People who live through two square years

 44*44=1936.

45*45=2025. This year!

46*46= 2116.

Since my fake birthday is Oct 1, 1960 (I do not reveal my real birthday to try to prevent ID theft), which is past 1936, and I won't live to 2116 unless Quantum-AI finds a way to put my brain in a a vat, I will not see two square years in my life :-(

Since I keep a list of celebrities (defined as people I know who have some fame - so its subjective) who are over 80, I have a LIST of celebrities who were born in 1936 or earlier. I was going to list them in this post but there are to many. So I list those that I think my readers care about, and point to the full list.

Here are people who have lived through two squares who I think you care about. I leave out how old they are or what year they were born.  They are in alphabetical order by their first names. I put a * next to the people who, in 1936, were  AWARE that it was a square year. So the starred names are those who truly ENJOYED living through 2 square years.

NAME                  KNOWN TO US FOR Andrzej Ehrenfeucht   Math. EF-games (he is the E) Anil Nerode                   Math- Recursive Math Aviezri Fraenkel           Math-Combinatorial Games Buzz Aldrin             Walked on the moon Charles Duke           Walked on the moon. Dana Scott            Math-CS. Prog Langs. Turing Award David Scott           Walked on the moon Dirk Van Dalen     Math- Logic Eric Hirsch Jr        American Educator * Harrison Schmidt      Walked on the Moon. Harry Furstenberg     Math-Ergodic methods in Ramsey Theory. Heisuka Hironik        Math-Algebraic Geom-Fields Medal Herman Chernoff      Math-Probability * Jack Edmonds         CS. Theorist. James Watson          Biologist-The Double Helix. Nobel Prize with Crick.* Jane Goodall            Zoologist and Activist Jean-Pierre Serre     Math. Algebraic X. Fields Medal.* John Thompson       Math. Group Theory.  Fields Medal, Abel Prize Micahel Rabin           CS/ Math. Theorsit. Turing Award. Noam Chomsky          Linguistics. Did work on Grammars Richard Friedberg     Physicist. Also invented Priority method in Rec Theory. Richard Karp            CS. Theorist. Turing Award. . Richard Stearns        CS. Theorist. Turing Award. Stephen Smale         Math-Lots of Stuff Tom Baker             Actor-Dr. Who. Tom Lehrer            Math/Novelty songs..* Tony Hoare            CS. PL. Turing Award. Volker Strassen       Math-CS. Walter Koenig         Actor. Star Trek William Shatner      Actor- Star Trek

For my complete list see here

It is currently  impossible for someone to live through three square years (again, unless they get their brain in a vat, or some other not-yet-invented mechanism). In a much earlier era it was possible: 

20*20=400

21*21=441

22*22=484

So if you were born in 400 and lived to be 84 years old, three squares! While MOST people didn't live that long back then, SOME did.

10*10=100

11*11=121

12*12=144

Born in the year 100, live to be 44 years old. Was the calendar well established by then?

Reminds me of a great line from A Funny Think Happened on the Way to the Forum, a musical that takes place in the early AD's. The character Pseudolus says: 

(Looking at a bottle of wine) Was 1 a good year?