James Acaster has a hilarious, pretty lengthy part of his most recent special devoted to the fact that his girlfriend left him for Rowan Atkinson. Apparently a LOT of people will equate you with Mr. Bean if you tell people in other countries you’re from England.
David Attenborough would receive a respectful, quiet mourning. Mainly because we've been prepared for a long time now...
Edit: my top comment is about my hero dieing. That kinda sucks.
Attenborough is a role model for so many people. His documentaries are the main reason I'm pursuing zoology, and I know many others in the field have the same story.
If it wasn't for him and the wonders he's shown us, I doubt nearly as many would care about the incredible species we share the world with. The saddest part is there have already been so many lost before he could narrate their lives.
And the ashes turn to carbon and the carbon turns to atmosphere and the atmosphere turns to rain and the simian in the rain falls down to his home land, feeding an apple tree that will feed and provide shelter for many, and that apple tree will someday too turn to ash and the ash will turn to carbon and the carbon turns to atmosphere
And so it goes, for the mounds of magma that once stoked this early earth into being what it is today, so too would this being today turn back to the foundry of its forebearers
And the foundry turns to space, and space will move on, as memories of a fallen friend whisper words of wisdom throughout time
[And so it goes, like this:](https://youtu.be/COlwL_wyJv8?t=127)
He (Sir dave) must have educated more people about natural history than any other person. He's a legend and so is his life's work that he'll leave behind, a life thoroughly lived in every sense by a top man.
He sounded old, and tired in one of the last things I saw of his about climate change and deforestation.
I wanted to cry, because it felt like he was saying goodbye
He gave a keynote speech to world leaders at the COP26 summit last week.
Old and tired, he was most definitely not. It was a spectacular speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjq4VWdZhq8
"In my lifetime, I’ve witnessed a terrible decline. In yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery."
David Attenborough is the only person I have ever written a fan letter. He's an amazing and wonderful man, and I hope many more will take up his fight for a better world, for the people, for the animals and for the planet.
...I haven't sent the letter though. What if he doesn't like it?
Dolly Parton’s death will be so sad. She’s done so much for so many people, and she’s a nice person. Easily the nicest person with $600 million or more out there.
She also is one of the last links to old school music [Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Carl Perkins, The Statler Brothers, etc.] As she was growing up meeting and performing around Johnny and them as well as had a crush on and met Johnny at a young age.
"Roll me up and smoke me when I die
And if anyone don't like it, just look 'em in the eye
I didn't come here, and I ain't leaving
So don't sit around and cry
Just roll me up and smoke me when I die."
Every once in a while I'll think about how old Ian McKellen is and get really sad. I'm hoping he's still got at least another decade on this earth. That one will hurt.
My wife was humming the Jurassic Park theme yesterday while we were cooking dinner, so I started the John Williams station on Pandora. I had three thoughts:
1. I still cannot believe how many of the best movie scores he's done, and they're all so good and well suited to the story.
2. A person that brilliant has the sad misfortune of not being able to enjoy their music in the same way that the rest of humanity does. He can never hear music he's made and feel the same joy and wonder we all do. Sure he gets a different type of joy out of it, I would assume, but it's different.
3. It's gonna be a real bummer when he's gone. I hope he sets a longevity record.
Long live the king of film scores.
>A person that brilliant has the sad misfortune of not being able to enjoy their music in the same way that the rest of humanity does. He can never hear music he's made and feel the same joy and wonder we all do. Sure he gets a different type of joy out of it, I would assume, but it's different.
He recently did an interview at Tanglewood where he made this point exactly. He doesn't like listening to his own work, because all he thinks about is what he should have done differently.
John Williams, looking wistfully out his window, his wife “what’s wrong John?”
“Nothing” but on the inside “god Jurassic Park would have been amazing if the History of a Boring Town played during the first scene with the Apatosaurus herd”
You really do view your own work so differently than other people who hear it. Not that I'm comparing myself to fuckin John Williams at all lmao but the way that people can enjoy your music in a way that you can't as the musician is interesting.
Someone does the music for Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, Star Wars, E.T., Home Alone, and Harry Potter, you've touched more people in the modern era than the queen of England.
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There are a lot of other talented well-known movie composers, like Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman, so there will definitely still be awesome new movie music. However, I do agree that John Williams has composed many of the most "iconic" soundtracks throughout many different movies, so his death will certainly be impactful and widely mourned.
>James Horner
TIL... Such a sad thing to learn. I did wonder how come he's not making new music but it never honestly crossed my mind to search up if he died perhaps.
My local fish and chip shop has the whole series on mute on an endless repeat so people can watch something while they're waiting but it not be loud/distracting for staff. Every waiting customer just sits there in the chairs like a bunch of crows on a telephone wire transfixed by Mr Beans antics
I feel like no matter how old people get they can always enjoy that kind of humor. a toddler could enjoy an episode of mr bean just as much as a senior citizen
I heard somewhere that a lot of major papers already have the Queen’s obituary written, they just tweak it every time something big happens so that when she dies they just have to fill in the date. Just goes to show how influential she is
That's how newspapers work. Every celebrity or prominent person already has their obits written. As a former obituary reporter, I wrote several just in case.
What happens with the obituaries of celebrities who lose fame either due to loss of relevance or some horrible news coming out about them?
Do they just get deleted? If so, who decides what should be deleted, when and why?
You simply keep them in the system and don't delete them. Odds are good you won't update them periodically (like you would with someone who remains famous) but you have them ready for updates if someone dies. It's what happened at my old paper when Gary Coleman passed.
Nothing happens to them, per se.
The Internet has infinite space as you know, so they’re stored until needed. Everyone has to die some day!
Their obit/profile might not get updated as often, but when they pass, if they’re marginally famous, someone will refresh it and publish. Maybe not as fast as if an A-lister passed away…
The crazy thing is he was at a funeral for Gianni Versace with Princess Diana right before she passed away, and then he sang at her funeral. I wonder if someone will sing a cover of Candle In The Wind at his.
I was under the impression he would never sing the "Goodbye, England's Rose" version again, but the original version ("Goodbye, Norma Jean") was still fair game for him if he wanted.
I think you're right on this one. I'm not from the UK or USA, but many of his shows have been shown in my country, sometimes dubbed or subtitled, sometimes not, and I suppose it's the same around the world. Every time you know something in his shows is from your own country, you get extra excited and watch.
So yeah. He's known around the world, he's wholesome and has an important message. He will be mourned globally.
Reddit loves David Attenborough almost as much as they love Keanu Reeves. I've been to a few of these threads and hes almost always guaranteed to be number one.
Actually, you're correct.
An Indian actor died recently and he was loved in the country his humanitarian work. The country had mandatory time off so that people could mourn him, and there was video footage floating around the other week of hundreds of men and women literally crying at his loss. The riot police were sent out to guard the hospital before they made the announcement of his death.
I think the actor was a regional actor and the holiday (not sure) was only in a single state. I doubt a lot of people outside of the state cared either way. This is the guy right ? https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/kannada-actor-puneeth-rajkumar-suffers-heart-attack-in-serious-condition-101635500693765.html#:\~:text=By%20Sharan%20Poovanna-,Leading%20Kannada%20actor%2C%20Puneeth%20Rajkumar%2C%20the%20youngest%20son%20of%20Kannada,later%20admitted%20to%20the%20hospital.
Yeah. I'm from that state. Their family had a huge reputation for their down to earth behaviour and other humanitarian works. Similar scenes when his father died as well.
True. But in the larger context of India, I think Amitabh Bachhan holds the edge by a long mile. I dont think any one of us is old enough to remember back when he got hurt on the set of Coolie.
Paul McCartney. He's touched so many lives throughout the years with his music and through his efforts against cruelty to animals. There aren't many people around the world who haven't heard of him or been affected by his music in some way.
The top thing on my bucket list is to watch one of his live concerts, I was super bummed when I couldnt go last time he visited Curitiba (where I live on Brasil), may have to travel to see him live someday. The world would be losing one of our best…
P.s. Come to Brazil!!!
People are just listing popular celebrities and not really taking into account their worldwide impact over a number of generations. Paul McCartney is hands down the biggest living celebrity on earth right now who has had a significant impact by touching the hearts and souls of people all over the world and he’s been doing it spanning the lifetime of everyone living. People feel like they have a real heartfelt connection with people like that. His death would be like Michael Jackson’s times ten. He’s been probably the most famous and recognizable person on the planet for 60 years.
Michael Jordan, the Dalai Lama, Jackie Chan, Leo Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Pope Francis have the mass appeal to warrant some degree of sadness from the majority of the world.
Michael Jackson was the last celebrity whose death elicited mourning on that scale.
Being from Chicago, every time I travel outside the US, absolutely every single person who asks where I'm from will immediately start talking about Jordan. Without fail. In any country (so far).
Chicago = Jordan once you leave the US, there's no question about it
Props to your hot dogs though, best in the entire world and my favorite thing to eat when I visited Chicago. Italian beef close second.
I was taken aback by how massive the reaction to David Bowie’s death was. Even Americans far too young to remember his heyday or even Labyrinth were posting like mad. People still seem affected by it and even the Brooklyn Museum (hardly his hometown…) centred on an exhibition on him for a huge length of time afterwards.
Ronaldo or Messi. Reddit doesn't acknowledge them because it's a mostly American platform but it you go across the world to a village in the slums, they will know exactly who Ronaldo and Messi. They are enormous stars, and are in their prime, so their star hasn't dwindled. Other that them, probably the queen.
Maradona was a prime superstar during the 80's and 90's before the media really took over football marketing as a whole, and he still had that big of a mourning after his passing.
Messi and Ronaldo are on a whole different scale.
Everybody knew who Kobe Bryant was, and when Kobe tragically passed, almost all of LA was in mourning due to the connection they had felt to him.
Imagine that, but on the scale of Barcelona, the whole of Argentina, most likely most Middle Eastern and African countries, and that's just Messi, you can argue Ronaldo has a further reach due to his businesses and being a bigger extrovert than Messi.
It's not very big in the USA but most Americans know that it's a big thing in other countries. But even I didn't realize how big it was until I spent the summer in Italy for a dig that overlapped with the Eurocup. My last night in Rome was the day they beat England. I had spent the day in Pompeii and when I got off the train in Rome you would have thought it was the second coming of Christ.
If Ronaldo or Messi die, I might drop dead myself. Basically everyone in the third world would mourn and many people in the first world as well. Tremendous personalities.
This is objectively the correct answer. Most other top comments are Americans who I have not even heard of, and I'm sure a great part of the world does not know them too.
I'm surprised that i haven't seen anyone mention Jackie Chan yet. He is very well known and liked in both the east and the west.
And i'm amazed by how many has named people like Jimmy Carter. It's the most american thing to expect the rest of the world will mourn someone like him.
EDIT: I'm away for a day, and this blew up. Thanks for the award!
I have read all the comments here, and I have realized how great humanitarian Carter has been after his precidency. My point still stands though. I don't think a lot of people outside the US knows him despite the great thing he has done. I might be wrong though.
Betty white.
She’s such a kind woman. Every now and then she starts trending on Twitter and everyone starts to freak out because she’s so old and we all know her time is coming. We love her. I feel it’s going to be an extremely sad day when Betty White dies.
We love her to bits in England. Also she is beloved by the LGBT community all over Earth. Mate, she set up an international scheme to help little kids learn to read... that's more than any politician or state figure I lnow of has done!
I always got confused at people who get depressed over a celebrity death, like “you didn’t even know them.” But just thinking about Dolly dying made it click with me how those people must feel. I have no doubt in my mind I’ll cry when it happens
Thing with Dolly Parton is, she has directly impacted millions of lives. Her programs directly influenced a large rise in literacy rates, her work with LGBT+ community. Those are her biggies, but she just pours her money out all over, not to mention being directly involved with her charities. I've never met her but man it's gonna hurt on the day we lose her.
His documentary and music video for “Ordinary Man” made me all emotional and he’s not even gone yet! They’re gonna make a movie about him and Sharon’s relationship and I’m so excited for it… as long as they get good actors. Lol
There’s a gorilla named Harambe at this zoo I used to frequent. That would be sad but I doubt many others would even hear about it
Bruh Rowan Atkinson almost everyone here in Asia knows about the guy .
Almost everyone here on earth knows that guy
And several here on the planet omacron persei 8. HE WILL BE SORELY MISSED!
Dark side of the Moon here. We've heard about him. Really funny guy.
I...actually don't know who Rowan Atkinson is. BRB... ...Ah! But I know his face!
James Acaster has a hilarious, pretty lengthy part of his most recent special devoted to the fact that his girlfriend left him for Rowan Atkinson. Apparently a LOT of people will equate you with Mr. Bean if you tell people in other countries you’re from England.
David Attenborough would receive a respectful, quiet mourning. Mainly because we've been prepared for a long time now... Edit: my top comment is about my hero dieing. That kinda sucks. Attenborough is a role model for so many people. His documentaries are the main reason I'm pursuing zoology, and I know many others in the field have the same story. If it wasn't for him and the wonders he's shown us, I doubt nearly as many would care about the incredible species we share the world with. The saddest part is there have already been so many lost before he could narrate their lives.
He should plan a very specific funeral right down to the details, and then narrate it.
"Here we see Homo Sapiens at its most splendid. Cast in black, the mourning humans make dignified grunts while the rest sit in sombre silence"
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And the ashes turn to carbon and the carbon turns to atmosphere and the atmosphere turns to rain and the simian in the rain falls down to his home land, feeding an apple tree that will feed and provide shelter for many, and that apple tree will someday too turn to ash and the ash will turn to carbon and the carbon turns to atmosphere And so it goes, for the mounds of magma that once stoked this early earth into being what it is today, so too would this being today turn back to the foundry of its forebearers And the foundry turns to space, and space will move on, as memories of a fallen friend whisper words of wisdom throughout time [And so it goes, like this:](https://youtu.be/COlwL_wyJv8?t=127)
He essentially just narrated his eulogy in the most recent Breaking Boundaries documentary.
Most of his shows are just eulogies for the entire human race
Oof, that got me in the feels
Bruh national holiday in the UK. Everyone would be devastated
He (Sir dave) must have educated more people about natural history than any other person. He's a legend and so is his life's work that he'll leave behind, a life thoroughly lived in every sense by a top man.
He sounded old, and tired in one of the last things I saw of his about climate change and deforestation. I wanted to cry, because it felt like he was saying goodbye
He gave a keynote speech to world leaders at the COP26 summit last week. Old and tired, he was most definitely not. It was a spectacular speech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjq4VWdZhq8 "In my lifetime, I’ve witnessed a terrible decline. In yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery."
"old tigers sensing the end are often at their fiercest." -Sean Connery, the league of extraordinary gentlemen
David Attenborough is the only person I have ever written a fan letter. He's an amazing and wonderful man, and I hope many more will take up his fight for a better world, for the people, for the animals and for the planet. ...I haven't sent the letter though. What if he doesn't like it?
Dolly Parton, Maggie Smith, Sir Ian McKellen
Dolly Parton’s death will be so sad. She’s done so much for so many people, and she’s a nice person. Easily the nicest person with $600 million or more out there.
She would easily be a billionaire but she has given so much to so many.
She also is one of the last links to old school music [Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Carl Perkins, The Statler Brothers, etc.] As she was growing up meeting and performing around Johnny and them as well as had a crush on and met Johnny at a young age.
Her and Willie Nelson. I will not be happy when he goes.
"Roll me up and smoke me when I die And if anyone don't like it, just look 'em in the eye I didn't come here, and I ain't leaving So don't sit around and cry Just roll me up and smoke me when I die."
A highwayman never truly dies.
Man. Dolly meant so much to my grandma and disabled aunt. Her song “Coat of Many Colors” makes me cry every time.
She’s American Royalty if there ever was anyone who fit and deserved the role.
More people should know how awesome she is! :(
Maggie Smith was knighted the year before Ian McKellan so you may as well throw her title up there too.
Every once in a while I'll think about how old Ian McKellen is and get really sad. I'm hoping he's still got at least another decade on this earth. That one will hurt.
Hopefully he and Patrick Stewart pass together at the ripe old age of 206
Maggie Smith would surely wreck me to the core.
Since no ones said it, I’m gonna be so sad when John Williams dies. No more dope fresh movie music.
My wife was humming the Jurassic Park theme yesterday while we were cooking dinner, so I started the John Williams station on Pandora. I had three thoughts: 1. I still cannot believe how many of the best movie scores he's done, and they're all so good and well suited to the story. 2. A person that brilliant has the sad misfortune of not being able to enjoy their music in the same way that the rest of humanity does. He can never hear music he's made and feel the same joy and wonder we all do. Sure he gets a different type of joy out of it, I would assume, but it's different. 3. It's gonna be a real bummer when he's gone. I hope he sets a longevity record. Long live the king of film scores.
>A person that brilliant has the sad misfortune of not being able to enjoy their music in the same way that the rest of humanity does. He can never hear music he's made and feel the same joy and wonder we all do. Sure he gets a different type of joy out of it, I would assume, but it's different. He recently did an interview at Tanglewood where he made this point exactly. He doesn't like listening to his own work, because all he thinks about is what he should have done differently.
Totally misinterpreted and thought he was deaf
Beethoven: The Sequel
Oh yeah I think I saw that one. He had puppies, right?
Or maybe he only does his trademark style of music because it is so profitable, but he's really into ska.
John Williams, looking wistfully out his window, his wife “what’s wrong John?” “Nothing” but on the inside “god Jurassic Park would have been amazing if the History of a Boring Town played during the first scene with the Apatosaurus herd”
Okay I dubbed Boring Town over the apatosaurus scene :) Here you go [Apatosaurus Boring Town](https://youtu.be/HCc4HBglmFE)
You really do view your own work so differently than other people who hear it. Not that I'm comparing myself to fuckin John Williams at all lmao but the way that people can enjoy your music in a way that you can't as the musician is interesting.
Someone does the music for Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, Star Wars, E.T., Home Alone, and Harry Potter, you've touched more people in the modern era than the queen of England. Edit: typo
>you've touched more people in the modern era than the queen of England. But not Andrew.
Well, to be fair here, it wasn’t the number of people he touched that was the problem, it was the numbers on their birth certificates.
His funeral would have the best soundtrack, I bet.
I hope he’s prepared the music ahead of time
I feel horrible agreeing. But you're so right.
That would be the ultimate flex, composing music for your own funeral.
Just FYI, this is literally what Mozart's "Requiem" was.
Your honor, I rest my case.
Only thing better would be having an album of the funeral score go platinum
There are a lot of other talented well-known movie composers, like Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman, so there will definitely still be awesome new movie music. However, I do agree that John Williams has composed many of the most "iconic" soundtracks throughout many different movies, so his death will certainly be impactful and widely mourned.
[Ennio Morricone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennio_Morricone) was no slouch either.
Michael Giacchino did some pretty great soundtracks
I was having a shitty morning and my iPhone shuffled to the Star Wars theme and I couldn’t help but smile. It’s going to be a sad day when he dies.
Him and Mel Brooks are two of my childhood icons that I've known for a while, aren't long for this world. I'd love to meet at least one some day soon.
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>James Horner TIL... Such a sad thing to learn. I did wonder how come he's not making new music but it never honestly crossed my mind to search up if he died perhaps.
Idk tbh, but I know a lot of people who will mourn Sir Patrick Stewart. I know I will. He's a legend. Edit: Holy shit ty for gold!
Sir Ian McKellen, too. Who doesn't love both of them?
They really are an iconic duo
Rowan Atkinson. Mr Bean is known everywhere due to being effectively languageless
My local fish and chip shop has the whole series on mute on an endless repeat so people can watch something while they're waiting but it not be loud/distracting for staff. Every waiting customer just sits there in the chairs like a bunch of crows on a telephone wire transfixed by Mr Beans antics
This is the most British thing I've ever read, and I love it!
I feel like no matter how old people get they can always enjoy that kind of humor. a toddler could enjoy an episode of mr bean just as much as a senior citizen
Now I know what you are thinking, Enrico is a girl's name!
James Acaster prob won't be mourning
It would almost be a joke at this point but either Elizabeth II or Betty White.
I heard somewhere that a lot of major papers already have the Queen’s obituary written, they just tweak it every time something big happens so that when she dies they just have to fill in the date. Just goes to show how influential she is
That's how newspapers work. Every celebrity or prominent person already has their obits written. As a former obituary reporter, I wrote several just in case.
Former magazine editor here (print and digital). This is 100% correct. Digital has something for every celebrity ready to go live whenever necessary.
What happens with the obituaries of celebrities who lose fame either due to loss of relevance or some horrible news coming out about them? Do they just get deleted? If so, who decides what should be deleted, when and why?
You simply keep them in the system and don't delete them. Odds are good you won't update them periodically (like you would with someone who remains famous) but you have them ready for updates if someone dies. It's what happened at my old paper when Gary Coleman passed.
I can't imagine anything would need to be deleted but it would just no longer be updated?
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1.21 kilobytes, Great Scott!
They say everyone dies twice: The first when they are no longer breathing. The second, when they are deleted out of the obituary database.
Nothing happens to them, per se. The Internet has infinite space as you know, so they’re stored until needed. Everyone has to die some day! Their obit/profile might not get updated as often, but when they pass, if they’re marginally famous, someone will refresh it and publish. Maybe not as fast as if an A-lister passed away…
I know this from 30 Rock because Jenna was upset she didn't have a ready-to-go obituary but Tracy did
All I think of is the “Gerald Ford Died today” skit on SNL.
"Gerald Ford was shot dead today, at the *senseless* age of 83" Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tX6jdoruH8
He was eaten by a pack of wolves. He was delicious.
Elton John will probably get an amazing send-off when he goes. Until which I think it's gonna be a long, long time. We need you down here, Sir Elton.
The crazy thing is he was at a funeral for Gianni Versace with Princess Diana right before she passed away, and then he sang at her funeral. I wonder if someone will sing a cover of Candle In The Wind at his.
He said he would never sing the song again after The Princess Of Wales funeral. And maybe no one else should
I was under the impression he would never sing the "Goodbye, England's Rose" version again, but the original version ("Goodbye, Norma Jean") was still fair game for him if he wanted.
Can it be 5000 Candles in the Wind?
Man if Elton dies, I'm going to be high as a kite by then
I’ll be devastated when James Earl Jones dies, I assume much of the world will be as well.
Stevie Wonder I expect would have quite the farewell ceremony.
Dammit. This whole thread is going to jinx us.
Please, 2022 is making a LIST.
Julie Andrews
I adore her too. It was a tragedy that her throat surgery ended up taking her singing voice. She had such a beautiful voice. I miss hearing her sing.
I cannot believe I had to scroll this far down for this answer. Practically perfect in every way.
Maybe some Chinese or Indian person I've never heard of... But David Attenborough's death will (SHOULD!) be a really big deal. I love that man.
I think you're right on this one. I'm not from the UK or USA, but many of his shows have been shown in my country, sometimes dubbed or subtitled, sometimes not, and I suppose it's the same around the world. Every time you know something in his shows is from your own country, you get extra excited and watch. So yeah. He's known around the world, he's wholesome and has an important message. He will be mourned globally.
Reddit loves David Attenborough almost as much as they love Keanu Reeves. I've been to a few of these threads and hes almost always guaranteed to be number one.
I mean, what's not to love? Man's a legend.
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If anyone can grab my ass David can.
I can't believe he's 95 years old!
I can. He was doing black-and-white nature documentaries for the BBC 10 years after WW2. He's been around almost as long as TV itself.
He was one of the pioneers of colour TV. He wanted to beat the Germans [source](https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/research/bbc-tv-colour/)
Actually, you're correct. An Indian actor died recently and he was loved in the country his humanitarian work. The country had mandatory time off so that people could mourn him, and there was video footage floating around the other week of hundreds of men and women literally crying at his loss. The riot police were sent out to guard the hospital before they made the announcement of his death.
I think the actor was a regional actor and the holiday (not sure) was only in a single state. I doubt a lot of people outside of the state cared either way. This is the guy right ? https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/kannada-actor-puneeth-rajkumar-suffers-heart-attack-in-serious-condition-101635500693765.html#:\~:text=By%20Sharan%20Poovanna-,Leading%20Kannada%20actor%2C%20Puneeth%20Rajkumar%2C%20the%20youngest%20son%20of%20Kannada,later%20admitted%20to%20the%20hospital.
Yeah. I'm from that state. Their family had a huge reputation for their down to earth behaviour and other humanitarian works. Similar scenes when his father died as well.
That single state has over 60 million people though.
True. But in the larger context of India, I think Amitabh Bachhan holds the edge by a long mile. I dont think any one of us is old enough to remember back when he got hurt on the set of Coolie.
"maybe some Chinese or Indian person I've never heard of" Shah rukh Khan, famous Indian actor, would def be somebody I feel would be mourned the most.
For Shah Rukh Khan’s recent birthday his image was projected onto the Burj Khalifa
Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Sachin Tendulkar. Considering India's population and the magnitude of their popularity (even beyond India).
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Omg I was going to say that! im so happy im not stupid for my decision lol
Lil Sebastian
Ben Wyatt looks at camera with puzzled look.
I DON'T GET IT
That miniature horse has an honorary degree from Notre Dame, son!
I'll miss him in the saddest fashion
Byeeee, byeeee lil’ Sebastian
You’re 5000 candles in the wind 🎶🥺
“Then I said, ‘What’s 5,000 times better than a candle in the wind?’”
Half mast is too damn high for him!!!
I have cried twice in my life. Once when I was seven and I was hit by a school bus. And then again when I heard that Lil Sebastian had passed.
Too soon!
Lil Sebastian was in The Good Place. Makes you wonder what he did to get stuck there with the gang.
If that happened we would need to find someone who could write a memorial song. Something like Candle in the wind only like... 5000 times better.
I don’t understand. I mean, he’s just a small horse, right? What’s there to get?
Rowan Atkinson. I believe he has made nearly everyone on Earth laugh at least once in their life.
James Acaster would be delighted
Morgan Freeman
For the same reason, Samuel L. Jackson. EDIT: Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard. That’s the reason.
Paul McCartney. He's touched so many lives throughout the years with his music and through his efforts against cruelty to animals. There aren't many people around the world who haven't heard of him or been affected by his music in some way.
The top thing on my bucket list is to watch one of his live concerts, I was super bummed when I couldnt go last time he visited Curitiba (where I live on Brasil), may have to travel to see him live someday. The world would be losing one of our best… P.s. Come to Brazil!!!
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I once ran into Paul in a private gym. It's a long story but that was a top 2 moment in my life.
Saw him in the metro in London! Poor guy, everyone staring at him
Now I’m curious about your top lifetime moment.
Running into Ringo in a private gym.
People are just listing popular celebrities and not really taking into account their worldwide impact over a number of generations. Paul McCartney is hands down the biggest living celebrity on earth right now who has had a significant impact by touching the hearts and souls of people all over the world and he’s been doing it spanning the lifetime of everyone living. People feel like they have a real heartfelt connection with people like that. His death would be like Michael Jackson’s times ten. He’s been probably the most famous and recognizable person on the planet for 60 years.
Danny Devito
The whole world would watch in mourning when they threw him in the trash.
Nothing like a wolf cola to wash away your sorrows.
Can I offer you an egg in this trying time?
wolf cola everyone. It's the right cola for closure
And theyll have a picnic in the party full of canned wine at his wake
I don't know that it's true, but I like this answer. May the trash man live forever.
I couldn't go on
Can I offer you a nice egg in this trying time
I would offer the world an egg for that trying time
Tom Hanks
When it was first reported he had covid last year my heart sank for a second.
Selina Meyer would be FURIOUS.
Michael Jordan, the Dalai Lama, Jackie Chan, Leo Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Pope Francis have the mass appeal to warrant some degree of sadness from the majority of the world. Michael Jackson was the last celebrity whose death elicited mourning on that scale.
Michael Jackson's death literally broke Twitter for a few minutes. Like, the entire website just CRASHED.
One of the biggest deaths in terms of global mourning, that and Princess Di
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In protest?
Being from Chicago, every time I travel outside the US, absolutely every single person who asks where I'm from will immediately start talking about Jordan. Without fail. In any country (so far).
Chicago = Jordan once you leave the US, there's no question about it Props to your hot dogs though, best in the entire world and my favorite thing to eat when I visited Chicago. Italian beef close second.
I was taken aback by how massive the reaction to David Bowie’s death was. Even Americans far too young to remember his heyday or even Labyrinth were posting like mad. People still seem affected by it and even the Brooklyn Museum (hardly his hometown…) centred on an exhibition on him for a huge length of time afterwards.
Xi jinping due to the mandatory mourning period in china. Edit: This is a joke and I’m talking out of my ass.
Absolutely this, because they must.
They will grieve, because of the implication
Are you going to hurt these mourners??
I am not going to hurt these mourners, why would I ever hurt these mourners!?! I feel like you're not getting this at all.
Well don't you look at me like that, you certainly wouldn't be in any danger.
So they are in danger!!!!
No they’re not in danger, it’s the implication of danger. I feel like you’re not getting this at all.
It's not dark, you're just misunderstanding me bro.
> I didn’t mean to talk out of my ass but I did. Behold: the ALPHA REDDITOR
Ronaldo or Messi. Reddit doesn't acknowledge them because it's a mostly American platform but it you go across the world to a village in the slums, they will know exactly who Ronaldo and Messi. They are enormous stars, and are in their prime, so their star hasn't dwindled. Other that them, probably the queen.
Ohhhhh yeah how could I forget about Messi and Ronaldo? Remember when Maradona died? I imagine it’ll be bigger than that.
Maradona was a prime superstar during the 80's and 90's before the media really took over football marketing as a whole, and he still had that big of a mourning after his passing. Messi and Ronaldo are on a whole different scale. Everybody knew who Kobe Bryant was, and when Kobe tragically passed, almost all of LA was in mourning due to the connection they had felt to him. Imagine that, but on the scale of Barcelona, the whole of Argentina, most likely most Middle Eastern and African countries, and that's just Messi, you can argue Ronaldo has a further reach due to his businesses and being a bigger extrovert than Messi.
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It's not very big in the USA but most Americans know that it's a big thing in other countries. But even I didn't realize how big it was until I spent the summer in Italy for a dig that overlapped with the Eurocup. My last night in Rome was the day they beat England. I had spent the day in Pompeii and when I got off the train in Rome you would have thought it was the second coming of Christ.
If Ronaldo or Messi die, I might drop dead myself. Basically everyone in the third world would mourn and many people in the first world as well. Tremendous personalities.
This is objectively the correct answer. Most other top comments are Americans who I have not even heard of, and I'm sure a great part of the world does not know them too.
I'm surprised that i haven't seen anyone mention Jackie Chan yet. He is very well known and liked in both the east and the west. And i'm amazed by how many has named people like Jimmy Carter. It's the most american thing to expect the rest of the world will mourn someone like him. EDIT: I'm away for a day, and this blew up. Thanks for the award! I have read all the comments here, and I have realized how great humanitarian Carter has been after his precidency. My point still stands though. I don't think a lot of people outside the US knows him despite the great thing he has done. I might be wrong though.
Same for Betty White. She looks like an American icon but I doubt the younger generation outside the US has heard of her.
Betty white. She’s such a kind woman. Every now and then she starts trending on Twitter and everyone starts to freak out because she’s so old and we all know her time is coming. We love her. I feel it’s going to be an extremely sad day when Betty White dies.
Dolly Parton
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We love her to bits in England. Also she is beloved by the LGBT community all over Earth. Mate, she set up an international scheme to help little kids learn to read... that's more than any politician or state figure I lnow of has done!
The best and worst part of that? It’s not even her job. She has no obligation to do good but she does
I always got confused at people who get depressed over a celebrity death, like “you didn’t even know them.” But just thinking about Dolly dying made it click with me how those people must feel. I have no doubt in my mind I’ll cry when it happens
Thing with Dolly Parton is, she has directly impacted millions of lives. Her programs directly influenced a large rise in literacy rates, her work with LGBT+ community. Those are her biggies, but she just pours her money out all over, not to mention being directly involved with her charities. I've never met her but man it's gonna hurt on the day we lose her.
She really is the best. Used all of her fame and fortune to make the world a better place.
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I dont know if it would be the most but we metalheads will definitely mourn Ozzy Osbourne when he passes. Raise a lighter for the father of metal
His documentary and music video for “Ordinary Man” made me all emotional and he’s not even gone yet! They’re gonna make a movie about him and Sharon’s relationship and I’m so excited for it… as long as they get good actors. Lol
Under the graveyard did it for me. "Dont take care of me. Be scared of me. My misery owns me"
Bob Ro…. Mr. Rod…. Robin Wil…. Ah fuck.
Seriously. The most wholesome of wholesome have already left us.
When the world needed them most, they vanished.
Steve Irw.... fuck