Celebrity Deaths

Boxing legend Sir Henry Cooper has passed away at the age of 76 at his son's house in Oxted, Surrey.

TK Trooper wrote:

Boxing legend Sir Henry Cooper has passed away at the age of 76 at his son's house in Oxted, Surrey.

Fuck me, that's a shock our enery...!

Snookers legendary commentator
'whispering Ted Lowe' went today too, aged 90

Seve Ballesteros, aged 54, of respiratory failure..

The actor Peter Falk, best known for his role as TV detective Columbo, has died aged 83.

He died on Thursday night, a family spokesman told CBS News.

RIP my fave Detective.

This series had an enormous success in France during of long years.
The concept and especially the character played by Peter Falk were really innovative.

RIP Columbo

just one more thing :

Andy Whitfield, star of Spartacus Blood and Sand, aged 39 of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma...

Gaznandi wrote:

Andy Whitfield, star of Spartacus Blood and Sand, aged 39 of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma...

18th month long batle he had with it. Such a shame he was a good actor.

39 years, it is not an age to die.

Betty Ford, Clinic owner died on the 8/9th Jul 2011

Former first lady and founder of the eponymously named rehab. clinic, Betty Ford has passed away to give DeathList 2011 its fifth success of the year. She married Gerald Ford in 1948 and became first lady in 1974. Soon after her husband's presidency finished, she was treated for alcoholism and drug addiction. Following her hands-on experience, she helped found the famous Betty Ford Center in 1982. She was 93 years old when she died .

Jerome Martin "Jerry" Haynes (January 31, 1927 – September 26, 2011) was an American actor from Dallas, Texas. He is most well known as Mr. Peppermint, a role he played for 30 years as the host of one of the longest-running local children's shows in television, the Dallas-based Mr. Peppermint (1961–1969), which was retitled Peppermint Place for its second run (1975–1996). He also has a long career in local and regional theater and has appeared in more than 50 films. A 1944 graduate of Dallas' Woodrow Wilson High School,[1] he was the father of musician and lead singer Gibby Haynes of the group Butthole Surfers.[2]

Mary Vesta Williams (December 1, 1957 – September 22, 2011) was an American R&B singer. Originally credited as Vesta Williams, she was sometimes simply billed as Vesta from the 1990s onwards.[2] Although Williams never had any albums certified gold nor any Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, she scored six Top 10 hits on the US Billboard R&B chart from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s. Williams was known for the hits "Once Bitten, Twice Shy," "Sweet Sweet Love," "Congratulations" and "Special."

Clifford Parker "Cliff" Robertson, III (September 9, 1923 – September 10, 2011) was an American actor with a film and television career that spanned half of a century. Robertson won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the movie Charly. His last film role was Uncle Ben in the Spider-Man film trilogy.

This saddens me deeply the death of Steve.


Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder, chairman, and former chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer.CAUSE OF DEATH: RESPIRATORY ARREST RESULTING FROM PANCREATIC CANCER.

RIP.

RIP MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli(24 years) who died in the Malaysian GP race. He was pronouced dead on the scene despite many attempts to revive him. The accident also involved Colin Edwards who discolated his shoulder and Valentino Rossi, who nursed his bike back the the pit.

Marco died after being hit by both Valli and Colins bikes which could not avoid the collision. During this Marco's helmet was knocked off.

Marco is mourned by the entrie Motor GP and biking community. RIP big guy. You will be missed.

Sir Jimmy Savile was larger than life even at his own funeral, carried into Leeds Cathedral by the Royal Marines in his gold-coloured galvanised steel coffin.

More than 1,000 people crowded the street outside while the Bishop of Leeds led a requiem mass as Yorkshire's way of saying goodbye to one of its favourite sons.

The white Yorkshire roses on his coffin were joined by a floral tribute spelling out 208 in the shape of the old Radio Luxembourg logo, the station that launched his career.

It was a reminder that, in life, Savile was an instantly recognisable celebrity.

From the earliest days of commercial radio to Radio 1, the first and last editions of Top of The Pops, and Jim'll Fix It, his career spanned the decades.


He was also an accomplished athlete and a philanthropist who raised tens of millions of pounds for charity.

He worked tirelessly as a volunteer in hospitals, including the Leeds General Infirmary where porters stood outside in silence as his cortege passed by.

When it arrived at the cathedral the crowds burst into spontaneous applause.

Among the congregation of civic dignitaries, family and friends, were old colleagues from show business including fellow DJ Mike Read and boxer Frank Bruno.


The funeral followed a bizarre day when the coffin lay in state in the bar of a Leeds hotel with 4,000 people turning up to see it.

Sir Jimmy's burial takes place in Scarborough on Thursday on what will be the third and last day of an extraordinary farewell.

There will be another procession, this time along the seafront of the resort he made his adopted home, and more crowds wanting to say goodbye.

Joe Frazier, 67, American boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (1970–1973), liver cancer.

Smokin Joe will be sadly missed and if you get a chance look up some of his amazing photos etc.

Christiane Legrand (21 August 1930 – 1 November 2011[1] ) was a French singer.

Legrand was born in Paris, the daughter of film composer Raymond Legrand, who wrote "Irma la Douce."

She studied piano and classical music from the time she was four. Jazz critic and composer André Hodeir discovered her in 1957, and she became the lead singer in the most notable French jazz vocal groups of the 1960s, including Les Double Six.[2]

She was the original lead soprano of the Swingle Singers and was the vocalist who dubbed the part of Madame Emery in Les parapluies de Cherbourg, the music for which was composed by her brother Michel Legrand. She also sang the part of Judith in his Les demoiselles de Rochefort.

Christiane did the French dubbing for the title role of Disney's film Mary Poppins (1964) and leant her talents to numerous other film projects.

Christiane was the featured soprano on the track "Fires (Which Burn Brightly)" on the 1973 Procol Harum album Grand Hotel. Her niece Victoria Legrand is a member of the American indie rock group Beach House.

Bil Keane


11/8/11: Creator of the long running newspaper comic "Family Circus", Bil Keane passed at the age of 89.

Heavy D


11/8/11: Popular rapper Heavy D (real name: Dwight Arrington Myers) was rushed to an LA hospital after collapsing at his Beverly Hills home. Though Heavy was conscious when first responders arrived at the scene, he died shortly thereafter.

Dan Wheldon


10/16/11: IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon died after suffering severe injuries in a 15-car wreck at the Las Vegas Indy 300. He was 33 years old. The two-time Indianapolis 500 winner (including this year's event) was critically hurt when his car sailed over the top of another during a massive, fiery wreck on Lap 13.

Mikey Welsh


10/9/11: Former Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh died from a suspected drug overdose in a Chicago hotel room. He was 40 years old. In an odd twist, Welsh had predicted his death - down to the correct weekend - on Twitter weeks before. He had written that he had a dream about dying in a Chicago hotel room from a heart attack on that weekend.

Charles Napier


10/5/11: Character actor, Charles Napier, most well known for his roles in "Rambo", "The Blues Brothers" and the voice of "Duke" in "The Critic", died from, as of yet, unknown causes. He was 75.