Although I remember Diana's death, being eight years old and coming from a house where the Royals were given absolutely no attention whatsoever meant that I was never really shocked by it. It was just someone I'd vaguely heard about who'd died, and the next few days of mass grieving seemed very odd to me at the time. Similarly Jill Dando - looking back extremely sad and tragic, but I wasn't actually "shocked" as a ten year old.
Having a quick look back, an early one that genuinely stunned me was Desmond Llewelyn (Q in James Bond) who was killed in a car crash just before Christmas one year. In my teens there was Bob Monkhouse, Richard Whiteley, Steve Irwin, Jeremy Beadle, and Mark Speight, all of whom I'd grown up watching as a kid.
The major deaths from Michael Jackson onwards (Winehouse, Houston, Williams, Bowie etc) go without saying.
Having a quick look back, an early one that genuinely stunned me was Desmond Llewelyn (Q in James Bond) who was killed in a car crash just before Christmas one year. In my teens there was Bob Monkhouse, Richard Whiteley, Steve Irwin, Jeremy Beadle, and Mark Speight, all of whom I'd grown up watching as a kid.
The major deaths from Michael Jackson onwards (Winehouse, Houston, Williams, Bowie etc) go without saying.




