Heres a pop quiz--
How many actors/actresses died on a holiday? I know Houdini died on Halloween. Anyone else take a dive on a holiday?
Happy Halloween!
BTW--Steve Allen missed Halloween by one day (He died Oct 30)
Heres a pop quiz--
How many actors/actresses died on a holiday? I know Houdini died on Halloween. Anyone else take a dive on a holiday?
Happy Halloween!
BTW--Steve Allen missed Halloween by one day (He died Oct 30)
Trivia - There is a 1934 movie DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY starring Fredric March, as the Grim Reaper. He falls in love and no one dies for a couple of days.
Vincent Price and River Phoenix both died on the same Halloween, hours apart.
OH yeah! I knew it was a play or something. Didnt know it was Frederic March.
Dean Martin on Christmas morning!
Danny--that reminds me that Charlie Chaplin and W.C. Fields also died on Christmas Day.
Conrad Hilton
Rod Serling
Noel Redding
Humphery Bogart
Cab Calloway
Oops...these are their birthdays...my bad!!!
Sorry!
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Yikes--Must have been something in that eggnog!
Didn't James Brown die on Christmas?
adams and jefferson on independence day.
Nat King Cole the day AFTER Valentine's Day!
This is a good link for Christmas.
http://www.amiannoying.com/(S(cvbi5y...ollection=4879
Christmas Deaths
A list of famous people or celebrities who died on the 25th of December - Christmas Day.
Famous Person Occupation Christmas Death Year James Brownsinger2006 Denver Pyleactor1997 Nikolai Slonimskymusicologist1996 Dean Martinactor1995 Nicolea CeausescuRomanian dictator1989 Charlie Chaplinactor1977 Johnny Acesinger1954 W. C. Fieldscomedian1946 YoshihitoEmperor of Japan1926 Hans Hubercomposer1921 Antonio Tonellicomposer1765 Elisabeth Petrovnatsarina of Russia1761 Adrian IPope795
Hmmm...
I wonder what happened to the gifts, if any, they got.
They probably didn't need much being rich and famous.
It would still be a bummer to get a calander and not be able to use it!
Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti, June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, film actor, and comedian. He was one of the most famous music artists in the 1950s and 1960s. His hit singles included the songs "Memories Are Made Of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "Mambo Italiano", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head". He was the only star to be a major hit in all four major areas of show business: concert stage, recordings, motion pictures, and television.
Gerald Ford died on December 26. Is that close enough?
1977 - Charlie Chaplin, English actor (b. 1889)
1979 - Joan Blondell, American actress (b. 1906)
1983 - Joan Miró, Catalan painter (b. 1893)
1988 - Ooka Shohei, Japanese novelist (b. 1909)
1988 - Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (b. 1920)
1989 - Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (executed) (b. 1918)
1989 - Elena Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (executed) (b. 1916)
1989 - Billy Martin, American baseball manager (b. 1928)
1992 - Monica Dickens, British writer (b. 1915)
1993 - Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
1994 - Zail Singh, President of India (b. 1916)
1995 - Dean Martin, American singer (b. 1917)
1997 - Denver Pyle, American actor (b. 1920)
1998 - Bryan MacLean, American singer, musician and songwriter (Love) (b. 1946)
1998 - John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1926)
1999 - Peter Jeffrey, English actor (b. 1929)
2000 - Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (b. 1908)
2002 - William T. Orr, American television producer (b. 1917)
2003 - Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (b. 1929)
2004 - Gennady Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1940)
2005 - Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (b. 1930)
2005 - Birgit Nilsson, Swedish singer (b. 1918)
2005 - Robert Barbers, Philippine senator (b. 1944)
2006 - James Brown, American singer (b. 1933)
Eartha Kitt died on Christmas
Joey Ramone - Easter Sunday
Dean Martin - Christmas Day
Abraham Lincoln - Good Friday - 1865
Hank Williams Sr. - New Years Day - 1953
I think Chaplin died on Christmas...
Denver Pyle too
oh yeah, and Joan Blondell
Barry White died on July 4th (which I hear is big with you americans)
Helen Hayes died on St. Patty's day
New York Yankees manager Billy Martin died on Christmas.
My MIL died the day after Christmas but it was a holiday all the same. Even set her Flying Monkeys loose.
Stay in Drugs. Eat your School. Don't do Vegetables.
Cesar Romero died on New Years in 94
and Maurice Chevalier in 72
OK so we just got done with Christmas, right?
Which means that a lot of us celebrate by exchanging gifts.
And since death doesn't take a holiday, there are people who die, one way or another either just before or after Christmas within December.
And just about everytime I read about these deaths, I can't help but think of the gifts.
Like what happens to them. If it's before Xmas: Will the surviving family return them.
Or it it's afterwards: He/she didn't have much time to enjoy them.
Am I alone in this or do others think similar things?
I thought about this too. If I bought a gift for a family member or friend and they died I don't think I'd have the heart to return it. I would probably end up keeping it.... I don't know why. It would probably end up being something special to me.
Id guess, theyd donate them to charity. My cousin offed herself at the end of November. Knowing my aunt ( her mother ) who starts buying x-mas stuff the janurary following x-mas, no doubt shed already bought my dead cousins gift. I did have the notion to that day following the funeral service but I couldnt find a way to word the question in a way that would seem cold and heartless. X-mas gifts were the last thing on my aunts mind , christ her daughter had just put a bullet into her skull. My parents took the gifts they had got for her back and got their money refunded. I know that
I actually had that though about Brittany Murphy. lol
Of course we have, LOL!!! There is a thread somewhere about a man who murdered his wife, maybe one of his kids, and terribly injured another in the 50's or 60's. The house still sits empty of people, but all their stuff was left there forever, including Christmas presents.
I will try to find the thread....
http://www.findadeath.com/forum/show...der%2C+suicide
Damn! I went all the way back to August, but there was a great update in December, LOL!!!!
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When my nephew offed himself two days before Christmas his presents we donated to charity.
You are not alone, I've had the same thought. I spose you could put the gifts in the casket with em to enjoy in the great beyond .
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsvGs...feature=colike
My own, personal, Dexter...
I live in MN and the last Christmas my SIL was alive, we were not able to get together due to the terrible weather. Her cancer took a sudden acute turn and she died before we could reschedule things.
My brother (her husband) gave us the gifts she had chosen for us, and they have a value that can't be explained unless you've received a posthumous gift and knew that, even while the giver was terminally ill, he/she thought of you and took the time to find something so sweet and perfect, it will always pull at your heart. I don't know what others did with the gifts FOR her--I had a beautiful pearl and jade bracelet and earrings that I gave to her daughter (my brother's stepdaughter)... She never wore them but instead had them made into part of the picture frame that holds a beautiful image of her mom, my brother's wife, and my sweet sister-in-law.
My Grandfather died Christmas morning 1999 and I know my grandma took the presents she bought back but I am not quite sure what my mom did about the gifts she bought. I always got them a resturant gift certificate so grandma got to go out to dinner on me with a friend.
Should we open up her gifts or send them back? SEND THEM BACK! :-)
Well my Dad actually passed on Dec 29 1999 but I never got to give him his gift..I brought it to him in the hospital but he told me to bring it home he would open it when he got home..but he never did come home..I still have the gift in a box on a shelf in my closet I could not return it.
I gave my fiance a nice coat for Christmas in 1995, and he died the following April. So he didn't really get much use from it, because it was kind of warm for him. II have often thought of donating it to a homeless shelter, where someone really could use it, but i've been too selfish to part with it.
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Charlie Chaplin died on Christmas Day 1977.
Dean Martin
Joan Blondell
Eartha Kitt
Denver Pyle
Jon Benet Ramsey
James Brown
Dean Martin
Joan Blondell
Billy Martin (Yankees)
Eartha Kitt
Cindy
Rick Nelson died on New Years Eve.
Performing my signature monkey hump move since 10/16/2007...
RIP Dad- 11/14/1947 to 12/16/2013
Harry Connick Jr. died on Independence Day........oops, that was a movie, sorry :P
Sorry about that. I clearly remember his death being announced on Halloween, and I just assumed that was when he had died. Mea culpa.
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