The 100 Club

[chilean way 1,875]

Gerda Schmidt-Panknin, german painter has died at 100 https://www.schulzeitreisen.de/?p=71179 (in german)

[drol 11,797]

On 28/11/2020 at 18:30, drol said:

Despite many deaths, the number of living centenarians has increased this year. Some of the latest additions may have good staying power too. Chao is one of them, being mentally sharp as a razor at his age and looking about ten years younger.

His staying power actually sucks. Chao Kuang Piu dead at 100. 

[drol 11,797]

And here is a pic from fellow HK centenarian Henry Hu's 101st birthday. 

Quite difficult to think this guy can carry on administrative duties of an uni, which implies receiving more or less 300 emails per day, but if they believe that it's fine for me. 

[arghton 6,639]

40s baseball outfielder George Elder is a new 100 club member. Couldn't find any birthday pictures.

[arghton 6,639]

Alive centenarians from countries and dependencies with smaller populations.  (under 20 million, only ones born over 100 years before this post.)

 

Chile: (19,6 million)

Leonor Oyarzún, former First Lady of Chile (born 10th March 1919)

Renán Fuentealba Moena, politician (spanish wiki) (born 19th April 1917, alive as of 2020)

 

Romania: (19,3 million)

Mihai Șora, philosopher (born 7th November 1916, alive as of 2020)

Ioan M. Bota, (romanian wiki) priest and historian (born 16th of January 1920, alive as of 2020)

Ion Dobran, WWII flying ace (romanian wiki) (born 5th February 1919, alive as of 2020)

 

Ecuador: (17,6 million)

Isabel Robalino, lawyer (born 14th October 1917, alive as of 2020)

 

Netherlands: (17,5 million)

Joan van der Waals, physicist (born 2nd of May 1920, alive as of 2020)

Marga Minco, journalist and writer (born 31th of March 1920, alive as of 2019)

Daan Schwagermann, visual artist (danish wiki) (born 23rd of June 1920, alive as of 2020)

Jacob Luitjens, nazi collaborator (danish wiki) (born 18th of April 1919)

 

Haiti: (11,7 million)

Odette Roy Fombrun, writer (born 13th of June 1917)

 

Belgium: (11,5 million)

Anne Buydens, Kirk Douglas's widow (born 23rd of April 1919)

Henri Vernes, author and creator of Bob Morane (born 16th of October 1918, alive as of 2018)

Georges Joris, politician (dutch wiki) (born 9th of February 1921, alive as of 2021)

Eva Fastag, WWII person (french wiki) (born 3rd of April 1917, alive as of 2021)

 

Cuba: (11,1 million)

Jessie Lichauco, philanthropist (born 10th of January 1912)

Carmen Herrera, minimalist visual artist (born 30th of May 1915)

 

Greece: (10,7 million)

Epaminondas Stassinopoulos, retired head of the Radiation Physics Office (born 17th of January 1921, alive as of 2018)

Apostolos Pitsos, industrialist (born 29th of June 1918, later addition)

 

Czech Republic: (10,7 million)

Meda Mládková, art collector (born 8th of September 1919)

Miroslav Zikmund, writer (czech wiki) (born 14th of February 1919, alive as of 2021)

Eduard Marek, WWII veteran (czech wiki) (born 17th of March 1917, alive as of 2020)

 

Sweden: (10,3 million)

Dagny Carlsson, blogger (born 8th of May 1912)

 

Hungary: (9,7 million)

Maria Gomori, family therapist (born 25th of May 1920)

Ágnes Keleti, olympic gymnast (born 9th of January 1921)

 

Israel: (9,3 million)

Tamar Eshel, diplomat and politician (born 24th of July 1920)

Dan Tolkowsky, israel air force major general (born 17th of January 1921)

Rachel Dror, teacher and holocaust survivor (born 19th of January 1921)

 

Austria: (8,9 million)

Helmut Ashley, cinematographer, director (born 17th of September 1919)

Walter Arlen, composer (born 31st of July 1920, alive as of 2020)

 

Switzerland: (8,6 million)

Julien-François Zbinden, composer (born 11th of November 1917)

 

Hong Kong: (7,4 million)

Henry Hu, barrister (born 20th of January 1920)

Li Dak-sum, entrepreneur and philanthropist (born 9th of October 1920)

 

Paraguay: (7,3 million)

Basilio Gonzalez, chaco war veteran (gerontology wikia page) (born 13th of June 1913)

 

Libya: (6,9 million)

Mustafa Ben Halim, former prime minister (born 29th of January 1920)

 

Denmark: (5,8 million)

Lise Nørgaard, danish journalist (born 14th of June 1917)

 

Finland: (5,5 million)

Ilmari Koppinen, runner (finnish wiki) (born 8th of January 1918)

Keijo Virtamo, encyclopedist (finnish wiki) (born 7th of August 1919, later addition)

Paavo V. Suominen, businessman and philanthropist (finnish wiki) (born 12th of February 1920)

 

Norway: (5,3 million)

Arne Konrad Eldegard, banker (born 30th of November 1917)

Trygve Brudevold, bobsledder (born 19th of December 1920)

 

Costa Rica: (5,1 million)

Walter Ferguson, calypso singer (born 7th May 1919)

Marita Quiros, former First Lady of Costa Rica (born 10th of March 1911)

 

New Zealand: (5,1 million)

Lloyd Geering, theologian (born 26th of February 1918)

Thomas W. Horton, RAF WWII veteran (born 26th of December 1919)

 

Kuwait: (4,4 million)

Saleh Ajeery, astronomer (born 23th of June 1920)

 

Panama: (4,2 million)

Carmen A. Miró, sociologist and statistician (born 19th of April 1919)

 

Croatia: (4 million)

Josip Manolić, former prime minister of croatia (born 22th of March 1920)

 

Uruguay: (3,5 million)

Félix Sienra, sailor (born 21st of January 1916)

 

Puerto Rico: (3,1 million)

Angel Martín Taboas, former associate justice of the supreme court of puerto rico (born 18th of June 1918)

 

Lithuania: (2,7 million)

David Botwinik, composer (born 1920, alive as of 2018)

 

Jamaica: (2,7 million)

Ena Collymore-Woodstock, barrister and magistrate (born 10th of September 1917)

 

Slovenia: (2,1 million)

Boris Pahor, novelist (born 26th of August 1913)

Joško Battestin, electrical engineer (born 14th of March 1918)

Marko Račič, athlete (born  25th of April 1920)

Ivan Grobelnik, partisan (born 17th of October 1920, alive as of 2020)

 

Trinidad and Tobago: (1,3 million)

Louise Horne, politician and nutritionist (born 12th of May 1912)

 

Estonia: (1,3 million)

Heini Paas, art historian (estonian wiki) (born 6th of October 1918, alive as of 2019)

Mai Raud-Pähn, art historian (estonian wiki) (born 2nd of November 1920, alive as of 2020)

Eduard Kuuskor, WWII veteran (estonian wiki) (born 2nd of January 1918, alive as of 2021)

Addold Mossin, neopagan priest (estonian wiki) (born 12th of December 1919, alive as of 2019)

 

Cyprus: (888 thousand)

Vassos Lyssarides, politician and physician (born 13th of May 1920)

 

Bermuda: (64 thousand)

Winnifred Childs, bookkeeper and oldest Bermudan ever (gerontology wiki) (born 10th of August 1913)

 

Greenland: (56 thousand)

Anton Geisler, shop owner and oldest male Greenlander ever (gerontology wiki) (born 21st of February 1919)

 

Turks and Caicos Islands: (42 thousand)

Jeffrey Capron, second oldest Turks and Caicos Islander ever (gerontology wiki) (born 16th of May 1914)

[Donald 181]

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[Captain Hemlock 729]

Since it’s after midnight in the UK, welcome to the club Al Jaffee, legendary Mad Magazine contributor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jaffee

[drol 11,797]

On 19/01/2021 at 19:17, drol said:

 

17)Shyam Saran Negi (1917). India.

 

Old Shyam gets his vaccine and does not look bad at all. Well, maybe a bit.

[TomTomTelekom 3,727]

Swiss composer and pianist Julien-Francois Zbinden died at 103 years:

https://www.rts.ch/info/culture/musiques/12040053-le-compositeur-romand-julienfrancois-zbinden-est-mort-a-103-ans.html

[Ulitzer95 12,431]

Luis Bedoya Reyes (wiki), Peruvian politician who served as Mayor of Lima from 1964 to 1969, dead at 102.

[arghton 6,639]

I'm almost willing to bet that we'll run out out of Chaco War veterans pretty soon- much sooner than the Spanish Civil War veterans.

I think it's best not to make a thread for them as the war wasn't as notable as other wars that have threads and they're all centenarians by now. We've lost a few of them during the last months including the last nurse of the war six days ago.

 

 

The surviving three Bolivian chaco war veterans are:

José Pradel Loayza (born in July 1914, 106) Celebrated his 106th in july: pictures.

Samuel Chuquimia Murillo (born in August 1916, 104)

Emeterio Ernesto Talavera Choque (born around 1918, 102) Still looks pretty great

 

Can't find nearly anything about Paraguayan veterans, but I mentioned Basilio Gonzalez before and this article mentions two others, aged 107 and 106.

[DaDeathGuy 202]

1 hour ago, arghton said:

Marcelino Guzmán Alarcón (born around 1914, 106) Still seems to be in good shape as of 2021

That article is actually an obituary.

[arghton 6,639]

damn it, I guess it's only five of them left then

[Ulitzer95 12,431]

Another long-time 1917 name on Wikipedia:

Carola B. Eisenberg (wiki), Argentine-American psychiatrist, dead at 103.

NY Times obituary.

[drol 11,797]

Welcome Amadou Mahtar M'Bow to the 100 club! 

 

Another decrepit African centenarian is what we needed.

[arghton 6,639]

January 1921 births seem to be a much stronger group than February or March 1921 births.

There are twelve people with wikipedia articles born in January 1921 who are still alive plus two notable ones who don't have English wikipedia pages but are listed on the living centenarians list.

 

February 1921 has eight centenarians, but atleast Hazel McCallion and Herbert Köfer are still pretty active and in good shape, atleast mentally.

March 1921 has five this far

[arghton 6,639]

On 12/03/2021 at 19:26, arghton said:

Paavo V. Suominen, businessman and philanthropist (finnish wiki) (born 12th of February 1920)

Found a picture from his 101th birthday (here). He doesn't look very great.

 

[Spade_Cooley 9,474]

The upthread mentioned Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow has now hit the century. Was healthy enough to attend a shindig to mark the occasion, I assume that's him in the middle with the facemask on. First black African to lead a United Nations support organisation, y'know?

 

[RolandDeschain 91]

I'm sure most of you are aware but for those that aren't,  veteran character actor Geoffrey Chater is 100 today. 

[drol 11,797]

7 minutes ago, RolandDeschain said:

I'm sure most of you are aware but for those that aren't,  veteran character actor Geoffrey Chater is 100 today. 

Since you are French, I had imagined you would come here to announce Pierre Soulages had died, which was not the case. I'm angry.

[RolandDeschain 91]

1 minute ago, drol said:

Since you are French, I had imagined you would come here to announce Pierre Soulages had died, which was not the case. I'm angry.

I'm not French Drol.  I picked my Deathlist name  from the main character's name in 'The Dark Tower' written by Stephen King.

 

I am from that island in the North Atlantic known as the UK.  Aren't I lucky?

 

ps - I've sadly never heard of Pierre Soulages and only now am aware of him after he has 'ceased to be'.

[Ulitzer95 12,431]

16 minutes ago, RolandDeschain said:

I'm not French Drol.  I picked my Deathlist name  from the main character's name in 'The Dark Tower' written by Stephen King.

 

I am from that island in the North Atlantic known as the UK.  Aren't I lucky?

 

ps - I've sadly never heard of Pierre Soulages and only now am aware of him after he has 'ceased to be'.

Just as an FYI – Soulages is not dead.

[RolandDeschain 91]

4 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Just as an FYI – Soulages is not dead.

I was mistaken - from Drol's post I thought he was meaning that this centenarian had in fact died - Soulages has therefore 'unceased' to be..

[TomTomTelekom 3,727]

Childrens Author Beverly Cleary dead at 104 years:

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2021-03-26/beverly-cleary-childrens-author-obituary

[gcreptile 10,939]

Trinidad and Tobago politician Louise Horne dead at 107, she gave food to people:

https://newsday.co.tt/2021/03/28/former-independent-senator-louise-horne-dies-at-107/