You’ve outlived Franz Kafka by one day. He was an existentialist author of the absurdist “Metamorphosis” (1915) and satires such as “The Trial” (1925). He died of tuberculosis on June 3, 1924, 44 years before you were born.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot this year, since I’m 27. I am now, or am about to be very soon, older than a lot of the great musicians I grew up listening to. Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin (passed her 2 days ago), Jimi Hendrix . . . and I’m already a couple years older than Biggie and Tupac. That is really weird to me. Next year or so, I’ll be older than Bradley Nowell.
You’ve outlived Francis Scobee by two days. He was a combat aviator in the Vietnam War and astronaut who served on two Challenger space shuttle missions. He died in a space shuttle explosion on January 28, 1986, when you were 23 years old.
I can’t even get a decent celebrity, dead. Bah.
There were only four on my list, the most famous of whom was Henry David Thoreau.
Hee. I have lived exactly half the life of William Rehnquist!
<Sean Connery on Jeopardy!>Anus representative?<SCoJ>
Seriously, since US is pronounced “yoo-ess” and not “us”, that should read “a US representative”.
Hmmm, could that be Arthur Ashe?
Five and a half months is closer to “0 years” than to “1 year”, no?
Pity the name of E. coli was changed seven years after Theodor died. Yes, I did have to google him.
E. coli isn’t called E. coli anymore? Why?
As Tom Lehrer said:
Although, in my case, he’s been dead for 15 years…
Holy crap! Harvey Milk, to the day! (I live in SF)
Within 2 weeks: Friedrich Schiller (Weimar Theatre), René Laënnec (invented stethoscope), Melville Bissell (invented carpet sweeper), and Alexander Godunov (dancer, duh!)
I’ve outlived James Dean by two weeks. Geez, I knew he died young, but not this young.
Here’s my guy – never heard of him:
Well, I outlived Jesus and Alexander the Great by 3 years. So SUCK IT!
“At your exact age, Ivan V died. He was a physically and mentally disabled nominal co-Tsar of Russia (1682-96).”
That’s…um…special?
I believe you misunderstood the tone of Yllaria’s post – I took it to be an expression of pity that the bacterium wasn’t dubbed Escherichia coli until Theodor was already dead. Kind of like making the Baseball Hall of Fame posthumously and thus never having the opportunity to attend your induction ceremony.
There’s no one interesting that I’ve outlived or anything.
But I found out I’ve been alive for 14,998 days. That’s cool! Now I feel like celebrating something on Friday. I wonder if someone will get me a card. Hallmark makes cards for all the big birthdays don’t they?
So far I’ve beaten Beethoven by about 4 months and Lincoln by 6 months.
Proving again what a waste my life has been.
I’m not getting this. How do you outlive by one day someone who died four years before you were born?
Likewise, for me:
I was indeed 16 in 1975, but I was born in September, so how does this equate to me having outlived Rod Serling, who died in June, by almost a week?
ETA: I might be getting it. So Rod Serling’s birthday was Sept. 9-ish?
You’ve outlived Althea Flynt by almost a week. She was a pornographer Larry Flynt’s fourth wife and co-publisher of “Hustler” magazine. She died by drowning after an overdose on June 27, 1987, when you were 11 years old.
~ awesome. I love porn. Kiss my ass, six degrees.
When they say that you’ve outlived Bruce Lee by one day, they mean that you’re now one day older than Bruce Lee was when he died. The fact that he died before you are born is just an extra piece of information they throw in, for no particular reason that I see.