Is there anyone, now dead that you wish could be aware of their acheivements - eg Van Gogh

Byron has traditionally been revered in Greece.

Lord Byron did pack an awful lot into his 36 years, and he did get an awful lot of recognition!

Georgesgran

How about Lord Byron to spice things up? Mad, bad and dangerous to know. As he died at 36, he’d hardly got started.

He did achieve a great deal of recognition in his lifetime, though.

His deeply unsavoury personal life makes me glad that he's not around now...

My Dad- he never talked about his flying career in the RAF during World War 2 and I only found out after he’d gone. It explained a lot about how he was, just wish I’d known at the time.

How about Lord Byron to spice things up? Mad, bad and dangerous to know. As he died at 36, he’d hardly got started.

Keats?

Tchaikovsky - another sad figure who died at 53, allegedly from cholera, but more likely suicide due to depression, his work, failed romances and his homosexuality. Wonderful music.
Same here Meryl - I was in Barcelona in July and my first visit inside La Sagrada. I don’t have a religious bone in my body, but the architecture was just jaw-dropping.

Robert Burns.
Janis Joplin.

Casdon

Antoni Gaudi, he was knocked down and killed by a tram. Sagrada Familia Basilica is at last almost finished, and he left a huge legacy in the architecture of Barcelona.

Couldn’t agree more. I absolutely love his work.
I first went to Sagrada Familia in 2008 and visited 5 times since then, the last visit was last year.

I agree with all the posts and would like to add Mozart . He died in poverty from a kidney disease aged only 35 years old .

Casdon

Antoni Gaudi, he was knocked down and killed by a tram. Sagrada Familia Basilica is at last almost finished, and he left a huge legacy in the architecture of Barcelona.

Another good idea. We went to Barcelona when it was a special anniversary of his and so several buildings were exceptionally open to the public.

The first time we went to Barcelona we camped on the outskirts and drove in to the city centre. At that time the city was not interested in Gaudi. They showed us where the Guell Park was (marked on two different places on the map several miles apart.) We tried to follow the map and ended up in dead ends. We could see the park at the top of the streets but just iron railings. No signs at all. Work on the cathedral had been stopped for several years so we just saw the exterior from the car.

Today it's very different and you even have to buy timed tickets to visit the park.

I think Rembrandt is the greatest portrait artist ever.

Alan Turing

Antoni Gaudi, he was knocked down and killed by a tram. Sagrada Familia Basilica is at last almost finished, and he left a huge legacy in the architecture of Barcelona.

Thank you for the above. All great choices I think.

Died after 🙄

Emily and Anne Bronte, they never knew the acclaim Charlotte received.
The author Elizabeth Taylor (not the film star) who seems more highly regarded now than in her lifetime.

Certainly Bizet, who after died shortly after the fiasco of his opera Carmen and never knew it would be in the top ten of popular operas.

Again not quite the same but I wish the state had treated Alan Turing with the respect and gratitude that he deserved.

There are so many, especially artists, writers, musicians etc, who died before their talents were really recognised, but the name which springs to mind for me is my favourite poet, Sylvia Plath.

eazybee

Not quite the same, but I wish Henry V111 could see how the child he fathered on Anne Boleyn became one of the best monarchs England had, far surpassing her father, and also that he learned that the male gene is responsible for the sex of the child.

Definitely! Serve the old tyrant right.

Not quite the same, but I wish Henry V111 could see how the child he fathered on Anne Boleyn became one of the best monarchs England had, far surpassing her father, and also that he learned that the male gene is responsible for the sex of the child.