# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/21 "2011-09-09T20:20:38Z")
Great. I’ve outlived Beethoven and a bunch of freaking Nazis who were executed. Very reassuring. ---
**Author:** ![MentalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MentalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MentalGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/22 "2011-09-09T20:24:29Z")
> [@](#): > > At your exact age, Darla Hood died of acute hepatitis. She was a child actress who played Darla in the “Our Gang: The Little Rascals” shorts (1933-47). I am also about a month older than Jim Jones and Joseph Goebbels were when they died. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/23 "2011-09-09T20:25:23Z")
Anton Chekov. Though when I read the title I thought the subject would be was “Who have you outlived… (of my contemporaries)” and my first thought was of Kurt Cobain. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/24 "2011-09-09T20:26:00Z")
I’ve outlived Pablo Escobar by a week. Which is reassuring. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/25 "2011-09-09T20:27:01Z")
Looks like **Moonlithereal** won’t have to wait… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/26 "2011-09-09T20:28:04Z")
George Gershwin by 3 weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Minnie\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Minnie\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minnie_Luna)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/27 "2011-09-09T20:37:53Z")
At your exact age, Julius Rosenberg died of execution by electric chair. He was a Communist Party USA member who received the death penalty for conspiracy to commit espionage. Nicole Brown Simpson was two weeks younger than you when she died of murder by stabbing on June 12, 1994. She was an ex-wife of O.J. Simpson and victim of domestic violence. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/28 "2011-09-09T20:39:04Z")
I’ve just outlived Sam Kinison, Emma Lazarus and journalist Daniel Pearl. In the next week I’ll have outlived Roberto Clemente and Mary Wollstonecraft. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/29 "2011-09-09T20:58:30Z")
Lots of folks. Nobody I immediately recognize right around my age–there’s a gap of a couple months between entries that I fall into. But I’ve outlived Lorraine Hansberry by almost exactly a year. And the guy my town and county are named for by a touch over a year and a half. Over the next few months I will catch up to Wiley Post, Guy Fawkes, Mozart, and Stevie Ray Vaughn. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/30 "2011-09-09T21:02:25Z")
If I can live to Monday, I tie Mama Cass. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/31 "2011-09-09T21:04:16Z")
Well, I never have to worry about being Forever 27, but at 31, I’m 2 months older then Left Eye (TLC) and 2 weeks older then John Dillinger. (who apparently can be played by a 45+ year old Johnny Depp, but I haven’t seen the movie. ---
**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, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/32 "2011-09-09T21:14:54Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > 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. I’m reminded of Tom Leherer’s line: “When Mozart was my age, he’d been dead for three years.” ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/33 "2011-09-09T21:20:13Z")
I outlived John Keats about a week ago. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/34 "2011-09-09T21:27:16Z")
You’ve outlived **Sandra Dee** by two days. She was an archetypal nice-girl actor who created the role of “Gidget” in 1959. She died of complications of kidney disease on February 20, 2005, when you were 56 years old. **J. Robert Oppenheimer** was almost a week younger than you when he died on February 18, 1967. He was a physicist who was considered the father of the atomic bomb. You were 18 years old when he died. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/35 "2011-09-09T21:27:26Z")
Both my parents, and the years I outlived them felt odd. My mom was in her early forties and my dad in his fifties. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/36 "2011-09-09T21:32:27Z")
Bob Marley, Lord Byron, and Maximilien Robespierre I guess I’m past the expiration date for passionate romantics… ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/37 "2011-09-09T21:36:11Z")
At your exact age, Eddie Cochran died in an auto accident. He was a 1950s rockabilly guitarist and singer/songwriter. never heard of him ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/38 "2011-09-09T21:42:24Z")
Curtis Mayfield Sonja Henie Gregory Hines None of them reached my 57 years, 229 days… ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/39 "2011-09-09T21:47:19Z")
Steve Howe was almost a week younger than you when he died in an auto accident on April 28, 2006. He was a 1980 Rookie-of-the-Year whose pitching career was cut short by cocaine and alcohol . You were 42 years old when he died. You’ve outlived Stephen A. Douglas by almost two weeks. He was a senator who won the 1858 debates with Lincoln in but lost the 1860 presidential election to him. He died of typhoid fever on June 3, 1861, 103 years before you were born. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/40 "2011-09-09T21:56:59Z")
A couple literary folks: Antoine de Saint Exupéry, by almost a week, and Robert Louis Stevenson by two weeks. I’ve also outlived Pablo Escobar by a whole month. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739.md?page=3)