Famous People Who Died During Their Performances

 Famous People Who Died During Their Performances

                                                              BY    MRITUNJAY JADON

Miriam Makeba

9, November 2008. Miriam Makeba, nicknamed Mama Africa, suffered a heart attack shortly after singing her hit song, 'Pata Pata' in a concert held in Castel Volturno, near Caserta, Italy.
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Steve Irwin

4, September 2006. Steve Irwin, known as 'The Crocodile Hunter', was stung and killed by a stingray while filming an underwater documentary entitled Ocean¡¯s Deadliest.
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Mark Sandman

3, July 1999. Mark Sandman, bassist and lead vocalist for the band Morphine, collapsed on stage at the Giardini del Principe in Palestrina, Latium, Italy (near Rome) while performing with Morphine. He was pronounced dead of a heart attack.
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Brandon Lee

31, March 1993. Brandon Lee, son of martial artist Bruce Lee, died while filming the movie The Crow. A prop gun had been squib loaded, causing the blank cartridge to propel the bullet into Lee and kill him. Contrary to urban legend, the footage of his death was not kept in the movie. Instead, they re-shot the scene using a different actor, whose death in the film was by a throwing knife.
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John Elroy Sanford

11, October 1991. John Elroy Sanford-Redd Foxx, best known for his role in Sanford and Son, suffered a fatal heart attack while on the set of his upcoming sitcom The Royal Family.
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Tommy Cooper

15, April 1984. Magician and comedian Tommy Cooper suffered a heart attack during a performance on the TV variety show Live From Her Majesty¡¯s. Cooper was famous for getting his illusions deliberately and comically wrong, and for some minutes the audience assumed that his sudden collapse was just part of the act. Efforts to revive him backstage failed, and he was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
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Johnny Ace

25, December 1954. Johnny Ace was an American rhythm and blues singer. He scored a string of hit singles in the mid-1950s before dying of an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Karl Wallenda

Karl Wallenda was the founder of The Flying Wallendas, an internationally known daredevil circus act famous for performing death-defying stunts without a safety net. In 1978, at age 73, Wallenda attempted a walk between the two towers of the ten-story Condado Plaza Hotel in SanJuan, Puerto Rico, on a wire stretched37 metres (121ft) above the pavement, but fell to his death whenwinds exceeded 48 kilometres per hour (30 miles per hour).
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Paul Mantz

Paul Mantz died on July 8, 1965. while working on the movie The Flight of the Phoenix, produced and directed by Robert Aldrich. Flying a very unusual aircraft, the Tallmantz Phoenix P-1 built especially for the film, Mantz struck a small hillock while skimming over a desert site in Arizona for a second take. As Mantz attempted to recover by opening the throttle to its maximum the over-stressed aircraft broke in two and nosed over into the ground, killing Mantz instantly.
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Jon-Erik Hexum

Jon-Erik Hexum was an American model and actor. In October 18, 1984.he died as a result of a firearms accident on the set of the CBS television series Cover Up in which he played the male lead.
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Lasse Eriksson

Lasse Eriksson was a Swedish comedian, actor and writer. Eriksson died 3, March 2011. on stage during the show Fyra lyckliga män 2 (Four happy men 2) at the Regina Theatre in Uppsala.