maryportfuncity 9,984 Posted May 1, 2017 1 hour ago, CoffinLodger said: It's absolutely true. The BBC are reporting it http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/39768321 /.Its a miracle! The BBC also ran a clip about Nigerian woman who claims to be 117 and is supported by government documentation (not that their birth records were that accurate in 1900) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted May 1, 2017 6 hours ago, drol said: World's oldest man Mbah Ghoto has died aged 146. And this morning I saw pigs flying outside. Mbah, and his ridiculous claim, can Ghoto hell. 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RadGuy 1,605 Posted May 13, 2017 Just some statistics if anybody is interested. Top 10 countries of residence for the 100 oldest living people Japan: 26 United States: 25 France: 10 Italy: 8 United Kingdom: 6 Spain: 5 Germany: 4 Australia: 3 Canada: 3 Poland: 2 Average age at death of oldest living people by half-decade 1995-1999: 119 2000-2004: 114 2005-2009: 115 2010-2014: 115 2015-: 116 Number of oldest living people to die by year 1997: 1 1998: 1 1999: 1 2000: 1 2001: 1 2002: 4 2003: 2 2004: 1 2005: 0 2006: 2 2007: 3 2008: 1 2009: 2 2010: 2 2011: 1 2012: 2 2013: 1 2014: 0 2015: 3 2016: 1 2017: 1 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,565 Posted July 12, 2017 116 Year Old man appears out of the El Salvador woodwork A good Catholic too by sounds of it - 39 kids! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,246 Posted July 14, 2017 The 5th oldest person in the world Marie Josephine Gaudette has died at 115 http://gerontology.wikia.com/wiki/Marie-Josephine_Gaudette 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,939 Posted July 15, 2017 21 minutes ago, CoffinLodger said: The 5th oldest person in the world Mary Josephine Gaudette has died at 115 http://gerontology.wikia.com/wiki/Marie-Josephine_Gaudette Any more reliable sources? She's a DDP pick. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebless 202 Posted July 15, 2017 3 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Any more reliable sources? She's a DDP pick. Her name is no longer in the GRG list http://www.grg.org/SC/WorldSCRankingsList.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,246 Posted July 15, 2017 4 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Any more reliable sources? She's a DDP pick. how about this http://z3.invisionfree.com/The_110_Club/index.php?showtopic=16849 I think that's a fairly respected site Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,939 Posted July 15, 2017 Where's the source information I mean? I could post news of Kirk Douglas' death on here and it wouldn't make it true. Must be getting it from a news source, an obituary or something...surely there's something out there... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RadGuy 1,605 Posted July 16, 2017 Finally an obit for Sister Gaudette pops up from a New Hampshire news site (her home state). For future reference, the GRG List and Gerontology Wikia are very reliable sources. The GRG has contact info for all supercentenarians and are therefore often the only people to report on the deaths of the less relevant ones. The Gerontology Wikia basically takes all of GRG's info and puts it in a better organized, easy-to-read format. Either way, pretty strange she didn't get any more obits yet. She was the oldest living nun, oldest living person born in the USA, oldest person living in Italy, and 5th oldest living person. Not to mention she was a news sensation back in 2008 in a typical centenarian fluff piece "106 year old nun voting for Obama". All those things combined, you'd think she'd certainly get a QO from the Daily Mail, let alone more than one obit! This, and the fact that Zoltan Sarosy got nothing but a chess-based site and two Hungarian rags, makes me wonder if we're headed for some kind of supercentenarian obit drought. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 17,710 Posted July 16, 2017 Or a boom, depending on who lives that long, of course! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,118 Posted July 21, 2017 Word oldest person from Poland dead at 111. Probably the next one without a qualifying obit, though I don't think they were selected anywhere apart from maybe Deathray's list of centenarians... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RadGuy 1,605 Posted July 21, 2017 7 hours ago, Joey Russ said: Word oldest person from Poland dead at 111. Probably the next one without a qualifying obit, though I don't think they were selected anywhere apart from maybe Deathray's list of centenarians... I feel like I cursed her because just hours before her death, I wrote down her name as a potential part of my Slavic theme team I might enter into the DDP next year. Anyways, I don't expect her to QO because the oldest people in non-English speaking countries never get QOs (unless they also happen to be the oldest person in the world). But Mrs. Szubartowicz did get obits from all major Polish newspapers and news websites, so I don't think she's a part of the supercentenarian obit drought. I was quite sad to hear of her passing. I've been interested in supercentenarians ever since I was a young child (cue gerontophilia jokes), and I always hated how all the Polish supercentenarians seemed to die aged 110-111. So I was sort of rooting for Mrs. Szubartowicz to live a couple more years, or at least make her 112th birthday in October. Luckily for me, the new doyenne of Poland, Tekla Juniewicz, is only a couple months younger than Mrs. Szubartowicz, also aged 111. I'm rooting for you, Tekla. Stick around a while! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted July 25, 2017 An Oakland (CA) native and Americas oldest known man has died.Clarence Francis Matthews was born 111 years and 82 days ago. He lived through both world wars and supported his family during the depression. He outlived two wives. SC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RadGuy 1,605 Posted August 11, 2017 Yisrael Kristal dead at 113. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,118 Posted August 11, 2017 3 minutes ago, Phantom of the Midway said: Yisrael Kristal dead at 113. Keeps me further ahead in the hare's dead pool, for now... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,939 Posted August 11, 2017 Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-4782640/Worlds-oldest-man-dead-Israel-113-media.html 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prophet 245 Posted August 11, 2017 RIP. The new oldest living men is Francisco Nunez Olivera (born in December 1904) (but he is unverified). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted August 11, 2017 2 hours ago, Phantom of the Midway said: Yisrael Kristal dead at 113. Richard Overton moves up the ranks for a few days till we read about him. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted August 11, 2017 1 hour ago, YoungWillz said: Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-4782640/Worlds-oldest-man-dead-Israel-113-media.html Not worth the points of wasting a roster spot imho. What is he, 3 or 4 max? He's not going to be a unique pick when you turn his name in. It's a pointless DDP team inclusion...damn near. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixedBusiness 407 Posted August 11, 2017 26 minutes ago, Sir Creep said: Richard Overton moves up the ranks for a few days till we read about him. SC He's been hospitalized for pneumonia twice in the past 2-ish years, including one in May, so it won't be that long, you're right. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,118 Posted August 11, 2017 37 minutes ago, Sir Creep said: Not worth the points of wasting a roster spot imho. What is he, 3 or 4 max? He's not going to be a unique pick when you turn his name in. It's a pointless DDP team inclusion...damn near. SC You never know. The world's oldest person might prove to be the decisive pick for the person who wins the DDP in 2037. They may not be entirely pointless... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted August 25, 2017 New Jersey's oldest resident, who once credited her longevity to a daily dose of Miller High Life and Johnnie Walker Blue Label, died Thursday morning in her Englewood home, three weeks after turning 112. Agnes Fenton, who had lived in Englewood since the 1950s, was given the unusual prescription of alcohol by her doctor in 1943 for a benign tumor. She kept it up for decades, before quitting drinking in the last few years as she began to eat less and was restricted to a wheelchair and attended by her nurses. Born Agnes Jones on Aug. 1, 1905, in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Fenton owned the Pal's Duck Inn restaurant in Tennessee, where she was one of the first black women to own a restaurant in the state. She moved north to Englewood with her second husband, Vincent Fenton, who died in 1970. The Fentons had no children. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,246 Posted September 4, 2017 The oldest living Australian Marjorie Cooke has died at 111 http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/marjorie-cooke-australias-oldest-living-person-dies-at-111/news-story/3f5a19ba0dd03701c42ad2d4f733db73 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,246 Posted September 15, 2017 The 3rd oldest American Vera van Wagner has died at 113 http://gerontology.wikia.com/wiki/Vera_Van_Wagner 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
