― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 December 2003 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― isadora (isadora), Sunday, 28 December 2003 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 28 December 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 28 December 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)
Name Bosko Balaban Team Aston Villa Total Appearances 0 Starts 0 Substituted 0 Total Minutes Played 0 Avg Minutes Played Per Start 0 Goals 0 Avg Goal Mins When Starting 0.0 Avg Mins Played/Goal Scored 0 Goals Scored As Sub 0 Number of Bookings 0 Total Booking Minutes 0 Avg Bookings Per Start 0 Number of Red Cards 0 Total Red Card Minutes 0 Avg Red Cards Per Start 0 Avg Booking Minutes When Starting 0.0
― bosko, Monday, 14 June 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)
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)
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)
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)
One of the people who was in Hitler's bunker when he shot himselfLee 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 brimleyernest 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)
Dick Van Dyke
― 3.5" flopson (The Reverend), Friday, 6 May 2011 05:40 (fifteen years ago)
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)
Walter Mondale
― The Reverend, Friday, 28 October 2011 23:16 (fourteen years ago)
Didn't know there were two threads for this concept. Anyway, Alby Mangels is not dead.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Monday, 16 April 2012 01:29 (fourteen years ago)
Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland, currently at ages 94 and 95, respectively.
― Look at how funky he is! (jer.fairall), Monday, 16 April 2012 03:03 (fourteen years ago)
Ray Bradbury, 92, from this list.
― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Monday, 16 April 2012 05:37 (fourteen years ago)
Burt Young, who is only in his 70s.
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 April 2012 05:56 (fourteen years ago)
Seems to happen to me regularly when i see/hear obituaries on people. Keep thinking that i'd heard they'd died a few years back.Certainly happened with Spike Milligan and Don van vliet
― Stevolende, Monday, 16 April 2012 06:19 (fourteen years ago)
"Muhammad Ali 70 Bufferfly/Bee"
lul
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 16 April 2012 06:26 (fourteen years ago)
don rickles
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Monday, 16 April 2012 06:27 (fourteen years ago)
Fats Domino, off that list
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 16 April 2012 06:28 (fourteen years ago)
mido departs barnsley
― first u get the flower, then u get the honey, then u get the stamen (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:42 (thirteen years ago)
the least famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:44 (thirteen years ago)
susan cooper turned 91 today
― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 May 2026 01:49 (three 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago)
Still living:
https://i.postimg.cc/90B693C5/alive.jpg
Who are the two people just behind Ringo?
― clemenza, Monday, 8 June 2026 15:13 (one week ago)
Dion and artist/sculptor Larry Bell
― Josefa, Monday, 8 June 2026 15:18 (one week ago)
I know one of those two.
― clemenza, Monday, 8 June 2026 15:20 (one week ago)
Sophia Loren is now the oldest by about five years
― Josefa, Monday, 8 June 2026 15:24 (one week ago)
I would assume some of the flowers are no longer with us
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 8 June 2026 16:53 (one week ago)
Liv Ullman, 87
Had no idea she was born in Tokyo
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 10 June 2026 00:30 (six days ago)
They're not all that old--76, 80, and 82--but after seeing the Peter Asher documentary yesterday, nice to see that Twiggy, Jane Asher, and Pattie Boyd are all still alive. (Also Chris O'Dell, less well known--79.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 June 2026 21:20 (two days ago)
Jean Shrimpton also with us at 83
― Alba, Monday, 15 June 2026 09:23 (yesterday)
I saw Jane Asher at a Nigel Kneale event a couple of years ago - she's in the first Quatermass film and The Stone Tapes - and she was in very good form then (perhaps as a condition of her appearance, the Beatles were never mentioned).
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 15 June 2026 09:36 (yesterday)
Also not that old, Nicholas van Hoogstraten, remember that horrible cunt? Well unfortunately he's still alive.
― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.), Monday, 15 June 2026 11:36 (yesterday)
I saw Jean Shrimpton once, down in Cornwall about 20 years ago. Didn't know it was her at the time, but saw a photo in the paper about five years after.
― Mark G, Monday, 15 June 2026 15:25 (yesterday)
Jan Smithers of WKRP, who (just learned) was married to James Brolin.
― coffee-themed romance ads (Eazy), Monday, 15 June 2026 15:51 (yesterday)
https://assets.newsweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/458732-05-11-teenscover-01.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 15 June 2026 17:09 (yesterday)