You know you are getting close to Christmas and New Years when the Media starts focusing on celebrity deaths of that year....
You know you are getting close to Christmas and New Years when the Media starts focusing on celebrity deaths of that year....
And there’s still a month and a half to go.
Keep trying, Hollywood.
And a veteran too....
No “Mrs. Wolowitz” (Carol Ann Susi)?
Probably be a bunch more - still seven weeks left in the year.
Notables people who’ve accomplished something of value, or more celebrity drivel?
Whenever I look at these things I get Jim Carroll’s “Those Are the People Who Died” playing in my head.
My dad was transferred to Oklahoma in the middle of my junior year of high school to a small town. One of my friends learned that James Garner was visiting a family one evening. Four of us went to the house, and one of the girls asked if we could see Maverick. He expressed regret through the hostess but sent out four autographs. I’ve lost my autograph over the years, but I’ve always had genuine respect for Mr. Garner.
Bit early to be posting the celebrities list but post Veterans day, this is some good triva.
Wiki has a list of surviving notable veterans of World War II. I was able to sort the list by age to find the oldest and youngest of them. I had found this list a couple of years ago and at the time, James Garner was one of the youngest on the list at 16 in 1944.
Ignoring the two people who have no birth date or year, there are 1253 people on the list. The youngest are Daniel Ivins, a Yugoslavian partisan (b. 1932) and Eric Carle (b. 1929) who was conscripted by the Germans to dig trenches at age 15. The list shows five people born in in 1928 and then much larger groups for 1927 through about 1915 (would be 29/30 in 1944). 32 people start the list with the oldest being 105 (b. 1909).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_veterans_of_World_War_II