The 100 Club

[drol 11,946]

A bit of updating the list:

 

1)Dharam Pal Singh (1897, 1938): Still unsinkable and will be here for a long time.

2)Fauja Singh (1911): In failing health, both physically and mentally. Does not leave home nowadays and lost a dear friend to COVID just some months ago.

3)G. Venkatasubbiah (1913): Very old and frail, probably not able to walk anymore.

4)Saalumarada Thimmakka (1910?): In failing health, has been in hospital recently and mostly bedridden. Here we go again.

5)Aiyappan Pillai (1914): Declining health, received a call from the PM mid April, apparently bedridden.

6)Lambert Mascarenhas (1915): No news in years.

7)Man Kaur (1916): Still going incredibly strong.

8)S. I. Padmavati (1917): no news for a long time.

9)Shyem Saran Negi (1917): has been "seriously ill" and bedridden since January. A mystery how he is still alive.

10)H. S. Doreswamy (1918): Still going strong.

11)Philipose Mar Chrysostom (1917): Very frail, bedridden, physically weak according to his doctors.

12)K. R. Gowri Amma (1919): Increasingly frail and bedridden.

13)Amala Shankar (1919): suffering from severe dementia, unable to feed herself, bedridden for years.

 

A very frail-looking list...

[CastAway 488]

Bernardino Piñera, former Bishop of Temuco and Archbishop of La Serena, dead at 104 from Covid:

http://www.episcopado.cl/40635-fallece-monsenor-bernardino-pinera-carvallo.html

 

 

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

5 hours ago, drol said:

A bit of updating the list:

 

1)Dharam Pal Singh (1897, 1938): Still unsinkable and will be here for a long time.

2)Fauja Singh (1911): In failing health, both physically and mentally. Does not leave home nowadays and lost a dear friend to COVID just some months ago.

3)G. Venkatasubbiah (1913): Very old and frail, probably not able to walk anymore.

4)Saalumarada Thimmakka (1910?): In failing health, has been in hospital recently and mostly bedridden. Here we go again.

5)Aiyappan Pillai (1914): Declining health, received a call from the PM mid April, apparently bedridden.

6)Lambert Mascarenhas (1915): No news in years.

7)Man Kaur (1916): Still going incredibly strong.

8)S. I. Padmavati (1917): no news for a long time.

9)Shyem Saran Negi (1917): has been "seriously ill" and bedridden since January. A mystery how he is still alive.

10)H. S. Doreswamy (1918): Still going strong.

11)Philipose Mar Chrysostom (1917): Very frail, bedridden, physically weak according to his doctors.

12)K. R. Gowri Amma (1919): Increasingly frail and bedridden.

13)Amala Shankar (1919): suffering from severe dementia, unable to feed herself, bedridden for years.

 

A very frail-looking list...

Dharam Pal Singh should be taken off the list.He's a complete fraudster ! He claims to still be running marathons at the age of 123 ! What are the odds of that  being real? 

[chilean way 1,899]

Shirley Adelson Siegel, american lawyer has died at 101 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/nyregion/shirley-siegel-leading-new-york-civil-rights-lawyer-dies-at-101.html

[I.R.Baboon 221]

Ria van Dijk AKA Luchtbuks Ria (Airgun Ria) turned 100 yesterday. She won't get an UK Obit but well, it's a more-or-less interesting story and - to my surprise - the Daily Mail has covered it in 2012 (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095400/Ria-van-Dijk-takes-photograph-fairground-rifle-range-year-1936.html)

 

Long story short: since 1936, she goes to the fairground in Tilburg to shoot at a shooting gallery. You would get a picture if you shoot the target. She just collected the pictures until around 2007 someone made an art book out of it and 2 years later she sold her collection to the Stedelijk Museum (spending the few thousand euros she received on a bus trip with friends to an organ museum and eating at a trout restaurant). She keeps on shooting every year. This year, the fairground was cancelled this year due to COVID,  but as a surprise it came over to her care home.

[msc 18,472]

A new centenarian this year who appears to have gone under the DL radar, tennis player Bill Sidwell turned 100 in April 2020. He attributes his longevity to eating lots of veg, and presumably playing lots of tennis as he was still playing into his 90s.

 

As a 2 time Wimbledon mens finalist before most of us was born, and a US Open winner, he'll get a QO as and when he goes.

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Ola Mae Spinks, a long-time Detroit school librarian who organized the Slave Narratives in the Library of Congress, has died. She was 106.

 

https://www.wxyz.com/news/detroit-woman-who-organized-slaves-narratives-at-library-of-congress-passes-away-at-106

 

[Drewsky1211 4,744]

It is now June 28th in the UK.

Clarissa Eden, the widow of Prime Minister Anthony Eden, as well as niece of Winston Churchill, has turned 100. 

Eden is the second spouse of a British Prime Minister to do so, after Mary Wilson (Wilson turned 100 in January 2016).

 

 

[msc 18,472]

20 minutes ago, Drewsky1211 said:

It is now June 28th in the UK.

Clarissa Eden, the widow of Prime Minister Anthony Eden, as well as niece of Winston Churchill, has turned 100. 

Eden is the second spouse of a British Prime Minister to do so, after Mary Wilson (Wilson turned 100 in January 2016).

 

 

 

"All my old friends are dying, so I'm making new and younger ones!"

 

Frail and forgetful but still with a huge zest for living, and spending her birthday with her 85 year old niece eating cake. There are worse twilights...

[ladyfiona 2,585]

There is a man in Eithiopia who claims to be 114. He also has recovered from Covid.

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

15 hours ago, Drewsky1211 said:

It is now June 28th in the UK.

Clarissa Eden, the widow of Prime Minister Anthony Eden, as well as niece of Winston Churchill, has turned 100. 

Eden is the second spouse of a British Prime Minister to do so, after Mary Wilson (Wilson turned 100 in January 2016).

 

 

Don't you just feel like putting pillows over their heads sometimes...

[Joey Russ 7,227]

On 04/06/2020 at 14:48, drol said:

Hutton Gibson NYT obit. 

 

Family so asshole they didn't confirm. 

A recent article from The Sun on Mel Gibson, which briefly mentions the fact that Hutton Gibson died

[YoungWillz 21,046]

16 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

A recent article from The Sun on Mel Gibson, which briefly mentions the fact that Hutton Gibson died

Bound to happen wasn't it?

[Ulitzer95 12,620]

Kind of off topic but meh, shoot me... still more constructive than discussing whether the Grim Reaper is like “an enema”.

 

The number of centenarians is decreasing to a notable extent in the UK.

 

The ONS stats now have the centenarian numbers published up to 2018. It has fallen to around 13,000 individuals. Sounds like a lot but it has been considerably higher before.

 

The reason is attributed to the sharp fall in births during WWI. Life expectancy also remains fairly static, so we shouldn’t expect to see an increase for a few years at least.

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

23 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Kind of off topic but meh, shoot me... still more constructive than discussing whether the Grim Reaper is like “an enema”.

 

The number of centenarians is decreasing to a notable extent in the UK.

 

The ONS stats now have the centenarian numbers published up to 2018. It has fallen to around 13,000 individuals. Sounds like a lot but it has been considerably higher before.

 

The reason is attributed to the sharp fall in births during WWI. Life expectancy also remains fairly static, so we shouldn’t expect to see an increase for a few years at least.

and yet the list of  famous centenarians  on wikipedia just seems to get longer and longer...

[Miracle Aligner 249]

On 28/06/2020 at 15:16, ladyfiona said:

There is a man in Eithiopia who claims to be 114. He also has recovered from Covid.

 

There's no way that man is a day over 70 let alone 100

[Ulitzer95 12,620]

4 hours ago, Miracle Aligner said:

 

There's no way that man is a day over 70 let alone 100

My money’s on 49. Lad’s just had a tough paper round.

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

Pianist Eleanor Sokolof has died at 106. She was teaching until just recently.She reminds me a bit of Olivia de Haviland  in that she looked quite plump and healthy right to the end https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/curtis-institute-philadelphia-eleanor-sokoloff-20200712.html

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

Athlete Giusseppe Ottaviani has died at 104https://www.corriereadriatico.it/pesaro/marche_santippolito_giuseppe_ottaviani_morte_ultime_notizie-5355919.html

 

Also the historian Frank Popper died a few days ago at 102 https://www.artforum.com/news/frank-popper-1918-2020-83583

[TomTomTelekom 3,727]

Indian danseuse Amalia Shankar dead at 101 years:

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/renowned-danseuse-amala-shankar-passes-away-in-kolkata-6521125/lite/

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

4 hours ago, TomTomTelekom said:

Indian danseuse Amalia Shankar dead at 101 years:

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/renowned-danseuse-amala-shankar-passes-away-in-kolkata-6521125/lite/

Sister in law  of Ravi Shankar of course who was on the list for many years I think 

[chilean way 1,899]

Jan Verroken, belgian politician has died at 103 https://m.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20200724_95399466 (in dutch)

[Ulitzer95 12,620]

With Kirk Douglas, Vera Lynn and Olivia De Havilland all dying in the same year, I think it's fair to say we've lost three of the most prominent centenarians in the world.

Got me thinking, who is the "most well known" centenarian now? This is very hard to measure of course, but by looking at those with the most non-English Wiki articles, here's a short list:

1 Edmond H. Fischer (41)
= James Lovelock (41)
3 Gottfried Bohm (33)
4 Lawrence Ferlinghetti (29)
5 Boris Pahor (25)
= Borys Paton (25)
7 Marsha Hunt (22)
= Pierre Soulages (22)
9 Norman Lloyd (21)
10 Captain Tom (19)
= Muazzez Ilmiye Cig (19)
= Beverly Cleary (19)
= Nehemiah Persoff (19)
14 Brenda Milner (18)
15 Ben Ferencz (17)
16 Josip Manolic (15)
= Renee Simonot (15)
18 Marge Champion (13)
19 Carmen Herrera (12)
= Robert Marchand (12)
21 Damian Iguacen Borau (11)
= Anne Buydens (11)

Not very scientific. Though can anyone think of any centenarians with international prominence not listed above?

[Spade_Cooley 9,527]

I'm tempted to say Persoff > Cleary > Ferlinghetti > Lloyd > Lovelock for the top 5.

[Death Impends 7,975]

Kirk/Olivia/Vera all dying this year and no one on their fame level hitting 100 until potentially Prince Philip kind of reminds me of that period in the late aughts to early 10s where the oldest living person never made it past 115 and rarely past 114.