Name some really good people who have died young...

[L A Woman]

It does sort of seem like it happens a lot...doesn't it? Or is it just Billy Joel song?

John F. Kennedy....

On edit...it's for my blog...I have a few to name, but I know there are loads more and I am forgetting them!

[av8rdave]

1. My mom...

67, but not that old considering her overall health. The third bout of breast cancer got her.

Others, (IMO):

MLK
RFK
SRV (ok, an entertainer, but he contributed so much to the blues)

[Okiojira]

2. John Lennon

Just listened to "Happy Xmas" + I've had a bit to drink.....:cry:

[Haole Girl]

3. There are so many. Here is just one...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

[KamaAina]

4. Mozart

by the time he was my age, he was dead!

[cwydro]

5. Andrew Goldman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner

Never forget.

[KamaAina]

6. Similarly, Rev. James Reeb and Viola Liuzzo

both murdered by white supremacists in Alabama in March 1965. They are among the few martyrs of the Unitarian (now Unitarian Universalist) faith.

[lizziegrace]

7. Jim Croce, Terry Kath, Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline,

John Denver, Duane Allman and so many more.

[femmocrat]

8. Robert Kennedy, John Kennedy Jr., Joe Kennedy.....

way too many Kennedys.....

[nytemare]

9. Raul Julia

A crusader against hunger, and a wonderful Gomez. Died just as he was hitting his prime.

[ChoralScholar]

38. I guess I didn't realize he had died. EOM

[Fuzz]

10. I'm dead, inside

[Drum]

11. James Dean

[Ariana Celeste]

12. This is personal, not famous people but

My older brother, at 15.

My little cousin at 14.

My dad at 25. (pic)

[Hardrada]

13. John Keats. Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley

Jack Kerouac, Isaac Rosenberg, Rupert Brooke, Federico Garcia Lorca, Wilfred Owen, Vincent van Gogh, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Janis Joplin, Jim Morison, Cheney, Schwerner and Goodman, Martin Luther King, Jr., Fred Hampton, John Reed, Joan of Arc, Jesus of Nazareth.

[Flaxbee]

14. Jane Austen

to add to the literary list...

[benny05]

15. Karen Carpenter n/t

[driver8]

16. My friend, Vern.

He was going through some tough times and rather than reach out to his friends, he decided that he didn't want to live anymore.

He was 21.

[benny05]

17. Few more here...

Paul Wellstone, Jim Croce, Harry Chapin, Princess Diana, Paul Tsongas (well, not that young, but still), Buddy Holly, Soraya, Selena

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

18. Paul Wellstone

:(

[MnFats]

34. And Sheila, too. (oops inappropriate placement here my bad.

following sheila with belushi, I mean. both worthy but on opposie ends of the spectrum

[MnFats]

35. JOhn Belushi! He could have given us a lot more laughs...

..but NOOOOOOOOOOO!

[ikojo]

19. Personal...

My youngest brother at 36

My oldest brother at 48

My dad at 50 (I will never know if we could have had a relationship because he died before I became an adult)


Famous folk....

Jerry Garcia 52

Brent Mydland 38

Vince Welnick 55

[LadyoftheRabbits]

20. Nick Drake...

Plenty of others I can't think of off the top of my head.

[Bluebear]

40. wrong place

[Glorfindel]

21. Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelsohn, P. I. Tchaikovsky,

Rudolf Nureyev, Raphael, the Bronte sisters (Anne, Emily, and Charlotte, plus their brother Branwell), Sal Mineo, Brandon deWilde, Tommy Rettig, Freddy Mercury, Jayne Mansfield, Natalie Wood, Diana Princess of Wales

[MassLiberal]

22. Paul Tsongas

*sigh*

[Skittles]

23. all the victims of the Manson murders

from all accounts they were nice and socially conscious people

[Robeson]

24. Julian.

[Swede]

25. Lots of musicians.

MOst to substance abuse.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

26. Bird!

Crazy as the day is long, but still--he was only 34. :cry:

[RFKHumphreyObama]

27. Quite a long list probably

1. Christopher & Dana Reeve
2. Paul Wellstone
3. Martin Luther King
4. Robert and John Kennedy
5. John Lennon
6. I know people won't like me including this one but John Heinz, a liberal-to-centrist Republican and passionate environmentalist and the first husband of Senator John Kerry's wife
7. Another one people won't like me including -Winthrop Rockefeller, a truly decent and generous man taken too early by cancer. His father of the same name should also be included in my list -he was a Republican who actually ousted a pro-segregationist Democrat and made huge advances in his state of Arkansas for civil rights and racial equality. Sadly, he was also taken by cancer
8 Abraham Lincoln -The American nation and the world lost out through his death -he probably would have been as great a President and statesman in the post-Civil War era as he was during the Civl War.
9. John Spencer -Leo McGarry in the "West Wing" -died at only 58
10. Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon -one of the two who have originally voted against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. One of the true liberals of the American Senate
11. Rajiv Gandhi -Ex-Prime Minister of India who was assassinated in 1991 at the age of 47 and in his political prime
12. Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney -The three civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi in the 1960s

On a more personal note
1. My two family relatives who died after battles with their respective illnesses. They were in their 60s but were, until their illnesses and even during their illnesses, so full of love for life and enthusiasm
2. One of my neighbors who was also my sister's best friend's father and whom we knew very well and who died suddenly in his early 40s. He was the warmest, kindest, most generous and compassionate person you could ever hope to know and he touched the lives of so many people. Even though I was nine when it happened, I remember it like it was yesterday and still miss him

[donheld]

28. Gilda Radner n/t

[Hardrada]

29. Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Holliday, Jean Harlow,

Bix Beiderbecke, Steve McQueen, Lee Remick, Peter Sellers, Irving Thalberg, Dorothy Dandridge, Lorenz Hart, Glenn Miller, Richie Valens, Will Rogers, Hughie Long, Ann Frank, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexis Romanov

[fleabert]

30. floydell neugent

an unknown, but she died unexpectedly at age 67- way too young. She could have changed the world...

I loved her dearly.

plus, she couldn't stand George Bush.

[Redstone]

31. My mother. At 56, from melanoma.

Ma, I wish you could see my boys. You'd be proud of them.

Redstone

[Redstone]

32. How could we all have forgotten to mention Andy Stephenson?

I'm ashamed of myself for having done so.

Redstone

[fortyfeetunder]

33. And also Khephra.

That was a sad day on DU.

[LSK]

36. Carole Lombard

[ChoralScholar]

37. Two that come to mind

are Phil Hartman and John Ritter.

[Hardrada]

39. Phil Ochs, Andy Kaufman, Harry Chapin

Freddy Prinze, Che Guevara

[Bluebear]

41. Minnie Riperton

[NewJeffCT]

42. I'm sure it's partly due to the song & also

Because if they don't die young, you don't think about them in that way.

Abe Lincoln
Olof Palme

Marilyn Monroe
James Dean
Buddy Holly
Roberto Clemente

[Phentex]

43. Jim Henson

:cry:

[YankeyMCC]

44. My Aunt

And I'll say my Dad, he was 64 so calling him young by that measure is a bit of a stretch although maybe not so much these days, but more importantly he was young in attitude and joy. He was always down on the floor playing with the youngest kids and brining them joy.

As for famous people my list would include John Lennon, JFK, RFK, John Candy.