Posted on 05/27/2019 3:20:24 PM PDT by MNDude
There are thousands of people who have made the world a better place to live. Many died before they were old and some would might be great to have around for a lot longer.
Which three historic people do you wish could have lived another 30 years?
Thomas Edison? Rod Sterling? Shakespeare? John Paul II? You get the point.
I can’t disagree.
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony is the magnum opus of the human race; the ultimate artistic achievement of mankind.
Karen Carpenter
Lincoln is a great example of victors writing the history. We see that going on with historians rewriting events to conform to political correctness.
Respectfully disagree. Slavery was bad but was it worth over 1 million dead and the destruction of the South? A big part of the tensions were the north putting export tariffs on agricultural products produced in the South and import tariffs on good imported from Europe. These tariffs occurred after the Compromise of 1850 that gave non-slave states the majority in the Senate.
Terry Kath was Chicago....lost interest after his passing....
True, but I doubt if he would have improved much with more experience!
Thank you for the tip on Karise Eden. Wow, her voice is awesome. Love me some Amy Winehouse.
You know, you never see people put on this list “Hitler, Stalin, Genghis Khan”...
Ok why was a grown man under the thumb of another?
In the TV sitcoms department, my choices would have to be Selma Diamond (Night Court) and Jack Soo (Barney Miller).
Not wanting to take anything away from later Night Court stars like Markie Post and Marsha Warfield and that Barney Miller was that very decent show all of it’s years of being made, but the eras of those shows that featured Jack and Selma were that much better and in some cases so sidesplitting funny (particularly Barney Miller episodes featuring Soo).
Whoops posted under wrong heading!
Pay no attention!
Many of the names on this list were already old, (Washington, Reagan, etc) so adding more years to their lives wouldn’t have much mattered.
Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chafee were three who could have been productive.
Any three servicemen who died since 9/11. They would be important to a couple generation of their families.
No George III, no American Revolution.
No American Revolution, slavery ends here in 1833 as it did for all of the British Empire. (Unless the South revolts against the full might of the Empire, then in 1834 or 1835...)
Three i can endorse.
Maybe they did. They just proved in recent years that the alleged bones of Hitler actually belong to a woman.
GeorgiaRat lives up to their screenname.
That's all I gotta say about that.
Stan Laurel and Ollie Hardy
I felt the world was less magical when they passed.
Mark Bolan
Leslie Nielsen
1) Stonewall Jackson
2) Patton
3) Reagan
Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley.
For non-politicians, Buddy Holly, Sam Cooke, and the Israelis killed in the 1972 Munich Olympics.
H. Beam Piper
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