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30 minutes ago, arghton said:Brazilian longevity claim Olimpio Martins Pires died a couple of days aged 112/110 (or something less)
https://gerontology.wikia.org/wiki/Olimpio_Martins_Pires
Currently alive longevity claimers are, atleast:
Billafunda (Siddha) Sayadaw U.Kowida who claims to be 1112 years old. I'd say remove around 1012 years and you'd get a more realistic age.
Maria Lucimar Pereira who claims to be 130. Remove around 50 years to get the actual number?
Alimihan Seyiti who claims to be 134. Doesn't look a day over 100.
Stephen Wright who claimed to be 119 but is apparently "only 108". If that is how old he actually is.
Also confirmed supercentenarian Julio Cesar Mora died three days ago aged 110. Was known for his and his wife's combined age of 115.
This would make the age of Mora's wife's age only 5?
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The deaths of Joan Hocquard & Bob Weighton this year mean that the 2021 edition of Guinness World Records is now totally out of date. I saw the new version last week & was surprised as it had only just been published for next year that Bob Weighton was still listed (with a large photograph) as Britain's oldest man.
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Two actress widows of famous actors who died many years ago are still with us. Sarah Lawson (b 1928) the actress widow of Patrick Allen (1927-2006) who narrated the 1st series of Blackadder but is best known for a huge catalogue of films & parts in TV series. The other is Thea Gregory (b 1926) the actress widow of John Gregson (1919-1975). He starred in Genevieve (1953) with Kenneth More, Dinah Sheridan & Kay Kendall and many other films & TV series. The TV series he is best remembered for is Gideon's Way in which he starred as Commander George Gideon.
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Eileen Ash will be 109 on 30 October (2020). Not surprisingly she is the oldest ever international cricketer. She was around 4 years old when W G Grace died. As he was born in 1848 that is quite a link to the past.
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3 hours ago, CoffinLodger said:Lizard blood.injections. How much do they cost I wonder?
Ask David Icke!
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12 hours ago, arghton said:Fortune FitzRoy is another one still left of their generation, 100 and still Queen Elizabeth's mistress of robes.
The Guinness Book of Records (now known as Guinness World Records) many years ago (when it was full of interesting facts such as the last person alive to have a parent born in the eighteenth century or the last surviving veteran of the Boer War) once put, in an attempt at levity, that no peers or royalty had ever become a centurion due possibly to their drafty piles (ie castles etc). Now thanks to their deluxe health care royal, noble and titled centurions are appearing every year.
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2 hours ago, arghton said:70+ British royals and non-royals who are close family to royals
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 99
Elizabeth II, 94
Katharine, Duchess of Kent, 87
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, 84
Princess Alexandra of Kent, 83
Prince Michael of Kent, 78
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, 76
Princess Michael of Kent, 75
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, 74
Charles, Prince of Wales, 71
Anne, Princess Royal, 70
Other relatives:
Christopher Bournes Rhys-Jones, father of Sophie, Countess of Wessex, 89
Thomas Markle, father of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, 76
Michael Middleton, father of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, 71
George Brooksbank, father of Jack Brooksbank, 71
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Children of the sisters of DoE:
Maximilian, Magrave of Baden, 87
Princess Dorothea of Hesse, 86
Princess Beatrix of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 84
Prince Ludwig of Baden, 83
Karl van Hessen-Kassel, 83
Georg Andreas Heinrich of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 81
Rainer Christoph Friedrich von Hessen, 80
Princess Clarissa of Hesse, 76
Prince Georg of Hanover, 70
There are probably tons of more somewhat near old relatives of the royals, I could add more to the list if anyone suggests some
Excellent list. The Queen had 29 first cousins and probably the oldest survivng is Sir Simon Alexander Bowes-Lyon who is 88 & was born in June 1932.
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13 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:For me I think of her roles in Doctor Who and Queen Bavmorda in Willow. Last thing I saw her in was the BBC adaptation of Sense & Sensibility which I have just checked was 2008 but it is something we watch on a regular basis.
Obits will almost certainly lead on Upstairs Downstairs.
She is also well-known as the first wife of Jon Pertwee in the swinging sixties & the co-creator of Upstairs Downstairs. When the show returned after decades it was hampered by the poor health of Jean Marsh who re-created the role of Rose Buck & the success of Downton Abbey. The other co-creator of Upstairs Downstirs was Eileen Atkins who was due to also play a role in the show (she did in the update) but due to a stage show clashing, her role went to Pauline Collins. The latter played a maid and in both the show and real life she fell in love with the fellow-servant John Alderton and they are both still happily married and part of the Hampstead set - Tom Conti, Hunter Davies, etc. One wonders if John Alderton would have fallen for Eileen Atkins?
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There are many former spouses of famous actors still alive but not all are as well-known as others.
Peter Gilmore (1931-2013) who played Captain James Onedin in all 91 episodes of The Onedin Line has all 3 former spouses still sailing serenely above ground. They are Jan Walters (b 1937), Una Stubbs (b 1937) & Anne Stallybrass (b1938). The latter played his wife in the show & they lived in Dartmouth where many of the location scenes were filmed in a house named "Charlotte Rhodes) which was the name of Onedin's ship in the series. Strangely she was killed off in the show in the early years of the series & the second wife was played by Jill Gascoigne who died a few months ago.
John Thaw (1942-2002) (Morse, Mister Tom, Jack Regan etc) has both of his former spouses still alive. They are Sally Alexander (b 1943) & Sheila Hancock (b 1933).
Jon Pertwee (1919-1996) (Dr Who, Worzel Gummage etc) also has both former wives alive. They are Jean Marsh (b 1936) & Ingeborg Rhoesa (b 1937).
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44 minutes ago, Deathrace said:Shocking and clearly very sudden as he was posting on Twitter only yesterday. Apparently it was a very sudden heart attack in his Mumbai hotel room where he was commentating on the IPL.
And yet Eileen Ash carries on and on & will be 109 next month. Surely a very real chance of being a rare famous super centenarian? She is believed to be the only international cricketer still alive whose life overlapped that of W G Grace who died in 1915. (born in 1848)
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Boris Pahor is 107 today. He is the oldest living Nazi concentration camp survivor & on the recent list of foreign Wiki entries.
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On 19/08/2020 at 17:43, Ulitzer95 said:
Borys Paton dead at 101.Clarissa Eden? Eileen Ash (Whelan)(oldest ever international cricketer)? Ronald Atkins?
Certainly Clarissa Eden is known internationally & by nature of her sporting career Eillen Ash is as well. Ronald Atkins as an MP must be known to far more than his former constituents & Roberta McCain is also known due to her late husband & son.
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2 hours ago, Miracle Aligner said:The last one, Irene Triplett, died earlier this year. Was covered here iirc.
There are rumours that there is at least one anonymous child still alive which is why I was deliberately vague. It seems quite likely as the last widow of a US Civil War veteran died as recently as 2008 (?) - certainly more than one widow has died this century.
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On 29/12/2019 at 18:57, Sean said:I am known at parties to be a bore for my predictable anecdote that Clarissa Eden widow of Anthony Eden still draws breath.
Party bores also tell people that John Tyler (born 1790) & the 10th US President still has 2 grandchildren alive 230 years after his birth. Cricket followers who nearly all love statistics regularly mention that John Woodcock (94 in August 2020), the cricket writer & former Times cricket correspondent had a grandfather who was born before the Battle of Waterloo. The other old chestnut is that up to 7 years ago there were still 2 children of US Civil War veterans drawing a pension due to their fathers' service. It is believed that both have now died.
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1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:The UK's longest married couple Eric and Nancy Kingston celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8432785/Our-historic-union-Britains-longest-married-couple-celebrate-80-blissful-years.html
Conflicting records apparently. There are various online sites stating that Jack and Joan Bare (aged 102 &101) will have been married 81 years in August 2020 & that THEY currently have the longest marriage in the UK. Also earlier this year a couple were featured in the press & on TV who were celebrating THEIR Oak (80th) wedding anniversary so unless something has happened to at least one of them during lockdown then THEY must have the second longest marriage in the UK. (It doesn't help with marriage records when Guinness ignore the two longest marriages on the Wikipedia page.)
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The last two photos look as if they were taken about 10-15 years apart. The latter one looks like Nigel Havers in 20 years time or a cross between Havers & Bill Nighy.
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4 hours ago, CoffinLodger said:Top Chinese politician Wang Dinggo has died at 108 https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/wang-dingguo-oldest-surviving-long-march-veteran-dies-aged-108-china
With all these aged publicly known people falling off the perch, surely Roberta McCain, Eileen Ash (Whelan) & Norman Lloyd won't all survive into their 13th decade - mathematically that is!
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3 weeks before Clarissa Eden joins the 100 Club & follows Lady (Mary) Wilson into this distingished group. Has a 'celebrity' ever been a super centenarian? Eileen Ash & Roberta McCain must surely qualify if they manage to reach 110.
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15 hours ago, gcreptile said:Triplett, the Tylers, Hitlers last living relatives,.... all the last representatives of their eras - the final living links.
I didn't know Irene Triplett was severely disabled. Those 90 years were a real triumph, I guess.
Anthony Eden's widow is 100 this year. John le Mesurier's widow is another link with the past as the last widows (of Ted Sinclair & James Beck) have died acccording to an online site. In a documentary on Dad's Army the son of Arnold Ridley (Private Godfrey) seemed as old as his late father appeared in the show.
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1 hour ago, Guy Incognito said:https://www.considerable.com/entertainment/history/president-john-tyler-grandsons/
US President John Tyler born in 1790 still has two grandsons still alive
Yes, John Tyler's son, Lyon Gardiner Tyler was born in 1853 & died in 1935. His living sons are Lyon (b 1924) & Harrison (b 1928). So they have a father who was born earlier than the much-quoted (well on Test Match Special anyway) cricket writer John Woodcock who is 94 this year & whose father was born in 1857 & whose paternal grandfather was born before the Battle of Waterloo.
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11 hours ago, YoungWillz said:Irene Triplett is, how you say, no longer drawing that pension...or breath. By which I mean she's dead: https://www.wsj.com/articles/last-person-to-receive-a-civil-war-era-pension-dies-11591141193
Her father was born in 1846 - difficult to believe that anyone still alive has a father (or mother!) born in an earlier year such as before Victoria came to the throne in 1837.
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35 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:
Yes. At least five.Ronald Atkins is a former British MP & 104 this year. A potential record breaker in the mould of John Manners (cricketer)?
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John Woodcock who was The Times chief cricket correspondent from 1954 to 1988 will be 94 in August. His father was born in 1857 and his paternal grandfather before the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
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4 hours ago, TomTomTelekom said:Former left arm medium bowler for England Brian Bolus, who won the Priestley Cup in 1983, and became a Test selector for England in the 1990's, died at 86 years:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/52580857
Brian Bolus was a test batsman, not a bowler. In his first class career he scored over 25000 runs but only took 24 wickets. He played 7 tests for England as an opening batsman but lost his place to John Edrich & Geoff Boycott. Although he never scored a test 100, he holds a test record as playing the most test matches (7) & test innings (12) without ever scoring less than double figures. He had a sturdy stature like Colin Cowdrey which did not help when well into his 30's he reached the final of a long-forgotten single wicket competition when the particpants did all the bowling & batting but had fielders to assist. Bolus was out for about 1 (one) but his opponent, the dynamic Essex all-rounder Keith Boyce scored 84!!!
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World's Oldest
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Wiki states that Karam & Katari Chand were married for 90 years 291 days before Karam died aged 110. Katari died 4 years later aged 107. They were married in a Sikh ceremony when Karam was 20 & Katari was only 13. The combined ages must be a record although Guinness refuse to recognise their achievement.