The Meter-Maid, the lovely Rita, is 75 today. It got me thinking about who else is still around and who left us at that age. After a bit of research I came up with 15 famous persons still with us and 15 who died at that age.
[Rolling Stone]
Still alive at 75
According to the website famousbirthdays.com the following people have celebrated their 75th birthday recently:
Phil Collins, drummer and singer (formerly of "Genesis")
Peter Davison, English actor ("Dr Who"; "All Creatures Great and Small")
Lindsay Duncan, English actress
Ed Harris, US actor
Geraldine James, English actress
Louise Jameson, Scottish actress ("Bergerac"; "Dr Who"; "Eastenders")
Bill Murray, US actor ("Ghostbusters"; "Groundhog Day")
Randy Quaid, US character actor
Kurt Russell, US actor ("Inferno")
Jane Seymour, English actress
Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer
Harriet Walter, English actress
Sadly died at 75
Yasser Arafat, former Egyptian leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor of the telephone
Leonid Brezhnev, former USSR leader
Shelley Duvall, US actress
Duke Ellington, US pianist and bandleader
Dizzy Gillespie, US composer
Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
John McAfee, US computer programmer (anti-virus software)
James Mason, English actor ("Lolita")
J P Morgan, entrepreneur and financier
Gerd Muller, German footballer
Donald Pleasence, English actor ("M" in several James Bond films)
Ferdinand Porsche, German car designer
Roy Scheider, US actor ("Jaws")
Tom Wilkinson, English actor ("The Full Monty")
© The Culture Vulture
Images:
Discogs, EL PAIS, IMDb, James Bond Wikipedia, Reddit, Rolling Stone, Wikipedia
Thanks:
famousbirthdays.com, Google, Paul Whitelock, Wikipedia
Tags:
75, Alexander Graham Bell, "All Creatures Great and Small", anti-virus software, "Bergerac", Bill Murray, Bonnie Tyler, Discogs, Dizzy Gillespie, "Dr Who", Donald Pleasence, Duke Ellington, "Eastenders", Ed Harris, EL PAIS, famousbirthdays.com, Ferdinand Porsche, "Genesis", Geraldine James, Gerd Muller, "Ghostbusters", "Groundhog Day", Harriet Walter, IMDb, James Bond, James Bond Wikipedia, James Mason, Jane Seymour, "Jaws", J P Morgan, John McAfee, Kurt Russell, Leonid Brezhnev, Lindsay Duncan, "Lolita", Louise Jameson, "M", Nobel Peace Prize, Peter Davison, Phil Collins, Randy Quaid, Reddit, Rolling Stone, Roy Scheider, Rutger Hauer, Shelley Duvall, The Culture Vulture, "The Full Monty", Tom Wilkinson, Wikipedia, Yasser Arafat,