Death Anniversary Thread

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American musician, best known as the drummer of the rock band Foo Fighters, with whom he recorded eight studio albums between 1999 and 2021 Taylor Hawkins died on this day a year ago, aged 50.

 

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Former British Conservative MP  and cabinet minister,  Tony Newton,later to become  Baron Newton in the House of Lords , died on this day 11 years ago in 2012, aged 74.

He was a Cabinet minister under both Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and John Major,  serving as Secretary of State for Social security and leader of the House of commons. 

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Geraldine Ferraro died on this day 12 years ago, aged 75.

- Ferraro was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1978, and quickly rose among the Democratic Party's ranks. Among the committees she served on included the House Budget Committee and the Steering and Policy Committee.

- In 1984, Democratic nominee for president Walter Mondale selected her to be his running mate (other considerations included then-San Francisco mayor Dianne Feinstein and Kentucky governor Martha Collins); she was the first woman to be chosen as a VP for a major party ticket (and only until Sarah Palin was picked in 2008). The Mondale-Ferraro ticket only won 13 electoral votes.

- Ferraro gave up her seat in Congress to run for VP- she would attempt to run for the Senate in 1992 and 1998, but came second in both primaries (losing to Chuck Schumer in the latter).

- Ferraro would join the CNN show Crossfire in 1996, and become a political commentator for Fox News in 1999.

- In 1998, Ferraro was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, surviving for over twelve years with the disease.

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On this day 28 years ago in 1995, American  Rapper Eazy E, nicknamed the Godfather of gangster rap due to his role in making the genre more widely known and popular,  died aged 30 from  pneumonia caused by .AIDS 

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Its 41 years since the death of Belfast-born actor Sam Kydd.

Called-up for service during the war, he spent 5 years in a POW camp, experience he put to use post-war when he answered an advert for a film wanting advisers with POW experience. He applied, and as well as advising, was used as a "supporting artiste", which was his first film role - albeit uncredited - "POW in Top Bunk" in 1946's Captive Heart. From then on he became an almost-ubiquitous face in British film and TV (he's said to have appeared in every series of Dixon of Dock Green, and made almost 300 film appearances) appearing with all the familiar stars of the day. He appeared as Mike Baldwin's dad Frankie in Coronation Street, and also appeared in Crossroads. His best remembered role is smuggler Orlando O'Connor in 1960s serial Crane, and its eponymous sequel.

 

He died aged 67, from emphysema, after a lifetime of smoking.

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On this day 2 years ago in 2021, German Olympian and   swimmer Ursula  Happe died aged 94.

She won an Olympic gold medal  in  the Womens  200m breaststroke at the  1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne Australia. 

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 David Lloyd George died on this day 78 years ago, aged 82.

 

 

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 James Callaghan died on this day 18 years ago, aged 92.

 

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Milton Berle died on this day 21 years ago, aged 93.

- Berle was born as "Mendel Berlinger", and took his stage name at the age of 16.

- Berle's career began when he was 5; he won a children's Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest. He would soon become a model for children's clothing, and later appear in silent films (the first verifiable being Fanchon the Cricket in 1915, when he was 7).

- Berle made his stage debut aged 12, and was on Broadway by the time he was 24.

- Berle's first TV appearance was in an experimental broadcast in 1929. He began hosting The Texaco Star Theatre in 1948, and was so popular that television sales doubled. He is considered the first TV star because of this.

- Besides from being an actor, Berle was also a songwriter- he wrote the Spike Jones song "Leave the Dishes in the Sink, Ma".

- Berle's final role was as Uncle Leo in the series finale of Kenan & Kel in 2000.

- Berle died after an 11-month battle with colon cancer. He appeared on the DeathList twice (2001 and 2002), and died on the same day as fellow hits Dudley Moore and Billy Wilder (three hits remains the one-day record).

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On this day 46 years ago in 1977  american pin up model and actress Eve Meyer died aged 48 in the worlds worst Aviation disaster the Tenerife Airport disaster,  along with 582 other people.

She mainly featured in what is known as sexploitation  movies directed by Russ Meyer who was also her husband for several years.  This genre of films features plenty of nudity but nothing that would be classed as explicit. 

Film titles include Finders Keepers, Lovers weepers, Eve and the handyman and Faster Pussycat Kill Kill!

 

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British singer, songwriter and actor Ian Dury died on this day 23 years ago, aged 57.

 

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On this day 27/3 100 years ago died the inventor of the thermos the Scotsman James Dewar at the age of 80

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Dwight D. Eisenhower died on this day 54 years ago, aged 78.

- Eisenhower's first and middle names were switched during his childhood to avoid confusion with his father, David. Dwight and his brothers were all nicknamed Ike, intended to be an abbreviation of their last name.

- Eisenhower was a member of the West Point football team at the same time as fellow WWII general Omar Bradley. He had to quit after tearing his knee, but returned to the field as a junior varsity coach and cheerleader.

- One of Eisenhower's hobbies was oil painting, often painting landscapes:

- Both the Republican and the Democratic parties attempted to get Eisenhower to run for them in 1948 due to his victories in World War II. He ran in 1952, and it was at this time that the first campaign commercials aired on TV:

- Among the major events of Eisenhower's presidency were the end of the Korean War, the construction of the Interstate Highway System, the beginning of the Space Race, the admission of Alaska and Hawaii to the union, and the U2 incident of 1960 (nothing to do with Bono's birth).

- Eisenhower was the first US president to release updates on his health while in office. Eisenhower had a serious heart attack in 1955, and a stroke in 1957 led to aphasia.

- Eisenhower's health worsened after leaving office in 1961, with his gallbladder being removed in 1966. He survived seven heart attacks before he died of congestive heart failure.

- Eisenhower's grandson David is the namesake of Camp David, and married Richard Nixon's (who was the senior Eisenhower's VP) daughter Julie- their marriage led to the writing of "Fortunate Son".

 

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Sergei Rachmaninoff died 80 years ago, Russian composer, pianist and conductor

 

 

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Richard Griffiths, the actor who played Válter Dursley in Harry Potter, passed away 10 years ago

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29 minutes ago, diego said:

Richard Griffiths, the actor who played Válter Dursley in Harry Potter, passed away 10 years ago

Ah, you mean Uncle Monty

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6 minutes ago, time said:

Ah, você quer dizer tio Monty

This one I haven't watched yet.

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36 minutes ago, diego said:

This one I haven't watched yet.

I finally watched during lockdown 1!

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11 minutes ago, time said:

Eu finalmente assisti durante o lockdown 1!

Did you like it?

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2 minutes ago, diego said:

Did you like it?

Yes, but whether or not it lived up to the hype is debatable.

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I'll see if I find to watch here

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English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device Virginia Woolf died on this day 82 years ago, aged 59.

 

 

British actor, filmmaker and writer Peter Ustinov died on this day 19 years ago, aged 82.

 

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King Gustav III of Sweden died on this day 231 years ago, aged 46.

- Gustav became king in 1771following the death of his father Adolf Frederick. Shortly into his reign, he initiated a coup against the Swedish parliament in order to force the country to become an absolute monarchy (after decades of parliamentary rule).

- Despite his absolutist causes, Gustav was quite liberal: he abolished torture in order to get confessions from a criminal, gave religious tolerance to Catholics and Jews, and abolished several grain export tolls.

- While Sweden did not participate in the American Revolution, Gustav personally sided with the Patriots: "It is such an interesting drama to see a nation create itself[...] This perhaps is America's century[...] I cannot help but admire their courage and enthusiastically appreciate their daring".

- In 1788, Gustav declared war on Russia (while they were fighting the Ottoman Empire) in an attempt to garner support. This war largely resulted in nothing changing except that the two countries agreed to a defense pact.

- Gustav had planned to sponsor a colonial endeavor into southwest Australia, but had to cancel it after declaring war on Russia.

- Following the war, Gustav's popularity plummeted, and he was shot while attending a ball at the Royal Opera House. He died two weeks later after the wound got infected.

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On this day 5 years ago in 2018 , critically acclaimed  American author  Anita Shreve,  died from cancer aged 71. 

Some of her books were adapted to the silver screen  including The Pilots wife and The Weight of Water. 

Other novels include The Star are fire, The last time they met and Strange fits of passion.

 

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Died 290 years ago (in 1733) Gottfried van Swieten,Dutch sponsor and friend of great composers,such as Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven,in his library there were several works by Georg Friedrich Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach,it was there that Mozart discovered the works of Bach,Van Swieten wrote, for example, the text of The Creation by Joseph Haydn,  it is based on the book of Genesis, the Book of Psalms, and John Milton's poem Paradise Lost.

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American actress and mental health advocate Patty Duke died on this day 7 years ago, aged 69.