AHC: Most Impactful Centennarian

Lalli

Tales Weaver said:
Here is one for pop culture and sports: Babe Ruth (1895-1995)
Walt disney(1901-2001): walt disney living this long.. Maybe this would have interesting butterflies on Animation industry.
John Ford(1894-1994)
Kurosawa Akira(1910-2010)
H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1990): this would change the cthulhu mythos as whole.
Robert E. howard (1906-2006): Conan the babarian the franchise might have gone the other direction.
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Longer living Disney would have indeed big impact altough probalby you should change his life habits more healthier.

Not sure about Kurosawa. He made his most famous works already in 1950's and 1960's. He didn't make much anymore in 1990's so I dobut that this would change much.

Even if if Howard wouldn't live at age of 100 longer living Howard would be very intresting. There would be even more development with Conan world. Just wondering what he would say about Conan the Barbarian movie if lives so long and such movie is ever made.

And on science Marie Curie living 100 years (very hard when she worked with radiactive materials without any protection) would be intresting. At least we would see her reactions to atomic bombs.
 
Frank Hart

Frank Hart

Lalli said:
And on science Marie Curie living 100 years (very hard when she worked with radiactive materials without any protection) would be intresting. At least we would see her reactions to atomic bombs.
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Speaking of scientists, it is possible that a Glenn T. Seaborg (4/19/1912 - 2/25/1999) living past 5/27/1999 (the day the supposed discovery of elements 118 and 116 was announced) would instead demerit him.

In 1999 there were claims from LBNL that (what became of) oganesson and livermorium, specifically the Og-293 and Lv-289 isotopes, were synthesized. By 2002, this was found to be fabricated by Victor Ninov (a Bulgarian scientist also known for the co-discoveries of darmstadtium, roentgenium, and copernicium).

Since Seaborg worked at LBNL throughout his life, and co-discovered numerous transuranium elements (one of which currently bears his name), a scandal on that scale would invariably tarnish his legacy. He's going to live his last ten years trying to rebuild his reputation.
 
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Maeglin

Maeglin

Tales Weaver said:
H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1990): this would change the cthulhu mythos as whole.
Robert E. howard (1906-2006): Conan the babarian the franchise might have gone the other direction.
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Lovecraft's reaction to the Second World War would have been... interesting. Sure, he became less racist as he aged, but he'd have to be much more careful in expressing certain opinions. On the other hand, Lovecraft living long enough to potentially write for television (which replaced the pulps) opens up possibilities, and we wouldn't have August Derleth interfering. Bonus is that Clark Ashton Smith keeps writing.

Howard might have switched genres. Maybe Westerns?
 
Frank Hart

Frank Hart

Tales Weaver said:
How about Henry Moseley? (1887-1987) his development in Periodic table.. Maybe more butterflies on Chemistry?
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Have him survive or not be sent to Gallipoli, and Moseley might become TTL's equivalent of Glenn T. Seaborg. Discoveries of some elements (esp. technetium) might take a different turn, as there is a rule to not use the names of contemporary scientists (Seaborg and Yuri Oganessian are exceptions to this rule)
 

bobby501

Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915-2015, instead of 1915-1944)

Would have had the first go of the Kennedy siblings at the presidency instead of JFK. Although, looking at him, he more resembles Ted in appearance than Jack or Bobby.
 
Frank Hart

Frank Hart

Whiteshore said:
What about Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1958) or Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1982)?
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I don't know enough of the Bull Moose, but FDR living just to 1947 is probably enough to prevent the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We might see a bloodier war in Japan, complete with an Iron Curtain there. That will change the Cold War altogether.

Assuming he lives to 1982, which will be much more difficult than say 1957 due to his preexisting health conditions, and a 16- or 20-year FDR presidency, his legacy will be more muddy as he, not Harry Truman, would be seen as the one who started the Cold War.

What about Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-2008), Calvin Coolidge (1872-1972), or Warren G. Harding (1865-1965)?
 

Lalli

Whiteshore said:
What about Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1958) or Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1982)?
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Due FDR's health problems and stress it would be very hard get him live much longer than in OTL. And FDR would be anyway out of White House in 1949. I can't see him seeking fifth term or winning '48 election. And after his presidency FDR wouldn't has any or much of impact. Biggest impact would be on end of WW2 and early Cold War. It would be very same does FDR die in 1952 or 1982. Not any difference.

bobby501 said:
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915-2015, instead of 1915-1944)

Would have had the first go of the Kennedy siblings at the presidency instead of JFK. Although, looking at him, he more resembles Ted in appearance than Jack or Bobby.
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Pretty same as with FDR. JPK has not need live to 100 years old when he would be irreleveant after his presidency.

Frank Hart said:
I don't know enough of the Bull Moose, but FDR living just to 1947 is probably enough to prevent the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We might see a bloodier war in Japan, complete with an Iron Curtain there. That will change the Cold War altogether.

Assuming he lives to 1982, which will be much more difficult than say 1957 due to his preexisting health conditions, and a 16- or 20-year FDR presidency, his legacy will be more muddy as he, not Harry Truman, would be seen as the one who started the Cold War.

What about Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-2008), Calvin Coolidge (1872-1972), or Warren G. Harding (1865-1965)?
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LBJ: Nothing wouldn't change.
Coolidge: Even in OTL he was out of politics long time before his death so nothing wouldn't change.
Hardning: Would be just more discredited. He would be political corpse after his presidency. Altough in other hand this might change US politics.
 
Tales Weaver

Tales Weaver

Leon Trotsky(1879-1979) or Nikholai Bukharin(1888-1988) would be interesting butterfly. If Latter was exiled and managed to develop their own branch of communism..
 

bobby501

Lalli said:
Pretty same as with FDR. JPK has not need live to 100 years old when he would be irreleveant after his presidency.
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I'd say quite a bit may have been different if it had been JPK as the Great Hope of the family rather than JFK. As I said, JPK wasn't quite as telegenic as JFK and therefore could have been less 'charismatic' in the political arena, so perhaps wouldn't have made it as far. But in any case it would make a JFK presidency in the early 1960s much less likely and all that came with that.
 

Historygeek03033

Lalli said:
And even better if he could keep his chancllorship.
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Perhaps him having a better relationship with good o'l willy might be a POD for that ,altrought he had already by that point lost most of his political allies and his days as chancellor were numbered regardless of how he and Wilhelm got along.
 
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