In the Living Category:
This guy has been famous for going on 50 years and it's still chugging along. This GuitarHero/re-master blitz lately is for songs that he wrote when he was a teenager ferchrissakes. He's an old man now and stuff he wrote all those years ago is more popular than current music.
I've always liked the Beatles but I've never had them on quite the pedestal that some people do. McCartney's transformation into a bit of an old woman with young women on his arm is kind of creepy, but he's definitely a historical figure. People are going to be listening to to songs he wrote forever. That's quite an accomplishment.