Anton Yelchin died when his car rolled towards him and pinned him. His parking brake was not properly set.
Mike Edwards was a cellist, who played on three of Electric Light Orchestra’s early albums – so, not necessarily super-famous, but he had his 10 minutes of fame. He died in a traffic accident in 2010, while driving his van, when a cylindrical haybale, weighing 600 kilograms, rolled down a hill and struck his vehicle.
Isadora Duncan.
Tiny Tim suffered a heart attack while performing his signature hit “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” and died a few hours later.
Harry Einstein (known as Parkyakarkus and Harry Parke) finished his set at the Friar’s Club roast of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez then slumped over Milton Berle and died. He was the father of Albert Brooks and Bob Einstein.
I mentioned him upthread.
Not only that he would deliberately include mistakes in his act as part of his comedy, so people thought his collapse on stage was just an extreme example of that
Phil Hartman definitely counts
And of course JFK and RFK
Harry Houdini: famous for being able to take an manner of punch safety, but only with preparation. Was punched unexpectedly and died a week later (though possibly the punch just exacerbated a existing case of appendicitis)
Ah, I forgot about Anne Heche, who was driving erratically, crashed into a house, setting it on fire, was rescued from her car some while later, and struggled with her rescuers before passing out. She was taken to a hospital, declared brain dead, and kept on life support long enough to harvest organs for donation.
(AKA Super Dave Osborne.)
51 posts and not a single mention of Jesus, the obvious #1 with a bullet entry on this list?
Maybe not well known in the US, but BBC tv presenter Dr. Michael Mosley died in Greece when he decided to go for a walk in a remote area, without his mobile phone, when the area was under a weather warning due to hight temperatures.
Yes, a medical doctor.
Bobby Fuller had a pretty strange death (murder or suicide).
Sal Mineo?
Yeah, that whole story set off my bullshitometer. Did you confirm it, or is do you just have a hunch like me?
Does it count if his death was just temporary?
John Entwistle (the Who’s bassist) died from a heart attack while having sex with a stripper in a hotel room, high on cocaine. Now that’s a way to go for a rock’n’roller.
Jaco Pastorius became a drug addict & alcoholic, sleeping on park benches in Florida. One night he decided he wanted to go to a nightclub, but the bouncer wouldn’t let him in. He got pissed off and smashed a window. The bouncer then proceeded to beat him to death.
If you are, then so am I. My first thought was ‘his own vomit, or someone elses?’
You can’t dust for vomit.