October 31 is Halloween, a holiday that is celebrated on the eve of the Christian festival of All Saints and which brings together many people in costumes every end of the month.
The holiday, coming from Ireland (it was celebrated when the Celtic new year began at the end of the harvest) and popularized in the United States as Halloween, It is full of connotations related to death.
The ancient Celts thought that during that night the spirits of the dead – many of them evil ghosts – walked among the living, but the dead in the family were also venerated (something similar to what happens with the Day of the Dead in Mexico).
With the release of the film John Carpenter In 1978, the word “Halloween” came to symbolize everything related to the spectral, monstrous, ghostly, deadly and terrifying.
Let’s review, then, which notable figures in recent history curiously died on Halloween.
Sean Connery
Sean Connery, Praga, 2002. Foto: Albert Watson
The legendary English actor, known for playing James Bond in cinemas, died in 2020.
River Phoenix
Joaquin’s brother died at an early age due to an overdose. It was in 1993, curiously the same day as the filmmaker Federico Fellini.
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini directed “La Dolce Vita.” Photo: Viva
We had anticipated it. The Italian film director, director of classics such as La dolce vita and Fellini 8 and a half, died in 1993.
Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi was a renowned Prime Minister of India.
The former Prime Minister of India died in 1984 at the age of 66.
Lola Membrives
The Argentine actress who gave her name to the famous theater and stood out in Spain died in 1969.
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Lévi-Strauss in 2001.
The French anthropologist and philosopher died at age 100 in 2009.
2023-10-24 19:31:35
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