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

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Peter Blake, 89

I've always been more surprised that he was famous, he's just a bang average illustrator in my rude opinion!

Not famous famous but kinda

I had a fascinating conversation with Nuria Schoenberg-Nono today. It will be up on my podcast soon, and perhaps also as a YouTube video. pic.twitter.com/5RCjxTu34O

— Samuel Andreyev (@SamuelAndreyev) December 10, 2021

She's famous to me.

Yoko Ono’s first two husbands, Toshi Ichiyanagi (88) and Anthony Cox (84-85).

Death of Anne Rice made me realize that Piers Anthony was still alive. 87.

Robert R McCammon is 69, i guess i thought he was a lot older.

Alan Dobie, ubiquitous actor on UK TV in the 60s and 70s, 89.

bell hooks either a day or several hours before her death was announced.
Happen to be reading her quite a bit and have several other titles ordered so wanted to know if I'd missed any of the good ones and then found out that she was still apparently alive when i thought she was already gone for a while. Next thing I heard she's gone.
I think Chris Haskett was the first place I heard it from.

rompin ronnie hawkins !!

was about to argue and realized you weren't talking about connie hawkins

Yes https://t.co/XYjMn9zj2A

— Al Green (@algreen) December 19, 2021

dele alli

lol

glynis johns, who played the mother in mary poppins, is 94
She's also one of the handful of still-alive villains from the Batman TV series. Iirc, the others are John Astin, Joan Collins, Barbara Rush, and Julie Newmar (and Lee Meriwether, if you count the movie).

― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, July 13, 2018 8:04 AM (three years ago)

All still alive!

Monsignor Bruce Kent, 92.

Where are you seeing that?

Oh whoops - thought this was obituary thread! Not for the first time

:-O

Estelle Parsons, 94

Father Abraham, 86

Started the Smurfs on their way, they split from him and he went on to make some right wing pop tunes

great now i have that song from Sunday School in my head

The Drudge Report. (Resumed watching FX's Impeachment.)

Leslie Phillips

― Chunky Backgammon (onimo), Monday, January 1, 2018 5:45 AM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Watching an old ep of Midsomer murders and find to my surprise he is still alive. 97

Gary Player.

... and Neil Coles.

Robert Morse, 90.

Jimmy Cliff! A mere 77.

Michael Lang's death had me looking at Jefferson Airplane videos on YouTube. I'm not surprised Grace Slick is still alive, but I am surprised to see she's 82.

Jimmy Cliff

He only survives because of his pride.

The hero can't dead until the last reel!

(xp) lol

Denny Lethargy

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Philip Baker Hall.

Jean-Louis Trintignant, 91 and still acting.

Alex Honnold

race car driver A. J. Foyt, 87 this weekend

Not exactly famous, but John Lennon’s stepmother, Pauline

"Stepmother! You left me.. but I never left yooooooo..."

Joyce Randolph, Trixie on The Honeymooners, 97.

Philip Baker Hall.

whaaa?! Could have sworn he died a couple years ago, have a Mandela effect of reading this.

Mike Yarwood.

Robin Askwith posted a picture of him and Richard O'Sullivan together on Richard's birthday.

Richard O'Sullivan

It seems Pauline was 20 when she became John's Stepmum. about 5 years younger than John, I believe.

Recently I've been watching old clips of What's My Line? (1950s-60s). Everything about the show (the mannerisms, overwhelming whiteness, etc.) seems somehow prehistoric, so it's interesting to look up the panelists and guests to see which are still alive (ie, Chubby Checker, Joan Collins).

And John Cale!

Whenever I watch any thing of that era I can’t stop obsessively looking up what became of everyone.

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Actually John Cale was on I've Got a Secret I just remembered. The one with Betsy Palmer and Bess Myerson as panelists.