They All Died In 2016, 2017, etc ...

[slimjim]

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Rutger Oelsen Hauer. (1944)

Dutch actor, writer, and environmentalist. In a career spanning 45 years he starred in many many movies including The Hitcher; Nighthawks; Sin City; Wanted-Dead or Alive; Blind Fury etc but will (of course) be most remembered for Blade Runner ​

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[Rigor100]

It's okay to have a thread like this all about celeb deaths, for one very simple reason.

If your granny dies it hurts one hundred thousand times more than the death of one hundred thousand celebs.

Blood is thicker than water.

With this is mind, why not ponder the death of these celebs. Perhaps in a small way it prepares us for deaths closer to home. If you allow yourself to feel that little bit if melancholy for a celeb, it prepares you for deaths among you and yours. No harm in that! An easy test run in melancholy?

Of course some celebs truly touch our hearts. Sometimes we meet them and get an autograph. Have a quick conversation. In these special cases we are allowed to weep.

And what of Princess Diana. For her a nation weeped.

The human heart can be hurt by that which is close, but also by that which seemed a million miles above you. Who can predict the human heart?

 

[brmstn69]

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Rutger Oelsen Hauer. (1944)

Dutch actor, writer, and environmentalist. In a career spanning 45 years he starred in many many movies including The Hitcher; Nighthawks; Sin City; Wanted-Dead or Alive; Blind Fury etc but will (of course) be most remembered for Blade Runner ​

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Anne Rice modeled her vampire anti-hero Lestat De Lioncourt on a young Rutger Hauer in the "Vampire Chronicles" books. When "Interview With A Vampire" was made into a movie I knew he was too old to play Lestat, (and so was Tom Cruise) but it would have been nice if he were cast as Lestat's mentor Marius...

 

[klimt]

Beji Caid ESSEBSI - Tunisian Politician (1926)
He was the first democratically elected president by universal suffrage in Tunisia in 2014 after what was called the "Arab Spring" or the "Jasmine Revolution".

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Maksim DADASHEV - Russian Boxer (1990)
(Head Injuries during a match)​

 

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Danika McGUIGAN - Irish Actress (1985)
(cancer)​

 

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Jeremy KEMP - British Actor (1935)​

 

[haiducii]

Roman VIRASTYUK - Ukrainian shot putter, best known for his bronze medal at the 1994 European Athletics Championships (1968)​

 

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Barbara ZATLER - Danish actress, TV personality, businesswoman, model and comedienne (1980)​

 

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Kevin ROSTER - American poker player (1983)​

 

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Andrea (Calogero) CAMILLERI - Italian writer (1925)​

 

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Russi TAYLOR - American actress known as the voice of Minnie Mouse (1944)​

 

[topdog]

Hal PRINCE (1928)
US Broadway Producer / Director
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Hal Prince began producing in 1955 with The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, and Fiddler on the Roof. He then began directing as well, such well known shows as Cabaret, Company, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd and The Phantom of the Opera.

See my tribute to Hal Prince here in the Music discussion.

 

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Jean-Claude BOUTTIER - French Boxer then Sport Journalist (1944)​

 

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Ian GIBBONS - English Musician (1952)​

He was a member of THE KINKS as keyboardist​

 

[trencherman]

alot

What we know now

Two shootings: At least 31 people were killed over the weekend in mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.

El Paso: 22 people were killed in El Paso after a mass shooting on Saturday. Police said they found an anti-immigrant doent espousing white nationalist and racist views, which they believe was written by the suspect. He may face hate crime charges in addition to capital murder charges.

Dayton: Another nine people were killed in a shooting in the Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio. The suspect in that shooting is dead.

 

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Henri BELOLO - French music producer and songwriter
who set up the group "Village People" (1936)​

 

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Toni MORRISON - American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher,
Pulitzer Prize winner & Nobel Prize in Literature winner (1931)​

 

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Bjorg LAMBRECHT - Belgian cyclist (1997)​

 

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Jean-Pierre MOCKY (Jean-Paul Mokiejewski) - Unconventionalist french film director, actor, screenwriter and producer (1933)​