Celebrity Deaths 2025

[DanJB]

More importantly, how does the queue compare to that to see Liz? And will Schofield skip to the front?

 

[Matt N]

Well, folks… by popular demand, mourners per hour is back! And this time, it’s Vatican City edition!

The procession seemed to be packed a bit more densely this time than in London, so it was harder to measure… but I still had a good crack!

As usual, Sky News unfortunately had to change the camera angle every few seconds, so it was hard to get an accurate reading, but by my best guess from 11 intervals, the throughput is approximately 1,016mph, or a mourner approximately every 3 seconds. People seem to hang around a bit longer in the Vatican; the Queen, by comparison, processed around 1,500mph.

If there are 20,000 in the queue as some of the news outlets claim, they’ve got a long 19.7 hour wait ahead of them!

 

[NuttySquirrel]

@Matt N , I think there's an uninterrupted stream on the BBC News website (click Watch Live in the link I shared above).

 

[Matt N]

@Matt N , I think there's an uninterrupted stream on the BBC News website (click Watch Live in the link I shared above).

It said I needed an account, so I went to Sky. And from previous experience with the Queen, the BBC also like to change the camera angle every few seconds…

 

[DiogoJ42]

What, no poll asking what our favourite non-seaside dead leader queue line is?

 

[Dipper_Dave]

Mike Peters of The Alarm dead at 66

 

[rob666]

Alan Yentob, broadcaster has died...
Arena, best arts series ever.

 

[DiogoJ42]

I missed this, but RIP "Hotlips".

M*A*S*H actress Loretta Swit dies aged 87

Swit won awards for her role as "Hot Lips" Houlihan, a nurse based at an Army hospital during the Korean War.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Rowe]

I'm devastated to share the news that Jonathan Joss (King of the Hill, Parks and Rec) was murdered on Sunday 1st June, just a few days after he appeared at the King of the Hill revival panel on Friday.

Jonathan Joss, ‘King of the Hill’ Actor Who Voiced John Redcorn, Dies in Shooting at 59

Jonathan Joss, 'King of the Hill' actor, dies in a shooting at 59

variety.com

 

[Dipper_Dave]

RIP the Premier Leagues first ever black referee Uriah Rennie, who has died aged 65

 

[Zeock]

Frederick Forsyth has died. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...ckal-author-and-former-mi6-agent-dies-aged-86

 

[Dipper_Dave]

Sly Stone dead at 82

 

[rob666]

How on earth did he last that long?

It just shows, it is the cutting agents that kill you, not the actual "leisure" drugs, or he would have been dead fifty years ago.

 

[Skyscraper]

Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson has died at the age of 82.

 

[Tom]

Sad times, great music.

 

[djtruefitt]

How clean is your house Kim Woodburn died yesterday following a short illness.

 

[Zeock]

The founder of FedEx, Fred Smith, has died.

FedEx founder Fred Smith, a Marine Corps veteran who revolutionized package delivery, dies at 80

Fred Smith, the FedEx Corp. founder who revolutionized the express delivery industry, has died, the company said. He was 80.

apnews.com

 

[rob666]

Lord Tebbit has died.
Bit of a right winger...Maggies mate.

 

[Jonathan]

Lord Tebbit has died.
Bit of a right winger...Maggies mate.

Disappointed you didn't turn this into one of your trademark haikus, Rob.

 

[Zeock]

Felix Baumgartner has died.

Extreme skydiver Baumgartner dies in paragliding accident – DW – 07/17/2025

Austrian skydiver and extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner has died in a paragliding accident in Italy, according to local media. The 56-year-old shot to global fame in 2012 with his record-breaking free-fall from space.

www.dw.com