# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/61 "2011-09-10T08:52:42Z")
> [@Rala](#): > > I’ve outlived Joan of Arc by two weeks. I’ve outlived her by several hundred years. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/62 "2011-09-10T09:06:37Z")
It seems to want me to care about Harriet Quimby. Never heard of her. The only one I recognize is: Sal Mineo was three weeks younger than you when he died of murder by stabbing on February 12, 1976. He was a Golden Globe-winning actor best known for his Oscar-nominated role in “Rebel Without a Cause” (1955). You were 1 year old when he died. ---
**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 10, 2011, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/63 "2011-09-10T10:41:50Z")
As has been pointed out, it’s lifespan. If you don’t enjoy what that website presents, there’s no need to come here and threadshit about it. Thank you for your cooperation. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/64 "2011-09-10T10:50:02Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > As has been pointed out, it’s lifespan. If you don’t enjoy what that website presents, there’s no need to come here and threadshit about it. Thank you for your cooperation. Come on Ellen, lighten up. The site is amusing, but questioning what the linkage to your own birthdate is hardly threadshitting. If you wish I will take this to ATMB although I hardly see that is necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/65 "2011-09-10T11:34:53Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I’m not sure I"get" this site at all. > I’ve outlived some serial murderer- fine. However, he doesn’t share my birthday or have any connection at all. There are literally millions of people who died at a younger age than I am now. Duration of lifespan. From [famous/notorious figure]'s birthdate to his death date was X years, Y days. Baseed on the birth date you submitted, your current lifespan equals his/exceeds his by N days, and counting. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/66 "2011-09-10T11:51:26Z")
Édouard Manet croaked when five days younger than I am, Calamity Jane about two weeks younger. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2011, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/67 "2011-09-10T12:05:09Z")
I’ve outlived Tom Fogerty of CCR by two weeks, and King John of England by three weeks. This one was surprising though. In four days I will have outlived _The Fugitive_’s David Janssen, who was only 48 when he died. He always seemed a lot older to me. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/68 "2011-09-10T12:22:58Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Curtis Mayfield > Sonja Henie > Gregory Hines > > None of them reached my 57 years, 229 days… I just passed Sonja Henie, the Olympic figure-skating champ, so I’m not quite six weeks behind you. (But not gaining. ;)) Most interesting people (IMHO, anyway) I’ve passed in the past six months or so are Stokely Carmichael, Vince Lombardi, Edward R. Murrow, and Humphrey Bogart. I overtake John Entwhistle of The Who in eleven weeks. The list of people you outlive during your 57th year is pretty impressive. Beethoven, Lincoln, Sir Francis Drake, Douglas Fairbanks, Rachel Carson, Albrecht Durer, and Henry II of England on the one hand, and Adolfs Hitler and Eichmann, and KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest on the other. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/69 "2011-09-10T16:17:22Z")
> [@](#): > > At your exact age, Berry Oakley died in a motorcycle accident. He was a bassist for Southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band. Figured most of the people I outlived would be accidents or suicides. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/70 "2011-09-10T16:28:12Z")
**Jacques Brel** was exactly my age when he died. As far as the ratio of lifespan to achievement goes, I prefer to think of Giuseppe Verdi rather than Mozart… ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/71 "2011-09-10T19:08:19Z")
That _ **is** _ a morbidly fascinating site. Thanks (I think?) for the link. ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/72 "2011-09-10T22:10:01Z")
Jayne Mansfield by about two weeks. Robert Greene was almost a month younger than you when he died of a surfeit of pickle herringe and Rennish wine on September 3, 1592. He was an author of plays, theatre criticism and “coney-catching” pamphlets about rakes and rascals. Not that I particularly know who Robert Greene was, but his manner of death is fascinating to me. Also, his accomplishments are kind of cool. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/73 "2011-09-10T22:29:13Z")
I HOPE to outlive: -Jean Calment (122 years) -Thomas Parr (153) When will immortality become technically possible? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/74 "2011-09-10T22:42:17Z")
> [@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. But you are alive to bitch. 🙂 I’ve lived to an older age than my Father did, with the same medical condition, which is kind of freaky sometimes late at night when I’m in my cups. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/75 "2011-09-13T14:28:27Z")
Just did it again, to see who I’ve outlived after living for another week… I am now 1 day older than Lorraine Hansberry (author of Raisin in the Sun, most notable for being the first African-American woman to have a play produced on Broadway), and 2 older than Francois Hanriot, one of the leaders of the French Revolution, when they died. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/76 "2011-09-13T14:47:48Z")
> [@Superbia-acedia](#): > > Robert Greene was almost a month younger than you when he died of a surfeit of pickle herringe and Rennish wine on September 3, 1592. He was an author of plays, theatre criticism and “coney-catching” pamphlets about rakes and rascals. > > Not that I particularly know who Robert Greene was, but his manner of death is fascinating to me. Also, his accomplishments are kind of cool. He wrote _ **A Groatsworth of Wit** _, which contains the earliest reference to Shakespeare by the London theater community. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/77 "2011-09-13T15:21:52Z")
I belief that _death by seafood_ was rather common in the 16th and 15th centuries. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/78 "2011-09-13T15:40:44Z")
I’ve got an interesting collection: > [@](#): > > You’ve outlived Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto by almost two weeks. He was a Japanese admiral who conceived of and planned the attack on Pearl Harbor. He died of injuries sustained in an aerial ambush on April 18, 1943, 10 years before you were born. > > You’ve outlived Lord Carnarvon by about two weeks. He was a British statesman who advocated colonial self-rule. He died on June 28, 1890, 63 years before you were born. > > John Spencer was almost a month younger than you when he died of a heart attack on December 16, 2005. He was an Emmy Award-winning actor who played Leo McGarry on “The West Wing” (1999-2005). You were 53 years old when he died. > > James Joyce was more than a month younger than you when he died of complications of surgery on January 13, 1941. He was an innovative author of “Ulysses” (1922) and “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” (1916). He died 12 years before you were born. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/79 "2011-09-13T17:13:53Z")
Interesting site but not what I was expecting either. I thought it would list celebrities born after me who have already died. For instance, Amy Winehouse. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739/80 "2011-09-13T19:29:09Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > **Jacques Brel** was exactly my age when he died.. No! I thought he was alive and well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-outlived/595739.md?page=5)