What was the 2016 of the previous celebrity generation? I'm guessing a year or two after James Dean's death ... -- nm
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Beryllium (aka grayman)
Apr 23 '16, 10:10
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1989: Lucille Ball, Laurence Olivier, Bette Davis, Gilda Radner, Graham Chapman, Irving Berlin, Mel Blanc
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Max
Apr 23, 12:43
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1959: Big Bopper/Buddy Holly/Ritchie Valens plane crash, George Reeves, Billie Holiday, Errol Flynn, Lou Costello, Cecil B. DeMille, Carl Switzer (Alfalfa, at age 31) -- (edited)
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Max
Apr 23, 12:24
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1955: Einstein, Sir Alexander Fleming, James Dean, Carmen Miranda, Honus Wagner, Emmett Till -- nm
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Max
Apr 23, 12:14
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1969: Brian Jones, Judy Garland, Boris Karloff, Sharon Tate, Rocky Marciano, Walter Hagen, Jack Kerouac, Joe Kennedy, King Saud, Eisenhower -- nm
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Max
Apr 23, 11:49
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1994: Cobain, Cab Calloway, Dinah Shore, John Candy, Jessica Tandy, Burt Lacaster, Raul Julia, Nicole Simpson, Ayrton Senna, Jacquie Kennedy, Nixon -- nm
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Max
Apr 23, 11:28
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1997: Princess Diana, B.I.G., Michael Hutchence, John Denver, Chris Farley, Jimmy Stewart, Robert Mitchum, Versace, Allen Ginsberg, Mother Teresa -- nm
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Max
Apr 23, 11:18
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2009: Michael Jackson, Natasha Richardson, Swayze, John Hughes, Farah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, David Carradine, John Updike, Chuck Daly, Ted Kennedy
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Max
Apr 23, 10:49
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Good lord. It was known as the Summer of Death. -- (link*)
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mara
Apr 23, 11:54
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so also Ed McMahon, Billy Mays, Karl Malden, Rbt McNamara, Walter Cronkite, Frank McCourt, Gidget, Les Paul, Bob Novak, Wm Safire -- nm
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Max
Apr 23, 12:00
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1970....Jimmy Hendrix and Janice Joplin -- nm
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zeitgeist
Apr 23, 10:40
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Both within weeks of each other in Sep/Oct. Alfred Newman, Erle Stanley Gardner, Vince Lombardi, Ray Schalk, Max Born, Otto Warburg,Nasser, de Gaulle -- nm
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Max
Apr 23, 12:09
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2016 seems to be targeting musicians particularly more than statistically random would expect, or even that 3 at a time thing -- nm
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zeitgeist
Apr 23, 11:03
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Answer: -- (link)
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ML
Apr 23, 10:35
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1980 was John Lennon, Bon Scott, John Bonham, Ian Curtis, Jimmy Durante, Steve McQueen, Peter Sellers, Hitchcock, Colonel Sanders, Jesse Owens, Sartre -- nm*
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Max
Apr 23, 10:35
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