Death Anniversary Thread

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Auguste Garrebeek was born in Dworpe died in Assarch for 50 years at age 61, was a Belgian cyclist. Competed as representative of his country at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, winning the bronze medal in the counterarges by teams

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American politician Herbert Hoover died on this day 59 years ago, aged 90. He served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933. He is a member of the Republican Party. He held office during the onset of the Great Depression. Before becoming president, he is a self-made man who became wealthy as a mining engineer. Hoover led the war-time Commission for Relief in Belgium from 1914 to 1917. He served as the director of the US Food Administration from 1917 to 1918. He served as the US Secretary of Commerce from 1921 to 1928. He died from internal bleeding.

 

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46 years ago today, three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines, were killed in a light plane crash in Mississippi.

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Marty Ingels died on this day 8 years ago, aged 79.

- Ingels' birth surname was Ingerman, and his uncle was New York City mayor Abraham Beane (who married his aunt Mary).

- Ingels' TV career began with sitcoms, starring in 1962's I'm Dickens, He's Fenster (alongside John Astin), and making guest appearances in shows like Bewitched, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and The Love Boat.

- Ingels is perhaps best known for his voice work, as he starred in several Hanna-Barbera cartoons. These included Beegle Beagle in The Great Grape Ape Show, Autocat in Motormouse and Autocat (on Cattanooga Cats), and most notably the title character of the first cartoon based on a video game- 1982's Pac-Man:

 

- Ingels was also known for his marriage to Shirley Jones- the two wed in 1977, and their marriage lasted 38 years.

 

[diego 1,989]

Elliott Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska and died 20 years ago in Los Angeles, California, was a singer, his main instrument was the guitar, but also played piano, clarinet, bass, harmonica and drums .He began his solo career in 1994, became famous after his song "Miss Missery", Good Will Hunting soundtrack, was nominated for Oscar as the best song in 1997. He died at 34 in Los Angeles, California, California, With 2 stab wounds in the chest, being the unknowing autopsy about whether or not it was suicide.

 

 

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American geographer, author and academic George Cressey died on this day 60 years ago, aged 66.

 

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Its 31 years since the death of comedy actor Bob Todd. He performed with a veritable Who's Who of British comedy talent, including Dick Emery, Sid James, Spike Milligan and Marty Feldman but its his position of straight man/stooge for Benny Hill that he's most remembered. Having a fondness for drink, he once missed a performance at the London Palladium and woke up five days later in a Dublin Hospital. For this transgression he was fired by Hill, but was later reinstated. He was featured in This is Your Life in 1984.

He missed Hill's funeral owing to a series of mishaps, including a traffic jam, and missing his train owing to standing on the wrong platform. He died, aged 70, six months later, falling victim the curse of Half Man Half Biscuit after 7 years and 14 days.

 

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21st Prime Minister of Australia Gough Whitlam died on this day 9 years ago, aged 98. He served as Prime Minister from 1972 to 1975. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party, of which he was the longest serving. He was notable got being the head of a reformist and socially progressive administration that extraordinary ended with his removal as Prime minister after controversially being dismissed by the governor general of Australia, Sir John Kerry, at the climax of the 1975 constitutional crisis. Whitlam is the only Australian prime minister to have ever been removed from office against his will.

 

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5 hours ago, diego said:

Elliott Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska and died 20 years ago in Los Angeles, California, was a singer, his main instrument was the guitar, but also played piano, clarinet, bass, harmonica and drums .He began his solo career in 1994, became famous after his song "Miss Missery", Good Will Hunting soundtrack, was nominated for Oscar as the best song in 1997. He died at 34 in Los Angeles, California, California, With 2 stab wounds in the chest, being the unknowing autopsy about whether or not it was suicide.

 

 

I saw him live in 1998.

[diego 1,989]

5 hours ago, lilham said:

I saw him live in 1998.

Was the show good?
I found this form of death strange, with 2 stab wounds and the autopsy does not come to the conclusion if it was suicide or not, I never saw a suicide with stab wound

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On this day 2 years ago, Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink passed away at the age of 92.

 

Photo Credit: Anefo / Croes, R.C. per Creative Commons license

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Cleavon Little died on this day 31 years ago, aged 53.

- Little started off his acting career in local plays (notably a 1962 San Diego adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun) and made his professional debut in 1967, as a witch in MacBird!

- By 1969, Little was on Broadway, where he became known for the titular role in Purlie- he won a Tony in 1970 for this role.

- Little made many guest appearances on TV, which included roles in shows including (but not limited to): All in the Family, The Waltons, MacGyver, Fantasy Island, and the ALF Christmas episode.

- Little, however, is best remembered in the leading role of Sheriff Bart in Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles:

- Little died from colon cancer, with his last role being in a episode of Tales from the Crypt that aired in June of 1992.

[lilham 757]

3 hours ago, diego said:

Was the show good?
I found this form of death strange, with 2 stab wounds and the autopsy does not come to the conclusion if it was suicide or not, I never saw a suicide with stab wound

umm the venue was not right for the show; it was one of those end-of-year jingle ball rock shows in an arena; Elliott was more soft and moody and needed a more quiet theatre; another band was Hole and Courtney showed us her tits. I enjoyed all the music though just odd.

Elliott had attempted suicide before by jumping off a cliff and landing into a tree. He just had weird methods.

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Its 30 years since the death of Innes Ireland, army officer and racing driver.

 

After some success racing sports cars, he was picked up by Formula One Team Lotus in 1959, finishing 4th in the world drivers championship the following year. The 1961 season began badly, with a crash in practice of the first race of the season, the Monaco GP, which resulted in a broken leg; he recovered to win the US Grand Prix some five months later, finishing the season in 6th place, after which he was 'let go' by Lotus, Colin Chapman electing to replace him with Jim Clark.

 

In the 24 hours Le Mans he finished once (of 6 entries), in 6th place,  and in the 1967 NASCAR Daytona 500 (his only participation in the race), where his engine blew up outside the stands. He retired at the end of the season.

 

He died aged 63.

 

Each year, the BRDC (of which he was once President) awards The Innes Ireland Trophy to that driver who has displayed courage and sportsmanship as epitomised by Ireland.

[diego 1,989]

Fernando I of Portugal was born in Coimbra and died in Lisbon 640 years ago, nicknamed the Beautiful and the Inconstant, he was King of Portugal and Algarve from 1367 until his death, the last Portuguese monarch of the House of Burgundy and the ninth king of Portugal, He fought wars against Castile, known as the Fernandian Wars. He is known for the law of sesmarias. He died of tuberculosis shortly before turning 38.

Tony Renna was born in DeLand, Florida and died in Indianapolis, Indiana at the age of 26 20 years ago. He competed in the IRL between 2002 and 2003, for the Kelley and Ganassi teams. His best result was fourth place in the Michigan GP in 2002. He also raced in Indy Lights between 1998 and 2000. Renna was participating in the tire test at the Indianapolis Circuit, when his car (which, in fact, belonged to New Zealander Scott Dixon) ) was traveling at high speed (351 km/h) and was catapulted out of the racetrack after receiving air at the bottom and taking off, hitting the circuit's guardrail. Renna arrived at the Metodista Hospital already dead

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Biostatistician, physiologist and researcher on alcoholism E. Morton Jellinek died on this day 60 years ago, aged 73.

 

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American government official and diplomat Richard Helms died on this day 21 years ago, aged 89. He served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1966 to 1973. Helms began intelligence work with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Following the 1947 creation of the Central Intelligence Agency, he rose in its ranks during the presidencies of Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy. Helms then was DCI under Presidents Johnson and Nixon, yielding to James R. Schlesinger in early 1973.

 

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Marcus Junius Brutus (best known only by his cognomen) died on this day 2064 years ago, aged 43.

- Brutus was a distant descendant of Lucius Junius Brutus, one of the founders of the Roman Republic in 509 BCE.

- Brutus' father, also named Marcus, was proscribed (put on a hit list of perceived enemies of the state) by the dictator Sulla, and the junior Brutus was barred from entering politics due to that. He would later be posthumously adopted by a relative, thereby circumventing his political ban. He would start out as an overseer of Rome's mint.

- Brutus became a senator in 53 BCE, having also become a quaestor (which gave him an automatic seat in the Senate). 

- When Julius Caesar began his civil war in 49 BCE, Brutus supported Pompey, who had executed his father, only because all of his political allies having joined his side. Caesar, having been one of his friends, was more lenient on what to do with him- take him prisoner if he surrendered, or do nothing to him if he kept fighting. Brutus would defect from the Pompeian army in 48 BCE, and Caesar would welcome him into his own. Once Caesar consolidated power, he made Brutus the governor of Cisalpine Gaul.

- Brutus would join in on the conspiracy to assassinate Caesar about a month before it happened- his plan, however, was to murder patrician elites who were allies to Caesar. Due to his friendship with Caesar, he became infamous when Caesar's alleged last words were spoken once he recognized him as an assailant- "Et tu, Brutus?"

- In the coming months, Brutus would go to Greece with a personal army, and took Mark Antony's brother Gaius captive. In another civil war, his army would be defeated by the forces of Antony and Octavian (later Augustus), and Brutus committed suicide.

- In popular culture, William Shakespeare made him a sympathetic villain in his 1599 play Julius Caesar. Another famous depiction of him was in Dante's Inferno, where he is placed in the lowest part of Hell, being indefinitely chewed up in one of Satan's three mouths (along with his co-conspirator Cassius, and Judas Iscariot)- Dante viewed Caesar as divinely appointed.

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Chinese political figure and First Lady of the Republic of China Soong Mei-Ling died on this day 20 years ago, aged 105.

 

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American professional wrestler Yokozuna died on this day 23 years ago, aged 34. He was bets known for his time with the WWF, where he wrestled under the ring name Yokozuna, a reference to the highest rank in professional sumo wrestling in Japan. He was a two-time world champion and also one time Royal Rumble winner.

 

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Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini was born in Guaratinguetá, and died in Sao Paulo 30 years ago, was the fifth surgeon of the world and the first in Latin America and Brazil to perform a heart transplant in 1985, Euryclides was again pioneer, when performing The first heart transplant in Brazil in a patient with wound evil. In all, in his career, Euryclides Zerbini performed more than 40,000 heart surgeries, personally or through his team. Zerbini was the first Brazilian to receive the title of "Honored Guest of American Association of Thoracic Surgery (AATS)

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Maureen O'Hara died on this day 8 years ago, aged 95.

- Born in Ireland, O'Hara began training to be an actress when she was 10. Her first screen test was deemed unsatisfactory- but Charles Laughton loved it, and made her his co-star in 1939's Jamaica Inn. The two would star in another movie that year- an adaptation of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which is considered her breakout film.

- From there, she would often star in films directed by John Ford, which included How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, and The Long Gray Line.

- O'Hara was called the "Queen of Technicolor" due to her photogenic appearance- O'Hara hated being called that, claiming it drew away from her acting talents. (This nickname has also been applied to Rhonda Fleming.)

- Her most famous role was as Doris Walker in the annual Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street (the 1947 version).

- O'Hara decided to branch out in the late 1950s, choosing to guest star in musical variety shows (such as Perry Como's and Tennessee Ernie Ford's), act on Broadway in Christine (known for its troubled production), and recording her own albums:

- Her initial retirement from acting began in 1971 after starring in Big Jake with John Wayne, and would return to the screen in 1991's Only the Lonely as John Candy's character's mother. Her final role was in a made-for-TV movie in 2000 called The Last Dance.

- O'Hara made her only appearance on the DeathList in 2015, and was the year's 12th hit (of 14).

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American television and film actress Beverly Wills died on this day 60 years ago, aged 30.

 

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American professional baseball player Jackie Robinson died on this day 51 years ago, aged 53. He became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers in April 15, 1947. The Dodgers signing Robinson heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.

 

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Vincent Price died on this day 30 years ago, aged 82.

- Price moved from the US to the UK in 1934 to seek a degree in fine arts from Courtauld, and made his professional acting debut in a 1935 version of Chicago.

- Among his early movie roles include Joseph Smith in Brigham Young, Vital Dutour in The Song of Bernadette, and most notably the Duke of Clarence in Tower of London, which was his first horror movie role. Outside of horror roles, he was also known to appear in movies such as The Saint and The Ten Commandments (the latter of which, he portrayed the overseer Moses kills).

- In the 1960s, Price would team up with (the still living) Roger Corman for many B-movie horror films, particularly adaptations of the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

- On television, Price is known for being a regular panelist on Hollywood Squares and making guest appearances on episodes of The Brady Bunch and The Muppet Show:

On the topic of puppets, Price was lampooned in Spitting Image, where he would try (and fail) to lure people into ghastly traps.

- Price also did voice work, with some of his most memorable roles being the narrator of Tim Burton's Vincent (whom he would work with again in Edward Scissorhands), Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective, and Zigzag the Grand Vizier in The Thief and the Cobbler; the latter film was known for its development hell- he recorded his lines for in the 1960s, and it was released mere months before he died.

- Price did the spoken verse in Michael Jackson's "Thriller", and provided this now iconic laugh:

- Outside of acting, Price was an avid chef, and published several cookbooks and audio tapes.

- In his later years, Price was diagnosed with COPD and Parkinson's disease, but it was ultimately lung cancer that doomed him.