According to his Official Website, http://www.evelknievel.com, Evel Knievel has died on November 30, 2007, at age 69.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/m ... ml?cnn=yes

Daredevil Evel Knievel dead at 69
Pop culture icon had been in poor health for years
Posted: Friday November 30, 2007 4:19PM; Updated: Friday November 30, 2007 4:35PM

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) -- Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.

Knievel's death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.

Knievel had undergone a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one of his bone-shattering spills.

Immortalized in the Washington's Smithsonian Institution as "America's Legendary Daredevil," Knievel was best known for a failed 1974 attempt to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered cycle and a spectacular crash at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. He suffered nearly 40 broken bones before he retired in 1980.

Although he dropped off the pop culture radar in the '80s, Knievel always had fans and enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in recent years. In later years he still made a good living selling his autographs and endorsing products. Thousands came to Butte, Mont., every year as his legend was celebrated during the "Evel Knievel Days" festival.

"They started out watching me bust my ass, and I became part of their lives," Knievel said. "People wanted to associate with a winner, not a loser. They wanted to associate with someone who kept trying to be a winner."

His death came just two days after it was announced that he and rapper Kanye West had settled a federal lawsuit over the use of Knievel's trademarked image in a popular West music video.

RIP, Evil.

Love,

Dirty

Robbie will keep the family business under control.

*Evel

i'm glad you don't write obits.

wouldnt it be funny if he tripped and hit his head?

Didn't he just settle the lawsuit with Kanye? Like yesterday?

so the real question here is will they shoot his coffin over 16 monster trucks in eulogy to the great man?

didn't you and evel used to go out?

poor spike. you used to be funny

i'm all business in morbid threads like this one. respect the dead, mary.

If I were Evel, I'd want my coffin shot over 16 monster trucks, though.
It just seems...right.

If death always comes in three, I'd stay the fuck away from Kanye West right about now.