Celebrity Death Thread 2019

[Corrderio]

Richard Williams. Animation Director of Who Framed Roger Rabbit

[Cail]

And he didn't die.

We've posted close calls before

[Cyn]

CTD'19: Someone that was involved in that thing that you know about, or maybe not, may have died or possibly come close to it, or perhaps was in some sort of accident but is just fine

[Gadritan]

Well, his dad died in a pretty nasty accident during a race.

Then there was a string of Nascar driver deaths in the 90's/00's due to plane/helicopter wrecks.

Aside from all that, escaping from a fiery plane crash with your wife and kid in tow, regardless of how it happened is still a big deal.

Dale Sr wasn't in a "nasty," accident when he died. It was very mild compared to most, but he broke his neck due to lack of head restraints. The fact he died so easily in such a small and routine wreck is what gave birth to HANS.

Tragic as it was, countless lives have been saved because of it from indy car to GT to drift.

Sr was a legend because he was the definition of give no fucks. He was fearless.

I was born in and spent a large chunk of my life in NC, so NASCAR was a huge part of my childhood. He was the first celebrity I felt legitimately sad about when he died. He's also one of the main reasons I got into cars and street racing.

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[Outlaw]

I wasn't that big of a fan of Peter Fonda. He was not in that many movies really.

[mallister]

yeah, you kind of have to be from the south to get the earnhardt thing. the dude was redneck royalty. nascar is a big deal back home.

i'm not a fan, but then i've been accused of being allergic to fun so it's not exactly out of character.

[Abandon]

Cedric Benson, ex-NFL RB

[Outlaw]

Jack Whitaker, legendary sportscaster and World War II veteran, died Sunday morning in his sleep in Devon, Pennsylvania, of natural causes. He was 95 years old.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jack-wh...es-2019-08-18/

Called Super Bowl I and well as the 1973 Triple Crown race with Secretariat.

[TsingTao]

Cedric Benson, ex-NFL RB

WTF man, that sucks. Way too young to go out at all, let alone random motorcycle accident.

[optimisation]

Home And Away star Ben Unwin dead at 41

https://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...9cac81a02184ec

[6souls]

Billionaire David Koch, 79, secret owner of everything

[Yabby]

Billionaire David Koch, 79, secret owner of everything

"David liked to say that a combination of brilliant doctors, state-of-the-art medications and his own stubbornness kept the cancer at bay," the brother's statement said. "We can all be grateful that it did, because he was able to touch so many more lives as a result."

Yea... dude touched a lot of lives......

[Fiye]

Don't worry the Koch suicide pact will kick in within the next hundred years.

[Fiye]

Edit: This is spam material my bad

[Spicyryan]

Billionaire David Koch, 79

Good!

[kuronosan]

Combination of brilliant doctors and medications that the citizens of his home state can't afford. What a guy.

[arus2001]

And nothing of value was lost.

[Byrthnoth]

All his kids are younger than 25

[6souls]

All his kids are younger than 25

That's some good seed.

[TsingTao]

Jessi Combs, age 36. Died trying to break her own land-speed record.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a2...ombs-obituary/

Details on crash not released yet, but if it was during a record attempt I expect the details to be unpleasant.