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Red Auerbach, who I had to make sure was still alive by going to Dead or Alive?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, didn't Studs Terkel die? That site lists him as alive. Or am I thinking of Irv Kupcinet?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

That guy from the Von Bondies

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel particularly bad for this, having been such a huge fan of his music, but only earlier in 2003 did I learn that Mr. Sly Stone in fact did not die sometime in the early 80s.

― nickalicious at granny's crib, Thursday, 25 December 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Ursula Moray Williams

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 25 December 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Reg Varney

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 26 December 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave Allen

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 26 December 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I couldn't believe Christopher Lee was alive when I found out he was doing Saruman (and then the Star Wars dingus). He's like, 80!!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 December 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops: Kupcinet just kicked the bucket about a month ago. Studs is alive and well.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 December 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

GENE WILDER. I swear he died.

― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Friday, 26 December 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Reg Varney's still alive?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

richard pryor.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i read something saying Nina Simone only died this year. Can that be right?

― isadora (isadora), Sunday, 28 December 2003 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Windsor Davies

― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 28 December 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

gene wilder recently had a bout with cancer, which thank god he survived.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 28 December 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

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― bosko, Monday, 14 June 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I was surprised that Bosko even lived.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Telma Hopkins!

but that was last week.

today it was ARNOLD STANG!!!!

don't know why i though telma hopkins died.

― tremendoid, Friday, 8 February 2008 06:25 (eighteen years ago)

Zsa Zsa Gabor just turned 91 a few days ago.

― Roz, Friday, 8 February 2008 07:03 (eighteen years ago)

abe vigoda

― remy bean, Friday, 8 February 2008 07:11 (eighteen years ago)

I think Ernest Borgnine is still at it too.

― nickn, Friday, 8 February 2008 07:52 (eighteen years ago)

doris day

― Frogman Henry, Friday, 8 February 2008 08:00 (eighteen years ago)

she's getting a grammy tomorrow

― tremendoid, Friday, 8 February 2008 08:03 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

Shirley Temple

― lol @ dog w/ sunglasses (Pillbox), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:06 (fifteen years ago)

!!!

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:07 (fifteen years ago)

Leonard skinner, but he's now dead.

― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:08 (fifteen years ago)

I was surprised that Bosko even lived.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, June 15, 2004 4:15 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark

dying here

had no idea Sam Beckett lived until 1989 until the other day

― CharlieS, Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:12 (fifteen years ago)

j.d. salinger, but then he died not long after i found out

― just1n3, Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:24 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

Louie Anderson

― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 18 February 2011 06:17 (fifteen years ago)

He was on Tim & Eric a year or two ago.

― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Friday, 18 February 2011 06:41 (fifteen years ago)

Kenneth Mars, but once again after he was dead.

― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 February 2011 07:56 (fifteen years ago)

Jane Russell

― Alba, Friday, 18 February 2011 09:00 (fifteen years ago)

Clive Dunn

― Alba, Friday, 18 February 2011 09:01 (fifteen years ago)

(still)

― Alba, Friday, 18 February 2011 09:02 (fifteen years ago)

len lesser

― flopson, Friday, 18 February 2011 09:03 (fifteen years ago)

Herbert Lom

― Alba, Friday, 18 February 2011 09:12 (fifteen years ago)

(I keep being surprised, sorry)

― Alba, Friday, 18 February 2011 09:12 (fifteen years ago)

One of the people who was in Hitler's bunker when he shot himself
Lee Harvey Oswald's wife (not even that old - still in her sixties)

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 18 February 2011 09:31 (fifteen years ago)

Ken Dodd, and Patrick Moore.

― Mark G, Friday, 18 February 2011 09:47 (fifteen years ago)

Doris Day

― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 18 February 2011 10:50 (fifteen years ago)

Every time I think Peter O'Toole is dead he scores a new role. This has been going on for more than 20 years.

― egregious fannydangling (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 20 February 2011 21:59 (fifteen years ago)

G Gordon Liddy

― the butthead frond (rip van wanko), Sunday, 20 February 2011 22:06 (fifteen years ago)

I have a distinct (and apparently false) memory of reading Rolf Harris's obituary about six months ago, even though I barely knew he was then and barely know who he is now.

― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Sunday, 20 February 2011 22:11 (fifteen years ago)

also Bob Hope's wife has no business being alive in 2011, although I'm not really surprised about it.

― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Sunday, 20 February 2011 22:14 (fifteen years ago)

lauren bacall

― Mordy, Sunday, 20 February 2011 22:26 (fifteen years ago)

wilford brimley
ernest borgnine

― David Allah Coal (sexyDancer), Sunday, 20 February 2011 22:28 (fifteen years ago)

I follow BFI on Twitter and part of the pleasure I get from it is them linking to onstage chats with visiting Hollywood legends who are always Surprisingly Still Alive. Borgnine was one (super-sharp too); George Kennedy another.

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 20 February 2011 23:19 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

Dick Van Dyke

― 3.5" flopson (The Reverend), Friday, 6 May 2011 05:40 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

sort of thought nelly furtado was dead

― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Thursday, 29 September 2011 13:20 (fourteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

Walter Mondale

― The Reverend, Friday, 28 October 2011 23:16 (fourteen years ago)

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Carl Yastrzemski, 86, made an appearance at today's Red Sox game.

― whimsical skeedaddler (Moodles), Saturday, 9 May 2026 02:54 (one month ago)

Child killer and suspected serial killer Sidney Cooke, 99.

― nate woolls, Saturday, 9 May 2026 03:25 (one month ago)

But will there be a national celebration a la David Attenborough when he hits 100?

― Clarinet Cop (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 May 2026 06:20 (one month ago)

Roy Thinnes, 88.

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 10 May 2026 21:06 (one month ago)

Shirley Jones (Partridge Family, Oklahoma, etc) is 92

― Mark G, Monday, 11 May 2026 09:56 (one month ago)

(Elmer Gantry!)

― The Man Who Sold the Unisphere (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 May 2026 22:13 (one month ago)

Michael Heseltine, 93.

― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Wednesday, 13 May 2026 03:17 (four weeks ago)

Saw something in the news about Gerhard Schoeder the other day. I'd have sworn he'd died a few years ago.

― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 13 May 2026 03:44 (four weeks ago)

Linda Blair, 67.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 May 2026 20:19 (four weeks ago)

Match Game edition:

Bart Braverman, 80
Elaine Joyce, 80
Gary Burghoff, 82

― cryptosicko, Friday, 15 May 2026 02:38 (four weeks ago)

james sloyan, who got conned at the beginning of The Sting and played a bunch of different star trek parts, is 86

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― mookieproof, Friday, 15 May 2026 03:15 (four weeks ago)

xp Since you went there...

Joyce Bulifant, 88
Lee Meriwether, 90
Fannie Flagg, 81
Jo Anne Worley, 88

― Josefa, Friday, 15 May 2026 03:16 (four weeks ago)

Burghoff and Alda surely the last remaining MASH castmembers?

― an uncharacteristically irritated Mr. Rogers (stevie), Friday, 15 May 2026 08:10 (four weeks ago)

I was crazy about MASH as a kid, even had the big retrospective book, and what I remember from that book, which was hugely deferential to the show, is that it was fairly clear Burghoff did not get on with the rest of the cast.

― an uncharacteristically irritated Mr. Rogers (stevie), Friday, 15 May 2026 08:11 (four weeks ago)

Hush my mouth! BJ's still alive

― an uncharacteristically irritated Mr. Rogers (stevie), Friday, 15 May 2026 08:12 (four weeks ago)

And Jamie Farr! I'm really living up to the spirit of the thread title, aren't I?

― an uncharacteristically irritated Mr. Rogers (stevie), Friday, 15 May 2026 08:13 (four weeks ago)

Ernest Saunders, born 1935.

― Alba, Saturday, 16 May 2026 20:25 (three weeks ago)

susan cooper turned 91 today

― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 May 2026 01:49 (two weeks ago)

the better informed can put me right style-wise but does marshall allen (102) count as the oldest bebop man still busy touring?

or did he skip bebop & plunge straight into wild space style?

― mark s, Thursday, 28 May 2026 08:36 (two weeks ago)

Lee Friedlander, 91

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 28 May 2026 16:38 (two weeks ago)

rosemary harris, 98 going on 99

also learned that she's the mother of actress jennifer ehle, had no idea.

― the manda-whore-ian and hoe-gu (voodoo chili), Thursday, 28 May 2026 16:45 (two weeks ago)

And born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch!

― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 May 2026 17:07 (two weeks ago)

extremely few people, let alone notable [jazz] musicians, have reached 102

bebop is just a label

be content with his sheer existence imo

― mookieproof, Friday, 29 May 2026 03:59 (two weeks ago)

Margaret Court, 83

― jaymc, Friday, 29 May 2026 04:05 (two weeks ago)

Mike Elliott, Jamaican-British saxophonist, co-founder of the Foundations, 96.

― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 May 2026 10:33 (one week ago)

Mike Stoller, 93.

And while I'm here...

Gaby Rodgers, actress and for many years Jerry Leiber's wife (and great-niece of Husserl!), 98.

― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 May 2026 11:08 (one week ago)

Saw pictures of Mike out and about promoting/attending his recent Broadway Show, Beaches, I think.

― Dr. Winston O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 31 May 2026 04:58 (one week ago)

Still living:

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Who are the two people just behind Ringo?

― clemenza, Monday, 8 June 2026 15:13 (four days ago)

Dion and artist/sculptor Larry Bell

― Josefa, Monday, 8 June 2026 15:18 (four days ago)

I know one of those two.

― clemenza, Monday, 8 June 2026 15:20 (four days ago)

Sophia Loren is now the oldest by about five years

― Josefa, Monday, 8 June 2026 15:24 (four days ago)

I would assume some of the flowers are no longer with us

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 8 June 2026 16:53 (four days ago)

Liv Ullman, 87

Had no idea she was born in Tokyo

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 10 June 2026 00:30 (two days ago)

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