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

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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)

Dave Brubeck... when his death was announced.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:45 (thirteen years ago)

sherman hemsley. when he died i experienced deja vu. i could have sworn that he died several years earlier and even had faint memories of reading his obituaries.

sadkdsajkldaskjdsajklasdkl (Pat Finn), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:34 (thirteen years ago)

Ravi Shankar, as of a couple days ago

One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:12 (thirteen years ago)

Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland, currently at ages 94 and 95, respectively.

Was gonna say OdH but I didn't realize her sister was still around too! Guess they're each determined to outlive the other.

Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 13 December 2012 20:08 (thirteen years ago)

six months pass...

Mary Tyler Moore

The Reverend, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:00 (twelve years ago)

ha, I've posted Dick van Dyke and MTM itt!

The Reverend, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:01 (twelve years ago)

Olivia De Havilland and Joan Fontaine

polyphonic, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:47 (twelve years ago)

Martin Landau.

Sleep Deprivation Thriver (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 05:24 (twelve years 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 (one week ago)

Margaret Court, 83

jaymc, Friday, 29 May 2026 04:05 (one week 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:

https://i.postimg.cc/90B693C5/alive.jpg

Who are the two people just behind Ringo?

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

Dion and artist/sculptor Larry Bell

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

I know one of those two.

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

Sophia Loren is now the oldest by about five years

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

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

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

Liv Ullman, 87

Had no idea she was born in Tokyo

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 10 June 2026 00:30 (yesterday)


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