# What celebrity death will affect you the most? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 2, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116 "2015-05-02T19:05:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/41 "2015-05-03T15:03:38Z")
Tony Iommi will be the big one for me. I’ve listened to Sabbath my whole life. I’ve seen them twice in concert. After what they’ve been through, in terms of substance abuse and other rock-star “isms”, Tony has become so classy and elegant and his stage presence is just so unique - no cool rock-poses or anything like that. And in interviews he just seems like such a nice guy. Now he’s been dealing with lymphoma the last few years. I fear it won’t be too long. Ronnie James Dio’s death affected me similarly. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/42 "2015-05-03T15:32:09Z")
> [@Banksiaman](#): > > David Attenborough - who has been a fixture in my life for as long as I’ve owned a television, and brought the world to my lounge room. Very much so. > [@](#): > > A minor celebrity perhaps, Clive James, poet, writer, television reviewer, is dying and is doing it in a slow, self-reflective and dignified way that I find I cant look away from. That will be a sad day. Some of his writing on his terminal diagnosis has been very powerful. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/43 "2015-05-03T17:56:51Z")
> [@up\_the\_junction](#): > > Not what I would call a celebrity but it will be Muhammad Ali > > He educated my fathers generation and those each side about so much. I think the effect still ripples through generations of family. > > An extraordinary life. He’s certainly a celebrity. He’s **The Greatest!** 🙂 I’ll echo Bowie. And Tony Iommi. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/44 "2015-05-03T18:06:45Z")
> [@movingfinger](#): > > Not exactly a celebrity in the show biz sense, but…Vin Scully. I understand. I’m a huge Cubs fan and Harry Caray’s death hit me hard. In the spirit of the OP, Betty White. I have fond memories of watching _The Golden Girls_ with my dad and I know I’ll be sad when she passes. And Lake Placid is a great movie… ---
**Author:** ![Eddie\_F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/22d042/32.png) [@Eddie\_F](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eddie_F)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/45 "2015-05-03T18:07:33Z")
Letterman. Letterman, Letterman, Letterman! I suspect that his death will affect me nearly as much as, if not more than, the deaths of Charles M. Schulz, Johnny Cash, and James Gandolfini did. Others: Prince, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/46 "2015-05-03T18:37:34Z")
Steve Martin David Letterman George Lucas John Williams Anyone from Star Trek TOS (even Shatner, although I can’t stand the guy) Peter Thomas (voice artist, narrator of _Forensic Files_ and a zillion other things) Most of my personal heroes and role models are long gone … but when these folks are gone, it will really mean that the world I’ve lived in my whole life is irrevocably disappearing. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/47 "2015-05-03T19:38:08Z")
Leonard Cohen ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/48 "2015-05-03T20:08:58Z")
I can’t imagine a world without Jerry Lewis. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/49 "2015-05-03T21:35:40Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I’ll be pretty bummed when Alice Cooper and Alan Parsons go. Alice will absolutely devastate me. But anyone else? I’m not sure. I learned after Robin Williams died that I won’t always see it coming the ones that will affect me most, because his left me reeling for a good, long bit. However, one of the first actors that I just adored was Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman. I’m sure they’ll both be very difficult to let go. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/50 "2015-05-03T21:42:21Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > I can’t imagine a world without Jerry Lewis. Whereas, I can’t believe Jerry Lewis is still alive. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/51 "2015-05-03T22:12:49Z")
Eddie Vedder needs to outlive me. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/52 "2015-05-03T22:19:35Z")
I’ll take it hard when Robert Vaughn and David McCallum pass away. I’ve been an U.N.C.L.E. fan since I was too young to comprehend the show. (I didn’t get that it was funny!) I was extremely sad when [Redmond A. Simonsen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redmond_A._Simonsen) passed away. He was a graphic designer for SPI, a publisher of wargames. He was also a game designer and a writer, and a bit of a game-design philosopher. He was creative, witty, and had an excellent approach to graphic design. It may sound like a trivial thing, but he was the one who figured out, on game maps, that rivers should flow along the hex-sides, not through the middle of the hexes. That way, it was no longer ambiguous which side of the river a unit was! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/53 "2015-05-03T22:35:58Z")
OK, this one is going to sound weird, as I’m not a big fan, but Clint Eastwood will be one that bums me out. See, when I was a little kid Eastwood was just starting out, in Wagon Train. Then he was in the spaghetti Westerns, then Dirty Harry, and tons of other stuff. I’ve grown up seeing him age, and if and when he goes he will take a lot of my childhood with him. I did like him in Bronco Billy, one of the only comedies I remember him doing. ---
**Author:** ![Boggette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@Boggette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boggette)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/54 "2015-05-04T00:04:28Z")
My heart will be broken when Sam Elliott is gone. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/55 "2015-05-04T00:20:28Z")
Harrison Ford - the two greatest movie hero’s of my childhood in one actor. Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins - Neil Armstrong’s death was one that really got to me, when the last two Apollo 11 crew go it will be a sad day. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/56 "2015-05-04T01:35:02Z")
The last few “celebrity” deaths that really hit me hard were newsmen – Ed Bradley and Peter Jennings. When Tom Brokaw goes that will probably hit me hard too. (Unfortunately most of the current crop of news anchors I wouldn’t miss at all.) Musically, it’s really going to suck when Richard Thompson is gone. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/57 "2015-05-04T01:49:16Z")
When Abe Vigoda goes, will anybody believe it? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/58 "2015-05-04T01:58:41Z")
Everybody from M_A_S\*H. Well, maybe ot Gary Burghoff, but everybody else. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/59 "2015-05-04T02:07:32Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > One unlikely one will be Queen Elizabeth. I’m not a subject but she’s reigned since before I was born so as far as I’m concerned she’s been the Queen forever. It’ll be strange having Charles on the throne. For me, as well. Every once in a while I think about what it will be like to have Charles on the money and on the stamps. I haven’t had a change of monarch in my lifetime. It will be interesting. And if Bruce Springsteen goes before I do, well, it will be so sad. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116/60 "2015-05-04T02:15:04Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > OK, this one is going to sound weird, as I’m not a big fan, but Clint Eastwood will be one that bums me out. > > See, when I was a little kid Eastwood was just starting out, in Wagon Train. Then he was in the spaghetti Westerns, then Dirty Harry, and tons of other stuff. I’ve grown up seeing him age, and if and when he goes he will take a lot of my childhood with him. I did like him in Bronco Billy, one of the only comedies I remember him doing. he wasn’t in Wagon Train even as a guest star as far as i know. he became a star on Rawhide. he did other comedies. one thing i also appreciated was how he always brought a comedic elements to his dramatic roles. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-death-will-affect-you-the-most/719116.md?page=4)