people you thought were dead but aren't

Mikhail Kalashnikov (was in an alive-or-dead round in a pub quiz recently). He turned 94 yesterday.

Is Ariel Sharon still hanging on in there?

I also have to periodically check whether Ariel Sharon is still hanging in there (he is).

xxposts, re Murray Walker confusion, maybe Harry Carpenter?

Hugh Downs is alive at 92. He published his autobiography 53 years ago.

Jeremy Thorpe seconded

I had the 'hearing about somebody's death and being surprised they were still alive' the other day when John Cole died.

'hearing about somebody's death and being surprised they were still alive' reaction

I think that's what I meant to say

Bloody Hell, Sandy Gall is still alive and published a book last year.

yeah Thorpe is a great call

... and Sandy Gall

Tommy Docherty

I'm often mildly surprised that Muhammad Ali is alive. I guess when someone so mythical leaves the public eye one assumes they died a tragic early death.

Chuck Berry

Al from Happy Days

... well, he is now, Colin Wilson

Swear I was going to post this before I saw abanana's last post.

Marion Ross is still alive. Didn't know that she was just a year younger than Tom Bosley.

Fats Domino

whoa.

I can't believe Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard are still hanging in there.

had a discussion in the pub last week cos me and a friend thought James Taylor died in the last couple of years and another friend insisted he's playing over here next year

James Taylor's big thing now is he releases a Christmas album every year, which makes sense since by 1971 he was Perry Como + heroin.

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/music/artists/james-tree.jpg

yoo-hoo, not dead over here!

Sometime in the past few years I seem to have acquired a false memory of Jonas Mekas dying. Then about a year ago I was pleasantly surprised to see he was about to celebrate his 90th.

I see him puttering around Anthology Film Archives now and then, even doing an intro to a screening (and he still makes films).

Chuck, Fats, Jerry Lee and Little Richard are gonna form a great jam band in heaven someday.

yeah and Janis Joplin will be on backing vocals cos she's the only girl i've ever heard of

Alain Delon!

Horace Silver

Peter O'Toole

Peter O'Toole

whoa.
I can't believe Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard are still hanging in there.
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:59

Something I think about too, and which I specifically called my class's attention to when I talked about Little Richard on his birthday 10 days ago. I wrote the names of Elvis, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee, and Little Richard on the board, and I said that these were the four guys who invented rock and roll 60 years ago, and three of the four are still alive.

(I realize that's a very simplified version of how rock and roll came into being. They're 12-year-olds--more than adequate enough.)

Something I think about too, and which I specifically called my class's attention to when I talked about Little Richard on his birthday 10 days ago. I wrote the names of Elvis, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee, and Little Richard on the board, and I said that these were the four guys who invented rock and roll 60 years ago, and three of the four are still alive.

Momentarily misread this as "and all four are still alive."

There was a sad piece about Little Richard in a recent Rolling Stone. Apparently he had a bad hospital experience a couple years ago (went in for one thing, then several worse things happened) and can't perform much anymore. You get this feeling that he's in pain all the time and is basically waiting to die.

That's sad to hear. Saw Chuck Berry play in 2008. Was a bit of a carnival attraction air about it, but still, great to see him. Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Joan Fontaine and her sister Olivia de Havilland are the six I keep in my head as sort of hoping they go on for ever.

On a different note, I heard an interesting Radiolab episode recently about the Heimlich manoeuvre, which started with raised eyebrows that Henry Heimlich wasn't someone who 100 years ago. He's now 93.

who 100 = who died 100

Bishop Desmond Tutu

He's like my piano teacher, someone who I thought was just plain ancient when I was a kid and now I realize that hey, he was only something like 50 years old at the time.

Shirley Temple Black

Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rourke.

On a different note, I heard an interesting Radiolab episode recently about the Heimlich manoeuvre, which started with raised eyebrows that Henry Heimlich wasn't someone who (died) 100 years ago. He's now 93.

This is genuinely interesting to know, I had no idea either.

Wait, Chuck Berry's still alive?

I was surprised that both Galton and Simpson are still alive

This is useful dead pool 2014 research, you guys, keep 'em coming!

Incidentally, we were out with a few friends this afternoon when one friend told us that Peter O'Toole had died. Was pretty much an even split between "aw no, what a shame" and "was he not dead already?".

Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Joan Fontaine and her sister Olivia de Havilland are the six I keep in my head as sort of hoping they go on for ever.

RIP :(

alba you're the fucken angel of death. alba = white

Shit, did Alba just kill Joan Fontaine like that time Tuomas killed Michael Jackson?

lol xpost

Oh, this is bad. RIP Joan Fontaine.

Horace Silver

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, December 15, 2013 11:57 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/news-mainmenu-139/70-2013/12947-horace-silver-dies-aged-85

I was going to say Mose Allison, but it seems like tempting fate now.

Horace Silver is still alive. Gonna keep on fearlessly naming people I assumed were dead.

http://jacketupload.macmillanusa.com/jackets/high_res/jpgs/9780312642686.jpg

Mort Drucker