The 100 Club

[Gisooo 2,552]

On 04/11/2021 at 14:54, Lafaucheuse said:

• 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

 

Philippe Oyhamburu (Wiki) dead at 102

[Master Obit 331]

Norman Spencer (b.13/08/1914) appears to have quietly reached his 109th birthday back in August, since he's not on the death index up to the end of Q3. Anne Baker is also fine, though she is unlikely to die off the radar.

[Ulitzer95 11,088]

14 minutes ago, Master Obit said:

Norman Spencer (b.13/08/1914) appears to have quietly reached his 109th birthday back in August, since he's not on the death index up to the end of Q3. Anne Baker is also fine, though she is unlikely to die off the radar.

Which death index is this you're looking at?

[Jeremy Corbyn 89]

12 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Which death index is this you're looking at?

Wondering the same. Didn't think the GRO Index had been updated yet even for 2022, never mind this year.

[Ulitzer95 11,088]

Just now, Jeremy Corbyn said:

Wondering the same. Didn't think the GRO Index had been updated yet even for 2022, never mind this year.

It hasn't. I believe Master Obit is confused.

[Master Obit 331]

1 hour ago, Ulitzer95 said:

It hasn't. I believe Master Obit is confused.

I believe you are confused on this occasion, actually. I'm using the GRO death index at one of the registered holders. The physical microfiche go out much earlier.

 

The online GRO actually does have the 2022 data in the back-end already. It's just not a front-end option available.

[Ulitzer95 11,088]

3 minutes ago, Master Obit said:

I believe you are confused on this occasion, actually. I'm using the GRO death index at one of the registered holders. The physical microfiche go out much earlier.

 

The online GRO actually does have the 2022 data in the back-end already. It's just not a front-end option available.

When is the online database expected to be updated?

[Master Obit 331]

9 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

When is the online database expected to be updated?

Well 2022 has been available for a good few months if you know how to modify html. 2023 will probably be gradually loaded on to the system in mid-late 2024, but not be a public option for a good while after because the GRO team likes to be slow.

 

It's the same story every year. They release impractical physical microfiche for each quarter to the archives, then at some point in the middle of the next year decide to start loading the data on to their online portal. Once they've done that, they wait another half a year or so before updating the year selection box so it's visible as an option.

 

It's particularly infuriating because my primary use of the data means there is a need to go through the entire index every quarter. If it was released online then I could run queries using the hidden functions and get the data needed in under half an hour. Presently, even with one of my co-hobbyists having an arrangement with their archives that they can scan the fiche and then search the text digitally, it's about ten hours of work, and we also lag many months behind because they aren't regular with the physical fiche either (it took until this month for them to distribute Q2, and they also released Q3 with it.)

[YoungWillz 19,106]

On 09/02/2023 at 16:47, Ulitzer95 said:

The world's oldest (verified) living person and the world's oldest Olympic athlete are easier to measure than actors because in the case of oldest living people, there's an "official" body that monitors them plus a lot of media attention given their extreme longevity. With Olympians there's a limited number of them in the first place.

You can't really do the same for actors because 1) there are millions of them and 2) there isn't a single body for actors like the Olympic Committee or the GRG/Guinness. We can crown somebody as "the oldest living actor" on here but in reality there will likely be someone out there older who had a very minor credit (that's another problem – define what an actor is) or is an obscure stage actor in a small production theatre in a foreign country. Also, actors tend to fade into obscurity if they fall out of the industry.

For the sake of curiosity, maybe it's time we compiled a new list on here of oldest living people with acting credits who were born in 1923 or before.


Mike Nussbaum b. 29 Dec 1923, American
 

Mike Nussbaum being reported dead: 

I believe he might, if/when he QOs, be our 300th DDP hit.

[Gisooo 2,552]

36 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Mike Nussbaum being reported dead: 

I believe he might, if/when he QOs, he's our 300th DDP hit.

 

From USA the last only one living actor is Tommy Dix (Wiki)

 

Vincent Ball (Wiki), from Australia just turned 100

 

For females we have Kim Yaroshevskaya (Wiki), and off course Glynis Johns

[Ulitzer95 11,088]

11 minutes ago, Gisooo said:

 

No, that's sad. There are no more notable male actors with a wiki page who were born in 1923 from USA and England  (or Canada/Australia)

 

From USA the last only one living actor is Tommy Dix (Wiki)

Think you just contradicted yourself there.

[Ulitzer95 11,088]

27 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Mike Nussbaum being reported dead: 

I believe he might, if/when he QOs, he's our 300th DDP hit.

Very sad. Here's him opposite the great Carel Struycken in Men in Black.
 

Side note... Stricken is 76 next year. 1 role in 2021, 1 role in 2022, 0 in 2023. Worth keeping an eye on.

[Gisooo 2,552]

4 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Think you just contradicted yourself there.

 

I was talking about the actors who have a wiki article in English, there are many from IMDb who are alive, some are even in a state of limbo

[Ulitzer95 11,088]

Just now, Gisooo said:

 

I was talking about the actors who have a wiki article in English, there are many from IMDb who are alive, some are even in a state of limbo

But Tommy Dix was born in 1923. He's from the USA, and he has an English Wiki page.

You said there were none...

[Gisooo 2,552]

3 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

But Tommy Dix was born in 1923. He's from the USA, and he has an English Wiki page.

You said there were none...

 

My mistake, sorry. Fixed

[drol 10,067]

Mike Nussbaum obituary .

[Jeremy Corbyn 89]

12 hours ago, Master Obit said:

Well 2022 has been available for a good few months if you know how to modify html. 2023 will probably be gradually loaded on to the system in mid-late 2024, but not be a public option for a good while after because the GRO team likes to be slow.

 

It's the same story every year. They release impractical physical microfiche for each quarter to the archives, then at some point in the middle of the next year decide to start loading the data on to their online portal. Once they've done that, they wait another half a year or so before updating the year selection box so it's visible as an option.

 

It's particularly infuriating because my primary use of the data means there is a need to go through the entire index every quarter. If it was released online then I could run queries using the hidden functions and get the data needed in under half an hour. Presently, even with one of my co-hobbyists having an arrangement with their archives that they can scan the fiche and then search the text digitally, it's about ten hours of work, and we also lag many months behind because they aren't regular with the physical fiche either (it took until this month for them to distribute Q2, and they also released Q3 with it.)

Is there any way we can access this?

[Master Obit 331]

59 minutes ago, Jeremy Corbyn said:

Is there any way we can access this?

 

If you mean the 2022, yes. If you mean the 2023, it rather depends on where you're based in the country. I've sent you both a PM to save cluttering the thread.

 

 

[Ulitzer95 11,088]

On 20/07/2021 at 01:23, Ulitzer95 said:

Thanks. Updated the Who's Who list I posted in Feb. Also scored off Dannatt, Lam, Christensen, Gutfreund and Wallace who have also died.

These names are useful for DDP purposes as quite a few will score QOs as unique picks.

*snip*
Sir Humphrey Moon, 7th Baronet b. 1919 / Aristocrat
*snip*

Sir Humphrey Moon, presumed 7th Baronet (wiki) died on 7 May 2022 (aged 102) as per his death record available through Ancestry.

With thanks to @Master Obit for pointing this one out to me.

Oldest living baronet is therefore Sir John Conant, 2nd Baronet (b. 1923, wiki).

[diego 1,834]

Alda Grimaldi died in Turin at the age of 104, was an Italian director and actress who worked between the 1940s and 1960s

https://www.oggi.it/attualita/notizie/2023/12/28/addio-ad-alda-grimaldi-la-prima-regista-della-tv-italiana-aveva-104-anni/

[La Tombe 265]

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, legendary mathematician, the first female member elected at the French Academy of Sciences....turns 100 today !  

 

  

 

 

 

[drol 10,067]

Luis Torras turns 111, lost his wife in June.

[Gisooo 2,552]

Some names born 1923 who turned 100 in 2023

 

Françoise Sullivan (Wiki), Canadian painter, sculptor and dancer

Lily Ebert (Wiki), Hungarian author and Holocaust survivor

Jacqueline Fleury (Wiki), French Resistance member

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (Wiki), French mathematician

Jozef Hen (Wiki), Polish novelist

Anthony Eyton (Wiki), British artist

Louis Danziger (Wiki), American graphic designer

Linda Kohen (Wiki), Italian-born Uruguayan painter

David H. Murdock (Wiki), American billionaire

Olav Thon (Wiki), Norwegian real estate developer

Joe Wallach (Wiki), American bussinesman

Gloria Whelan (Wiki), American poet

Helen Corey (Wiki), Syrian-born American cookbook author

Carl-Göran Ekerwald (Wiki), Swedish novelist

Ruth Stiles Gannett (Wiki), American children's writer

Judith Hemmendinger (Wiki), Israeli writer

Francis Graham-Smith (Wiki), British astronomer

Phil Nimmons (Wiki), Canadian clarinetist

Johnny Pate (Wiki), American jazz musician

Walter Deutsch (Wiki), Austrian musicologist

Vicotr H. Brombert (Wiki), American scholar

Max Fink (Wiki), American neurologist

Therese Gouin Decarie (Wiki), Canadian psychologist

Robert P. Madison (Wiki), American architect

Robert Kuok (Wiki), American bussinesman

Kari Polanyi Levitt (Wiki), Canadian economist

Guenter Lewy (Wiki), German-born American author

John Meisel (Wiki), Canadian political scientist

Dorothy Kloss (Wiki), American dancer

Mary Morello (Wiki), American activist

Aiko Sato (Wiki), Japanese novelist

Kay Smith (Wiki), American artist

Shubert Spero (Wiki), American rabbi

Ida Vitale (Wiki), Uruguayan poet

Betty Webb (Wiki), British code breaker

Kathleen N. Straus (Wiki), American politician

Franklin B. Zimmerman (Wiki), American musicologist

Josep Vallverdu (Wiki), Catalan poet

Jeanne Bisgood (Wiki), English golf player

Maybell Lebron (Wiki), Argentine writer

Robert Harlow (Wiki), Canadian writer

Millicent Burgess (Wiki), Canadian educator

Doireann McDermont (Wiki), Irish translator

Merlin Hulse (Wiki), American politician

Mitsuye Yamada (Wiki), Japanese-born American poet

Fernande Keufgens (Wiki), Belgian resistance fighter

Ann B. Walker (Wiki), American journalist

Mantana Morakul (Wiki), Thai singer

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Teuvo Ruohonen, Finnish cop who founded the Police Rapid Response Unit "Bear Squad" and was responsible for the safety of the CSCE in 1975 when the Helsinki Accords were signed, dead at 101. Participants included Gerald Ford, Brezhnev, Harold Wilson, Aldo Moro, Ceausescu, Tito, Kissinger, Kurt Waldheim and others.

Interesting obituary, he shot down a Soviet fighter during WWII and "interrogated" Miss Universe Armi Kuusela in 1952 when she crashed her sunbeam with a bus. I thought of putting him on my Centenarians team but I considered he might die without much fanfare (turns out he already died in early December, two days after Kissinger).

[Gisooo 2,552]

Swedish television presenter and teacher Inga Tobiasson (Wiki) dead at 103