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

Rod Laver

had him on my deadpool long list a few years back

oh, that wasn't a new message i was replying to.

Ed Meese

Dušan Makavejev

Twenty One contestants Herbert Stempel and Charles Van Doren.

cutty

Kirk Douglas, when his son Michael had a recent photo of his 102 year old wheelchair bound self at a publilc event. MIchael Douglas getting a star or something?
MD was on Stephen colbert a couple of days ago.

Holland, Dozier and Holland are all still alive. they're not even that old.

Mr. Blobby

https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/LsVwbZUxFUhxGujBw88urYdE4QQ/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/usr/1/13254/mrblobby.jpg

Stanley Baxter
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 12:21 (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Still kicking around at 92.

Right... I've had to keep this under wraps for ages. We've just finished editing a Christmas special (90') on Stanley Baxter for C5 He;'s 92, on top form, and he allowed our cameras into his house. He's v.v. funny. Details closer to transmission. Press pls go to Mark Borkowski

— Victor Lewis-Smith (@TVOFFAL) November 25, 2018

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

― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo)

he's been terminally ill for about 4 or 5 years and has been writing about his imminent death, in terms that make it seem like it's just round the corner, ever since. due to this ive assumed multiple times over recent years that he must have passed away.

― corbyn's gallus (jim in glasgow), Thursday, August 6, 2015 10:33 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He sounds a little embarrassed about it, to be fair

I think if you still possess a sense of embarrassment then life really hasn't prepared you for death yet.

Hugh Downs. He'll be 100 in 20...21.

Harriet Andersson

He sounds a little embarrassed about it, to be fair

How embarrassed must he be in 2019?

he's still writing (a long poem in September) : https://www.theguardian.com/profile/clive-james

Reading his Wiki page, it's probably not significant that the BBC interview where he said the disease "had beaten him" and that he was "near the end" came a couple of months after his wife had thrown him out after discovering he'd been having an affair with a model for 8 years - is it?

she must have taken him back in then, that most recent article mentions her taking his temperature

It worked then.

who'd have thought some old twat whose career high was an 80's lol foreigns tv show would still have enough ego + self-regard to consider writing an Epic Poem with himself as the hero 🤢

When it comes to jawdropping once-seen-never-forgotten quintessentially Australian monuments and landmarks, Clive James's ego dwarfs Syndney Opera House AND Ayers Rock.

I like his LP with Pete Atkin, "Beware The Beautiful Stranger"

He's turned rightwing in his old age though just like his mates Amis, McEwen et al - the last thing I read of his was a review in the TLS where he praised Tony Abbott, Australia's very own Donald Trump

Lionel Blair, 90.

Gavin MacLeod

jonas mekas!

(rip since he actually isn't any more but blimey)

Dušan Makavejev

― flappy bird, Wednesday, November 21, 2018 9:47 PM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

RIP

what? RIP

tweeted out by Janus an hour or so ago

Damn he seemed like a cool guy

I was pretty sure one of Mandy Moore, Winona Ryder, or Mariah Carey was dead. I must be thinking of something else

Brittany Murphy?

Maybe but probably not. It’ll probably remain a mystery

Eric Carle, author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

i-is the caterpillar still alive?

(spoiler) it turned into a butterfly

Isn't there a larger than life museum dedicated to him in the Berkshires, with a very large Very Hungry Caterpillar?

Pioneer Valley, not Berkshires! On the campus of my alma mater which just this week has decided that due to their weakening fiscal position will not admit a full entering class this year, which has me deeply depressed

Film producer Robert Evans.

Was he young? Not anymore. Was he still active? Not as much as he’d like to be. But was he still spending his days on the right side of the dirt, entertaining old pals in his long-time residence, and toying with the notion of making one last hit? You bet your sweet bippy, baby.

Juliette Greco turns 92 today!

https://www.itsnicethat.com/system/files/112015/564c648f7fa44c50b20019ec/images_slice_large/Tomi-Ungerer-its-nice-that-rufus.jpg

Anna Karina

ken bruce

I could've swore Chuck Yeager had died.

― pplains, Friday, January 29, 2016 2:09 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Me too. He celebrated his 96th birthday on Wednesday.

Jasper Johns

Mac Davis

Lyndon LaRouche, retroactively