Historical people who are still alive

G. Gordon Liddy 89

Hank Aaron 86

Henry Kissinger is 97. Only the good die young.

Helen Lawson (86)

“86”?!!

Is that you, Helen, at R3?

Bill Moyers (LBJ press sec'y) 86

Mikhail Gorbachev 89

William L. Calley Jr.

Bob Dole, age 97

The Mai lai guy?

Jimmy Carter

Liza Minnelli

Dolly Patton

Bill Clinton

Elton John

John Dean

Nile Rodgers

Queen Elisabeth II (94)

Not exactly what you asked for, OP, but related. Here's part of an episode of I've Got a Secret from the 1950s. They guy's secret is that he was in Ford's Theater the night Lincoln was assassinated.

Not surprisingly, R11, that guy died very shortly after that appearance.

Imelda Marcos (91)

Jackie Kennedy's secret service man who jumped on the back of the car, Clint Hill, is still alive.

Sirhan Sirhan is only 76. The bus boy who held a dying RFK just died not long ago.

And Roosevelt Grier, the football player who subdued Sirhan Sirhan during the RFK shooting, is still alive at age 88.

I haven't kicked the bucket yet! Outlived Jacqleen the queen haven't I! And I don't run the tap when i take a dump!

The Right Stuff is one of my favorite movies. I love that Chuck Yeager is still alive. I hope I don’t hear about it when he passes—I travel a lot and frequently miss the news. If I don’t hear it then I’ll always think of him alive, immortal.

I know, Mary!

Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, both born in 1930

Marina Oswald Porter is 79.

She still contends that her husband was not the man who shot JFK.

Lists!

R5 yes to Mikhail Gorbachev. The man who made the most difference post ww2.

Fascinating R11 and along those lines I love the fact that President John Tyler who was in office from 1841 to 45 has two living grandsons.

Angela Davis. Walter Mondale.

Ringo Starr & Paul McCarthy

You rang.

^^^ Bitch

Thought this was supposed to be about "People who made an impact of some sort decades ago but are not really in the limelight anymore"

Before there was Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin, who was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus and give up her seat to a white woman. She was 15, unmarried and pregnant, possibly by a married man. She was involved in a Civil Right lawsuit, but her efforts were downplayed by activists and not publicized, even Rosa Parks said she would be a detriment to the cause. She is 80 years old.

Howie Mandel

R20, Marina didn’t adopt the belief that Lee was innocent until many years had passed. She gave authorities much to work with to support the proposition that he was guilty, including that he was the unknown sniper who, 7 months earlier, had taken aim at Gen. Walker, as well as leading them to the missing rifle in the Paine’s garage & Lee’s unusual behavior in the immediate hours leading up to the assassination. Her former brother-in-law, Lee’s brother went to his grave not long ago convinced beyond doubt of Lee’s guilt.

Ruby Bridges was the little six year old girl who was depicted in the iconic Civil Rights Norman Rockwell painting of the first black child integrating the white schools in New Orleans surrounded by four U.S. marshals.she is 65 years old.

O J Simpson

Despite his problematic nature, the fact that Roman Polanski is one of the few remaking survivors of the Krakow Ghetto is remarkable.

Cher (74)

Bette Davis, in my incredible performance in Ryan Murphy's "DUEL"!

Actor Norman Lloyd, was in Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942) , and Spellbound (1945), later produced the Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV series, and played Dr. Auschlander on St. Elsewhere, appeared in Dead Poets Society and The Age Of Innocence - still alive, age 105.

R37, Did we ever fuck?

Thanks for posting that r11. Fascinating

Francoise Gilot lover, muse and mother to two of Pablo Picasso’s children is still alive at 97.

Yes, Chuck Yeager lives in Penn Valley, Ca.

FYI his neighbors think he's an asshole, which surprised the hell out of me.

Amanda Lear

April Ashley

Michael Dukakis

David Souter

R41 Chuck Yeager is a well known right wing asshole. He’s probably a deplorable. It’s a shame.

R8 . . .

William Laws Calley Jr. is an American war criminal and a former United States Army officer convicted by court-martial for the premeditated killings of 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War.

Born: June 8, 1943 (age 77 years)

John Dean

Carrot Top

George Shultz is still alive and almost 100. He served in the Eisenhower Administration before helping Nixon get rid of the gold standard as Secretary of the Treasury, and serving as one of America’s most powerful Secretaries of State under Reagan.

R24, Mondale is 92. Outlived his wife and daughter.

[quote]Actor Norman Lloyd, was in Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942) , and Spellbound (1945), later produced the Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV series, and played Dr. Auschlander on St. Elsewhere, appeared in Dead Poets Society and The Age Of Innocence - still alive, age 105.

The only top 10 box-office star pre 1940 still alive is Jane Withers.

Rock pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis is still alive. Pat Boone is still with us, hugely popular in the 1950s....recordings, film, TV.

As far as I can tell, the person alive with the oldest number 1 hit hit is, believe it or not, Jaye P. Morgan. 1954.

The good die young. Evil lives forever.

Olivia must have some magic powers. Renee Simonot, the French actress who is the mother of Catherine Deneuve, is less than 2 months away from turning 109 and she made a living in the 1930s dubbing Olivia de Havilland’s films for French audiences.

[quote] The only top 10 box-office star pre 1940 still alive is Jane Withers.

Less than 6 months ago, you could have said the only top 10 box-office star pre-1920 still alive was Diana Serra Cary aka Baby Peggy.

Baryshnikov.

Angela Lansbury

Dick Van Dyke

Arlo Guthrie AND Alice May Brock of Alice’s Restaurant fame.

Joanne Woodward

Elaine May

Angela Lansbury

Gayle and Bill Newman, the young couple who witnessed JFK's assassination and were pictured in that iconic photo of them lying on the ground with their two children after the shots were fired.

R57, How are they historic?

Since his moment in history happened only within a few decades ago while he was very young - Elián González

[quote]How are they historic?

[quote]People who made an impact of some sort decades ago but are not really in the limelight anymore

[quote]Can be anyone in entertainment

That’s too bad about Yeager. I read his autobiography years ago. I don’t remember any right wing tendencies.

Cheryl Crane

B.D. Hyman

Christina Crawford.

All authors of books about their famous mothers and their terrible childhoods.

DL icon Pauly Shore

Reality Winner

[quote] Paul McCarthy —Anonymous

Oh, DEAR.

Amelia Earhart

Clint Eastwood is 90.

Carol Burnett.

Warren Beatty.

Shirley MacClaine.

Don't most people think that Cheryl Crane was just covering for Lana killing Johnny Stompanato? I do.

R69 Only a psychopath would put their daughter through that, esp considering the kid had already been the victim of been rape by one of Lana's husbands.

Harry Belafonte, 93

Cicely Tyson, 95

Sidney Poitier, 93

The last of The Little Rascals, Robert Blake.

Miss Jane Pittman, age 155

Joice Heth, still alive at 264! Pay your dollar and come see nature's wonder!

Olivia De Havilland died.

R75 I know. If I knew then what would happen I would have listed Donald J. Trump instead.

Oh, I didn't even remember she was listed in your intro, OP. lol R75

You rang, hussy?

Dionne, get out of my way. Composer coming through.

Dionne, get out of my way. Composer coming through.

It takes two Burt Bacharachs to properly shade one Dionne Warwick.

Jack Nicholson

Mel Brooks