The 100 Club

[Gisooo 3,296]

6 hours ago, arghton said:

1915:

Ma Shitu (14 Jan 1915) Chinese author with a long health history.

 

Min Jingde (ca. 20-29? Jan 1915) Chinese military officer.

 

Yu Te-Hsin (17 Mar 1915) Taiwan. Again arguable if he's notable- oldest person to paraglide tandem validated by Guinness World Records

 

Valdemar Prukner (2 May 1915) Croatian-German. Arguably notable - World's oldest violinist, or one of the oldest violinists.

 

Jupira Brasil (16 Aug 1915) Brazilian singer, dancer, actress, producer. Already bedbound in 2021.

 

Wu Jiucheng (5 Sep 1915) Chinese Long March veteran who got media attention for attending a flag raising in 2022.

 

Isabel Crook (15 Dec 1915) Chinese-born Canadian anthropologist. Was very ill a few years ago but recovered.

 

James Clayton Flowers (25 Dec 1915) Tuskegee airman. Very ill for years apparently.

 

Jupira Brasil dead at 107 last December

[drol 11,908]

On 06/02/2023 at 08:01, drol said:

For the Chinese medical miracles series:

 

Shanghai politician Shi Ping has survived a serious COVID infection at 110. Anyway it left him permanently on oxygen and with a tracheostomy. New picture.

 

Shi Ping finally d...

 

No, well, Shi Ping seemingly fully recovered from his illness and does not need oxygen anymore.

[Gisooo 3,296]

Canadian author Doris Gregory (Wiki) dead at 102

 

[Alex B 83]

Nils Severin Økland (1915-), who served in the Royal Norwegian Navy during WW2, turned 108 in February 

https://forsvaretsforum.no/andre-verdenskrig-historie-meninger/gratulerer-med-108-arsdagen-sjokaptein-nils-severin-okland/309568

Edited May 15, 2023 by Alex B
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[Alex B 83]

World War Two veteran of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps Meta Monteleon passed away recently on May 9th at the ripe age of 108.

 

https://www.41nbc.com/oldest-living-wwii-nurse-passes-away-at-108/

[Alex B 83]

WW2 veteran and New Zealand's oldest man Jack Coe (1916-2023) passed away just yesterday at the age of 107, just a couple days after his birthday on the 11th.

 

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2023/05/new-zealand-s-oldest-man-jack-coe-dies-days-after-celebrating-107th-birthday.html

[Ulitzer95 12,574]

On 20/04/2022 at 19:54, drol said:

Already down to only 4 survivors Born in October 1920: Charles Burrell, Li Dak-sum, Zou Yu and Alicia Dussan de Reichel.

 

No doubts the Chinese will be left for ages. Remains to be seen who will go first between Burrell and Dussan.

Alicia Dussán de Reichel (wiki) dead at 102 according to this tweet:
 

 

[YoungWillz 21,023]

On 12/05/2023 at 14:33, Ulitzer95 said:

FB post reporting the death of British military and police officer and publisher Leon Comber (wiki), aged 101.

Leon Comber Telegraph Obit: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/05/18/leon-comber-malayan-emergency-author-died-obituary/

[chilean way 1,895]

6 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Alicia Dussán de Reichel (wiki) dead at 102 according to this tweet:
 

 

Confirmed 

[Alex B 83]

The very last known living Inuit contributor to the war effort during WW2 - Qapik Attagutsiak (1919-)

 

https://m.facebook.com/BaffinlandIronMines/videos/elder-qapik-attagutsiak-is-celebrating-her-102nd-birthday-this-week/4981188528645846/?_se_imp=0jsvA08yokvgL79gB

 

https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/on/haida/culture/femmes-women/attagutsiak

Edited May 19, 2023 by Alex B
Fixing

[Alex B 83]

César Yanes Urías (1920-) is the last living major member of the military Junta of Government in El Salvador during the 1960 coup de'état.

 

 

 

 

 

[Ulitzer95 12,574]

6 hours ago, Alex B said:

The very last known living Inuit contributor to the war effort during WW2 - Qapik Attagutsiak (1919-)

 

https://m.facebook.com/BaffinlandIronMines/videos/elder-qapik-attagutsiak-is-celebrating-her-102nd-birthday-this-week/4981188528645846/?_se_imp=0jsvA08yokvgL79gB

 

https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/on/haida/culture/femmes-women/attagutsiak

Already covered before.

[Ulitzer95 12,574]

4 hours ago, Alex B said:

César Yanes Urías (1920-) is the last living major member of the military Junta of Government in El Salvador during the 1960 coup de'état.

 

 

 

 

 

Also already covered before.

Once again – familiarise yourself with the search function.

[Alex B 83]

2 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Also already covered before.

Once again – familiarise yourself with the search function.

I apologize Ulitzer95, I will try better, there's just so many

[Alex B 83]

Máirín Hughes [1914], the oldest known person in Ireland and most likely the oldest living to have witnessed the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), has turned 109 years old today.

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2023/05/22/live-life-to-the-full-says-irelands-oldest-woman-on-her-109th-birthday/

[arghton 6,693]

On 18/12/2022 at 02:51, arghton said:

...

Robert R. Johnson (102) Last survivor of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition, 1941

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Robert R. Johnson, last member of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition, apparently died last month at 102.

[John "요한" Sulu 419]

German-born American statesman Henry Kissinger, who was the Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient is 100 today.

 

Photo Credit: World Economic Forum per Creative Commons license

[Alex B 83]

Here is a list i compiled of WW2 veterans, ranging from soldiers, Resistance members, and people who experienced firsthand the horrors of the war that were born in the 1910s era.

 

Reuben Sinclair [Royal Canadian Air Force].

(1911-2023)

Rashid Karimov [Soviet Red Army].

(1912-)

Andre Ludwig [French Resistance].

(1912-)

Rudy Thompson [United States Army].

(1912-2023)

Tripolino Giannini [Royal Italian Army/Regio Esercito].

(1912-)

Salvatore Nardi [Royal Italian Army/Regio Esercito].

(1912-)

Shi Ping [Second Sino-Japanese War].

(1912-)

John Tiniswood [Royal Engineers {Postal Section} of the Home Forces Postal Organization].

(1912-)

Margaret Romans [Latvian Partisans].

(1912-)

Maria Farrugia.

(1912-)

Rose Girone [The Holocaust].

(1912-)

Gunborg Hancock.

(1912-)

Huang Decheng [Taiwanese Imperial Japan Serviceman].

(1913-)

Ilie Ciocan [Romanian Armed Forces].

(1913-)

Pierre Pineau [Free French Forces].

(1913-2023)

Marcel Reichstein [The Holocaust].

(1913-)

John Farringdon [United States Engineer Combat Battalion].

(1913-)

Irena Siła-Nowicka [The Holocaust].

(1913-2023)

Ken Weeks [Royal Australian Engineers].

(1913-)

Rafaela Vicente [Philippines Resistance].

(1913-2023)

Marcel Barbary [Free French Forces].

(1914-2023)

Morrie Markoff.

(1914-)

Kazimierz Klimczak [Home Army/Armia Krajowa].

(1914-2023)  

Mullahan Nurislamov [Soviet Red Army].

(1914-2023)

Vitantonio Lovallo [Royal Italian Army/Regio Esercito].

(1914-)

Luigi Miti [Royal Navy/Regia Marina].

(1914-)

Maurice Le Contour [Free French Forces of the Dunkirk evacuation].

(1914-)

Ailsa Stewart [Women's Royal Naval Service].

(1914-)

Stanisław Pełka [The Holocaust].

(1914-2023)

Bror Larsson [Norwegian Army].

(1914-2023)

Karlheinz Stauber [Heer/Wehrmacht].

(1914-)

Donald Rose [7th Armored Brigade/Desert Rats].

(1914-)

Julia Iverson [Women's Royal Naval Service].

(1914-)

James C. Floyd.

(1914-)

James Clayton Flowers [Tuskegee Airmen].

(1915-)

Harold Nelson [United States Army]

(1915-)

Cosmas D. Eaglin Sr. [United States Marine Corps].

(1915-2023)

Georgios Koliopoulos [ELAS]

(1915-2023)

Albert Middleton [Royal Canadian Air Force].

(1915-)

Hatsuo Hidaka [Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service].

(1915-)

Nils Severin Økland [Royal Norwegian Navy].

(1915-)

Min Jingde [Second Sino-Japanese War].

(1915-)

Burd Sisler [Royal Canadian Legion Horse Artillery of the Canadian Army].

(1915-)

Constantin Năstase [Romanian Armed Forces].

(1915-)

Iosif Rus [Romanian Armed Forces].

(1915-)

 

Vincenzo Prete [Royal Italian Army/Regio Esercito].

(1915-)

Ann Konkel.

(1915-)

Phyllis Furness.

(1915-)

Mary Brackenbury [Royal Observer Corps].

(1915-2023)

Isabel Crook. 

(1915-2023)

Friedrich Grade.

[Last surviving Kriegsmarine crew mate of the German submarine U-96]

(1916-2023)

Geneviève Callerot [French Resistance].

(1916-)

Ervin "Judge" Wendt [United States Navy of the Battle of Midway].

(1916-)

Bill Monfort [United States Navy].

(1916-)

Bruno Kant [Heer/Wehrmacht].

(1916-)

Francis Eric "Pony" Moore [Royal Army].

(1916-)

Leonid Lazarevich Skvortsov [Soviet Red Army].

(1916-)

Albert Van Raemdonck [Free Belgian Forces].

(1916-)

Georgette Jeanne Scops [The Maquis].

(1916-2023)

James Easton [Australian Army].

(1916-)

Herb Keen [New Zealand Army].

(1916-2023)

 

Bernhard Beckers [Afrika Korps of the Wehrmacht].

(1916-)

Ena Collymore-Woodstock [Auxiliary Territorial Service].

(1917-)

Jiro Tanaka [Imperial Japanese Army].

(1917-)

Makoto Ogawa [Imperial Japanese Army Air Service].

(1917-)

John Kinsel Sr. [Navajo Code Talker].

(1917-)

Frank Chuman [Executive Order 9066].

(1917-)

Nestor da Silva [Brazilian Expeditionary Force].

(1917-)

Helen Guthrie [Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service].

(1917-)

Živan Popović [Yugoslav Partisans].

(1917-)

Edward Trevland [Royal Norwegian Navy]

(1917-)

Rachel Gorman [Women's Timber Corps].

(1917-)

Albert Libert [Free Belgian Forces].

(1917-)

Blažena Strachotová.

(1917-)

Bill Bruce [Australian Army].

(1917-)

Colin Wagener [Australian Army].

(1917-)

Joseph Eskenazi [Attack on Pearl Harbor].

(1918-2023)

Brenda Milner.

(1918-)

Alfons Tomke.

(1918-)

Bruno Segre [Italian Resistance].

(1918-)

Ernest Horsfall [Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers of the British Army].

(1918-)

Angel Martín Taboas [United States Army].

(1918-)

John Hamilton [British Army of the Dunkirk evacuation].

(1918-)

Carlo Domenichini [United States Army].

(1918-)

Irene Hosking [United States Army Nurse Corps].

(1918-)

Ralph Schnorr [United States Navy].

(1918-)

Richard Overman Sr. [United States Army Air Forces].

(1918-)

Erdman Blank [Estonian Partisans].

(1918-)

Linda Raunet [Estonian Partisans].

(1918-)

Endel Uiga [Estonian Partisans].

(1918-)

Joe Veselsky [Czech Resistance].

(1918-)

 

Max D. Liston [United States engineer, scientist, and factory munitions worker].

(1918-)

 

Masamitsu Yoshioka. 

[Last surviving Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilot who took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor]

(1918-)

John Hemingway.

[Last surviving pilot of The Few]

(1919-)

Nancy Stratford.

[Last surviving woman pilot of the Air Transport Auxiliary]

(1919-)

Nelson Broms.

(1919-)

Cresencia Garcia [6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion]

(1919-2023)

Jim Miller [Royal Australian Air Force].

(1919-)

Władysław Siemaszko [Home Army/Armia Krajowa].

(1919-)

Pietro Omodeo [Royal Italian Army/Regio Esercito].

(1919-)

Klaus Obermeyer.

(1919-)

Addold Mossin [Finnish Army].

(1919-)

Jack Jennings.

[Last living survivor of the Burma Death Railway]

(1919-)

André Hissink.

[Last living member of the No. 320 Netherlands RAF Squadron]

(1919-)

Elinor Otto [Rosie the Riveter munitions worker].

(1919-)

Justino Pires de Arruda [Brazilian Expeditionary Force].

(1919-)

Hugo Pedro Felisbino.

[Last living Força Expedicionária Brasileira {FEB} male nurse].

(1919-)

Tetsuo Sato [Imperial Japanese Army].

(1919-)

John Dorsey [Tuskegee Airmen].

(1919-)

Les Morice [Australian Army].

(1919-)

Bryan Bouchard [Royal Navy].

(1919-)

John Hillman [Royal Air Force].

(1919-)

Cecil Parker [Normandy Landings].

(1919-)

Roy Hashimura [United States Army].

(1919-)

Jeanne Gloden-Muller [The Holocaust].

(1919-)

Aleksander Lestan.

(1919-)

Lim Kean Chye.

(1919-2023)

Jehuda Widawski [The Holocaust].

(1919-)

Howard Bier [United States Army Air Forces].

(1919-)

 

E. Gerald Meyer [United States Navy].

(1919-)

 

Charlie Duncan [General George Patton's United States Third Army].

(1919-)

Edited October 21, 2023 by Alex B
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[Ulitzer95 12,574]

American painter Frank Handlen (wiki) dead at 106.

[time 8,586]

The film below includes footage of 101-year-old ex-WW2 pilot Bernard Gardiner, celebrating his birthday flying in a Hawker Hurricane, which he last flew in 1944. Looks like he's still got years left in him!

 

[polar duck 859]

Princess Mikasa of Japan is 100 today.

[drol 11,908]

Lu Yuanjiu finally dead at 103.

[Ulitzer95 12,574]

On 22/12/2022 at 20:33, Lafaucheuse said:

Agree with you ! 

As @Fantomasss said in the french speaking deathlist, Malaurie is one of the few french centenarian A lister along with Françoise Gilot, Micheline Presle, Roland Dumas and Edgar Morin. Soulages was the first one to die among them. 

Françoise Gilot dead at 101.

NY Times obit.

[Lafaucheuse 4,043]

Just now, Ulitzer95 said:

Françoise Gilot dead at 101.

NY Times obit.

Second one to drop dead from our A-list of french centenarians (after Soulages…). A much needed point for my french list. RIP, such a shame she was overshadowed by Picasso.

 

see Ulitzer, even french people go live abroad cause of how horrific France is…  

[Alex B 83]

Billionaire Jacques Gaston Murray, known as Tony Murray, noted for owning Andrew Sykes Group and London Security & also being a WW2 veteran known for serving in the Free French Forces and Royal Air Force, has died at 103 years old.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/andrews-sykes-london-security-chairman-jacques-gaston-murray-dies-aged-103-fab5f31d