So if there was a hypothetical mirror DL that had the oldest people around on it, it would probably look something like this...
6th July 1900 – Frederica Sagor Maas
5th December 1903 – Johannes Heesters
30th April 1905 – Sergey Nikolsky
18th December 1905 – Irving Kahn
20th March 1906 – Ruby Muhammad
18th January 1907 – Lina Haag (WWII German resistance fighter)
25th February 1907 – Kathryn Wasserman Davis
1st April 1907 – Dr Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji
21st April 1907 – Wade Mainer (American singer)
3rd May 1907 – Dorothy Young (Houdini’s assistant)
24th August 1907 – Bruno Giacometti (architect)
2nd September 1907 – Miriam Seegar
23rd November 1907 – Run Run Shaw
12th December 1907 – Roy Douglas
15th December 1907 – Oscar Niemeyer
26th May 1908 – Nguyen Ngoc Tho (first PM of South Vietnam)
11th December 1908 – Elliot Carter
11th December 1908 – Manoel de Oliveira (film director)
11th December 1908 – Alfred Proksch (Austrian Olympian)
1st February 1909 – George Beverly Shea
22nd April 1909 – Rita Levi-Montalcini (1986 Nobel Medicine Prize)
19th May 1909 – Nicholas Winton
27th May 1909 – Dolores Hope
12th January 1910 – Luise Rainer
25th March 1910 – Magda Olivero (Italian soprano)
8th October 1910 – Paulette Dubost
7th December 1910 – Edmundo Ros
29th December 1910 – Ronald Coase (1991 Nobel Economics Prize)
1st January 1911 – Roman Totenberg (violinist)
25th January 1911 – Kurt Maetzig (German director)
28th January 1911 – Johan Van Hulst
28th February 1911 – Otakar Vavra
9th March 1911 – Ebby Halliday
18th April 1911 – Maurice Goldhaber
10th May 1911 – Bel Kaufman
20th June 1911 – Paul Pietsch (German racer)
24th June 1911 – Ernesto Sabato
1st July 1911 – Sergei Sokolov
18th August 1911 – Amelia Boynton Robinson (civil rights activist)
5th October 1911 – Pierre Dansereau (ecologist)
10th October 1911 – Clare Hollingworth (journalist)
3rd February 1912 – Mary Carlisle
1st March 1912 – Boris Chertok (Russian rocket designer)
17th April 1912 – Marta Eggerth
1st October 1912 – Kathleen Ollenrenshaw
1st November 1912 – Gunther Plaut
20th November 1912 – Otto Von Habsburg (Emperor of Austria/King of Hungary)
17th December 1912 – Edward Short
22nd January 1913 – Henry Bauchau
10th February 1913 – Douglas Slocombe
Taking out a few people who were famous for who they were rather than what they were (John McCain's mum and the WW1 vets) gives us the Old Folks Shadow List.
Not sure about the obits chances of said old folk, but about 30/50 would get obits at a low estimate.
Also for those looking for last minute old people to add to their lists, here are notable (and slightly obscurer but still notable) people who will be 80 or over in 2011...
26th June 1913 – Maurice Wilkes
7th July 1913 – Pinetop Perkins
28th August 1913 – Boris Pahor
31st August 1913 – Bernard Lovell
24th September 1913 - Herb Jeffries
25th December 1913 – Tony Martin
22nd February 1914 – Renato Dulbecco (1975 Nobel Medicine Prize)
8th April 1914 – Claire Martin
28th April 1914 – Michel Mohrt
26th June 1914 – Doc Williams
29th July 1914 – Irwin Corey
11th August 1914 – Hugh Martin
26th September 1914 – Jack LaLanne
8th November 1914 – Norman Lloyd
15th December 1914 – Anatole Abragam
16th January 1915 – Leslie H. Martinson
18th January 1915 – Santiago Carrillo
1st February 1915 – Alicia Rhett (Gone with the Wind)
11th February 1915 – Patrick Leigh Fermor
19th February 1915 – John Freeman
19th March 1915 – Patricia Morison
10th April 1915 – Harry Morgan
19th May 1915 – Renee Asherson
27th May 1915 – Herman Wouk
12th June 1915 – David Rockefeller
17th June 1915 – Mario Echandi Jiminez (president of Costa Rica)
26th June 1915 – Charlotte Zolotow
27th June 1915 – Grace Lee Boggs (feminist author)
2nd July 1915 – Duke of Wellington
15th July 1915 – Ablert Ghiorso (nuclear scientist)
28th July 1915 – Charles Townes (invented lasers!)
27th August 1915 – Norman F Ramsey (1989 Nobel Physics Prize)
30th August 1915 – Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland
8th September 1915 – Frank Cady
15th October 1915 – Yitzak Shamir
7th December 1915 – Eli Wallach
17th December 1915 – Robert A. Dahl (political scientist)
8th May 1916 – Joao Havelange
20th May 1916 – Owen Chadwick
31st May 1916 – Bernard Lewis (historian)
1st July 1916 – Olivia de Havilland
4th July 1916 – Fernand Leduc
11th July 1916 – Gough Whitlam
6th August 1916 – Dom Mintoff
28th August 1916 – Jack Vance
1st September 1916 – Dorothy Cheney (tennis, 1938 Australian Open winner)
17th September 1916 – Mary Stewart
11th November 1916 – Bob Carr
9th December 1916 – Kirk Douglas
6th February 1917 – Zsa Zsa Gabor
14th February 1917 – Herbert A Hauptman (1985 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
12th March 1917 – Googie Withers
20th March 1917 – Vera Lynn
7th April 1917 – RG Armstrong
26th April 1917 – I.M. Pei (Architect, Louvre Glass Pyramid, Rock n Roll Hall of Fame building)
29th April 1917 – Celeste Holm
1st June 1917 - William S. Knowles (2001 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
10th June 1917 – Eric Hobsbawm
17th July 1917 – Phyllis Diller
30th August 1917 – Denis Healey
7th September 1917 – John Cornforth (1975 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
11th September 1917 – Herbert Lom
2nd October 1917 – Christian de Duve (1974 Nobel Medicine Prize)
22nd October 1917 – Joan Fontaine
22nd November 1917 – Andrew Huxley (1963 Nobel Medicine Prize)
23rd November 1917 – Michael Gough
24th December 1917 – Ernest Borgnine
1st January 1918 – Frances Bay
15th February 1918 – Allan Arbus
16th February 1918 – Patty Andrews
22nd February 1918 – Don Pardo
4th March 1918 – Margaret DuPont (French Open 46, 49, Wimbledon 47, US Open 48, 49, 50 Winner)
8th April 1918 – Betty Ford
9th May 1918 – Mike Wallace
27th May 1918 – Yasuhiro Nakasone (Former Japanese PM)
18th June 1918 – Jerome Karle (1985 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
18th July 1918 – Nelson Mandela
31st July 1918 - Paul D. Boyer (1997 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
13th August 1918 – Frederick Sanger (1958/1980 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
8th October 1918 - Jens C. Skou (1997 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
7th November 1918 – Billy Graham
30th November 1918 – Efrem Zimbalist Jr
9th December 1918 – Joyce Redman
23rd December 1918 – Helmut Schimdt
14th January 1919 – Giulio Andreotti
23rd January 1919 – Hans Hass (Austrian environmentalist)
24th March 1919 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1st April 1919 – Joseph Murray (1990 Nobel Medicine Prize)
24th April 1919 – Glafcos Clerides (President of Cyprus)
1st May 1919 – Mohammed Karim Lamrani (3 time PM of Morocco)
3rd May 1919 – Peter Seeger
14th May 1919 – Denis Cannan
23rd May 1919 – Betty Garrett
6th June 1919 – Lord Carrington
19th June 1919 – Louis Jourdan
24th June 1919 – Al Molinaro
2nd August 1919 – Nehemiah Persoff
30th August 1919 – Kitty Wells
3rd October 1919 - James M. Buchanan (1986 Nobel Economics Prize)
9th October 1919 – Jason Wingreen (Boba Fett voice)
22nd October 1919 – Doris Lessing (2007 Nobel Lit Prize)
10th November 1919 – Mikhail Kalashnikov
19th November 1919 – Alan Young
26th November 1919 – Frederik Pohl
9th December 1919 – William Libscomb (1976 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
1st January 1920 – Heinz Zemanek (Austrian computer pioneer)
3rd January 1920 – Michael Anderson
9th January 1920 – Clive Dunn
16th January 1920 – Elliott Reid
19th January 1920 – Javier Perez de Cuellar (Secretary-General of the UN 1982-91)
24th January 1920 – Jerry Maren (munchkin)
3rd February 1920 – Henry Heimlich
3rd March 1920 – Ronald Searle
6th March 1920 – Lewis Gilbert
11th March 1920 – Niclaas Blumgergen ( Nobel Physics Prize)
15th March 1920 – Edward D Thomas (1990 Nobel Medicine Prize)
6th April 1920 –Edmond H Fischer (1992 Nobel Medicine Prize)
7th April 1920 – Ravi Shankar
13th April 1920 – Liam Cosgrave (Irish Taoisearch)
9th May 1920 – Richard Adams
17th June 1920 – Francois Jacob (1965 Nobel Medicine Prize)
28th June 1920 – Clarissa Eden
29th June 1920 – Ray Harryhausen
3rd August 1920 – PD James
4th August 1920 – Helen Thomas
17th August 1920 – Maureen O’Hara
22nd August 1920 – Ray Bradbury
14th September 1920 - Lawrence Klein (1980 Nobel Economics Prize)
23rd September 1920 – Mickey Rooney
27th September 1920 – Jayne Meadows
29th October 1920 – Baruj Benacerraf (1980 Nobel Medicine Prize)
2nd November 1920 – Ann Rutherford
5th November 1920 - Douglass North (1993 Nobel Economics Prize)
29th November 1920 – Yegor Ligachev
5th January 1921 – Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
18th January 1921 – Yochiro Nambu (2008 Nobel Physics Prize)
31st January 1921 – Carol Channing
1st February 1921 – Peter Sallis
24th February 1921 – Abe Vigoda
1st March 1921 – Richard Wilbur
4th March 1921 – Halim El-Dabh (Egypitain composer/educator)
9th April 1921 – Yitzhak Navon (Israeli President)
14th April 1921 - Thomas Schelling (2005 Nobel Economics Prize)
16th May 1921 – Harry Carey Jr
25th May 1921 – Jack Steinberger (1988 Nobel Physics Prize)
25th May 1921 – Hal David
10th June 1921 – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
21st June 1921 – Jane Russell
6th July 1921 – Nancy Reagan
10th July 1921 – Jake LaMotta
18th July 1921 – John Glenn
19th July 1921 – Rosalyn S Yallow (1977 Nobel Medicine Prize)
23rd August 1921 - Kenneth Arrow (1972 Nobel Economics Prize)
25th August 1921 – Monty Hall
28th August 1921 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada (Bolivian president)
25th October 1921 – Michael of Romania
5th November 1921 – Princess Fawzia of Egypt
8h November 1921 – Gene Saks (Tony award winning actor)
20th November 1921 – Dan Frazer
29th November 1921 – Jackie Stallone
4th December 1921 – Deanna Durbin (actress)
9th January 1922 – Har G Kharona (1968 Nobel Medicine Prize)
17th January 1922 – Betty White
6th February 1922 – Patrick Macnee
20th March 1922 – Carl Reiner
3rd April 1922 – Doris Day
27th April 1922 – Jack Klugman
27th May 1922 – Christopher Lee
11th June 1922 – Mihalis Kakogiannis
7th July 1922 – Pierre Cardin
15th July 1922 – Leon M Lederman (1988 Nobel Physics Prize)
19th July 1922 – George McGovern
8th September 1922 – Sid Caesar
9th September 1922 – Hans G Dehmelt (1989 Nobel Physics Prize)
15th September 1922 – Jackie Cooper
1st October 1922 – Chen-Ning Yang (1958 Nobel Physics Prize)
19th October 1922 – Juanita Moore
17th November 1922 – Stanley Cohen (1986 Nobel Medicine Prize)
28th December 1922 – Stan Lee
25th January 1923 – Arvid Carllson (2000 Nobel Medicine Prize)
2nd February 1923 – Liz SMith
12th February 1923 – Franco Zeffirelli
28th February 1923 – Charles Durning
9th March 1923 - Walter Kohn (1998 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
10th March 1923 – Val L Flitch (1980 Nobel Physics Prize)
26th May 1923 – Roy Dotrice
27th May 1923 – Henry Kissinger
2nd July 1923 – Wislawa Szymborska (1996 Nobel Lit Prize
16th May 1923 - Merton Miller (1990 Nobel Economics Prize)
6th July 1923 – Wojciech Jaruzelski
21st July 1923 - Rudolph A. Marcus (1991 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
22nd July 1923 – Bob Dole
26th July 1923 – Jan Berenstain
2nd August 1923 – Shimon Peres
29th August 1923 – Richard Attenborough
9th September 1923 – Cliff Robertson
20th November 1923 – Nadine Gordimer (1991 Nobel Lit Prize)
22nd November 1923 – Arthur Hiller
12th December 1923 – Bob Barker
13th December 1923 – Philip W Anderson (1977 Nobel Physics Prize)
7th January 1924 – Geoffrey Bayldon
8th January 1924 – Ron Moody
11th January 1924 – Roger Guillemin (1977 Nobel Medicine Prize)
21st February 1924 – Robert Mugabe
18th April 1924 – Roy Mason (Defence Sec)
2nd May 1924 – Theodore Bikel
11th May 1924 – Anthony Hewish (1974 Nobel Physics Prize)
3rd June 1924 – Torsten Wiesel (1981 Nobel Medicine Prize)
12th June 1924 – George HW Bush
25th June 1924 – Sidney Lumet
4th July 1924 – Eve Marie Saint
10th August 1924 – Martha Hyer
19th August 1924 – Willard Boyle (2009 Nobel Physics Prize)
23rd August 1924 - Robert Solow (1987 Nobel Economics Prize)
16th September 1924 – Lauren Bacall
1st October 1924 – Jimmy Carter
27th October 1924 – Ruby Dee
30th January 1925 – Dororthy Malone
18th February 1925 – George Kennedy
12th March 1925 – Leo Esaki (1973 Nobel Physics Prize)
3rd April 1925 – Tony Benn
29th April 1925 – Colette Marchand
8th June 1925 – Barbara Bush
23rd June 1925 – Oliver Smithies (2007 Nobel Medicine Prize)
29th June 1925 – Cara Williams
28th July 1925 – Baruch S Blumberg (1976 Nobel Medicine Prize)
1st September 1925 – Roy J Glauber (2005 Nobel Physics Prize)
16th September 1925 – BB King
3rd October 1925 – Gore Vidal
13th October 1925 – Margaret Thatcher
16th October 1925 – Angela Lansbury
11th November 1925 – June WHitfield
24th November 1925 – Simon Van der Meer (1984 Nobel Physics Prize)
27th November 1925 – Robert G Edwards (2010 Nobel Medicine Prize)
11th December 1925 – Paul Greengard (2000 Nobel Medicine Prize)
2nd December 1925 – Julie Harris
3rd December 1925 – Ferlin Husky
13th December 1925 – Dick Van Dyke
2nd February 1926 – Valery D’Estang
27th February 1926 – David H Hubel (1981 Nobel Medicine Prize)
24th March 1926 – Dario Fro (1997 Nobel Lit Prize)
5TH April 1926 – Roger Corman
17th April 1926 – Joan Lorring
21st April 1926 – Elizabeth II
30th June 1926 – Paul Berg (1980 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
1st July 1926 - Robert Fogel (1993 Nobel Economics Prize)
4th July 1926 – Alfredo di Stefano
9th July 1926 – Ben R Mottelson (1975 Nobel Physics Prize)
16th July 1926 - Irwin Rose (2004 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
21st July 1926 – Norman Jewison
6th August 1926 – Frank Finlay
11th August 1926 – Aaron Klug (1982 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
7th September 1926 – Patrick Jenkin (DWP Sec)
19th September 1926 – Masatoshi Koshiba (2002 Nobel Physics Prize)
21st September 1926 – Donald A Glaser (1960 Nobel Physics Prize)
24th November 1926 – Tsung-Dao Lee (1957 Nobel Physics Prize)
30th November 1926 – Andrew Schally (1977 Nobel Medicine Prize)
20th December 1926 – Sir Geoffrey Howe
1st January 1927 - Vernon L. Smith (2002 Nobel Economics Prize)
13th January 1927 – Sydney Brenner (2002 Nobel Medicine Prize)
20th February 1927 – Sidney Poitier
21st February 1927 – Hubert de Givenchy
6th March 1927 – Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
20th April 1927 - Karl A Muller (1987 Nobel Physics Prize)
9th May 1927 – Manfred Eigen (1967 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
22nd May 1927 - George A. Olah (1994 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
24th June 1927 – Martin L Perl (1995 Nobel Physics Prize)
28th June 1927 - Frank S. Rowland (1995 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
3rd July 1927 – Ken Russell
18th August 1927 – Rosalyn Carter
24th August 1927 - Harry Markowitz (1990 Nobel Economics Prize)
16th September 1927 – Peter Falk
6th October 1927 – Gunter Grass (1999 Nobel Lit Prize)
19th November 1927 – Rosemary Harris
20th November 1927 – Estelle Parsons
2nd December 1927 – Jimmy Stangster
5th January 1928 – Walter Mondale
17th January 1928 – Vidal Sassoon
1st February 1928 – Stuart Whitman (Australian actor)
14th March 1928 – Frank Borman (first man to circle the moon)
6th April 1928 – James D Watson (1962 Nobel Medicine Prize)
7th April 1928 – James Garner
26th May 1928 – Dr Jack Kevorkian
7th June 1928 – James Ivory
13th June 1928 - John F. Nash (1994 Nobel Economics Prize)
20th June 1928 – Martin Landau
25th June 1928 – Alexei A Abrikosov (2003 Nobel Physics Prize)
5th July 1928 – Pierre Mauroy (French PM)
12th July 1928 - Elias J. Corey (1990 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
14th July 1928 – Nancy Olson
16th August 1928 – Ann Blyth
25th August 1928 – Herbert Kroemer (2000 Nobel Physics Prize)
26th August 1928 – Ariel Sharon
27th August 1928 - Osamu Shimomura (2008 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
30th September 1928 – Elie Wiesel (1986 Nobel Peace Prize)
10th November 1928 – Ennio Morricone
7th December 1928 – Noam Chomsky
1929 – David Fisher
7th January 1929 – Terry Moore
23rd January 1929 - John C. Polanyi (1986 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
31st January 1929 – Rudolf Mossbauer (1961 Nobel Physics Prize)
5th April 1929 – Ivar Giaever (1973 Nobel Physics Prize)
10th April 1929 – Max von Sydow
22nd May 1929 – Edouard Ballader (French PM)
3rd June 1929 – Werner Arber (1978 Nobel Medicine Prize)
7th June 1929 – John Turner (Canadian PM)
1st July 1929 – Gerald Edelman (1972 Nobel Medicine Prize)
10th July 1929 – Winnie Ewing
21st July 1929 – Don Murray
24th July 1929 – Peter Yates
2nd August 1929 – David Waddington
8th August 1929 – Ronnie Biggs
15th September 1929 – Murray Gell-Mann (1969 Nobel Physics Prize)
25th September 1929 – Barbara Walters
28th October 1929 – Joan Plowright
2nd November 1929 – Richard E Taylor (1990 Nobel Physics Prize)
7th November 1929 – Eric Kandel (2000 Nobel Medicine Prize)
9th November 1929 – Imre Kertesz (2002 Nobel Lit Prize)
9th December 1929 – Bob Hawke
13th December 1929 – Christopher Plummer
20th January 1930 – Buzz Aldrin
23rd January 1930 – Derek Walcott (1992 Nobel Lit Prize)
30th January 1930 – Gene Hackman
25th February 1930 – Sister Wendy Beckett
27th February 1930 – Joanne Woodward
28th February 1930 – Leon Cooper (1972 Nobel Physics Prize)
8th March 1930 – Douglas Hurd
15th March 1930 –Z hores Alferov (2000 Nobel Physics Prize)
26th March 1930 – Sandra Day O’Connor
28th March 1930 – Jerome I Friedman (1990 Nobel Physics Prize)
30th March 1930 – John Astin
3rd April 1930 – Helmut Kohl
10th May 1930 – George E Smith (2009 Nobel Physics Prize)
21st May 1930 – Malcolm Fraser
31st May 1930 – Clint Eastwood
8th June 1930 - Robert Aumann (2005 Nobel Economics Prize)
19th July 1930 – Gena Rowlands
27th July 1930 – Shirley Williams
5th August 1930 – Neil Armstrong
23rd August 1930 – Michel Rocard (French PM)
25th August 1930 – Sean Connery
12th September 1930 - Akira Suzuki (2010 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
5th October 1930 - Reinhard Selten (1994 Nobel Economics Prize)
10th October 1930 - Yves Chauvin (2005 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
2nd December 1930 - Gary Becker (1992 Nobel Economics Prize)
3rd December 1930 – Jean-Luc Goddard
8th December 1930 – Maximillian Schell
5th January 1931 – Robert Duvall
17th January 1931 – James Earl Jones
20th January 1931 – David M Lee (1996 Nobel Physics Prize)
6th February 1931 – Rip Torn
9th February 1931 – Josef Masopust
18th February 1931 – Toni Morrison
2nd March 1931 – Michael Gorbachev
22nd March 1931 – Burton Richter (1976 Nobel Physics Prize)
23rd May 1931 – Barbara Barrie
28th May 1931 – Carroll Baker
31st May 1931 – John R. Schrieffer (1972 Nobel Physics Prize)
3rd June 1931 – Anthony Harvey
20th June 1931 – Olympia Dukakis
27th June 1931 – Martinus Veltman (1999 Nobel Physics Prize)
1st July 1931 – Leslie Caron
23rd July 1931 – Jan Troell
9th August 1931 – Mario Zagallo
15th August 1931 - Richard F. Heck (2010 Nobel Chemistry Prize)
23rd August 1931 – Hamilton O Smith (1978 Nobel Medicine Prize)
12th September 1931 – Ian Holm
29th September 1931 – James Cronin (1980 Nobel Physics Prize)
6th October 1931 – Riccardo Giaconni (2002 Nobel Physics Prize)
7th October 1931 – Desmond Tutu
31st October 1931 – Dan Rather
6th November 1931 – Mike Nichols
26th November 1931 – Adolfo P Esquivel (1980 Nobel Peace Price)
Apologies for the long list. Spoiler tagging things for length doesn't seem to work.
That concludes the post for "last minute add of old people who might be unique picks" selection.
In passing, I suppose Patrick Macnee will be on a fair few lists this year. He had 2 strokes in 2010, and photos of him in the US looked very frail. Though I can't seem to find the photos online now 2 months later - very strange.