

 

Because this forum is the other side of the pond from you.

 

Another bloody rapper that doesn't even have a proper name and uses some old kids bike instead.

Septics pft. Think everything revolves around them not the sun.

 

Oh and this is the country that believes it sets the moral standard for the world, but still has a system that was just asking for this.... https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/toddler-3-fatally-shoots-baby-brother-after-picking-unsecured-gun-n1263738.

Nowhere is perfect, but most don't look down their noses at everyone else as if they had just crawled from under a rock.

/rant over.

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Phil is probably the most 'known' person to have died this year but at 99 I doubt if you could say significant, I would suggest that we are looking for someone that was not expected to die anyway and be well known.

It would really need to be someone not suggested by the members of this forum as yet.

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I would say the Duke is the most significant SO FAR but hey, we're only in April… To say that he is the most significant of the decade seems inappropriate considering that the queen would be 104 in 2030, she'll probably die before so that would be the death of the decade. Besides, I can see prominent figures such as Tina Turner, Elton John, Clint Eastwood, Bill Clinton who would be great contenders for the most significant death of the decade or of the year (if one of them does die in 2021).

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1 hour ago, Lafaucheuse said:

I would say the Duke is the most significant SO FAR but hey, we're only in April… To say that he is the most significant of the decade seems inappropriate considering that the queen would be 104 in 2030, she'll probably die before so that would be the death of the decade. Besides, I can see prominent figures such as Tina Turner, Elton John, Clint Eastwood, Bill Clinton who would be great contenders for the most significant death of the decade or of the year (if one of them does die in 2021).

 Well I Said the most significant death of the decade so far

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