The 100 Club

[drol 11,946]

On 24/02/2021 at 20:46, drol said:

Another January 1920 born dead. Obviously only Western ones, Trevor Dannatt and him in quick succession. I expect Gottfried Bohm to be the next one. Out of them only David Musuguri, Charles Njonjo, Henry Hu will be left. Stefan Zywotko survived COVID in December, but that weakened him a lot. Theodore Geballe seems just a random guy.

So I was right again. Zywotko to be next, then Geballe. 

It will be a hell of a final triple threat... 

[YoungWillz 21,044]

On 10/06/2021 at 10:07, gcreptile said:

Never heard of him outside of this forum, but he won the Pritzker Prize, the Nobel Prize for architects. So he should get the broadsheet obits.

Or the Daily Mail. Gottfried Bohm (Boehm): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-9673257/Gottfried-Boehm-architect-concrete-churches-dies-101.html

[drol 11,946]

On 08/05/2021 at 08:17, drol said:

Orlando Drummond in hospice care following a urinary tract infection. 

Discharged.

[Joey Russ 7,227]

24 minutes ago, drol said:

Discharged.

How tf do you discharge from hospice care? 

[Death Impends 7,975]

8 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

How tf do you discharge from hospice care? 

He is the Brazilian Popeye/Scooby Doo/ALF, probably ate spinach, Scooby Snacks, or cats

[drol 11,946]

15 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

How tf do you discharge from hospice care? 

They thought he should enter hospice care, then he improved and has now recovered. An immortal in the making.

[arghton 6,737]

After a couple of deaths in May, we have our first June centenarians, here are some of them... I'd say these are a pretty strong trio:

 

James Francis Edwards, born 5th of June 1921. Canadian WWII pilot, with 19 aerial victories he was Canada's highest scoring ace in the Western Desert Campaign. He shot down Luftwaffe ace Otto Schultz (51 aerial victories) in 1942 and probably also Günter Steinhausen (40 aerial victories), later the same year. Picture from an interview on his 100th

 

Jakob Skarstein, born 7th of June 1921. Longtime radio journalist and personality since 1945.

 

P.K. Warrier, born 8th of June 1921. Ayurveda alternative medicine practicioner.

 

 

[drol 11,946]

On 15/04/2021 at 10:06, drol said:

Welcome (in a few days) to the Club China's best translator of Western poetry, Xu Yuanchong! Yes, another Chinese immortal geezer, we really needed one more.

 

A documentary featuring Xu Yuanchong has been positively received . That guy is unstoppable! 

[drol 11,946]

Just now, drol said:

A documentary featuring Xu Yuanchong has been positively received . That guy is unstoppable! 

Dead. 

[drol 11,946]

Vance Trimble dead at 107.

[Lafaucheuse 4,051]

On 22/05/2021 at 12:22, arghton said:

Rode bikes until the age of 107/108, what a legend.

From 1911 left are Renée Simonot, Marita Quiros and Eileen Ash. Ash seems to still be in a pretty good condition, Quiros was holding a therapy doll in the last photo of her. Can't find new pictures of Simonot.

 

Still a stronger year (atleast has a larger amount of famous centenarians alive) than 1912 and 1913. 1912 has Dagny Carlsson, the Swedish blogger and Jessie Lichauco, American/Filipino philanthropist.

1913 is an men's only club with journalist Vance Trimble and holocaust survivior/writer Boris Pahor.

Boris Pahor is the only one left from 1913

[gcreptile 10,972]

Very brave, the Turkish Press is celebrating the 107th birthday of Muazzez Ilmiye Cig a few days early:

https://www.yenicaggazetesi.com.tr/cumhuriyet-abidesi-muazzez-ilmiye-cig-107-yasini-kutluyor-iyi-ki-dogdun--457983h.htm

[Ulitzer95 12,615]

05.05.1913 – 27.05.2020 Arthur L. Thurlow
29.03.1913 – 22.06.2020 Pappukutty Bhagavathar
28.03.1913 – 01.03.2021 Toko Shinoda
15.02.1913 – 07.03.2021 Carl J. Shapiro
23.08.1913 – 19.04.2021 G. Venkatasubbiah
06.07.1913 – 16.06.2021 Vance Trimble
26.08.1913 – ??.??.2021 Boris Pahor

Pahor was also the youngest of the bunch.

Last public appearance was his 107th birthday in August 2020. He looked and sounded frail. Guarantee he will not see the year out.
 

 

[arghton 6,737]

https://janashakthimedia.com/freedom-fighter-suram-ramayya-passes-away/

Indian freedom fighter S. R. Ramaiah dead at 102 (or 103?) He was born in 1918 or 1919 and I'm not sure if he's been mentioned here even once, so he wasn't probably in the top ten of the most known living centenarians of India.

[Lafaucheuse 4,051]

Italien basketball player Anna Maria Giotto has died at 105, couldn’t find a proper obit tho

[Ulitzer95 12,615]

13 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said:

Italien basketball player Anna Maria Giotto has died at 105, couldn’t find a proper obit tho

Obit.

[Spade_Cooley 9,526]

3 hours ago, Lafaucheuse said:

Italien basketball player Anna Maria Giotto has died at 105, couldn’t find a proper obit tho

 

Which begs the question: is there anyone who won a world/continental title in any sport before World War 2 still alive?

[The Watcher 317]

1 hour ago, Spade_Cooley said:

 

Which begs the question: is there anyone who won a world/continental title in any sport before World War 2 still alive?

Not a world title but Eileen Ash (born 30 October 1911) played Test cricket for England before WW2.

[Ulitzer95 12,615]

Floridian state senator Henry Sayler (wiki) died in late May aged 100.

Another from my longlist. Legacy obit.

Also a WWII veteran. His wife predeceased him in July 2020, aged 95.

[Ulitzer95 12,615]

On 19/01/2021 at 18:17, drol said:

Here's a list of them, just to see how many will be dead in a year:

 

*snip*

9)Lambert Mascarenhas (1914). India.

*snip*

 

How many of them will be dead in a year? 4 or 5?

Lambert Mascarenhas dead at 106 according to multiple posts on Twitter and Facebook.
 

 

[drol 11,946]

India's centenarians falling like flies.

[arghton 6,737]

Only Aiyappan Pillai (1914-2022), Man Kaur (1916-2021), Shyam Saran Negi (1917-2022), S. K. Paramasivan (1919-2022), V. M. M. Nair (1919-2021) and Yadlapati Venkatarao (1919-2022) left of India's 1910s famous people according to the "list of living centenarians".

 

1920 has Thanga Darlong (1920-2023), C.R. Rao (1920-2023), Raghunath Chandorkar (1920-2021) and 1921 this far has only P. K. Warrier (1921-2021).

10 centenarians.

 

 

Out of other top10 largest countries by population (other than the US), China has 7, the oldest being Ma Shitu and Song Ping. Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh have none.

 

Brazil has agronomist Fernando Cardoso (1914-2021), primatologist Milton Thiago de Mello (1916-2024), professor Cleonice Berardinelli (1916-2023), athlete Frederico Fischer (b. 1917), actor, voice actor and hospice care survivor Orlando Drummond (1919-2021), businessman Alberto Dualib (1919-2021) and bishop Antonio Afonso de Miranda (1920-2021), but no new ones from during the last year.

Nigeria has the country's first chartered accountant Akintola Williams (1919-2023)

Russia has animator Leonid Shvartsman (1920-2022) and Mexico has bishop Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla (1921-2022)

 

[arghton 6,737]

On 23/10/2020 at 20:54, Ulitzer95 said:

It's not "surprising". The world's oldest man was born in 1909. I wouldn't expect there to be any famous men alive who are 2-3 years younger than the world's oldest.

There are a few names you missed from a list here.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2021/6/emilio-flores-marquez-confirmed-as-the-worlds-oldest-man-living-at-112-665641

Puerto Rican Emilio Flores Marquez has been recognized as the world's oldest man today. He was born on 8th of August 1908 and this really changes a few things.

 

Means that since the death of Bob Weighton, Marquez has been oldest man in the world. Dumitru Comanescu (November 1908-June 2020) was never the oldest man in the world, neither was the unconfirmed Olimpio Martinez Pires (24th of August 1908-October 2020) or the person commonly said to be the current WOM, Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia (b. Feb 1909)

 

Marquez has had a pacemaker since he was 101 years old but according to the article, is still in good health. He helped his father on their sugarcane farm from a young age and was in WWII.

 

Looks a bit worse than Chitetsu Watanabe when he was recognized as the world's oldest man by Guinness World Records (and sadly, he died under two weeks later just ten days before his 113th)

Really hoping Marquez will get to 113 as the first person to do so since 2018 or 2019

[Ulitzer95 12,615]

1 hour ago, arghton said:

Marquez has had a pacemaker since he was 101 years old but according to the article, is still in good health.

 

Looks a bit worse than Chitetsu Watanabe when he was recognized as the world's oldest man

I’ll give him 2 months.

 

[drol 11,946]

On 27/06/2021 at 15:34, arghton said:

 

businessman Alberto Dualib (b. 1919) 

 

Alberto Dualib has been in hospital for 15 days. Pulling an Orlando Drummond or finally leaving this earth?