The "which famous person died today" thread

Adebayor's Skidmarks said:
They certainly do have harsh penalties there. What was he filming?
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He would take pictures and on the negatives it would reveal how people in the picture would die.
He took a selfie and it had a line through his neck - later on a trip to Jerusalem, a pane of glass was jolted from a truck when it crashed and sliced his head off....
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
He would take pictures and on the negatives it would reveal how people in the picture would die.
He took a selfie and it had a line through his neck - later on a trip to Jerusalem, a pane of glass was jolted from a truck when it crashed and sliced his head off....
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Yeah, that's him. Haven't watched The Omen for many years, but I think I saw that when I was about 12 and it freaked me out for days!
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
He would take pictures and on the negatives it would reveal how people in the picture would die.
He took a selfie and it had a line through his neck - later on a trip to Jerusalem, a pane of glass was jolted from a truck when it crashed and sliced his head off....
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At conventions and suchlike, he often joked his ex got his dummy head from the Omen as part of the divorce settlement!

Great actor, been in literally everything from WWII Cross of Iron, Titanic, Planet of the Apes, Company of Wolves and Time Bandits. Did a fair bit of genre acting including Tron and one of my faves Time after Time. Legend!
 
For those of you who care about basketball instead of or in addition to Star Trek as well as pathfinding African American cultural icons (read about what Martin Luther King told Nichelle Nichols), we also lost Bill Russell today.

One of the greatest ever centers or players, and probably hands down the greatest defensive player of all time. He played 13 NBA seasons with the Boston Celtics, 3 college seasons, and one Olympic season. And won 11 NBA championships, 2 NCAA championships and a gold medal. 14 titles in 17 years. Probably has never been a greater track record in American sports. Also the league’s first Black head coach, and a civil rights trailblazer who faced a lot of discrimination in the 50s and 60s. And by all accounts in his later years after his fierce competitive streak gave way, a gracious, kind and funny guy.

An incredible man. One of my all-time sports heroes (despite my love for Wilt and Kareem). RIP big fella.

 
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