people you thought were dead but aren't

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Frank Oz

change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

Not seriously, but more amazed Rita Tushingham just turned up on 'Vera'

Mark G, Sunday, 21 January 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link

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 (six years ago) link

Kenzaburō Ōe, 83 today

very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link

Andre Previn
Denis Norden

Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link

three months pass...

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 (five years ago) link

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 (five years ago) link

four months pass...

Ken Nordine.

Dan Worsley, Sunday, 23 September 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link

Good call, 98!

Zach Same (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 September 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link

... 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 (five years ago) link

... oh no, scratch that, she died in 2016, aged 94 ;_;

Zach Same (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 September 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link

Wow, 71 years together isn't bad going.

Dan Worsley, Sunday, 23 September 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link

Twenty-One contestants Herbert Stempel and Charles Van Doren

Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 23 September 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link

whoa

Josefa, Sunday, 23 September 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link

Clarissa Eden, as in married to Anthony.. wtf!

calzino, Monday, 24 September 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link

paul hogan

andrew m., Tuesday, 25 September 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link

^ you were thinking of Steve Irwin probably

faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link

malcolm mooney

macropuente (map), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 02:16 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

Tom Lehrer.

Alba, Friday, 30 November 2018 09:29 (five years ago) link

Sister Wendy Beckett

Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link

thought for sure this bump would be for Bob Dole

frogbs, Thursday, 6 December 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

David Bellamy.

Dan Worsley, Monday, 24 December 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

Monica Kindle (Tom D.) at 6:19 6 Dec 18
Sister Wendy Beckett
Thread curse strikes again

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link

people who just died that you thought had died ages ago

nashwan, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link

(xp) She lasted three weeks.

Once in Rahul Dravid's City (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link

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 years ago) link

two months pass...

Leslie Phillips, 94!

The Vangelis of Dating (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 March 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link

ding dong

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 March 2019 23:43 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

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 (five years ago) link

You’re thinking of David Bowie

A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Monday, 25 March 2019 12:21 (five years ago) link

Scott Wilson died last year and I always confused them.

Sky rockets in flight, afternoon D-White (fionnland), Monday, 25 March 2019 12:22 (five years ago) link

No, I'm sure I knew they were two different people.

Tuomas, Monday, 25 March 2019 12:22 (five years ago) link

(xpost)

Tuomas, Monday, 25 March 2019 12:23 (five years ago) link

bowie dies every weekend on bbc 4.

calzino, Monday, 25 March 2019 12:23 (five years ago) link

Donald Trump

Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Monday, 25 March 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link

Warren Beatty

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 March 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link

John Prine

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 March 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link

Lance Henriksen

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 March 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link

Carol Burnett

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 March 2019 22:11 (five years ago) link

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 (five years ago) link

1. Fritz Hollings is still alive

Nevermind!

pplains, Saturday, 6 April 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link

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 (five years ago) link

Desmond Morris!

Alba, Friday, 19 April 2019 13:03 (five years ago) link

Walter Mondale

Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Thursday, 2 May 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link

xp. oldmanwatching

findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 2 May 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link

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 (four years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Jim Knipfel

Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Sunday, 26 May 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

Rip Torn now RIP Torn.

Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 07:04 (four years ago) link


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