Celebrity death thread 2026

[Channel98]

Second. Van Der Beek starred as aspring filmmaker Dawson Leery in 128 episodes of Dawson's Creek (1998-2003) and appeared in 29 movies and TV movies including Angus, Harvest, Downsizing, Formosa Betrayed, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, The Plague, The Big Bang, The Rules Of Attraction and Taken In Broad Daylight.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Wow. Third. Fuck cancer.

 

[Madison]

I enjoyed his role in Varsity Blues as well as Dawson

 

[Channel98]

Welk, the son of the accordionist/bandleader who hosted The Lawrence Welk Show on television from 1951 to 1982, was married to singer Tanya Felan, a regular on The Lawrence Welk Show, from 1968 to 1979. One of their two sons is Lawrence Welk III.

Lawrence Welk Jr. dead at 85 amid contentious legal battle with his estranged son and nephew

Lawrence Welk Jr. Dead at 85 Amid Contentious Legal Battle With His Estranged Son and Nephew

Lawrence Welk Jr., son of legendary bandleader Lawrence Welk, died peacefully at home in Franklin, Tennessee, on Thursday, February 5, according to a statement provided by his wife, Lynn, to the Natio...

www.yahoo.com

 

[scotchandcigar]

Welk, the son of the accordionist/bandleader who hosted The Lawrence Welk Show on television from 1951 to 1982, was married to singer Tanya Felan, a regular on The Lawrence Welk Show, from 1968 to 1979. One of their two sons is Lawrence Welk III.

Lawrence Welk Jr. dead at 85 amid contentious legal battle with his estranged son and nephew

Lawrence Welk Jr. Dead at 85 Amid Contentious Legal Battle With His Estranged Son and Nephew

Lawrence Welk Jr., son of legendary bandleader Lawrence Welk, died peacefully at home in Franklin, Tennessee, on Thursday, February 5, according to a statement provided by his wife, Lynn, to the Natio...

www.yahoo.com

Now both Welks have died; a 1 and a 2.

 

[Channel98]

Clever, Mister scotch. I'm impressed! Of course Welk's custom-made California license plate was A1 AN A2.

 

[scotchandcigar]

My father-in-law would walk the dog, and then my mother-in-law would ask how it went. If he did a "Lawrence Welk", that meant he did both a #1 and a #2.

 

[Channel98]

Cort appeared in 46 movies and TV movies including M*A*S*H, Pollock, Hysterical, Love Letters, Die Laughing, Brain Dead, Brewster McCloud, Invaders From Mars, Girl In The Cadillac, The Big Empty, The Strawberry Statement and The Million Dollar Hotel.

Bud Cort, ‘Harold and Maude’ Star, Dies at 77

Bud Cort, who starred in 'Harold and Maude" and "Brewster McCloud," died Wednesday. He was 77.

variety.com

 

[Aaron]

Cort appeared in 46 movies and TV movies including M*A*S*H, Pollock, Hysterical, Love Letters, Die Laughing, Brain Dead, Brewster McCloud, Invaders From Mars, Girl In The Cadillac, The Big Empty, The Strawberry Statement and The Million Dollar Hotel.

Bud Cort, ‘Harold and Maude’ Star, Dies at 77

Bud Cort, who starred in 'Harold and Maude" and "Brewster McCloud," died Wednesday. He was 77.

variety.com

Second.
Harold and Maude is a weird classic film

 

[HecticArt]

Beek!
Fuck cancer.

 

[Channel98]

Pogue Mahone formed in 1982 in London. The name was a phonetic spelling of the of the Irish phrase póg mo thóin ("Kiss my ass"). They became the Pogues in 1984. Three of their seven studio albums charted in the United States, 1988-90. Among their best-known songs are Fiesta, Haunted, Dirty Old Town, Summer In Siam, A Rainy Night In Soho, Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah, Fairytale Of New York and If I Should Fall From Grace With God.

The Pogues drummer Andrew Ranken dead at 72

The band released a heartbreaking statement about Ranken’s death.

pagesix.com

 

[HecticArt]

Second.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Manchester Orchestra Drummer Tim Very Dead at 42

Tim Very, longtime drummer of Manchester Orchestra, has died at the age of 42.

consequence.net

 

[sadchild]

For a split second I thought "Wait, why would they say he's very dead."

 

[Gamecock]

Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall dies at 95

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/movies/robert-duvall-dead.html

 

[Channel98]

Second. Duvall appeared in 97 movies and TV movies including Network, Newsies, Deep Impact, Days Of Thunder, Sling Blade, Gone In 60 Seconds, Seven Days In Utopia, True Grit, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Great Santini, The Pursuit Of D.B. Cooper and The Man Who Captured Eichmann. He played Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1979 ABC mini-series Ike: The War Years.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Third. Loved him in Apocalypse Now!

 

[Channel98]

Among the many hits Steinberg wrote or co-wrote are Madonna's Like A Virgin, Whitney Houston's So Emotional, Linda Ronstadt's How Do I Make You, JoJo's Too Little Too Late, Demi Lovato's Give Your Heart A Break, Cyndi Lauper's True Colors and I Drove All Night, Heart's Alone, the Bangles' Eternal Flame, the Divinyls' I Touch Myself and the Pretenders' I'll Stand By You.

'Like a Virgin' songwriter Billy Steinberg dies at 75

The songwriter's many hits included Madonna's "Like a Virgin," Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" and Heart's "Alone."

www.latimes.com

 

[Aaron]

Fourth for Duvall. One of the best actors in the biz for a long time

 

[JHDK]

Fifth. That's a big one.