first death of a celebrity that you remember in your life ?

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do you remember what was the first death of a celebrity that you remember in your life ?

Robert Kennedy in 1968.

my earliest memory is elvis when i was12/13.a day engraved in my mind for ever...

Elvis. I was 11. Will never forget it. John Lennon was the other significant one where the memory is very vivid.

Elvis. I was 11. Will never forget it. John Lennon was the other significant one where the memory is very vivid.

We are obviously of the same generation, Delboy - I have the same memories.

Slightly off-topic, but I also remember the Beatles breaking up when I was 6.

Elvis. I was 11. Will never forget it. John Lennon was the other significant one where the memory is very vivid.

me too...............

It is certainly President-related. Eisenhower passed away in 1969, but I don't specifically recall watching his funeral. Might be Harry Truman and LBJ passing away relatively close to one another. Truman was in late '72, and LBJ in early '73, I believe. I remember watching those funerals.

UK comedy genius Arthur Haynes (1966)

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For some reason I remember when Lyndon Johnson died, which is kind of weird because at the time I really didn't know who he was, I was only 6 years old.

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When Elvis died, I was 10, and was up north with my parents and my sister, and my grand parents were visiting. I will never forget the coverage it got on TV and especially radio! Living in Montreal, the radio stations played his music non-stop 24 hours a day from tuesday when he died t'ill sunday. Freench and english radio stations couldn't get enough of this story.

I think it was Tessie O'Shea.

It would be Elvis, I was pretty young when he died, but I knew who he was...barely.

anyone remember grace kelly'death ?

anyone remember grace kelly'death ?

Yes
And Lady Diana's death, which I had predicted to a friend, who looked puzzled when it happened.

James Dean - 30th September, 1955.

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hi

do you remember what was the first death of a celebrity that you remember in your life ?

Elvis - For Me -
I was 6 years old when i heard him the first time and I was hooked on his life story and career -
It was in '69 - and his untimely death in '77 -
I was 13 and a half yrs old - comin onto 14 - I cried for a long tyme weeks after his passing

''Long Live The King ''

''Long Live The Legend - 4evr In All Our Hearts And Minds ''-

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RFK and Ike. As far as actors go, Boris Karloff.

President Kennedy (to the best of my memory)... I turned 5 years old the next day.

I remember the singer Harry Chapin's death in 1981 I was five.

Raul Seixas in 1989 when I was 4 years old. Very famous in Brazil.

Celebrity worldwide speaking, I remember very well about Freddie Mercury.

Elvis. I was young, but I remember it, perhaps because it had an impact on my parents.

I recall John Lennon's death more clearly.

I was VERY little, but I remember it because of the strange things that started happening around me. I was supposed to be "taking a nap." I was in bed, the curtains drawn.

President John F. Kennedy.

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Nobody told me: there was a strange high-pitched keening sound coming from . . . the window area. It got louder. Somehow, I opened it, or it had been opened (more likely, now that I think about it). The sound was a high-pitched wail: all females. All wailing. This was in Levittown, L.I., as I recall (we moved a lot, but yeah).

As this was happening, and before anything came on the TV, unbeknownst to me, my dad had called my mom from "the Cotton Exchange" in NYC, where he was repairing a news ticker. He saw it, and called straight off. What she had done was to throw open the front door and shout it to the women in the neighborhood! Hence the keening wailing.

Moments later, and I'll never forget 'till I die, "Truth Or Consequences" (I remembered "To Tell The Truth," but I did a search, and it was "Truth Or Consequences"! I had on NBC. It went on at 12:30, and a few minutes later, they broke in, because he was shot at 12:30 -- I've wondered about this all my life!) was interrupted on the TV, with the news. The wailing started before it was on TV! My mom had started it with her clarion call to the neighbors. (A LOT of Irish Catholics in Levittown, and similar people, so they went hysterical right away.)

Weird, but true.

It was wall-to-wall after that, but I only remember when a Cardinal or something from Boston was on TV, chanting something in a Mass in Latin. I was this little tot, and I started screaming, and my dad came in. "Turn it off! Turn it off!!!!" It scared the blazes out of me for some reason!

rjm
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James Dean - 30th September, 1955.

Aw, Colin, tell us about it!! I really want to know what it was really like! {please}

I would have to say Andy Williams.

I think it was Tessie O'Shea.

Was that a joke? The woman didn't die until 1995.

It was Benny Hill in 1993. I'm not that old to remember the earlier ones...