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American children's book writer Mildred Pitts Walter (Wiki) turns 100 today

 

Civil Rights History Project: Mildred Pitts Walter - YouTube 

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Seems worth a crosspost: Marsha Hunt dead at 104.

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B. B. Lal dead at 101.

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10 hours ago, tracy said:

Seems worth a crosspost: Marsha Hunt dead at 104.

Born the same day as hardline Chinese Immortal Yang You.

 

That was quite an unfair challenge.

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American actress Janis Paige (Wiki) turns 100 today, one of the last surviving actresses from Golden Age Era.

 

Janis Paige Image #449986 | TVmaze             Janis Paige - Rotten Tomatoes

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Nothing on her FB page... suspicious.

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On 06/01/2022 at 18:53, drol said:

After a year from the post, here are the survivors and the new additions:

 

27)Toshiko Taira (1921). Japan.

 

 

Not so many new entries.

 

Among these guys there are still invincible ones (Whang-od, Song Ping, Fucking Golpaygani and Khorasani, Sharubutu, Kim Hyung-suk, Nguyen Dinh Dau) and others "how the fuck they still alive?" (Saalumarada, Ma Shitu, Saran Negi, Yedlapati, Musuguri, Lim Kean Chye, Saleh Ajeery, Wan Haifeng). 

 

 

Toshiko Taira dead at 101.

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American physicist John S. Foster Jr. (Wiki) turns 100 today!

 

Biography of John S. Foster, Jr. | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 

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On 12/03/2021 at 17:26, arghton said:

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


*snip*

 

Panama: (4,2 million)

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

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Carmen A. Miró (wikidead at 103.

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Chinese physicist Yang Chen-Ning (Wiki) turns 100 today

 

Xi sends birthday greetings to Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang - Global Times 

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4 hours ago, Gisooo said:

Chinese physicist Yang Chen-Ning (Wiki) turns 100 today

 

Xi sends birthday greetings to Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang - Global Times 

Or he does not, since his day of birth is in fact October 1st. He was falsely cited as born on September 22nd in a passport in 1945 and kept that date. Maybe he wanted to celebrate earlier.

 

Crossing my fingers that he stands for ten days more, since this would be the second time in history to have two centenarian Nobel laureates alive at the same time. (From December 2010 to December 2012 that were Rita Levi-Montalcini and Ronald Coase, the first two Nobel laureates who turned 100.)

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Just now, WEP said:

Or he does not, since his day of birth is in fact October 1st. He was falsely cited as born on September 22nd in a passport in 1945 and kept that date. Maybe he wanted to celebrate earlier.

 

Crossing my fingers that he stands for ten days more, since this would be the second time in history to have two centenarian Nobel laureates alive at the same time. (From December 2010 to December 2012 that were Rita Levi-Montalcini and Ronald Coase, the first two Nobel laureates who turned 100.)

And he would be the fifth centenarian Nobel laureate ever, following Levi-Montalcini, Coase, Ed Fischer and John B. Goodenough. Gee, Kissinger or Carter have to keep on to have at least one Peace Prize laureate on that list!:salute:

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3 hours ago, WEP said:

Or he does not, since his day of birth is in fact October 1st. He was falsely cited as born on September 22nd in a passport in 1945 and kept that date. Maybe he wanted to celebrate earlier.

Weirdly, there's a lot of more or less similar cases in old Chinese people. For example Wan Haifeng was born on the 15th of September 1920 according to his Chinese wiki, English wiki says 22nd of September. Baike says "September 1920", could be that he's known to have been born in September 1920 but his exact birthdate isn't known. What is known however is that he joined the Red Army in 1933.

 

I'm at this point very amazed by Chen-Ning's and Tsung-Dao Lee's longevity. They're still alive 65 years after receiving a Nobel price with a  combined age of nearly 196 years.

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5 hours ago, arghton said:

Weirdly, there's a lot of more or less similar cases in old Chinese people. For example Wan Haifeng was born on the 15th of September 1920 according to his Chinese wiki, English wiki says 22nd of September. Baike says "September 1920", could be that he's known to have been born in September 1920 but his exact birthdate isn't known. What is known however is that he joined the Red Army in 1933.

 

I'm at this point very amazed by Chen-Ning's and Tsung-Dao Lee's longevity. They're still alive 65 years after receiving a Nobel price with a  combined age of nearly 196 years.

They are Chinese, they simply are not mortal.

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35 minutes ago, drol said:

They are Chinese, they simply are not mortal.

Seems so. Shi Ping is 109, Zhang Lixiong and Tu Tongjin are 108 (Lixiong was on an ng tube a year ago, Tongjin is bedbound in hospital), Ma Shitu is 107, Isabel Crook and Jian Xianfo are 106, Maeda Mitsushiro and Song Ping are 105. And there are around 20 younger ones. Yang Yongsong is the only one who has died in recent months. I'm waiting for them to die in masses and have waited for a while now but that time never seems to come

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In the UK it is estimated there are around 170 people aged over 107 with 2 women aged over 113 at the top. However only around 110 appear to be on the list of the site devoted to this subject so it may be wrong to assume that there are up to 60 whose names are not known. It would be interesting to compare the percentages of countries such as China & Japan with the UK to see which has the most 107+ aged citizens.

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American science fiction and horror B-Movies filmmaker Bert I. Gordon (Wiki) turns 100 today

 

Bert I. Gordon - Rotten Tomatoes 

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Ukrainian pilot Nikolai Kirtok (Wiki) during World War II dead at 102

 

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40 minutes ago, Captain Hemlock said:

Historian and perennial DDP pick for me William Leuchtenburg, turns 100 today.

 

William Leuchtenburg discusses his latest book, The American President |  Flyleaf Books 

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British-born Canadian actress Doreen Brownstone (IMDb) turns 100 today

 

Photo was from her 99th birthday last year

 

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On 28/09/2022 at 04:01, Gisooo said:

British-born Canadian actress Doreen Brownstone (IMDb) turns 100 today

 

Photo was from her 99th birthday last year

 

No photo description available.

 

Last photo of Doreen's 100th birthday, she looks so frail and now with a wheelchair. 

 

May be an image of 2 people, people sitting, people standing and indoor

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