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I am not sure what you'd call a person living at that time but the late Victorian Era is called the Gilded Age in America. (In France it is called the Belle Epoque or Fin-de-Siecle.) They sound shite. They're Victorians. Period. That use of the word 'period', unless coming from an American, should be banned. You mean full-stop! I was trying to be ironic. I think.

Hmm... Andrew Breitbart? Luckily, there is Wikipedia, so these lists are relatively easy to make: 2014 (so far): Robin Williams 2013: a tie between Mandela and Thatcher for karmic balance 2012: Neil Armstrong 2011: Osama bin Laden 2010: Benoit Mandelbrot 2009: Michael Jackson 2008: Edmund Hillary 2007: Boris Yeltsin 2006: Milton Friedman (he made Pinochet) 2005: John Paul II 2004: Ronald Reagan 2003: Johnny Cash 2002: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 2001: George Harrison 2000: Pierre Trudeau 1999: Stanley Kubrick 1998: Pol Pot or Frank Sinatra... what a comparison... 1997: Deng Xiaoping 1996: Ella Fitzgerald 1995: Konrad Zuse 1994: Tough year... Karl Popper 1993: Cesar Chavez 1992: Willy Brandt 1991: Miles Davis 1990: Greta Garbo 1989: Sergio Leone 1988: Enzo Ferrari 1987: Andy Warhol 1986: Simone De Beauvoir 1985: Orson Welles 1984: Indira Gandhi 1983: Tennessee Williams 1982: Grace Kelly 1981: Bob Marley 1980: John Lennon 1979: Jean Monnet 1978: Kurt Gödel 1977: Wernher von Braun or Elvis Presley or Charlie Chaplin 1976: Mao Zedong 1975: Umm Kulthum 1974: Charles Lindbergh 1973: Lyndon B. Johnson 1972: Harry Truman 1971: Louis Armstrong 1970: Charles De Gaulle 1969: Eisenhower or KIng Saud 1968: Martin Luther King 1967: Robert Oppenheimer 1966: Walt Disney 1965: Winston Churchill 1964: Jawaharlal Nehru 1963: Lee Harvey Oswald (heh, a joke)

I am not sure what you'd call a person living at that time but the late Victorian Era is called the Gilded Age in America. (In France it is called the Belle Epoque or Fin-de-Siecle.) They sound shite. They're Victorians. Period. That use of the word 'period', unless coming from an American, should be banned. You mean full-stop!

This discussion about German Nazi-era film stars reminded me of Anneliese Uhlig. Born in 1918, she is still alive and actually appeared in a German TV movie called George in 2013. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2485900/ She resides in California nowadays: https://familysearch...3/1:1:QJF8-HFN5

I had a short look at the German Wikipedia entry about that film. One cast member, Trude Heess, has no date of death on her page, but I doubt that she lives at 104. The ten or so others I tried are all dead. Perhaps I can be arsed to check.the rest later. Aha, Erich Kästner. I read his Drei Männer im Schnee. Auf Deutsch My knowledge of German film is shallow, mostly Fassbinder and Pedersen and cheesy Heinz Rühmann comedies my parents loved to watch, so I didn't know about Munchausen. I'll see if I can find it. regards, Hein

Chespirito One of the biggest Icon's of Mexico and the rest of Latin America is dead 85 His 2nd biggest tv charecter El Chapulin Colarado was the inspiration for the Simpsons charecter

Fascinating what people think is significant. Pretending to be other people and getting paid a fortune to do it, merely entertaining while grandstanding on guns seems largely insignificant to me. Suharto's life has, without question, been much more significant for this globe, sadly for bad reasons. Hard to imagine American trainspotters. They can't quite spot weapons of mass destruction so they might find trains a tad difficult too. And this from one neither UK or US, an independent arbiter! lol