Good People Who Did Not Die Young

[Jimski]

Kids author Beverly Clearly lived to be 103

She's 104, and still alive as far as I can tell.

[Snake Plissken]

Murray Walker just celebrated his 97th birthday.

[Guy Profumo]

Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ?

[Guy Profumo]

Don Bradman deserves a mention. Probably the greatest cricketer ever, he served as a Test selector and an administrator for several decades after he put his bat away. Born in 1908, he lived to see the new millennium.

Harold Larwood lived to see 90 as well

[pebblethefish]

Elvis Presley is 85, and still gets around a lot.

[Eggchaser]

Bill McLaren, for many people the man who essentially introduced them to rugby on the telly and seems to have been a good egg, died at 86.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Renoir got to 78. Does impressionism aid longevity?

Possibly, because Mike Yarwood is still alive at 79.

[Duncan Gardner]

Carter's best epitaph was from his sassy Mom, Miz Lilian. "If I'd known how our Billy and Jimmy would turn out, I'd have stayed a virgin"

[ad hoc]

She was wrong though. Carter was a reasonable president and is still a fantastic ex-president. It's just a shame that no-one listens to him

[Duncan Gardner]

Bill McLaren, for many people the man who essentially introduced them to rugby on the telly and seems to have been a good egg, died at 86.

Some great euphemisms there, the big man from Ecclefechan. "A bit of argy-bargy" covered anything from GBH to pre emotive nuclear strike

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[anton pulisov]

Noam Chomsky, 91. Still doing solid interviews.

[Tactical Genius]

Which of Washington, Lincoln, and FDR is/are not in your top-3?

Or even Obama?
HP courting controversy.

[Jah Womble]

Dame Vera? Finally shuffled off in June at the age of 103.

David Attenborough was one of my childhood heroes.

What changed? (Apart from your leaving childhood, I mean.)

[Hot Pepsi]

She's 104, and still alive as far as I can tell.

Oh. I thought I read that she died.

[Hot Pepsi]

Dame Vera? Finally shuffled off in June at the age of 103.


What changed? (Apart from your leaving childhood, I mean.)

I stopped being a child.

Also, I haven't seen any of this things in a long time. But when I was a teenager, I watched his series on PBS. I don't have cable now, but I guess I could find a way to watch his latest work.

Unfortunately, he's all about climate change now and that's all just too depressing. I am about 95% sure that the planet is going to be mostly dead in about 100 years. I don't need to be reminded.

[jwdd27]

Angela Lansbury - Oscar nominated in 1944 and 1945 (Gaslight and The Picture of Dorian Gray).

She turned 95 this month.

[Diable Rouge]

The Cabot Cove serial killer?