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You can’t be that old if your nephew is only 21!

Fascinating! Who occupies all of the other chairs?

So can I!

Why are you allowed to call yourself an old man but when I do you accuse me of playing with faeces in kindergarten?!

He’s already dead… Kim fed him to his sharks. https://youtu.be/UIPSvIz9NDs

Sir Creep wasn’t being serious. He was just being a cunt to Goose.

I can’t tell if you’re trolling or not. The list is called “List of living centenarians”. It contains two statements – 1) they’re alive 2) they’re 100+. Wiki is an encyclopaedia that is built using reliable sources. There are 1000s of biographies of people on there born in 1923, 1922, 1921, 1920 etc. with no death date on their page because (usually because they’re so obscure). To suggest that they should all be featured on a living centenarian list because there’s nothing to prove they’re deceased would defeat the whole purpose of the list in the first place as it would then be composed almost entirely of people who are already dead. That’s why evidence of having reached a 100th birthday is needed in order to list someone there.

It was really hard to research who sung on those hits! They were pretty much session singers back then and paid next to nothing so they would swap people in and out all the time.

No. Not for "no reason". There's zero evidence that she's still alive.

I added that reference to her page. It's not intended to be an obituary for McKenzie! It's a link to an obituary for Norma Johnston which states that Johnston was "Australia's oldest living Test cricketer until her death". Johnson was born in 1927. McKenzie was born in 1915(!) Understand the purpose of that reference now?

I had long thought that Dieter Gruen (b. 1922) was the last contributor to the Manhattan Project still living, but apparently not. Harris Mayer (wiki, b. 1921) is still with us. He was in the Possibly Living category on Wiki which is why he was likely off our radars, but there's a 100th birthday article about him here.

Times death notice for Pamela Kirkham, 16th Baroness Berners, who has died from a stroke aged 93. Conservative Member of the House of Lords from 1995 to 1999. Previously had a long career as an NHS nurse.

Of those with English-language Wiki pages we have: Milton Thiago de Mello (wiki) b. 5 Feb 1916 / Brazilian primatologist Geneviève Callerot (wiki) b. 6 May 1916 / French novelist and farmer Eunice Parsons (wiki) b. 4 Aug 1916 / American modernist artist Käthe Menzel-Jordan (wiki) b. 7 Sep 1916 / German architect Frank Handlen (wiki) b. 26 Sep 1916 / American painter Mihai Sora (wiki) b. 7 Nov 1916 / Romanian philosopher and essayist Hélène Guisan (wiki) b. 16 Nov 1916 / Swiss writer, poet and teacher Ruth Johnson Colvin (wiki) b. 16 Dec 1916 / American skill advocate Saifur Rahman Nizami (wiki) b. ?? ??? 1916 / Bangladeshi Islamic scholar I don't know much of those 8. Just that Handlen is reportedly still in good health and still working. I first added him to my long list in 2007 so he's done well! Some "possibly living" names i.e. 99% likely deceased but missing evidence of death from their Wiki pages: Daphne Courtney (wiki) Emilio Ballado (wiki) Frank M. Gibson (wiki) Hubert Jura (wiki) Jack Beasley (wiki) Jacq van den Berg (wiki) James Arthur Ewing (wiki) Kim Bong-han (wiki) Leung Tat-shing (wiki) Mary Walker-Sawka (wiki) Masatatsu Kitazawa (wiki) Paul Aste (wiki) Ricardo Bralo (wiki) Sumiko Mizukubo (wiki) Tatsuo Ichikawa (wiki) Thomas Anderson (wiki) Thomas Hamilton-Brown (wiki) Werner Spycher (wiki)

Denis Brian (wiki), Welsh journalist and writer who later emigrated to the States died in Washington D.C. in 2017 according to an unsourced edit to his Wiki page today (it appears to be a family member). Can anyone confirm? He was a DDP pick in 2016.

Wikipedia by itself is not a source. Seriously, start posting news links / obits with your posts, or don't post at all. Simples.

Just one member left from both their 60s and 70s entries on here: The Drifters Wiki American doo-wop, R&B and soul group from New York City, New York, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, their lineup changed consistently largely owing to the fact that they were one of the lowest paid vocal groups at the time, Lewis was a heroin user and died of a drug overdose in May 1964, King went on to have successful solo career, Clyde McPhatter was an early member Bill Davis (aka Abdul Samad) 08 Sep 1917 – 26 Nov 2006 (89) Ancestry page Tommy Evans 01 Sep 1927 – Sep 1984 (~56) Bill Fredericks 23 Aug 1941 – 28 Apr 1999 (57) Independent obit Doc Green 08 Nov 1934 – 10 Mar 1989 (54) LA Times obit Elsbeary Hobbs 04 Aug 1936 – 31 May 1996 (59) NY Times obit Ben E. King 28 Sep 1938 – 30 Apr 2015 (76) Telegraph obit Rudy Lewis 23 Aug 1936 – 20 May 1964 (27) FindAGrave memorial Johnny Moore 15 Dec 1934 – 30 Dec 1998 (64) Independent obit Gene Pearson 15 Sep 1935 – 06 Apr 2000 (64) Rick Sheppard 1939 – Living Johnny Terry n/a – deceased Mention of death Charlie Thomas 07 April 1937 – 31 Jan 2023 (85) Obit Johnny Lee Williams 27 Oct 1940 – 19 Dec 2004 (64) Mention of death 08/01/1960 Dance with Me #17 03/11/1960 Save the Last Dance For Me #2 16/03/1961 I Count the Tears #28 05/04/1962 When My Little Girl is Smiling #31 10/10/1963 I'll Take You Home #37 24/09/1964 Under the Boardwalk #45 08/04/1965 At the Club #35 29/04/1965 Come on Over to My Place #40 02/02/1967 Baby What I Mean #49 NB: Difficult to determine exactly who recorded on all of these hits as the lineup of The Drifters constantly changed. I have used the timelines of members available on Wikipedia. Johnny Terry is deceased but there seems to be some confusion as to whether he is the same Johnny Terry who was in The Famous Flames (who died in 2005). The Drifters Wiki American doo-wop, R&B and soul group from New York City, New York, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, their lineup changed consistently largely owing to the fact that they were one of the lowest paid vocal groups at the time, Lewis was a heroin user and died of a drug overdose in May 1964, King went on to have successful solo career, Clyde McPhatter was an early member Clyde Brown c. 1946 – Living Bill Davis (aka Abdul Samad) 08 Sep 1917 – 26 Nov 2006 (89) Ancestry page Bill Fredericks 23 Aug 1941 – 28 Apr 1999 (57) Independent obit Doc Green 08 Nov 1934 – 10 Mar 1989 (54) LA Times obit Elsbeary Hobbs 04 Aug 1936 – 31 May 1996 (59) NY Times obit Rudy Lewis 23 Aug 1936 – 20 May 1964 (27) FindAGrave memorial Johnny Moore 15 Dec 1934 – 30 Dec 1998 (64) Independent obit Gene Pearson 15 Sep 1935 – 06 Apr 2000 (64) Johnny Terry n/a – deceased Mention of death Charlie Thomas 07 April 1937 – 31 Jan 2023 (85) Obit 25/03/1972 At the Club / Saturday Night at the Movies #3 Originally released in 1965 and 1964, respectively 26/08/1972 Come on Over to My Place #9 Originally released in 1965 04/08/1973 Like Sister and Brother #7 15/06/1974 Kissin' in the Back Row of the Movies #2 12/10/1974 Down on the Beach Tonight #7 08/02/1975 Love Games #33 06/09/1975 There Goes My First Love #3 29/11/1975 Can I Take You Home Little Girl #10 13/03/1976 Hello Happiness #12 11/09/1976 Every Night's a Saturday Night with You #29 18/12/1976 You're More than a Number in My Little Red Book #5 14/04/1979 Save the Last Dance For Me (re-release) / When My Little Girl is Smiling (re-release) NB: Added probable lineups using the Wiki section for At the Club / Saturday Night at the Movies, Come on Over to My Place and the re-releases in 1979, Fredericks sung lead vocals on Like Sister and Brother, Johnny Moore sung lead on Kissin' in the Back Row of the Movies, Down on the Beach Tonight, Love Games, There Goes My First Love, Can I Take You Home Little Girl, Hello Happiness and Every Nite's a Saturday Night with You, and Moore and Brown shared lead vocals on Every Nite's a Saturday Night with You. Missing info for the full lineups from 1973 through 1976.

A slow start for us, but a quick exit for you. Ta ta!

So that's 3 or 4(?) times you've suggested him for the DL in just over a day. For the sake of balance, here's a reason why I don't think he should be considered... His latest acting credit was 2023.

I questioned you about this yesterday and you ignored me. Why? Why should John Astin be on the DL? Do you have any information that we don't? Is he ill? Same for Marion Ross. Is she ill? Or are you just doing as you normally do i.e. posting countless "how about xxx" for anyone notable over 90?

Heddy Lester (wiki), Dutch singer and actress, dead at 72. Represented The Netherlands in 1977 with "De mallemolen" ("The Merry-Go-Round"). Finished 12th out of 18 entries.

They mark birthdays and post recent coverage articles as well.

No, not Bernie!

Whitfield & Strong yesterday Laverne & Shirley today Deaths happen in 3s. Is another double act away to end before the week is out? Cannon & Ball? Bergman & Bergman?

That's sad. He was reportedly in pretty good health recently so must've been a quick downturn. Edit: The oldest living Olympian now tumbles by a whole 4 years to a May 1920 birth. France's Yvonne Curtet (wiki).

Done. He died in Gauteng on 8 April 2016, aged 74. His son technically succeeded to his title, but it looks like he has never formally claimed it. Very strange case indeed. A contributing member of the House of Lords for 30+ years and senior aristocrat. Surely there must be a reason for their privacy. Edit: I see his widow, the Marchioness died on 25 February 2019. Her death notice is in the same source here.