It will be a sad day in nerddom when Stan Lee finally croaks.

There are lots of pop culture icons of various levels of fame who are alive and older than Abe Vigoda.

George Beverly Shea 103 02/01/1909 Music
Luise Rainer 102 01/12/1910 Entertainment
Risë Stevens 99 06/11/1913 Music
Irwin Corey 98 07/29/1914 Entertainment
Norman Lloyd 98 11/08/1914 Entertainment
Herman Wouk 97 05/27/1915 Literature
David Rockefeller 97 06/12/1915 Business
Eli Wallach 97 12/07/1915 Entertainment
Beverly Cleary 96 04/12/1916 Literature
Olivia de Havilland 96 07/01/1916 Entertainment
Mary Stewart 96 09/12/1916 Literature
C. Everett Koop 96 10/14/1916 Medicine,Politics
Kirk Douglas 96 12/09/1916 Entertainment
Zsa Zsa Gabor 95 02/06/1917 Entertainment
Vera Lynn 95 03/20/1917 Music
I. M. Pei 95 04/26/1917 Architecture
George Gaynes 95 05/16/1917 Entertainment
Theodore Hesburgh 95 05/25/1917 Religion,Education
Kirk Kerkorian 95 06/06/1917 Business
June Foray 95 09/18/1917 Entertainment
Joan Fontaine 95 10/22/1917 Entertainment
Janet Waldo 94 02/04/1918 Entertainment
Allan Arbus 94 02/15/1918 Entertainment
Patty Andrews 94 02/16/1918 Music
Don Pardo 94 02/22/1918 Entertainment
Marian McPartland 94 03/20/1918 Music
Bobby Doerr 94 04/07/1918 Sports
Yasuhiro Nakasone 94 05/27/1918 Politics
Abigail Van Buren 94 07/04/1918 Other
Nelson Mandela 94 07/18/1918 Politics
Marjorie Lord 94 07/26/1918 Entertainment
Baby Peggy 94 10/26/1918 Entertainment
Billy Graham 94 11/07/1918 Religion
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. 94 11/30/1918 Entertainment
Helmut Schmidt 94 12/23/1918 Politics
Giulio Andreotti 93 01/14/1919 Politics
Monte Irvin 93 02/25/1919 Sports
Louis Jourdan 93 06/19/1919 Entertainment
Al Molinaro 93 06/24/1919 Entertainment
Doris Lessing 93 10/22/1919 Literature
Mikhail Kalashnikov 93 11/10/1919 Inventing
Joseph Wapner 93 11/15/1919 Entertainment,Law
Alan Young 93 11/19/1919 Entertainment
Lawrence Ferlinghetti 92 03/24/1919 Literature
Pete Seeger 92 05/03/1919 Music,Social Activism
Frederik Pohl 92 11/26/1919 Literature
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar 92 01/19/1920 Politics
Henry Heimlich 92 02/03/1920 Medicine
Richard von Weizsäcker 92 04/15/1920 Politics
John Paul Stevens 92 04/20/1920 Law
Richard Adams 92 05/09/1920 Literature
Ray Harryhausen 92 06/29/1920 Entertainment
Sammy Lee 92 08/01/1920 Sports
P.D. James 92 08/03/1920 Literature
Helen Thomas 92 08/04/1920 Journalism
Denton Cooley 92 08/22/1920 Medicine
Jim Leavelle 92 08/23/1920 Law Enforcement
Jayne Meadows 92 09/27/1920 Entertainment
Nanette Fabray 92 10/27/1920 Entertainment
Stan Musial 92 11/21/1920 Sports
George Shultz 92 12/13/1920 Politics
Little Jimmy Dickens 92 12/19/1920 Music
Maureen O'Hara 91 08/17/1920 Entertainment
Mickey Rooney 91 09/23/1920 Entertainment
Noel Neill 91 11/25/1920 Entertainment
Lou Harris 91 01/06/1921 Other
Carol Channing 91 01/31/1921 Theater,Entertainment
Hugh Downs 91 02/14/1921 Journalism

thecpt: Marine1: Am I the only guy who said "He's 90???" when reading that headline?

nope. He's moving around pretty well, and sounds surprisingly sharp.

His appearance on Comic Book Men was pretty fun. The guy is basically the human personification of nerd joy.

Marine1: Am I the only guy who said "He's 90???" when reading that headline?

Consider... he wrote his first story for Timely/Atlas/Marvel in 1941's Captain America Comics #3. And he was over 18 at the time.

Eli Wallach still hanging in there at 97

texdent: borg: Stan Lee will be gone in a few months he's been pretty sick lately and at that age you don't really recover.

But then he'll be cloned, Phoenixed, ret-conned into not having died, or something.

He'll just switch bodies with Rob Liefeld, and then when his body dies it will take Liefeld's soul with it, while Stan lives on in the younger body.

borg: Stan Lee will be gone in a few months he's been pretty sick lately and at that age you don't really recover.

But then he'll be cloned, Phoenixed, ret-conned into not having died, or something.

ManateeGag: It will be a sad day in nerddom when Stan Lee finally croaks.

Amen!

This man gets Christmas cards from the Grim Reaper.