# 5 Out Of 40 Of These Celebrities Are Still Alive: Can You Name Them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 28, 2009, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-out-of-40-of-these-celebrities-are-still-alive-can-you-name-them/504529 "2009-07-28T07:07:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-out-of-40-of-these-celebrities-are-still-alive-can-you-name-them/504529/21 "2009-07-28T16:08:59Z")
Interesting thread. There are lots of them that I know for sure are dead. There’s only one that I checked up on recently enough to know he’s alive. There are the ones that I haven’t heard anything about in ages. And then there’s the trickiest category of all; the ones I’ve heard something about, but can’t remember if it was because they died or something else. For example:I heard an NPR interview with Marcel Marceau a few years ago. I can’t remember if it was for something current he was doing, or if it was one of those Fresh Air “we’re going to rerun an interview from the mid-90’s because he just died” kind of things. With that in mind, here’s my best guess. [spoiler]Kirk Douglas (actor) J.D. Salinger (author) Dionne Warwick (singer) Little Richard (singer) Brigitte Bardot (actress) If Marcel Marceau is still alive and I got the other four right, I’m going to be quite disappointed.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-out-of-40-of-these-celebrities-are-still-alive-can-you-name-them/504529/22 "2009-07-28T16:09:26Z")
I’m pretty sure I’m right that these five are alive: Kirk Douglas (actor) J.D. Salinger (author) Dionne Warwick (singer) Little Richard (singer) Brigitte Bardot (actress) ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-out-of-40-of-these-celebrities-are-still-alive-can-you-name-them/504529/23 "2009-07-28T16:59:45Z")
Here Is The OP With The Answers! Several of you did VERY well, but a few of you missed them by a mile. It really is hard to determine if someone is alive - unless they have been in the news lately. So as to allow people to continue to guess and play the game, I will make the answer a little tricky to find. Let’s just say that **amarone** ’s answers were 100% correct (as of today’s date). Simply scroll back up to that post to see how well you did in this. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-out-of-40-of-these-celebrities-are-still-alive-can-you-name-them/504529/24 "2009-07-28T18:12:24Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I ended up with these five: > > Ron Silver (actor) > Kirk Douglas (actor) > J.D. Salinger (author) > Little Richard (singer) > Joel Siegel (film critic) > > Already checked up on my results because I was positive some of these people were alive, others were guesses. This is a fun test but I disagree with **DMark** ’s friend: it’s not _that_ hard to find if people are alive. Wikipedia alone will do it, and if Wikipedia is insufficient as a source on its own it’s definitely a starting point. Here is a site I used to check my guesses after I posted them. I’m going to spoiler it so I don’t influence those who are still playing. But if you want to check your results after, this is a very good site. [Dead or Alive Info](http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-out-of-40-of-these-celebrities-are-still-alive-can-you-name-them/504529/25 "2009-07-28T18:15:30Z")
Marilyn Chambers was on an Ivory Soap box, but she was the mother holding the child. She was never a child model. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-out-of-40-of-these-celebrities-are-still-alive-can-you-name-them/504529/26 "2009-07-28T18:15:31Z")
Little Richard, J.D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, and…I don’t know. Guessing on Mailer. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-out-of-40-of-these-celebrities-are-still-alive-can-you-name-them/504529/27 "2009-07-28T18:22:25Z")
I’m absolutely positive about three of these, about 90% sure on the fourth, and the last one is a complete WAG. Positive about Kirk Douglas, JD Salinger, and Little Richard. Pretty damn sure about Dionne Warwick. Complete WAG on Brigit Bardot - couldn’t decide between her, Pavarotti, or one of the Gallos. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-out-of-40-of-these-celebrities-are-still-alive-can-you-name-them/504529/28 "2009-07-28T18:39:47Z")
[spoiler]Kirk Douglas J.D. Salinger Dionne Warwick Little Richard Brigitte Bardot And I thought Bo Diddley was still alive too.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-out-of-40-of-these-celebrities-are-still-alive-can-you-name-them/504529/29 "2009-07-28T21:59:35Z")
Alive: Kirk Douglas, Brigitte Bardot, J.D. Salinger. Pretty sure of those. Then I’ll say Little Richard and Boris Yeltsin, though I considered Dionne Warwick. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-out-of-40-of-these-celebrities-are-still-alive-can-you-name-them/504529/30 "2009-07-29T01:09:13Z")
Wow! Goulet’s an American Citizen and was REFUSED Canadian citizenship when he tried? Note the clever, non-spoilerish, use of a contraction. I coulda swore he was alive. [Robert Goulet - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Goulet) ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-out-of-40-of-these-celebrities-are-still-alive-can-you-name-them/504529/31 "2009-07-29T03:03:08Z")
Kirk Douglas (actor) J.D. Salinger (author) Dionne Warwick (singer) Brigitte Bardot (actress) Little Richard (singer) ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-out-of-40-of-these-celebrities-are-still-alive-can-you-name-them/504529/32 "2009-07-29T03:08:45Z")
Woohoo! I got them all right! (at least if **amarone** is right) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-out-of-40-of-these-celebrities-are-still-alive-can-you-name-them/504529.md?page=1)