The 100 Club

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107 years old is young.

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Venezuelan singer Fedora Aleman dead at 105. DDP pick.

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Fedora Aleman?

 

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Bonnie Brown — who many believe was Kansas’ oldest newspaper columnist — was found dead Saturday morning in her apartment in a senior living complex. She had been suffering from a cold that turned into pneumonia. She was 11 days shy of turning 103.

In her eight years of writing for the Protection Press, she had missed two deadlines — once last year, in March, when Protection was evacuated for massive wildfires sweeping southwest Kansas and again a few weeks ago when she caught a virus.

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Danish Ballet Dancer and Choreographer Nini Theilade,  best known for "A midsummer NIghts Dream" dead at 102

https://www.b.dk/doedsfald/dansen-var-det-hele-vaerd

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Bulgarian Philantropist Dobri Dobrev dead at 104

https://frontnews.eu/news/en/23571

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Chinese Painter and Calligrapher Jao Tsung-I dead 101 years:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201802/06/WS5a791ac0a3106e7dcc13b0a8.html

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50 minutes ago, TomTomTelekom said:

Bulgarian Philantropist Dobri Dobrev dead at 104

https://frontnews.eu/news/en/23571

Second one dead from my Slavic theme team, but probably List of the Lost like Barys Kit.

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I don't know whether this has been posted before, but Catherine Deneuve's mother, Renee Simonot, is still alive. She was born in 1911, and is, according to Wikipedia, the oldest French actress alive.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renée_Simonot

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7 hours ago, ThePrematureBurial said:

I don't know whether this has been posted before, but Catherine Deneuve's mother, Renee Simonot, is still alive. She was born in 1911, and is, according to Wikipedia, the oldest French actress alive.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renée_Simonot

 

Many times.

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On 2/5/2018 at 13:38, Death Impends said:

I think we can safely assume any film released before 1918's Station Content has achieved the clean sweep. (Station Content still has one surviving cast member nearly a century later, as Fay McKenzie appeared in it when she was only a few weeks old, and turns 100 in two weeks!)

 

Welcoming Fay to the 100 Club today. Now the wait is on to see if she can live to see the centennial of her film debut.

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2018 is now the first year since 2012 where no one currently on the DeathList turns 100.

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7 minutes ago, Death Impends said:

2018 is now the first year since 2012 where no one currently on the DeathList turns 100.

 

What's left of 1918 in my notes:

 

1918 –Shinobu Hashimoto, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Martin Pope, Guje Lagerwall, Hutton Gibson, Jens Skou, Rene de Obaldia, Paul D Boyer, Fay McKenzie, Katherine Johnson, Lloyd Geering, Ivy Bethune, Brenda Milner, Henri Vernes, Louise Tobin, T. Berry Brazelton, Josephine Webb, Francis Nye, Chuck Stevens, Frank Lambert, Doris Grumbach, Paul Farnes, Diana Serra Cary, Arthur Brauner

 

Fascinating figures, all, yes, but none of them really jump out as massively exciting potential centenarians.

 

1919 currently has a Beat poet, a Twilight Zone alumnus, Lord Carrington, James Lovelock, Spencer/Mercier and Mad Mike Hoare as it stands.

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If she is breathing Dec 31 I think Katharine Johnson would be a decent pick for the Deathlist, especially after how the movie Hidden Figures has introduced her achievements to millions of people.

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Rev Billy's demise got me to check over my long list. A few of the centenarians had died without my noticing, but a forum search showed YWillz or the like on the ball.

 

Two that didn't show up via the forum search engine:

 

Jean Anglade, French writer/historian, died aged 102, on 22nd November 2017. He did have an English Wiki page, but it's been merged by some idiot Wiki editor into an entirely different person.

 

Ake Hellman, Finnish artist/academic, died aged 102, on 18th December 2017. (link in Finnish)

 

Perhaps not exciting names to know, but if I'd noted them down at some point, only fair to mention them here now they've gone.

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Sir Dudward Knowles dead at 100 http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/publish/in-memorium/Bahamian_Olympian_Sir_Durward_Knowles_has_died_at_10057258.shtml

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On ‎02‎/‎02‎/‎2018 at 18:57, CoffinLodger said:

I expect Gillo Dorfles to go any day now because I think he and Barys Kit were twins! 

Told you ...dead at 107.  http://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2018/03/02/news/addio_a_gillo_dorlfes_il_critico_d_arte_muore_a_107_anni-190173376/ !

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Bessie Nolan at 106, maybe more of a reality thread thang, as she was in the Documentary Film 'Older than Ireland' aged 103, puffing away on a cig.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2018/0301/944385-older-than-ireland-star-bessie-nolan-dies-aged-106/

 

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5 hours ago, charon said:

Bessie Nolan at 106, maybe more of a reality thread thang, as she was in the Documentary Film 'Older than Ireland' aged 103, puffing away on a cig.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2018/0301/944385-older-than-ireland-star-bessie-nolan-dies-aged-106/

 

Bessie Nolan? Missed by two letters in DDP 2013!

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French ice skater (former, presumably) Jacqueline Vaudecrane has died at 104 https://ffsg.org/avis-de-deces-4/

 

PS here's an English obit for Gillo Dorfles http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2018/03/02/art-critic-gillo-dorfles-dead-at-107_add7d726-445d-49e2-9bd6-4a05bf797510.html

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Dr Francis Jackson, Organist Emeritus at York Minster Cathedral, will be 101 this year.  As an internationally acclaimed musician and composer, he'll definitely obit when his time is up.  

 

Here's a recent video of the great man in action.

 

 

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Dutch Politician Johan van Hulst dead at 107 years

https://www.montesquieu-instituut.nl/id/vkmz95a3a6vh/nieuws/oud_senator_johan_van_hulst_107

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Actress Gertrude Jeannette has died at 103 http://harlemworldmag.com/celebrating-life-harlems-gertrude-hadley-jeannette/

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Philanthropist William S Beinecke has died at103 https://news.yale.edu/2018/04/09/memoriam-william-s-beinecke-36-supported-life-and-learning-yale

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French Politician Irma Rapuzzi dead at 108 years.

https://www.laprovence.com/article/politique/4919188/mademoiselle-irma-rapuzzi-sen-est-allee-a-108-ans.html