"Biggest Death"

[gibbleguts]

what about biggie and tupac?

Wouldn't we have to know who they are for them to matter?:eyebrow:

 

[SkinsFanLarry]

JFK and Elvis!

 

[daniyal]

I think that discounting JFK as a US only thing is taking things a little light. I think that one changed the entire world in more ways then any of us will ever understand. The leader of of the most powerfull country in the world at the begining of worldwide bradcast changed everything.

JFK is a household name in America and perhaps Europe but you'd be hard pressed to find many people outside that region who know who he is or what he did. He by no means had the global impact or following that Diana did... Guess being a hot blonde with long legs helps then again why are we forgetting Marlyin? She made JFK famous!
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[Daviso27]

In my life time, as of now I would have to say.... MJ. John Lennon was huge, but not my Gen. Once Castro kicks the bucket, I think he would be #1.

 

[strife]

JFK is a household name in America and perhaps Europe but you'd be hard pressed to find many people outside that region who know who he is or what he did. He by no means had the global impact or following that Diana did... Guess being a hot blonde with long legs helps then again why are we forgetting Marlyin? She made JFK famous!
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Hmmm, "global impact"? "Bay of Pigs", "Cuban Missile Crisis". Either of these if not handled properly might have initiated a third global war. How about the cold war and nuclear proliferation, does the impact always have to be positive? Just because a persons' "global impact" isn't well known is hardly a reason to dismiss the affects of that person on all civilization. Using that logic you would have Tom Cruise a more influential person than Mahatma Gandhi (another whose death was a huge deal).

And it wasn't Marilyn Monroe that made JFK famous, it was Nikita Khrushchev's shoe. :wink:

 

[Moro]

Grigory Rasputin's.

On the night of December 17th, 1916, the Great Duke Dmitri Romanov, Prince Felix Yussupov, Vladimir Purishkevich (a member of the Russian Parliament), and Dr. Lazaret invited Rasputin to the Yussupov palace under the pretence of meeting (and according to one historian, to heal) Felix's wife Irina. Upon arrival, Rasputin was taken to a dining room in the basement. He was told that Irina had some guests and Rasputin was to rest and drink tea until the guests left.

Rasputin was offered pastries and wine which he initially refused. This somewhat threw the Prince into a panic. He told the other conspirators (who were waiting in another room off the stairs), "…that animal is not eating or drinking." When Felix returned, however, Rasputin had opened the wine and began to drink. After drinking a couple of glasses, he showed no signs of having been poisoned. After a while, he may have started feeling something because he asked for tea. Then stood, walked around the room, then asked Felix to play the guitar and sing. For two hours this "nightmare" continued. When Felix checked in with is co-conspirators next, he was pale. He said that Rasputin had eaten and drank the poisoned food and still nothing had happened. When he again returned to his guest, the only signs of the poison affecting him was that he was burping and had some excessive salivation. Nerves were beginning to give way. Felix decided to end it. He took a revolver and while Rasputin was looking at a fancy cross, shot him in the back. Rasputin gave a bestial cry and fell to the floor.

Dimitry and the doctor allegedly went for the car and to destroy Rasputin's coat and boots (they were not destroyed). In the meantime, Felix wanted to see Rasputin again, so he went and took another look. The body was still warm with small drops of blood coming from the wound. He lifted the body by the shirt and shook it and dropped it again to the floor. He then noticed that the left eye started to open, then the right eye. Suddenly the Rasputin leapt from the floor with a "devil's look" in his eyes and a wild cry and attacked Felix. Felix struggled for a moment and broke free. Rasputin fell again to the floor.

The prince ran, calling for the revolver again. When they returned, Rasputin was crawling up the stairs. He made it out and began to run through the snow near the fence crying, "Felix, Felix…I'll tell everything to the tsarina!" In a panic, Purishkevich missed twice with the revolver, then biting himself on the wrist to make himself concentrate, shot Rasputin in the back. Then again in the head. Rasputin fell, holding his head.

Felix began to beat Rasputin with a rubber truncheon. Finally Purishkevich had him pulled off the body. They took the body back into the house and discovered that Rasputin was still alive. He wheezed with each breath and was able to look at them through one eye. Finally Dimitry and the doctor returned. The body was wrapped in a cloth and taken by car to the Niva river and dumped in.

But also Rasputin died of hypothermia there, not of drowning. The cloth showed such scratch markings that,if he had lasted a few minutes longer, Rasputin would've gotten out of this as well. He was then buried, but the people of Rusia took him out again to burn him in a pyre. what they did not knowwas that the tendons tighten when the body is burnt, and not having cut them gave them the scare of their life, for Rasputin sat whilst being burnt.

 

[jre]

JFK followed by MLK.

Agreed

 

[CWS]

Ronald (by God) Reagan

 

[j.lazy]

Douglas Adams for me. :frown:

 

[BradMc]

JFK & Bobbie K.