Celebrity death that’s affected you the most ?
2026-04-12 02:11 UTC
Replies (40)
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@MTZ@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 02:22
Probably Chris Cornell.
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@Town@lemmy.zip 2026-04-12 02:23
Robin Williams
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@MantisToboggon@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 02:36
Billy Mays.
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@Vespair@lemmy.zip 2026-04-12 02:47
Mitch Hedberg
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@hoagecko@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-12 02:47
imoutoid
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@jared@mander.xyz 2026-04-12 02:47
Trevor Moore
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@linkshandig@lemmy.today 2026-04-12 02:51
Steve Irwin
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@pedz@lemmy.ca 2026-04-12 03:00
I don’t know if he counts as a celebrity but, Aaron Schwartz.
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@perfectduck@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 03:02
Andre Braugher
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@perishthethought@piefed.social 2026-04-12 03:05
Not many will know him but: Alex Chilton. It just didn’t seem possible when he passed in 2010 at 60.
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@jdr@lemmy.ml 2026-04-12 03:07
Jesus Christ
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@NONE_dc@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 03:08
Akira Toriyama
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@Hayduke@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 03:10
Phil Hartman
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@Mothra@mander.xyz 2026-04-12 04:02
Terry Pratchett
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@dnick@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-12 04:12
Frank Zappa and Christopher Hitchens. Maybe not personally, but i really feel like there are some losses that the world doesn’t realize.
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@theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 03:31
Anton Yelchin was so goddamn young and had an entire career ahead of him.
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@boydster@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-12 04:34
A couple I haven’t seen yet but both were impactful to me: Prince and David Bowie. Both deaths felt so close in time together and came by complete surprise.
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@wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 2026-04-12 04:56
Jimi Hendrix
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@normalentrance@lemmy.zip 2026-04-12 05:09
Chris Cornell hit hard especially when you go back and listen to his lyrics.
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@davidgro@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 03:59
Taking the question literally, I'll say Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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@Kevo@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 03:21
Chadwick Boseman. I was 24 when he died. I'm mixed and a huge nerd. He was one of the first times I saw representation like that in a comic book hero in a movie or TV show. T'Challa was a king, and his death came out of nowhere
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@OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2026-04-12 04:15
Ozzy Ozbourne.
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@cerement@slrpnk.net 2026-04-12 03:24
Anthony Bourdain
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@EscanortheArrogant@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 03:29
Kurt Cobain
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@kmirl@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 03:02
Anthony Bourdain.
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@CelloMike@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 06:59
Sean Lock The first time I’ve felt genuine shock at a celebrity death, RIP undisputed Carrot in a Box champion
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@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-12 06:47
Damn. Hard call. There’s only been a few that have hit me because I don’t really have a parasocial connection to anyone to any degree worth mentioning. That being said, the three that made me actually cry were Vonnegut, Kris Kristofferson, and Chester Bennington. Chester, I was listening to the one more light album when I found out, so it hit extra hard. Vonnegut though, he more than any other writer made me think and want to create with words. He shaped how I view literature and think about writing. So his death hit harder than most. Kristofferson, it’s that I had known it was coming. He’d already been lost to a great degree, but I had been low key dreading the news because he’s so damn iconic. He’s the kind of poet I wish I could be. And his music was also damn good lol. Also, he’s symbolic of an era of music that’s disappeared, and as the last of the highwaymen have died, with only one left there’s this hole in the world that isn’t likely to be filled now that the entire music industry has fallen into disarray. It’s much harder for that kind of poet bard to exist and have their music spread now. In any genre, btw; the same difficulties exist in folk, metal, rap, etc. Anyway, those are the ones that made me cry as a grown-ass man. I suspect I’ll shed another tear when Willie goes, and I know I’m gonna fall apart a little when Dolly does. Luckily, the next wave of writers and musicians that I’d likely cry over are a good twenty years younger (or more) than them, so I’ll have a break after that. Likely be dead myself before most of the others would go.
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@YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2026-04-12 07:02
Hearing about Rush Limbaugh’s death made me smile pretty big.
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@doleo@lemmy.one 2026-04-12 07:48
Steve albini. I’m still not over it tbh.
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@iguessimlemming@lemmy.ml 2026-04-12 08:55
David Bowie. I really mourned him, didn’t expect to feel so strongly about someone I never met. Feel like the world got significantly duller and darker since he took off.
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@spy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-12 09:00
Not a celebrity, kind of like @pedz@lemmy.ca, but Daniel Naroditsky. I did not expect his death would affect me as much as it did. Fuck K.
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@Augustiner@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 09:15
Mac Miller was probably the worst one… I’m a little younger than him and watching his career from early on felt like watching an older brother develop and making it big. He made the soundtrack to most of my youth.
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@UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-12 09:31
Freddy Mercury, for sure.
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@sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 10:44
David Lynch. His death hit me like a punch to the heart. Also Adam Yauch (MCA).
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@stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-12 10:53
Danya Naroditsky’s suicide recently was very upsetting
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@TheDarkQuark@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 11:04
Chester Bennington and Kurt Cobain. Although I discovered their songs years after their death.
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@Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 11:07
Alexei Navalny’s death really made me sad. Thought the guy would make it and usher a new era.
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@48954246@lemmy.world 2026-04-12 12:55
John “TotalBiscuit” Bain. Hit at a rough time for me and at that point I had been following his content for many years.
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@gajahmada@awful.systems 2026-04-12 13:16
Well, I read the title and the only thing popped up is Chester. I always shrugged off celebrity deaths cuz it never affects me before. But that morning my then SO woke me up and I’m in dazed cuz teens me just full of angst lol and how he did it after just released One More Light is too much, I think I avoid listening to LP for a few years after that. It’s also after Cornell did it not long before I think? AFAIK they’re Godfathers to each other kids. I think contrary to what generally believe LP lyrics all are Mike’s. But understandable since Chester is the one actually sung it. don’t think LP would be this big if they didn’t have Chester, the band said so themselves (the label want to get rid of Chester at first but they pushed back). I just wished Mike would just rename the band like Audioslaves did and leave LP as a legacy. Don’t get me wrong Emily is badass.
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@Jaegeras@piefed.social 2026-04-12 13:21
Ozzy Osbourne. His death is signaling a more greyer world coming, the more legendary rock stars we lose.