Weekly Death Blog: 4/9 to 4/15 · 2:46pm Apr 16th, 2016
Before I get into the celebrity deaths, let us pay our respects to all the victims of the recent earthquakes in Japan. Many lives have been lost. Thousands have been injured. Billions of yen in damage have been done.
Pray for them.
Now, this week's celebrity deaths. As usual, see Wikipedia for the full list of 2016 notable deaths.
- Ouhira Tohru, voiceover artist (Super Sentai Series, Japanese dub voice of Darth Vader and Homer Simpson), 86.
- Phil Sayer, 62, British voice artist, esophageal cancer.
- Gareth Thomas, 71, Welsh actor (Blake's 7, Children of the Stones, Star Maidens), heart failure.
- Anne Jackson, 90, American actress (The Shining, Folks!, Dirty Dingus Magee).
- Balls Mahoney, 44, American professional wrestler (ECW, WWE, SMW).
- Arthur Anderson, 93, American actor (Courage the Cowardly Dog, Midnight Cowboy) and spokesperson (Lucky Charms).
- Will Smith, 34, American football player (New Orleans Saints), Super Bowl champion (2010), shot.
I'm starting to think after 2014, a lot of celebrity deaths are occurring. Or something. Regardless, may they rest in peace.
Wait?! What?! How come I never heard about this, you'd think a death such as this would be all over the news, unless he died on the same day as another noteable figure and the tragedy was forgotten.
3874045 When I saw Will Smith, I thought of well, the actor
3874060 Same here. Almost panicked.
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this week was all the local talk radio was talking about.
3874045 How can you not have heard of this? It's been all over the news. Happened last Saturday, he was shot and killed in a road rage incident by another football player, but the details are confusing and fluid. The more that comes out about it, the more it looks like they were having what Aaron McGruber calls "a nigga moment".
3874173 Ah Boondocks, such semi-fond memories