Saddest celebrity deaths (as felt at the time)

1. David Bowie
2. Elisabeth Sladen
3. David Rocastle
4. Roy Kinnear
5. Carrie Fisher
6. Freddie Mercury
7. George Harrison
8. Prince
9. Victoria Wood
10. Muhammed Ali
11. Ronnie Barker
12. Richard Wright
13. Dermot Morgan
14. George Cole
15. Larry Hagman
16. Michael Conrad
17. Caroline Aherne
18. Yootha Joyce
19. John Hurt
20. Peter Sellars
21. Tom Petty
22. Gary Holton
23. Rik Mayall
24. George Michael

(there were 25 on the list, but I found out later that Paul Michael Glaser is still alive, so I think I was sad about his wife and son dying of AIDs)