Author Topic: Deaths of famous people (2025) (Read 13456 times)

The Chief · « **Reply #200 on:** July 24, 2025, 02:56:40 pm »

Quote from: imref on July 24, 2025, 12:28:37 pm

Hogan was an enigma. Easily the biggest star wrestling ever produced (sorry Rock), the biggest face/good-guy the business ever saw, and the biggest heel/bad-guy the business ever saw. He was the central character in McMahon's bringing of wrestling from the days of being on UHF channel 48 to the mainstream, and from regional to national promotions. He was also the central character in the Monday night wars of the late 1990s and NWO storyline that saw wrestling viewership reach all time highs.

On the other hand, he said and did a lot of things that, shall I say, weren't so nice and he had a reputation for stepping over people to protect his character.

RIP Hulkster. Somewhere the Iron Sheik is chasing after him right now.

Complicated man but a great man, I would say. Definitely some blemishes on his legacy, but I'd wager he did more good than bad in his life.

The Chief · « **Reply #201 on:** July 24, 2025, 02:58:25 pm »

superstitious frivolity of course, but I suppose Hogan satisfies the "rule of threes" for the week.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #202 on:** July 24, 2025, 03:00:15 pm »

Quote from: imref on July 24, 2025, 02:32:26 pm

And another: Chuck Mangione, 84

Peggy Hill is in mourning.

bluestreak · « **Reply #203 on:** July 24, 2025, 06:22:02 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-vxwDNnvtkU

imref · « **Reply #204 on:** July 24, 2025, 06:26:04 pm »

Weird fact: Both Ozzy and Hulk Hogan are members of the WWE Hall of Fame.

imref · « **Reply #205 on:** July 25, 2025, 07:07:45 am »

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/george-kooymans-golden-earring-obituary/

Wrote Twilight Zone. A band that probably ought to be in the R&R HoF. Didn't realize that they have been around since 1961.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #206 on:** July 25, 2025, 12:12:20 pm »

Quote from: imref on July 25, 2025, 07:07:45 am

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/george-kooymans-golden-earring-obituary/

Wrote Twilight Zone. A band that probably ought to be in the R&R HoF. Didn't realize that they have been around since 1961.

also radar love.

imref · « **Reply #207 on:** July 25, 2025, 12:47:46 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on July 25, 2025, 12:12:20 pm

also radar love.

co-wrote that one

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #208 on:** July 25, 2025, 01:39:47 pm »

Quote from: imref on July 25, 2025, 12:47:46 pm

co-wrote that one

Thanks. I was only thinking about Golden Earring songs. They suffer a bit by not being a USA or British/Irish act. I don't think there's many continental acts in the R&R HOF (ABBA being the big exception, along with Kraftwerk).

wj73 · « **Reply #209 on:** July 27, 2025, 04:03:03 pm »

Tom Lehrer, age 97. Brilliant satirist.

I did not know he was also a university mathematics professor.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #210 on:** July 27, 2025, 04:45:24 pm »

National Brotherhood Week

wj73 · « **Reply #211 on:** July 27, 2025, 07:49:16 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on July 27, 2025, 04:45:24 pm

National Brotherhood Week

His work is timeless.

wj73 · « **Reply #212 on:** July 27, 2025, 07:58:51 pm »

For the scientists out there:

Brings to mind when we were at White Rock, NM, just outside Los Alamos. We stopped at a cafe to get lunch. No offense to anyone, but every table looked like it was populated by the guys from Big Bang Theory. I hit the bathroom before I left. Above the baby changing station, instead of some lovely picture, they had a large poster of the Periodic Table of the Elements. It tracked.

skippy1999 · « **Reply #213 on:** July 28, 2025, 11:43:59 pm »

Ryne Sandburg has passed

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/ryne-sandberg-dies-at-65-hall-of-fame-second-baseman-spent-16-years-in-mlb-primarily-with-the-cubs

imref · « **Reply #214 on:** July 31, 2025, 02:47:58 pm »

Hulk Hogan cause of death was a heart attack, he was also suffering from a relatively mild form of leukemia.

1995hoo · « **Reply #215 on:** August 03, 2025, 08:40:24 pm »

Loni Anderson of WKRP in Cincinnati at 79.

bluestreak · « **Reply #216 on:** August 04, 2025, 01:58:59 am »

Quote from: 1995hoo on August 03, 2025, 08:40:24 pm

Loni Anderson of WKRP in Cincinnati at 79.

This hurts.

imref · « **Reply #217 on:** August 05, 2025, 03:58:17 pm »

Kind of an obscure one, but Terry Reid, who passed on the chance to be the lead singer of what became Led Zeppelin and instead recommended Robert Plant for the job, has died at 75.

https://americansongwriter.com/influential-u-k-rocker-terry-reid-who-once-declined-the-chance-to-front-led-zeppelin-dead-at-76/

imref · « **Reply #218 on:** August 08, 2025, 04:07:58 pm »

Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, famously portrayed by Tom Hanks, dead at 97.

HondoKillebrew · « **Reply #219 on:** August 08, 2025, 06:49:49 pm »

Quote from: imref on August 08, 2025, 04:07:58 pm

Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, famously portrayed by Tom Hanks, dead at 97.

I was thinking about him recently. Quite the astronaut hero. A good run all the way to 97. Man is it tough to see guys like this go. RIP

wj73 · « **Reply #220 on:** August 08, 2025, 08:30:34 pm »

I was of the Gemini and Apollo eras where we practically worshipped astronauts. The passing of an era as more of these men slip the surly bonds of earth.

HondoKillebrew · « **Reply #221 on:** August 08, 2025, 11:42:29 pm »

Quote from: wj73 on August 08, 2025, 08:30:34 pm

I was of the Gemini and Apollo eras where we practically worshipped astronauts. The passing of an era as more of these men slip the surly bonds of earth.

This (if accurate) from a quick search of the interweb:

“As of August 2025, six Apollo astronauts are still alive: David Scott (Apollo 9 and 15), Russell Schweickart (Apollo 9), Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11), Fred Haise (Apollo 13), Charles Duke (Apollo 16), and Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17).”

I’ve seen conflicting lists of how many Gemini astronauts who flew are still with us.

1995hoo · « **Reply #222 on:** August 10, 2025, 08:39:22 pm »

Bobby Whitlock died today. The last of the Dominos. Only Derek remains.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #223 on:** August 12, 2025, 06:05:29 pm »

Quote from: 1995hoo on August 10, 2025, 08:39:22 pm

Bobby Whitlock died today. The last of the Dominos. Only Derek remains.

Really don't know is full list of work, but I really enjoyed "Anyday" of Layla and ...

Dave in Fairfax · « **Reply #224 on:** August 12, 2025, 06:25:19 pm »

Danielle Spencer, at age 60. Best known as Dee Thomas, the younger sister on What's Happening!!.