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A one year anniversary of my original thread (most significant death for every year from 1963 onwards), except this time I am working backwards from 2008 to as far back as we can go, this list goes back to 1961 since I haven't had time yet to research that far back and I want to go in order (meaning I am drawing a blank with 1960). My only rule is that it must be one person (not like Time's person of the year where it can be multiple people), thus Muhammed Atta for 2001 instead of all 9/11 deaths; Spencer Tracy for 1967 instead of Apollo 1 astronauts; Cary Grant for 1986 instead of Challenger Astronauts, Bob Hope for 2003 instead of Columbia Astronauts. 2008: Tim Russert (thus far of course) 2007: Bezanir Bhutto 2006: Gerald Ford 2005: Pope John Paul II 2004: Ronald Reagan 2003: Bob Hope 2002: Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother 2001: Muhhamed Atta 2000: Sir Alec Guinness 1999: King Hussein 1998: Frank Sinatra 1997: Princess Diana 1996: Carl Sagan 1995: Yitzhak Rabin 1994: Richard M. Nixon 1993: Audrey Hepburn 1992: Sam Walton 1991: Dr. Suess 1990: Sammy Davis Jr. 1989: Lucille Ball 1988: Roy Orbison 1987: Jackie Gleason 1986: Cary Grant 1985: Orson Wells 1984: Richard Burton 1983: Muddy Waters 1982: Princess Grace Kelly 1981: Anwar Sedat 1980: John Lennon 1979: John Wayne 1978: Pope John Paul I 1977: Elvis Presley 1976: Mao Zedong 1975: Moe Howard 1974: Georges Pompidou 1973: Lyndon Baines Johnson 1972: Harry S. Truman 1971: Nikita Khrushchev 1970: Charles de Gaulle 1969: Dwight D. Eisenhower 1968: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1967: Spencer Tracy 1966: Walt Disney 1965: Winston Churchill 1964: Herbert Hoover 1963: John F. Kennedy 1962: Marilyn Monroe 1961: Ernest Hemingway Most significant by decade 2000's: Pope John Paul II (thus far but nearly impossible to beat IMO) 1990's: Princess Diana 1980's: John Lennon 1970's: Elvis 1960's: John F. Kennedy Notice that four died tragically and/or unexpectedly and only one (JPII) died expectedly and in old age. Also I know my choice of Tim Russert for 2008 will likely be attacked for being american-centric but that is preliminary since that is just thus far for the year and the fact that his death was a media circus that put all others to shame thus far this year (Heath Ledger, Charlton Heston), his political ties as a prominent member of the media, particular in regards to presidential politics, his funeral was attended by president Bush and former presidents and presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. If he remains at the top at the end of this year it would mean that it was a slow year in terms of super significant deaths at least compared to 2004-2007. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTRIBUTE, CRITIQUE MY CHOICES, ADD YOUR OWN; ESPECIALLY FOR 1960 AND EARLIER.

And Richard Riordan the former Mayor of Los Angeles. Jerry Springer was also briefly the Mayor of Cincinnati.

Less than 48 hours and it will be May. No US President has ever died in the month of May.

Interesting trivia. No US President has died in the month of May, maybe Jimmy Carter will be the first.

Bob Dole outlived his 1976 Vice Presidential rival Walter Mondale. I think Bob Dole will live to see his 98th birthday but not long past it.

Jimmy Carter outlived his Vice President, Walter Mondale.

With the death of Walter Mondale the oldest living Vice President is Dick Cheney.

Indeed there was a Vice Presidential debate in 1976, the first one ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmeWszwFRSI&t=1221s

103 years old has to be a record for a male celebrity, certainly for someone of this stature. Oh and 103 is a good number, as you can tell I like it.

We should keep Jimmy Carter on the deathlist for 2019. If he lives to March 21, 2019 he will have surpassed George HW Bush's lifespan to become the longest lived President of the United States in history, I think he will break that record but after that at his age anything is fair game. Him being still somewhat active doesn't mean too much, Richard Nixon was quite active right until he died of a stroke at age 81 in 1994. We should not miss any former President's death.

One interesting piece of trivia about the death of George HW Bush, he is the first President to have been born after John F. Kennedy to die. JFK was born in 1917 and died in 1963, 55 years ago and seven Presidents who were born before him died after him: 1. Herbert Hoover 1874-1964 2. Dwight Eisenhower 1890-1969 3. Harry Truman 1884-1972 4. Lyndon Johnson 1908-1973 5. Richard Nixon 1913-1994 6. Ronald Reagan 1911-2004 7. Gerald Ford 1913-2006 Thus George HW Bush 1924-2018 is the first President to die to be born after JFK.

Was going to post the exact same thing. Here's the photographic proof. Don't think he's got long left... http://s9.postimg.org/3r3h6ft0f/Cc_Gq_Vnt_VIAAoj7s.jpg He was thinking "With Jeb out of the race which one of these guys do I want presiding over my state funeral?" Actually it is still quite likely that Obama will preside over his state funeral! Jimmy Carter recently liked cancer for now and is still teaching Sunday school and looking good for his age, he still has a decent shot of living another two years and beating Gerald Ford's record to become the longest lived US President in history. George HW Bush on the other hand at that GOP debate looked like something out of Weekend At Bernie's!

George HW Bush is now the third former President to live to his 91st birthday and third longest lived after Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.

This list is preliminary and just off the top of my head at 3 AM, some years I left blank and some years that were kinda slow I just added the death that stuck out most in my mind so pardon the ameri-centric or even Chicago-centric nature, I am attempting to list the most significant deaths worldwide. 1963: John F. Kennedy 1964: Herbert Hoover 1965: Winston Churchill 1966: Walt Disney 1967: Spencer Tracy 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. 1969: Dwight D. Eisenhower 1970: Charles de Gaulle 1971: Nikita Khrushchev 1972: Harry S. Truman 1973: Lyndon Baines Johnson 1974: Georges Pompidou 1975: Moe Howard 1976: Mao Tse Tung 1977: Elvis Presley 1978: Pope John Paul I 1979: Nelson A. Rockefeller 1980: John Lennon 1981: Anwar Sedat 1982: Leonid Brezhnev 1983: Muddy Waters 1984: Richard Burton 1985: Yul Brynner 1986: Cary Grant 1987: Jackie Gleason 1988: Roy Orbison 1989: Lucille Ball 1990: Sammy Davis, Jr. 1991: Dr. Seuss 1992: Sam Walton 1993: Pat Nixon 1994: Richard Nixon 1995: Yitzhak Rabin 1996: George Burns 1997: Princess Diana 1998: Frank Sinatra 1999: King Hussain 2000: Charles Schultz 2001: George Harrison 2002: Queen Mother 2003: Bob Hope 2004: Ronald Reagan 2005: Pope John Paul II 2006: Gerald Ford 2007: Lady Bird Johnson (thus far)

Working backwards this time: 2015: Leonard Nimoy 2014: Robin Williams 2013: Nelson Mandela 2012: Neil Armstrong 2011: Osama Bin Laden 2010: Dennis Hopper 2009: Michael Jackson 2008: Edmund Hillary 2007: Boris Yeltsin 2006: Gerald Ford 2005: Pope John Paul II 2004: Ronald Reagan 2003: Bob Hope 2002: The Queen Mother 2001: Mohammed Atta 2000: Charles Schulz 1999: King Hussein 1998: Frank Sinatra 1997: Princess Diana 1996: Carl Sagan 1995: Yitzhak Rabin 1994: Richard Nixon 1993: Vincent Price 1992: Sam Walton 1991: Dr. Seuss 1990: Jim Henson 1989: Lucille Ball 1988: Roy Orbison 1987:Fred Astaire 1986: Cary Grant 1985: Konstantin Chernenko 1984: Yuri Andropov 1983: David Niven 1982: Leonid Brezhnev 1981: Anwar Sadat 1980: John Lennon 1979: John Wayne 1978: Pope John Paul I 1977: Elvis Presley 1976: Mao Zedong 1975: Francisco Franco 1974: Georges Pompidou 1973: Lyndon Johnson 1972: Harry Truman 1971: Nikita Khrushchev 1970: Charles de Gaulle 1969: Dwight Eisenhower 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. 1967: Che Guevara 1966: Walt Disney 1965: Winston Churchill 1964: Herbert Hoover 1963: John F. Kennedy

Roberta McCain, mother of U.S. Senator and 2008 GOP Presidential candidate John McCain is still alive at 103 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_McCain

Barbara Bush turns 90 today, June 8, 2015. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/07/kennebunkport-made-famous-by-bush-family-preparing-for-a-third-bush-to-run/

Reagan was older than ford though Actually because you pointed it out I see I made a typo and I corrected it. It should read Gerald Ford; 93 years 165 days and Ronald Reagan; 93 years 120 days

Ronnie is 11 years gone yesterday and Nancy is still alive and did her annual pilgrimage to his grave: http://twitchy.com/2015/06/05/nancy-reagan-places-flowers-on-her-husbands-gravesite-to-commemorate-the-11th-anniversary-of-his-death-photos/ No good head shot of her but she is in a wheelchair, I wouldn't read much into her presence either way, I would bet it is her intention to be at his graveside for every anniversary either above ground or below lying next to Ronnie. She will turn 94 on July 6th and aside from these visits is not really seen in public at all, we will have to see if she makes her usual rounds during the 2016 GOP primary cycle. Will they have another GOP Presidential debate at the Reagan library with Nancy in attendance? Will Nancy outlive George HW Bush? Could the deaths of both GHWB and Nancy Reagan before the 2016 GOP nomination create an unprecedented amount of nostalgia for Jeb Bush's Presidential prospects? Think about it, the pundits will say Jeb Bush is more like his father than his brother and the legacy of his father is that he was the immediate successor to Ronald Reagan the mythic GOP patron saint and Nancy's death would remind them of that even more (eerily enough at the bottom of the link to that article is a survey asking me if Jeb Bush should run for President!).

I still reckon that - in that company - Carter may prove the longest lasting. Bush, the elder, is only a matter of months older than Carter, and in way worse health. I agree, in fact I expanded on this premise in the George HW Bush thread. I think there a good chance GHWB will die before the 2016 election and the usual post-mortem nostalgia for recently departed Presidents will help his son Jeb Bush get elected. Jimmy Carter has less than three years to go in order to beat Gerald Ford's record and I don't think GHWB will beat Ford's longevity. With GHWB out of the way Carter will have a clear shot at the longevity title and then he will have all the big longevity records, he will have the longest retirement (he already does since 2012 surpassing Hoover) of 34 years and counting as well as overall longevity. Then there is the minor record of being the oldest second oldest living President in history in about a couple of months when (assuming GHWB lives that long) Carter will surpass the age Gerald Ford was on the day of Ronald Reagan's death on June 5, 2004 when Ford was just a month shy of his 91st birthday. In other words Carter is like Ford was, 90 years old and still not yet the oldest living President.

Today Jimmy Carter has surpassed the lifespan of John Adams of 90 years and 247 days. This now means that the four longest living Presidents in order are: 1. Gerald Ford; July 14, 1913-December 26, 2006; 93 years, 165 days 2. Ronald Reagan; February 6, 1911-June 5, 2004; 93 years, 120 days 3. George H.W. Bush; June 12, 1924-still living; 90 years, 359 days 4. Jimmy Carter; October 1, 1924-still living; 90 years 248 days This is significant because the four longest lived U.S. Presidents served consecutively to each other from 1974-1993, each have lived longer than every President from George Washington to Richard Nixon, they each lived into the 21st Century, and two of them (George HW Bush and Jimmy Carter) are still alive. Also we are now in the second period in history that two 90+ year old Presidents were alive at once, the first period was between July 13, 2003 (Gerald Ford's 90th birthday) and June 5, 2004 (Ronald Reagan's death). On October 1, 2014 Jimmy Carter turned 90 and joined George HW as the other living President who turned 90 on June 12, 2014. This is relevant to George HW Bush because I think Jimmy Carter has a better shot of beating Gerald Ford's record. I think George HW might die while Obama is still President and his death anytime between now and the 2016 election could very well change the trajectory of the entire election cycle. Let me explain, George HW's death I think would help Jeb Bush's Presidential prospects especially if the elder Bush's death is before the Republican nomination is wrapped up by anyone. A Presidential death always brings about glowing praise and platitudes for the deceased President and it will distract from the negative memories that people have of Jeb Bush's brother George W Bush. There will be all this talk of how George HW Bush was a great President of the late 80's/early 90's, the cold war technically ended during his Presidency, he is a moderate, etc. etc. AND most importantly the pundits will say that Jeb is more like his father than his brother. In this scenario it could be the first time a Presidential death changes the trajectory of a Presidential election.

Today Jimmy Carter has surpassed the lifespan of John Adams of 90 years and 247 days. This now means that the four longest living Presidents in order are: 1. Gerald Ford; July 14, 1913-December 26, 2006; 93 years, 165 days 2. Ronald Reagan; February 6, 1911-June 5, 2004; 93 years, 120 days 3. George H.W. Bush; June 12, 1924-still living; 90 years, 359 days 4. Jimmy Carter; October 1, 1924-still living; 90 years 248 days This is significant because the four longest lived U.S. Presidents served consecutively to each other from 1974-1993, each have lived longer than every President from George Washington to Richard Nixon, they each lived into the 21st Century, and two of them (George HW Bush and Jimmy Carter) are still alive. Also we are now in the second period in history that two 90+ year old Presidents were alive at once, the first period was between July 13, 2003 (Gerald Ford's 90th birthday) and June 5, 2004 (Ronald Reagan's death). On October 1, 2014 Jimmy Carter turned 90 and joined George HW as the other living President who turned 90 on June 12, 2014.

George HW Bush has now reached the lifespan of John Adams, 90 years and 247 days, the only US Presidents that lived longer were Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. On June 6th Jimmy Carter will reach John Adams' lifespan and at that time the four longest lived US Presidents would be immediate successors to each other and are or were alive for at least part of the 21st Century (in order of service but not longevity); Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George HW Bush. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_by_age

David Rockefeller will turn 100 on June 12, 2015, quite frankly I am surprised he has never been on a death list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rockefeller

We are approaching that ominous date of December 26th, the day that two former Presidents have died, Harry Truman at age 88 in 1972 and the longest lived former President Gerald Ford at age 93 in 2006. George Bush doesn't appear to be in anywhere near as bad a condition as they were on their last Christmas days but given he was hospitalized on Christmas just two years ago and is again this year it seems there is something about the holidays and former Presidents. The only day in which three former Presidents have died is providentially July 4th, both John Adams (90) and Thomas Jefferson (83) in 1826 and James Monroe in 1831 (73). http://en.wikipedia....y_date_of_death