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  4. Posted

    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.

  5. Posted

    Suprised she's lasted this long given her lifestyle...

     

    Cynthia Payne rose to prominence in the 70s and 80s as a sex party hostess and a sex laws liberalisation campaigner.

     

    I also almost bought her book when looking for Sylvia Plath poetry..

     

    She is 81.

     

    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).

  11. Posted

    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?

  12. Posted

    So that increases the no of people born in the 1900s to 6 and the no born in the Victorian era to 16. It really should be going in the opposite direction ! :huh:

     

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

  13. Posted

    Peruvian Woman has been confirmed as being born in 1897 https://uk.news.yaho...89.html#vr9E6TK

     

    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)

  19. Posted

    I posted around the time of Phillip Seymour Hoffman's death that I had a feeling this year would be very unpredictable with all the people nailed on for deaths either hanging on or still going strong (around 7 people in december alot of us thought wouldn't last even jan this year let alone still be alive in april ) . Then two quite shocking deaths already this year and i think there will be a few more too whether any will be as surprising as peaches death though im not sure!!

     

    Well done.

     

    Would you like a biscuit?

  20. Posted

    According to Wikipedia it's just Mickey Kuhn (b. 1932) and Olivia de Havilland who are the only surviving cast members now.

     

    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.

  24. Posted

    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

  25. Posted

    Misao Okawa is 116 today, the 10th person verified to even reach that age.

     

    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

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