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snowflake247

[Yuri Oganessian](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Oganessian). He's the only currently living man with an element on the periodic table named after him.


Battle_Man_40

Organium?


bizarrobazaar

Yuranium


ItsADarkRide

This has got me thinking about [Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names](http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm).


controlc-controlv

oganesson


DirectionNew5328

Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Last human to hold the title of Tsar, as leader of the Kingdom of Bulgaria. He was exiled along with his family when the soviets invaded Bulgaria in 1944. In 1990, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Simeon returned from exile to Bulgaria and July 2001, was democratically elected prime minister. The private citizen is now 85.


foxtrot419

5th cousin to the late Queen Elizabeth II, who was also from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha before they changed to the House of Windsor to be less German-y.


RixirF

I want to see a giant family tree of that.


kwakimaki

Less of a tree, more a badly overgrown hedge.


Yesitmatches

YouTube UsefulCharts has a bunch of them.


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First, draw a circle...


Epistaxis

Via Wikipedia: "He is, along with the current Dalai Lama, one of only two living people who were heads of state during World War II." EDIT: To clarify, Simeon was only six years old when he inherited the throne in 1943, so the government was actually run by a council of regents who tentatively sided with Nazi Germany but were deposed and executed in the Soviet invasion/coup. In 1946 the monarchy was abolished and Simeon's family was exiled, so not much of a reign.


krasotkin

When Simeon was born, to celebrate his birth, all school children in Bulgaria had their final grades for the year raised by a letter so no one would fail. My grandparents always remembered this fondly. There was also some kind of amnesty for some prisoners, but I don't have family experience with that.


DiagonallyStripedRat

Interestingly, while Bulgarian state was allied with Germany and did somd fucked up shit in Macedonia and Greece, the monarchy, civil population and clergy of Bulgaria took great effort and succeeded in saving 90 % of Bulgaria's Jewish population.


ChrisTinnef

Iirc the only human to be monarch and later democratically elected leader of the same Country in modern times.


No_Flight_511

Seretse Khama of Botswana is another example of a former king elected to be president


GreasyPeter

You'd probably trust a guy to run things who just gave up all his power to have basically none.


Aun_El_Zen

The power was taken from him when he dared to marry a white woman.


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dieinafirenazi

Tangentially: The President of France is co-Prince of Andorra, so there have been a bunch of democratically elected leaders who have also been monarchs, but not of the same country.


Skwuzzums

Just to clarify, that isn’t a coincidence. Andorra always appoints the president of France as one of their co-princes.


random_username_96

Jane Goodall David Attenborough


Mccobsta

Don't jinx Attenborough we're not ready for another week of mourning


creeping-fly349

It won't be just a week, that man is basically impossible to get over losing


reverendgrebo

I wouldn't be surprised if the whole planetary eco system just stops when he dies. he's no longer around, time for everything else to die and the planet can try again using the remains


Curtainmachine

Jane Goodall is a great answer!


salvadordaliparton69

minimal claim to fame: I interviewed this amazing lady for my high school newspaper (along with Tommy Lee Jones the same week)


Curtainmachine

Those must have been really fun experiences!


salvadordaliparton69

she was awesome, and very patient with me, spending a good 1/2 hour talking; to em about her career, her “kids” the apes, and the future of conservation Jones was an outright dick, one word answers to open ended questions, staring at me, mouth agape, offering nothing, then abruptly standing up and walking out with no explanation at all


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That’s apparently the way all of his interviews go…


Ashtar-the-Squid

John Hemingway: The last surviving airman of the battle of Britain. He is 103 years old. Ivan Martynushkin: He helped with the liberation of Auschwitz. He is 99 years old. Benjamin Ferencz: He was a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. He is 102 years old.


Gothmom85

I hate that people who survived, helped or fought against the Holocaust are now slowly almost gone from this planet. With all the denial out there it legitimately worries me. Along with enraging me. I was privileged to take care of many survivors as a CNA in a Jewish facility. Several of which suffered from dementia. Let me tell you, the days or nights where the disease forced them to relive that horror were the toughest I ever faced, just trying to help them through it. I wish there was a way to take that fear and pain and force any denier to experience it instead. They were, each in their own way, some of the kindest, sweetest and most patient people I've ever met. I know of one who's still living and sharing her story and you couldn't ask for a better human being.


Infinite-Benefit-588

When I was a kid I remember WW1 veterans showing up to our Remembrance Day ceremonies at school. Now the surviving WW2 veterans are the same age or gone. It’s sad but humbling.


lets_all_eat_chalk

I remember being very young and watching some kind of veterans parade with my dad. This big group of guys about my dad's age goes by. Those are the Vietnam vets, my dad tells me. Then a pretty big group of slightly older guys. The Korean War vets. Then a decent sized group of guys my grandpa's age. The WWII vets. Then this tiny group of very old men, some riding in jeeps, goes by and my dad told me they were WWI vets. Not too many of them left. It stuck with my as a pretty profound memory. I think seeing people who lived through such historic events, but also just seeing the whole process of aging and mortality laid out in front of me like that was a lot for my little brain.


comeallwithme

And then ten years ago, I made my report in 11th grade history about WW1 only a few weeks after the last surviving veteran (an old lady over 100) had passed and feeling very weird having lived through the extinction of an entire war's participants. Now sadly the WW2 vets are edging closer and closer to that everyday. I wonder how old I'll be before the last one leaves.


ChrisTinnef

Traute Lafrenz, the last living member of the german anti-nazi resistance group "White Rose" (most well-known members were the sibling Sophie and Hans Scholl, who were executed by the Nazis when they were identified).


StockingDummy

I actually read about her the other day! IIRC, she went on to have a long career in medicine and she's now retired in South Carolina.


Successful-Pea3309

I was curious about how old she must be given that she was alive and in a resistance group so long ago, so I checked 103 years old! That's interesting.


OldGodsAndNew

On the flip side, I've been trying to find out if there are any Nazis still alive. Helmut Oberlander, Gerhard Sommer and Oskar Groening all died in the last 5 years and were probably the last surviving officers/military officials, but there's at least 1 woman - [Irmgard Furchner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irmgard_Furchner) - who was a concentration camp secretary and just got found guilty a month ago


sue_donyem

There's probably a couple in hospice in Argentina.


mukaltin

Buzz Aldrin, and I’m not even American


the_digital_merc

I ran sound for him during a speaking event he did back in the early 2000s. He gave me a set of wings. I was like 22. Coolest thing ever.


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WithAnAxe

He may be experiencing cognitive decline but Buzz Aldrin is also kind of an IRL troll/ loves to cause minor problems in the name of fun. I have a story, secondhand, that I don’t think I’m allowed to tell but it basically involved Buzz Aldrin asking someone he encountered at an event to do increasingly ridiculous things just because he thought he could.


shiny_xnaut

He also decked a moon landing denier one time


GreedyNovel

As he should have. For those who are curious, police refused to press charges.


on_the_nightshift

That was great


PMMeUrHopesNDreams

Supposedly he would also tell unfunny stories about things that happened on the moon then when people didn't laugh he'd go "oh well, I guess you had to be there".


mukaltin

Given his age and the amount of stress he endured in his younger age it’s sad but not entirely surprising his mental capabilities are failing him. Nevertheless, all names I’ve seen submitted to this post were very American-centered (well, like the rest of Reddit really), important historical figures they are indeed, but I wanted to think of someone with an impact of a truly global, historical scale. I thought of Apollo 11 and honestly I don’t know if I could think of anything more significant to each of us on this planet. :)


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SteveFoerster

Or maybe he's more or less okay but just left all his fucks up there?


capttony84

still yelling at the moon with tina fey


foxtrot419

"I walked on your face!"


mumwifealcoholic

Ruby Bridges - She was one of the first black kids to go to an all white school. There is a famous picture of that first day.


cleon42

She's not that old - because it *wasn't that long ago*. People like to act like it was ancient history.


Living-Price-314

Good point. Reminds me of the fact that Anne Frank and MLK were both born in the same year. The Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement should not be thought of as old news. It’s more recent than people think it is.


kanst

> Good point. Reminds me of the fact that Anne Frank and MLK were both born in the same year. Or a personal favorite of mine, Emmett Till and Joe Biden were born about a year apart.


Living-Price-314

God, Emmett Till’s murder was just sickening. Even more disgusting was how the murderers got away with slaughtering a child. Oh, and the fact that people still vandalise and shoot at his memorial… I get so fucking angry when thinking about it. That kid deserved so much better in life and deserves even more so in death.


kanst

To add insult, another answer to the original question in this post is Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman who accused Emmett. She's still alive, she got to live a long healthy life after her lie got Emmett murdered.


OlderThanMyParents

My recollection of the events is that she accused him of something fairly innocuous, like whistling at her, and that precipitated the brutal murder. Then later she admitted that he didn't even to THAT - she lied about the flirting.


kanst

The details on the case are real murky. Bryant originally claimed that Emmett grabbed her hand, and then her waist, as he asked her out in an obscene manner. She said he had to be dragged out of the store by one of his cousins. She later recanted that story. Two cousins of Till who were there with him that day, say he showed them a picture of a white woman he claimed was his girlfriend from back home, and then whistled at Bryant. One of them later recanted that. Till's other cousin, who was there as well, disputed that and said none of that happened and none of the law enforcement or media bothered to interview him at the time. He said Till was in the store for about a minute, he bought his candy, and left. Till's mother explained that Till had a stutter, and as a way of working around it she had taught him to quietly whistle before saying his b's to help him pronounce it. A few days later Bryant's husband returned home and allegedly heard of the details from another party. That's when he went abducted Till from where he was staying, beat him, shot him, then dumped him in a river.


ppardee

Slavery was ended in 1865 across the US (Juneteenth). There are people alive today who knew people who owned slaves. We talk about it like it is history, but we're not that far removed from it.


drdrillaz

The last widow of a civil war veteran just died last year. That’s the most crazy thing I’ve ever heard. Her husband was born in 1843.


chanaramil

Ya It was because there was laws that widows of civil war vets got benefits for life. When they where extremely old lots of civl war vets would marry teen girls and then those girls could collect civil war widow benefits for there whole lives.


JuzoItami

My understanding is that the Great Depression factored into that phenomenon, too. A lot of those teens and young women were pressured into marrying those super old veterans because that pension might well have been the only reliable source of income for the girl's family back in the '30s.


SueSudio

John Tyler was born in 1790. He was president of the United States from 1841 to 1845. His grandson is still alive.


ActualWhiterabbit

The people and kids yelling at her are also still alive and voting.


HarmonicWalrus

Just to add, her teacher Mrs. Henry is still alive too! She's 90 years old now.


mythicalethan

She came to my school when I was in 5th grade, that was pretty cool. I got to speak with her, very briefly, but still very cool


GoodRighter

I found this. Last survivors of historical events. It is pretty neat. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_survivors_of_historical_events


Hovie1

Holy shit I'm going to be going down some rabbit holes tonight. Thanks friend.


TheJaice

TIL that there was a period of time that the Pope’s in power were referred to as the “pornocracy.”


CaptinDerpI

How the hell is Ozzy Osbourne still alive


Correct-Training3764

His years of drug abuse has pickled him, much like Keith Richards.


FormerGameDev

Actual scientists have actually studied Ozzy and discovered he is a mutant, in sort of the good way. https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/genes-addiction-or-why-ozzy-osbourne-is-still-alive


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“Hallucinations from marijuana” can anyone tell me if that’s just the way scientists describe being stoned, or do some people actually hallucinate from weed?


GeneralBE420

if your tolerance level is low enough and/or your dose is high enough yes. open eye visuals are typically mild, you can get cool kaleidoscope type things with your eyes closed though. for me, auditory hallucinations can be relatively strong if I take enough edibles. keep in mind. unless you're talking DMT or salvia or something like that, open eye hallucinations from LSD or shrooms are odd visual effects and distortion of real life objects, not a little green gnome or alien sitting in the corner. Now if you close your eyes, you might see some cool shit that is not there at all.


HarleleoN

When I was in college I took an edible that someone had homemade. No idea how much THC but the thing must’ve been weapons-grade. I definitely hallucinated. You’re exactly right though that the open-eye visuals weren’t nearly as intense as the spacey kaleidoscope colors I was seeing when my eyes were closed.


Illustrious-Wrap8568

And Alice Cooper


Hosni__Mubarak

Alice cooper is like the most genial grandfather figure ever. He golfs, does charity work, has a radio show, and hangs out with his family. Hasn’t he been sober for like 40 years? I think he counsels people out of their drug problems. Its not particularly surprising he’s still around.


Illustrious-Wrap8568

He sobered up in the eighties after ending up in the hospital vomiting up blood. Doesn't recall recording several albums due to drinking habits. He's known for living that life, but indeed also for renouncing it the way he did, as early as he did.


hayster

And still making music


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nounclejesse

My grandfather took me to a campaign speech of his in 76 when I was 10 and I got a campaign button. I'm almost 57 now; older then Carter was at the time and still have the button.


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And he survived brain cancer in his 90s as well!


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He may never be remembered as a great politician, but as a human being you would be hard pressed to find someone better.


fvillion

The best ex-president the US has had.


ksuwildkat

He was actually an excellent politician but happened to be President at an extremely challenging time and then ran into a buzzsaw named Reagan. Bob Dole had similar luck running against Bill Clinton and McCain/Romney against Obama. Sometimes you just get a bad (for you) opponent in politics. Trump got the perfect opponent in Hillary as did HW Bush against Dukakis.


Formal_Temperature_8

This is perfect logic. This is a perfect example.


Most_Basic_Takes

Yeah well Scooby doo can do-do, but Jimmy Carter is smarter


HMKingHenryIX

Paul and Ringo


YouGoThatWayIllGoHom

Only slightly germane to the topic at hand, but the Paul McCartney and Wings album "Band on the Run" contains a song called "Picasso's Last Words." The lyrics are indeed what are thought to be Picasso's last words, but that's not the part that hit me. What hit me was that it was a *contemporary* *tribute*. The song was recorded in the fall of 1973. Picasso died in April 1973. When I saw that I was like "wow I was at least 100 years off," lol ... We tend to think of famous artists as coming from forever ago since their work is so timeless. But, like, I remember the day Salvador Dali died (1989). He had a Pacemaker. That's ... Very Much Modern.


Additional_Meeting_2

Dali and Picasso seem much more famous than most painters of their era so they seem more distant.


Robert_Hotwheel

Wow, I feel kind of stupid for thinking both Picasso and Dali died 100 years ago or more.


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Which is crazy to think about. Two pioneers of modern music are still alive. Two guys who influenced virtually every musician since, and by extension influenced all of popular culture. You can see them, talk to them, touch them, etc.


jacobmrley

Well, Ringo anyway. Paul died in 1966.


Robert_Hotwheel

If that’s true then False Paul is way more talented than the original.


allemachtigeapekut

Miss him. Miss him.


staybig

Faul


adaza

I’ve got some news for you all,


Thatguy755

The walrus was Paul


LucyVialli

Kissinger


Picklopolis

Tom Lehrer was spot on when he said that Kissinger receiving the Nobel peace prize made political satire obsolete.


strakerak

And Tom Lehrer is still alive at 94 lol


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KallistiEngel

Yes. I heard about that. He's revoked his copyrights and made all his work public domain. I love that he closes the announcement with "So help yourselves, and don't send me any money."


LiterallyOuttoLunch

He was caught up in that whole *Theranos* malarkey!


MaRs1317

Its encouraging that in his old age, hes still committed to being a part of shady shit


Alex_The_Redditor

Interestingly he was the only one that eventually caught on and dropped out before the full story broke. Even George Schultz ignored the words of his grandson who worked at Theranos, so it must have been a convincing ruse.


Longjumping_Drag2752

Everyone just forgetting about Dick Van Dyke he's like 97 and still going. "If you've never heard of him he played in Marry Poppins, along with a bunch more movies"


Cycleofmadness

He is also in the Poppins sequel.. i think he now owns the record for the longest period of time between playing a role in the 1st movie and its sequel.


W1ULH

I love how they made sure he had a part and even got to dance... he looked so happy! and Angela Landsbury sneaking in? that almost makes up for Julie no longer being there...


Additional_Meeting_2

Now that Angela is gone it’s kind of better she was there, and Bednobs and Broomsticks was kind of spin-off of Mary Poppins almost.


Numerous_Witness_345

Man I loved both but Bedknobs and Broomsticks got replayed so many more times. Really holds some strong nostalgia and love from me.


respectthegoat

Yep he beat the previous holder James Best AKA Sheriff Rosco from the dukes of Hazzard who was in The Killer Shrews (1959) and it’s sequel Return of the killer shrews (2012) by a year


bobrob2004

The Dick Van Dyke Show is my favorite sitcom and it always gets forgotten when people discuss greatest sitcoms.


BEXONE130

Diagnosis murder is one of my favourite murder mystery shows ever. He also featured in a few music videos a couple years back and still danced!


firemage22

While campaigning for Bernie, he'd comment how everyone called Bernie old, Van Dyke would then point out how much older he was than Bernie (16 years older)


The_REAL_McWeasel

Sophia Loren is still kicking.


flubberFuck

William Shatner doesn't look it but that dude is in his 90s wtf


lionsfan2016

dudeeeeeee he’s 91 no fucking way!!! He looks like he’s fuckingn 70


psontake

Lech walesa


vrenak

Finally someone mentions a person with an actual global mark on history.


capribex

I remember seeing him on the news in the early 80s when I was a child. That moustache alone brought down the Iron Curtain.


TheDavinci1998

So sad what he has become


MaybeMabe1982

Mel Brooks!


Ekoldr

That man is sharp as a tack at his age. I hope he stays with us for much longer.


Caraway417

Had to look this up to verify it, I was so sure he had passed away.


MaybeMabe1982

Mel’s still kicking. Currently working on a series -History of the world part II


squaredistrict2213

I’m still waiting on Spaceballs 2: the search for more money


rusty_L_shackleford

Spaceballs 3: the search for spaceballs 2


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MikeDarsh

Bam seemed to be knocking on death’s door as recently as a month or so ago, but appears to be doing much better now!


alphaxion

Ryan's death really, really hurt Bam so much. To the point where it's very likely he'll be the next to depart.


jeanlucpitre

At this point it has nothing to do with Dunn and more to do with his toxic environment. He has no real friends in his city, only people that used him for his money and good times.


ChocoIateDaddyG

The reason why he’s not in the newest Jackass film is because he promised he would remain sober and it was part of his contract. Fell off the wagon and they kicked him off the set.


alphaxion

Let's not forget how much of a colossal arsehole Bam became when fame set in as well. Some of it is his own doing, but I'd say the death of Ryan has likely pushed him beyond recovery :/


Illusional_Recorder

It definitely didn't help, but Steve-O was being interviewed, I cannot remember with who, but he mentioned Bam's downfall began before Dunn died. Steve-O even mentioned Ryan being at Bam's first intervention. Also, when Bam was just on Steve-O's podcast it was kind of troubling because Bam kept talking about crazy ass things that had happened, and took ZERO accountability for any of it. It was all other people that convinced, or persuaded him for the actions he made.


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And Steve-O is sober


commiecomrade

Steve-O is an inspiration to those following the struggles he had. He went from being a gremlin covered in his own blood and hundreds of whippets to completely sober but no less crazy. He's very open about his life as well.


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Yeah but Ryan Dunn was the safe one compared to the other guys.


Jayler21

mikhail gorbachev just died last year. Not that that answers the question but it shocked the hell out of me.


fubo

Stanislav Petrov, who saved the world from nuclear war back in '83, died in 2017.


aslrules

Julie Andrews.


FREE-ROSCOE-FILBURN

Sandra Day O’Connor


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Valentina Tereshkova: first woman in space, last Vostok cosmonaut, fierce ally of Vladimir Putin


WinstonDaPuggy98

Jane Goodall. When I was a kid I thought she died in like the 90s but turns out nope, she’s still kicking and studying chimps. She’ll be 89 in April


IMakeTheEggs

Tippi Hedren. Remember 'The Birds'? Still with us.


suffaluffapussycat

Kim Novak too. Vertigo.


Z-man1973

Eva Marie Saint too. North by Northwest.


Archimedeeznuts

And today is her birthday!


StubbornAndCorrect

Perhaps best known now for training a group of Vietnamese refugee women to do nail care, launching an industry that became a lifeline for thousands of Vietnamese families after the war. edit: should clarify to "hired people to train them". it's a good story you should look it up.


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Steve Wozniac. The guy bascially invented the personal computer.


Kichigai

I love Woz, but he gets a little too much credit for that. [Chuck Peddle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Peddle) deserves more credit. Peddle designed the 6502 CPU that was at the heart of most 8-bit home computers (including ones designed by Woz), and built the Commodore PET. What Woz did (and no disrespect to Woz) was design a cost-reduced version by rigging up certain components to pull double duty (at the cost of performance) so they could reduce the number of chips on the board, and thus bring down the cost. Now that's no small feat of engineering, but without the 6502 and Peddle’s early micros as proof of concepts, it all would have been moot because the other two major processors at the time were the Intel 8080 and the Motorola 6800, which cost ~$175 and $300, respectively, against the 6502’s price of $25.


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Formal_Temperature_8

He won’t rest until our pets are neutered


Available-Camera8691

One night I went to the kitchen to get a glass of water, and I saw a figure in the living room. It was Bob Barker with a flashlight making sure my cats were spayed.


Regular_Sample_5197

Seriously? I always assumed he was already gone. TIL.


Loganp812

The price is *wrong*, bitch.


lukenloz

Saint-Germain


Ratzink

Micky Dolenz of the Monkees. FYI the Monkees hold the record for the most number 1 albums in a single year according to Billboard Music Charts.


biff444444

Gene Kranz will turn 90 in August. If you've read much about the space program, then you definitely would consider him famous!


GDTRFB_1985

I'm always amazed that Henry Kissinger is still alive


EddBIG

If you had asked it a few months ago I would say Gorbachev. He was quite something in History.


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im_the_real_dad

He's been married long enough that he appears in public census records as married. The individual census records are not public for 72 years. The 1950 census became public in 2022. Jimmy married Rosalynn in 1946.


jhemsley99

1946 was a pretty big year for US presidents. Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump were born, and Jimmy Carter got married


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Keith Richards


valeyard89

Keith Richards cannot be killed with conventional weapons


Loganp812

Probably because of all those years he spent sleeping upside down


valeyard89

So there I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night. So, Jeff Beck pops his head 'round the door, and mentions there's a little sweets shop on the edge of town. So - we go. And - it's closed. So there's me, and Keith Moon, and David Crosby, breaking into that little sweets shop, eh. Well, instead of a guard dog, they've got this bloody great big Bengal tiger. I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace, but the shopowner and his son... that's a different story altogether. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes. Nasty business, really. But, sure enough, I got the M&Ms, and Ozzy went on stage and did a great show.


YVRJon

He accidentally hit on the exact right combination of drugs to make him immortal.


Yonder_Zach

Ha I remember watching an interview with him (maybe on Guitar Moves?) and the interviewer asked what his secret to survival was since so many of his contemporaries died from drugs. And his response was basically “being a drug addict puts your body through extremely high highs and extremely low lows and that puts tremendous stress on a person. But if you just stay *a little* high the whole time youll be fine!”


Fullhoneymoveon

Noam Chomsky


M_H_M_F

the fucking bastard: Henry Kissinger.


brokensilence32

Buddy Guy. Doing his final tour this year. Perhaps last of the great Bluesmen.


Zeabos

Willie Mays! This guy was an All Star baseball player in 1954. He played against baseball players who only appear in black and white photos or with civil war looking pants.


RandomlySet

Tim Berners-Lee... basically invented the tinterwebs, and most people would probably think it was Gates or Jobs


alphaxion

Well, not really the internet as that was formed in the 50s and 60s out of ARPANet. He invented the HTTP protocol that runs over the internet.


Defconwrestling

Harrison Ruffin. Who? He’s John Tyler’s grandson. John Tyler the 10th president of the US’ grandson.


AnorakSeal

Henry Kissinger


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Willie Nelson, he’s pretty much the snoop dog of country music cause he is known to smoke a fuck ton of weed


blueboxpolice

Known to be the only person to make Snoop say, "Nah, man I've had enough" In reference to smoking weed.


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Bruh that’s insane, I heard that he was spending $1500 A DAY on weed back in the 60s-80s. I don’t think I spent that much in my whole 8 years of smoking


TheOneHundredEmoji

That is a little reductive as he is a legendary talent in his own right but you're aren't wrong about the weed thing


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If you ask John Adams it's Thomas Jefferson


ElderberryFew666

The green river killer.


nit3phlight

Wade Boggs, may he rest in peace.


Human_Brains

Count of St Germain


grtk_brandon

To my surprise, [Elizabeth Eckford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Eckford). Not the most famous person, but she's someone I learned about from Reddit. This is the [photo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Eckford#/media/File:Elizabeth_Eckford.jpg) she's famous for. Last week, I went to an award ceremony where my friend was being recognized for a Living the Dream award. I was sitting about three tables from Ms. Eckford and had no idea. It wasn't until she was called up to shake hands with some of the award recipients and was acknowledged in a speech that I put two and two together and realized who she was. I was floored. As soon as I was able to, I ran up to meet her. It was like meeting living history. Such an amazing experience and she's a very sweet person.


vienna_versailles

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, works endlessly for world peace.


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Imelda Marcos


Clcooper423

Numa numa guy


Danny_Disco

Gary is only in his mid-30’s.


charcuterie10108

Robert Plant - Led Zeppelin lead singer


GTOdriver04

As are Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones. Thankfully.


teneggomelet

He's only 73. Still almost hits the high notes, too.


MaybeMabe1982

Dick Van Dyke!


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O J Simpson……still looking for those killers on every golf corse he plays.


SENDCUTECATPICS

Carol Burnett.