What three historical people do you wish lived longer?

[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.

[Brilliant]

Bingo. James Maxwell.

[Big Red Badger]

“Livin’in a Van,
Down by the River!”

Chris Farley
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Gets me everytime!

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Patton, Scalia, my mom

[sparklite2]

Franz Kafka
Natalie Wood
Ricard Wagner

[Lopeover]

Martin Luther King, Andrew Breitbart & Seth Rich

[farming pharmer]

1) WWII vets who died while Obama was still in office. "We fought for this?"

2)Osama bin Laden - so we could waterboarded the hell out of him.

3) John Bonahm

4) Dr. Hajwatalla, my pharmaceutics professor. Student:"This is so complicated, where do we start?" Professor's answer:"You...must start at the beginning".

5) My grandfather on my mom's side.

6) My grandfather on my dad's side - died at 47 of lung cancer in the early sixties, before better treatments were available.

[gaijin]

Andrew Breitbart.

[Nothingburger]

Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn

[sparklite2]

Ernie Kovacs

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[BulletBobCo]

Vince Foster, Ron Brown and Seth Rich.

[Pelham]

“Ernie Kovacs”

+2

[Karoo]

I know! Can u imagine what Reagan would say about today’s Democrat Party?

[Bonemaker]

Dying “young” gets more relative the older one gets. All on the list died younger than I am now,

Here’s a few quickies...

1. Glenn Miller
2. Lou Gehrig
3. Walter Payton
4. Richie Valens
5, Lem Winchester
6. Buddy Holly
7. Amelia Earhart
8. Chief Joseph
9. Alexander the Great
10. Elvis Presley
11. Peter Sellers
12. Marilyn Monroe
13. Cochise
14, Ernst Rommel
15. Dwight Eisenhower

And tens of thousands more.

[Pelham]

“Jesus”

Peter thought that and got rebuked for it...

“Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given Me?”

[OttawaFreeper]

Agree with the Freeper who suggested Barbara Olson. I will add my grandfather who died of asbestos related cancer (same type as what killed Steve McQueen) at age 75 in 1984.

Maybe it is not a person, but I wonder if the large archive of videotapes and film cans that NBC had by about 1975 or thereabouts and was chucked and destroyed for the most part on the orders of some silly woman who was in charge of programming there at that time could be included here. The colour videotapes of the 1960s Match Game and other game shows, variety programming, soap operas, and other things that featured early appearances by actors and actresses who were later famous and other precious curiosities likely should have been saved.

[Gay State Conservative]

Sorry...far too many to pick just three.But I've seen many good ones mentioned.

[misanthrope]

John Denver
Karen Carpenter
My Grandmother

[sparklite2]

[SunkenCiv]

Good call, Abraham Lincoln.

[timeflies]

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, George VI, and Marilyn Monroe