Sir Creep 7,070 Posted June 11, 2015 I was researching Nash, CLee, Reagan, Dole, and Kerkorian a couple weeks ago, cuz I wanted some reason to include them next year. Four hours later Nash died; two weeks and Christopher Lee dies. Of the three remaining, Kerkorian is older than dirt. I vote Kirk. SC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Body Snatcher 44 107 Posted June 12, 2015 Nancy Reagan - I don't know why Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JR976evil 906 Posted June 12, 2015 Herr Kohl for me Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RadGuy 1,614 Posted June 12, 2015 Bhumibol has my vote! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the_engineer 1,415 Posted June 12, 2015 Fidel Castro to continue the big summer of famous deaths. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
En Passant 3,741 Posted June 12, 2015 Refuse to give up on Mugabe. Despite the fact that there is zero empirical evidence that anybody "gets what was coming to them" and that I have failed to correctly predict his death at attempts 1 though 5.... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,586 Posted June 12, 2015 I think Peter Sallis, no evidence just seems to fit with Moody and Lee. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Perfect Passing 277 Posted June 13, 2015 Vera Lynn. Don't worry though V, we'll meet again some sunny day! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,265 Posted June 13, 2015 Refuse to give up on Mugabe. Despite the fact that there is zero empirical evidence that anybody "gets what was coming to them" and that I have failed to correctly predict his death at attempts 1 though 5.... The bastard might still be breathing but his currency has turned up its toes http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/12/zimbabwe-offers-new-exchange-rate-1-for-35000000000000000-old-dollars Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted June 14, 2015 Fidel Castro to continue the big summer of famous deaths. The big summer of famous deaths? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RadGuy 1,614 Posted June 14, 2015 Fidel Castro to continue the big summer of famous deaths. The big summer of famous deaths? B.B.King, John Nash, Christopher Lee and other people who were very good at what they did, and many people consider them to be famous, but aren't REALLY famous because 90% of today's uneducated society has never heard of them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JR976evil 906 Posted June 14, 2015 Fidel Castro to continue the big summer of famous deaths. The big summer of famous deaths? B.B.King, John Nash, Christopher Lee and other people who were very good at what they did, and many people consider them to be famous, but aren't REALLY famous because 90% of today's uneducated society has never heard of them. More people are likely to have heard of Lee, as he did feature prominently in the Star Wars and LOTR franchises Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,330 Posted June 14, 2015 Fidel Castro to continue the big summer of famous deaths. The big summer of famous deaths? B.B.King, John Nash, Christopher Lee and other people who were very good at what they did, and many people consider them to be famous, but aren't REALLY famous because 90% of today's uneducated society has never heard of them. I bet at least 90% of people know who he is! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the_engineer 1,415 Posted June 14, 2015 Fidel Castro to continue the big summer of famous deaths. The big summer of famous deaths? B.B.King, John Nash, Christopher Lee and other people who were very good at what they did, and many people consider them to be famous, but aren't REALLY famous because 90% of today's uneducated society has never heard of them. I bet at least 90% of people know who he is! Dusty Rhodes and charles kennedy too. Though i guess charles kennedy would only be a big death in the UK. That's one hell of a list and the summer has only just started . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,476 Posted June 14, 2015 Fidel Castro to continue the big summer of famous deaths. The big summer of famous deaths? B.B.King, John Nash, Christopher Lee and other people who were very good at what they did, and many people consider them to be famous, but aren't REALLY famous because 90% of today's uneducated society has never heard of them. I bet at least 90% of people know who he is! Dusty Rhodes and charles kennedy too. Though i guess charles kennedy would only be a big death in the UK. That's one hell of a list and the summer has only just started . Tariq Aziz and Ruth Rendell too within the last month. Of course, every year seems to have a large cull of big names as we get older. eg 2014 - Eusebio, Sharon, Schell, Aragones, Seeger, Hoffman, Temple, Rooney, Ramis, Benn, Marquez, Townsend, Hoskins, Giger, Mayall, Kasem, Wallach, Garner, Di Stefano, Williams, Bacall, Attenborough, Rivers, Kiel, Paisley, Whitlam, Bruce, Cocker, Rainer 2013 - Winner, Chavez, Achebe, Griffiths, Ebert, Thatcher, Andreotti, Harryhausen, Gandolfini, Banks, Matheson, Mel Smith, Heaney, Frost, Norton, Clancy, Metsu, Reed, Lessing, Mandela, O'Toole, Fontaine, Biggs 2012 - Etta James, Gazzara, Houston, Davy Jones, Sendak, Summer, Gibb, Megrahi, Ephron, Shamir, Bradbury, Borgnine, Lord, Ride, Binchy, Vidal, Diller, Armstrong, Hal David, Michael Clarke Duncan, Lom, Andy Williams, Hagman, Brubeck, Shankar, Patrick Moore, Klugman, Gerry Anderson. 2009 (a former posters "Summer of Death"), for perspective: McGoohan, Montalban, Updike, Silver, Richardson, Ballard, DeLuise, Eddings, Carradine, Fawcett, Jackson, Malden, Cronkite, McCourt, Robson, Aquino, John Hughes, Les Paul, Ted Kennedy, Swayze, Todd, Brittany Murphy (Just counting folk one would assume were world famous and not big names in their own country like Lloyd-Pack, Fred Phelps and Clive Dunn and so on, too...) The more things change... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Mad Hatter 1,092 Posted June 14, 2015 Fidel Castro to continue the big summer of famous deaths. The big summer of famous deaths? B.B.King, John Nash, Christopher Lee and other people who were very good at what they did, and many people consider them to be famous, but aren't REALLY famous because 90% of today's uneducated society has never heard of them. I bet at least 90% of people know who he is! Dusty Rhodes and charles kennedy too. Though i guess charles kennedy would only be a big death in the UK. That's one hell of a list and the summer has only just started . Tariq Aziz and Ruth Rendell too within the last month. Of course, every year seems to have a large cull of big names as we get older. eg 2014 - Eusebio, Sharon, Schell, Aragones, Seeger, Hoffman, Temple, Rooney, Ramis, Benn, Marquez, Townsend, Hoskins, Giger, Mayall, Kasem, Wallach, Garner, Di Stefano, Williams, Bacall, Attenborough, Rivers, Kiel, Paisley, Whitlam, Bruce, Cocker, Rainer 2013 - Winner, Chavez, Achebe, Griffiths, Ebert, Thatcher, Andreotti, Harryhausen, Gandolfini, Banks, Matheson, Mel Smith, Heaney, Frost, Norton, Clancy, Metsu, Reed, Lessing, Mandela, O'Toole, Fontaine, Biggs 2012 - Etta James, Gazzara, Houston, Davy Jones, Sendak, Summer, Gibb, Megrahi, Ephron, Shamir, Bradbury, Borgnine, Lord, Ride, Binchy, Vidal, Diller, Armstrong, Hal David, Michael Clarke Duncan, Lom, Andy Williams, Hagman, Brubeck, Shankar, Patrick Moore, Klugman, Gerry Anderson. 2009 (a former posters "Summer of Death"), for perspective: McGoohan, Montalban, Updike, Silver, Richardson, Ballard, DeLuise, Eddings, Carradine, Fawcett, Jackson, Malden, Cronkite, McCourt, Robson, Aquino, John Hughes, Les Paul, Ted Kennedy, Swayze, Todd, Brittany Murphy (Just counting folk one would assume were world famous and not big names in their own country like Lloyd-Pack, Fred Phelps and Clive Dunn and so on, too...) The more things change... all years have big deaths and as they are more stars alive at an old age the names will only get bigger i-e when al pancio and paul maccarty they will probably make headlines Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the_engineer 1,415 Posted June 14, 2015 Fidel Castro to continue the big summer of famous deaths. The big summer of famous deaths? B.B.King, John Nash, Christopher Lee and other people who were very good at what they did, and many people consider them to be famous, but aren't REALLY famous because 90% of today's uneducated society has never heard of them.I bet at least 90% of people know who he is!Dusty Rhodes and charles kennedy too. Though i guess charles kennedy would only be a big death in the UK. That's one hell of a list and the summer has only just started . Tariq Aziz and Ruth Rendell too within the last month. Of course, every year seems to have a large cull of big names as we get older. eg 2014 - Eusebio, Sharon, Schell, Aragones, Seeger, Hoffman, Temple, Rooney, Ramis, Benn, Marquez, Townsend, Hoskins, Giger, Mayall, Kasem, Wallach, Garner, Di Stefano, Williams, Bacall, Attenborough, Rivers, Kiel, Paisley, Whitlam, Bruce, Cocker, Rainer 2013 - Winner, Chavez, Achebe, Griffiths, Ebert, Thatcher, Andreotti, Harryhausen, Gandolfini, Banks, Matheson, Mel Smith, Heaney, Frost, Norton, Clancy, Metsu, Reed, Lessing, Mandela, O'Toole, Fontaine, Biggs 2012 - Etta James, Gazzara, Houston, Davy Jones, Sendak, Summer, Gibb, Megrahi, Ephron, Shamir, Bradbury, Borgnine, Lord, Ride, Binchy, Vidal, Diller, Armstrong, Hal David, Michael Clarke Duncan, Lom, Andy Williams, Hagman, Brubeck, Shankar, Patrick Moore, Klugman, Gerry Anderson. 2009 (a former posters "Summer of Death"), for perspective: McGoohan, Montalban, Updike, Silver, Richardson, Ballard, DeLuise, Eddings, Carradine, Fawcett, Jackson, Malden, Cronkite, McCourt, Robson, Aquino, John Hughes, Les Paul, Ted Kennedy, Swayze, Todd, Brittany Murphy (Just counting folk one would assume were world famous and not big names in their own country like Lloyd-Pack, Fred Phelps and Clive Dunn and so on, too...) The more things change... all years have big deaths and as they are more stars alive at an old age the names will only get bigger i-e when al pancio and paul maccarty they will probably make headlines I remember the summer 2009 on here fawcett and jackson dying on the same day neither one of them were on the deathlist still the site was jammed. I kept on getting exceeding bandwidth limit and every 5 mins managing to read the site , I think that was the most people that had ever been on this site at that time. I know when thatcher died it overtook it. I wonder if zsa zsa and fidel died on the same day would they set a new record of people online. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GossipGabe 333 Posted June 14, 2015 Fidel Castro to continue the big summer of famous deaths. The big summer of famous deaths? B.B.King, John Nash, Christopher Lee and other people who were very good at what they did, and many people consider them to be famous, but aren't REALLY famous because 90% of today's uneducated society has never heard of them. More people are likely to have heard of Lee, as he did feature prominently in the Star Wars and LOTR franchises I guess many people must've heard about Nash as well, as he was the protagonist of a blockbuster (The Beautiful Mind, grossing over $300M worldwide). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RadGuy 1,614 Posted June 14, 2015 Fidel Castro to continue the big summer of famous deaths. The big summer of famous deaths? B.B.King, John Nash, Christopher Lee and other people who were very good at what they did, and many people consider them to be famous, but aren't REALLY famous because 90% of today's uneducated society has never heard of them. More people are likely to have heard of Lee, as he did feature prominently in the Star Wars and LOTR franchises I guess many people must've heard about Nash as well, as he was the protagonist of a blockbuster (The Beautiful Mind, grossing over $300M worldwide). Okay, okay, I get it. I was exaggerating. Either way, I'm still pretty sure many people forgot who Nash was and needed to be reminded that he was that schizo from the movie who was pretty good at math, and I also reckon that many young people have never heard of B.B. But whatever. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,265 Posted June 14, 2015 Fidel Castro to continue the big summer of famous deaths. The big summer of famous deaths? B.B.King, John Nash, Christopher Lee and other people who were very good at what they did, and many people consider them to be famous, but aren't REALLY famous because 90% of today's uneducated society has never heard of them. More people are likely to have heard of Lee, as he did feature prominently in the Star Wars and LOTR franchises I guess many people must've heard about Nash as well, as he was the protagonist of a blockbuster (The Beautiful Mind, grossing over $300M worldwide). Okay, okay, I get it. I was exaggerating. Either way, I'm still pretty sure many people forgot who Nash was and needed to be reminded that he was that schizo from the movie who was pretty good at math, and I also reckon that many young people have never heard of B.B. But whatever. But BB was at Glasto in 2011. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Mad Hatter 1,092 Posted June 14, 2015 Fidel Castro to continue the big summer of famous deaths. The big summer of famous deaths? B.B.King, John Nash, Christopher Lee and other people who were very good at what they did, and many people consider them to be famous, but aren't REALLY famous because 90% of today's uneducated society has never heard of them.I bet at least 90% of people know who he is!Dusty Rhodes and charles kennedy too. Though i guess charles kennedy would only be a big death in the UK. That's one hell of a list and the summer has only just started . Tariq Aziz and Ruth Rendell too within the last month. Of course, every year seems to have a large cull of big names as we get older. eg 2014 - Eusebio, Sharon, Schell, Aragones, Seeger, Hoffman, Temple, Rooney, Ramis, Benn, Marquez, Townsend, Hoskins, Giger, Mayall, Kasem, Wallach, Garner, Di Stefano, Williams, Bacall, Attenborough, Rivers, Kiel, Paisley, Whitlam, Bruce, Cocker, Rainer 2013 - Winner, Chavez, Achebe, Griffiths, Ebert, Thatcher, Andreotti, Harryhausen, Gandolfini, Banks, Matheson, Mel Smith, Heaney, Frost, Norton, Clancy, Metsu, Reed, Lessing, Mandela, O'Toole, Fontaine, Biggs 2012 - Etta James, Gazzara, Houston, Davy Jones, Sendak, Summer, Gibb, Megrahi, Ephron, Shamir, Bradbury, Borgnine, Lord, Ride, Binchy, Vidal, Diller, Armstrong, Hal David, Michael Clarke Duncan, Lom, Andy Williams, Hagman, Brubeck, Shankar, Patrick Moore, Klugman, Gerry Anderson. 2009 (a former posters "Summer of Death"), for perspective: McGoohan, Montalban, Updike, Silver, Richardson, Ballard, DeLuise, Eddings, Carradine, Fawcett, Jackson, Malden, Cronkite, McCourt, Robson, Aquino, John Hughes, Les Paul, Ted Kennedy, Swayze, Todd, Brittany Murphy (Just counting folk one would assume were world famous and not big names in their own country like Lloyd-Pack, Fred Phelps and Clive Dunn and so on, too...) The more things change... all years have big deaths and as they are more stars alive at an old age the names will only get bigger i-e when al pancio and paul maccarty they will probably make headlines I remember the summer 2009 on here fawcett and jackson dying on the same day neither one of them were on the deathlist still the site was jammed. I kept on getting exceeding bandwidth limit and every 5 mins managing to read the site , I think that was the most people that had ever been on this site at that time. I know when thatcher died it overtook it. I wonder if zsa zsa and fidel died on the same day would they set a new record of people online. nah what would be the perfect combination is Fidel Castro and Kirk Douglas Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,647 Posted June 14, 2015 I just doubled Dennis Norden's support. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
