The 100 Club

[arghton 6,889]

Impressive achievement for him to have lived that far, a 101-year old who survived 2 months and 20 days after entering hospice care (the average life expectancy for someone put in hospice care is usually half of that) and that he lived more than a month after being discharged from hospice care.

Rest in Peace, Brazilian Scooby-Doo

[arghton 6,889]

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

Alive centenarians from countries and dependencies with smaller populations.  (under 20 million)

...

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)

...

Dead, died off the radar in November 2020 according to geni: https://www.geni.com/people/Jožko-Battestin/6000000022470814696

 

The other ones are still alive: Pahor will, if still alive turn 108 in a month and Racic is now 101. Couldn't find any birthday pictures of Racic.

Grobelnik still looks great, interview from April:

 

[Ulitzer95 12,912]

9 minutes ago, arghton said:

Dead, died off the radar in November 2020 according to geni: https://www.geni.com/people/Jožko-Battestin/6000000022470814696

 

I already posted about this in November:
 

 

[chilean way 1,914]

Alfred Chupin, french politician has died at 104  https://www.letelegramme.fr/finistere/brest/l-ancien-maire-de-brest-alfred-chupin-s-est-eteint-27-07-2021-12798422.php 

[drol 12,170]

Happy belated 100th birthday to aerospace engineer Wang Xiji! 

 

Widely celebrated, but could not find any photo of him on his birthday, which may be not a good sign.

[gcreptile 11,094]

On 15/05/2021 at 14:40, arghton said:

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/39yKV0/dagny-fyller-109-ar--firas-av-drottning-silvia

Dagny Carlsson got to 109 a week ago.

 

Dagny Carlsson recently said she wants to move around but has no energy:

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/75JAEo/dagny-carlssons-halsning-till-svenska-folket-efter-tuffa-tiden

 

She has stopped blogging herself, and someone does it for her - ever since she was hospitalised earlier this year.

[Ulitzer95 12,912]

On 09/05/2020 at 11:26, Ulitzer95 said:

And another almost immediately takes her place.

Helen Nicol turns 100 today. Here is a post about her 99th birthday last year.

Helen Nicol (wiki) dead at 101.

 

No idea who the oldest AAGPBL player is now, possibly Betsy Jochum (wiki) who turned 100 in February. There are still quite a few around.

[drol 12,170]

On 10/07/2021 at 09:49, TomTomTelekom said:

Indian Ayurveda practitioner P.K. Warrier deat at 100 years:

https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/doyen-of-ayurveda-pk-warrier-passes-away-1.5819433

PK Warrier died due to complications of COVID-19.

[Ulitzer95 12,912]

A summary of Indian centenarians (those who have Wiki pages)

Dead in 2021 (15):

15 Mar (104) Chemancheri Kunhiraman Nair, actor
19 Apr (107) G. Venkatasubbiah, writer and lexicographer
05 May (103) Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma, Christian leader
11 May (101) K. R. Gouri Amma, politician and government minister
14 May (100) R. L. Bhatia, politician; Governor of Bihar (2008–2009)
26 May (103) H. S. Doreswamy, journalist and independence activist
28 May (100) T. M. Kaliannan, politician and last surviving member of India's first parliament (1950–1952)
18 Jun (102) S. R. Ramaiah, politician and independence activist
27 Jun (106) Lambert Mascarenhas, journalist and independence activist
10 Jul (100) P. K. Warrier, physician
22 Jul (107) Bhageerathi Amma, old lady known for becoming a student again aged 105
31 Jul (105) Man Kaur, Masters track and field athlete
03 Sep (100): Raghunath Chandorkar, world's oldest living first-class cricketer
08 Oct (101): V. M. M. Nair, civil servant and diplomat
05 Dec (100): Prithipal Singh Gill, the only officer to have served in all 3 branches of India's military

Dead in 2022 (6):

05 Jan (107): Aiyappan Pillai, lawyer
30 Jan (102): S. K. Paramasivan, politician
28 Feb (102): Yadlapati Venkatarao, politician
10 Sep (101): B. B. Lal, archaeologist
05 Nov (105): Shyam Saran Negi, the first person to cast a vote in India's first election in 1951
11 Dec (102): Pravrajika Bhaktiprana, Hindu nun

Dead in 2023 (9):

19 Jan (100/101): Abdul Ghani Azhari, Muslim scholar and historian
21 Jan (100): Ravipudi Venkatadri, writer and activist
22 Jun (101): P. Sabanayagam, civil servant
27 Jun (103): P. Chitran Namboodirippad, writer and educationist
31 Jul (100): Rusi Cooper, cricketer
22 Aug (102): C. R. Rao, mathematician
10 Oct (101): Karthyayani Amma, woman who scored high marks on exam aged 96
15 Nov (102):  N. Sankaraiah, politician and independence activist
03 Dec (103): Thanga Darlong, folk musician

Dead in 2024 (3):

15 Apr (103): Dalip Singh Majithia, Indian Air Force pilot
03 Jul (100): Smriti Biswas, film actress
27 Sep (109): Pappammal, organic farmer

Living in India (8):

b. 1910/1911?: Saalumarada Thimmakka, environmentalist

Living Indian emigrants (1):

b. 01 Jul 1911: Fauja Singh, marathon runner [now a U.K. citizen]

(no others turning 100 in 2021 to my knowledge)

[drol 12,170]

12 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

A summary of Indian centenarians (those who have Wiki pages)

Dead in 2021... so far (12):

15 Mar (104) Chemancheri Kunhiraman Nair, actor
19 Apr (107) G. Venkatasubbiah, writer and lexicographer
05 May (103) Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma, Christian leader
11 May (101) K. R. Gouri Amma, politician and government minister
14 May (100) R. L. Bhatia, politician; Governor of Bihar (2008–2009)
26 May (103) H. S. Doreswamy, journalist and independence activist
28 May (100) T. M. Kaliannan, politician and last surviving member of India's first parliament (1950–1952)
18 Jun (102) S. R. Ramaiah, politician and independence activist
27 Jun (106) Lambert Mascarenhas, journalist and independence activist
10 Jul (100) P. K. Warrier, physician
22 Jul (107) Bhageerathi Amma, old lady known for becoming a student again aged 105
31 Jul (105) Man Kaur, Masters track and field athlete

Living in India (12):

b. 24 May 1914: Aiyappan Pillai, lawyer
b. 01 Jul 1917: Shyam Saran Negi, the first person to cast a vote in India's first election in 1951
b. 26 Feb 1919: S. K. Paramasivan, politician
b. 16 Dec 1919: Yadlapati Venkatarao, politician
b. 08 Oct 1919: V. M. M. Nair, civil servant and diplomat
b. 20 Jul 1920: Thanga Darlong, folk musician
b. ?? Oct 1920: Pravrajika Bhaktiprana, Hindu nun
b. 21 Nov 1920: Raghunath Chandorkar, world's oldest living first-class cricketer
b. 11 Dec 1920: Prithipal Singh Gill, the only officer to have served in all 3 branches of India's military
b. 02 May 1921: B. B. Lal, archaeologist
b. 15 Jul 1921: N. Sankaraiah, politician and independence activist
b. 29 Jul 1921: Balwant Moreshwar Purandare, writer and historian
(no others turning 100 in 2021 to my knowledge)

Living Indian emigrants (2):

b. 01 Jul 1911: Fauja Singh, marathon runner [now a U.K. citizen]
b. 10 Sep 1920: C. R. Rao, mathematician [now a U.S. citizen]

Saalumarada Thimmakka (b. 1910 or 1919) and Pappammal (b. 1914) should be added to the list.

[Ulitzer95 12,912]

9 minutes ago, drol said:

Saalumarada Thimmakka (b. 1910 or 1919) and Pappammal (b. 1914) should be added to the list.

Not sure how I missed them. Both are on my radar. Cheers, added.

[arghton 6,889]

On 14/06/2021 at 01:30, arghton said:

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.

Maybe not such a strong trio as I thought, as now Skarstein is also dead:

https://www.bt.no/nyheter/lokalt/i/WjbGpQ/jakob-skarstein-er-doed

(Warrier died at the start of July, Edwards is the only one of the trio living now)

[TomTomTelekom 3,731]

English conductor and composer Stephen Wilkinson dead at 102 years:

https://slippedisc.com/2021/08/death-of-an-english-conductor-102/

[gcreptile 11,094]

8 hours ago, TomTomTelekom said:

English conductor and composer Stephen Wilkinson dead at 102 years:

https://slippedisc.com/2021/08/death-of-an-english-conductor-102/

Indeed a unique DDP hit for Obituarynotice:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/08/11/stephen-wilkinson-composer-conductor-turned-bbc-northern-singers/

[arghton 6,889]

On 20/07/2021 at 02:16, arghton said:

The four living notable Finnish centenarians notable enough to get a Finnish wiki are:

...

Keijo Virtamo (b. 1919) Encyclopedist, also notable for being the last living veteran from the "Ässärykmentti" regiment during WWII. Newest article about him is from december, he'll be 102 on the 8th of next month.

...

His 102th birthday was on the 7th, can't find anything new about him. Latest picture from Dec 2019, latest news article from Dec 2020 with a recording of him singing aged 101. Bad sign, considering he was already mostly bedbound at 100. Here he is in December 2019, in the framed photograph is a picture from his 100th:

Also by far the oldest living notable Finnish person to have an IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3A499451/

Appeared in multiple episodes of Naapurivisa (1966-1970). It was a quiz/game show that had a three-member team from Finland and the Estonian SSR. As far as I know Virtamo is the only living participant and only living cast member who wasn't a performer. Naapurivisa was rare at the time as it was made as a collaboration of people from different sides of the Iron Curtain and also (originally) approved by the Soviets. Here is one episode from 1966, Virtamo is also in it: https://arhiiv.err.ee/vaata/55588

The show's expanding popularity in the Estonian SSR caused the Soviet Union to end it in 1970.

[I.R.Baboon 224]

On 25/06/2020 at 21:22, I.R.Baboon said:

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.

She's on oxygen now, but hit bullseye once again https://www.destentor.nl/home/slecht-ter-been-maar-eigenwijze-luchtbuks-ria-101-schiet-staand-en-twee-keer-raak~af2fc373/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F.

[arghton 6,889]

https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/an-exceptional-comedic-talent-tributes-paid-to-british-dance-band-star-mary-lee-for-100th-birthday-3344273

Scottish singer Mary Lee (Mary Ann McDevitt) is celebrating her 100th today. Last surviving British dance band singer who was active in the 1930s and the widow of comedian Jack Milroy. Never mentioned on this forum before, I think.

[YoungWillz 21,256]

9 minutes ago, arghton said:

https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/an-exceptional-comedic-talent-tributes-paid-to-british-dance-band-star-mary-lee-for-100th-birthday-3344273

Scottish singer Mary Lee is celebrating her 100th today. Last surviving British dance band singer who was active in the 1930s and the widow of comedian Jack Milroy. Never mentioned on this forum before, I think.

Oft misheard on the Adam And The Ants Track Ant Rap as:

 

Marco! Merrick! Mary Lee! Gary Tibbs and Yours Truly!

[gcreptile 11,094]

I hope it hasn't been posted before.... didn't find anything... it seems that DDP pick and centenarian Swedish actress Sylva Akesson died in May at 104, but you have to dig deep for a source.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0959796/

[YoungWillz 21,256]

3 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

I hope it hasn't been posted before.... didn't find anything... it seems that DDP pick and centenarian Swedish actress Sylva Akesson died in May at 104, but you have to dig deep for a source.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0959796/

I think it's easily one she's never going to QO....

[Ulitzer95 12,912]

Updated the list of names from Who's Who to include the 20 individuals turning 100 next year (see spoiler below). 7 have Wiki pages, and just 4 of them are 2021 DDP picks (surprised Kentridge wasn't picked).

Of note – two Nobel laureates, a French cabinet minister, one of Mandela's lawyers and the former chief exec of Grampian TV.

Who's Who still lists 3 individuals born in 1922 as alive (their website is only updated 1-2 times a year). They are:
Prof. Hugh Keith Bevan, died 15th July aged 98. Death and funeral notice.
Russell Wilmot Evans MC, died 21st July aged 98. Times obit.
Sir Richard Pease, 3rd Baronet, died 9th March aged 98. Telegraph death notice.
 

Spoiler

Alexander Henry Hermann b. 1917 / Diplomat
Francis Jackson CBE b. 1917 / Organist and Master of the Music, York Minster, 1946–1982
Karl-Günther von Hase b. 1917 / German Ambassador to the UK, 1970–1977

Dame Frances Campbell-Preston b. 1918 / Lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother, 1965–2002
Sir Lloyd Geering CBE b. 1918 / New Zealand theologian
His Honour John David Hayman BEM b. 1918 / Circuit judge
Prof. Brenda Milner b. 1918 / Neuropsychologist / 2021 DDP unique pick
Joyce Reynolds b. 1918 / Classicist / 2021 DDP unique pick

Stanley James Clayton b. 1919 / Town Clerk of the City of London, 1974–1982
Emmanuel Evans-Anfom b. 1919 / Commissioner for Education and Culture in Ghana, 1978–1988
9th Viscount Falmouth b. 1919 / Hereditary peer and landowner, Member of the House of Lords, 1962–1999
Captain Alwyne Farquharson MC b. 1919 / Chief of Clan Farquharson and Scotland's oldest clan chief
Prof. James Lovelock CBE b. 1919 / Independent scientist known for coining the Gaia hypothesis / 2021 DDP pick
Sir Humphrey Moon, 7th Baronet b. 1919 / Aristocrat
Leslie Reid b. 1919 / Diplomat
William Good Robinson b. 1919 / Deputy Secretary, Department of the Civil Service, Northern Ireland, 1978–1980
Victor Ross b. 1919 / Chairman of Reader's Digest, 1978–1984
George Girdwood Stewart MC b. 1919 / Decorated veteran and Cairngorms conservationist

Diana Armfield b. 1920 / Artist / 2021 DDP unique pick
Colin Hinton Curtis b. 1920 / Chairman of the Metropolitan Public Abattoir Board, 1971–1981
John Cruickshank VC b. 1920 / Last living VC recipient from World War II / 2021 DDP pick
Prof. James Dannatt b. 1920 / Architect
Sir Patrick Duffy b. 1920 / MP, 1963–1966, 1970–1992
Edmond H. Fischer b. 1920 / American biochemist, Nobel laureate (1992)
Martin Philip Lam b. 1920 / Government official
Prof. Ian MacGillivray b. 1920 / Doctor, Dean of Medical Faculty, University of Aberdeen, 1976–1979
Sir Gerrard Charles Peat b. 1920 / Chartered accountant, Partner, Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co.
Prof. C. R. Rao b. 1920 / Indian-American mathematician and statistician / 2021 DDP unique pick
21st Lord Saye and Sele b. 1920 / Hereditary peer and British Army officer, Member of the House of Lords, 1968–1999
George Shultz b. 1920 / U.S. Secretary of State, 1982–1989, of the Treasury, 1972–1974 and of Labor, 1969–1970 / 2021 DDP pick
Dr. Louis Siminovitch b. 1920 / Canadian molecular biologist
Robert Steel b. 1920 / Secretary General, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, 1968–1985
Edward Toms b. 1920 / SAS veteran turned arts proprietor

Jens Christensen b. 1921 / Danish diplomat
Sir Michael A. Epstein CBE b. 1921 / Pathologist, co-discoverer of the Epstein–Barr virus / 2021 DDP unique pick
Prof. Herbert Gutfreund b. 1921 / Biochemist
Rev. Bernard Hall b. 1921 / Director, Society of Jesus, 2001–2004
Sir Archie Lamb b. 1921 / British Ambassador to Norway, 1978–1980 and Kuwait, 1974–1977
Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow b. 1921 / Senegalese educator, Director-General of UNESCO, 1974–1987
Wallace John Mackenzie OBE b. 1921 / Director, Slough Estates, 1972–1991
Dennis Moorcraft b. 1921 / Under-Secretary, Inland Revenue, 1975–1981
Prof. Walter Murgatroyd b. 1921 / Professor of Thermal Power
Norman Thomas b. 1921 / HM Chief Inspector of Schools, 1973–1981
Geoffrey Graydon Tibbs OBE b. 1921 / Secretary of the Royal College of Physicians, 1968–1986
Sir Simon Towneley b. 1921 / Author and Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, 1976–1997
Albert Frederick Wallace CBE b. 1921 / Controller of Manpower, Greater London Council, 1978–1982

Mary Netterville Blake b. 1922 / Headmistress, Manchester High School for Girls, 1973–1985
Ronald Blythe CBE b. 1922 / Writer and essayist / 2021 DDP unique pick
Rear-Adm. Thomas Henry Bradbury b. 1922 / Royal Navy officer
Sir Arnold Burgen b. 1922 / Physician and pharmacologist
Sir William John Charnley b. 1922 / Aeronautical engineer
John Cormack b. 1922 / Civil servant
Roland Dumas b. 1922 / French lawyer and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1988–1993 / 2021 DDP unique pick
Richard John Eden OBE b. 1922 / Theoretical physicist
Maj.-Gen. Robert Noel Evans b. 1922 / Postgraduate Dean & Commandment, Royal Army Medical College, 1979–1981
John B. Goodenough b. 1922 / American materials scientist, Nobel laureate (2019) / 2021 DDP pick
Sheikh Abdulrahman Al-Helaissi b. 1922 / Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, 1966–1976
Sir John Herbecq b. 1922 / Church Commissioner, 1982–1996
Sir Sydney Kentridge QC b. 1922 / South African-born British lawyer
Marianne Lutz b. 1922 / Headmistress, Sheffield High School for Girls, 1960–1983
Alexander Mair MBE b. 1922 / Chief Executive and Director, Grampian Television Ltd., 1970–1987
Alfred John Rosenfeld b. 1922 / Deputy Secretary, Department for Transport, 1979–1982
Robert Todd Rowland QC b. 1922 / Northern Irish county court judge
Alan Tomsett OBE b. 1922 / Director, Associated British Port Holdings Plc., 1983–1992
Maj.-Gen. Stuart Watson CBE b. 1922 / British Army officer
Yang Chen-Ning b. 1922 / Chinese theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate (1957) / 2021 DDP unique pick

 

[drol 12,170]

No centenarian has died for quite a bit.

[Spade_Cooley 9,639]

Just now, drol said:

No centenarian has died for quite a bit.

 

Thought you would have been all over former Thai first lady Boonruen Choonhavan carking it on August 14.

[arghton 6,889]

Less mentioned people with Wiki articles that are going to be 100 next year if still alive:

 

Valérie André (21 April 1922-) First female member of the French military to become a General Officer, one of the eight women to hold the Legion of Honour Grand Cross and one of the two living ones out of these eight with Simone Rozès (1920-)

Rolands Kalniņš (9 May 1922-) Latvian film director.

J. C. P. Williams (16 November 1922? or possibly 1930/early 1930s-) New Zealand cardiologist. Discovered the Williams syndrome in 1961, disappeared off the face of the earth in the late 70s or early 80s possibly due to Janet Frame refusing to marry him. The only proof of him possibly living after disappearing is that he reportedly contacted author Michael King (1945-2004) in 2000 asking King to not discuss him in Janet Frame's biography.

Bhisadej Rajani (20 January 1922-) Thai royal, good friend of the late King Bhumibol. Also has had some royal duties.

Guy Stern (14 January 1922-) German scholar, interrogated German POWs during WWII.

P. Gopinathan Nair (7 July 1922-) Indian social worker, independence activist and chairman of the Gandhi National Memorial trust.

Ichiro Abe (12 November 1922-27 February 2022) One of the living three Kodokan 10th dan, the two others both being 95.

[arghton 6,889]

On 27/06/2021 at 16:34, arghton said:

Nigeria has the country's first chartered accountant Akintola Williams (b. 1919)

Picture from his 102th birthday (https://www.newdawnngr.com/2021/08/09/foremost-accountant-akintola-williams-turns-102/) looks very great for his age.