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Tom Lehrer will be 96 next year. Expect (and hope) he'll live to 105 but still

Thomas Pynchon will be 87 next year.

Singer Tony Bennett will be 98 in 2024... or not as the case may be

The great Tom Lehrer will be 95 next year

Norman Lear turns 100 this year

How about Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown? Will turn 94 next year, if he doesn't die first.

Clearly the Committee has started to adopt the blindingly obvious strategy of picking, you know, older people. They put on all the famous centenarians they could find. And why not? That's how to win the game.

Yes well done but it took four centenarians and the worst global pandemic for 100 years to break the record. It will be hard to ever break this year's record, even though there will no doubt be more centenarians coming through eventually.

Yoko Ono. I know someone who knows someone who knows her, and apparently her friends are having a big Christmas party for her this year because they don't think she will make it to next Christmas

I expect at his age he has retired from pubic events but I would rather not have to think about it to be honest