George McGovern, considering that a lot of politicians from his era: Nixon, Humphrey, Agnew, Muskie, etc are dead.
1950s Brooklyn Dodger pitcher Don Newcombe had alcohol problems in his career but sobered up and has outlived most of his “Boys of Summer” teammates. Just turned 86
Henry Kissinger is also still around.
Another surprising survivor from that era is Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese general who won the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
This made me wonder about those involved in the Watergate scandal. These participants are still alive:
Howard Baker, 87
James R Schlesinger, 83
Gordon Strachan, 68
Alexander Butterfield, 86
G. Gordon Liddy, 81
Egil Krogh, 72
John W. Dean, III, 73
Jeb Magruder, 77
Eugenio Martínez (age unknown)
James W. McCord, Jr., 87
FWIW, I got this list of names from: Watergate scandal - Wikipedia
Tupac
I’ll see your Tupac and raise you an Elvis!
Steve Winwood
After going through an “Untouchables” watching spree, I was pleasantly surprised that Nicholas Georgiade (Enrico Rossi), Steve London (Jack Rossman) and Abel Fernandez (William Youngfellow) are still alive. London, espeically, since his prematurely gray hair made him look older.
Marginally tied into that, so is Deanna Durbin who 60 years ago was getting a “what ever became of” mention by Tom Lehrer. Her first on screen kiss was with Robert Stack.
30 years ago you would not have bet much on David Crosby this long.
“Surprise, suprise.”
Nabors was also the person I first thought of.
We were discussing Reagan’s AIDS policy in another thread and this caused me to look up his Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop - who I see is still alive at 95.
Canadian author Farley Mowat.
I find myself surprised a lot, when a celebrity dies, that they hadn’t died yet. For example, a few months ago when Cheetah from the Tarzan movies died, I was, like, Cheetah JUST died???
Don Pardo, 94 and still working (if only to do the opening announcement for SNL).
Harper Lee.
He was in the Super Bowl commercial with Betty White in 2010.
The news stories about Cheetah dying were incorrect. The animal who played Cheetah probably died long ago. The place where this supposed Cheetah was living apparently didn’t care enough to accurately identify their animals.
Someone already got C Everett Koop and Henry Kissinger.
Three or four years ago, a friend and I were watching a documentary about the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, and something about the way everyone they interviewed was talking about Alexander Haig just made us turn to each other and say, “He must be dead, they’d never be that blunt otherwise.” Nope! I think he’s gone now (Wikipedia says 2010), but at the time he was still alive and kicking – apparently either he was a really good sport about criticism or he really pissed people off or both.
Kind of surprised that Dick Van Dyke is still around, and Andy Griffith. My brain makes the assumption that anyone I remember from black-and-white summer reruns is probably dead now, and keeps defaulting to that even though I’m well aware that people like Robert Vaughn and David McCallum are not just still around, but still on TV.
Wait – George Kennedy is still alive? Why didn’t anyone tell me?
By the skin of your teeth.
Conrad Bain, Mr Drummond on Diff’rent Strokes, is still alive at 89. And as far as I know, his twin brother Bonar Bain is still alive, too.
Jake LaMotta, Lyndon LaRouche, and “still active”, according to his Wikipedia entry, Slim Whitman.