21 Celebrity Deaths That Truly Left a Mark

It turns out celebrities are humans too. They live and breathe just like us. And you know what? It's totally normal to feel sadness when someone passes away. Celeb or not.

By zachnading

Published 1 year ago in Feels

It turns out celebrities are humans too. They live and breathe just like us. And you know what? It's totally normal to feel sadness when someone passes away. Celeb or not.

Thanks to AskReddit, we remember some of the greats who truly left a lasting impression.

1
Chester Bennington. His suicide hit me hard because I always saw his continued survival as almost...a role model? A success story? A proud example that everything in life can be overcome. "If he can do it, so can I." -vivichase

2
Heath Ledger. I actually was working on The Dark Knight when he passed. I had just been given the assignment of getting his sign off for various promotional materials like movie posters a few days before he passed and never got to get them.

It was so surreal and such a whirlwind I never want to go through again. My boss kept pushing me to figure out who was in control of his estate and get their signature while they were completely grief stricken and understandably offended that I would even ask. -makesyoudownvote

3
Aretha Franklin, cried my eyes out whilst drinking whiskey and listening to her back catalogue at high volume. -MistakeNot79
4
Anthony Bourdain. I never thought of cooking or food as a competition. Today’s cooking shows are awful. Tony got it. He understood how food and drink connects people. How important it is as part of a culture. God, I miss him. I still get choked up. RIP Tony! -Maddie_hippychick

5
Betty White. Cheeky to the very end. Plus, she was there for us through A LOT of stuff. “Well, at least Betty White is still with us,” was kind of our mantra when everything went bad. -heiberdee2
6
Avicii. I was so upset when I heard, he was the person that got me into music and playing music. I think now people have forgotten how much of an impact he had on the EDM scene bringing it into the main stage for the few years it was big. -RLV-Blah
7
Carrie Fisher. She felt like a wacky aunt I could always count on to give great advice and help me feel better on a bad day. I never heard an unfriendly thing said about her, and her perspective on mental health helped me so much while I was coming to terms with my own mental illness. When she died I laid face down on the floor and cried for about three straight hours. -yikeslou

8
Chadwick Boseman. That guy was suffering from stomach cancer while making the Marvel movies, among other ones. He never said anything public about it, he got up and went to work every day. -Tlaloc-23
9
Alex Trebek. What a great human being. My friends and I watched Jeopardy all the time. -sheehan98
10
Chris Cornell, so talented and emotionally powerful. -caphn8d

11
Dolores O'Riordan - cried for days. -bassistcat
12
Grant Imahara. Grant represented everything that I admire in a tiny segment of our demographic: super intelligent, innovative, knowledgeable, curious, and humble "out-of-the-box" thinker. He was the type that would have succeeded in anything he put his mind into. -Ancient-Diver-4382
13
Mister Rogers. That man was a saint. I’ve grown to appreciate him more now as an adult than I ever did as a kid when I was his intended audience. -MrLongfinger

14
Jim Henson, too early and such a source of joy to so many. -diverzify
15
Freddie Mercury. There will never be another Freddie. I just wish I had been able to see him in live concert. -RantControl
16
John Candy. The first death that impacted me really. Had a really bad extended family and used to imagine John was my kind uncle who actually cared about me. Had all kinds of embarrassing daydreams about him taking me on adventures and us being a real team. -YogurtFirm

17
Robin Williams. Hey just pointing out: Williams' suicide was different. Because he was a comic with a history of drug use, everyone assumes it was done in a manic depressed state, as if his whole career must not have been enough to fight his sadness so he gave up.

People want to put his name next to Belushi and Farley. It wasn't like that. He didn't hate himself, he loved himself. He had aggressive dementia and chose to exit before he became someone else. -mad_kosher
18
Ayrton Senna. I remember watching this as a teenager. It was awful. Eventually my father turned the TV off as it was getting to be just voyeurism at that point.

He was very much a hero of mine, pushing the limit with every corner, every start. I still recall clearly Mansell picking him up on the side of the track to ride with him after he crashed on the final lap of a race. Real sportsmanship between the two of them and a proper rivalry. -StoneColdSoberReally
19
Stan Lee’s death messed with me man. -BraxJHecker

20
Steve Irwin. I think what made his death so poignant is that you never see what other celebrities are really like in person. I truly believe that the person you saw on television was who he really was; a larger than life personality who cared deeply for animals, people and our planet. -CruelHandLuke_
21
Mac Miller. First that came to mind for me. -xxguitar99