An abnormal amount of celebrity deaths lately?
PostPosted:Tue Dec 27, 2016 11:09 am
A lot of people have taken notice of this in 2016, but it actually goes back into 2015: Leonard Nimoy, Christopher Lee, Scott Weiland, James Horner, Omar Sharif, Lemmy, Wes Craven, Sam Simon, Rowdy Roddy Piper, and Grace Lee Whitney; and about 5 dozen more. 2016 added David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Muhammed Ali, Anton Yelchin, Alan Rickman, and now Zsa Zsa Gabor, and George Michael.
Grace Lee Whitney and Leonard Nimoy were 2 of the 4 principal Star Trek TOS actors during season 1, and Anton Yelchin made three Star Trek actors dead in a very short period of time.
But perhaps it is not all that irregular a number of deaths, it's rather that people called it out more this year.
Looking at a list, 2014 seems like it took even more celebrities: Richard Attenborough, Harold Ramis, Joan Rivers, Robin Williams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lauren Bacall, Peaches Geldoff, Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney, Bob Hoskins, Maya Angelou, Tommy Ramone, James Garner, Pete Seeger, Richard Kiel, David Brenner, and the Ultimate Warrior.
And nothing beats the late afternoon of November 22nd 1963 where in a period of an hour: C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, and John F Kennedy all died.
Grace Lee Whitney and Leonard Nimoy were 2 of the 4 principal Star Trek TOS actors during season 1, and Anton Yelchin made three Star Trek actors dead in a very short period of time.
But perhaps it is not all that irregular a number of deaths, it's rather that people called it out more this year.
Looking at a list, 2014 seems like it took even more celebrities: Richard Attenborough, Harold Ramis, Joan Rivers, Robin Williams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lauren Bacall, Peaches Geldoff, Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney, Bob Hoskins, Maya Angelou, Tommy Ramone, James Garner, Pete Seeger, Richard Kiel, David Brenner, and the Ultimate Warrior.
And nothing beats the late afternoon of November 22nd 1963 where in a period of an hour: C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, and John F Kennedy all died.