Celebrities who died during the show (14 photos)

Miriam Makeba - South African singer and civil libertarian. Winner of the award "Grammy". It was also known as Mama Africa.





November 9, 2008 Miriam Makeba felt ill during the performance of his part of which took place in Italy, near the town of Caserta, precast concert. The concert was organized to support writer Roberto Saviano in his opposition to the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia-like organization. With the singer suffered a heart attack after performing her famous hit "Pata Pata» (Pata Pata). She was taken to the hospital, but treatment was unsuccessful and the next day, Miriam Makeba died. Stephen Robert Irwin (Eng. Stephen Robert Irwin or just Steve Irwin / Steve Irwin; February 22, 1962 - September 4, 2006) - a popular Australian naturalist, journalist and author of numerous films about wildlife



September 4, 2006 at 11 am Steve Irwin went diving into the water to remove the large hvostokolov the Great Barrier Reef. He was collecting material for his next film "Deadly creatures of the ocean." Leading many times down to the slopes. In principle, this predator is rarely truly dangerous to humans: the coast of Australia recorded only two cases of deaths of tourists stung slopes.

But, apparently, Steve too often teased his death. One of the fish attacked the lead when he was over it. Ramp lifted his tail with a poisonous sting at the end and hit him in the chest with Steve. Sting got exactly chest naturalist. The operator, which sailed after Steve Irwin, filmed his death on videotape. Later, she was transferred to the wife of Steve - Terry, she decided to destroy it.

Franco chipped - Italian football manager and coach



October 3, 2005 Scola appeared on regional TV station in Genoa, participating in the discussion passionately with Genoa president Enrico current Prezayozi. While Prezayozi posted on one of the charges Scola, Scola lost consciousness and fell on his chair and died of a heart attack.

Darrell Abbott - American musician, guitarist, vocalist and one of the founders of metal bands «Pantera» and «Damageplan».



December 8, 2004 in Columbus (Ohio) during the concert band in a club «Alrosa Villa» deranged fan of «Pantera» Nathan Gale opened fire from a pistol Beretta 92F, killing four people (including Darrell) and seriously injuring two. Dimebag received five wounds, including one to the head that killed him instantly. He was 38 years old.

Owen Hart - known Canadian professional wrestler, a representative of the Canadian wrestlers Hart Dynasty



Hart died May 23, 1999 during the PPV show Over the Edge. Owen had to come down to the ring to face Blue Blazera on a rope. But something went wrong, and the rope broke. Owen broke and fell from 20 meter height directly on the corner of the ring. He died without regaining consciousness still on the way to hospital.

Mark Sandman - American singer, songwriter, musician and multi-instrumentalist.



At the beginning of July 1999 Sandman left Boston and went to Italy in order to give some concerts with Morphine. The tragedy occurred on July 3 during a speech in Palestrina (Palestrina), Italy. On stage, Mark Sandman died of a heart attack: he was only 46 years old.

Brandon Lee - American actor, son of Bruce Lee



During the filming of "The Crow", in one of the scenes where the protagonist shooting a pistol at 00.30 actor was hit with a revolver shot 44-caliber actor Michael Massee, who played one of the villains (Fanboy). Stuck in the barrel plug has not been seen by members of the crew and flew out of the barrel when fired blanks. The actor was injured in the stomach, foreign body stuck in the spine, causing extensive blood loss. 12 hours later Brandon Lee died in a hospital in Wilmington, North Carolina.

John Elroy Sanford, aka Redd Foxx, was an American comedian and actor, best known for his starring role in the sitcom "Sanford and Son.»



October 11th, 1991, during rehearsals when he fell, everyone thought that this is one of its crown room with a heart attack & quot ;, but it was a real attack.

Frederick Thomas "Tommy" Cooper was a popular Welsh comedian and magician of Caerphilly, Wales.



Another comedian, whose death was initially evaluated by the public, as part of the show and brought applause. But April 15, 1984 Tommy Cooper during his speech in a TV variety show suffered a real heart attack. Rather not suffered.

Johnny Ace - known in the mid-50s singer rhythm 'n' blues. Author of several popular singles.



Upon his death, witnesses give very contradictory testimony. Some say that he was playing "Russian roulette" with a revolver, while others argue that it was playing with the gun and decided to show fears that he is not charged, held it to his temple and fired.

Karl Wallenda - stuntman, stunt inventor "Wallenda Flight" - a world-renowned daredevil circus known implementation without support systems.



In 1978, at 73 years old, Wallenda attempted to pass on a rope between the two towers of a ten Condado Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the height of 37 meters. But a strong gust of wind hit him and he fell.

Paul Ments - was known as a pilot - as a racer and stuntman



Ments died on July 8, 1965, while working on the film «The Flight of the Phoenix». Especially for this movie was made by plane Phoenix P-1. Passing on low-level flight in one of the Arizona desert, a small hill Ments hooked instantly and the aircraft hit the ground. The Commission noted the presence of alcohol in the blood of the deceased.

Jon-Erik Hexum - American model and actor.



Jon-Erik Hexum died in an accident with a magnum 44th caliber. The actor took a gun and, knowing that he was charged with blanks, put to his head as a joke, pulled the trigger and "smeared their brains on the wall." We should have known that blank cartridges are covered with a metal shell. They need to be heard the sound of the shot. This case was nominated for Darwin.

Lasse Eriksson - Swedish comedian, actor and writer


He died while performing in the show "Four happy man 2" in the theater «Regina» Regina in Uppsala.