The 100 Club

[drol 11,373]

With the death of Norman Spencer 5 "notable" women remain from 1914. I'd say Muazzez Cig is on another level of notability with respect to the others.

All of them seem to be doing very well, but how long before they are all wiped out as it Is the good and right thing?

 

*Viola Fletcher , Tulsa massacre survivor and activist, wheelchair bound but no health issues.

*Anne Baker , British writer and fundraiser. Frail, but not too much.

*Muazzez Ilmiye Cig , Turkish sumerologist, doing unexplicably well despite being overweight for decades.

*Edith Renfrow Smith , survived serious COVID hospitalization some years ago, able to walk unaided and sound of mind.

*Eileen Kramer , unsinkable until some time ago, has visibly declined in recent years, but still posting regularly on IG and apparently doing well.

[Ulitzer95 11,936]

41 minutes ago, Master Obit said:

Who piggybacked on my discovery. They got that information as a result of me. @Ulitzer95 will testify that I informed him of this privately way before the ESO updated this, I was just waiting for OiB to recognise it before I mentioned the death.

True, and you made me hold my tongue only to be beaten to the post for your own announcement!  

[Master Obit 730]

51 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

True, and you made me hold my tongue only to be beaten to the post for your own announcement!  

*Grumbles vigorously*

 

For the record, the ESO are terrific. I just wanted to be the one to announce this on here.

[oldhollywood 82]

RIP Norman Spencer, I’m just happy he made it to supercentenarian status and wasn’t secretly dead for years!

[Gisooo 3,068]

Hungarian-born American surgeon George Berci (Wiki), at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles dead at 103

 

[Ulitzer95 11,936]

Norman Spencer gets a well deserved Hollywood Reporter obit.

 

Oldest person ever from Britain who worked in film and television.

Edit: Guardian, Los Angeles Times

[arghton 6,502]

On 15/03/2022 at 21:25, arghton said:

Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra, 97: Former foreign secretary and diplomat still active at 97.

MK Rasgotra, former Foreign Secretary of India has turned 100, looks great:

As far as I know he's the oldest living Indian member of government by more than six years. Here's a two-hour interview from last month.

[Ulitzer95 11,936]

On 25/07/2023 at 11:31, arghton said:

Suprisingly just the first death from my list, and it's been five months. That's a long time for 10+ 105-year-olds.

 

Miye Ota actually made an appearance on this video two months ago:

0:53 onwards. Apparently she had a bad fall and a spinal fracture years ago and has been in 24/7 care for atleast three or four years ago now according to an old gofundme.

Miye Ota (wiki) dead at 106.

[drol 11,373]

As reported elsewhere, football coach Jim Cullivan has died at 103. I was quite sure I had posted a pic of him on his 103rd birthday, but apparently I did not. The level of frailty was quite extreme.

[Gisooo 3,068]

On 06/01/2023 at 17:36, Gisooo said:

American surgeon Robert A. Chase (Wiki) turns 100 today

 

 

American surgeon Robert A. Chase (Wiki) dead at 101

[arghton 6,502]

On 18/12/2023 at 12:32, drol said:

I was reading the centenarians list to pick 15 names for the centenarian pool and there are plenty who are incredibly overdue and getting ridicolously high with age:

 

1)Marita Camacho Quiros: 113 next year (!!!), dementia sufferer, wheelchair bound. But above all, fucking 113.

2)Shi Ping: 112 next year, hospitalised for years, severe COVID in 2023, permanently on oxygen and wheelchair bound, advanced dementia.

3)Zhang Lixiong: 111 next year, hospitalised for three years, spent two of them in ICU, permanently on oxygen, advanced dementia.

4)Muazzez İlmiye Çığ: 110 next year (!!!), obese and frail.

5)James C. Floyd: 110 next year, not seen in years.

6)Ma Shitu: 109 next month, terminal cancer survivor, suffered from an illness this year.

7)James Clayton Flowers: 109 next years, has looked on the brink of death for at least four years.

8)Song Ping: A-lister who turns 107 next year! It's 107, how is he still going?

9)Yang You: 107 next year, hospitalised for at least five years.

10)Lloyd Geering: 106 next year, buried a lot of wives, has looked ancient since the 60s.

11)John Hemingway: 105 next year, wheelchair bound and in a nursing home for years.

12)David Musuguri: 104 next month, suffered from years of diabetes, wheelchair bound, hospitalised in 2023.

13)Henry Hu: 104 next month, looked decaying four years ago.

14)Erwin Schild: 104 next year, on oxygen for at least five.

15)Nguyen Dinh Dau: 104 next years, looks frailer at every birthday

16)Josip Manolic: 104 next year, survived two wives and COVID pneumonia in 2021. Bedridden in 2023.

17)Yosh Uchida: 104 next years, wheelchair bound in 2023, overall decrepit.

18)Li Dak-sum: 104 next year, lost wife in September, wheelchair bound in 2016, no public appearances for years.

19)Zou Yu: 104 next year, pulmonary edema in 2016, frail for years.

20)Franca Pilla: 104 next years, "extremely frail" in 2021.

21)Guy Warren: 103 next year, survived massive stroke in 2021.

22)Wang Xiji: 103 next year, hospitalised and looks like a zombie.

23)Wu Liangyong: 102 next year, severe illness in 2011, wheelchair bound and bloated in 2022.

24)Chen Ning Yang: 102 next year, frail for years, severe fall in 2023.

25)Gaositwe Chiepe: 102 next years, advanced dementia, wheelchair bound.

26)Du Daozheng: 101 next years, Parkinson's, dementia, hospitalised for five years.

26)Robert Kuok: 101 next year, frail and reclusive for years.

27)VS Achuthanandan: 101 next year, severe stroke in 2018, critical condition in 2021, advanced dementia.

28)Guillermo Rodriguez Lara: 101 next year, wheelchair bound for ages.

 

2024 may finally get rid of good part of them. They are fucking overdue.

Vietnamese historian Nguyễn Đình Đầu dead at 104.

[Ulitzer95 11,936]

On 21/01/2024 at 19:04, drol said:

French politician Jean Turco is still alive at 106. Here's him five months ago.

Didn't spot this until now but Jean Turco carried the Olympic flame in July.

107 in December. Should comfortably make that. Now in the top 20 oldest living men in France.

[Lafaucheuse 3,879]

Does look really well, impressive !