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I also remember my mum shaking me awake one Sunday and saying 'You'll never guess who's died'. Me: 'my uncle Jimmy?'. 'No, Princess Diana.'
I spent the next five minutes racking my addled brain, trying to think if I knew anybody called Diana. |
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Probably John Lennon, as he was killed on my 12th birthday.
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I remember being surprised at Harry H Corbett dying as I always expected the old man (Wilfred Bramble/Albert) to go first
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I remember being surprised at Harry H Corbett dying as I always expected the old man (Wilfred Bramble/Albert) to go first
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In reply to the OP's question - my earliest memory would be the late King George VI and his daughter became Queen...I was 8...
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Raul Julia in 1994.
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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, his eyebrows short circuited, apparently.
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Elvis Presley for sure.....still upsets me!
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Tommy Cooper was before my time but it's the one my parents always refer to when talking about 'shocking' deaths.
I don't think we'll see another Diana, such an outpouring of grief. |
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Diana Princess of Wales. Followed by the wrestler Owen Hart.
I suspect they have nothing else in common. Ironically these are the two out of three who I would have said....Diana dying happened just over two weeks before my 19th even though I weren't a fan of hers as such, it was the first time I felt mortality....thinking if someone like her can die then so can I.....I do remember that Sunday morning turning on tv being shocked! 1997 was a year of quite a few surprising celebrity deaths. Owen was quite the shock as I watched the event he died at (Over the edge) live on tv in May 99. Senna in 94 was a shock too as it happened on live television....remember my mum walking into my room just as it happened and her saying 'he's dead' straight away before any confirmation. There were celebrity deaths before this I was aware of but didn't register any shock with me at the time. And there's been many since, especially in recent years that have totally shocked but I think as years pass it will become more commonplace unfortunately. |
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Anna Nicole Smith
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President Kennedy.......my memory is that aged 11 and 10 me and brother were 'Home Alone' whilst Mum and Dad were at the pub and we told them the news when they got home
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Maybe not a celeb as such but Ayrton Senna in 1994 in the San Marino Grand Prix.
Remember it made the headline news on the BBC that night (and this was before News channels etc) |
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Freddie Mercury.
He seemed so...alive. It was such a shock. I really, really liked him and he left such a hole in the world when he left. I think he died the day before but, I didn't know until the next day which was a Monday. I was on my way to the youth club later that day when one of the older 'cool' girls stopped and offered me a lift up there. She was playing a Queen album and talking about his passing and I remeber trying really hard not to cry in front of her. |
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31 July 1964
A plane crashed through the trees and in that fatal aircrash was a singer named Reeves. Jim Reeves |
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An actor called Pete Duelle who was in a TV show Alias Smith and Jones, I watched as a child. Very early 70s and I think I was 11? He killed himself over the christmas period. I remember crying and being so upset.
The next person I cried over was Eric Morecambe, he was such a part of my childhood. |
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Richard Beckinsale for me.
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Dozens of celebs have died in my lifetime, but the earliest death I can recall that actually shocked me (aside from Princess Diana) is Amy Winehouse in 2011. I think with all others before then, maybe I didn't know them or weren't into them enough to be especially upset, or maybe they weren't un-expected due to age or illness, but with Amy Winehouse, here was a singer I was very into and had seen in the flesh a couple of times. It was a death that seemed both completely avoidable, yet somehow inevitable.
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Even with all his problems I was mortified and really shocked when I heard about Michael Hutchence, I was such a big INXS fan.
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Also was going to say Diana and Owen Hart. I was a big fan of Owens.
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Probably John Lennon - I remember watching the news reports and both my mum and dad being shocked. Mum was a massive Beatles fan so she was particularly upset.
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Yootha Joyce. I'd just discovered G&M the previous autumn. Others had died before her but she's the one which upset me.
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Diana was probably the first one I really remember, as most other deaths I'd been aware of until then were of old people. I was 10 when she died. The sheer scale of that was also astonishing and probably contributes to why people felt so shocked.
Heath Ledger is one I still find myself surprised by at times, cause I'm still angry and gutted that he didn't make any more films. Michael Jackson (who I didn't even like!) I got obsessed by because he died the night before I finished teacher training and I suddenly had oodles of free time to google conspiracy theories! |
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I have no memory of Elvis Presley dying...I would have been five,
I didn't know who John Lennon was until the day he died, I was eight and our record player and all the records where in my Grandmothers attack so I never saw them. The earliest deaths that I remember are Peter Sellars, which was the same year as John Lennon but I do remember it. And somehow knew him from Pink Panther films...I remember the cartoon version of Inspector Clouseau. |
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Elvis Presley will soon be longer dead than he was alive.
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