The 100 Club

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On 30/06/2021 at 21:37, Ulitzer95 said:

I’ll give him 2 months.

 

I'll give him two hours...

[Donald 182]

Iris Apfel could turn 100 this August.

She still looks amazing for her age and she posts a lot in her instagram account.

 

 

 

[Ulitzer95 12,596]

On 05/02/2021 at 19:58, Ulitzer95 said:

*snip*

Diana Armfield b. 1920 / Artist / 2021 DDP unique pick
Colin Hinton Curtis b. 1920 / Chairman of the Metropolitan Public Abattoir Board, 1971–1981
John Cruickshank VC b. 1920 / Last living VC recipient from World War II / 2021 DDP pick
Prof. James Dannatt b. 1920 / Architect
Sir Patrick Duffy b. 1920 / MP, 1963–1966, 1970–1992
Edmond H. Fischer b. 1920 / American biochemist, Nobel laureate (1992)
Martin Philip Lam b. 1920 / Government official
Prof. Ian MacGillivray b. 1920 / Doctor, Dean of Medical Faculty, University of Aberdeen, 1976–1979
Sir Gerrard Charles Peat b. 1920 / Chartered accountant, Partner, Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co.
Prof. C. R. Rao b. 1920 / Indian-American mathematician and statistician / 2021 DDP unique pick
21st Lord Saye and Sele b. 1920 / Hereditary peer and British Army officer, Member of the House of Lords, 1968–1999
George Shultz b. 1920 / U.S. Secretary of State, 1982–1989, of the Treasury, 1972–1974 and of Labor, 1969–1970 / 2021 DDP pick
Dr. Louis Siminovitch b. 1920 / Canadian molecular biologist
Robert Steel b. 1920 / Secretary General, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, 1968–1985
Edward Toms b. 1920 / SAS veteran turned arts proprietor

*snip*

Professor Ian MacGillivray dead at 100.

Press and Journal.

Herald.

[arghton 6,726]

On 24/04/2021 at 22:45, arghton said:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Parsus

Pierre Parsus is one person I'm hoping will see 100. In this case it'll be on 6th of June 2021.

Interesting artist, was still signing autographs in January 2020. Looked a bit like an overweight Boris Johnson when he was a bit younger.

New article from a week ago with a new image:

https://www.midilibre.fr/2021/06/27/le-portrait-du-dimanche-dans-le-gard-pour-pierre-parsus-peindre-cest-vivre-9633517.php

He has lost weight if compared to what he looked like in 2017:

[Ulitzer95 12,596]

Can't find a better source yet but someone on Facebook posted that William S. Anderson (wiki), or Bill Anderson as he is better known, has died aged 101.

Chinese-born British businessman, the President of NCR from 1972 to 1984, and a POW during World War II.



The post is long so here it is in a spoiler:
 

Spoiler

Bill Anderson, former CEO of NCR passes away at 101 years !!

From: Mel Lee <leemel@rogers.com>

Thu., Jul. 1 at 10:25 p.m.

From Jim Stewart Mr Chuck Anderson passed at 101

In speaking recently to Johann Oosthuizen, I was amazed to learn that Bill was doing reasonably well at age 101!! Eyesight failing but mind still “sharp as a tack.” Wife Janice also doing well at age 100! Must be that Johnnie Walker scotch?

Bill Anderson was born in 1919 in Wuhan in Central China and went to school in Wuhan and Shanghai. Anderson’s parents were part of a large expatriate community in Wuhan. As his father was Scottish, he was born a British citizen.

On December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hong Kong was also attacked by the Japanese. As a member of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC), Anderson fought the Japanese but after 17 days of heavy fighting Hong Kong surrendered. On Christmas Day 1941, exactly four years after he had escaped from the Japanese in China, he became a Prisoner of War and lost his second home. He was evacuated from Japan to the Philippines and as a British citizen, sent to England after two weeks of recovery in Canada.

One of Anderson’s fellow POWs was George Haynes who was the manager of NCR China. After the war, Haynes persuaded Anderson to join NCR and after some brief sales training in England, he was appointed general manager of NCR Hong Kong. At that time NCR Hong Kong was a war-shattered, rag tag branch of about seven people scratching out a living in used business machines. Using his accounting contacts he succeeded in selling accounting machines to all the banks and utility companies, and many commercial and industrial companies. Anderson had studied both Mandarin and Cantonese in his school days and this assisted him greatly during his time in Hong Kong. By 1960, NCR had acquired 97% of the Hong Kong business machine market. At that time George Haynes was based in Japan, heading up the Far East operation.

When George Haynes was promoted to head office in Dayton Ohio, Anderson left Hong Kong to become Chairman of the Japanese company and vice president for the Far East region. In 1971, NCR was in serious trouble and was in danger of going out of business. The company had been slow to move from mechanical to electronic products. The board of directors with unusual vision of those times decided that there was no one among the 30 officers of the parent company that could do the job of saving the company and Anderson was asked. So in June 1972, Anderson became CEO of NCR and started the transformation of NCR to be a full electronic data processing company. Many difficult days and the problems ensued. Not only did he have to change the hardware aspects of a mechanical machine business to one making things that worked with bits and bytes, but he had to change the mentality of everyone in the company to do things differently. Anderson also had problems with an unsympathetic media and the UAW. NCR was the first company to force the UAW to agree to a two-tier wage system (GM management negotiated a similar contract some 30 years later). He was appointed chairman of NCR in 1974. Anderson briefly considered moving NCR headquarters away from Dayton, but came to the conclusion that it would be too costly and that an international organization could be run from anywhere in the world. NCR staged a spectacular recovery and when Anderson retired on the 100th anniversary of the company in 1984, NCR was in very good shape.

Anderson stayed on the NCR board of directors until 1989 and was not involved in the acquisition of the company by AT&T in 1991 (NCR was subsequently renamed “AT&T GIS”). The merger was a failure and NCR once again became a stand-alone company in 1997. In his 1991 autobiography, Anderson was optimistic about the AT&T merger, but in a speech in 2006, he described the exercise as a disaster: not only did the market capitalization drop from $7.4 billion to $3.4 billion, there were also operating losses of $4 billion, a total cost to AT&T shareholders of $8 billion. Anderson attributed the failure of the merger to an arrogant attitude by AT&T which resulted in the loss of 90% of NCR’s senior officers and mid-managers which led to the loss of long-time customers.

After retirement from NCR, Anderson served on various stock exchange boards of directors as well as boards of non-profit organizations.

William Summers Anderson

Born (1919-03-29) March 29, 1919 (age 101)

Hankow, China

Nationality - British

Occupation - business machine salesman, corporate President

Known for - President of NCR

Spouse - Janice Anderson

Children - Stephanie, Irene, Hope

 

[Ulitzer95 12,596]

On 22/06/2020 at 17:24, drol said:

A bit of updating the list:

 

1)Dharam Pal Singh (1897, 1938): Still unsinkable and will be here for a long time.

2)Fauja Singh (1911): In failing health, both physically and mentally. Does not leave home nowadays and lost a dear friend to COVID just some months ago.

3)G. Venkatasubbiah (1913): Very old and frail, probably not able to walk anymore.

4)Saalumarada Thimmakka (1910?): In failing health, has been in hospital recently and mostly bedridden. Here we go again.

5)Aiyappan Pillai (1914): Declining health, received a call from the PM mid April, apparently bedridden.

6)Lambert Mascarenhas (1915): No news in years.

7)Man Kaur (1916): Still going incredibly strong.

8)S. I. Padmavati (1917): no news for a long time.

9)Shyem Saran Negi (1917): has been "seriously ill" and bedridden since January. A mystery how he is still alive.

10)H. S. Doreswamy (1918): Still going strong.

11)Philipose Mar Chrysostom (1917): Very frail, bedridden, physically weak according to his doctors.

12)K. R. Gowri Amma (1919): Increasingly frail and bedridden.

13)Amala Shankar (1919): suffering from severe dementia, unable to feed herself, bedridden for years.

 

A very frail-looking list...

Man Kaur, who is 105, suffering from gallbladder cancer.

Gets better... has decided to undergo a homeopathetic route of treatment. 

[Ulitzer95 12,596]

Death notice for American poet Martin Greenberg (wiki), aged 103.

[chilean way 1,898]

4 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Can't find a better source yet but someone on Facebook posted that William S. Anderson (wiki), or Bill Anderson as he is better known, has died aged 101.

Chinese-born British businessman, the President of NCR from 1972 to 1984, and a POW during World War II.



The post is long so here it is in a spoiler:
 

  Reveal hidden contents

Bill Anderson, former CEO of NCR passes away at 101 years !!

From: Mel Lee <leemel@rogers.com>

Thu., Jul. 1 at 10:25 p.m.

From Jim Stewart Mr Chuck Anderson passed at 101

In speaking recently to Johann Oosthuizen, I was amazed to learn that Bill was doing reasonably well at age 101!! Eyesight failing but mind still “sharp as a tack.” Wife Janice also doing well at age 100! Must be that Johnnie Walker scotch?

Bill Anderson was born in 1919 in Wuhan in Central China and went to school in Wuhan and Shanghai. Anderson’s parents were part of a large expatriate community in Wuhan. As his father was Scottish, he was born a British citizen.

On December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hong Kong was also attacked by the Japanese. As a member of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC), Anderson fought the Japanese but after 17 days of heavy fighting Hong Kong surrendered. On Christmas Day 1941, exactly four years after he had escaped from the Japanese in China, he became a Prisoner of War and lost his second home. He was evacuated from Japan to the Philippines and as a British citizen, sent to England after two weeks of recovery in Canada.

One of Anderson’s fellow POWs was George Haynes who was the manager of NCR China. After the war, Haynes persuaded Anderson to join NCR and after some brief sales training in England, he was appointed general manager of NCR Hong Kong. At that time NCR Hong Kong was a war-shattered, rag tag branch of about seven people scratching out a living in used business machines. Using his accounting contacts he succeeded in selling accounting machines to all the banks and utility companies, and many commercial and industrial companies. Anderson had studied both Mandarin and Cantonese in his school days and this assisted him greatly during his time in Hong Kong. By 1960, NCR had acquired 97% of the Hong Kong business machine market. At that time George Haynes was based in Japan, heading up the Far East operation.

When George Haynes was promoted to head office in Dayton Ohio, Anderson left Hong Kong to become Chairman of the Japanese company and vice president for the Far East region. In 1971, NCR was in serious trouble and was in danger of going out of business. The company had been slow to move from mechanical to electronic products. The board of directors with unusual vision of those times decided that there was no one among the 30 officers of the parent company that could do the job of saving the company and Anderson was asked. So in June 1972, Anderson became CEO of NCR and started the transformation of NCR to be a full electronic data processing company. Many difficult days and the problems ensued. Not only did he have to change the hardware aspects of a mechanical machine business to one making things that worked with bits and bytes, but he had to change the mentality of everyone in the company to do things differently. Anderson also had problems with an unsympathetic media and the UAW. NCR was the first company to force the UAW to agree to a two-tier wage system (GM management negotiated a similar contract some 30 years later). He was appointed chairman of NCR in 1974. Anderson briefly considered moving NCR headquarters away from Dayton, but came to the conclusion that it would be too costly and that an international organization could be run from anywhere in the world. NCR staged a spectacular recovery and when Anderson retired on the 100th anniversary of the company in 1984, NCR was in very good shape.

Anderson stayed on the NCR board of directors until 1989 and was not involved in the acquisition of the company by AT&T in 1991 (NCR was subsequently renamed “AT&T GIS”). The merger was a failure and NCR once again became a stand-alone company in 1997. In his 1991 autobiography, Anderson was optimistic about the AT&T merger, but in a speech in 2006, he described the exercise as a disaster: not only did the market capitalization drop from $7.4 billion to $3.4 billion, there were also operating losses of $4 billion, a total cost to AT&T shareholders of $8 billion. Anderson attributed the failure of the merger to an arrogant attitude by AT&T which resulted in the loss of 90% of NCR’s senior officers and mid-managers which led to the loss of long-time customers.

After retirement from NCR, Anderson served on various stock exchange boards of directors as well as boards of non-profit organizations.

William Summers Anderson

Born (1919-03-29) March 29, 1919 (age 101)

Hankow, China

Nationality - British

Occupation - business machine salesman, corporate President

Known for - President of NCR

Spouse - Janice Anderson

Children - Stephanie, Irene, Hope

 

This could be a better source?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-prisoner-of-war-saved-ncr-from-obsolescence-11625580000 

[drol 11,945]

16 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Man Kaur, who is 105, suffering from gallbladder cancer.

Gets better... has decided to undergo a homeopathetic route of treatment. 

Improving . 

[Ulitzer95 12,596]

2 hours ago, drol said:

Improving . 

Just like Dilip?

[Donald 182]

Another interesting one 

Marcel Berthomé who ran at age 98 for a tenth term as a mayor and lost in the 2nd round by only 33 votes could become 100 next April.

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Berthomé

 

 

If he had win he could become first centenarian serving mayor.

 

https://www.rtl.fr/actu/politique/municipales-marcel-berthome-deviendra-t-il-le-premier-maire-centenaire-7800062270

[Daniel-San 69]

Norman Bernstein, a World War II veteran and founder of Bernstein Management, dies at 100:

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2021/07/06/norman-bernstein-dies.html

[Ulitzer95 12,596]

Patrick Wright (wiki) joins the 100 Club next week. American film and television actress of the 50s and 60s and one of the few players left who appeared in sketches of The Three Stooges.

New LA Times interview with her here. Picture included, looks pretty good. Says the secret to her longevity is "lots of sex".

[Lafaucheuse 4,046]

Edgar Morin is turning 100 today : Happy bday !

[TomTomTelekom 3,727]

Indian Ayurveda practitioner P.K. Warrier deat at 100 years:

https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/doyen-of-ayurveda-pk-warrier-passes-away-1.5819433

[arghton 6,726]

1 hour ago, TomTomTelekom said:

Indian Ayurveda practitioner P.K. Warrier deat at 100 years:

https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/doyen-of-ayurveda-pk-warrier-passes-away-1.5819433

Still looked great, I thought he'd be one of those Indians who live to 105+.

[arghton 6,726]

On 01/07/2021 at 23:26, drol said:

Alberto Dualib has been in hospital for 15 days. Pulling an Orlando Drummond or finally leaving this earth? 

https://ge.globo.com/google/amp/futebol/times/corinthians/noticia/morre-alberto-dualib-ex-presidente-do-corinthians-aos-101-anos.ghtml

Dualib dead.

[Ulitzer95 12,596]

On 28/05/2021 at 11:01, Lafaucheuse said:

Everytime this threads appears I think Renee Simonot has died. God she’s 109 and a half how long can she lingers now ? 

Renée Simonot finally dead at 109.

 

Would have become a supercentenarian in two months.

 

A pick for 7 DDP teams.

[Lafaucheuse 4,046]

50 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Renée Simonot finally dead at 109.

 

Would have become a supercentenarian in two months.

 

A pick for 7 DDP teams.

Oh MY GOD !!! 
I was opening this thread thinking of her as usual, what a shock : you wouldn’t expect a 109 to die like that... RIP 

[Ulitzer95 12,596]

A few things on Simonot...

As far as I can see (using Wiki's lists of centenarians), Simonot was the oldest actor/actress of note ever, outliving Switzerland's Helli Stehle (1907–2017) by a few months.

No notable actors have yet made it to 110 (though animator Ruthie Tompson and screenwriter Frederica Sagor Maas did work in the same industry).

The oldest actor/actress of note is now Mary Ward (b. 1915), assuming there isn't anyone else still around that we're unaware of.

The oldest French person known for reasons other than age alone is now pianist Colette Maze (b. 1914) who is still releasing new music and may reach supercentenarian status.

[arghton 6,726]

1910, 1911 and 1912 now only have two living notable people.

1914 has around 11, 1909 none...

 

1908 and 1913 both have only one, Ruth Apilado and Boris Pahor. It's suprising how Apilado just keeps going.

[Lafaucheuse 4,046]

I thought her death would be unnoted in France or barely obitable but as the oldest actress ever and Catherine Deneuve's mother she has quite a good coverage

[Ulitzer95 12,596]

7 minutes ago, arghton said:

1910, 1911 and 1912 now only have two living notable people.

1914 has around 11, 1909 none...

 

1908 and 1913 both have only one, Ruth Apilado and Boris Pahor. It's suprising how Apilado just keeps going.

I count slightly more

1908: Ruth Apilado
1909: Virginia McLaurin (age in question)
1910: Stanislaw Kowalski, Ruthie Tompson
1911: Marita Camacho Quiros, Fauja Singh (age in question), Eileen Whelan
1912: Jesse Lichauco, Dagny Carlsson, Draja Mickaharic (age in question)
1913: Boris Pahor

[Vinegar Tits 606]

Other than the currently living Mary Ward,  now that Renée Simonot has died, who has been the longest living person from the entertainment world (and not super niche/obscure)?  I'm thinking Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, who Simonot's daughter worked with a number of times. He made it to 106.

 

(ignore the formatting of this post. I'm on my mobile and no idea how to fix this...)

[Ulitzer95 12,596]

14 minutes ago, Vinegar Tits said:

Other than the currently living Mary Ward,  now that Renée Simonot has died, who has been the longest living person from the entertainment world (and not super niche/obscure)?  I'm thinking Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, who Simonot's daughter worked with a number of times. He made it to 106.

 

(ignore the formatting of this post. I'm on my mobile and no idea how to fix this...)

British producer Norman Spencer is 107 next month. Unpicked in the DDP.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Spencer_(producer)