the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive

Beverly Cleary, children's author. She's 103!!!

yeah she's my recurrent favorite one of these

Bernard Bailyn, historian of the American revolution

^"He has been a professor at Harvard University since 1953."

Joan Didion

Record producer Creed Taylor

Leslie Phillips, who was 95 yesterday

ding dong!

Bernard Bailyn, historian of the American revolution

I've been reading The Barbarous Years, which came out in 2012, and had assumed he was like 20 years younger than he actually is.

Astronaut Michael Collins, who's a talking head on this ABC 1969 doc rn.

beat poet gary snyder!

(he's only 88 and once lived in a californian cabin with kerouac) (where i believe they crunched candy corn and crackers)

About time for a Stanley Baxter update. Yes, still there, 93 next month.

Jackie Stallone. 97.

Hardy Kruger, 91.

Glen Michael.

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93 and counting

Annie Ross, 88.

Stanley Baxter, one of the patron saints of this thread, was 93 on Friday.

FFS bookmarked thread not showing Tom D said this a few weeks ago. IR Stupid.

Glen Michael, Stanley Baxter, Annie Ross... thread's turned very Caledonian.

forgot to post the other week re Doris Day

I swear I actually remember Doris Day dying about 5 years ago.

Olivia de Havilland

pat boone. and hoo boy how i found out

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BkiHZmUO6zM

Eugene Wright - bass player on Take Five, etc. 96!

Dr. Ruth

Tony Britton

armistead maupin!!

(he's not even old but for some reason i thought he died? anyway i'm glad he isn't! and i'm watching (return to) tales of the city on netflix, which is why i looked him up)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (96!)

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100!

beat poetry! who knew!?

(snyder is 89)

Desmond Morris

103 today HB OdH:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-aDlCSUYAA8gZ-.jpg

(the sense of discovery has admittedly dwindled a little since this thread began)

whoa!

Ed Asner

Eva Marie Saint, 95

spudulike

Spudulike asks landlords for rent cuts in rescue restructuring

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/06/spudulike-asks-landlords-for-rent-cuts-in-rescue-restructuring

olivia de havilland has THE BEST FACE
she always has and it remains the best face at 156 years old!

bob dole still

(which made me check valéry giscard d'estaing -- and him too, still)

OTM on VGE

maybe not that famous, but Nexhmije Hoxha, Enver's widow, is still alive, 98 years old

OTM on VGE

He's not that old, 80, but still had to check as you never see or hear about him anymore... Tony Hatch.

Lionel Blair, 90!

valéry giscard d'estaing

Funny, I was just thinking today that VGE is two years older than Serge Gainsbourg (who died in 1991 rest his soul)

how in the heck is this mention right here only the second mention of Jimmy Carter itt? every day since Barbara Bush kicked it I've been waking up expecting to see his name in the headlines

also, hadnt checked up on ol' Narvel Felts in the last few years but he's apparently still not dead yet, which is cool. He's famous right? Should be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHgYdI1ElMM

but if you keep expecting to find his death announced, can you really be surprised to discover that he's still alive?

He's not that old, 80, but still had to check as you never see or hear about him anymore... Tony Hatch.

His son runs a PA/live-audio company in south London, and has managed the sound at our local summer festival for the past few years, so he got Dad to do a set back in 2014. Downtown, Joanna, Call Me... the theme from Neighbours. Follow that, Penge's third-best socially-conscious funk-fusion band.

Excellent.

Here you go...

https://live.staticflickr.com/2934/14523124206_9dddc27bb3_b.jpg

Betty Davis. She's not that old, but has been quiet for so long and voila today she has a new song out

this just dropped my jaw and then I realized you mean BettyE