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

momentarily i thought you meant barbara castle and feared my brane was failing

Well Betty is from that part of t'Heavy Woolen district known as Dewsbury, which is renowned for it's residents temperance and healthy living habits!

http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Oral-history-curator-s-choice/021M-OH1CD0297601-0001V0

Orson Bean, still kicking. Good for him!

valery giscard d'estaing is still somewhat active in french politics, at 91

Franco Zeffirelli; 94

Ken Nordine: 97

Theresa May, 5 days

ha

phil donahue

Gene Chandler

Gena Rowlands

Gene Hackman

Jake Lamotta

Carl Reiner

Herb Alpert

not news to this thread but aww: https://www.google.com/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4607626/amp/Kirk-Douglas-reveals-marriage

Amazed that Mary Ward who played 'Mother' in Prisoner Cell Block H is still alive, at 103

Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez/Carlos the Jackal. Was even in court earlier this year for one of his 1974 attacks.

horrible Minneapolis sports columnist Sid Hartman, who, I just learned, was also the general manager for the Minneapolis Lakers basketball dynasty—in 1949

Harry Dean Stanton, until yesterday. I could have sworn he died at some point in the last two or three years and that I already experienced the media discussion of his passing.

^ proving the point I was making on the HDS thread.

Wink Martindale is still kicking.

― WilliamC, Sunday, October 1, 2017 1:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf he's only 83 but if you'd asked me i'd've guessed that's how old he was in 1990.

Lt. William Calley

New Yorker cartoonist George Booth

REALLY?

I thought he might've died in the 70s!

Ross Perot

I knew he was alive, but I've been really surprised that he's kept silent (as far as I know) on the last three elections at least. He must have been constantly sought out for opinions and quotes.

was recently surprised to discover that brecht scholar and theatre critic eric bentley is alive and about to turn 99

also nice to know j.p. donleavy is still pottering around his irish estate

― no lime tangier, Monday, August 31, 2015 6:25 AM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Donleavy checked out last month, but Bentley's still here at 101!

Bill Maynard, whose birthday is today.

Sumner Redstone (94)

i thought gary oldman was dead. i thought it happened last year and there was a heap of news about it. i can even remember being surprised.

Alan Rickman/Gary Oldman?

that occurred to me too, but i thought i remembered them dying in different months

you got Mandela'd my friend

Not really famous, but pretty surprising: John McCain's mom.

Larry Storch

Dick Van Dyke

― 3.5" flopson (The Reverend), Friday, May 6, 2011 1:40 AM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

John McCain's mom - wow, she looks amazing for 105!

Lee Iacocca

June Lockhart (b. 1925), best known as a TV mom on Lassie and a mom-scientist on Lost In Space.

I saw her last night in a small but memorable part in Meet Me In St. Louis (as an east-coast romantic rival who turns out to be good-hearted) and it was driving me crazy who she looked like, until I realized it was Heather Graham on Arrested Development; Graham, of course, appeared in the godawful film version of Lost in Space as the daughter to Mimi Rogers's version of Lockhart's old character. (Lockhart is also in the film, in a cameo as a holographic space principal.)

John Cullum, who I saw in the Christine Chubbuck movie last night. I would have sworn he died 5-7 years ago, and that's why they stopped having him as Lee Garner Sr. on Mad Men.

Kenneth Anger

doris day, 95yo

ugly dave gray

lulu

Sydney Devine.

Dick Van Dyke

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― © l0u1s jagg3r/richards (Pillbox), Sunday, December 10, 2017 6:35 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You just had to point it out.