Soon we won't have a 2nd degree ”connection” to the 18th century

As we approach the 2030’s, we’re reaching a point where there won’t be someone alive today who had been around at the same time as someone who was alive in the 18th century (1701-1800).

The oldest person around now was born in 1909 [1], and it seems like there have been verifiable amounts of people who had been born in in the 1700s who made it to 110 [2]. Given that the absolute longevity of a human seems to be 120 at most, (even with modern medicine) this probably will be the last decade we’ll have a 2nd degree “connection” to the century of the American revolution.

It's interesting how long humans do live over so much history. Here's a video of a guy who witnessed the Lincoln assassination on TV in 1956.

If someone aged 3-4 remembered this show, and lived to the human maximum expectancy, the second degree connection to the Lincoln assassination would be around well into the 2070's.

But hey, we may invent functional immortality by then, and maybe we'll always have someone around who watched on TV live a guy who saw the Lincoln assassination.