# Who is twice your age? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 18, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080 "2011-01-18T16:38:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [January 18, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/1 "2011-01-18T16:38:11Z")
I was born in 1963 and will be turning 48 this year. People who turned 48 in 1963 were born in 1915. Here are some famous people born in 1915: Zero Mostel Muddy Waters Billie Holiday Harry Morgan Orson Welles Moshe Dayan Ingrid Bergman Frank Sinatra Barbara Billingsley Only one of these people is still alive. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/2 "2011-01-18T16:44:38Z")
People twice my age were born in 1894. Wikipedia says the world’s oldest living person was born in 1896 … ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/3 "2011-01-18T16:45:08Z")
Very few people who are still alive. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/4 "2011-01-18T16:45:36Z")
It’s worse than that. I’m convinced Harry Morgan is an immortal entity who was not really born in 1915. He looked the same in “Inherit the Wind” as he did in “3rd Rock from the Sun.” Vampire? Angel? Demon? Your guess is as good as mine. Every real mortal born in 1915 is dead. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/5 "2011-01-18T16:47:54Z")
I see that George W. Bush’s grandfather would be twice as old as me, if he hadn’t died decades ago. I don’t want to play anymore ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/6 "2011-01-18T16:48:02Z")
I’ll be 57 later this week, so I guess it’s that person born in 1896 that **Twoflower** mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/7 "2011-01-18T16:49:31Z")
In my case, they would have been born in late 1879. The best-known person born then is Joseph Stalin, who would be 131 years old now, and be very unhappy about the break-up of the Soviet Union and the Communist Bloc. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/8 "2011-01-18T17:05:45Z")
They were born in 1923, and the list of people born in that year has a lot of filled in death dates but there are some who have survived Notably: Chuck Yeager Henry Kissinger Jean Stapleton Shimon Peres Dr.H Morgentaler Bob Barker Hard to believe they’re all the same age actually. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/9 "2011-01-18T17:08:31Z")
Methuselah ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/10 "2011-01-18T17:16:55Z")
[This guy](http://lawvibe.com/harvard-law-school-graduate-turns-110-years-old/). ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/11 "2011-01-18T17:44:10Z")
1911: Ginger Rogers Hubert H Humphrey Jean Harlow Lucille Ball Ronald Reagan Roy Rogers Tennessee Williams ---
**Author:** ![Elysium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Elysium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysium)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/12 "2011-01-18T18:01:03Z")
1955: Reba McEntire Penn Jillette Bill Gates Dana Carvey Willem Dafoe Bill Nye Eddie Van Halen ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/13 "2011-01-18T18:01:37Z")
Nobody alive. People born in 1892 included: J. R. R. Tolkien (writer) William Powell (actor) Edna St. Vincent Millay (poet) Oliver Hardy (actor) Francisco Franco (Generalissimo) Haile Selassie (Emperor; Ras Tafari) Grant Wood (painter) Mary Pickford (actor; America’s Sweetheart) Pearl S. Buck (author) Josip Broz Tito (dictator) Charles Atlas (former 97-pound weakling) Manfred von Richthofen (aviator; Red Baron) Eddie Cantor (singer) Hal Roach (producer) ---
**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:** [January 18, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/14 "2011-01-18T18:09:14Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Francisco Franco (Generalissimo) Is he \*still \*dead? ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/15 "2011-01-18T18:25:07Z")
1909: Eudora Welty Samuel Colt Jessica Tandy Dolores Hope Vivian Vance Errol Flynn Ruby Keeler Burl Ives Ernest Gallo Barry Goldwater Harriet Nelson Al Capp Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Cal Clemens Maybelle Carter ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/16 "2011-01-18T18:43:02Z")
People born in 1931. Many of them still alive: Robert Duvall Charles Nelson Reilly James Earl Jones Boris Yeltsin Rip Torn James Dean Mikhail Gorbachev Hal Linden William Shatner Leonard Nimoy Jim Jones Olympia Dukakis Della Reese David Eddings Jerry Van Dyke Regis Philbin Desmond Tutu Mickey Mantle Dan Rather Ike Turner Rita Moreno Side note: I never knew that Shatner and Nimoy were born only four days apart, let alone the same year. Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/17 "2011-01-18T19:15:57Z")
Lots of folks born in 1876 - none alive, and even fewer famous. But here are some: Charles Kettering - electric starter Helen Rowland - author Jack London - author Sherwood Anderson - author Konrad Adenauer - German politician Pablo Casals - cellist/conductor Mata Hari - spy Mohammad Ali Jinnah - founder of Pakistan Ibn Saud - King and founder of Saudi Arabia Walter S Adams - Director, Mt Wilson Observatory Willis Carrier - built first air conditioner May Hallet - actress Pancho Villa - revolutionary Joseph Fielding Smith - LDS prophet ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/18 "2011-01-18T20:11:00Z")
> [@Elysium](#): > > 1955: > > Reba McEntire > Penn Jillette > Bill Gates > Dana Carvey > Willem Dafoe > Bill Nye > Eddie Van Halen …and koeeoaddi. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/19 "2011-01-18T21:00:48Z")
My birthday is in 6 weeks, so as of March 3, people twice my age were born in 1944. ---
**Author:** ![Meme\_Chose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Meme\_Chose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meme_Chose)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080/20 "2011-01-18T21:18:45Z")
1903–John Dillinger and Elliot Ness, as well as Dr. Spock, George Orwell, Irving Stone and Vladimir Horowitz. And some US ambassador to Canada–do we have a lot of diplomatic problems with Canada?!? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-twice-your-age/568080.md?page=2)