Post by Nanocrystal on Dec 27, 2023 4:58:28 GMT
If the cause of death is not stated then it’s either unknown, natural causes or disputed.
Ken Block (US rally driver) aged 55 – snowmobile accident - 2 January.
Fred White (US Earth Wind and Fire drummer) aged 67 - 3 January.
Roger Kean (English co-founder of Crash & Zzap!64 magazines) aged 74 motor neurone disease - 3 January.
Gianluca Vialli (Italian footballer) aged 58 - pancreatic cancer - 6 January.
Earl Boen (US actor Dr Silberman, Terminator) – aged 81 – lung cancer - 6 January.
Melinda Dillon (US actor, Barry's mom in Close Encounters of The Third Kind) aged 83 - 9 January.
Jeff Beck (English guitarist) – aged 78 – meningitis - 11 January.
Lisa Marie Presley (US daughter of Elvis) aged 54 – bowel obstruction following historic weight loss surgery - 12 January.
Robbie Bachman (Canadian drummer – Bachman-Turner Overdrive) aged 69 - 12 January.
Julian Sands (English actor - Warlock, Boxing Helena, Arachnophobia) aged 65 - 13 January.
Van Conner (US bass guitarist - Screaming Trees) age 55 – pneumonia - 17 January.
David Crosby (US co-founder/singer - The Byrds & CSNY) – aged 81 – covid - 18 January.
David Sutherland (Scottish illustrator – Beano, amongst others) aged 89 - 19 January.
Tom Verlaine (US guitarist/singer/songwriter) aged 73 – prostate cancer - 28 January.
Lisa Loring (US actor – Wednesday Adams (The Addams Family orig)) aged 64 – stroke - 28 January.
Annie Wersching (US actor & voice of Tess from The Last of Us (game)) aged 45 – cancer - 29 January.
Paco Rabanne (Spanish fashion designer) aged 88 - 3 February.
Burt Bacharach (US singer) aged 94 - 8 February.
Elena Fanchini (Italian gold medalist Olympic skier) aged 37 – cancer - 9 February.
Dave Jolicoeur (US rapper) aged 54 – heart failure - 12 February.
Raquel Welch (US actor) aged 82 – cardiac arrest - 15 February.
Richard Belzer (US actor Homicide: Life on the Street) aged 78 - 19 February.
Jansen Panettiere (US actor) aged 28 - undiagnosed cardiomegaly (enlarged heart) - 19 February.
Dickie Davis (English TV sports presenter) aged 94 - 19 February.
John Motson (English TV & Radio football commentator) aged 77 - 23 February.
Bernard Ingham (English press secretary to Margaret Thatcher and eyebrows extraordinaire) aged 90 - 24 February.
Betty Boothroyd (English Politician and Speaker of the House) aged 93 - 26 February.
Just Fontaine (French footballer) aged 89 - 28 February.
Steve Mackey (English bass guitarist – Pulp) aged 56 - pulmonary edema resulting from an undiagnosed heart condition - 2 March.
Tom Sizemore (US actor - Saving Private Ryan) aged 61 – brain aneurysm - 3 March.
Michael Rhodes (US bass guitarist) aged 69 – pancreatic cancer - 4 March.
Chaim Topol (Israeli actor - Fiddler on The Roof) aged 87 - Alzheimer’s disease - 8 March.
Mystic Meg real name Margret Anne Lake (English astrologer & racehorse owner/breeder AKA Septic Peg) aged 80 – influenza - 9 March.
Costa Titch (South African rapper) aged 27 - 11 March.
Lance Reddick (US actor - The Wire) aged 60 - 17 March.
Keith Reid (English lead singer Procol Harum) – aged 76 – cancer - 23 March.
Gordon Moore (US computer engineer famous for ‘Moore’s Law’) – aged 94 - 24 March.
Paul O’Grady (English comedian, drag queen, actor, writer) aged 67 - sudden cardiac arrhythmia - 28 March.
Ryuichi Sakamoto (Japanese composer) aged 71 – cancer - 28 March.
Paul Cattermole (English singer - S Club 7) aged 46 - heart-related issues - 6 April.
Gareth Richards (UK comedian) – aged 41 – car crash - 7 April.
Norman Reynolds (English award-winning production designer - Star Wars, Superman Raiders of The Lost Ark and more) aged 89 - 6 April.
Michael Lerner (US actor - Barton Fink & Elf) aged 81 - complications from brain seizures - 8 April.
Al Jaffee (US cartoonist) aged 102 - 10 April.
Terrence Hardiman (English actor - The Demon Headmaster) aged 86 - 18 April.
Peter Martin (English actor - The Royle Family, Emmerdale) aged 81 - 19 April.
Mark Stewart (English singer - The Pop Group) aged 62 - 21 April.
Barry Humphries (Australian comedian and drag star AKA Dame Edna Everage) aged 89 – complications from hip surgery - 22 April.
Len Goodman (English dancer, dance teacher, judge Strictly Come Dancing) aged 79 – bone cancer - 22 April.
Tori Bowie (US gold medalist athlete) aged 32 – childbirth complications - 23 April.
Harry Belafonte (US singer) aged 96 - congestive heart failure - 25 April.
Jerry Springer (US talk Show Host) aged 79 - pancreatic cancer - 27 April.
Tim Bachman (Canadian guitarist and singer – Bachman-Turner Overdrive) aged 71 - brain cancer - 28 April.
Gordon Lightfoot (Canadian singer songwriter & guitarist) aged 84 - 1 May.
Frank Kozik (US graphic artist) aged 61 – suicide - 6 May.
Rolf ‘Cunt’ Harris (Australian convicted pedophile) aged 93 – head and neck cancer, lets hope it was painful. Genuinely upsetting to find out someone so part of my childhood was such a cunt - 10 May.
Billy Graham (US Wrestler) aged 79 - sepsis and multiple organ failure - 17 May.
Andy Rourke (English bass guitarist - The Smiths) aged 59 – pancreatic cancer - 19 May.
Ray Stevenson (Irish actor) aged 58 - 21 May.
Tina Turner (US singer – Icon AKA Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll) aged 83 - 24 May.
The Iron Sheik AKA Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri (Iranian-American WWE wrestler) aged 81 - cardiac arrest with congestive heart failure and hypertension - 7 June.
Alan Arkin (US actor - Catch-22) aged 89 - cardiovascular disease - 9 June.
Silvio Berlusconi (Italian media tycoon and Italian prime minister) aged 86 - chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia (cancer) - 12 June.
Treat Williams (US actor) aged 71 - motorcycle accident - 12 June.
John Romita Sr. (US comic book artist - Marvel Spiderman etc) aged 93 - 12 June.
Cormac McCarthy (US novelist) aged 89 - 13 June.
Glenda Jackson (English actor & politician) aged 87 - 15 June.
Gordon McQueen (Scottish footballer Man. U & Scotland) aged 70 - vascular dementia, too many headers - 15 June.
Rick Froberg (US singer, musician & visual artist) aged 55 - undiagnosed heart condition - 30 June.
Darren “Droz” Drozdov (US American football player & wrestler) aged 54 - 30 June.
Jane Birkin (English actor and singer) aged 76 - 16 July.
Tony Bennett (US singer - I Left My Heart in San Franciso, Fly Me To The Moon) aged 96 - Alzheimer’s disease - 21 July.
George Alagiah (British journalist/news presenter (born Ceylon)) aged 67 – bowel cancer - 24 July.
Trevor Francis (English footballer) aged 69 – heart attack - 24 July.
Chris Bart-Williams (English footballer) aged 49 - 24 July.
Sinead O’Connor (Irish singer) aged 56 - 26 July.
Randy Meisner (US bass guitarist and founding member of The Eagles) aged 77 – complications from COPD - 26 July.
Paul Reubens (US actor and comedian) aged 70 – hypoxemia caused by underlying leukemia and lung cancer - 30 July.
Angus Cloud (US actor - Euphoria) – aged 25 – accidental drug overdose - 31 July.
Mark Margolis (US actor - Breaking Bad) aged 83 - 3 August.
William Friedkin (US film director - French Connection, The Exorcist) aged 87 - heart failure and pneumonia - 7 August.
Jamie Reid (English visual artist - Sex Pistols album covers) aged 76 - 8 August.
Johnny Hardwick (US actor, comedian writer, producer, voice of Dale Gribble in King of The Hill) aged 64 - 8 August.
Doreen Mantle (SA born British actor – Mrs Warboys One Foot in The Grave) aged 97 - 9 August.
Robbie Robertson (Canadian musician) aged 80 - 9 August.
Michael Parkinson (English TV presenter and Iinterviewee) aged 88 - 16 August.
Ron Cephas-Jones (US actor - This Is Us) aged 66 - long-standing pulmonary issue - 19 August.
Bernie Marsden (English guitarist and co-founder of Whitesnake) aged 72 - bacterial meningitis - 24 August.
Arleen Sorkin (US actor - Days OF Our Lives) aged 67 - pneumonia coupled with multiple sclerosis - 24 August.
Bob Barker (US media personality and animal rights advocate, host of The Price Is Right) aged 99 - Alzheimer’s disease - 26 August.
Brian McBride (US musician - Stars of the Lid) aged 53 - 27 August.
Mohammed Al-Fayed (Egyptian businessman most famous for being the owner of Harrods and father of Dodi) aged 94 - 30 August.
Paul Bird (English motorcycle champion and rally driver) aged 56 - 1 September.
Jimmy Buffett (US musician & songwriter, singer) aged 76 - skin cancer - 1 September.
Steve Harwell (US singer - Smash Mouth) aged 56 – liver failure - 4 September.
Joe Fagin (English singer, songwriter - That's Livin' Alright (Auf Wiedersehen, Pet)) aged 83 - 5 September.
Mike Yarwood (English comedian/impressionist) – aged 82 - 8 September.
Jean Boht (English actor - Bread) aged 91 - Complications of Dementia - 12 September.
Roger Whittaker (Kenyan Folk singer/musician, trademark whistling) aged 87 - 13 September.
David McCallum (Scottish actor - The Man from Uncle) aged 90 - 25 September.
Michael Gambon (Irish actor - Albus Dumbledore Harry Potter Series) aged 82 – pneumonia - 27 September.
Francis Lee (English footballer) aged 79 – cancer - 2 October.
Burt Young (US actor, author & painter, films: Rocky & Chinatown) aged 83 – cardiac arrest. 8 October.
Piper Laurie (US actor, played Carrie’s mom in Carrie) aged 91 - 14 October.
Tony Husband (English cartoonist, Private Eye) aged 73 – heart attack - 18 October.
Haydn Gwynne (English actor - Drop the Dead Donkey) aged 66 – cancer - 20 October.
Bobby Charlton (English footballer, Manchester United & International) aged 86 - trauma in the lungs, a fall and dementia - 21 October.
Richard Roundtree (US actor - Shaft) aged 81 – pancreatic cancer - 24 October.
Matthew Perry (US actor - Friends) aged 54 - acute effects of ketamine & drowning - 28 October.
Adam Johnson (US ice hockey player) aged 29 - fatal neck injury - 28 October.
Pete Garner (English bass guitarist - The Stone Roses) aged 61 – cancer - 3 November.
Anne Hart (English actor, Z Cars also widow of Ronnie Corbett) aged 90 - 5 November.
Joss Ackland (English actor, Lethal Weapon 2) aged 95 - 19 November.
Annabel Giles (Welsh presenter, actor, novelist & model) aged 64 – brain tumour - 20 November.
Jean Knight (US singer, Mr Big Stuff) aged 80 - 22 November.
Russell Norman (English chef/restaurateur, appeared on Saturday Kitchen) aged 57 – cardiac arrest - 23 November.
Terry Venables (English and International footballer) aged 80 - 25 November.
Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker (English rock musician, songwriter and producer, founding member of Killing Joke) aged 64 – heart attack - 26 November.
Vicky Leyton AKA Sticky Vicky (Spanish ballet dancer, illusionist and erm vaginal magic shows) aged 80 – heart failure - 29 November.
Henry Kissinger (US politician, bit of a cunt, ironically born in Germany and escaped Germany to escape Nazis persecution) – aged 100 - 29 November.
Dean Sullivan (English actor played Jimmy Corkhill – Brookside) aged 68 - 29 November.
Shane MacGowan (Irish singer, co-founder of the Pogues) aged 65 – pneumonia - 30 November.
Alastair Darling (English politician) aged 70 – cancer - 30 November.
Brigit Forsyth (English actor, Thelma in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads) aged 83 - 1 December.
Shaun Davis (English bodybuilder, Mr Universe) aged 51 – kidney failure - 1 December.
Glenys Kinnock (English politician, also husband of Neil) aged 79 – Alzheimer’s - 3 December.
Benjamin Zephaniah (English poet & writer) aged 65 – brain tumour - 7 December.
Ryan O’Neal (US actor, The Driver) aged 82 – heart failure -8 December.
Shirley Anne Field (English actor, Alfie & Doctor in Clover) aged 87 - 10 December.
Ian Gibson (English illustrator, Judge Dred, 2000AD) aged 77 – pancreatic cancer - 11 December.
Andre Braugher (US actor, Homicide: Life on the Street) aged 61 - lung cancer - 11 December.
Wilf Lunn (English eccentric inventor, kids TV presenter and author) aged 81 - 13 December.
Steve Halliwell (English actor played Zak Dingle Emmerdale) aged 77 - 15 December.
James McCaffrey (US actor, most famous for the voice of Max Payne) aged 65 – blood cancer - 17 December.
Laura Lynch (US country singer and co-founder of The Dixie Chicks) aged 65 – car accident – 22 December.
Kamar de los Reyes (Puerto Rican actor - and body acting & voice of Raul Menendez Call of Duty series) aged 56 – cancer – 24 December.
Henry Sandon (English antiques expert – presenter on Antiques Roadshow) aged 95 – 25 December.
Simply the best Font Geek humorous forum posts related to a celebrity death awarded to Tina Turner (US singer – Icon AKA Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll) aged 83 - 24 May.
Youngest death awarded to Angus Cloud (US actor - Euphoria) – aged 25 – accidental drug overdose - 31 July.
Oldest death awarded to Al Jaffee (US cartoonist) aged 102 - 10 April - respect!
Best death awarded to Paul O’Grady (English comedian, drag queen, actor, writer) aged 67 - sudden cardiac arrhythmia - 28 March who allegedly died whilst smoking a joint.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bloke awarded to Henry Kissinger (Jewish – US politician, bit of a cunt) – aged 100 - 29 November.
Most gruesome death awarded to Adam Johnson (US ice hockey player) aged 29 - fatal neck injury - 28 October.
Most shocking death awarded to Matthew Perry (US actor - Friends) aged 54 - acute effects of ketamine & drowning - 28 October. Could that be any more shocking!
Most surprising they lived to that age awarded to Billy Graham (US Wrestler) aged 79 - sepsis and multiple organ failure - 17 May whose long-term abuse of steroids led to six hip replacements and left him sterile, he also had a liver transplant in 2002.
Saddest (double) death belongs to Tori Bowie (US gold medalist athlete) aged 32 – childbirth complications - 23 April whose unborn child was named ‘Ariana’.
Obligatory FCUTA.
