The 100 Club

[Ulitzer95 12,411]

On 30/10/2021 at 22:29, arghton said:

1914 still has 10 living notable people. Mark my words, atleast one will make it to 110.

Who are your 10? I count more.

[arghton 6,635]

10 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Who are your 10? I count more.

The ones listed on Wikipedia's "living centenarians known for other reasons than longevity", but it's likely very incomplete.

 

Polish Wanda Półtawska got to 100 yesterday. Ravensbrück concentration camp survivor, physician and author, friend of Pope John Paul II. Had cancer in 1962 but was "cured" by Padre Pio (1887-1968), later canonised for "miracles" like this. Made news this March for opposing "abortion-tainted" vaccines. Very frail.

[Lafaucheuse 3,999]

Just found out about Sabine André, Belgian actress born in 1913 who could be the oldest actress alive (correct me if I’m wrong)

[Ulitzer95 12,411]

2 hours ago, Lafaucheuse said:

Just found out about Sabine André, Belgian actress born in 1913 who could be the oldest actress alive (correct me if I’m wrong)

Can't tell if you're being serious or not...

It's an unsourced Wikipedia page that is missing a date of death, and because there is no date of death, some editor has put 2 + 2 together and got 5. A quick Google reveals there's been nothing on her in decades.

[Lafaucheuse 3,999]

12 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Can't tell if you're being serious or not...

It's an unsourced Wikipedia page that is missing a date of death, and because there is no date of death, some editor has put 2 + 2 together and got 5. A quick Google reveals there's been nothing on her in decades.

well apparently I'm completely wrong and dumb at the same time but here is a few French centenarian names that I just found about and that I never heard off here : 

• Dorette Ardenne (b.1919) : oldest French actress 

• Lucienne Legrand (b.1920) : French actress 

• Jean Pierre Gredy (b.1920) : author

• André Chandernargor (b.1921) : French politician 

• Michel Klein (b.1921) : veterinarian and animator 

• Valérie André (b. 1922) : pilot and resistant 

 

I let you decide wether they're alive or not, apparently the absence of death certificate doesn't mean that people are alive and you look like an expert in this field. 

[Ulitzer95 12,411]

6 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said:

well apparently I'm completely wrong and dumb at the same time but here is a few French centenarian names that I just found about and that I never heard off here : 

• Dorette Ardenne (b.1919) : oldest French actress 

• Lucienne Legrand (b.1920) : French actress 

• Jean Pierre Gredy (b.1920) : author

• André Chandernargor (b.1921) : French politician 

• Michel Klein (b.1921) : veterinarian and animator 

• Valérie André (b. 1922) : pilot and resistant 

 

I let you decide wether they're alive or not, apparently the absence of death certificate doesn't mean that people are alive and you look like an expert in this field. 

If you have their full DOBs, you can look them up in the French death index available here.

[Lafaucheuse 3,999]

1 minute ago, Ulitzer95 said:

If you have their full DOBs, you can look them up in the French death index available here.

it was sarcasm. These ones are alive despite the skeptics minds out there 

[Lafaucheuse 3,999]

Other French names :

• Colette Maze (b.1914) : pianist
• Jean Turco (b.1917) : politician
• Pierre Brochay (b.1918) : resistant
• Pierre Baldi (b. 1919) : painter
• Stéphane Bonduel (b.1919) : politician
• Francis Rigaud (b.1920) : film director and producer
• Simone Rozès (b. 1920) : magistrate
• Marthe Cohn (b. 1920) : resistant
• Helene Bellanger (b. 1920) : actress
• Jean Labelle (b. 1920) : painter
• Jeanne Tomasini (b. 1920) : author
• Robert Macy (b. 1920) : actor, film director, writer
• Emile Idée (b. 1920) : bicycle racer   
• Andrée Michel (b. 1920) : sociologist
• Raymond Février (b. 1920) : politician
• Lilo (b. 1921) : singer and actress
• Renée Fournier (b. 1921) : entrepeneur
• Fernand Frantz (b. 1921) : pastor
• Germain Marc’hadour (b. 1921) : religious man, writer and teacher
• Marcel Jaurant Singer (b. 1921) : spy and resistant
• Pierre Parsus (b. 1921) : painter
• Philippe Oyhamburu (b. 1921) : dancer, choreograph, musician, author, historian, radio host
• Pierre Labric (b. 1921) : classical teacher and musician
• Lucette Finas (b. 1921) : author
• Jacqueline Ferriere (b. 1921): attrasse
• André Jacob (b. 1921) : philosopher
• Mélanie Berger Volle (b. 1921) : fashion designer

 

You can add to this the ones that I posted on the Idea and Possibilities for 2022 thread such as Edgar Morin, Dominique Marcas, Léon Cligman, Pierre Soulages, Francis Huré, René de Obaldia, Marguerite Jauzelon… who are much more famous and have already appeared on this forum   

[Lafaucheuse 3,999]

15 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Can't tell if you're being serious or not...

It's an unsourced Wikipedia page that is missing a date of death, and because there is no date of death, some editor has put 2 + 2 together and got 5. A quick Google reveals there's been nothing on her in decades.

Ok so article about the death of Renee Simonot mentions that Sabine André is still alive 

and I also found the Belgian equivalent of french insee file,  which stipulates that she was, as of 2019, still alive 

[Ulitzer95 12,411]

15 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said:

Ok so article about the death of Renee Simonot mentions that Sabine André is still alive 

and I also found the Belgian equivalent of french insee file,  which stipulates that she was, as of 2019, still alive 

The top one (Marie Claire fashion magazine?) looks like a bad case of journalism copying something they read on a poorly rated web forum or Wiki page.

The bottom one looks like a data scrubbing site, which aren't always reliable and often out of date. However, I'm not familiar with that particular site and can take a look. What's the link?
 

[Lafaucheuse 3,999]

2 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

The top one (Marie Claire fashion magazine?) looks like a bad case of journalism copying something they read on a poorly rated web forum or Wiki page.

The bottom one looks like a data scrubbing site, which aren't always reliable and often out of date. However, I'm not familiar with that particular site and can take a look. What's the link?
 

I have this source, this one, and this one which is the one I talked about previously. Let me know if you find something ! 

[Ulitzer95 12,411]

27 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said:

I have this source, this one, and this one which is the one I talked about previously. Let me know if you find something ! 

That isn't a death record index like MatchID. It's just an online archive of assorted shit. Plus it references Wikipedia and WorldCat. 

Believe what you want, but she's dead.

[arghton 6,635]

On 19/01/2021 at 20:17, drol said:

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

 

1)Saalumarada Thimmakka (1910). India.

2)Fauja Singh (1911). India.

3)Jessie Lichauco (1912). Philippines (Cuban born, so counts half...)

4)Toko Shinoda (1913). Japan. 

5)G. Venkatasubbiah (1913). India. 

6)Aiyappan Pillai (1914). India.

7)Mieko Nagaoka (1914). Japan. 

8)Tsuneko Sasamoto (1914). Japan.

9)Lambert Mascarenhas (1914). India. 

10)Ma Shitu (1915). China.

11)Isabel Crook (1915). China. (Canadian born, so counts half...)

12)Man Kaur (1916). India. 

13)Ri Yong-suk (1916). North Korea.

14)Vu Khieu (1916) Vietnam. Currently "gravely ill". 

15)Whang-od (1917). Philippines.

16)Song Ping (1917). China.

17)Shyam Saran Negi (1917). India.

18)Mahlagha Mallah (1917). Iran.

19)Yang You (1917). China.

20)Florence Alice Lubega (1917). Uganda.

21)H. S. Doreswamy (1918). India. 

22)Philipose Mar Chrysostom (1918). India. 

23)Victor Mukete (1918). Cameroon. 

24)Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani (1919). Iran.

25)S. K. Paramasivan (1919). India.

26)Osman Nuhu Sharubutu (1919). Ghana.

27)Satya Mohan Joshi (1919). Nepal.

28)K. R. Gowri Amma (1919). India.

29)Malik Dohan al-Hassan (1919). Iraq. 

30)Akintola Williams (1919). Nigeria.

31)Emmanuel Evans-Anfom (1919). Ghana. 

32)V. M. M. Nair (1919). India. 

33)Yedlapati Venkatarao (1919). India.

34)Lim Kean Chye (1919). Malaysia.

35)David Musuguri (1920). Tanzania.

36)Henry Hu (1920). Hong Kong.

37)Charles Njonjo (1920). Kenya.

38)Nguyen Dinh Dau (1920). Vietnam.

39)Saleh Ajeery (1920). Kuwait.

40)Kim Hyung-suk (1920). South Korea.

41)Zheng Min (1920). China.

42)Thanga Darlong (1920). India.

43)Adelina Santos Rodriguez (1920). Philippines. 

44)C. R. Rao (1920). India.

45)Wan Haifeng (1920). China.

46)Zou Yu (1920). China.

47)Raghunath Chandorkar (1920). India. 

48)Chao Kuang Piu (1920). Hong Kong. 

49)Hossein Wahid Khorasani (1921). Iran.

50)T. M. Kaliannan (1921). India. 

 

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

Mahlagha Mallah, "Mother of Iran's Environment" dead at 104:

https://www.isna.ir/news/1400081712913/مه-لقا-ملاح-درگذشت

[arghton 6,635]

On 07/10/2021 at 12:55, arghton said:

Sometimes mentioned on this forum, Mihai Șora, Romanian philosopher who will be 105 next month apparently has a facebook account:

https://www.facebook.com/mihaisora

He has posted on it three times during the last 24 hours.

Celebrated his 105th birthday:

Looks really great for a 105-year old.

From his facebook, translated:

"And I took 5 in my arms. (I'm small, but you're big.) (tree emoji) P.S. 105 years, ie 38,351 days. 920 424 hours. 55,225,440 minutes. 3,313,526,400 seconds."

[arghton 6,635]

On 04/11/2021 at 15:54, Lafaucheuse said:

You can add to this the ones that I posted on the Idea and Possibilities for 2022 thread such as Edgar Morin, Dominique Marcas, Léon Cligman, Pierre Soulages, Francis Huré, René de Obaldia, Marguerite Jauzelon… who are much more famous and have already appeared on this forum   

Francis Huré dead according to wikipedia, source is this page.

[Lafaucheuse 3,999]

14 minutes ago, arghton said:

Francis Huré dead according to wikipedia, source is this page.

He didn’t even have a proper obit in France, kind of shocking considering he was a resistant... I’ll wait and see 

[Ulitzer95 12,411]

50 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said:

He didn’t even have a proper obit in France, kind of shocking considering he was a resistant... I’ll wait and see 

A quick Google suggests he's barely notable. A lot of vaguely notable individuals get Wiki pages because there's an obsession amongst some users to create pages for people aged 100+.

Helmut Ashley another recent example of someone aged 100+ who died off radar who really wasn't that notable a name in cinema.

Jessie Lichauco hasn't even received one mention of her death outside of Facebook. She only got a Wiki article aged 102. Would she have gotten one if she died aged 80? Probably not. Her family really seem to have pushed her profile in recent years.

There are lots of Resistance members still alive so one of their deaths in itself isn't notable. I think there is only one White Rose member still alive (Traute Lafenz, aged 102) so she will definitely get obits in France, Germany and the UK when she dies.

[arghton 6,635]

58 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Jessie Lichauco hasn't even received one mention of her death outside of Facebook. She only got a Wiki article aged 102. Would she have gotten one if she died aged 80? Probably not. Her family really seem to have pushed her profile in recent years.

Lichauco was kind of a "family of

the famous" name, as she was the widow of a diplomat. Not really sure how much her charity work actually contributed to her fame.

Hure was certainly more famous, atleast in my opinion for being an ambassador of France three times (to Cameroon 65-68, Israel 68-73 and Belgium 73-80)

 

Most of the "notable living centenarians" wikipedia list seems to be made up of people who have gained fame very late (S. Kowalski, D. Carlsson...), are slightly famous for other reasons than age but wouldn't have gotten a wiki page at, for example 90 (probably over half of them) or the family of the famous types (the first ladies, spouses of famous people, other family) and the actual amount of others is probably pretty small.

 

Boris Pahor, Art Rupe, Lise Nørgaard, Marsha Hunt, Rene de Obaldia, Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani, June Spencer, James Lovelock, Nehemiah Persoff and Charles Njonjo are some of the ones who don't fit in those categories from the 101+ ones.

[Ulitzer95 12,411]

Lloyd McCuiston (wiki), member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (1961–1994) and its Speaker (1981–1983), dead at 103.



He was also the oldest living male politician in the U.S. (now its Howard Bier, b. 1919, wiki), and a WWII veteran.

EDIT: Also a pick in the Electoral deadpool... if that thing's even still going.
 

[arghton 6,635]

On 13/08/2021 at 14:24, arghton said:

His (Keijo Virtamo) 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/

...

Virtamo two days ago. (Posted here https://twitter.com/sotaveteraanit)

[Ulitzer95 12,411]

On 06/10/2021 at 20:15, arghton said:

Doing a bit of research, here's a list of Indian centenarians marked living on wikipedia + potential soon-to-be centenarians (2021 or 2022). Here's who are alive after the deaths of 2021:
 

*snip*

Balwant Moreshwar Purandare (29th of July 1922-) Writer, theatre personality

*snip*

Posts on Facebook suggesting Purandare has just died. He was rushed to hospital 3 days ago.

[drol 11,773]

10 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Posts on Facebook suggesting Purandare has just died. He was rushed to hospital 3 days ago.

Confirmed

[drol 11,773]

On 06/10/2021 at 21:15, arghton said:

 

Vimla Sood (1922-) First woman to become a dentist in India

 

Died in August.

[drol 11,773]

29 minutes ago, drol said:

Confirmed

Denied!

[Ulitzer95 12,411]

2 minutes ago, drol said:

Denied!

Surprise, surprise!

Indians love a game of the Coffin Hokey Cokey.