My earliest remembered experience of that sort of time-shock was hearing a lady on the radio describing how she'd had tea with Brahms.

The most recent was a few months ago hearing that someone had died who I had no idea was still alive until then. B***ered if I can remember who it was.

I went to hear Stéphane Grappelli in about 1976, on advice that "you should really grab the chance while he's still alive" and he kept going for another 22 years after that.

We like telling people we live in a house that was built while Mozart was still alive.

Anahata