i dont know how but i seemed to get the idea into my head that he died back in the mid 90s...sorry Dave, he should pop up on TV again just to let us know he's still around.
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 00:43 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 03:28 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 04:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 05:51 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 08:05 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
Sammy Davis Jr, cept he really was dead when I displayed surprise at seeing him on TV whilst I thought him dead.
― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 08:19 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 08:48 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
Anyone see the interview with Henry Grimes in this month's Wire? Bassist with Albert Ayler in the 60s, the first question the poor fella asks is, "So, how is Albert doing?". Interviewer has to break the news that Ayler died in 1970.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 09:14 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
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― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:58 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
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― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 18:03 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― kate, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 18:05 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 18:14 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 07:26 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 07:40 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Simon Generic, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 08:25 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
Yogi Berra's still alive?!
― Mark C, Monday, 17 March 2008 01:09 (eleven years ago) Permalink
When Jane Russell turned up in a photograph for the Oscars I was amazed.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 March 2008 01:11 (eleven years ago) Permalink
I thought Frank Zappa was dead for ages. then I read in the paper that he had just died. I killed him with my negative beliefs.
-- webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, January 7, 2003 2:05 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link
I love that nobody cared enough to correct him.
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 17 March 2008 01:19 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Thought for years that the actor that played Zack from Saved By The Bell was dead, it went around my school as a rumour. Believed it because why would anyone bother making that up? And it's not as if he was in the public eye a lot after the show finished, anyway.
― Bodrick III, Monday, 17 March 2008 01:28 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Walter Cronkite. He already seemed to be kind of old in the famous clip where he announced that Kennedy was dead. I guess he would have only been in his mid-40s at the time though.
― j-rock, Monday, 17 March 2008 07:12 (eleven years ago) Permalink
he was still producing stuff as of a few years ago, CBS seems to have disavowed him entirely now probably because of his politics.
― tremendoid, Monday, 17 March 2008 07:17 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Gene Wilder
― admrl, Monday, 17 March 2008 07:32 (eleven years ago) Permalink
I was fairly sure Alec Guinness had died at least 3 different times before he actually did die.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 March 2008 07:39 (eleven years ago) Permalink
I thought Gene Wilder had died too, until I checked it on IMDb.
― Tuomas, Monday, 17 March 2008 07:44 (eleven years ago) Permalink
i thought harold gould died. not so
― tremendoid, Thursday, 7 August 2008 18:54 (ten years ago) Permalink
(Dave Allen died in 2005, don't be confused by the opening post)
― StanM, Thursday, 7 August 2008 19:07 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://www.deathlist.net/
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:29 (ten years ago) Permalink
I remember being a bit surprised when I found out Doris Day is still alive. For some reason I seem to assume every celebrity who had his or her heyday before the 60s must be dead by now.
― Tuomas, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:48 (ten years ago) Permalink
Also, apparently this thread put a jinx on Katharine Hepburn, who died only a few months after she was mentioned here.
― Tuomas, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:50 (ten years ago) Permalink
heh I thought Katherine Hepburn was still alive :)
― Ludo, Friday, 8 August 2008 09:34 (ten years ago) Permalink
I had a discussion the other day about someone that was all about whether they were alive or dead. I forget who it was now, and we never checked for confirmation either.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 8 August 2008 09:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
But yeah, Harvey Dent.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 8 August 2008 09:36 (ten years ago) Permalink
David Blaine was who we were talking about.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 8 August 2008 10:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
No, he was just buried alive.
― NickB, Friday, 8 August 2008 10:09 (ten years ago) Permalink
I think people were hoping.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 8 August 2008 10:25 (ten years ago) Permalink
i just watched holiday today (Grant/Hepburn. excellent), she looks even more severe than usual but the character is wonderfully vibrant, as is grant (he does flips); i hadn't seen in ten yrs probably i was afraid i'd be disappoinged; lots of thoughtful lefty easter eggs in the script.
― tremendoid, Friday, 8 August 2008 10:38 (ten years ago) Permalink
Clive Dunn
― blueski, Friday, 8 August 2008 11:16 (ten years ago) Permalink
I love how Abe Vigoda has a simple website devoted to his living 'status', I guess everyone must think he is dead.
http://www.abevigoda.com/
― MaresNest, Friday, 8 August 2008 12:47 (ten years ago) Permalink
ok wtf
Erich von Däniken!
― Øystein, Monday, 11 August 2008 10:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
Olivia de Havilland from 'Gone with the Wind' is still alive and still making a mockery of my Death Pool. Come on Ollie!
― JTS, Monday, 11 August 2008 12:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
Yes, for some he was the king of this
― Tom D., Monday, 11 August 2008 12:13 (ten years ago) Permalink
Yes, for some reason he was the king of this, that should read. I can think of at least two occasions when I bet someone that Alec Guinness was dead when he wasn't.
― Tom D., Monday, 11 August 2008 13:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
Charles Aznavour
― Keep Carmody and Carry On (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, 2 January 2009 10:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
For some reason I thought Pratchett was dead til I read an article by him today about his alzheimers. I think I confused him with Douglas Adams.
― Trayce, Friday, 2 January 2009 10:11 (ten years ago) Permalink
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Smith_(actress)";>Liz Smith</a>
Very pleased to find she's not and has just received an MBE. Good on her.
― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 2 January 2009 10:56 (ten years ago) Permalink
Liz Smith that is.
― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 2 January 2009 10:57 (ten years ago) Permalink
peter o'toole
― Gaz Promantino (Brohan Hari), Friday, 2 January 2009 10:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
he almost won a oscar last year brutha
― missile loaded | com mode engaged | its a go (tremendoid), Saturday, 3 January 2009 01:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
Bob Goldthwaite!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 17:30 (one year ago) Permalink
Peregrine Worsthorne― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:59 (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink^ no way!Is Ariel Sharon still hanging on in there?― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:59 (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:59 (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^ no way!
Is Ariel Sharon still hanging on in there?
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:59 (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Peregrine Worsthorne
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 17:32 (one year ago) Permalink
Frank Oz
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 17:41 (one year ago) Permalink
Not seriously, but more amazed Rita Tushingham just turned up on 'Vera'
― Mark G, Sunday, 21 January 2018 21:27 (one year ago) Permalink
Was surprised that Peter Wyngarde just passed since again I thought he was somebody who was long gone.
― Stevolende, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:02 (one year ago) Permalink
Kenzaburō Ōe, 83 today
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:45 (one year ago) Permalink
Andre PrevinDenis Norden
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:32 (one year ago) Permalink
Yehuda Lerner
the 17 yr old emblematic hero of the Sobibor uprising is still alive, and a year younger than Lanzmann, who immortalised him in the classic Sobibor: 14th October 1943 documentary.
― calzino, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:13 (one year ago) Permalink
I'm just re-watching it tonight, it is a gripping watch, yet again. Yehuda had escaped from 8 Nazi camps and one major Nazi killing facility, in which he'd played a key role in it's famous inmate uprising, and helped murder a mid-level SS commander - all by the age of 17. I'd get some beers in for him.
― calzino, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:53 (one year ago) Permalink
Ken Nordine.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 23 September 2018 14:52 (eight months ago) Permalink
Good call, 98!
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 September 2018 14:59 (eight months ago) Permalink
... also his wife is still alive, she is a relative spring chicken at 97, they've been married since 1945.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 September 2018 15:01 (eight months ago) Permalink
... oh no, scratch that, she died in 2016, aged 94 ;_;
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 September 2018 15:02 (eight months ago) Permalink
Wow, 71 years together isn't bad going.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 23 September 2018 15:03 (eight months ago) Permalink
Twenty-One contestants Herbert Stempel and Charles Van Doren
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 23 September 2018 16:56 (eight months ago) Permalink
whoa
― Josefa, Sunday, 23 September 2018 17:24 (eight months ago) Permalink
Clarissa Eden, as in married to Anthony.. wtf!
― calzino, Monday, 24 September 2018 22:43 (eight months ago) Permalink
paul hogan
― andrew m., Tuesday, 25 September 2018 13:54 (eight months ago) Permalink
^ you were thinking of Steve Irwin probably
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 23:26 (eight months ago) Permalink
malcolm mooney
― macropuente (map), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 02:16 (eight months ago) Permalink
Tom Lehrer.
― Alba, Friday, 30 November 2018 09:29 (five months ago) Permalink
Sister Wendy Beckett
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 18:19 (five months ago) Permalink
thought for sure this bump would be for Bob Dole
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 December 2018 19:05 (five months ago) Permalink
David Bellamy.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 24 December 2018 23:44 (five months ago) Permalink
I thought Simon Callow died but that Mark Gatton thing was new this year wasn't it.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 00:25 (five months ago) Permalink
Lol you think he died cause you saw his funeral in that one film
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 01:02 (five months ago) Permalink
Monica Kindle (Tom D.) at 6:19 6 Dec 18Sister Wendy Beckett
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 17:27 (five months ago) Permalink
people who just died that you thought had died ages ago
― nashwan, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 17:44 (five months ago) Permalink
(xp) She lasted three weeks.
― Once in Rahul Dravid's City (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:57 (five months ago) Permalink
tbf she didn't look like one of the nuns I had to deal with - in which I mean the type that would strike a kid's head with a wooden blackboard duster and probably think most 16th century art is perverted!
― calzino, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:47 (five months ago) Permalink
Leslie Phillips, 94!
― The Vangelis of Dating (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 March 2019 23:35 (two months ago) Permalink
ding dong
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 March 2019 23:43 (two months ago) Permalink
Scott Walker. Well, he is dead now, but I was surprised to read the news today about his passing, because for some reason I thought he had died a couple of years ago. Mandela effect?
― Tuomas, Monday, 25 March 2019 12:20 (two months ago) Permalink
You’re thinking of David Bowie
― A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 12:21 (two months ago) Permalink
Scott Wilson died last year and I always confused them.
― Sky rockets in flight, afternoon D-White (fionnland), Monday, 25 March 2019 12:22 (two months ago) Permalink
No, I'm sure I knew they were two different people.
― Tuomas, Monday, 25 March 2019 12:22 (two months ago) Permalink
(xpost)
― Tuomas, Monday, 25 March 2019 12:23 (two months ago) Permalink
bowie dies every weekend on bbc 4.
― calzino, Monday, 25 March 2019 12:23 (two months ago) Permalink
Donald Trump
― Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Monday, 25 March 2019 14:45 (two months ago) Permalink
Warren Beatty
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 March 2019 22:09 (one month ago) Permalink
John Prine
Lance Henriksen
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 March 2019 22:10 (one month ago) Permalink
Carol Burnett
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 March 2019 22:11 (one month ago) Permalink
1. Fritz Hollings is still alive.
2. The governor before George Wallace is still alive.
3. On the list of oldest living U.S. governors, Jimmy Carter comes in at No. 10.
― pplains, Thursday, 4 April 2019 01:19 (one month ago) Permalink
1. Fritz Hollings is still alive
Nevermind!
― pplains, Saturday, 6 April 2019 15:57 (one month ago) Permalink
Three days for the curse to take effect. Impressive.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 April 2019 11:47 (one month ago) Permalink
Desmond Morris!
― Alba, Friday, 19 April 2019 13:03 (one month ago) Permalink
Walter Mondale
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Thursday, 2 May 2019 22:11 (three weeks ago) Permalink
xp. oldmanwatching
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 2 May 2019 22:23 (three weeks ago) Permalink
Mondale may not be dead, but I'm sure Trump would mock him as "low energy".
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 2 May 2019 22:37 (three weeks ago) Permalink