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One has to consider that 99 percent of the people born in 1923 are in their graves for a long time, and were more or less skeletons at their 100th birthday. It is amazing that Johns was seemingly wheelchair-bound for about 20 years, judging on some photos of her from 2004. I appeared in a school play of "The Court Jester" around ten years ago, and I googled that the only surviving cast members from the film were Angela Lansbury and Glynis Johns. Lansbury was still very active, while Johns was already in a wheelchair and retired for a long time. And yet, Johns survived Lansbury. And the Deathlist had a perfect timing.

1940's Hollywood child actor Charles Bates has died in May 2022 at the age of 87, according to his Wikipedia page (which uses a memorial site as the source). He was best-known for appearing in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, 1943 (which leaves Edna May Wonacott the last surviving cast member of one of my favorite Hitchcock films).

Well, there is the so-called "birthday effect", partly explainable by people who want to hold on until a certain goal they have (like the next birthday or perhaps a record) and then die when they reach it. But I doubt that Carter has John Nance Garner as a goal.

https://www.htr.ch/story/hotellerie/the-palace-eine-schraege-hommage-an-den-hotelfilm-34815.html Article from two weeks ago (in German), Polanski just filmed a hotel movie called "The Palace" this spring in Switzerland. He looks good for a guy in his late 80s in the photo.

Left is the Beaver of the Cleavers.

Very old, but obviously still quite well according to a new interview: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/06/name-names-never-never-never-lee-grant-on-her-decades-of-defiance Although a sudden death can always happen at 95.

Very sad. I always love him singing this song in Rochefort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atgHEhyJAnw ... but also remember him from other films like Cinema Paradiso or Z. I wonder if or when a melancholic, dramatic tribute by Alain Delon about Perrin's death will come.

https://www.vaticannews.va/de/vatikan/news/2022-04/vatikan-papst-emeritus-benedikt-xvi-geburtstag-gaenswein-horeb.html An article from Vatican News in which his secretary Gänswein describes Benedikts health in detail (Gänswein seems to love to tell such stuff, as he also snitched stuff about Schuhmacher's health to the yellow press after he visited him). I couldn't find a translation, so I just sum it up. As it is obvious, Benedikt is quite frail and can't walk longer distances anymore and his voice is weak, so he can't hold a mess as the main celebrant. But he is also described as mentally still very sharp. Their days obviously consist out of praying, correspondence and writing, midday sleeping, visitors and watching TV. Benedict still does a small daily walk in the afternoon and play some music.

I'm not from the UK, so I didn't know him, haven't been on this website for a long time, and I'm a movie fan... My first reaction was: Isn't there even a movie about his death with Ian McKellen sinking in the swimming pool?

By the way, Don is survived by their mother Margaret who is 101 years old -- no one should bury their own children, but what if their children are also already way above the average life exspectancy? And that leaves Jerry Lee Lewis as the last surviving founding member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Who would have thought that 30 years ago?

Thanks for the research, Spade_Cooley and Ulitzer! His Wikipedia articles are in Italian, German, Japanese and Azerbaijani (strangely no English one), so the news are probably travelling slower - especially since there were no obituaries.

By the way: Benedict has overlived with his 94 years two of Germany's most prominent theologians this spring -- Ute Ranke Heinemann (died in March at age 93) and Hans Küng (died in April at age 93), both liberal opponents to Benedict, both studied/worked with him and both later criticized his church politics.

Veteran Hollywood actor Jim Haynie, perhaps best-known for playing Meryl Streep's husband in The Bridges of Madison County, has died in 2020 at age 80 according to the IMDb. But there is no other information around on the internet and he is still listed as living in all of his four Wikipedia articles. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0371579/

Yes, I was also surprised about that. One has to remember that he had a number of falls in 2019 and a surgery to remove brain pressure caused by one of those falls, things which would probably kill a lot of people in their mid-90s. After his brain pressure surgery in late 2019, there were only a few audio messages, from which one could already guess his health decline. So it's at least positive that he is mentally there, although the physical decline is quite obvious.

Well, there is a reason why Wikipedia has denied the Daily Mail the status as a "reliable source" for use in their articles.

According to this twitter conversation, the photos are older and not from her recent birthday. They were obviously taken while Olivia was mourning for a friend in the church, which explains her looking "pissed off": https://twitter.com/ManuellaMartin5/status/1278715870131486720/photo/1 One of the authors in those Twitter posts obviously has contact to friends and family members of Olivia. She also confirmed that the bicycle photos are older and that this kind of activity would be a bit too much for her now, but also writes that she is in good health for 104 years with a sharp mind.

I agree! And at her age it is rather an indicator that she still has a healthy appetite and enjoys life. A lot of very frail old people rather seem to lose weight. About the wheelchair, one doesn't really know if she is completely wheelchair-bound. I know a number of old people who can still walk a small stretch but rely on a wheelchair etc. if they have a certain way to make, which was obviously the case with the Olivia's visit to the church. She was still standing in the picture from 2018, but two years are a long time for a 104-year-old in terms of health - not in terms of years.

His brother was obviously frail for a very long time, that's him sitting right to Benedict at his 90th birthday (Benedict was obviously in better health then): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxf1vihTSo8 But since they share a lot of the same genes it could mean that Benedict could also survive with frail health for a long time. Benedict in 2020 does not look yet as bad as his brother three years ago.

Thanks for the picture! That's the first one of Olivia in a wheelchair, I think. She is probably on a stroll in Paris there, so it's possible that she can still walk small distances in private. And she does look well, if a little irritated. However, there is obviously a lot of speculation as she is a very private person and there are only a few public appearances. I think the last pictures before that were from a foto shooting in December 2018 which were posted on the Olivia de Havilland facebook page a year ago. And there is another picture from 2018: https://www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/there-is-nothing-like-a-dame