people you thought were dead but aren't

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Mother Angelica

Well, now when you think she's dead, you'll be right.

tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 31 March 2016 01:09 (eight years ago) link

welp, RIP

small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Thursday, 31 March 2016 02:00 (eight years ago) link

Beverly Cleary

map, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 03:08 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

Lewis Gilbert, 96.

Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Monday, 16 May 2016 22:29 (eight years ago) link

Dr. Heimlich, 96, saves woman, eponymous manouveur: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36400365

Liquid Plejades, Friday, 27 May 2016 23:18 (eight years ago) link

Was surprised that Tina Turner was still alive

Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Sunday, 29 May 2016 20:50 (eight years ago) link

Doc Severinsen, still doing gigs

kind of lolth but mostly strahd (los blue jeans), Monday, 30 May 2016 00:31 (eight years ago) link

four months pass...

Lee Majors just appeared as Ash's dad in Ash vs Evil Dead. haven't heard of him in ages so assumed he was dead. Is he doing other stuff still?

Stevolende, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 10:30 (eight years ago) link

He was in the Dallas reboot a couple of years back and I too was surprised he wasn't dead.

ailsa, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 11:20 (eight years ago) link

seven months pass...

Trini Lopez turned 80 yesterday

Josefa, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 05:17 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

Frank Sinatra's first wife Nancy is still alive - the mother of Nancy "Boots" Jr., Frank Jr., and Tina. She married Frank in 1939.

She turns 100 in September.

Josefa, Friday, 30 June 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link

four months pass...

Kenneth Kaunda.

Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Monday, 20 November 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link

he looks tremendous for 93.

-_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 20 November 2017 19:10 (seven years ago) link

johnny mathis

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 01:44 (six years ago) link

he's still performing christmas concerts!

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 01:45 (six years ago) link

Johnny Rivers too, he's playing locally soon.

nickn, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 01:47 (six years ago) link

Malaprop comedian Norm Crosby

Josefa, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 06:56 (six years ago) link

he looks tremendous for 93.

Presbyterianism keeps you young obviously.

Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 09:55 (six years ago) link

Ken Dodd

nashwan, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 10:28 (six years ago) link

Last I heard - which was admittedly a couple of years beck - Ken was still knocking out the 4hr+ live sets

damian green is people (NickB), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 10:35 (six years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Bob Goldthwaite!

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link


Peregrine Worsthorne

― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:59 (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ no way!

Is Ariel Sharon still hanging on in there?

― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:59 (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Peregrine Worsthorne

Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link

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 (six 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 (six years ago) link

four months pass...

Ken Nordine.

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

Good call, 98!

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

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

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

Wow, 71 years together isn't bad going.

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

Twenty-One contestants Herbert Stempel and Charles Van Doren

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

whoa

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

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

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

paul hogan

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

^ you were thinking of Steve Irwin probably

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

malcolm mooney

macropuente (map), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 02:16 (six 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


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