20 Celebrities and Historical Figures of Yesterday Who Are Still Alive (21 Photos)

The passage of time is fast and inexorable, and before you can blink, the people you have revered since childhood are celebrating their 90th anniversary (if not even a century!). A Reddit user suggested remembering the outstanding personalities of the past who are still alive and thriving, and there was real diversity in the comments: here you have Sophia Loren and the legendary Soviet physicist Yuri Oganesyan.





1. "James Dewey Watson, One of the Discoverers of DNA"



2. “Ivan Martynushkin participated in the liberation of Auschwitz. He is 99 years old.”





3. “Buzz Aldrin [the second man on the moon], and I’m not even American.”



4. Clint Eastwood



5. "Simeon of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The last person to bear the title of Tsar of Bulgaria"



6. Julie Andrews [star of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music]



7. "Jane Goodall. As a child, I thought she died somewhere in the 90s, but it turns out that no, she is still alive and studies chimpanzees."



8. Dick Van Dyke [actor and comedian, star of the film "Mary Poppins"]



9. "John Hemingway, the last surviving Battle of Britain pilot. He is 103 years old."



10. "Tippi Hedren. Remember The Birds?"



11. "Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space"



12. “Keith Richards cannot be killed by conventional means.”



13. "Yuri Oganesyan. He is the only living person after whom an element of the periodic table is named"



14. Noam Chomsky [the “father” of modern linguistics]



15. “Somehow Ozzy Osbourne is still alive.”



16. "Ruby Bridges, she was one of the first black children to go to an all-white school. There is a famous photo from that day."



17. "Sophia Loren is still standing"



18. "Willie Nelson, he's basically the Snoop Dogg of country music because he's famous for smoking a ton of weed."



19. “William Shatner doesn’t look his age, but he’s over 90, how does that even happen?!”



20. "Paul and Ringo"