Which famous person`s death affected you ?

[rhino47]

John Lennon`s passing affected me.I was deeply saddened by it.I am not normally into grieving the famous but that got to me.Audrey Hepburn saddened me also.I felt the world lost a gracious woman.Hunter Thompson`s passing hit me on the 1st year anniversary.

[bbernardini]

1. Frank Zappa, Douglas Adams.

Frank Zappa died while I was at my very first Todd Rundgren concert. That still gets me.

[rhino47]

3. Frank was rather young when he passed.

I liked his music.I think he was brilliant!He was way underrated as a musician.

[Maccagirl]

2. Another vote for John Lennon

I miss that man terribly.

[Guava Jelly]

4. john lennon, frank sinatra, bradly Nowell (sublime) ,freddy mercury

All these men had such beautiful voices.
When i hear Bradly Nowell of sublime sing santeria or anything acoustic I get so pissed that he can never write or sing anything again.
we were so robbed

[LostinVA]

5. Karen Carpenter

It was just so senselss...

[Guava Jelly]

6. she was quite the song bird

if only she would have ate that sandwich.

[LostinVA]

9. I really don't consider that funny -- I've known people who have

Died from anorexia.

[Guava Jelly]

11. i dont think its funny either

she was sick.
sorry if i souded crass..I am crass by nature

[Rhiannon12866]

38. I have, as well.

My friend was 36, with two little girls.;(

[rhino47]

7. She did have a great voice.

Her passing was not in vane though.I did bring to light the destructive force of anorexia.

[LostinVA]

8. That is actually a very true point

It got alot of national exposure

[blondeatlast]

12. Me too--she never realized her true potential.

Under the thumb of her family (esp. Richard), never able to use that voice on the caliber of lyrics that could have gotten her the reknown she really deserved, then to die so young.

Senseless, indeed. Her incredible gift wasn't enough for show biz.

[murielm99]

10. Janis Joplin

Her music struck a very deep emotional chord in me, and her death just blew me away.

I had gone to see her in concert, and I had all her music. I still listen to her often.

Karen Carpenter's death hit me, too, because of the anorexia. And John Belushi's death made me sad. He was so talented, and he threw it away on drugs.

Maybe all three saddened me because of the waste. They all should have lived long, productive lives.

[ET Awful]

13. Jerry Garcia.

I wasn't like a hard-core touring deadhead, but it was like a major sledgehammer to the head when I heard he died.

[rhino47]

16. I wore my dead head shirts for a week after he died.

I got some strange looks but I did not care.

[rhino47]

17. I wore my dead head shirts for a week after he died.

I got some strange looks but I did not care.

[Lochloosa]

66. 25 Shows here.

It was like loosing a favorite uncle.

I still miss him.

[Canedawg]

89. JG

Jerry.


I sat shiva for a week.

[In_The_Wind]

14. Marilyn Monroe

I thought she was wonderful. www.marilynmonroe.com/about/bio.html


I was 14 when her body was found. I'll never forget the way I felt when I heard the news.

[AngryAmish]

15. Johnny Cash

[Dinger]

84. Me Too, & It's His Birthday Today Too

Happy birthday to the Man In Black... wish you were here.

[China_cat]

18. Isaac Asimov

[JitterbugPerfume]

19. Ray Charles

i love his music

[begin_within]

20. Ken Kesey

[Sugar Smack]

21. Hunter Thompson.

When I heard he'd shot himself, the poignancy of the act combined with his life work hit me very hard. I cried for a couple of days over this man I never knew, but loved deeply. His ashes being shot from a cannon was perfect. I will always adore him.

[gizmo1979]

22. John Belushi

I loved that guy!

[Giant Robot]

23. Warren Zevon

He was diagnosed with the same type of cancer my sainted father died from. That's probably why. Oh and he was a genius with words. The world isn't the same without him.

[rhino47]

52. Warren Zevon`s last cd was awesome !.

Keep Me in Your Heart

Shadows are falling and I'm running out of breath
Keep me in your heart for awhile

If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less
Keep me in your heart for awhile

When you get up in the morning and you see that crazy sun
Keep me in your heart for while

There's a train leaving nightly called when all is said and done
Keep me in your heart for while

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for while

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for while

Sometimes when you're doing simple things around the house
Maybe you'll think of me and smile

You know I'm tied to you like the buttons on your blouse
Keep me in your heart for while

Hold me in your thoughts, take me to your dreams
Touch me as I fall into view
When the winter comes keep the fires lit
And I will be right next to you

Engine driver's headed north to Pleasant Stream
Keep me in your heart for while

These wheels keep turning but they're running out of steam
Keep me in your heart for while

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for while

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for while

Keep me in your heart for while

My deepest sorrow at your father`s passing.I am sure he is in your heart forever.Sincerely Lindy

[CBHagman]

71. Warren Zevon...

...really touched some of us in a sweet way in the last months of his life. I remember reading a profile of him during that time, in which the now-famous "Enjoy every sandwich" quote appeared. What a simple, silly, wonderful way to remind us all that life is a gift and we should savor it as much as possible. It's still a challenge, even for those of us who have looked death in the eye, to live up to that.

And of course the tribute album was called Enjoy Every Sandwich.

:-)

[Inspired]

24. Robert Kennedy

I was so young but I cried like a baby. My parents tried to console me but I remember losing it.

More recently the death of Princess Diana shook me. It was so tragic. I watched her funeral and went through a box of Kleenex.

[JitterbugPerfume]

25. as I read this thread

I can feel a pang of sorrow for everyone mentioned from Doglas Adams to Frank Zappa, and everyone in between

our brightest and best --

[kwassa]

26. Bode Miller

Oh wait! He's not dead!

He just skis that way.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

27. Jerry Orbach.

:cry:

Law and Order will never be the same without "Lenny."

[wain]

28. JFK

Heard it on the car radio on Rt. 22 just before the Easton (PA) tollgate

[huskerlaw]

29. John Spencer

:cry:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

30. Amen to that.

:cry:

[TInCanCommunications]

78. Hit me harder than I thought

Thanks to Bravo, I'd crammed in all of West Wing in about 10 months.
It really got to me for some reason.

[huskerlaw]

90. Same here

that's the first time I've ever cried over a celebrity death. It was just so shocking for some reason.

Hooray for Bravo...I'm also a relative newbie, I started watching about a year ago. :)

[mikeargo]

31. Peter Jennings

I quit smoking that weekend

[terrya]

32. Harvey Milk

His utterly senseless death...and the fact that he was a powerful voice for the gay community...bothered me. If I was living in San Francisco then, I would have been out on the streets with the thousands of others.

[Gatchaman]

33. Phil Hartman

I thought it was such a tragic waste.

[El Fuego]

37. Me too.

I was big fan of his. His death was so cruel and senseless.

[Tikki]

34. Joey...and for alot of reasons.....

Mr. Tikki had tears in his eyes when Sweetness retired and again when he passed.
I haven't really seen him sad like that unless it was family or friends.


Tikki

[DS1]

35. Not a single one. I just don't care.

In fact I've spent the weekend hiding Don Knotts threads because I think he pretty much sucked, and it's better than saying something mean in them.

[proud2BlibKansan]

39. I was never that crazy about him either

I am not in to silly comedy, like his. But I still think it is sad. He really was an icon in my childhood.

[DelawareValleyDem]

36. Roberto Clemente

also Freddie Prinze, John Cazale, Richard Manuel (and Rick Danko), Pat Morita and wrestler Dave Schultz

[rhino47]

54. I am from north of pittsburgh and Rebertos passing was felt here.

I was young then but I remember going to a Mass for him.Freddie Prinze was soooo tragic.

[Lady President]

40. Johnny Carson

Actually, I've been saddened by the deaths of many of the people on this thread, but Johnny Carson was a real blow. He had a certain elegance combined with a mid-western demeanor that always appealed to me. I would also put Jimmy Stewart in this category.

[flygal]

45. My choice too

Last year dealing with the election results and it seemed so many of the good ones were passing on. Carson's death brought back a flood of memories. I used to watch his show and then Letterman all the time.

[Jade Fox]

41. Christopher Lasch

He was a social critic. Here's a quote:

Individuals cannot learn to speak for themselves at all, much less come to an intelligent understanding of their happiness and wellbeing, in a world in which there are no values except those of the market. . . . the market tends to universalize itself. It does not easily coexist with institutions that operate according to principles that are antithetical to itself: schools and universities, newspapers and magazines, charities, families. Sooner or later the market tends to absorb them all. It puts an almost irresistable presure on every activity to justify itself in the only terms it recognizes: to become a business proposition, to pay its own way, to show black ink on the bottom line. It turns news into entertainment, scholarship into professional careerism, social work into the scientific management of poverty. Inexorably it remodels every institution in its own image.

Revolt of the Elites

[catzies]

42. George Harrison.

Yesterday would have been his 63rd birthday.

[maveric]

43. Phil Hartman. So young, so funny and gone just like that.

Shot to death by his psycho, coked-up wife.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

44. JFK. The world changed that day even more than it changed on 9/11.

To this very day.

[Shine]

46. John Lennon and Princess Diana come to mind.

perhaps it was the suddeness that got to me and the reminders of our human frailty and ephemeral nature...

[Spacemom]

47. John Lennon

Not because it affected me personally so much (I was born in 71) but because it affected my mother deeply. Her and my aunt spent days crying. It wasn't until I was older that I figured out why it saddened her so much.

My mom died this past June and I had "Imagine" played at her service.

Now I imagine her and John passing a big doobie around, having a blast. ;)

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

48. Dermot Morgan

A devastating loss and a huge shock.

[astonamous]

49. Richard Pryor and Hunter S. Thompson.... eom

[Minnesota Libra]

50. John Kennedy nt

[flamingyouth]

51. Kurt Cobain.

[rhino47]

56. I was devastated at Kurts death.

I still think he was murdered though.
I loved nirvana.I was affected more because my son of my heart
was utterly shattered when Kurt was killed.

[bertha katzenengel]

53. Lucille Ball's.

She was a refuge when I was a kid. She died when I was 26 and I cried like a baby.

[Roon]

55. Jerry Garcia eom

[BikeWriter]

57. Karl Rove's... What, he's not dead yet? Why the #### not?

[no name no slogan]

58. Paul Wellstone

I knew Paul back when he was a college professor, and worked with him on a couple of campaigns before he ran for Senate. I also helped organize a couple precincts before the caucuses during his first Senate run in 1990, and was a delegate to the state convention that nominated him.

I had been out of party politics by 2002 for a number of years, but his death still hit me extrememly hard. I was inconsolable for a couple days. He left a gaping hole in progressive Democratic party politics at both the state and national level, and I still miss him every single day.

[serryjw]

83. I still have not recovered from Paul Wellstone's death

probably never will. I was fundraising for the DNC when I got the news. The memorial edition of the Minnesota Daily is framed on the wall of my office.

On a personal note, Christopher Reeve's death hit me badly. I cried for days. He lived a great life and touched so many.

[edbermac]

59. Stanley Kubrick

The Master!

[Burma Jones]

60. Jerry Garcia, John Lennon and George Harrison

I went to a lot of Dead shows........

[momophile]

61. Lennon,Harrison,Jimmy Stewart,Dave Blood and DiMaggio

not massive tears or anything, but kinda sad.

[Benfea]

62. King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan.

Anyone who can piss off both the West and other Arab nations as much as this guy did had to be on to something. I certainly don't agree with everything he said or did, but all too often his was the only voice of reason in the Middle East. His death was a terrible blow to me.

PS — King Abdullah II, the current king of Jordan has to be the coolest monarch ever. He's the only reigning monarch I know of who was once an extra in a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode.

[Rowdyboy]

63. When John Kennedy Jr died in the nightmarish plane crash.....

a part of my hope for the future died with him. As long as he lived, his father's dreams were invested in him. Now its all gone.

I was sick for weeks.

[snacker]

70. That is exactly how I felt. n/t

[Taverner]

64. John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, River Phoenix, Layne Staley

[GirlinContempt]

65. Mr. Dressup

[yellowdogintexas]

67. JFK< RFK, definitely, and oddly enough Rick Nelson ..I

finally decided it was because he grew up with us right there on TV (even though he was probable 10 years older than me, still such a part of my childhood and teen years)

Raoul Julia

locally well known person:Glenn Mitchell (a wonderful talk show host on our local NPR station, will miss him forever)

[ChoralScholar]

68. Carroll O'Connor - 2001

A man who put his own personal views aside to show the world how disgusting bigotry really is.

[The Sushi Bandit]

69. Yul Brenner

His death made me stop smoking

[bigwillq]

72. Tupac Shakur (nt)

[Pithlet]

73. Mr. Rogers.

Don't laugh. He was my favorite growing up. I was just starting to watch his show again with my own son, and was pregnant with my second, when he died. I bawled my eyes out.

[miss_american_pie]

77. Me too

The Mr. Roger's exhibit is my older son's favorite part of the children's museum, and I have to work at not crying every time we go.

[nerddem]

74. i'm surprised no one's said paul wellstone

oh wait, there he is. but only one other mention? still surprising

[ikojo]

75. Jerry Garcia....I used to plan my vacations around

Dead tour and when the fat man died on 8/9/95, it was like a very important chapter of my life came to an abrupt halt.

I cried for days

[Left Is Write]

76. Peter Jennings. Johnny Carson.

And yes, Paul Wellstone.

[Bzzzz]

79. Ken Kesey...

Timothy Leary and John Lennon.

[AmyDeLune]

80. Jim Henson

gone too soon.

[DanCa]

81. Christopher Reeve

Superman was my role model as a kid. Superman one taught me what it's like to be a real liberal. However it was his accident that made him my hero. He showed me that just because your tagged with a disabilty that you dont have to waste away at home and feel sorry for yourself. Than when he passed a week before the election and than we when the election was stolen from us, I feel in a deep month long depression.
But after readding his book I am still me I learned the value and potential of stem cell research and I have become a disability advocate because of it. Christopher Reeve will always be my hero. May he rest in peace.

[oregonjen]

82. John Denver

The plane crash that took him too soon. I often wonder what kind of songs he would have written had he seen what these thugs have done to our world.

[Teenager]

85. Charles Schultz

I'm kinda young, so I haven't seen a whole lot of famous deaths yet. But the one that I remember most is the creator of Peanuts- Charles Schultz. It seemed fate, and almost legendary to me that he died on the day of his last official Peanuts cartoon.

[rhino47]

87. Hi Teenager welcome to DU!

:hi::hi::hi::hi:

[ldf]

86. the first one that caused me to feel like i had been kicked

in the stomach was john lennon. i was one of the original beatlemaniacs.

then princess di, and jfk jr.

what a waste of three huge potentials...

[Crazy Guggenheim]

88. Peter Jennings. Never like that before with anyone famous.

[Odin2005]

91. Paul Wellstone

[BlueJazz]

92. Paul Desmond

[Lilith Velkor]

93. Khephera

He helped keep me (sort of) sane back when Bush's approval rating was 10%. I never really got the chance to talk to him much, and the regret still chokes me up.

I don't know if he counts as famous.

[Oeditpus Rex]

94. Lennon, Harrison, Carson, Lucille Ball

and Graham Chapman. :cry: