I’ve outlived her by several hundred years.
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.
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.
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.
Édouard Manet croaked when five days younger than I am, Calamity Jane about two weeks younger.
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.
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.
Figured most of the people I outlived would be accidents or suicides.
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…
That is a morbidly fascinating site. Thanks (I think?) for the link.
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.
I HOPE to outlive:
-Jean Calment (122 years)
-Thomas Parr (153)
When will immortality become technically possible?
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.
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.
He wrote A Groatsworth of Wit, which contains the earliest reference to Shakespeare by the London theater community.
I belief that death by seafood was rather common in the 16th and 15th centuries.
I’ve got an interesting collection:
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.
No! I thought he was alive and well.