Historical figures that lived a surprisingly long time

[ShahOfIran1979]

Who are some historical figures who lived for a surprisingly long time? Here are some that I know:

JFK's parents both outlived him. His mother died in 1995 at the age of 104.
Queen Elizabeth II's mother died in 2002 at the age of 101.
John McCain's mother outlived him, dying in 2020 at the age of 108.
Senator, governor, and 1948 presidential election candidate Strom Thurmond died in 2003, at the age of 100. He lived long enough to vote for the Iraqi invasion, also had mulatto daughter despite being a huge racist.
George Kennan, the inventor of the Cold War era foreign policy and Truman doctrine, died in 2005, at the age of 101.
George III, king of Great Britain and Ireland, ruled from the French and Indian wars and past the Napoleonic wars. To be fair, he was senile and retarded by the end, dying in 1820 at the age of 81.
President John Tyler (1790-1862) had a grandson who lived until earlier this year, dying at the age of 96.
First Texas governor who had been in the government since the 1820s, as well as namesake for the city, Sam Houston had a son named Andrew Houston, who died in 1941 at the age of 87, while briefly serving as a Texas senator.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Wyatt Earp was still alive near the end of the 1920s

 

[Jobama]

Chiang Kai-Shek's wife lived from 1898 to 2003.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

President John Adams (second US President) died at the age of 90 on July 4, 1826 - he was born in 1735. Also the same day as Thomas Jefferson as well (83); it was the 50 year anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

 

[urr13 account]

Victoria, Last Princess of Prussia
1892-1980 (88 years)

• Only daughter and youngest child of Wilhelm II, German Emperor
• 1913 wedding to Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover was the largest gathering of reigning monarchs in Germany since German unification in 1871, and one of the last great social events of European royalty before the First World War
• On 8 November 1918, her husband was forced to abdicate his throne along with the other German kings
• In 1965 she published her autobiography Life as Daughter of the Emperor, and thereafter several other books, including biographies of her mother and of her sister-in-law Cecilie, the last crown princess of Germany. (It is however believed that her publisher served as her ghostwriter.)

Prussians, am i right?

 

[SpotOnTheWall]

RFK's widow died just last year. She was 96.
Charles de Gaulle had a son who also died last year at 102.

 

[Fishnumm]

hirohito instead of being hung with tojo was spared and was the jap king (empire of dirt amiright) until the eighties probably given a heart attack by a victim of the Bataan Death March he was worse than hitler, stalin and pol pot combined and we let him get away with it fuck sickos

 

[JULAY]

Zhou Youguang was born in 1906, invented Pinyin, helped translate the Encyclopedia Britannica into Chinese and died at the age of 111 in 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Youguang

 

[ShahOfIran1979]

Chiang Kai-Shek's wife lived from 1898 to 2003.

According to Wikipedia, there is a rumor that she had an affair with 1940 US presidential candidate Wendell Wilkie. (Here is color photo of him, I like it.) I have never heard this before, but that is really weird.

 

[Soso]

Rebecca Falton, the first woman senator lived for a long time. She saw the American Civil War, The Great War, and passed away during the Great Depression. She was the last slave owner to serve in the senate, and was a suffragist. Strange mix of ideologies yet an interesting person.

 

[dj0449674]

Ramesses II, he lived to 90 or 91.

 

[ShahOfIran1979]

Ramesses II, he lived to 90 or 91.

I would be a bit skeptical for ancient kings. For example, during the legendary king-era of ancient Rome, given the number of kings and time period, all of the kings would've had to have reigned for an average of 35 years each, which sounds unlikely.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph. Great-great-great-great-grandson of a largely aristocratic lineage, mostly "pureblooded", blue-blooded inbreds; lost a son, lost his wife (He loved her deeply, but apparently was sympathetic to her resentment over their arranged marriage), lost his brother (Weirdo Maximilian, who made a shambles of conquering Mexico and died for it), witnessed and might have been involved in various conflicts, uprisings, and rebellions, which targeted the Habsburg House.

All that depressing, dangerous rubbish, and dies about a month later after catching pneumonia, at the age of 86, whilst taking a brisk walk in his grounds, on a winter's morn'.

Not to try to eat my own hairy nutsack, but I did a JewTube video about him: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4zW-PznxyKc&t=49s

 

[ForgedBlades]

John McCain's mother outlived him, dying in 2020 at the age of 108.

This one's nuts to me. Though I feel McCain always came off older than he actually was. When he was running in 2008 he felt ancient, but maybe it was just the juxtaposition between him and Obama who was relatively young.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Obscurish-one: Mae Coughlin (Capone) was born in 1897, and died in 1986, at the age of 89, outliving her husband, her mother-in-law, her father-in-law, both brothers-in-law, by a good (varied) number of years.

"Ralphie Bottles" outlived pretty much his entire immediate family, too, and died at the age of 80, in 1974. His father died in 1920, his third younger brother Frank, got shot to death by Chicago police (if the set up was true) in 1924, his youngest brother died of heart failure via neurosyphilis in 1948, and the eldest brother "Two-Gun Hart", died in 1952, the same year their mother did.

@urr13 account Ooh, she's purty.

 

[Smar Mijou]

Jimmy Carter lived to 100. The first US president to do so.

Not necessarily historical on a global scale, but notable golden age of Hollyweird actress June Lockhart, most famous for the Lassie TV show and Lost In Space, is still alive at 100 years old. Likewise, Betty White, Eva Marie Saint, and Dick Van Dyke were all around that century mark. DVD and Eva are still living at 99 and 101 years old respectively.

Queen Elizabeth II's mother died in 2002 at the age of 101.

She also outlived her youngest daughter Princess Margaret by about a month.

As most know, her daughter Queen Elizabeth the 2nd, also was long lived, dying in 2022 at 96. QE2's husband prince Philip was couple months shy of 100 when he died. QE2 was also the last surviving head of state who served during WW2.

hirohito instead of being hung with tojo was spared and was the jap king (empire of dirt amiright) until the eighties probably given a heart attack by a victim of the Bataan Death March he was worse than hitler, stalin and pol pot combined and we let him get away with it fuck sickos

And his son, Akihito, the 125th emperor of Japan, is still alive today.

 

[ShahOfIran1979]

Not necessarily historical on a global scale, but notable golden age of Hollyweird actress June Lockhart, most famous for the Lassie TV show and Lost In Space, is still alive at 100 years old. Likewise, Betty White, Eva Marie Saint, and Dick Van Dyke were all around that century mark. DVD and Eva are still living at 99 and 101 years old respectively.

Also, Kirk Douglas lived to 103, and Mel Brooks is still alive at 99.

 

[Carlos Thin]

That fucking chink Tengzen Norgay or whatever—The Dalai Lama—is still alive at like 300