Ulitzer95

Your ability to read straight off of the Recent Deaths page on Wikipedia never ceases to amaze me...

Decided to a do a little research into chart toppers (singles) in the UK to see who's still around (80+) and made an interesting find. Sally Sweetland had a UK no. 1 in 1953, duetting on a song called "I'm Walking Behind You" with Eddie Fisher. Well, she's still alive aged 103, making her the oldest living UK chart topper... http://www.recordgaz...9c7bbe7405.html Here's the list (including featured singers and composers): Sally Sweetland (b. 1911) Dame Vera Lynn (b. 1917) Ray Charles (b. 1918) Sir Jimmy Young (b. 1921) Doris Day (b. 1922) Kitty Kallen (b. 1922) Kay Starr (b. 1922) Charles Aznavour (b. 1924) Jane Morgan (b. 1924) Tony Bennett (b. 1926) Chuck Berry (b. 1926) Harry Belafonte (b. 1927) Ken Dodd (b. 1927) Vic Damone (b. 1928) Windsor Davies (b. 1930) Rolf Harris (b. 1930) Tab Hunter (b. 1931) Petula Clark (b. 1932) Des O'Connor (b. 1932) J. J. Barrie (b. 1933) Pat Boone (b. 1934) Only person I can't find any info on is a composer called Jerry Carr. Presumably he's dead.

I think you automatically presume too much. Just because she was "throwing parties" doesn't mean she was drinking a litre of gin every night and snorting cocaine off the kitchen worktop. Anyway, if we're talking about the madams, Janie Jones is another one worth keeping an eye on (73 this year).

And the Telegraph > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10833968/Mary-Stewart-obituary.html

As mentioned above, the mediamass page just automatically generates typical headline articles from a database of famous names, and every day the date on the article will change. I've never really understood the point in these sites. She is dead, The Times has published an obituary for her > http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article4089900.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2014_05_14

Merlin novelist Mary Stewart dead at 97 (died on May 10th judging from an earlier edit to her Wiki page - shows how slow our media are) http://www.cornflowerbooks.co.uk/2014/05/rip-mary-stewart.html

No valid obituary as of yet.... Shit.

You're making this more difficult than you need to. Just use the MEP search and it'll tell you (all on your list bar Sherlock are alive btw) http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/676/ALAN+R._TYRRELL_home.html

In a trivial mood so thought I'd make a random list of Heavy and Welter weight boxers who fought Ali, Frazier, or the recently departed Ellis or Carter:- Archie Moore 1916-1998 (81) Jim Robinson 1925- (disappeared, people have tried and failed to track him down) Holley Mims 1929-1970 (42) Dick Tiger 1929-1971 (42) Joey Giardello 1930-2008 (78) Tunney Hunsaker 1930-2005 (74) Willi Besmanoff 1932-2010 (78) Zora Folley 1932-1972 (41) Sonny Liston 1932-1970 (38) Eddie Machen 1932-1972 (40) George Benton 1933-2011 (78) Johnny Halafihi 1933- Cleveland Williams 1933-1999 (68) Sir Henry Cooper 1934-2011 (76) Brian London 1934- Wilf Greaves 1935- Floyd Patterson 1935-2006 (71) Herb Siler 1935-2001 (66) Florentino Fernandez 1936-2013 (76) Rubin Carter 1937-2014 (76) George Chuvalo 1937- Doug Jones 1937- Karl Mildenberger 1937- Luis Manuel Rodriguez 1937-1996 (59) Harry Scott 1937- Joey Archer 1938- Bob Foster 1938- Emile Griffith 1938-2013 (75) Wilbert McClure 1938- Gomeo Brennan 1939- Don Fullmer 1939-2012 (72) Leotis Martin 1939-1995 (56) Ernie Terrell 1939-2014 (75) Chuck Wepner 1939- Sonny Banks 1940-1965 (24) Jimmy Ellis, 1940-2014 (74) Ron Lyle 1941-2011 (70) Muhammad Ali 1942- Oscar Bonavena 1942-1976 (33) Mac Foster 1942-2010 (68) Jurgen Blin 1943- Alvin Lewis 1943- Buster Mathis 1943-1995 (52) Ken Norton 1943-2013 (70) Joe Frazier 1944-2011 (67) Ron Stander 1944- Richard Dunn 1945- Boone Kirkman 1945- Jerry Quarry 1945-1999 (53) Earnie Shavers 1945- Jen-Pierre Coopman 1946- Jimmy Young 1948-2005 (56) Floyd Cummings 1949- George Foreman 1949- Larry Holmes 1949- Joe Bugner 1950- Leon Spinks 1953- Trevor Berbick 1954-2006 (52) Alfredo Evangelista 1954- Conclusion: If you want to live a long time, don't be a boxer. Question is, who's next?

No it doesn't. The Peruvian woman, likes hundreds of others, is just a claimant. She hasn't been verified.

Where the bloody hell does it say that? Whoever wrote that article is very bad at maths: "Born December 20, 1897, Filomena Taipe Mendoza is only three months younger than Japanese Misao Okawa, who is the world's oldest person according to Guinness World Records and the US-based Gerontology Research Group." (Misao Okawa was born in March 1898)

Statement from family: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/03/ca-pierson-grant-pr-idUSnBw025973a+100+BSW20140503 (Basically says he's dead)

Oldest man, not oldest person. 106 would be very young for an "oldest person" in any of the countries within the UK.

Looks fine to me! http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/local_news/11147113.A_showcase_for_Southend_firms/?ref=arc 77 today, happy birthday Sir Teddy, it'll be a long time yet until Glasgow elects a Tory again!

Well I suppose if you're going to lob yourself from a balcony, you'd have more success without your helmet on...

Elizabeth Kelly (born 1921, turning 93 in May), who played Nellie Ellis, is the oldest former Eastenders actor I can think of

Well done. Would you like a biscuit?

Not quite. Shep Houghton (away to turn 100, read on a silent movie forum somebody there contacted him recently), Ann Bupp (b 1922), Dirk Wayne Summers (b 1931) and Tommy Kelly (b 1925) are about. They all had minor roles though.

Mary Anderson dead at 96 (2 years older than previously thought)... http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-mary-anderson-20140408,0,6396122.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Fobituaries+(Los+Angeles+Times+-+Obituaries)#axzz2yE3rCybt

Michael Leeston-Smith, Doctor Who director has died according to this thread but no indication of when... http://missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/9715/before-all

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LIVING: Lassie Lou Ahern Mary Carlisle Diana Serra Cary Jean Darling Manoel de Oliveira Mildred Kornman Jane La Verne Carla Laemmle Fay McKenzie Dickie Moore Dorothy Morrison Maria Riva Billy Watson Louise Watson** **appeared in silent films with several talking sequences POSSIBLY LIVING: Lois Alexander Billy Butts Maggie Calloway Jose Corazon de Jesus, Jr. Gladys Egan Em Gorman Runa Hodges Leon Holmes Shep Houghton Jackie Lucas Virginia Marshall Baby Priscilla Moran Loni Nest Vonda Phelps Helene Pirie Helen Rowland Manuel Silos Doreen Turner Baby Ivy Ward

Congrats to her.Sadly only 4 women have lived to be 117 so I think that means there's a 60 % chance that she's just had her last birthday Said leading gerontologist Guest_guest

Problemo - Loni Nest's death is being reported as being a complete hoax. http://monsterkidcla...e-Golem?page=-1 (second comment down) This seems to be becoming an ever more increasingly frequent problem recently with obscure or long-forgotten celebs being reported dead erroneously or just complete fabrications being produced... The comment says she apparently died in Europe "years ago". I see she's already been declared dead on DDP. What happens in a situation like this? EDIT: FindAGrave, IMDb and Wikipedia all have her as dead, plus all her "life details" from the original obituary added. Quite worrying if this is a hoax. Massive problem with memorial pages I suppose.

If a full scale war breaks out, I hope you go first.