Spade_Cooley 9,525 Posted December 12, 2018 Gonna open the bidding up with August 2004: Rick James Julia Child Henri Cartier-Bresson Laura Branigan Red Adair Fay Wray Bernard Levin Fred Whipple The guy who invented the CAT scan What you got to beat it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted December 12, 2018 October 1946 Hermann Goring Hans Frick Albert Jodl Wilhelm Keitel Joachim von Ribbentrop Julius Stretcher Alfred Rosenberg Joseph Stillwell 2 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,227 Posted December 12, 2018 August 2018: Mary Carlisle Charlotte Rae Stan Mikita VS Naipaul Aretha Franklin Atal Vajpayee Kofi Annan Stefan Karl Stefansson Robin Leach John McCain Neil Simon 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,227 Posted December 12, 2018 Also September 2003: Warren Zevon Lefi Riefenstahl Edward Teller John Ritter Johnny Cash Robert Palmer Donald O’Connor Elia Kazan Robert Kardashian 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,525 Posted December 12, 2018 April 1946 gave us Alf Common, John Maynard Keynes and Lionel Atwill, which is some big duty bang-for-your-buck. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
markb4 902 Posted December 12, 2018 January 2016 comes to mind: Pat Harrington, Jr. David Bowie Brian Bedford Alan Rickman Sheila Sim Abe Vigoda Terry Wogan 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lafaucheuse 4,051 Posted December 12, 2018 January 2016 (at least in France) : • Michel Delpech • Pierre Boulez • Yves Vincent • Roland Peugeot • André Courrèges • David Bowie • Alan Rickman • René Angelil • Michel Tournier • Ettore Scola • Edmonde Charles-Roux • Abe Vigoda 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted December 12, 2018 December 1969 Kliment Voroshilov Ruth White Fred Hampton Eric Portman Hugh Williams Arturo de Costa Silva Ilse Steppat Josef von Sternberg Salvatore Baccaloni Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drewsky1211 4,742 Posted December 12, 2018 December 2016. John Glenn Alan Thicke Zsa Zsa Gabor Richard Adams Liz Smith George Michael Carrie Fisher Debbie Reynolds 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted December 13, 2018 10 hours ago, markb4 said: January 2016 comes to mind: Pat Harrington, Jr. David Bowie Brian Bedford Alan Rickman Sheila Sim Abe Vigoda Terry Wogan First thing I thought of as well. Did Glenn Frey croak too or was he slipping into Feb? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
markb4 902 Posted December 13, 2018 Just now, Sir Creep said: First thing I thought of as well. Did Glenn Frey croak too or was he slipping into Feb? Had to check, but you're right, he was a January one too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ajlposh 549 Posted December 13, 2018 Interesting question. One that stands out is December 2006. Maybe not so much in terms of quantity, but definitely quality Augusto Pinochet Peter Boyle Joe Barbera James Brown Gerald Ford Saddam Hussein 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ajlposh 549 Posted December 13, 2018 12 hours ago, Joey Russ said: Also September 2003: Warren Zevon Lefi Riefenstahl Edward Teller John Ritter Johnny Cash Robert Palmer Donald O’Connor Elia Kazan Robert Kardashian 2003, in general, does not get talked about enough in terms of blockbuster names we lost that year. So many in terms of quantity and quality. In my opinion, it might be the biggest celebrity death year of all time 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218 Posted December 13, 2018 Take your pick. https://www.onthisday.com/today/deaths.php Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Putin 423 Posted December 14, 2018 April 2018: Thanos kills half the universe 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LB93 39 Posted December 15, 2018 March 2016: Nancy Reagan George Martin Keith Emerson Hilary Putnam Peter Maxwell Davies Rob Ford Johann Cruyff Garry Shandling Patty Duke Zaha Hadid Ronnie Corbett I thought November 1963 could be a contender, given JFK , CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley all died on the same day, but it looks like the only other really notable death that month was the Birdman of Alcatraz the day before. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,044 Posted December 16, 2018 Well, there's obviously February 1958, shedload of footballers in the Munich Air Disaster, ha! Though I'm sure there's worse, I'll make a pitch for October 1985, which included: EB White George Savalas Rock Hudson Charles Collingwood Maurice Copeland Brian Keenan Nelson Riddle Malcolm Ross Emilio Garrastazu Medici Orson Welles Yul Brynner Tex Williams Johnny Olson Ricky Wilson Ted SteeleLaszlo Biro Morton Downey John Davis Lodge Kirby Grant Anton Christoforidis Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,444 Posted December 16, 2018 Ah history! October 1849? One Edgar Allan Poe and one Chopin after all... A year later, Robert Peel (British PM) and Zachary Taylor (US President) died in the same week. Of course there was much less celebrities in the 19th Century, which therefore brings notice to 3 dying in April 1882: Darwin, Emerson and Jesse James! Did Verdi hear of Queen Victoria's death, or William McKinley mourn Toulouse-Lautrec - the former died 5 days after the latter in 1901. Leo Tolstoy and Dr Crippen within the same three days in 1910 - there's two folk who surely never heard of each other! But yeah, not many before WW2, unless you count April 1912 - a bit of a cheat, given the Titanic, but Bram Stoker died 5 days later, so that is a number of famous folk in one week, even if 6 of them were on the same boat. Oh well, a modern one then: July 2007 Boots Randolph Bill Pinkney George Melly Jack Sowards (Wrath of Khan writer) Peter Tuddenham Charles Lane Lady Bird Johnson Nigel Dempster Kelly Johnson (Girlschool) Kronus Ivor Emmanuel Kai Seigbahn Doon Arden Jesus de Polanco Tammy Faye Messner Danny Bergara John Normington Tom Snyder Mike Reid Phil Drabble Bill Walsh Tam McGraw (gangster) Ingmar Bergman Michelangelo Antonioni Bar the stock wrestler, all of them got BBC/Guardian obits, and the last 8 were all announced on the same day practically. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,904 Posted December 16, 2018 March 1999 Dusty Springfield Stanley Kubrick Joe DiMaggio Rod Hull Ernie Wise Something for everyone there I'd imagine. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted December 16, 2018 2 minutes ago, Handrejka said: March 1999 Dusty Springfield Stanley Kubrick Joe DiMaggio Rod Hull Ernie Wise Something for everyone there I'd imagine. Well, as they're dead, something for I'd imagine, is more accurate.......... 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the_engineer 1,415 Posted January 13, 2019 On 15/12/2018 at 23:33, LB93 said: I thought November 1963 could be a contender, given JFK , CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley all died on the same day That surely has to be the day with the most significant and biggest deaths ever. All three still well known over 50 years later. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JQW 282 Posted January 13, 2019 April 1945 saw the deaths of three prominent world leaders - FDR, the Italian chap, and the one who stole Chaplin’s moustache. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the_engineer 1,415 Posted March 5, 2019 I know this thread is talking about months but 4th march 2019 must be in recent times up there with biggest day in deaths. King kong bundy, keith flint and luke perry. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,525 Posted March 7, 2019 September 1994: Roy Castle Billy Wright (the footballer, not the prod) James Clavell Terence Young Jessica Tandy Vitas Gerulaitis Karl Popper Franco Moschino Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,599 Posted March 7, 2019 June 2015 Charles Kennedy Tariq Aziz Christopher Lee James Last Ornette Colman Ron Moody Dusty Rhodes Dick van Patten Patrick Macnee Chris Squire 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
