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

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tom lehrer

norway srna (nakhchivan), Saturday, 28 February 2015 16:27 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

Bob Elliott

pplains, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 14:09 (eleven years ago)

tom lehrer

― norway srna (nakhchivan), Saturday, February 28, 2015 4:27 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:O

imago, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 14:16 (eleven years ago)

Percy Sledge (except he isn't any more)

ailsa, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 14:33 (eleven years ago)

george cole

bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 11:34 (eleven years ago)

Max Von Sydow will always be the answer to to this question for me.

Hydroelectric New Deal Demiurge (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 12:38 (eleven years ago)

martin strong, editor of the great rock discography

♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 12:46 (eleven years ago)

sounds like good news for Max or bad news for you xp

soref, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 12:47 (eleven years ago)

Connie Francis

Josefa, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:30 (eleven years ago)

Arthur Scargill

and Denis Healey is 98 years old!

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:33 (eleven years ago)

Jimmy Carter

Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 22:43 (eleven years ago)

I know its been said many a time in this thread (even 10 years ago!) but Christopher Lee.

I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Thursday, 23 April 2015 01:42 (eleven years ago)

Maybe I confused him with Bela Lugosi or something, haw.

I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Thursday, 23 April 2015 01:42 (eleven years ago)

Baby Peggy

Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 23 April 2015 03:02 (eleven years ago)

m.h. abrams

j., Thursday, 23 April 2015 03:04 (eleven years ago)

had the exact same thought. he seems like (is?) someone from an entirely different era.

ryan, Thursday, 23 April 2015 03:13 (eleven years ago)

honestly without thinking i would have assumed he died in the 60s, 70s at the latest

j., Thursday, 23 April 2015 03:41 (eleven years ago)

Margaret Keane

(just watched Big Eyes)

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 23 April 2015 03:49 (eleven years ago)

Norman Lloyd

(just watched Sabotage)

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 27 April 2015 11:49 (eleven years ago)

Christopher Lee is alive and well and still cranking out the metal albums:

http://heartlandrecords.com.au/WebRoot/Store/Shops/heartlandrecordstrial/5243/A981/DA36/DC4C/0FCF/C0A8/6152/0D2B/christopher_lee_charlemagne_the_omens_of_death_lp_front.JPG

yeovil knievel (NickB), Monday, 27 April 2015 12:07 (eleven years ago)

When did he have his arms shortened?

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 27 April 2015 12:20 (eleven years ago)

chuck berry

it me, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 02:58 (eleven years ago)

oh, and angela lansbury

it me, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 02:59 (eleven years ago)

until ten minutes ago, if you had asked me if Dr. Ruth is dead I would have said with 100% certainty that yes, Dr. Ruth is dead, but apparently not

soref, Sunday, 3 May 2015 00:29 (eleven years ago)

She's not?

pplains, Sunday, 3 May 2015 02:17 (eleven years ago)

The two head coaches of the January 1974 Super Bowl are still alive: Don Shula (85) and Bud Grant (88)

Josefa, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 20:46 (eleven years ago)

Herman Wouk (100 on May 27).

Miss Anne Thrope (j.lu), Monday, 18 May 2015 14:03 (eleven years ago)

For some reason I thought Regis Philben had died, but he just put in his last Letterman appearance, so I stand corrected.

Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 03:51 (eleven years ago)

three weeks pass...

Ron Moody

Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 June 2015 11:20 (eleven years ago)

Christopher Lee is alive and well and still cranking out the metal albums

alas no more :(

irl friend of the geir (NickB), Thursday, 11 June 2015 11:36 (eleven years ago)

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/83559000/jpg/_83559942_ron_moody_rex.jpg

saw this flash up on twitter and momentarily thought mick fleetwood had carked it

irl friend of the geir (NickB), Thursday, 11 June 2015 11:38 (eleven years ago)

Had no idea Ornette Coleman was still alive until he wasn't.

ed.b, Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:17 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

watching late spring for the first time in years and casually googled.

dylannn, Saturday, 11 July 2015 08:16 (ten years ago)

Omar Sharif.

either this is the worst dichotomy ever, or I'm a (fake penthouse letters mcgee), Saturday, 11 July 2015 14:28 (ten years ago)

x 2

pplains, Saturday, 11 July 2015 14:34 (ten years ago)

John Astin

soref, Saturday, 11 July 2015 19:00 (ten years ago)

Little Richard

joygoat, Sunday, 12 July 2015 04:43 (ten years ago)

Lee Konitz

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 24 July 2015 18:07 (ten years ago)

Pete Doherty

Mr. Snrub, Friday, 24 July 2015 18:53 (ten years ago)

Sandy Koufax

Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 26 July 2015 18:44 (ten years ago)

http://www.tmz.com/2015/07/30/valerie-harper-hospitalized-brain-cancer-maine/

Horrible of me, but I thought she'd already died.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:13 (ten years ago)

Oh, here in a few years, you'll be saying the same about Sandy Duncan.

pplains, Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:33 (ten years ago)

I actually did a quick check a few minutes ago to see if Sandy Duncan was still alive.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:36 (ten years ago)

Lupita Tovar (just turned 105).

Charlie Chaplin Challenge (j.lu), Thursday, 30 July 2015 23:31 (ten years ago)

Hubert de Givenchy

pop addicts should "do their thing", whatever that may be (soref), Saturday, 1 August 2015 15:02 (ten years ago)

Clive James. Could have sworn he died a couple of years ago.

suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Monday, 3 August 2015 11:19 (ten years ago)

The reverse of this - thinking at the weekend "Marlon Brando is still alive, I think? Or did I hear that he died last year" - no, he died in 2004.

Andrew Farrell, Monday, 3 August 2015 12:00 (ten years ago)

Ken Dodd

(no offence to people) (dog latin), Monday, 3 August 2015 14:16 (ten years ago)

no word on his father's dog though

imago, Monday, 3 August 2015 14:17 (ten years ago)


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