doris day
― Frogman Henry, Friday, 8 February 2008 08:00 (sixteen years ago) link
she's getting a grammy tomorrow
― tremendoid, Friday, 8 February 2008 08:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Shirley Temple
― lol @ dog w/ sunglasses (Pillbox), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
!!!
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Leonard skinner, but he's now dead.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
j.d. salinger, but then he died not long after i found out
― just1n3, Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Louie Anderson
― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 18 February 2011 06:17 (thirteen years ago) link
He was on Tim & Eric a year or two ago.
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Friday, 18 February 2011 06:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Kenneth Mars, but once again after he was dead.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 February 2011 07:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Jane Russell
― Alba, Friday, 18 February 2011 09:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Clive Dunn
― Alba, Friday, 18 February 2011 09:01 (thirteen years ago) link
(still)
― Alba, Friday, 18 February 2011 09:02 (thirteen years ago) link
len lesser
― flopson, Friday, 18 February 2011 09:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Herbert Lom
― Alba, Friday, 18 February 2011 09:12 (thirteen years ago) link
(I keep being surprised, sorry)
One of the people who was in Hitler's bunker when he shot himselfLee Harvey Oswald's wife (not even that old - still in her sixties)
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 18 February 2011 09:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Ken Dodd, and Patrick Moore.
― Mark G, Friday, 18 February 2011 09:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Doris Day
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, 18 February 2011 10:50 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
G Gordon Liddy
― the butthead frond (rip van wanko), Sunday, 20 February 2011 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
lauren bacall
― Mordy, Sunday, 20 February 2011 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
wilford brimleyernest borgnine
― David Allah Coal (sexyDancer), Sunday, 20 February 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Dick Van Dyke
― 3.5" flopson (The Reverend), Friday, 6 May 2011 05:40 (twelve years ago) link
sort of thought nelly furtado was dead
― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Thursday, 29 September 2011 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
Walter Mondale
― The Reverend, Friday, 28 October 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Ray Bradbury, 92, from this list.
― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Monday, 16 April 2012 05:37 (twelve years ago) link
Burt Young, who is only in his 70s.
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 April 2012 05:56 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
"Muhammad Ali 70 Bufferfly/Bee"
lul
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 16 April 2012 06:26 (twelve years ago) link
don rickles
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Monday, 16 April 2012 06:27 (twelve years ago) link
Fats Domino, off that list
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 16 April 2012 06:28 (twelve years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
the least famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
Dave Brubeck... when his death was announced.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Ravi Shankar, as of a couple days ago
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Mary Tyler Moore
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:00 (ten years ago) link
ha, I've posted Dick van Dyke and MTM itt!
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:01 (ten years ago) link
Olivia De Havilland and Joan Fontaine
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:47 (ten years ago) link
Martin Landau.
― Sleep Deprivation Thriver (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 05:24 (ten years ago) link
lisa kudrow
― Treeship, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 05:27 (ten years ago) link
I always seem to think that Ennio Morricone is dead, but he's still working!
― Dan I., Wednesday, 19 June 2013 10:02 (ten years ago) link
kirk douglas
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 10:10 (ten years ago) link
Somebody once had a theory that he might once have actually overdubbed some tracks with Pete Best but who really knows or cares.
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 17:39 (two days ago) link
Is there a more famous budgie fancier? Not sure I can think of one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahpGCrlQc0k
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 17:42 (two days ago) link
ymmv for 'famous' but British character actor Arnold Yarrow - most famous to me as Bellal in Death To The Daleks, the Pertwee-era Doctor Who story - is 104 today. He's the oldest living Who-related actor.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 09:02 (yesterday) link
Also apparently in Eastenders for a while but he died in 1989.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 09:58 (yesterday) link
yarrow with pertwee in his youth:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BY2IzMTUyZDYtNDdjNy00NTc5LWFhYmEtYThjYzVmZGQxMDFkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjc0ODQ0NzM@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 10:12 (yesterday) link
Geoffrey Robertson KC, he worked on the OZ trial along with many other cases defending civil liberties and free speech, he's only 77
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:28 (yesterday) link
Wow.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:29 (yesterday) link
Whitey Herzog was still alive this week.
― pplains, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:25 (yesterday) link
This isn't really that surprising, because he isn't that old, and he certainly isn't famous but the boy who provided the voice on Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge is still alive. Which makes me happy. His name is Josef Protschka and he was 80 this year.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 April 2024 07:28 (four hours ago) link
this reminded me that one of my most vivid music listening experiences was on a train out of Rome listening to Gesang der Jünglinge, so this also makes me happy. Good work, Josef.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 18 April 2024 09:44 (one hour ago) link
gnna to tell my grandchildren that herbert halbik and josef protschka are the same age and the same guy
― mark s, Thursday, 18 April 2024 09:55 (one hour ago) link
He did become an operatic tenor as an adult, he didn't end up as a bus driver or something. That would have been cool though.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 April 2024 09:56 (one hour ago) link