Robin Williams

Steve Irwin

I don't know if he counts as a celebrity but, Aaron Swartz.

Chadwick Boseman. I was 24 when he died. I'm mixed and a huge nerd. He was one of the first times I saw representation like that in a comic book hero in a movie or TV show. T'Challa was a king, and his death came out of nowhere

Terry Pratchett

Anthony Bourdain

David Bowie. I really mourned him, didn't expect to feel so strongly about someone I never met. Feel like the world got significantly duller and darker since he took off.

Robin Williams, on my birthday. Great guy, a gamer, and knew his way around computers. It might not have hit as hard if it hadn't been my birthday.

Probably Chris Cornell. (I'm old)

Trevor Moore

Phil Hartman

Taking the question literally, I'll say Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Margaret Thatcher.

What a happy fucking day.

Mitch Hedberg

Chris Cornell hit hard especially when you go back and listen to his lyrics.

Leonard Nimoy. Grew up with a lot of Star Trek. Both him and Keanu Reeves helped me understand that it's entirely fine to be introverted.

As I understood it, Nimoy's death was from lung problems that developed as a result of his smoking habit - even though he had quit smoking many years prior that. It was the catalyst I needed to finally say, "I can't wait anymore, time may already be up. I need to quit smoking now." And that was when I finally did quit smoking and make it stick.

John "TotalBiscuit" Bain.

Hit at a rough time for me and at that point I had been following his content for many years.

Anton Yelchin was so goddamn young and had an entire career ahead of him.

Sean Lock

The first time I've felt genuine shock at a celebrity death, RIP undisputed Carrot in a Box champion

Freddy Mercury, for sure.

Akira Toriyama

Andre Braugher

Hearing about Rush Limbaugh's death made me smile pretty big.

Chester Bennington and Kurt Cobain. Although I discovered their songs years after their death.

Anthony Bourdain

Norm Macdonald

Well, I read the title and the only thing popped up is Chester.

I always shrugged off celebrity deaths cuz it never affects me before. But that morning my then SO woke me up and I'm in dazed cuz teens me just full of angst lol and how he did it after just released One More Light is too much, I think I avoid listening to LP for a few years after that. It's also after Cornell did it not long before I think? AFAIK they're Godfathers to each other kids.

I think contrary to what generally believe LP lyrics all are Mike's. But understandable since Chester is the one actually sung it. don't think LP would be this big if they didn't have Chester, the band said so themselves (the label want to get rid of Chester at first but they pushed back).

I just wished Mike would just rename the band like Audioslaves did and leave LP as a legacy. Don't get me wrong Emily is badass.

Kurt Cobain

Fred Rogers, it was like a grandfather died when he passed.

David Lynch. His death hit me like a punch to the heart.

Also Adam Yauch (MCA).

A couple I haven't seen yet but both were impactful to me: Prince and David Bowie. Both deaths felt so close in time together and came by complete surprise.

Frank Zappa and Christopher Hitchens. Maybe not personally, but i really feel like there are some losses that the world doesn't realize.

Mac Miller was probably the worst one… I’m a little younger than him and watching his career from early on felt like watching an older brother develop and making it big. He made the soundtrack to most of my youth.

I dont know why, but Sean Lock, a U.K. stand-up comedian who was the backbone of a couple of U.K. panel shows. He never spoke about his illness, but lost a lot of weight and then suddenly gone. I still watch and laugh out loud from the many, many laugh out loud moments of his career.

Grant Imahara, first person I had a parasocial relationship who died. It was also such a sudden and tragic death.

Not a celebrity, kind of like @pedz@lemmy.ca, but Daniel Naroditsky.

I did not expect his death would affect me as much as it did. Fuck K.

Definetly Chester Bennington. Linking park inspired me to be a muscisian, Chester inspired me to become a singer. His passing was really hard on me. I really gave up on linking park after the minutes to midnight album, since I see it as the last album where they were honest to their roots and still not too experimental. But after many years I was talking to my wife, and we agree that next time they played in our country, we would see them nomatter what. I shit you not, the next day we saw on the news he was dead. It was almost like we knew it was about time to go watch a show since they wouldn't be around for long. Anyways, I have massive respect for Chester as a guy who delt with my own mental sickness and also have had thoughts of sucide and so on. Chester and linkin park helped me through a lot of tough times. I wish his family all the best.

1. Prince
2. Lady Di
3. Amy winehouse
4. George Michael

You might want to edit Chester

Ozzy Ozbourne.