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Yukiko Okada (岡田 有希子, Okada Yukiko, August 22, 1967 – April 8, 1986) was a Japanese singer and actress, active in the mid-1980s. After winning a nationwide television show at age 15 in 1983, she debuted as an idol in 1984. Her death by suicide two years later led to a number of copycat suicides, a phenomenon that would bear her name.
Terri Kathleen Nunn (born June 26, 1961) is an American singer and actress. She is known as the vocalist of the 1980s new wave and synth-pop band Berlin . Biography
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:1980 deaths. It includes 1980 deaths that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. People who committed suicide and events and topics involving suicide(s) in the year 1980 .
Georgeanna Tillman, American singer and original member of the girl group the Marvelettes (b. 1944) January 7. Irene Beasley, American singer (b. 1904) Simonne Mathieu, French tennis champion (b. 1908) Larry Williams, American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1935) Sarah Selby, American actress (b.1905 ...
Pages in category "Artists who died by suicide" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 290 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died in the 1980s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
Turkish singer Zeki Müren died of a heart attack during a live performance on stage at TRT İzmir Television. Opera singer Richard Versalle died on stage at the Metropolitan Opera during the company's première performance of The Makropulos Case when he suffered a heart attack while standing on a sliding ladder attached to a file cabinet. He ...
Mahalakshmi Menon, best known by her stagename Shobha (23 September 1962 – 1 May 1980), was an Indian actress best known for her work in Malayalam and Tamil films. At the age of 17, she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1979 Tamil film Pasi.