Living Kennedy Center Honors recipients (before 2010)
1980s:
1980: Leontyne Price (1927-) Earliest living recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1989: Harry Belafonte (1927-2023)
1990s:
1992: Joanne Woodward (1930-)
1995: Marilyn Horne (1934-) and Sidney Poitier (1927-2022)
1997: Bob Dylan (1941-) and Edward Villella (1936-)
1998: John Kander (1927-) and Willie Nelson (1933-) Note: Bill Cosby (1937-) also received the honors this year, but they were rescinded due to his conviction.
1999: Judith Jamison (1943-) and Stevie Wonder (1950-)
2000s:
2000: Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948-), Plácido Domingo (1941-), Clint Eastwood (1930-) and Angela Lansbury (1925-2022)
2001: Julie Andrews (1935-), Quincy Jones (1933-) and Jack Nicholson (1937-)
2002: James Earl Jones (1931-), Chita Rivera (1933-2024) and Paul Simon (1941-)
2003: Carol Burnett (1933-), Loretta Lynn (1932-2022) and Itzhak Perlman (1945-)
2004: Warren Beatty (1937-), Elton John (1947-) and John Williams (1932-)
2005: Tony Bennett (1926-2023), Suzanne Farrell (1945-), Robert Redford (1936-) and Tina Turner (1939-2023)
2006: Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948-), Zubin Mehta (1936-), Dolly Parton (1946-), Smokey Robinson (1940-) and Steven Spielberg (1946-)
2007: Steve Martin (1945-), Diana Ross (1944-), Martin Scorsese (1942-) and Brian Wilson (1942-)
2008: Morgan Freeman (1937-), Barbra Streisand (1942-), Twyla Tharp (1941-), Pete Townshend (1945-) and Roger Daltrey (1944-)
2009: Mel Brooks (1926-), Grace Bumbry (1937-), Robert De Niro (1943-) and Bruce Springsteen (1949-)
Lots of frail names there, some currently on DL.