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[mode = nerd] From that website I glean that 45 people born in the 19th century are still with us. After all, those born in 1900 were also born in the 19th century, for the same reason that the 21st century began on 1 January 2001: there was no year 0. [/mode] regards, Hein We may as well name & shame them, for all the fruit pickers out there. In a jingoistic spirit, I'll have my fiver on Grace Jones to beat the Japs and the Yanks and take a surprise gold in 2017. All that nightclubbing will keep her fit and healthy. 1. Besse Cooper USA 115 (World and Olympic champion) 2. Dina Manfredini Ita 115 (European champion) 3. Jiroemon Kimura Jap 115 4. Misawo Okawa Jap 114 5. Kame Nakamura Jap 114 6. Marie-Therese Bardet Fra 113 7. Mamie Rearden USA 113 8. Hatsue Ono Jap 113 9. Hina Shikawatari Jap 113 10. Ichi Ishida Jap 113 11. Maria Redaelli-Granoli Ita 113 12. Elsie Thompson USA 113 13. Jeralean Talley USA 112 14. Beryl Kapaun USA 112 15. Kame Takamiyagi Jap 112 16. Toshi Higano Jap 112 17. Susannah Mushatt Jones USA 112 18. Bernice Madigan USA 112 19. Soledad Mexia Mex 112 20. Evelyn Kozak USA 112 21. Ine Atarashiya Jap 112 22. Mitsue Nagasaki Jap 112 23. Terue Ashida Jap 112 24. Emma Morano-Martinuzzi Ita 112 25. Takeno Fujita Jap 112 26. Grace Jones UK 112 27. Tome Tamura Jap 112 28. James Sisnett Barbados 112 29. Yoshino Tanaka Jap 112 30. Maria Gravigi-De Candia Ita 112 31. Anna Henderson USA 112 32. Maggie James USA 112 33. Shun Moshino USA 112 34. Amelia England UK/USA 111 35. Antonia Gerena Rivera Puerto Rico 111 36. Ethel Lang UK 111 37. Paule Bronzini Fra 111 38. Nabi Tajima Jap 111 39. Yasuko Kimura Jap 111 40. Germaine Degueldre Bel 111 41. Anna Stoehr USA 111 42. Maria Richard Bel/Fra 111 43. Ryo Tobee Jap 111 44. Eugenie Dauzat Fra 111 45. Merle Barwis USA/Can 111 Oh Grace, you've let yourself down, you've let Britain down, but more importantly, you've let me and my fiver down.

Here's the video of our Bobby becoming slightly peeved with someone. I guess he'll be shoving off one way or another, eh.

Stuart Williams,WBA and Southampton, 83.

Possibly discovered living in Cyprus, pending DNA test. Edit: keep looking.

Hal Needham, stuntman, pal of Burt Reynolds and director of Smokey & the Bandit/Cannonball Run/Hooper etc, 82. And more Pinewood than Hollywood, director Antonia Bird at only 54.

The living ones I could find at first glance, ordered by birth. I'm not going to go in depth, this is just what I saw from the Wiki article for Band of Brothers. Anyone who has more can expand. Frank Perconte (b. March 10 1917) Richard Winters (b. January 21 1918) Joseph A. Lesniewski (b. August 29 1920) Lynn "Buck" Compton (b. December 31, 1921) Donald Malarkey (b. 1921) William Guarnere (b. April 28 1922) Edward Heffron (b. May 16, 1923) Darrell "Shifty" Powers (b. 1923) Frank Perconte's died.

He lingered for over 5 years and got to 100, but now perennial Banshees Scream pick Supreme Patriarch Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara Borommanaritsatammanitiphiban Ariyawongsakhatayanawimon Sakonlamahasangkhaparinayok Tripidokpariyattithada Wisutthachariyathisombat Suwatthanaphithanasangkhawisut Pawachanuttamaphisan Sukhumthammawithanthamrong Wachirayannawongsasiwat Phutthaborisat Kharawasathan Wibunsilacharawattrasunthon Bowonthammabophit Sapphakhanison Mahapathanathibodi Khamawasiaranyawasi Somdet Phra Sangkharat, as he was known to his mates, has headed off to the hereafter.

And he did.

Murray Walker at 90 - seems to be doing all right. Did he really say "Fire! Fire! Diniz in the oven!"?

Veteran actor Paul Rogers has taken a final bow, darlings. Despite finding the time to form Free and Bad Company in the 70s and replace Freddie in Queen in the noughties, he seemed more enamoured of classical music back in 1962.

If only the cruel bastard would tell them where it is... It's hidden in his Nobel Prize memorial egg cup.

Given the all-clear.

Canonisation - April 2014.

Vlatko Marković, defender, Yugoslavia, 1962 finals.

Eiji Toyoda, who presided over Toyota's success from the mid 1960s onwards, has been recalled - faulty engine, 100 on the clock. Closest thread I could find, move it if you like.

Jackie Lomax, singer/songwriter/guitarist who never quite escaped from the Beatles' orbit, dead at 69.

I can't say I've heard of her, but from her obituary it sounds like Joan Regan was quite the big cheese on the '50s UK variety/pop scene. Clumsy and cursed too... Why isn't this woman a gay icon?

Sawmill shenanigans cause Cole's 'health to deteriorate'. Please, committee members, 25 years after his previous appearance, give old George a place on the 2014 list.

Might James Hunt's ex-wife Sarah Lomax scrape a mention in the Mail or the Express if and when she goes? A pretty woman with a bald head; they love that level of bravery.

Erich Loest has self-defenestrated to give you a unique success, unless he ends up on the List of the Loest.

They're all looking pretty cheerful for a funeral.Did Henry include them in the will or something? "A dramatic start. What a score!"Cliff's dead.

If you want to put a face to the names of the other 130... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22544568

Bass singer Richard 'a giant of the opera world in every possible way' Angas - famous enough to be lead article on the BBC Entertainment/Arts website, ahead of office chair designer Charles Pollock, but not famous enough for a wiki page.

It's all gone tits up for another star of that and other Meyer movies, Haji.

Another 'Matthews Final' player has died, Bolton's centre-half Malcolm Barrass, which leaves the current score Blackpool 1-4 Bolton, by my reckoning.