Death Anniversary Thread

[The Ashes Urn 1,353]

American actor of stage, screen and television Simon Oakland died on this day 40 years ago, aged 68.

 

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Hugo I, Duke of Burgundy died 930 years ago in Cluny (FRA), he inherited the duchy of his grandfather, after the premature death of his father, having himself proclaimed in Dijon

 

Maria of Jülich-Berg died 480 years ago at the age of 52, she was born in Jülich, daughter of Wilhelm IV of Jülich-Berg and Sibyl of Brandenburg

 

 

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Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman died on this day 41 years ago, aged 67. Bergman began her acting career in Swedish and German films. Her introduction to the U.S. audience came in the English-language remake of Intermezzo (1939). Known for her naturally luminous beauty, she starred in Casablanca (1942) as Ilsa Lund. Bergman's notable performances in the 1940s include the dramas For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gaslight (1944), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), and Joan of Arc (1948), all of which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress; she won for Gaslight. She made three films with Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), and Under Capricorn (1949).

 

 

American film and television actor Lee Marvin died on this day 36 years ago, aged 63. Known for his bass voice and premature white hair, he is best remembered for playing hardboiled "tough guy" characters. Although initially typecast as the "heavy" (i.e. villainous character), he later gained prominence for portraying anti-heroes, such as Detective Lieutenant Frank Ballinger on the television series M Squad (1957–1960). Marvin's notable roles in film included Charlie Strom in The Killers (1964), Rico Fardan in The Professionals (1966), Major John Reisman in The Dirty Dozen (1967), Ben Rumson in Paint Your Wagon (1969), Walker in Point Blank (1967), and the Sergeant in The Big Red One (1980).

 

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On this day 2 years ago, American actor Ed Asner, who played Lou Grant in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and a spin-off of his own show as well as voiced Carl Fredricksen in the Disney Pixar movie "Up", passed away at the age of 91.

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Pope Alexander III died on this day 842 years ago, aged ~80.

- Alexander was born in Italy at the turn of the 12th century, with the birth name Rolando.

- Alexander would attend and end up becoming a professor of theology at the University of Bologna (founded in 1088, and still a university today- the oldest in the world).

- In 1150, Alexander would be made a cardinal by Pope Eugene III. Notably, Pope Adrian IV sent him to Germany (then the Holy Roman Empire) in 1157, where he read a letter declaring emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) to be a vassal of the pope. Alexander would be threatened at swordpoint by Duke Otto I of Bavaria, but Frederick reprimanded Otto, and gave Alexander a letter to give to Adrian protesting his declaration.

- Adrian died in 1159, and Alexander was elected pope. However, a minority of cardinals elected a cardinal named Octaviano de Monticelli, who became Antipope Victor IV- and was recognized as the legitimate pope by Germany and several other European kingdoms. When Victor died in 1164, some of the cardinals in his presence celebrated his death, but Alexander chastised them for doing so and openly mourned his rival.

- Antipopes would continue to challenge Alexander's authority during his papacy- Paschal III (1164 to 1168) and Callixtus III (1168 to 1176), until Emperor Frederick finally recognized him as pope in 1177 after the Battle of Legano. Alexander returned to Rome in 1178.

- Among the things Alexander did as pope included endorsing a crusade against pagans in Finland and Estonia, canonizing Edward the Confessor and Thomas Becket (the latter was a friend of his, and was made a saint three years after his death), and holding the Lateran III ecumenical council (which defined that popes could only be elected by official cardinals).

- Alexander died after a 22-year papacy, and would be succeeded by Pope Lucius III.

[The Ashes Urn 1,353]

American actor Richard Jordan died on this day 30 years ago, aged 56.

 

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Louis XI of France died 540 years ago in La Riche aged 60, born in Bourges, was King of France from 1461 until his death

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luís_XI_da_França

Charles Bronson was born in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania and died 20 years ago in Los Angeles, California at age 81. He was a great actor.

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronson

 

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 Craig Kingsbury died 21 years ago aged 89, nicknamed "The most famous head in movie history", why you may ask?

This....

 

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American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and editor Wes Craven died on this day 8 years ago, aged 76. Craven created the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise (1984–2010), specifically writing and directing the first film, co-writing and producing the third, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), and writing and directing the seventh, Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994). He additionally directed the first four films in the Scream franchise (1996–2011). He also directed cult classics The Last House on the Left (1972) and The Hills Have Eyes (1977), the horror comedy The People Under the Stairs (1991), and psychological thriller Red Eye (2005). His other notable films include Swamp Thing (1982), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Shocker (1989), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), and Music of the Heart (1999).

 

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Dodi Fayed died on this day 26 years ago, aged 42.

- Dodi was the son of a billionaire (who is currently occupying the #45 spot on the list), and the nephew of another (Adnan Khashoggi, subject of the Queen song Khashoggi's Ship). He was also the first cousin of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

- He was also the CEO of film production company Allied Stars (founded by his father), and he was listed as an executive producer on movies such as Chariots of Fire, Hook, and F/X.

- Early in 1997, Fayed was engaged to a woman named Kelly Fisher, but dumped her for the then-prince Charles' ex-wife Princess Diana- Fisher planned to sue him for breach of contract, but dropped it following his untimely death.

- Dodi and Diana were killed in a now-infamous car crash trying to get away from the paparazzi, partly due to the fact that neither of them were wearing seatbelts. Since then, Dodi's father Mohamed has suggested (and continues to claim to this day) that this was all intentional- particularly alleging Prince Philip as the mastermind behind the conspiracy.

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On this day 1 year ago, Russian politician Mikhail Gorbachev, who was the President of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991 and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, passed away at the age of 91.

 

Phot Credit: European Parliament per Creative Commons license

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On this day 1 year ago, American astronaut Don Lind passed away at the age of 92.

[The Ashes Urn 1,353]

American film director John Ford died on this day 50 years ago, aged 79.

 

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Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil, and died in Paris 60 years ago at the age of 81, was a French painter and sculptor, who founded Cubism together with Pablo Picasso.

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Braque

Ligorio López died 30 years ago at the age of 60, the Mexican footballer played in the 1958 World Cup

 

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 On this day 2 years ago, American actor Michael Constantine, who starred in the romantic comedy film "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", and the comedy-drama TV "Room 222", passed away at the age of 94.

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Diana, Princess of Wales died on this day 26 years ago, aged 36. She was the first wife of King Charles III and mother of Princes William and Harry. Her activism and glamour made her an international icon, and earned her enduring popularity.

 

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Jacques Cartier died on this day 466 years ago, aged 65.

- Cartier was born on New Year's Eve in 1491- the first year of his life would see Europe's discovery of the Western Hemisphere. He lived in a port town, and was already a respected sailor by the time of his first transatlantic voyage.

- In 1534, the bishop of his hometown of Saint-Malo introduced him to King Francis I, and he commissioned Cartier to find a passage westward to Asia. He and his crew would set off on April 20 of that year, and arrived in Newfoundland three weeks later.

- Once he arrived in what is now Quebec, Cartier would encounter several indigenous tribes- firstly the Mikmaq, whom he traded with. Then he met a group of Iroquois- they were amicable until the natives realized that Cartier was claiming their land for France by erecting a 30-foot cross and attempting to kidnap two of the chief's sons- the chief, Donnacona, allowed Cartier to take them to France only if they returned with goods from Europe with them.

- Cartier embarked on a second voyage in 1535, sailing up the St. Lawrence River to what is now Montreal.

- Cartier and his crew would come down with scurvy during the winter of 1535- they were staying in the Iroquois capital of Stadacona, where Chief Donnacona informed them of tea extracted from cedar trees would cure their Vitamin C deficiencies (they didn't know what Vitamin C was at the time, but they knew the tree tea cured scurvy). Cartier decided to repay Donnacona the following year by... abducting him and taking him back to France, having believed him to be aware of a mythical "Kingdom of Saguenay" further north that was full of treasure. Donnacona would be personally looked after by the king, but he would never return home and died in France around 1539.

- Cartier's third voyage in 1541 would be met with less friendly interactions with the Iroquois- probably because he kidnapped their chief. He would return home with what he thought were diamonds- only for it to be found that it was just quartz. This gave rise to a new expression: "as false as Canadian diamonds".

- Cartier would end up being the victim of a typhus epidemic, having believed to have reached Asia all his life- he only got as far as eastern Canada.

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Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Indian Kashmiri separatist, politician, forum coffinteaser and "father of Kashmiri Jihad" died on this day two years ago, at the age of 91. He had been suffering from asthma, lung, kidney & heart failure and everything else for a while.

[The Ashes Urn 1,353]

American professional golfer Cary Middlecoff died on this day 25 years ago, aged 77.

 

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American actor Dean Jones died on this day 8 years ago, aged 84. He was best known for his roles as Agent Zeke Kelso in That Darn Cat! (1965), Jim Douglas in The Love Bug (1968) and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977), and Dr. Herman Varnick in Beethoven (1992). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance as Albert Dooley in The Million Dollar Duck (1971). In 1995, he was inducted as a Disney Legends award winner for his film work.

 

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Frank Drake died on this day a year ago, aged 92.

- Drake first thought that life could exist on other planets when he was only 8 years old- he said at the time he that he thought that human civilization was the result of chance (but I believe at that age he got the idea from science fiction comic books).

- After receiving his PhD in Astronomy in 1955 (at Harvard), he worked at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, observing radio emissions from the other planets in the solar system. It is here where he became the discoverer of Jupiter's ionosphere and magnetosphere.

- Drake would enhance the Arecibo Observatory during its construction by allowing it to be purposed for radio astronomy (when it was initially planned for only ionosphere observation).

- In 1959, Drake initiated Project Ozma, a search for alien radio signals. This project would be cancelled after a year, but he did manage to become the friend of a young Carl Sagan once the latter found out about it.

- Drake would develop the Drake equation in 1961 to calculate the potential amount of extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way- an optimistic result, by putting the maximum amount into the original equation, gives a potential 50,000,000 alien-inhabited planets in our galaxy alone.

- Drake would design the Pioneer plaque in 1972 with the aforementioned Sagan, the first physical message sent into space:

- In 1974, Drake would send the first deliberate interstellar message from Earth- the Arecibo message:

- Drake was a professor at the University of California Santa Cruz from 1984 to 1996, and would also be the director of the SETI Institute's Carl Sagan Center from 1988 to 2010, remaining on the latter's board of trustees until his death twelve years later.

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On this day 2 years ago, Greek composer and political activist Mikis Theodorakis, who composed the "Mauthausen Trilogy", passed away at the age of 96.

 

Photo Credit: Heinrich Klaffs per Creative Commons license

[The Ashes Urn 1,353]

English writer and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien died on this day 50 years ago, aged 81.

 

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Its 89 years since the death of Singer, actor, songwriter and musician Russ Columbo.

One of his compositions, Prisoner of Love, is now considered a 'standard', being recorded by such diverse artists as Frank Sinatra, Tiny Tim and James Brown.

 

He was killed in a manner which would not be out of place in an episode of his namesake's movie series. He was visiting a friend, Lansing Brown, who just happened to be fooling around with a loaded duelling pistol while holding a match; the match 'somehow' got caught between the hammer and firing pin. discharging the ball, which ricocheted and hit Columbo in the head. He was taken to hospital where he died a short time later. He was at the time romantically involved with Carole Lombard, with whom he was to have dined later that night.

 

His death was ruled an accident and Brown was exonerated. He was 26.

 

He was one of the featured artists in a Looney Tunes cartoon of 1932

 

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Vietnamese communist revolutionary and politician Ho Chi Minh died on this day 54 years ago, aged 79. He served as Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 to 1955, and as President from 1945 until his death in 1969. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, he was the Chairman and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam, the predecessor of the current Communist Party of Vietnam.