Celebrity Death: The 2016 Celebrity death toll

[NewtJorden]

Updated through 12/28, though I'm positive I'm missing people (saw Pat Harrington mentioned somewhere, didn't he die in 2015?). Only notable death so far today is Keion Carpenter, a former NFL player who died aged 39 due to a fall. He wasn't a big name star, and I'd never heard of him before so he won't make the list (not to diminish the impact to his family, friends or fans).

And no, I'm not putting the damned gorilla on the list...no one had even heard of it outside New York until the incident with the child that led to it being shot.

Pat Harrington died on January 6.

 

[Jumptheshark]

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/27/us/vera-rubin-dark-matter-astronomy-obit-trnd/index.html



If you are a science geek--you know about her and how she was a true character

 

[Xelebes]

Vesna Vulovic died on December 23. She is famous for her death-defying fall inside a tail section of an explodedDC-9 from the height of 10,160 m (10.2 km).

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens...rvived-10-000-metre-fall-from-plane-1.3914164

 

[Acadmus]

Pat Harrington died on January 6.

Fixed that. And I see that I DID include a couple others I thought I might have omitted, I simply forgot I put them there.

God, there's been so many this year I can't even LIST them, let alone remember them

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

HoF College Football coach Lavell Edwards died today.

 

[FLYLine27*]

Glad this message is going around FB.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Glad this message is going around FB.

What's that got to do with anything?

 

[GKJ]

Glad this message is going around FB.

That's fine. This is a thread about celebrities, i.e. people who you can name. I'm sure there's people who will join you in the appropriate forum and thread. This isn't that thread.

 

[FLYLine27*]

That's fine. This is a thread about celebrities, i.e. people who you can name. I'm sure there's people who will join you in the appropriate forum and thread. This isn't that thread.

I do not know where that forum is..

Unless you mean the politics? It's too crazy in there for me

 

[Troy McClure]

Glad this message is going around FB.

I hate these kinds of things. They exist to brow beat others into feeling bad. They also get posted by holier than thou types.

 

[aleshemsky83]

I didn't.

Lol!

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

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December 1
Don Calfa, 76 – actor, the hitman in Weekend at Bernie’s

I just found out about this today

Loved Return of the Living dead growing up and still watch it today

Don was always said to be great with fans thru years and often appeared at ROLD themed events or horror fan fests

 

[Ceremony]

Pay Firemen Harambe's Wages

 

[MoreOrr]

Glad this message is going around FB.

Well, that's all really bad, and yes, definitely could be considered much worse than celebrities dying. BUT this IS the Entertainment Board, so I think we do have the right to talk about how bad a year it was for celebrity deaths.

Peace!

 

[MoreOrr]

I do not know where that forum is..

Unless you mean the politics? It's too crazy in there for me

Perhaps it's too crazy in there, but if you wish to make the point you're making, that's the place to make it.

 

[Acadmus]

Perhaps it's too crazy in there, but if you wish to make the point you're making, that's the place to make it.

I would actually think that would be a legitimate topic in The Lounge as it's not politics.

I knew someone would post this in here. Yes, in truth our police and soldiers are, on average, far better people than these celebrities. However, their impact is largely anonymous. This thread is devoted to the big names of our culture that (in most cases, I admit I included some exceptions to this) millions know about. Any attempt to change the discussion here would have to be taken as a thread hijack, sorry.

Going to do the final update in a bit.

 

[Acadmus]

Final update done with Allan Williams and William Christopher.

Another side note on the 31st, Prince Dmitri Romanov died, a great-great grandson of Emperor Nikolas I, who ruled Russia for 30 years in the 1800s...badly.

 

[Whiplash27]

I hate these kinds of things. They exist to brow beat others into feeling bad. They also get posted by holier than thou types.

I'd say that it's more of a reflection on our society that people get so much more upset about celebrities (whose role is to entertain) dying than the people who risk their lives every day to protect ours (police, firefighters, soldiers).

 

[Fish on The Sand]

You forgot Greg lake on this list but do have Emerson. Only Palmer managed to survive 2016.

 

[Acadmus]

You forgot Greg lake on this list

Really? How the hell did I do that...he's one of the few people I can recall just going off the top of my head

FIXED. 69 years old, and sandwiched between a couple of nonagenarians.

 

[Troy McClure]

I'd say that it's more of a reflection on our society that people get so much more upset about celebrities (whose role is to entertain) dying than the people who risk their lives every day to protect ours (police, firefighters, soldiers).

It's not a negative reflection on our society. It's human nature. Everyone reacts more to something closer to them.

I am going to feel closer to a person if I spent years listening to their music and seeing them interviewed than I will some dude pictured in a paper who was otherwise entirely unknown to me.

This is no different than people getting more emotional about a natural disaster in their home state than a natural disaster 1,000 miles away.