the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive

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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-two years ago)

I was surprised that Bosko even lived.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:15 (twenty-two 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)

five months pass...

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)

seven months pass...

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)


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