Death Anniversary Thread

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German countertenor Klaus Nomi was one of the first celebrities to die of complications from AIDS, as he died on August 6, 1983.

 

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American singer Esther Phillips died on the 6^th of August 1984 from liver and kidney failure because of heavy drug abuse. She was 48 years old.

Her best known release must be the disco influenced cover version of an old Dinah Washington-hit named “What a diff’rence a day makes”, which reached No.10 in the UK in 1975.

 

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And dying today in 2004, DeathList hit and perennial punchline to jokes that involve funny-talking foreigners naming Ginger Rogers' dancing partner, Red Adair:

 

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Barbara Bel Geddes, famous for her role as Miss Ellie in Dallas, died on the 8^th of August 2005 because of lung cancer. She was 82 years old.

 

[Magere Hein 1,397]

Today in 117 Roman general Marcus Ulpius Traianus died, aged 63. From 27 January 98 he was emperor Trajan.

 

 

regards,

Hein

[Sean 5,999]

Patricia Neal the American actress who won an Oscar for her performance in the 1963 film Hud died 3 years ago today aged 84 from Lung cancer.She was the ex-wife of author Roald Dahl and the Grandmother of Chef Sophie Dahl.

 

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On August 9, 1969, American actress Sharon Tate (26), two weeks before giving birth to her first child, and 4 other persons were murdered by the Manson Family. A very disgusting crime.

 

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Jerry Garcia died today in 1995

 

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Calvin Culver, a gay porn actor of the 70s (Boys in the sand, 1971), died on August 10 1987 of an AIDS-related pulmonary infection at age 43.

 

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In 2008 Chef AKA Issac Hayes diedafter suffering from a stroke.

 

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While driving under the influence of alcohol, abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock died in a car crash on August 11, 1956 and also killed one of his passengers.

I can’t stand his painting style.

 

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Car smash, eh? I bet he resembled one of his paintings after that...

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On the 12^th of August 1955, German novelist, writer, social critic, intellectual, philanthropist and Nobel laureate (1929) Thomas Mann died aged 80.

He is one of the most important German storytellers in the 20^th Century. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann and three of his six children (Erika, Klaus and Golo) also became important writers.

 

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Also on the 12^th of August but exactly 30 years later, Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto died in a plane crash. This crash is the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history because of 520 deaths.

Kyu Sakamoto came to fame because of his song “Sukiyaki”, which became a worldwide hit and millionseller. It topped the Billboard charts in 1963 for 3 weeks.

 

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The last known quagga died in an Amsterdam zoo on this day in 1883.

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Florence Nightingale, British social reformer and founder of modern nursing, died on August 13, 1910 at age 90.

 

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Also, mediocre professional wrestler Lance Cade tapped out today in 2010 at the age of 29. He is thus one of only three wrestlers to have made their PPV debut this millennium to have died (the others being The Wall and Umaga).

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Another wrestler who also died on the 13th Aug is Brian Adams better known as Crush from WWF team Demolition, in 2007 aged 43.

 

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Another wrestler who also died on the 13th Aug is Brian Adams better known as Crush from WWF team Demolition, in 2007 aged 43.

 

 

Terrible wrestler, but man he squandered his potential. As a little 'un in the early 90s I thought he was going to be the next big thing. But then, you know, lack of self-motivation + Vince seeing dollar signs in Kevin Nash basically fucked him up. Kronik also clearly one of the worst tag teams of all time.

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In 1936 Gale Sondergaard was the first actress who received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (for her role in “Anthony Adverse”). She was 86 years old when she passed away on the 14^th of August 1985.

 

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Whoops, I almost forgot to post this (it still is 14th August here, just about).

 

25 years ago, on August 14th 1988, Enzo Ferrari, founder of Ferrari, died at the age of 90, in Maranello, Italy.

 

 

Before he died, he signed Nigel Mansell up to the Ferrari F1 team for the 1989 season onwards. Mansell was the last driver to be hand-picked by Enzo himself.

 

Then a few weeks later at the Italian Grand Prix, Ferrari's home race, a small miracle occurred when both of the McLaren cars, which had utterly dominated the season, somehow both managed to drop out of the race. Alain Prost had a rare engine failure and Ayrton Senna got bumped out of the race by hapless backmarker Jean-Louis Schlesser, who was only in the race in the first place becuase he was a temporary replacement for Mansell (driving for Williams) who had a very bad case of chickenpox (yes, really). The two Ferraris inherited 1st and 2nd places, when they had been nowhere near a race-win all season. Indeed, by the end of the season McLaren had won 15 out of the 16 races and the Italian GP ended up being Ferrari's only win that year. Surely even the least superstitious people would get a smile out of that turn of events.

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Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte died on August 15, 1967 at age 68. His work challenges observers’ preconditioned perceptions of reality.

Probably his most famous picture has to be this one: Ceci n’est pas une pipe

 

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The man who was named after a play :lol: Macbeth died in 1057

 

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Elvis Presley died on this date in 1977 in Graceland at the age of 42.

 

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21 years earlier, Mr Dracula himself, Bela Lugosi, died of a heart attack aged 73.