Jeanne Moreau is 78.

Granny D (nee Ethel Doris Haddock) is 96. Granny D, her legal name since 2004, walked across the continental United States in 1999 to advocate campaign finance reform.




American composer Norman Dello Joio is 93.

Ernest Borgnine is 89.


Oral Roberts is 88.



Jerry Maren is 86.

Ernie Harwell is 88. Longtime Detroit Tigers radio announcer.



Newsman Edwin Newman is 87.

American character actor Charles Lane is 101.


SF writer Philip Jose Farmer is 88.



Paul Newman 81.

Norwegian philosopher and mountaineer Arne Dekke Næss is 94.




Bobby Blue Bland is 76.

Disgraced British Politico John Profumo is 91.


Dick Martin is 84.

Dorothy Malone is 81.

Carol Channing is 85


Norman Mailer is 83.

Gospel Singer George Beverly Shea is 97. He sings about Jesus.


Writer Muriel Spark is 88. "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"

Titanic survivor Milvina Dean is 94.



Gossip Columnist Liz Smith is 83.


Elaine Stritch is 81

So, did the "Almost Dead" thread merge with the "Birthday Thread"?

There is no almost dead thread on the new board yet. Feel free to start one if you like.

Robert Earl Jones is 95. Played Luther in The Sting. James Earl Jones's father.


Rat Packer Joey Bishop is 88.


Comedian Shelley Berman is 80

Golfer Byron Nelson is 94


British comedian Norman Wisdom is 91.


Ray Evans is 91. Evans and his partner Jay Livingston, who died in 2001, composed three Academy Award-winning Best Songs – 1948's "Buttons and Bows", 1950's "Mona Lisa", and 1956's "Que Sera Sera". They also wrote the Christmas classic "Silver Bells".


Janet Waldo is 88. The voice of many cartoon characters, including Judy Jetson in the animated TV series "The Jetsons", Josie in "Josie and the Pussycats"



Feminist pioneer Betty Friedan is 85


He's 83.

Fastest Birthday Thread to Dead Thread ever.

Red Buttons is 87.

Zsa Zsa Gabor is 89.


Patrick Macnee is 84.

Kathryn Grayson is 84.


Roger Mudd is 78

Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe is 93. Shot all three Indy movies.

Tony likes dead people better

Sidney Sheldon is 89. Created I Dream of Jeanie. Writes schlocky novels.

Lloyd Bentsen is 85. Former Senator and Vice Presidential Candidate

Of Masters and Johnsons fame...Virginia Johnson is 81.

Leslie Nielsen is 80.

Burt Reynolds is 70.

Film maker Franco Zeffirelli is 83. Made 1968's 'Romeo and Juliet'. Hamlet with Mel Gibson.

Golfer Patty Berg is 88.


Longtime Grambling football coach Eddie Robinson is 87.



Chuck Yeager is 83.

rollins is 45 today

Willem Kolff is 95. Inventor of the Kidney Dialysis machine.



Jimmy Hoffa is 93. Since he has never been found I'm assuming he's still alive.



Hugh Downs is 85.

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"It's never wise to assume anything, my friend."

Miep Gies is 97. During World War II, with her husband Jan Gies and others, protected Anne Frank and her family by hiding them in a secret annex above Anne's father's shop in Amsterdam, she saved the diary that made Anne Frank a household name


Actor Kevin McCarthy is 92. 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'


Actor Allan Arbus is 88. Played Sidney Freedman on "M*A*S*H"



1980 Independent Presidential Candidate John Anderson is 84.

Philip Rabinowitz is 102. Lithuanian-born South African sprinter. On July 10, 2004, Rabinowitz entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest 100-year-old to run 100 meters.)



Patty Andrews is 88. The one in the middle. Last surviving member of the The Andrews Sisters.

American big-band leader and composer Orrin Tucker is 95.


Margaret Truman is 82. Author and daughter of Harry.


Hal Holbrook is 81.

Justine Bateman is 40. I feel old

Cindy Crawford is 40. I feel old


Fashion Designer Gloria Vanderbilt is 82.


Robert Altman is 81.

Robert Mugabe is 82. President of Zimbabwe.

Long time SNL Announcer Don Pardo is 88.

General Paul Tibbets is 91. Piloted the Enola Gay which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima.

Abe Vigoda is 85.


Steven Hill is 84.

Monte Irvin is 87

Betty Hutton is 85



Fats Domino is 78

Ariel Sharon is 78.

Charles Durning is 83

I forgot about Svetlana Alliluyeva! Stalin's daughter is 80.

Richard Wilbur is 85. Former American Poet Larueate.

Jennifer Jones is 87.


Mikhail Gorbachev is 75.


Tom Wolfe is 75.

Folk Singer Doc Watson is 83.

James Noble is 84. Played the Governor on Benson.

Re: Doc's son, Merle

In the early dark hours of October 23, 1985, just days before 'Frets Magazine' named him the best finger-picking guitarist of the year in folk, blues, or country music, Eddy Merle Watson rolled his farm tractor on a steep hillside near his home, ending the life of one of the world's great musicians in a tragedy worthy of the blues ballads he loved. Some people knew Merle Watson well, some were acquainted with him as a consequence of brief interactions of one sort or another, some had only the privilege of seeing him perform his musical wizardry on stage or listening to one or more of his many recordings, but everyone loved and respected him. Merle touched lives world wide as is evidenced by over 700 cards, letters, and other written condolences received by his family, Doc, Rosa Lee, and Nancy, after Merle's fatally tragic accident. These expressions of sympathy were in addition to the hundreds of phone calls and personal visits to the Watson's Deep Gap, North Carolina home. This tremendous outpouring of support was not engendered by a love of Merle's music alone, but also by the way his charisma and kindness transcended his fundamental shyness and silence on stage to reveal themselves in his exquisite fingerwork and gentle smile.

Merle

Ed Mcmahon is 83.


Alan Greenspan is 80

Laugh in Regular Alan Sues is 80.

Cyd Charisse is 85.

Writer Mickey Spillane is 88.

Rupert Murdoch is 75


Antonin Scalia is 70

MAD Magazine's Al 'Fold Ins' Jafee is 85.