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| 1 | Hayden Panettiere | 
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After starting her career as a child, this actress got some memorable roles as an adult, such as a cheerleader with a healing factor in Heroes, a country singer in Nashville and a would-be Ghostface victim in Scream 4 who returns as a cop in Scream 6. So it was a shock to learn she was found dead a few days before her 37th birthday and a few months after releasing a memoir, to the point she became the third person whose page brought 10 million views to Wikipedia in a single day, after the Pope and Charlie Kirk. |
| 2 | Wladimir Klitschko |
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#1's longest relationship was with an Ukrainian boxer who holds a record for most time with the heavyweight championship belt and was over a foot taller than her. They had a daughter in 2014, split four years later, and remained in good terms to raise her, so Klitschko left an emotional tribute to Panettiere. |
| 3 | Jansen Panettiere | 
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#1's brother, was also an actor and also died young, at 28 in 2023 from complications emerging from a cardiomegaly, raising the possibility of Hayden having similar issues. |
| 4 | Spider-Man: Brand New Day | 
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Unimpressive new competitors (the biggest release of the week was Insidious: Out of the Further) keep Spidey atop the global box office, even inspiring imitations of the end credits montage. Although in China Brand New Day has been losing some steam due to two local releases, Once Upon a Time in the Middle East, which quickly made more money than the Webhead, and Niu Lai, a cartoon resembling an early PlayStation 2 game that attracted crowds wanting to see how bad it was! |
| 5 | Natalie Harp | 
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This week's White House drama revolves around this "special aide" to the President. Following criticism of the President and Harp by Senator Jon Ossoff at a campaign rally, the relationship between Harp and Trump came under greater scrutiny. The allegations are that their relationship is more "special" than her job title would suggest. |
| 6 | Awarapan 2 |
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This relatively low-budget Indian action thriller film was released on August 14 to positive-to-mixed reviews. It is directed by Nitin Kakkar and stars Emraan Hashmi and Disha Patni. The film is currently the fifth highest grossing Hindi film of the year. |
| 7 | Jason Arday |
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The inspiring story of a neurodivergent black academic who became a professor in Cambridge before even turning 40 took a downturn once accusations of plagiarism, falsified research and credentials emerged, leading him to resign and days later be found dead. This started all sorts of debates about Arday's career, how the media treated him, diversity, equity, and inclusion hires, and the like. |
| 8 | The Odyssey (2026 film) |
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In one more case of Hollywood not doing an original work and instead just going for an adaptation, a story thousands of years old already retold in various media got a movie... directed by Christopher Nolan with a huge budget and an impressive cast, so people didn't complain about it. In fact, the story of Odysseus going to war and then struggling to return home is still strong in theaters in spite of #4 taking so many screens (The Odyssey is even keeping a good number of IMAX ones!), and has entered the top 20 highest-grossing movies ever while also beating Deadpool & Wolverine for the highest R-rated box office. |
| 9 | Deaths in 2026 | 
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Given Frank Beard died this week too:It's got me up and down, I been lost and found, Down in a deep dark hole... |
| 10 | Lanterns (TV series) |
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Superman and Green Lantern ain't got/nothing on this new HBO series involving the latter. Kyle Chandler plays the current Lantern, who is training the next Lantern (Aaron Pierre) to eventually replace him. In the meantime, there is a murder in Nebraska. With former Lost creator Damon Lindelof as one of the showrunners, critics and audiences are abuzz about the series. |
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| 1 | Dolly Parton |
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The iconic country singer of songs such as "Jolene" and "9 to 5", known for extensive charity work and a shapely figure (among her memorable quotes was "I was the first woman to burn my bra—it took the fire department four days to put it out.") along with writing more than 3000 songs across 49 albums, died at 80 following a brush with cancer, one year after the departure of her husband of nearly six decades. In an interesting tangent, Tropical Storm Dolly (2026) formed only a couple of days after Parton's passing. Unusually, the National Hurricane Center noted in one of its tropical discussions that this was a coincidence. |
| 2 | Tim Curry |
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An English actor who ever since he started in the late '60s knew how to be both intimidating and hammy, translating into roles such as a cross-dressing mad scientist, a big red devil, a monster clown, and even an antagonistic hotel clerk. Curry also lent his baritone to various voice acting roles, including a few heroic ones like the father from The Wild Thornberrys, and voiceovers were most of his work after a 2012 stroke that required brain surgery and made him wheelchair-bound. Curry died the same day and at the same age as Parton. |
| 3 | Toxic (2026 film) |
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Subtitled "A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups", this is one of India's most expensive movies ever, filmed simultaneously in English and Kannada, following Yash as a gangster in Goa during the reign of the Portuguese. And one of India's biggest flops as well, scoring negative reviews and not having even reached the lower estimates of its budget. |
| 4 | Peter Cullen |
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A Canadian voice actor mostly associated with Optimus Prime of the Transformers, that also got other memorable roles like Eeyore, Monterey Jack of Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, KARR in Knight Rider and vocalizations for two iconic monsters, King Kong and the Predator. Last heard as Thaedus in Invincible, Cullen died at 85 and is survived by four children and three grandchildren. |
| 5 | Deaths in 2026 |
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For #1: Well, I can't tell you where I'm going I'm not sure of where I've been But I know I must keep travelin' Till my road comes to an end... |
| 6 | Spider-Man: Brand New Day |
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People just can't get enough of the Webhead's fourth MCU movie, which is now the third highest-grossing movie worldwide (though still a big gap until Avengers: Endgame, which will get more money with a re-release this month, and Avatar) and second domestically (in this case, the $30 million to reach The Force Awakens seem feasible – and maybe reach $1 billion in just North America?). |
| 7 | Shelley Fabares |
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Yet another acting death, that also extended into music given this actress made three movies with Elvis Presley and scored a #1 hit in "Johnny Angel". Best known for television roles such as One Day at a Time, The Donna Reed Show and Coach, and with her last works being voicing Superman's adoptive mother Martha Kent in some cartoons and producing the Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony, Fabares died at 83 of pneumonia. |
| 8 | Hayden Panettiere |
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People still mourn the actress that unlike the others atop this list died fairly young at 36. Panettiere had a shared voice acting work with #2, Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King (Curry was the title Goblin King, Panettiere his fairy daughter), and like #1 had some country music involvement starring in the show Nashville (co-star Connie Britton acknowledged the two dying in sucession with ‘the blonds are taking heaven by storm’). |
| 9 | Killing of the Clancy children |
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In this recent edition of "big killing story that causes me shock by its depravity and or the popular response to it", Lindsay Clancy allegedly strangled three of her children in 2023 and is currently on trial for it. Clancy in the lead-up to their deaths had been clearly mentally ill and had been attempting to seek aid from the system, but seemingly to no avail. This has led to national and international attention over the intersection of criminal responsibility and mental illness, which her defense has used as their main argument.
While the pushback against those who argue that she can be held criminally responsible is a generally understandable argument, controversy has been generated by the more extreme variant of this which involves people denying that she killed her children and saying that her husband was responsible. This narrative, which led to over $1 million being raised for her legal defenses via GoFundMe and proliferated in certain circles of social media has also had a gender war angle to it as many of the proponents are women. |
| 10 | Harald V |
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Following years of health complications, the King of Norway since 1991 died on August 28 at the age of 89. His son, Haakon VIII, succeeded him.
Harald V's reign was one of modernization and innovation. Even before assuming the throne, he caused quite the commotion in his kingdom by refusing to marry anyone other than the bride of his choice, Sonja Haraldsen. After becoming Norway's head of state, Harald made his family more accessible to the public, including opening parts of the Royal Palace, Oslo. He was praised for his reaction to the 2011 Norway attacks, and his support for LGBTQ rights in Norway contributed to his iconic status. On top of all of this, Harald found time to earn some gold medals in sailing! Now, since this entry's author brought Descendants of Christian IX of Denmark to WP:FL status, he'd like to show how Harald V is part of a greater European family:
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