The 100 Club

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The jewish chronicler Ruth Gruber has died at 105 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/nyregion/ruth-gruber-dead.html?_r=0

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World's oldest person Emma Morano celebrates 117th birthday:

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38134004

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Happy birthday Mr. Douglas!!

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Oldest living person to have served in US Congress, 101-year old Ken Hechler, recovering in hospital after suffering internal bleeding and a seizure. Second hospitalization in the past few weeks too.

I know his death has already been posted in another thread but I hope no one minds if I post it here too since he was the oldest living member of the US Congress and was mentioned here http://www.journal-news.net/news/local-news/2016/12/longtime-w-va-secretary-of-state-congressman-ken-hechler-dies-at-102/

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Clare Hollingworth celebrated her 105th this October. Here's a Time magazine article on here. The usual frail health, but more attention is being given to the apparent thousands of refugees she helped flee the Nazis in the 1930s. There's a book which came out earlier this year.

 

I've got her own autobiography, Frontline, which she wrote aged 78 (so ages ago now!) on the bookshelf. A quick glance confirms what I'd recalled: she takes two pages out of 300 to mention the refugees, and two paragraphs within to mention her actual work (ie, fast tracking visas against the UK government's wishes) for people fleeing Germany, Poland and the Sudetenland.

 

Anyhow, I thought that was interesting insight into a popular Deadpool pick.

 

Now 105, Hollingworth still lives in Hong Kong, in an apartment in clear sight of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC). She has never officially retired — “Clare’s table” at the FCC is still reserved for her every single day, in case she turns up for lunch or dinner.

“If they want it, they usually call us and ask if she’s coming down,” says one of her carers, Susan Perez.

When she visits — which happens roughly once a month, according to Perez — the back door is flung open and she is wheeled to her special table with her small entourage of carers and close friends. “Her Hong Kong family,” longtime friend and former carer Joan Boivin says.

 

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French singer Leo Marjane has died at 104 http://www.lepoint.fr/culture/leo-marjane-la-chanteuse-aux-104-printemps-19-12-2016-2091520_3.php She was the French Vera Lynn during world war 2 I guess. Sorry I can't find any English language obits yet

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French singer Leo Marjane has died at 104 http://www.lepoint.fr/culture/leo-marjane-la-chanteuse-aux-104-printemps-19-12-2016-2091520_3.php

 

En Septembre Sous La Pluie

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French singer Leo Marjane has died at 104 http://www.lepoint.fr/culture/leo-marjane-la-chanteuse-aux-104-printemps-19-12-2016-2091520_3.php

 

Another case of having a BBC page but no obit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/3ea995ee-95dd-419c-8c84-dedb1362e54f

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French singer Leo Marjane has died at 104 http://www.lepoint.fr/culture/leo-marjane-la-chanteuse-aux-104-printemps-19-12-2016-2091520_3.php

Another case of having a BBC page but no obit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/3ea995ee-95dd-419c-8c84-dedb1362e54f

 

 

Leo Marjane has an obit now: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/12/21/leo-marjane-french-singer-obituary/

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Golden State Warriors super fan, known as Sweetie, has died aged 107: http://abc7news.com/sports/warriors-super-fan-sweetie-dies-at-age-107/1668884/

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American Businessman and philantropist Herbert Nootbaar died, 108 years old

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=herbert-victor-nootbaar&pid=183206015

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The oldest celebs in my database are Zoltan Sarosy (chess player) and Zhou Youguang (father of Pinyin), both born 1906.

 

Other exciting centenarians include Bobbie Heine Miller (Wimbledon quarterfinalist in 1929), Tyrus Wong (one of the Bambi animators), Robert McCain (John's mum), and Jeremy Hutchison.

 

And there's the legendary Clare Hollingworth, of course.

 

Reportedly Tyrus Wong has died at 106: http://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2016/12/30/disney-legend-tyrus-wong-passes-away-106/

 

Awaiting possibly a better source.

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I wonder if the committee are going to put any more centenarians on the 2017 list.

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Tyrus Wong - Variety is good enough for me: http://variety.com/2016/film/news/tyrus-wong-dead-bambi-106-1201950604/

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http://tr.eurosport.com/bisiklet/talat-tuncalp-hayatini-kaybetti_sto5997045/story.shtml

 

101-year-old Turkish cyclist brings us the first centenarian death of the year.

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Granny the whale has died at 105 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38496164

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Granny the whale has died at 105 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38496164

Sir Creep saying this is the wrong thread in 3, 2, 1...

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Granny the whale has died at 105 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38496164

 

Sir Creep saying this is the wrong thread in 3, 2, 1...

No way. It's cute and amusing. However 105 was the high end of the estimated 90-105 suspected age range so there is a fair chance the orca is mathematically in the wrong thread. At least it was human years so I'll give Granny a pass. Just don't go posting a 20-year old dog and tell me it's 140.

Anyway RIP Granny

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_{German Physicist and Computer scientist Heinz Billing is dead. He was 102 years old.}

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Ireland’s most revered public servant TK Whitaker has died. The man regarded as the architect of modern Ireland died on Monday a month after his 100th birthday on December 8th.

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http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/architect-of-modern-ireland-tk-whitaker-dies-aged-100-1.2930815

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Clare Hollingworth celebrated her 105th this October. Here's a Time magazine article on here. The usual frail health, but more attention is being given to the apparent thousands of refugees she helped flee the Nazis in the 1930s. There's a book which came out earlier this year.

 

I've got her own autobiography, Frontline, which she wrote aged 78 (so ages ago now!) on the bookshelf. A quick glance confirms what I'd recalled: she takes two pages out of 300 to mention the refugees, and two paragraphs within to mention her actual work (ie, fast tracking visas against the UK government's wishes) for people fleeing Germany, Poland and the Sudetenland.

 

Anyhow, I thought that was interesting insight into a popular Deadpool pick.

 

 

Now 105, Hollingworth still lives in Hong Kong, in an apartment in clear sight of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC). She has never officially retired — “Clare’s table” at the FCC is still reserved for her every single day, in case she turns up for lunch or dinner.

“If they want it, they usually call us and ask if she’s coming down,” says one of her carers, Susan Perez.

When she visits — which happens roughly once a month, according to Perez — the back door is flung open and she is wheeled to her special table with her small entourage of carers and close friends. “Her Hong Kong family,” longtime friend and former carer Joan Boivin says.

 

 

popular and successful as it happens https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/10/celebrated-war-reporter-clare-hollingworth-dies-aged-105

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Zhou Youguang has died according to some tweets. He turned 111 just yesterday.

 

https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/820139612962050049

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Zhou Youguang has died according to some tweets. He turned 111 just yesterday.

 

https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/820139612962050049

putting this Chinese site into Google translate seems to confirm it ... http://news.sina.com.cn/c/nd/2017-01-14/doc-ifxzqnim4370193.shtml

 

He was the oldest 'celebrity ' centenarian. Thought he'd never go !

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The new Number One is now Zoltan Sarosy, a hungarian chess master. He is 110 years old

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Zhou Youguang has died according to some tweets. He turned 111 just yesterday.

 

https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/820139612962050049

putting this Chinese site into Google translate seems to confirm it ... http://news.sina.com.cn/c/nd/2017-01-14/doc-ifxzqnim4370193.shtml

 

He was the oldest 'celebrity ' centenarian. Thought he'd never go !

 

 

Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4119592/Zhou-Youguang-father-Chinese-Romanization-dies.html