# Celebrities you were surprised to learn were dead **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-learn-were-dead/920107 "2020-09-08T17:04:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-learn-were-dead/920107/1 "2020-09-08T17:04:28Z")
Kind of inspired by the current thread about the “Abe Vigodas.” Anyway, I was watching a documentary last night about Siegfried and Roy, and was surprised to learn that Roy Horn is no longer with us. Apparently he contracted Covid-19 and died back in May, which I have no memory whatsoever of hearing about. So what celebrities were you surprised to learn had departed. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-learn-were-dead/920107/2 "2020-09-08T17:35:19Z")
I’m still gobsmacked by the deaths of Chadwick Boseman and Neil Peart. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-were-surprised-to-learn-were-dead/920107/3 "2020-09-09T17:37:57Z")
Valerie Quennessen. She was the French chick in _French Postcards_. She was the French chick in _Summer Lovers_. She was the princess in _Conan the Barbarian_. If you watched HBO in the 1980s, you saw a lot of her (so to speak). Sadly for us fanboys, she left showbiz to concentrate on her family. Sadly for everyone, she died in a car crash in 1989.