I guess its pretty normal to remember hearing about the deaths of famous people.
Even though I was only 9 I remember vividly our next door neighbour telling my mum that President Kennedy had been killed.
And the morning, my little son was watching Humphrey B Bear, a cartoon morning show on TV, when there was a news break announcing Elvis had died.
And of course, the morning I signed in here, and went into chat as I usualy did back then, and someone said, "Did you hear about Heath Ledger", and I could not beleive what I was reading. Then I turned on the TV and it was on there everywhere, and I stood there dumbstruck just thinking, NO NO NO this cant be true.