John Cruickshank was the last living World War II recipient of the Victoria Cross, he died today at 105, 80 whole years after the war ended, RIP
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Jimmy Carter was born in 1924, Burton K Wheeler ran for the Vice Presidency that year (under La Follete), Wheeler lived long enough to potentially hear Carter announce his candidacy in December 1974, he died in January 1975
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There were several retired German Chancellors alive during the rise of the horrible Nazi regime in the Weimar Republic, what did they think of it?
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt could’ve never watched Singing in the Rain (1951) but his 1936 opponent, Alf Landon, could’ve watched Full Metal Jacket (1987)
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When Kurt Cobain tragically died, the widow of Srinivasa Ramanujan, was still living
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Felix Yusupov, the one who shot Rasputin in 1916 (multiple killed him), lived to see Oswald shoot Kennedy, and gave an interview in 1967, saying if he could, he would do it again.
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Richard Nixon with Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell at Hickham Air Force Base in Hawaii, Nixon gave the crew the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Lovell died today at 97, RIP
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