Famous people who were surprisingly alive at the same time.

[tk13]

Here's my attempt at a Rain Man thread.

Inspired by this article.

Obama was alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover, who was alive the same time as Andrew Johnson, who was born when John Adams was still alive. So America is only four Presidents old.

This idea came from a reddit thread: What two famous people surprisingly lived at the same time? A good example is Charlie Chaplin and 50 Cent. Or Stan Lee and Wyatt Earp.

I never realized Charlie Chaplin lived so long. For instance, he was alive at the same time as both Sitting Bull, and Tom Brady.

[Dave Lane]

President John Tyler's Grandsons Are Still Alive

Here's the most amazing thing you'll ever read about our 10th president:

John Tyler was born in 1790. He took office in 1841, after William Henry Harrison died. And he has two living grandchildren.

Not great-great-great-grandchildren. Their dad was Tyler’s son.

[Dave Lane]

Originally Posted by Stewie

President John Tyler has two living grandsons. John Tyler was born in 1790.

Damn you!

[ottawa_chiefs_fan]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

President John Tyler's Grandsons Are Still Alive

Here's the most amazing thing you'll ever read about our 10th president:

John Tyler was born in 1790. He took office in 1841, after William Henry Harrison died. And he has two living grandchildren.

Not great-great-great-grandchildren. Their dad was Tyler’s son.

wow - /thread

[Sully]

I love the Tyler tidbit. Other than the various gws, that's the best thing I ever got from reddit!

[Boise_Chief]

Several native american tribes claimed that "mammoths" still existed in america at the time of the mayflower. While theirs is an oral tradition and that it could have passed down through generations. Some claimed to have seen them in their youth.

[Nzoner]

Originally Posted by Stewie

President John Tyler has two living grandsons. John Tyler was born in 1790.

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

President John Tyler's Grandsons Are Still Alive

Here's the most amazing thing you'll ever read about our 10th president:

John Tyler was born in 1790. He took office in 1841, after William Henry Harrison died. And he has two living grandchildren.

Not great-great-great-grandchildren. Their dad was Tyler’s son.

Late 60's and marry a woman 35 years younger than you and **** enough to father three more kids.




John Tyler fathered fifteen children, more than any other U.S. president: eight with his first wife, Letitia Christian Tyler (who was his own age), and seven more with Julia Gardiner Tyler (a woman thirty years his junior) whom he married two years after the death of Letitia. Five of those children lived into the 20th century (the youngest, Pearl Tyler, was still alive after the end of World War II and finally passed away in 1947), and one of them repeated the pattern of his father. John Tyler's thirteenth child, Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853–1935), had three children with his first wife, Anne Baker Tucker Tyler, and three more with his second wife, Sue Ruffin Tyler (a woman thirty-five years his junior), whom he wed a few years after Anne's death, when he was nearly 70. One of those latter three children died in infancy, but the other two, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr. and Harrison Ruffin Tyler (both born in the 1920s), are still with us today, living grandsons of the 10th President of the United States.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Boise_Chief

Several native american tribes claimed that "mammoths" still existed in america at the time of the mayflower. While theirs is an oral tradition and that it could have passed down through generations. Some claimed to have seen them in their youth.

Wooly Mammoths were still roaming earth when the Great Pyramids were being built. So there could be some truth to that.

[Rudy tossed tigger's salad]

Wouldn't be shocked if someone else fathered Lyon or his kids.

Edit: After looking at pics, I would be shocked.

[Ebolapox]

love it when the planet is a few days behind reddit

[Amnorix]

I can get you from the founding of our Republic to today with three famous people:

1. Henry Clay, the famous Congressman. Born April 12, 1777 (less than a year after the Declaration of Independence, and many years before the U.S. Constitution was adopted). Died June 29, 1852 (age 75).

2. John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil. Richest man in the world. Born July 8, 1839, died May 23, 1937.

3. Dianne Feinstein, current U.S. Senator, born June 22, 1933.

[Amnorix]

Actually, better than Clay:

John Quincy Adams -- born July 11, 1767, died February 23, 1848. Plug him in instead of Clay, as he predates the Declaration of Independence.

[Bambi]

My greatgrandmother was born in 1899 and died in 2002.

She lived in 3 centuries. Always thought that was kinda cool.

[Rudy tossed tigger's salad]

Reddit blows

[ThaVirus]

Not exactly the same thing but I saw it recently..

Apparently Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and some other whore whose name I can't remember (maybe Barbara Walters?) were all born in the same year.

Also, Cleopatra lived in a time period closer to the opening of the first McDonald's than when the pyramids were built.

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by Rudy lost the toss

Queen Elizabeth II's mum was alive for the funerals of both Queen Victoria and Princess Diana. These were 96 years apart. I'm not sure if she attended each one.

She was four months old and in Scotland for Queen Victoria's funeral, so no, but she was at Princess Di's.