The 100 Club

[msc 17,740]

I think Slocombe probably would, as it'd allow them to dust off archive footage of The Titfield Thunderbolt. Oh, and WW2.

[Bibliogryphon 8,624]

Hollingworth is the only one I'd be 90% sure would get her death mentioned on a BBC news broadcast. Slocombe and Wouk might sneak in on a quiet day.

 

Wouk will be bang on for the BBC website and the broadsheets.

[Spade_Cooley 9,019]

Oh website 100%, Rockefeller, DeJong, Corey and Lloyd was also walk into a BBC website mention.

[Sir Creep 7,011]

I'd question the veracity of a news outlet what didn't mention the deaths of Wouk, Slocombe, Lloyd and Rockefeller. Particularly a British news outlet with such an outrageous oversight. Here in the States Wouk and Rockefeller of course would get a mention, and maybe Slocombe a nice reach-around. The rest I doubt.

SC

[Sean 5,997]

I'd question the veracity of a news outlet what didn't mention the deaths of Wouk, Slocombe, Lloyd and Rockefeller. Particularly a British news outlet with such an outrageous oversight. Here in the States Wouk and Rockefeller of course would get a mention, and maybe Slocombe a nice reach-around. The rest I doubt.

SC

How well would Irwin Corey obit in the states?

[Sir Creep 7,011]

 

I'd question the veracity of a news outlet what didn't mention the deaths of Wouk, Slocombe, Lloyd and Rockefeller. Particularly a British news outlet with such an outrageous oversight. Here in the States Wouk and Rockefeller of course would get a mention, and maybe Slocombe a nice reach-around. The rest I doubt.

SC

How well would Irwin Corey obit in the states?

 

oh sorry, surely he would be automatic obit in NYTimes.

SC

EDIT: In fact you just reminded me of him, 'surprised he's still alive' candidate. I'm shocked anyone from the movie Chatterbox walks the earth.

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horse trainer John Nerud dead at 102 http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/93646/legendary-horseman-john-nerud-dies-at-102

[YoungWillz 18,967]

Sam Ledward, mistakenly declared dead 79 years ago, has now died at 108. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-33986523

 

2 DDP teams played the long waiting game.

[The Mad Hatter 1,091]

Sam Ledward, mistakenly declared dead 79 years ago, has now died at 108. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-33986523

 

2 DDP teams played the long waiting game.

damn, zombies

[gcreptile 10,214]

Frederick "Fritz" Payne, World War II veteran dies at 104:

 

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/18/world-war-ii-fighter-ace-fritz-payne-dead-at-104-helped-us-allies-win-battle/

 

He decided the Battle of Guadalcanal by shooting down six Japanese airplanes. The obit says that this was a turning point in the Pacific campaign.

[gcreptile 10,214]

Amelia Boynton Robinson, centennarian civil rights icon, has been in hospital for a month after a stroke:

 

http://wsav.com/2015/08/18/civil-rights-icon-hospitalized-after-stroke-2/

 

Aah, another missed name for Shaun's deadpool.

[paulh85 101]

Amelia Boynton Robinson, centennarian civil rights icon, has been in hospital for a month after a stroke:

 

http://wsav.com/2015/08/18/civil-rights-icon-hospitalized-after-stroke-2/

 

Aah, another missed name for Shaun's deadpool.

 

 

she's not dead yet!!

[YoungWillz 18,967]

 

Amelia Boynton Robinson, centennarian civil rights icon, has been in hospital for a month after a stroke:

 

http://wsav.com/2015/08/18/civil-rights-icon-hospitalized-after-stroke-2/

 

Aah, another missed name for Shaun's deadpool.

 

 

she's not dead yet!!

 

 

Yes she is dead. http://www.wsfa.com/story/29883767/103-year-old-civil-rights-activist-amelia-boynton-dies

 

2 DDP teams awaiting - Daily Mail seems first: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3211697/Civil-rights-activist-Amelia-Boynton-Robinson-dies-104.html

[Sir Creep 7,011]

 

 

Amelia Boynton Robinson, centennarian civil rights icon, has been in hospital for a month after a stroke:

 

http://wsav.com/2015/08/18/civil-rights-icon-hospitalized-after-stroke-2/

 

Aah, another missed name for Shaun's deadpool.

 

 

she's not dead yet!!

Yes she is dead. http://www.wsfa.com/story/29883767/103-year-old-civil-rights-activist-amelia-boynton-dies

 

2 DDP teams awaiting - Daily Mail seems first: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3211697/Civil-rights-activist-Amelia-Boynton-Robinson-dies-104.html

Seems like a good time for Grace Lee Boggs to check out then, join her comrade for the cause.

SC

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That reduces the number of famous centenarians to 186 then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_living_centenarians

[deadsox 891]

Frederick "Fritz" Payne, World War II veteran dies at 104:

 

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/18/world-war-ii-fighter-ace-fritz-payne-dead-at-104-helped-us-allies-win-battle/

 

He decided the Battle of Guadalcanal by shooting down six Japanese airplanes. The obit says that this was a turning point in the Pacific campaign.

I think Midway was the turning point but that doesn't diminish Mr. Payne's valor and accomplishments.

[YoungWillz 18,967]

Yevnige (or Yevnigue) Salibian, 101 year old survivor of the Armenian Genocide has died. http://asbarez.com/139306/genocide-survivor-yevinge-salibian-passes-away/

 

Possible UK obit to follow after being featured in The Independent last year, but not picked for the DDP far as I can see. She talked to the BBC back in April. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32402965

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top physician Ephraim Engleman has died at 104 http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015/09/131496/ephraim-engleman-one-worlds-oldest-practicing-physicians-dies-104

 

 

[YoungWillz 18,967]

top physician Ephraim Engleman has died at 104 http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015/09/131496/ephraim-engleman-one-worlds-oldest-practicing-physicians-dies-104

 

 

 

At 104, probably rheumatism is the only stiffness he could still study...

[msc 17,740]

Ebby Halliday closes out her spot on the list of Really Old People Folk Put on Deadpools for Being Vaguely Famous, aged 104.

 

 

[The sidebar for that story currently has "Texas woman killed by tainted cucumber" and "Woman warns police about loaded gun in her vagina" incidentally. Must be something in the Dallas water.]

[maryportfuncity 9,992]

 

That reduces the number of famous centenarians to 186 then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_living_centenarians

 

 

 

Aye, but the underlying trend is upwards.

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That reduces the number of famous centenarians to 186 then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_living_centenarians

 

 

 

Aye, but the underlying trend is upwards.

 

you're not kidding. every time I look at he famous centenarian list new names have been added to it. bloody infuriating !

[maryportfuncity 9,992]

A bloody infuriating addition to the famous centenarians, then.

 

"The Golden Bolt" has just broken his own world record for the fastest 100 metre run by a guy 105 or over

 

Link: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/25/japans-105-year-old-golden-bolt-beats-his-own-world-sprint-record

[Spade_Cooley 9,019]

So as the board's resident guinea, I'm always keen to check up on any potential DDP picks from the old country. I was doing a little googling for Pietro Ingrao, recently centenarianed Italian communist politician, and came across this site:

 

http://dpseggi.altervista.org/DeathList/X2015.html

 

Discuss.

 

Congrats to our paisan cousins, Ingrao e finito.

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Theatre producer Donald Seawell has died at 103 http://www.9news.com/story/news/local/2015/09/30/donald-seawell-founder-of-dcpa-dies-at-103/73125064/