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 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 03:28 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 04:00 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
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― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 08:05 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 08:48 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
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― Simon Generic, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 08:25 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
Yogi Berra's still alive?!
― Mark C, Monday, 17 March 2008 01:09 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) Permalink
Gene Wilder
― admrl, Monday, 17 March 2008 07:32 (ten 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 (ten years ago) Permalink
I thought Gene Wilder had died too, until I checked it on IMDb.
― Tuomas, Monday, 17 March 2008 07:44 (ten 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) Permalink
Liz Smith that is.
― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 2 January 2009 10:57 (nine years ago) Permalink
peter o'toole
― Gaz Promantino (Brohan Hari), Friday, 2 January 2009 10:58 (nine 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 (nine years ago) Permalink
kurt schwitterz?
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 17 March 2016 23:03 (two years ago) Permalink
Mamie Van Doren is 85 now, and so is the actress Nita Talbot, who when she was in her late 30s played the White Russian spy Marya on Hogan's Heroes
― Josefa, Saturday, 19 March 2016 23:40 (two years ago) Permalink
If you have $900 to spare:
http://www.popculturesignatures.com/hohesilpreal.html
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 March 2016 23:56 (two years ago) Permalink
Rip Taylor
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Sunday, 20 March 2016 05:09 (two years ago) Permalink
John Astin
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 22:50 (two years ago) Permalink
Whoa.
I guess I was thinking of Raul Julia.
― pplains, Thursday, 31 March 2016 00:26 (two years ago) Permalink
psephologist David Butler (co-inventor of the swingometer, according to wikipedia)
http://www.markething.cz/wp-content/uploads/11250012.jpg
― soref, Thursday, 31 March 2016 00:53 (two years ago) Permalink
Mother Angelica
Well, now when you think she's dead, you'll be right.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 31 March 2016 01:09 (two years ago) Permalink
welp, RIP
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Thursday, 31 March 2016 02:00 (two years ago) Permalink
Beverly Cleary
― map, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 03:08 (two years ago) Permalink
Lewis Gilbert, 96.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Monday, 16 May 2016 22:29 (two years ago) Permalink
Dr. Heimlich, 96, saves woman, eponymous manouveur: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36400365
― Liquid Plejades, Friday, 27 May 2016 23:18 (two years ago) Permalink
Was surprised that Tina Turner was still alive
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Sunday, 29 May 2016 20:50 (two years ago) Permalink
Doc Severinsen, still doing gigs
― kind of lolth but mostly strahd (los blue jeans), Monday, 30 May 2016 00:31 (two years ago) Permalink
Lee Majors just appeared as Ash's dad in Ash vs Evil Dead. haven't heard of him in ages so assumed he was dead. Is he doing other stuff still?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 10:30 (two years ago) Permalink
He was in the Dallas reboot a couple of years back and I too was surprised he wasn't dead.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 11:20 (two years ago) Permalink
Trini Lopez turned 80 yesterday
― Josefa, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 05:17 (one year ago) Permalink
Frank Sinatra's first wife Nancy is still alive - the mother of Nancy "Boots" Jr., Frank Jr., and Tina. She married Frank in 1939.
She turns 100 in September.
― Josefa, Friday, 30 June 2017 15:33 (one year ago) Permalink
Kenneth Kaunda.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Monday, 20 November 2017 18:48 (one year ago) Permalink
he looks tremendous for 93.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 20 November 2017 19:10 (one year ago) Permalink
johnny mathis
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 01:44 (one year ago) Permalink
he's still performing christmas concerts!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 01:45 (one year ago) Permalink
Johnny Rivers too, he's playing locally soon.
― nickn, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 01:47 (one year ago) Permalink
Malaprop comedian Norm Crosby
― Josefa, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 06:56 (one year ago) Permalink
Presbyterianism keeps you young obviously.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 09:55 (one year ago) Permalink
Ken Dodd
― nashwan, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 10:28 (one year ago) Permalink
Last I heard - which was admittedly a couple of years beck - Ken was still knocking out the 4hr+ live sets
― damian green is people (NickB), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 10:35 (one year ago) Permalink
Bob Goldthwaite!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 17:30 (eleven months 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 (eleven months ago) Permalink
Frank Oz
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 17:41 (eleven months ago) Permalink
Not seriously, but more amazed Rita Tushingham just turned up on 'Vera'
― Mark G, Sunday, 21 January 2018 21:27 (ten months 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 (ten months ago) Permalink
Kenzaburō Ōe, 83 today
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:45 (ten months ago) Permalink
Andre PrevinDenis Norden
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:32 (ten months 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 (six months 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 (six months ago) Permalink
Ken Nordine.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 23 September 2018 14:52 (two months ago) Permalink
Good call, 98!
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 September 2018 14:59 (two 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 (two months ago) Permalink
... oh no, scratch that, she died in 2016, aged 94 ;_;
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 September 2018 15:02 (two months ago) Permalink
Wow, 71 years together isn't bad going.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 23 September 2018 15:03 (two months ago) Permalink
Twenty-One contestants Herbert Stempel and Charles Van Doren
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 23 September 2018 16:56 (two months ago) Permalink
whoa
― Josefa, Sunday, 23 September 2018 17:24 (two months ago) Permalink
Clarissa Eden, as in married to Anthony.. wtf!
― calzino, Monday, 24 September 2018 22:43 (two months ago) Permalink
paul hogan
― andrew m., Tuesday, 25 September 2018 13:54 (two months ago) Permalink
^ you were thinking of Steve Irwin probably
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 23:26 (two months ago) Permalink
malcolm mooney
― macropuente (map), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 02:16 (two months ago) Permalink
Tom Lehrer.
― Alba, Friday, 30 November 2018 09:29 (two weeks ago) Permalink
Sister Wendy Beckett
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 18:19 (one week ago) Permalink
thought for sure this bump would be for Bob Dole
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 December 2018 19:05 (one week ago) Permalink