The 8th Annual Celebrity Death Thread 2023

[Preezy]

New year, new thread- who wants to do it?

Children of the Harvest, I have returned following a year in exile. Mori the Usurper has been sent to the dungeons to think about his actions

I have watched from the shadows with great interest as the offerings poured in last year to keep the Old Gods satisfied. And now, the cycle must begin anew.


2023 Sacrifices:

Ken Block - rally driver
David Gold - West Ham co-owner
Fay Weldon - author
Gianluca Vialli - former footballer
Joan Sydney - actress
Earl Boen - actor
Jeff Beck - musician
Lisa Marie Presley - singer
Gina Lollobrigida - actress
Gina Lollobrigida - Irish musician
Van Conner - musician
David Sutherland - cartoonist
David Crosby - musician
Sylvia Syms - actress
Tom Verlaine - musician
Annie Wersching - actress
Paco Rabanne - fashion designer
Burt Bacharach - singer/songwriter
David "Trugoy" Jolicoeur - rapper
Raquel Welch - actress
Tim Aymar - singer
Christian Atsu - footballer
Richard Belzer - actor
Dickie Davies - TV presenter
John Motson - sports commentator
Betty Boothroy - politician
Just Fontaine - footballer
Steve Mackey - musician
Tom Sizemore - actor
Margaret Lake (Mystic Meg) - TV personality
Chaim Topol - actor
Robert Blake - actor
Lance Reddick - actor
Paul O',Grady - TV presenter
Ryuichi Sakamoto - musician
Nigel Lawson - politician
Bernadette Hunt - Gladiator
Paul Cattermole - singer
Gareth Richards - comedian
Michael Lerner - actor
Al Jaffee - cartoonist
Mark Sheehan - musician
Barry Humphries - entertainer
Len Goodman - TV personality
Harry Belafonte - musician, activist
Jerry Springer - broadcaster
Gordon Lightfoot - singer songwriter
Terrence Hardiman - actor
Andy Rourke - musician
Ray Stevenson - actor
Tina Turner - singer
Treat Williams- actor
Cormac McCarthy - author
Glenda Jackson - actress and MP
Craig Brown - Scottish football manager
Frederic Forrest - actor
Julian Sands - actor
Alan Arkin - actor
Tony Bennett - singer
George Alagiah - newsreader/broadcaster
Trevor Francis - footballer
Chris Bart-Williams - footballer
Sinéad O'Connor - singer
Paul Reubens - entertainer
William Friedkin - director
DJ Casper - singer
Sir Michael Parkinson - broadcaster
Mohamed Al Fayed - businessman
Jimmy Buffett - singer
Steve Harwell - singer
Jean Boht - actress
Roger Whittaker - singer-songwriter
David McCallum - actor
Sir Michael Gambon - actor
Jake Abraham - actor
Burt Young - actor
Haydn Gwynne - actress
Bobi - World's Oldest Dog (31!)
Sir Bobby Charlton - footballer
Angelo Bruschini - musician
Bill Kenwright - Everton chairman
Richard Roundtree - actor
Matthew Perry - actor
Adam Johnson - Ice hockey player
Johnny Ruffo - actor
Joss Ackland - actor
Annabel Giles - actress, presenter
Terry Venables - football manager
Henry Kissinger - diplomat
Shane MacGowan - singer-songwriter
Geordie Walker - musician
Alistair Darling - politician
Brigit Forsyth - actress
Denny Laine - musician
Benjamin Zephaniah - writer and poet
Andre Braugher - actor
Emmanuelle Debever - actress
Steve Halliwell - actor
James McCaffrey - actor
Lee Sun-kyun - actor
Tom Wilkinson - actor

Nonce & Wrong'ns Appendix - You Kill 'Em, We Grill 'Em
Rolf Harris - nonce
Ted Kaczynski - Unabomber
Silvio Berlusconi - politician and all round cheeky chappy

[Vermilion]

Three days in to the new year and we already have a name on the list, not the greatest of starts that's for sure.

[Memento Mori]

Children of the Harvest, I have returned following a year in exile. Mori the Usurper has been sent to the dungeons to think about his actions

[rinks]

McRae, Schumacher and Block. Three motorsport legends who defied the dangers of their disciplines, only to be done in by horrible, unrelated and pointless accidents.

[Memento Mori]

In regards to Schumacher and Block, this has underlined how I have no interest at all in doing any winter sports.

What's the best that can happen?

[more heat than light]

You have fun?

[Memento Mori]

It seems unlikely.

[LewisD]

Didn't realise Jeremy Renner has had a near-death experience and is currently fighting in critical condition

[Octoroc]

Didn't realise Jeremy Renner has had a near-death experience and is currently fighting in critical condition

Is he dead?

[Moggy]

Didn't realise Jeremy Renner has had a near-death experience and is currently fighting in critical condition

More proof that Mori is right about the evils of snow.

[Memento Mori]

Jeremy Renner apparently seems to have run over himself with a snow plow or something. Lucky to be alive.

[Octoroc]

Lucky to be alive.

[Imrahil]

First reports were it rolled over his leg, but it's now being revealed he received blunt trauma to his chest too.

Pretty horrific.

[Memento Mori]

Blunt trauma to his chest sounds extremely grim. Paralysis I'd imagine.

[Vermilion]

McRae, Schumacher and Block. Three motorsport legends who defied the dangers of their disciplines, only to be done in by horrible, unrelated and pointless accidents.

David Leslie too, he was a big name in the btcc during the 90's and early 00's, only to end up killed in a plane crash.

[rinks]

McRae, Schumacher and Block. Three motorsport legends who defied the dangers of their disciplines, only to be done in by horrible, unrelated and pointless accidents.

David Leslie too, he was a big name in the btcc during the 90's and early 00's, only to end up killed in a plane crash.

Oh god, I didn’t know that. I was a big BTCC fan in that era. Winklehock, Tarquini, Harvey, etc. And my favourite, the fabulously grumpy John Cleland.

[Vermilion]

McRae, Schumacher and Block. Three motorsport legends who defied the dangers of their disciplines, only to be done in by horrible, unrelated and pointless accidents.

David Leslie too, he was a big name in the btcc during the 90's and early 00's, only to end up killed in a plane crash.

Oh god, I didn’t know that. I was a big BTCC fan in that era. Winklehock, Tarquini, Harvey, etc. And my favourite, the fabulously grumpy John Cleland.

Yeah, it was such a shame, see here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7321589.stm

[hamm sandwich]

Richard Burns too, I know it wasn’t death by misadventure but to survive a career in WRC and be finished off by a brain tumour seems massively unfair.

I remember feeling the change of direction toward gymkhana and x games following Colin McRae’s death in DiRT 2 was a little insensitive. Ken Block was pretty much the face of that.

[Vermilion]

Will Hoy (another BTCC legend) also suffered from one and was taken too soon.

[floydfreak]

McRae, Schumacher and Block. Three motorsport legends who defied the dangers of their disciplines, only to be done in by horrible, unrelated and pointless accidents.

David Leslie too, he was a big name in the btcc during the 90's and early 00's, only to end up killed in a plane crash.

Oh god, I didn’t know that. I was a big BTCC fan in that era. Winklehock, Tarquini, Harvey, etc. And my favourite, the fabulously grumpy John Cleland.

The golden era of BTCC