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Gianni Versace - clothing designer 1997 --- murdered by serial killer.
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Tommy Tucker - musician 1982 --- carbon tetrachloride poisoning sustained
while he was finishing floors in his home.
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Tennessee Williams - writer 1983 --- choked to death on a nose spray bottle cap that accidentally dropped into his mouth while he was using the spray. He was 71.
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Tupac Shakur - musician 1996 --- murdered in drive-by shooting.
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Gig Young (Byron Elsworth Barr) - actor 1978 --- shot and killed his wife of 3 weeks, Kim Schmidt, then shot himself.
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Ray Combs - talk show host (Family Feud) 1996 --- hanged himself on the night of June 2, 1996, with bed sheets in his hospital room at Glendale Adventist Hospital while on a 72-hour "suicide watch."
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Selena (Quintanilla Perez) - singer 1995 --- shot by the president of her fan club.
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Donny Hathaway - singer 1979 --- suicide by jumping from his room on the 15th floor of New York's Essex House Hotel.
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Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Baker) 1962 --- drug overdose, probably suicide.
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Jessica Dubroff - (age 7) 1996 --- plane crash - attempting to become the youngest pilot to fly cross-country.
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Bruce Lee (Li Yuen Kam) - actor 1973 --- died suddenly from a swollen brain.
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Anna Nicole Smith. Died Feb 8th 2007. Death a mystery. Still under investigation. Suspicion: Drug overdose
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Elvis Presley 1977 --- accidental drug overdose. He died while sitting on the toilet.
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Bob Marley - musician 1981 --- brain tumor, at the age of 36.
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Marvin Gaye (Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.) - singer 1984 --- murdered on his birthday by his father.
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Brandon Lee - actor 1993 --- shot by a gun firing blanks, while filming the movie "The Crow." His missing scenes were later filled-in by computer animation.
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John Lennon 1980 --- shot to death by a mentally ill fan.
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Known as "That Fat Guy" on Saturday Night Live, Farley died of a drug overdose at the age of 33. He was found in his pajama bottoms in a pool of his own vomit just inside the door of his Chicago condominium.
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William Holden - actor 1981 --- found dead in his apartment. He had been drinking, and apparently fell, struck his head on an end table, and bled to death
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Jon-Erik Hexum - actor 1984 --- playfully shot himself with a blank-loaded pistol on the set of TV spy show "Cover Up." The concussion forced a chunk of his skull into his brain; he died six days later.
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Elizabeth Hartman - actress 1987 --- fell to her death from a fifth floor window in a bizarre reflection of a character in her staring 1966 movie "The Group."
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Phil Hartman (Philip Edward Hartmann) 1998 -- shot by his wife, who then committed suicide.
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Owen Hart - WWF wrestler 1999 --- died while performing a stunt in the wrestling ring. He was being lowered into the ring by a cable, when he fell 70 ft. to his death, snapping his neck.
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Olivia Goldsmith - author, "First Wives Club" 2004 --- complications resulting from anesthesia during plastic surgery.
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Rajiv Gandhi - prime minister of India from 1984 until 1989 1991 --- killed by a bomb, hidden in a bouquet of flowers, which exploded in his hand. Like his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated.
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Conor Clapton - son of musician Eric Clapton 1991 --- fell out of 53rd floor window at the age of 5.
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John Belushi 1982 --- drug overdose.
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Neil Bonnett - race car driver 1994 --- car crash, killed during practice at the Daytona International Speedway.
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Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales 1997 --- car crash while eluding paparazzi.
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Isadora Duncan - actress 1927 --- accidental strangulation when her scarf caught in car wheel
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Salvatore "Sonny" Bono 1998 --- crashed into a tree while skiing.
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River Phoenix - actor 1993 --- drug overdose on the sidewalk in front the Viper Club in Hollywood on Halloween.
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Bob Crane - actor 1978 --- murdered in hotel room
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Nelson Eddy - actor / singer 1965 --- suffered a stroke while entertaining on stage in Miami Beach. He died the next day.
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Dominique Dunne - actress ("Poltergeist") 1982 --- choked by boyfriend, John Sweeny. She died after being in a coma for 5 days.
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Karen Carpenter - singer 1983 --- heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa, at age 32.
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Jack Cassidy - actor 1976 --- died in a fire, while asleep on the couch in his apartment.
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Al Capone - Chicago gangster 1947 --- syphilis.
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Lucille Desiree Ball 1989 --- died after undergoing heart surgery.
Of all those listed above, whose death was the saddest, heart-wrenching, depressing and the most unbelievable of them all? I think its 5year Connor Clapton, falling off a 53 story building. Where were the adults? That's the saddest way for a young innocent boy to die. May any of our children not die that way. Amen!
Thx this is very sad and interesting.
ReplyDeleteit's indeed very sad and fascinating. But i thought Bob marley died of Aids? What i really find really bizarre is d mysterious ways to which most of them committed suicide. Most of these deaths, we'll probably not know their causes e.g. 2pac, biggie, Marilyn Monroe etc.
ReplyDeleteLinda, i loooove your blog in d sense dat u cover some interesting stories like dis outside of black entertainment. Do u just think of it or what inspires u into it?
AMEN!!!
ReplyDeleteI think they all are sad.. Tragic and some very weird ways of examples of freakish accidents . When you view the smiles of them while alive, its leaves a haunting feel and touches the heartstrings.
ReplyDeleteBob Marley died from a malignant cancer found too late on one of his feet.
ReplyDeleteBob Marley died from a malignant cancer found too late for treatment on one of his feet.
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