The 100 Club

[chilean way 1,898]

24 minutes ago, CoffinLodger said:

How did you compile this list?

Using wikipedia's list, names posted here and centenarians deadpool and a little of own investigation 

[TomTomTelekom 3,727]

American Biochemist Herbert Tabor dead at 101 years:

https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/people/082120/herbert-tabor-1918-2020

[The Watcher 317]

Boris Pahor is 107 today. He is the oldest living Nazi concentration camp survivor & on the recent list of foreign Wiki entries.

 

[Ulitzer95 12,615]

On 22/06/2020 at 17:24, 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...

S. I. Padmavati dead at 103 according to this tweet.

Edits to her Wiki page suggest it was COVID-19.

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

6 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

S. I. Padmavati dead at 103 according to this tweet.

Edits to her Wiki page suggest it was COVID-19.

I await verification with interest!

[drol 11,946]

9 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

S. I. Padmavati dead at 103 according to this tweet.

Edits to her Wiki page suggest it was COVID-19.

Confirmed. Well, visiting old patients in hospital at 103 when a pandemic is going on should go on Watchmojo Worst Choices in Horror Movies list...

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

1 hour ago, drol said:

Confirmed. Well, visiting old patients in hospital at 103 when a pandemic is going on should go on Watchmojo Worst Choices in Horror Movies list...

I never doubted it ...

[chilean way 1,898]

Marguerite Harl, french literary scholar has died at 101 http://www.orient-mediterranee.com/spip.php?article4452&lang=fr (in french)

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

Physicist Robert Finkelstein has died at 104 https://www.pa.ucla.edu/robert-finkelstein-memorial.html

[drol 11,946]

On 22/06/2020 at 18:24, 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...

Book about Fauja Singh published. No whatsoever update on his health, but he  has not commented.

[Drewsky1211 4,744]

Charles Manson's defense attorney Irving Kanarek dead at 100.

[Ulitzer95 12,615]

Twitter reporting the death of British-American bandleader Al G. Wright at the age of 104.

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Norman Thrower, a British-born UCLA professor in their geography department from 1957 to 1990 and formerly the directors of the (Columbus) Quincentenary Programs at the UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies and the university's Clark Library, has died. He was 100.

 

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=norman-joseph-william-thrower&pid=196753091

 

[alt obits guy 3,371]

1 hour ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Twitter reporting the death of British-American bandleader Al G. Wright at the age of 104.

Not an obit, but more formal confirmation of the death of Al G. Wright: https://t.e2ma.net/webview/z48bfc/9b8f817f494af38af229743e9508288c

 

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

1 hour ago, alt obits guy said:

Not an obit, but more formal confirmation of the death of Al G. Wright: https://t.e2ma.net/webview/z48bfc/9b8f817f494af38af229743e9508288c

 

one of those oldies that I only heard of because he was right next to Olivia Dr Haviland on the Wikipedia list of centenarians..between her and Ronald Atkins...

[chilean way 1,898]

Edgard Tupët-Thomé french resistance fighter has died at 100 https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2020/09/09/edgard-tupet-thome-l-un-des-quatre-derniers-compagnons-de-la-liberation-est-mort_6051586_3382.html (in french)

[TomTomTelekom 3,727]

Costa Rican-American Author, activist, former First Lady and jounalist Henrietta Boggs dead at 102 years:

https://www.crhoy.com/obituarios-crhoy/murio-la-exprimera-dama-henrietta-boggs/

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

33 minutes ago, TomTomTelekom said:

Costa Rican-American Author, activist, former First Lady and jounalist Henrietta Boggs dead at 102 years:

https://www.crhoy.com/obituarios-crhoy/murio-la-exprimera-dama-henrietta-boggs/

I thought she was maybe the founder of a toilet company or something! 

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

Author Lotte Strauss is dead at 107 https://www.echovita.com/us/obituaries/ny/new-york/lotte-strauss-11409560

[YoungWillz 21,044]

On ‎20‎/‎08‎/‎2020 at 19:46, TomTomTelekom said:

R&B and jazz musician Hal Singer, who has collaborated with a variety of celebrated artists, including Coleman Hawkins, died at 100 years:

https://www.leparisien.fr/yvelines-78/yvelines-hal-singer-la-legende-du-jazz-a-souffle-sa-derniere-note-20-08-2020-8370699.php

He has also played with groups like Rocket 88.

Hal Singer QO: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2020/sep/14/hal-singer-obituary

 

Off I go to the Poker Tourney thread....

[Lafaucheuse 4,051]

Czech astronomer Lubos Perek has died at 101

https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/veda/3185904-zemrel-cesky-astronom-lubos-perek-bylo-mu-101-let

[Ulitzer95 12,615]

Edwin M. Cronk, U.S. Ambassador to Singapore (1972–1975), dead at 102.

George S. Vest now the oldest U.S. ambassador... I think. Turns 102 in December.

[Lafaucheuse 4,051]

Shah Ahmed Shafi, leader of islamic group "hifazet-e-Islam" had died at 104 

 https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2020/09/18/shah-ahmed-shafi-chief-of-bangladesh-islamist-group-hifazat-e-islam-dies

[Spade_Cooley 9,526]

Please welcome to the 100 Club the "Poet Laureate of Baseball", American sportswriter and former fiction editor of The New Yorker Roger Angell. Giving interviews to mark his century so presumably will be with us for a while longer.

[Octopus of Odstock 2,197]

Kenneth McAlpine, former racing driver, founder of Connaught Engineering, former High Sherrif of Kent, vintner, a WW2 fighter pilot, former chairman of McAlpine Helicopters and a director of the McAlpine construction company, as well as being a former Governor of Eastbourne College is 100 today.