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  1. Soeur Andrée, Lucille Randon is turning 117 today just after revealing she had covid in January : sounds great and healthy in this French article which basically says that she's delighted to be 117, she acknowledges that she had covid but wasn't too scared about it because "at 117, she has lived a beautiful life". I wish her some other birthdays in such a same good health ! 


  2. 1 hour ago, Life Is Beautiful said:

    UPDATE Since 1900

     

    1900: Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
    1901: Queen Victoria, UK Queen
    1902: Emile Zola, French writer
    1903: Paul Gauguin, French artist
    1904: Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright
    1905: Jules Verne, French writer
    1906: Paul Cézanne, French artist
    1907: Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian scientist
    1908: Grover Cleveland, US president
    1909: Geronimo, Indian Apache leader
    1910: Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer
    1911: Gustav Mahler, Austro-Bohemian composer
    1912: Wilbur Wright, US aviation inventor
    1913: Alfred Russel Wallace, British explorer
    1914: Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria
    1915: Charles Tupper, Canadian father of Confederation
    1916: Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic
    1917: Mata Hari, Dutch exotic dancer and spy
    1918: Nicholas II of Russia, Russian royalty
    1919: Theodore Roosevelt, US president
    1920: Robert Peary, US arctic explorer
    1921: Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor
    1922: Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor
    1923: Warren G. Harding, US president
    1924: Lenin, USSR leader and founder
    1925: Sun Yat-sen, Chinese leader
    1926: Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor
    1927: Victoria Woodhull, American civil rights activist
    1928: Emmeline Pankhurst, British civil rights activist
    1929: Archibald Primrose, UK PM
    1930: William Howard Taft, US president
    1931: Thomas Edison, US inventor
    1932: John Philip Sousa, US composer
    1933: Calvin Coolidge, US president
    1934: Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist
    1935: T.E. Lawrence, British archaeologist
    1936: King George V, UK King
    1937: John D. Rockefeller, richest person in modern history
    1938: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founding father of Turkey
    1939: Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis
    1940: Leon Trotsky, USSR thinker
    1941: Virginia Woolf, English writer
    1942: Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official
    1943: Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor
    1944: Erwin Rommel, Nazi general
    1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt, US president and Adolf Hitler, Nazi leader
    1946: Hermann Göring, German leader and war criminal
    1947: Henry Ford, US inventor and Elizabeth Short, Black Dahlia
    1948: Mahatma Gandhi, Indian ethicist
    1949: Richard Strauss, German composer
    1950: George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright
    1951: William Randolph Hearst, US businessman
    1952: King George VI, UK king
    1953: Joseph Stalin, USSR leader
    1954: Enrico Fermi, Italian inventor
    1955: Albert Einstein, German physicist
    1956: Jackson Pollock, US artist
    1957: Joseph McCarthy, US Senator
    1958: Pope Pius XII, Holy Pope
    1959: Buddy Holly, US rock singer-songwriter
    1960: Albert Camus, French philosopher
    1961: Ernest Hemingway, US writer
    1962: Marilyn Monroe, US actress
    1963: John F. Kennedy, US president
    1964: Herbert Hoover, US president
    1965: Winston Churchill, UK PM
    1966: Walt Disney, US animator
    1967: Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary
    1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., US minister and activist
    1969: Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general and president
    1970: Charles de Gaulle, French President and Jimi Hendrix, US guitarist
    1971: Jim Morrison, US rock singer and poet
    1972: Harry S. Truman, US president
    1973: Lyndon B. Johnson, US president
    1974: James Chadwick, British physicist
    1975: Francisco Franco, Spanish general
    1976: Mao Zedong, Chinese Chairman
    1977: Elvis Presley, US rock singer
    1978: Pope Paul VI, Holy Pope
    1979: John Wayne, US actor
    1980: John  Lennon, UK singer-songwriter
    1981: Anwar Sadat, Egyptian PM
    1982: Leonid Brezhnev, USSR leader
    1983: Tennessee Williams, US playwright
    1984: Indira Gandhi, Indian PM
    1985: Orson Welles, US film director
    1986: Harold Macmillan, UK PM
    1987: Rudolf Hess, Nazi leader
    1988: Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, Pakistani PM
    1989: Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Supreme Leader
    1990: Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress
    1991: Freddie Mercury, UK singer
    1992: Menachem Begin, Israeli PM
    1993: Audrey Hepburn, UK actress
    1994: Richard M. Nixon, US president and Kurt Cobain, US singer-songwriter
    1995: Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli PM
    1996: François Mitterrand, French president
    1997: Diana, Princess of Wales, UK royalty
    1998: Frank Sinatra, US singer
    1999: Wilt Chamberlain, US basketball player
    2000: John Gielgud, UK actor


    2001: Mohamed Atta, Egyptian terrorist and Todd Beamer, a passenger on the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93
    2002: Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother of the United Kingdom
    2003: Katharine Hepburn, US actress
    2004: Ronald Reagan, US president
    2005: Pope John Paul II, Holy Pope
    2006: Gerald Ford, US president and Saddam Hussein, Iraqi president
    2007: Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani PM
    2008: Paul Newman, US actor
    2009: Michael Jackson, US singer
    2010: J. D. Salinger, US writer
    2011: Osama bin Laden, Saudi terrorist and Muammar Gaddafi, Lybian leader
    2012: Neil Armstrong, US astronaut
    2013: Nelson Mandela, South-African PM and activist
    2014: Robin Williams, US actor
    2015: Stéphane Charbonnier [Charb], French Charlie Hebdo cartoonist
    2016: Fidel Castro, Cuban PM and leader
    2017: Helmut Kohl, German chancellor

    2018: George Bush Senior, US president and Stephen Hawking, UK physicist

    2019: Abu-Bakr al Baghdadi, ISIS leader and Jacques Chirac, French PM

    2020: Mr. Zhang, the first COVID-19 death and George Floyd, African-American police brutality victim

    2021: Larry King, US broadcaster (so far....)

     

    Most significant death by decades:

    1900s: Queen Victoria

    1910s: Franz Ferdinand

    1920s: Lenin

    1930s: Sigmund Freud

    1940s: Adolf Hitler

    1950s: Joseph Stalin

    1960s: JFK

    1970s: Elvis Presley

    1980s: Anwar Sadat

    1990s: Yitzhak Rabin

    2000s: Pope John Paul II

    2010s: Osama bin Laden

    2020s: George Floyd (so far...)

     

    Most significant death by centuy:

    20th century: JFK

    21st century: Osama bin Laden

    Great list which gives importance not only to the death of the person but to the event related (as seen with Charb in 2015 for exemple). Well done !

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  3. So, no one won this round but the 2nd round of 2021 is now opened. 

     

    10th of February : Philip 

    12th of February : Bentrovato

    14th of February : j0neseur0

    19th of February : Chilean Way 

    20th of February : Dying Probably

    26th of February : redrumours

    28th of February : Cant Wait 

    3rd of Marc : The Red Death 

    11th of March : frleon

    12th of March : Bibliogryphon 

    30th of June : WEP 

    25th of December : The Quim Reaper 

     

    Good Luck to everyone, hope I didn't miss anyone ! 

     

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