# Who have you outlived? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 9, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739 "2011-09-09T17:37:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/1 "2011-09-09T17:37:08Z")
Fun [site](http://bit.ly/pPGeia). Other than my twin, **Baker** , I assume that most of you will want to plug in your own birthdays. Not sure you can beat Douglas Fairbanks, though. **wanders off to find a buckle to swash** ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/2 "2011-09-09T17:40:55Z")
How about Henry VIII? Or Bill Haley? Cripes, I’m old. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/3 "2011-09-09T17:48:10Z")
Is there a site anywhere–there \*must \*be, just don’t know how to search for it!–that shows the ages famous people died at? Like you would look up “73” and get a list of all famous people who died when they were 73. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/4 "2011-09-09T17:56:56Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Is there a site anywhere–there \*must \*be, just don’t know how to search for it!–that shows the ages famous people died at? > > Like you would look up “73” and get a list of all famous people who died when they were 73. Not sure if [this site](http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/pages-nf/main) has an age sort or not. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/5 "2011-09-09T18:05:27Z")
Huh. I’m exactly half the age of George Washington today, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/6 "2011-09-09T18:32:09Z")
At your exact age, Edith Cavell died of execution by gunshot. She was a British nurse who helped hundreds of Allied soldiers and POWs escape the Germans in WWI. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/7 "2011-09-09T18:40:09Z")
I’ve outlived Stonewall Jackson by a week, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a month younger than me when he died. And here I am, and I ain’t done shit. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/8 "2011-09-09T18:40:59Z")
> [@](#): > > You’ve outlived Malcolm Lowry by one day. He was a novelist and poet known for his allusive and semi-autobiographical novel “Under the Volcano” (1947). He died of asphyxiation on vomit on June 26, 1957, 7 years before you were born. Notice they don’t say _whose_ vomit. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/9 "2011-09-09T18:42:11Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Not sure you can beat Douglas Fairbanks, though. **wanders off to find a buckle to swash** Oh, I don’t know, how does JFK rate? ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/10 "2011-09-09T19:17:04Z")
> [@](#): > > Who have you outlived? everybody who’s not still alive 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/11 "2011-09-09T19:22:18Z")
So far I’ve outlived Curley of The Three Stooges by two weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/12 "2011-09-09T19:25:30Z")
That was depressing. I’ve outlived a suicide, an astronaut from the Challenger explosion, a guy who died of HEART cancer (wth??) and someone who could play 3 trumpets at once; maybe that explains his death by stroke at 41 years, 106 days. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/13 "2011-09-09T19:26:08Z")
Why just this month alone, I’ve outlived James Garfield, Dale Earnhardt, and Edith Cavell. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/14 "2011-09-09T19:26:18Z")
You’ve outlived George Boole by one day. He was a mathematician and philosopher who invented Boolean Algebra. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/15 "2011-09-09T19:26:48Z")
Oh, look what I have to look forward to! In 27 days, when you reach 44 years and 1 day of age, your lifespan will surpass that of one of the most powerful drug dealers in history and head of the Medellín Cartel. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/16 "2011-09-09T19:43:35Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Is there a site anywhere–there \*must \*be, just don’t know how to search for it!–that shows the ages famous people died at? > > Like you would look up “73” and get a list of all famous people who died when they were 73. The site in the OP can do that. Select the little link under the form where it says “Browse by Age” and you get [this page](http://dead.atyourage.com/grave/browse) which has breakdowns of each age by decade. Click the “27” link and find most of the members of [The 27 Club](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club), Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/17 "2011-09-09T19:57:26Z")
> [@Mtgman](#): > > The site in the OP can do that. Thanks! That’s exactly what I was looking for, and it was quite cheering, really. I am the same age as Raul Julia, John Ritter and Michael Landon when they died, and I remember everyone saying, “they were _so young!_” ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/18 "2011-09-09T20:06:29Z")
Judith Resnick–2nd female astronaut, died when the Challenger exploded. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/19 "2011-09-09T20:13:29Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > You’ve outlived George Boole by one day. He was a mathematician and philosopher who invented Boolean Algebra. True. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/20 "2011-09-09T20:13:50Z")
More proof that you can find just about anything on the Net. 😃 > [@](#): > > You are 46 years and 169 days old today. > > At your exact age, Ted Cassidy died of complications of open heart surgery. He was a 6’ 9" character and voice actor who played Lurch on “The Addams Family” (1964-66). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739.md?page=2)