Which celebrity deaths genuinely made you sad?

[Genz]

I can't say that I was really genuinely sad because I don't know these people personally, but there are a few that affected me in some way.

Douglas Adams, because I love his books and his weirdness

Paul Hunter, the snooker player. He was young and seemed like a nice guy. I didn't know that he had cancer so hearing that he died was quite unexpected.

Dimebage Darrell, this ex-Panthera member or something. I didn't even know him or the band, but this whole getting shot on stage thing kind of made me stop for a minute.

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For me, I don;t really remember the day John Lennon was killed, but it still bothers me today.

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I was only 5 years old when Lennon died but I will never forget how it affected my dad. It was the first time I ever saw him really sad or even really stunned at something.

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For me, I don;t really remember the day John Lennon was killed, but it still bothers me today.

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I was only 5 years old when Lennon died but I will never forget how it affected my dad. It was the first time I ever saw him really sad or even really stunned at something.

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This would definitely be #1 for tons of people who are in their 50s and 60s now.

[Abones]

Rodney Dangerfield.

[MicroBob]

Jack Buck.
Harry Carey a little bit as well.
Bob Murphy somewhat and Red Barber a little bit.

When Vin Scully goes I know I'll be really sad.
A little bit less so for Ernie Harwell but it will still get me.

For those who don't know, these are all old-school baseball announcers.

Somebody mentioned also when Peter Falk goes and I agree with that one.

[theben]

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No one mentioned Krista McAuliffe? Surely some of you guys watched her die live.

Princess Di got to me in a way no celeb death ever has. She was the mostly widely covered woman in the world for over 15 years, just wall to wall, and then she's suddenly gone. And the outpouring afterwards was unlike anything any other celebrity has ever generated, even John Lennon. The closest comparison is the whole JFK assassination.

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That actually "got to" you? Mother Theresa's death was in the newspapers the same day, but she got shunted to the back pages.

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Rodney Dangerfield.

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Good one. I really miss the guy, and was bummed when he died.

[JohnE]

Bostock became one of baseball's earliest big-money free agents, and signed with the California Angels.

The 1978 season started off poorly for Bostock; he batted a lowly .150 for the month of April. Apologetically, Bostock went to team owner Gene Autry and attempted to return his April salary, saying he hadn't earned it. Mr. Autry refused, so Bostock announced he would donate his April salary to charity.

Bostock toiled the rest of the year to get his batting average over the .300 mark. With a week remaining in the 1978 season, he went 2 for 4 (including a hit in his last at bat) in a Saturday afternoon game with the White Sox in Chicago, to raise his average to .296. Following the game, as he regularly did when in Chicago, Bostock visited his uncle, Thomas Turner, in nearby Gary, Indiana. After eating a meal with a group of people on this Saturday night, Bostock got in the back seat of his uncle's car. As the vehicle was stopped at a traffic signal at the intersection of 5th and Jackson streets, a car pulled up along side them. The driver of the second car got out and fired one blast of a .410 caliber shotgun into the back seat where Lyman Bostock was sitting. The assailant, Leonard Smith, did not even know Bostock. His lethal wrath was intended for his estranged wife, Barbara Smith, who was along with the group as a guest of Bostock's uncle, who happened to be her godfather. The blast missed the woman but struck Bostock in the left temple, and he died two hours later at a Gary hospital. Lyman Bostock, Jr. was just 27 years old. It was later discovered that Bostock had known the woman in the car for a total of 20 minutes.

Leonard Smith was tried twice for murder, with his lawyers arguing that Barbara Smith's infidelity had driven her husband insane. The first trial resulted in a hung jury. In the second trial, Leonard Smith was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was committed for psychiatric treatment. Within seven months, he was deemed no longer mentally ill by his psychiatrists and released, a free man. Including his time in jail awaiting and during trial, Smith's total time in custody amounted to only 21 months.

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Dimebag Darrell, this ex-Pantera member or something. I didn't even know him or the band, but this whole getting shot on stage thing kind of made me stop for a minute.


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wow, yeah, good one. being that i've played guitar live on stage numerous times (though obv not at this level), his death, and especially the manner in which it was done, made me really stop and take a deep breath.

very tragic, especially because by all accounts he was a hell of a guy in real life