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The day James Earl Jones died I was talking to my girlfriend about him and wondered if he was still alive.

He was.

30 minutes later he died. Literally 30 fucking minutes.

I feel like I manifested it..

The biggest shock for me was Vera Lynn. She recorded her biggest hit song in 1939, and I was most familiar with it from the ending of Dr. Strangelove from 1964, and the Pink Floyd song, "Vera", from 1982. I guess people in the UK would've known better, but the song implied a long-bygone time, so of course she had to be dead by the '90s, right?

Imagine my shock when she released a new compilation album in 2014, while still very much kicking.

Dick Van Dyke

Chuck Norris, back in 2010s. I thought I heard of a heart attack before that.

Alan Alda

he is 88 and still alive

I know this isn't exactly what this is for as this person is dead, but i was certain harold reimis (egon from ghostbusters) died in the early 90s but it turned out he died in 2014. I had it in my head that they didnt make a ghostbusters 3 back in the 90s because he had died.

Dick van Dyke turns 99 in a few weeks.

Mel Brooks. He turned 98 this year.

I thought Carter was dead until he was in the news for turning 100.

Bob Barker only died a year ago. I thought for a long time he had gone in, like, 2010 or so.

Donald trump. Unfortunately.

Whenever we would hear "Crimson and Clover" growing up, my dad would comment how Tommy James (the singer) killed himself in the 70s. Cut to like 5 years ago when I see Tommy James, in his 70s, still kickin', on some random public access programming lol.

My dad has been repeating this "fact" for so many years that there's a solid chance he's forgotten it isn't true and still says it whenever he hears "Crimson and Clover."

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im always forgetting cher is still here for some reason

James Earl Jones prior to him actually passing away.

I had the opposite situation with Jim Varney/Ernest. I was so sad when I found out why there weren't any new Ernest films at the time :(

Buzz Aldrin.

Alan Alda.

His character in The Blacklist did perish.

Morgan Freeman.

Though in hindsight I realized he probably would've given his own eulogy.

In a conversation the other day the film Contempt came up, and we looked up the movie and were surprised Brigitte Bardot is still around at 90.

Elvis

Nelson Mandela, duh.

Somewhat related: there's a classic electro clash song Frank Sinatra by Miss Kittin & The Hacker that came out in 1998, with cynical/funny lyrics:

We talk about Frank Sinatra "You know Frank Sinatra?" He's dead! Dead Hahahahaha.

Except he wasn't dead yet, unbeknownst to the band, for another three months.

I thought Mr dress up was dead for years before he actually died . Pretty sure that was just a Canadian show so most people probably have no idea what I'm talking about . But he was like Mr Rogers and made lots of cool things with construction paper and glue .

Brian Blessed (88) is still alive, so is John Rhys-Davies (80). But we did lose large, loud, Scotish actor Robbie Coltrane (72). :(

Not gonna say because I don't want to jinx it

Christopher Loyd for a while

Abe Vigoda

.... oh wait, he did actually finally die in 2016