The outcome of death is so final that there is more often than not the questions rather that answers left behind for all. This is especially true in the case of celebrity deaths. They saddened us all on some level no matter fan or not of the celebrity demised. This lists features celebrity deaths that took us all on some level by surprise or complete shock. All named are sadly missed and the questions left behind from their deaths still are very much unanswered fully or a mystery.
1. John F Kennedy (29 May 1917 – 22 November 1963) as President he was charismatic and handsome. The glamorous wife and notable heritage to that known worldwide as Camelot set the stage of the dashing leader of America during a troubling time in America’s history. The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas; at 12:30 p.m. Kennedy was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. His death horrified a nation. The immediate conspiracy theories came fast and furiously in the face of the lost of the nation’s young president. Lee Harvey Oswald was name as sole suspect who carried out assassination, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza. The belief was that the murdered President was slain by a more powerful force and treachery.
2. Marilyn Monroe (1 June, 1926 – August 5, 1962) died at 36. Her death launched some of the greatest conspiracy theories of all time. She was found nude at the time of death at her Brentwood, California home clutching her telephone. Suspected for months of suffering from depression and substance abuse, her end still caused surprised and shocked. Her life happened to the world and not just Marilyn. In addition, to rumored affairs with both JFK and his brother Robert being at the heart directly or indirectly of what ultimately lead to her suspected suicide or murder only further fuelled the conspiracy theorists. Either way her death left behind a mystery that still today has yet to be unraveling. The cause of her death was officially listed as suicide, but questions still linger about the last day of the star’s life and the hours immediately following the discovery of her body.
3. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999), was often referred to as John F. Kennedy, Jr., JFK Jr., John Jr. or John-John. He was not merely the famous son of an assassinated President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and the younger brother of Caroline Kennedy, but he also was a lawyer, journalist, socialite and publisher. His death on came on July 16, 1999, at the age of 38. Kennedy was killed along with his wife and his sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, when the aircraft he was piloting, N9253N, a Piper Saratoga II HP, crashed on a hazy night into the Atlantic Ocean en route from Essex County Airport in Fairfield, New Jersey, to Martha’s Vineyard, where the Kennedy family has a vacation house. Kennedy and his wife were traveling to the wedding of cousin Rory Kennedy, which was then postponed. Lauren was to have been dropped off at Martha’s Vineyard. As in the case of his father, John F. Kennedy, Jr.’s death has also drawn an enormous amount of attention from the conspiracy theorists.
4. Princess Diana ( July 1, 1961 – August 31, 1997) literally went from commoner to Princess when she wed Prince Charles in a fairytale wedding ceremony. It was not long after that her first son William arrived. The arrival was followed by the birth of her second son Henry aka Harry. The Windsor’s appeared the picture of matrimony on the surface but behind closed doors a completely different truth prevailed. Princess Diana was said to be suffering depression and bulimia for years into the marriage. The marriage appeared to be doomed due to a third party involvement between Prince Charles and Camilla Paker Bowles. Her life seemed to come together after the divorced, which finalized on August 26 1996 and with the love of Dodi Fayed. But, a year later on August 31 1997, the world was instantly in a state of mourning – their beloved Princess died in a car accident with boyfriend Dodi Fayed. The suspicious events leading up to the death of the Princess are depicted in the newly released film Queen.
5. Jim Morrison (8 December 1943 – 3 July 1971) steamed up, sizzled, strutted his way into the greatness of his talent and his band the Doors. Substance abuses were part of the rock and roll world, Jim Morrison seemed to go behind normal exploits taking his own band members with him on the enlighten hazy self medicating walks on the wild side. Years of a turbulent relationship with long-termed girlfriend Pamela Courson and a need to get his out of control life back on track saw him moved to Paris for a fresh start, March 71. He died on July 3, 1971, at age 27, and was found in his bathtub by Courson. The immediate speculation as to the cause of death followed. The common and accepted belief was that of overdose. The fact there was never an autopsy performed left no real opportunity to neither confirm nor determine the cause of death ever. The lack of an official autopsy left many questions unanswered and provided justifiable grounds for speculation and rumor.
6.Anna Nicole Smith (28 November 1967 – 8 February 2007) is now mourned as the confirmation of her death came only days ago. No matter what the public consensus of her no one could possibly imagine the pain and losses she felt leading up to her demise. She lived her life. She lost her “rock” when son Daniel died only threes after the birth of her daughter Dannielynn. She struggle with legal battle after battle that coupled with alleged substance abuse seemingly had finally taken the fight out of the former Guess model and Realty TV star. Her daughter’s future is now so very uncertain as the paternity of the child is yet to be determined. Anna Nicole Smith gone but not forgotten.
7. John Delushi (24 January 1949 – 5 March 1982) was the one the funniest men in America in the 80’s. He was certainly one the funniest men on the hit show Saturday Night Live. He worked the comedic greats including SNL regulars Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, Brian Doyle-Murray and Chevy Chase. Belushi married Judy Jacklin, an associate producer of The Radio Hour. While he gained national fame on SNL, it was films like Animal House and The Blues Brother that he became beloved most for. Belushi was known for his drug usage, which eventually cost him his life. He died on March 5, 1982, at age 33 in a hotel room at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The cause of death was substance abuse related. The questions after his death lead to a woman name Cathy Smith. On the night of his death, he was with friends Robin Williams and Robert De Niro who later left, leaving Belushi with Smith. While the findings were disputed, it was officially ruled a drug-related accident. Smith was later prosecuted for her involvement in his death and served 18 months behind bar.
8. River Phoenix ((August 23, 1970- October 31, 1993) was seen as a promising new actor. He was an Academy Award-nominated American film actor. However, his promising career was sadly cut short when he died of an accidental overdose at age 23. Critics praised him as the most promising young actor of his generation during the late 1980s and early 1990s one minute and the next minute he was gone. His was a very sad loss for Hollywood’s film industry. It was an even sadder loss for those who loved and worked with him. Phoenix has four siblings, one brother and three sisters. Joaquin Phoenix, a successful actor in his own right and sisters Rain and Summer are actresses as well. His second youngest sister Liberty quit acting early on as a child.
9. Rock Hudson (November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was the attractive leading man of the 1950’s and 1960’s who stunned the world with a four-letter word. That word was “AIDS” and it was a name given for a disease that at the time no one knew very much about. What was known of the disease was that many celebrities like Liberace and Queen’s Freddie Mercury were dying of it. Hudson went public with the confirmation of his being diagnosis with the deadly disease after firstly alleged his apparent illness was liver cancer on July 25, 1985, while in Paris for treatment. Rock Hudson’s death gave AIDS a face.” Hudson’s death was said to have pushed his long time friend and then Republican President Ronald Reagan to change his tune on efforts to fight and publicize the epidemic. Speculation swirled around the questions about his sexuality and how he contracted the disease. His response was that he believed he had contracted it during a blood transfusion when he had undergone a heart bypass procedure.
10. Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) as first Lady to the White House and John F. Kennedy she brought elegance and grace to the fore front of every aspect of their lives. She survived two husbands with the death of both leaving her widowed not once, but twice. There seemed to be death all around her in the form of the deaths of Ariel Onassis’s children in addition to her husbands. The conspiracies behind each of these deaths left theorists with speculation as to the events leading up to and the causes of the death decades after. In January 1994, Onassis was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a form of cancer. By April 1994, the cancer had spread, and she made her last trip home from Cornell hospital on May 18, 1994. A large crowd of well wishers, tourists, and reporters gathered on the street outside her penthouse apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue, and she died in her sleep at 10:15 pm on Friday, May 19, at the age of 64.
