Spooked by Amnesia

[Rupert58]

This might seem an odd post but I'm feeling really unsettled by something that happened yesterday. The Mail ran an article of 30-year olds not recognising well-known people from the recent past:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10788001/...

Now some of them aren't surprising; I wouldn't recognise Emily Pankhurst or one or two of the others but I was pretty sure I'd be able to get most of them.

I couldn't name this person:


I knew it wasn't Desmond Tutu & I knew he was the president of South Africa after being in jail for a long time but I couldn't get the name.

Then I couldn't name this actress:

The character was Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's but I can't remember her name.

Nor could I name this artist:

I know he does Pop Art - soup cans etc - but I can't remember his name.

This really spooked me but I left it & decided I'd try again in the morning. Hockney's name came to me while doing the washing up but I couldn't get the others until I accidentally saw the file names. These are well known people who have been in the news for 30 or 40 years, not a bunch of nonentities.

I'm concerned this could be early signs of something serious. I'm 63 & live alone so it's difficult to know if I'm becoming forgetful & I not aware I am, but then I wouldn't be. It's a quite specific failing in that I can't remember the names but I can remember other details but I don't know if that's indicative of anything.

Has anyone experienced anything like this or suggestions about how to monitor what might be going on?

[Rupert58]

Bill said:

Rupert58 said:

Hockney

I hesitate to mention it, but that's Andy Warhol isn't it?

You are right, so I haven't even remembered that name correctly.