List of centenarians 5466099 225775958 2008-07-15T10:14:38Z Rjwilmsi 203434 gen fixes + link/fix date fields in cite templates (explanation [[User:Rjwilmsi#My_correction_of_dates_in_templates|here]]) using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] {{dynamic list}} Here is a list of [[centenarian]]s (people who lived to be or are living at 100 years or more of age) known for reasons other than their longevity, with the living individuals '''''bolded and italicized'''''. This list is divided into sub-lists, according to how the centenarian (mostly) became well-known. == Activists, non-profit leaders and philanthropists == {| class="wikitable" |- |- ! style="background-color: yellow" | Name ! width="12%" style="background-color: yellow" | Lifespan ! style="background-color: yellow" | Age ! style="background-color: yellow" | Notability |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Encarnacion Alzona]] || 1895-2001 || 105 || [[Philippines|Filipino]] [[suffragette]], [[historian]] and author |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Albert Jean Amateau]] || 1889-1996 || 106 || [[Turkey|Turkish]]-born [[United States|American]] [[rabbi]] and social activist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Melchora Aquino]] || 1812-1919 || 107 || Filipino [[revolutionary]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Brooke Astor]] || 1902-2007 || 105 || [[United States|American]] [[socialite]] and [[philanthropist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Arnold Orville Beckman]] || 1900-2004 || 104 || American philanthropist and inventor of the [[pH meter]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Catherine Caradja]] || 1893-1993 || 100 || [[Romania]]n [[aristocracy|aristocrat]] and philanthropist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Leonora Cohen]] || 1873-1978 || 105 || [[United Kingdom|British]] suffragette |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Kathryn Wasserman Davis]]'''''|| '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|2|25}}''''' || '''''American philanthropist''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Charles Duguid]] || 1884-1986 || 102 || [[Australia]]n activist for [[Indigenous Australians|Aboriginal]] rights |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Hallie Ford]] || 1905-2007 || 102 || American business woman and philanthropist<ref name=SJ>{{cite news|last = Much| first = Justin|title = Arts philanthropist Hallie Ford dies|publisher = ''[[Statesman Journal]]''|date = [[June 7]] [[2007]]|url = http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070607/NEWS/706070325|accessdate = 2007-06-07}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Ruth May Fox]] || 1853-1958 || 104 || American [[women's rights]] activist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Lina Haag]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|1|18}}''''' || '''''[[Germany|German]] [[World War II]] resistance fighter'''''<ref>{{cite news|last = Hardinghaus|first = Barbara|title = Der Jahrhundertmensch|publisher = ''Spiegel Wissen''|date = [[December 17]] [[2007]]|url = http://wissen.spiegel.de/wissen/dokument/dokument.html?id=54683177&top=SPIEGEL|accessdate = 2008-04-19}} (German)</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Alice Hamilton]] || 1869-1970 || 101 || American [[toxicology|toxicologist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Shidzue Katō]] || 1897-2001 || 104 || [[Japan]]ese [[feminism|feminist]] and [[politician]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Evelyn Lett]] || 1896-1999 || 102 || [[Canada|Canadian]] woman's rights pioneer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Paul Moyer Limbert]] || 1897-1998 || 101 || American former [[YMCA]] Secretary General |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Enolia McMillan]] || 1904-2006 || 102 || American former [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People|NAACP]] president |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Margaret Murie]] || 1902-2003 || 101 || American [[conservation movement|conservationist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Scott Nearing]] || 1883-1983 || 100 || American conservationist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Sanzo Nosaka]] || 1892-1993 || 101 || Japanese politician |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Nittoor Srinivasa Rau]] || 1903-2004 || 100 || [[India]]n independence activist and [[jurist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[F. J. Schlink|Frederick J. Schlink]] || 1891-1995 || 103 || American co-founder of [[Consumers Research]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Floyd Schmoe]] || 1895-2001 || 105 || American [[peace activist]] and [[natural history|naturalist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky]] || 1897-2000 || 102 || [[Austria]]n [[architect]] and political activist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|4|1}}''''' || '''''Indian humanitarian''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Thomas Wyatt Turner]] || 1877-1978 || 101 || American [[civil rights]] activist, [[biologist]] and educator |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Rachel Mellon Walton]] || 1899-2006 || 107 || American philanthropist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Edgar Wayburn]]''''' || '''''1906 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1906|9|17}}''''' || '''''American [[environmentalism|environmentalist]]''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Irvin F. Westheimer]] || 1879-1980 || 101 || American businessman, banker and philanthropist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Hazel Wolf]] || 1898-2000 || 101 || American environmental activist and civil-rights campaigner |} == Actors, filmmakers and entertainers == {| class="wikitable" |- |- ! style="background-color: yellow" | Name ! style="background-color: yellow" | Lifespan ! style="background-color: yellow" | Age ! style="background-color: yellow" | Notability |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[George Abbott]] || 1887-1995 || 107 || American [[theatre]] producer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Rosa Albach-Retty]] || 1874-1980 || 105 || Austrian [[film|movie]] and stage [[actor|actress]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Nikolay Annenkov]] || 1899-1999 || 100 || [[Russia]]n actor |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Etta Moten Barnett]] || 1901-2004 || 102 || [[African American]] stage actress and [[singer]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Bruce Bennett]] || 1906-2007 || 100 || American actor and [[Olympic Games|Olympian]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Margaret Booth]] || 1898-2002 || 104 || American [[film editing|film editor]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Osmond Borradaile]] || 1898-1999 || 100 || Canadian cameraman and [[cinematographer]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia]] || 1894-1998 || 103 || [[Italy|Italian]] [[film director]] and [[screenwriter]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Renate Brausewetter]] || 1905-2006 || 100 || German [[silent film]] actress |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Don Brodie]] || 1899-2001 || 101 || American [[character actor]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Oscar Brodney]] || 1907-2008 || 100 || American screenwriter |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[George Burns]] || 1896-1996 || 100 || American actor and [[comedian]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Jean Delannoy]] || 1908-2008 || 100 || [[France|French]] actor and film director<ref>{{cite web|title = Jean Delannoy|publisher = Cinememory|date = [[January 16]], [[2008]]|url = http://cinememory.free.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=434&Itemid=59|accessdate = 2008-01-20}} (French)</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Dorothy Dickson]] || 1893-1995 || 102 || British-American stage actress |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Claire Du Brey]] || 1892-1993 || 100 || American film actress |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Mary Ellis]] || 1897-2003 || 105 || British stage actress |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Carl Esmond]] || 1902-2004 || 102 || German-American actor |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Gwen Ffrangcon Davies]] || 1891-1992 || 101 || [[England|English]] actress |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Erwin Geschonneck]] || 1906-2008 || 101 || German actor<ref>{{cite news|title = Der große proletarische Held der DDR ist tot|publisher = Welt Online|date = [[2008-03-12]]|url=http://www.welt.de/kultur/article1790754/Der_grosse_proletarische_Held_der_DDR_ist_tot.html|accessdate = 2008-03-12}} (German)</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Marie Glory]]''''' || '''''1905 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1905|3|3}}''''' || '''''French actress''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Dercy Gonçalves]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|6|23}}''''' || '''''[[Brazil]]ian actress''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Liane Haid]] || 1895-2000 || 105 || Austrian actress |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Rose Hamburger]] || 1890-1996 || 105 || American [[race track]] fixture known as "Gamblin' Rose" |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Kathleen Harrison]] || 1892-1995 || 103 || British actress |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Johannes Heesters]]''''' || '''''1903 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1903|12|5}}''''' || '''''[[Netherlands|Dutch]]-German actor''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Bob Hope]] || 1903-2003 || 100 || American comedian |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[John Kenley]]''''' || '''''1906 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1906|2|20}}''''' || '''''American [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] [[theatre director|director]] and producer''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Barbara Kent]]''''' || '''''1906 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1906|12|16}}''''' || '''''Canadian actress''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Charles Lane (actor)|Charles Lane]] || 1905-2007 || 102 || American character actor |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Erna Lazarus]] || 1903-2006 || 102 || American screenwriter |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Francis Lederer]] || 1899-2000 || 100 || American actor |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Madeleine Milhaud]] || 1902-2008 || 105 || French actress and widow of [[Darius Milhaud]]<ref>{{cite web|title = Madeleine Milhaud: Actress wife of the composer|publisher = The Independent|date = [[January 31]], [[2008]]|url = http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/madeleine-milhaud-actress-wife-of-the-composer-776120.html|accessdate = 2008-01-31}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Igor Moiseyev]] || 1906-2007 || 101 || Russian [[choreography|choreographer]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Audrey Munson]] || 1891-1996 || 104 || American [[model (person)|model]] and actress |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Grim Natwick|Myron "Grim" Natwick]] || 1890-1990 || 100 || American [[animator]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Ivan Novikoff]] || 1899-2002 || 102 || Russian [[ballet]] teacher |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Risto Orko]] || 1899-2001 || 102 || [[Finland|Finnish]] [[film producer]] and director |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Emily Perry (English actress)|Emily Perry]] || 1907-2008 || 100 || British actress<ref>{{cite news |title=Edna's sidekick Emily Perry dies |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7254308.stm |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=2008-02-20 |accessdate=2008-02-20 }}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Tullio Pinelli]]'''''|| '''''1908 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1908|6|24}}''''' || '''''Italian playwright and screenwriter'''''<ref>{{cite news|last = Vasile|first = Turi|title = I cento anni di Tullio Pinelli|language = Italian|publisher = Agenzia Radicale|date = [[2008-06-25]]|url = http://www.agenziaradicale.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5194&Itemid=50|accessdate = 2008-06-25}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Irving Rapper]] || 1898-1999 || 101 || British-American film director |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Connie Douglas Reeves]] || 1901-2003 || 101 || American [[list of cowboys and cowgirls|cowgirl]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Leni Riefenstahl]] || 1902-2003 || 101 || German filmmaker |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Hal Roach]] || 1892-1992 || 100 || American film and [[television producer]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Zvonimir Rogoz]] || 1887-1988 || 100 || [[Croatia]]n actor |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Frederica Sagor Maas]]''''' || '''''1900 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1900|7|6}}''''' || '''''American [[playwright]], essayist and author''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Ivy Sawyer]] || 1898-1999 || 101 || American singer, actress and dancer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Robert C. Schnitzer]] || 1906-2008 || 101 || American actor, producer, educator and theater administrator<ref>{{cite news|title = Robert C. Schnitzer, Arts Center Activist, Dies at 101|publisher = WestportNow|date = [[2008-01-02]]|url=http://www.westportnow.com/index.php?/v2/19060/|accessdate = 2008-01-03}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Miriam Seegar]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|9|1}}''''' || '''''American actress''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Tonio Selwart]] || 1896-2002 || 106 || [[Bavaria]]n actor and stage performer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Marina Semyonova]]''''' || '''''1908 &ndash;''''' || '''''100''''' || '''''Russian [[prima ballerina]]'''''<ref>{{cite news|last = КРЫЛОВА|first = МАЙЯ|title = Царица бала|work = LifeStyle|language = Russian|publisher = PbK daily|date = [[2008-06-13]] |url = http://www.rbcdaily.ru/2008/06/10/lifestyle/351253|accessdate = 2008-06-13}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Athene Seyler]] || 1889-1990 || 101 || English actress |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Dorothy Stickney]] || 1896-1998 || 101 || American actress |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Frank M. Thomas]] || 1889-1989 || 100 || American supporting actor |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Doris Eaton Travis]]''''' || '''''1904 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1904|3|14}}''''' || '''''American last surviving [[Ziegfeld girl]]''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Ninette de Valois]] || 1898-2001 || 102 || British founder of [[Royal Ballet, London]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Señor Wences]] || 1896-1999 || 103 || [[Spain|Spanish]]-American [[ventriloquism|ventriloquist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Estelle Winwood]] || 1883-1984 || 101 || English stage and movie actress |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Dorothy Young]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|5|3}}''''' || '''''American entertainer and assistant to [[Harry Houdini]]'''''<ref>{{cite video|people = James Perkins, Barbara Parker|title = 100 Years of Dorothy Young|medium = Short feature|publisher = Veras Films|location = [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnDlXhViLeM]|year2 = 2007}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Miguel Zacarías]] || 1905-2006 || 101 || [[Mexico|Mexican]] director |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Adolph Zukor]] || 1873-1976 || 103 || [[Hungary|Hungarian]]-American founder of [[Paramount Pictures]] |} == Artists == {| class="wikitable" |- |- ! style="background-color: yellow" | Name ! style="background-color: yellow" | Lifespan ! style="background-color: yellow" | Age ! style="background-color: yellow" | Notability |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Manuel Álvarez Bravo]] || 1902-2002 || 100 || Mexican [[photographer]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Harland Bartholomew]] || 1889-1989 || 100 || American [[urban planner]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Ruth Bernhard]] || 1905-2006 || 101 || German-American photographer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Sorcha Boru]] || 1900-2006 || 105 || American [[pottery|potter]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Frederick Carder]] || 1863-1963 || 100 || British-born American glassmaker and artist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Alphaeus Philemon Cole]] || 1876-1988 || 112 || American painter |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Sylvia Daoust]] || 1902-2004 || 102 || Canadian sculptor |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Boris Efimov]]''''' || '''''1900 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1900|9|28}}''''' || '''''Russian [[cartoonist]]''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Moisey Feigin]] || 1904-2008 || 103 || Russian artist<ref>{{cite news|title = World Oldest Artist Aged 104 Dies |url = http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/6292/|work = Rian.ru|publisher = IC Russia|date = 2008-05-04|accessdate = 2008-05-05}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Temima Gezari]]''''' || '''''1905 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1905|12|21}}''''' || '''''Russian-American artist and arts educator''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Bruno Giacometti]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|8|24}}''''' || '''''Swiss architect''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Kathleen Hale]] || 1898-2000 || 101 || British [[illustrator]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Hermann Ottomar Herzog]] || 1831-1932 || 100 || German-American painter |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Clementine Hunter]] || 1886/87-1988 || 100/101 || American folk artist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Ion Irimescu]] || 1903-2005 || 102 || Romanian sculptor and sketcher |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Max Kahn]] || 1902-2005 || 103 || [[Belarus]]sian-American [[lithography|lithographer]], sculptor and painter. |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Ulrich Leman]] || 1885-1988 || 102 || German painter |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Stanley Cornwell Lewis]]''''' || '''''1905 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1905|12|18}}''''' || '''''[[Wales|Welsh]] illustrator and artist''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Tamás Lossonczy]]''''' || '''''1904 &ndash;''''' ||'''''{{age|1904|8|12}}''''' || '''''Hungarian painter''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Louis Maurer]] || 1832-1932 || 100 || American lithographer and printer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Grandma Moses]] || 1860-1961 || 101 || American folk artist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Oscar Niemeyer]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|12|15}}''''' || '''''Brazilian modernist architect'''''<ref>{{cite news|title = Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer celebrates 100th birthday|publisher = International Herald Tribune|date = [[2007-12-15]]|url = http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/15/america/LA-GEN-Brazil-Niemeyer-Century.php|accessdate = 2007-12-15}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Kazuo Ohno]]''''' || '''''1906 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1906|10|27}}''''' || '''''Japanese dancer''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Togyu Okumura]] || 1889-1990 || 101 || Japanese painter of the [[nihonga]] style of [[watercolour painting]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Don Potter]] || 1902-2004 || 102 || British sculptor and potter |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Mirko Rački]] || 1879-1982 || 102 || Croatian painter |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Eleanor Raymond]] || 1887-1989 || 102 || American architect |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Andrée Ruellan]] || 1905-2006 || 101 || American painter |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Abolhassan Khan Sadighi]] || 1894-1995 || 100-101 || [[Iran]]ian sculptor and painter |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Viktor Schreckengost]] || 1906-2008 || 101 || American artist and [[industrial design]]er<ref>{{cite news|title = Viktor Schreckengost has died at age 101|publisher = Cleveland.com|date = [[2008-01-27]]|url = http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/01/viktor_schreckengost_has_died.html|accessdate = 2008-01-27}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Bernarda Bryson Shahn]] || 1903-2004 || 101 || American painter, lithographer and widow of artist [[Ben Shahn]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Koloman Sokol]] || 1902-2003 || 100 || [[Slovakia]]n painter and [[graphic designer|graphic artist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |Count [[Louis Sparre]] || 1863-1964 || 101 || [[Sweden|Swedish]] painter, designer and Finnish film pioneer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Olin Stephens]]'''''||'''''1908 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1908|4|13}}''''' || '''''American [[yacht]] designer''''' <ref>{{cite news|title = Congratulations Olin Stephens|publisher = sailing.org|date = [[2008-04-13]]|url = http://www.sailing.org/22732.php|accessdate = 2008-04-13}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Lenore Tawney]] || 1907-2007 || 100 || American [[fiber artist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Jack Turner (photographer)|Jack Turner]] || 1889-1989 || 100 || Canadian photographer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Hiratsuka Unichi]] || 1895-1997 || 102 || Japanese wood carver and leader of the [[Sōsaku hanga]] movement |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Josefina de Vasconcellos]] || 1904-2005 || 100 || Brazilian-British sculptor |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Martha Walter]] || 1875-1976 || 100 || American [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Seema Aissen Weatherwax]] || 1905-2006 || 100 || [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]]-American photographer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Richard K. Webel]] || 1900-2000 || 100 || American landscape architect and designer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Martin J. Weber]] || 1905-2007 || 102 || American [[graphic designer|graphic artist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Beatrice Wood]] || 1893-1998 || 105 || American artist and [[ceramic art|ceramist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Ogura Yuki]] || 1895-2000 || 105 || Japanese painter |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Eva Zeisel]]''''' || '''''1906 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1906|11|13}}''''' || '''''Hungarian industrial designer''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Milford Zornes]] || 1908-2008 || 100 || American watercolor artist and teacher<ref>{{cite news|title = Milford Zornes, 100; watercolorist painted everyday Southland scenes http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-zornes1mar01,1,3744782.story?track=rss}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |} == Authors, poets and journalists == {| class="wikitable" |- ! style="background-color: yellow" | Name ! style="background-color: yellow" | Lifespan ! style="background-color: yellow" | Age ! style="background-color: yellow" | Notability |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Alicia Moreau de Justo]] || 1885-1986 || 100 || [[Argentina|Argentine]] writer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Francisco Ayala (novelist)|Francisco Ayala]]''''' || '''''1906 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1906|3|16}}''''' || '''''Spanish novelist''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ba Jin]] || 1904-2005 || 100 || [[China|Chinese]] author |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ralph Bates (writer)|Ralph Bates]] || 1899-2000 || 101 || English novelist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Georgina Battiscombe]] || 1905-2006 || 100 || British [[biographer]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Pierre Béarn]] || 1902-2004 || 102 || French poet |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF" | | [[José Bello]] || 1904-2008 || 103 || Spanish writer<ref>{{cite news|title = Spanish intellectual Pepin Bello dies at 103|publisher = [[International Herald Tribune]]|date = [[2008-01-11]]|url = http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01/11/europe/EU-GEN-Spain-Obit-Pepin-Bello.php|accessdate = 2008-01-13}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[H. J. Blackham]]''''' || '''''1903 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1903|3|31}}''''' || '''''British [[secular humanism|humanist]] author and philosopher''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Lesley Blanch]] || 1904-2007 || 102 || English author and fashion critic<ref>McGuinness, Mark. "An eccentric romantic's life: Lesley Blanch (1904-2007)", ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'', Weekend Edition, May 19-20, 2007, p. 53</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ralph de Boissière]] || 1907-2008 || 100 || [[Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidadian]]-Australian author<ref>{{cite web|title =R.I.P. Ralph de Boissiere, 6 October, 1907-16 February, 2008|publisher = The Caribbean Review of Books|date = [[2007-03-02]]|url = http://antilles.blogspot.com/2008/02/rip-ralph-de-boissiere-6-october-1907.html|accessdate = 2008-04-03}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Arthur Judson Brown]] || 1856-1963 || 106 || American [[clergy]]man, [[missionary]] and author |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Pura Santillan-Castrence]] || 1905-2007 || 101 || Filipino author and diplomat |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Fulgence Charpentier]] || 1897-2001 || 103 || Canadian [[journalist]] and [[columnist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Nirad C. Chaudhuri]] || 1897-1999 || 101 || [[Bangladesh|Bengali]]-Indian writer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Yehuda Chitrik]] || 1899-2006 || 106 || American-[[Jew]]ish author and [[Mashpia]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ève Curie]] || 1904-2007 || 102 || Daughter of [[Marie Curie]] and American author of biography of her mother |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Geoffrey Dearmer]] || 1893-1996 || 103 || British [[poet]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Sadie and Bessie Delany|The Delany Sisters]] || 1889-1999/1891-1995 || 109/104 || American authors and civil rights pioneers |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Marjory Stoneman Douglas]] || 1890-1998 || 108 || American conservationist and writer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF" | | [[Milt Dunnell]] || 1905-2008 || 102 || Canadian sportswriter<ref>{{cite news|last = Perkins|first = Dave|title = Milt Dunnell, 102: Sports editor|work = Obituaries|publisher = [[The Toronto Star]]|date = [[2008-01-04]]|url = http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/290693|accessdate = 2008-01-04}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Richard Eberhart]] || 1904-2005 || 101 || American [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning poet |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Julius Eisenstein]] || 1854-1956 || 101 || Russian-American writer and historian |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Neta Lohnes Frazier]] || 1890-1990 || 100 || American children's author |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Mariana Frenk-Westheim]] || 1898-2004 || 106 || German-Spanish writer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Dorothy Frooks]] || 1896-1997 || 101 || American author, publisher, military figure and actress |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Luciana Frassati Gawronska]] || 1902-2007 || 105 || [[Poland|Polish]]-Italian author |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Edward K. Gaylord]] || 1873-1974 || 101 || American newspaper publisher and philanthropist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Itche Goldberg]] || 1904-2006 || 102 || [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]] writer, scholar and political activist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[George F. Grant]]''''' || '''''1906 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1906|9|18}}''''' || '''''American author on [[fisherman|angling]] and innovator of [[fly tying]] ''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Andrés Henestrosa]] || 1906-2008 || 101 || Mexican writer and politician<ref>{{cite news|title = Muere el escritor Andrés Henestrosa|publisher = El Economista.com.mx|date = [[2008-01-10]]|url = http://www.eleconomista.com.mx/sinprivilegios/articulos/2008-01-10-52981|accessdate = 2008-01-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh]] || 1892-1997 || 105 || Iranian writer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ernst Jünger]] || 1895-1998 || 102 || German writer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Joseph Nathan Kane]] || 1899-2002 || 103 || American author |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Sasha Krasny]] || 1882-1995 || 113 || Russian poet |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Stanley Kunitz]] || 1905-2006 || 100 || American [[Poet Laureate]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Kojima Masajirō]] || 1894-1994 || 100 || Japanese novelist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Erik Mesterton]] || 1903-2004 || 100-101 || Swedish writer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Naomi Mitchison]] || 1897-1999 || 101 || [[Scotland|Scottish]] writer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ruth Munce]] || 1898-2001 || 103 || American romance novelist and founder of the [[Keswick Christian School]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Fumio Niwa]] || 1904-2005 || 100 || Japanese novelist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Lillian Rogers Parks]] || 1897-1997 || 100 || American co-author of [[White House]] memoirs |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Frances Partridge]] || 1900-2004 || 103 || English member of the [[Bloomsbury Group]]<ref>{{cite news|title = Obituary: Frances Partridge|publisher = [[The Daily Telegraph]]|date = [[2004-02-07]]|url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;jsessionid=5Q4N1YMPXEU4VQFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/arts/2004/02/15/db0701.xml|accessdate = 2008-06-06}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[James Larkin Pearson]] || 1879-1981 || 101 || American Poet Laureate of [[North Carolina]] (1953-1981) |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Fernando Pessa]] || 1902-2002 || 100 || [[Portugal|Portuguese]] journalist and radio broadcaster |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Edith B. Price]] || 1897-1997 || 100 || American author of children's books |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Carl Rakosi]] || 1903-2004 || 101 || American [[Objectivist poets|Objectivist]] poet |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[George Seldes]] || 1890-1995 || 104 || American journalist and writer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[K. D. Sethna]]''''' || '''''1904 &ndash;''''' ||'''''{{age|1904|11|26}}''''' || '''''Indian author and poet''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Edna Staebler]] || 1906-2006 || 100 || Canadian writer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Barrie Stavis]] || 1906-2007 || 100 || American playwright |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Audrey Stubbart]] || 1895-2000 || 105 || American [[columnist|newspaper columnist]]<ref>{{cite news|title = Audrey Stubbart|publisher = The Kansas City Star|date = [[2000-11-14]]|url = http://localhistory.kclibrary.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Local&CISOPTR=25059&CISOBOX=1&REC=1|accessdate = 2008-04-14}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Dragutin Tadijanović]] || 1905-2007 || 101 || Croatian poet and writer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Gladys Tantaquidgeon]] || 1899-2005 || 106 || American [[anthropology|anthropologist]] and author<ref>{{cite web|title = Gladys Tantaquidgeon|publisher = The Mohegan Tribe|date = [[November 1]], [[2005]]|url = http://www.mohegan.nsn.us/heritage/gt_makiawisug.aspx|accessdate = 2008-02-24}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Ellen Tarry]]''''' || '''''1906 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1906|9|26}}''''' || '''''American author of children's books''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF" | | [[Jean Thomas]] || 1881-1982 || 101 || American folk festival promoter, traveler and author |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Walter Trohan]] || 1903-2003 || 100 || American writer and historian |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Edward Upward]]''''' || '''''1903 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1903|9|9}}''''' || '''''English writer''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Edward Wagenknecht]] || 1900-2004 || 104 || American co-author of White House memoirs |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Arthur Walworth]] || 1903-2005 || 101 || American writer and biographer of [[Woodrow Wilson]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Curt Weibull]] || 1886-1991 || 105 || Swedish historian and author |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Phyllis A. Whitney]] || 1903-2008 || 104 || American mystery writer<ref>{{cite news|title = Phyllis A. Whitney, Author, Dies at 104|publisher = [[The New York Times]]|date = [[2008-02-09]]|url = http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/09/books/09whitney.html?_r=1&oref=slogin|accessdate = 2008-02-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Lester Ziffren]] || 1906-2007 || 101 || First American journalist to report on the [[Spanish Civil War]] |} == Businessmen == {| class="wikitable" |- ! style="background-color: yellow" | Name ! style="background-color: yellow" | Lifespan ! style="background-color: yellow" | Age ! style="background-color: yellow" | Notability |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Bion Barnett]] || 1857-1958 || 101 || American founder of [[Barnett Bank]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Charles D. Barney]] || 1844-1945 || 101 || American [[stock broker]] and [[financier]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Edward Bernays]] || 1891-1995 || 103 || Austrian-American [[publicist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Andrew George Burry]] || 1873-1975 || 101 || [[Switzerland|Swiss]]-American businessman, manufacturer and philanthropist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Godfrey Lowell Cabot]] || 1861-1962 || 101 || American businessman |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[William F. "Bill" Cotton]] || 1897-2006 || 108 || American businessman |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Frederick Coolidge Crawford]] || 1891-1994 || 103 || American [[business magnate|industrialist]] and philanthropist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Maxwell Cummings]] || 1898-2001 || 103 || Canadian [[real estate]] builder and philanthropist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[D. Howard Doane]] || 1883-1984 || 100 || American founder and Chairman of Doane Agricultural Services |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[A. G. Gaston]] || 1892-1996 || 103 || African American businessman |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Albert Hamilton Gordon]]''''' || '''''1901 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1901|7|21}}''''' || '''''American businessman''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Cecil Howard Green]] || 1900-2003 || 102 || British-American co-founder of [[Texas Instruments]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Mary Guiney]] || 1901-2004 || 103 || [[Ireland|Irish]] chairperson of [[Clerys]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Isaac Charles Johnson]] || 1811-1911 || 100 || British cement manufacturer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Joseph M. Juran]] || 1904-2008 || 103 || Romanian-American [[quality management]] guru<ref>{{cite news|title = Joseph Juran, pioneer of quality control, dies at age 103|publisher = ''[[International Herald Tribune]]''|date = [[March 1]] [[2008]]|url = http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/01/business/NA-FIN-US-Obit-Juran.php|accessdate = 2008-03-01}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Irving Kahn]]''''' || '''''1905 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1905|12|18}}''''' || '''''American financial analyst''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Hans List]] || 1896-1996 || 100 || Austrian businessman |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Garnet Hercules Mackley]] || 1883-1986 || 102 || [[New Zealand]] head of the [[New Zealand Railways Department]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ronald Mansbridge]] || 1905-2006 || 100 || British publisher |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Arthur Marshall (engineer)|Arthur Marshall]] || 1903-2007 || 103 || British aviator and founder of [[Marshall Aerospace]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Samuel McLaughlin]] || 1871-1972 || 100 || Canadian businessman |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Walter L. Morgan]] || 1898-1998 || 100 || American founder of [[Wellington Fund]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Roy Neuberger]]''''' || '''''1903 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1903|7|21}}''''' || '''''American financier''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Mohan Singh Oberoi]] || 1898-2002 || 103 || Indian hotelier |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Frits Philips]] || 1905-2005 || 100 || Dutch chairman of [[Philips]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Herbert V. Prochnow]] || 1897-1998 || 101 || American banking executive and author |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Günter Reimann]] || 1904-2005 || 100 || German [[economist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Morris Schwartz]] || 1901-2004 || 103 || Russian-American photographer, [[inventor]] and businessman |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Run Run Shaw]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|10|4}}''''' || '''''[[Hong Kong]] media mogul''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Hermann von Siemens]] || 1885-1986 || 101 || German industrialist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Michael Sobell]] || 1892-1993 || 100 || British business leader and philanthropist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | Sir [[Thomas Sopwith]] || 1888-1989 || 101 || English aircraft pioneer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[W. Clement Stone]] || 1902-2002 || 100 || American insurance leader |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | Sir [[James Swinburne]] || 1858-1958 || 100 || British [[electrical engineering|electrical engineer]] and manufacturer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr.]] || 1906-2007 || 100 || American former president and chairman of [[Walgreens|Walgreen Drug Company]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Jack Weil]]''''' || '''''1901 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1901|3|28}}''''' || '''''American founder and CEO of Rockmount Ranch Wear''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Frank H. Wheaton, Sr.]] || 1881-1983 || 102 || American who chaired [[Wheaton Industries]] until his death |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Abdul Majid Zabuli]] || 1896-1998 || 102 || [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] founder of Afghanistan's banking system |} == Educators, school administrators, social scientists and linguists == {| class="wikitable" |- ! style="background-color: yellow" | Name ! style="background-color: yellow" | Lifespan ! style="background-color: yellow" | Age !width =55% style="background-color: yellow" | Notability |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Vasily Abaev]] || 1900-2001 || 100 || [[Ossetians|Ossetian]] linguist and philologist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Henry Angus]] || 1891-1991 || 100 || Canadian educator, [[lawyer]] and administrator |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[John Haden Badley]] || 1865-1967 || 102 || English educator and founder of the [[Bedales School]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Henri Baruk]] || 1897-1999 || 101 || French [[neuropsychiatry|neuropsychiatrist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Jacques Barzun]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|11|30}}''''' || '''''American historian''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Giuliano Bonfante]] || 1904-2005 || 101 || Italian [[linguistics]] expert |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Louise Marion Bosworth]] || 1881-1982 || 101 || American social scientist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Hallie Quinn Brown]] || 1849-1949 || 100 || African American educator and writer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF" | | [[Elizabeth Campbell]] || 1902-2004 || 101 || American [[public broadcasting]] pioneer and educator |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Chen Han-seng]] || 1897-2004 || 107 || Chinese sociologist and economist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Thomas D. Clark]] || 1903-2005 || 101 || American historian |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Stanwood Cobb]] || 1881-1982 || 101 || American [[Bahá'í Faith|Bahá'í]] educator and author |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Anna J. Cooper]] || 1858-1964 || 105 || African American educator and civil rights advocate |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Aaron Director]] || 1901-2004 || 102 || Ukrainian-American professor |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Murray Barnson Emeneau]] || 1904-2005 || 101 || American linguist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Leopold Engleitner]]''''' || '''''1905 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1905|7|23}}''''' || '''''Austrian lecturer, oldest survivor of [[Buchenwald concentration camp|Buchenwald]], Niederhagen and [[Ravensbrück concentration camp|Ravensbrück]] [[Nazi concentration camps|concentration camps]]''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Jules Gros]] || 1890-1992 || 102 || [[Brittany|Breton]] linguist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Luther Gulick (social scientist)|Luther Gulick]] || 1892-1993 || 100 || American social scientist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Bertrand Hallward]] || 1901-2003 || 102 || British first [[Vice-Chancellor]] of the [[University of Nottingham]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Fletcher Hodges Jr.]] || 1905-2006 || 100 || American expert on the music of [[Stephen Foster]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Emily Howland]] || 1827-1929 || 101 || American philanthropist and educator |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Emmanuel Kriaras]]''''' || '''''1906 &ndash;''''' || '''''101-102''''' || '''''[[Greece|Greek]] [[lexicographer]]''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Hasan Karmi]] || 1905-2007 || 101 || [[Palestine|Palestinian]] linguist, broadcaster and scholar. |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Hans Kurath]] || 1891-1992 || 100 || Austrian-American linguist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Countess Karolina Lanckorońska]] || 1898-2002 || 104 || Polish art historian and writer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Harold Lawton]] || 1899-2005 || 106 || British scholar of French literature |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Wolf Leslau]] || 1906-2006 || 100 || American leading scholar on [[Ethiopia]]n languages and culture |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Adolph Lowe]] || 1893-1995 || 102 || German [[sociology|sociologist]] and economist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Seymour Lubetzky]] || 1898-2003 || 104 || Belarussian-American [[librarian]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[John Morton-Finney]] || 1889-1998 || 108 || African American civil rights activist and lawyer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Xue Muqiao]] || 1904-2005 || 100 || Chinese economist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Dorothy Nyswander]] || 1894-1998 || 104 || American health educator and advocate |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Norman Walker Porteous]] || 1898-2003 || 104 || British Dean at the [[University of Edinburgh]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Eva Gabriele Reichmann]] || 1897-1998 || 101 || German historian and sociologist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Laban Lacy Rice]] || 1870-1973 || 102 || American educator, President of [[Cumberland University]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Louise Rosenblatt]] || 1904-2005 || 100 || American literary critic and scholar |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Laura Scales]] || 1879-1990 || 110 || American Dean at [[Smith College]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Akaki Shanidze]] || 1887-1987 || 100 || [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] linguist and philologist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Peter J. Shields]] || 1862-1962 || 100 || American who helped establish the [[University of California, Davis]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Sadayoshi Tanabe]] || 1888-2000 || 111 || Japanese bibliographer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Władysław Żeleński (lawyer)|Władysław Żeleński]] || 1903-2006 || 102 || Polish lawyer, historian and publicist |} == Explorers == {| class="wikitable" |- ! style="background-color: yellow" | Name ! style="background-color: yellow" | Lifespan ! style="background-color: yellow" | Age ! style="background-color: yellow" | Notability |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Alexandra David-Néel]] || 1868-1969 || 100 || French [[list of explorers|explorer]], [[anarchism|anarchist]], [[spiritualism|spiritualist]], [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] and writer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ardito Desio]] || 1897-2001 || 104 || Italian [[exploration|explorer]], [[mountaineering|mountain climber]], [[geologist]] and [[cartography|cartographer]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Helge Ingstad]] || 1899-2001 || 101 || [[Norway|Norwegian]] explorer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Freya Stark]] || 1893-1993 || 100 || British travel writer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Norman D. Vaughan]] || 1905-2005 || 100 || American [[Arctic]] explorer |} == Jurists and practitioners of law == {| class="wikitable" |- ! style="background-color: yellow" | Name ! style="background-color: yellow" | Lifespan ! style="background-color: yellow" | Age ! style="background-color: yellow" | Notability |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Sampson Salter Blowers]] || 1742-1842 || 100 || Canadian defence attorney representing the soldiers accused after the [[Boston Massacre]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[William Augustus Bootle]] || 1902-2005 || 102 || American attorney and jurist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Melville Henry Cane]] || 1879-1980 || 100 || American lawyer and poet |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Arnold Wilson Cowen]] || 1905-2007 || 101 || American lawyer and [[judge]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Thomas Simpson Crawford]] || 1875-1976 || 100 || Australian lawyer and politician |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Tom Denning, Baron Denning]] || 1899-1999 || 100 || English [[Master of the Rolls]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Nico Gunzburg]] || 1882-1984 || 101 || [[Belgium|Belgian]] lawyer and [[criminologist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Trevor Henry]] || 1902-2007 || 105 || New Zealand justice on the [[Supreme Court of New Zealand]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Oliver Hill]] || 1907-2007 || 100 || American lawyer and civil rights activist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Harold Medina]] || 1888-1990 || 102 || American lawyer, teacher and judge |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[L. Welch Pogue]] || 1899-2003 || 103 || American aviation attorney |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross|Hartley Shawcross]] || 1902-2003 || 101 || Lead British prosecutor at the [[Nuremberg Trials|Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Marion Yorck von Wartenburg]] || 1904-2007 || 102 || German jurist, judge and World War II resistance fighter |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Samuel Williston]] || 1861-1963 || 101 || American lawyer and law professor |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Joseph William Woodrough]] || 1873-1977 || 104 || Longest-lived and longest-serving American judge |} == Military commanders == {| class="wikitable" |- ! style="background-color: yellow" | Name ! style="background-color: yellow" | Lifespan ! style="background-color: yellow" | Age ! style="background-color: yellow" | Notability |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Mariano Álvarez]] || 1818-1924 || 106 || Filipino General<ref>{{cite web|last = Reyes|first = Joel M.|coauthors =Perez, Rodolfo III|title = An Online Guide About the Philippine History: Mariano M. Alvarez|url =http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Pool/1644/alvarez.html|accessdate = 2008-01-08}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Aaron Bank]] || 1902-2004 || 101 || American founder of the [[US Army Special Forces]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Waldemar Levy Cardoso]]''''' || '''''1900 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1900|12|4}}''''' || '''''Only living Brazilian [[Field Marshal]]''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | Sir [[Philip Christison]] || 1893-1993 || 100 || British [[General Officer|General]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Lewis Combs]] || 1895-1996 || 101 || American [[Admiral (United States)|Admiral]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Aaron S. Daggett]] || 1837-1938 || 100 || Last surviving [[Union Army|Union]] General of the [[American Civil War]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Henry Fancourt]] || 1900-2004 || 103 || British [[Royal Navy]] officer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | Sir [[George Higginson]] || 1826-1927 || 100 || British General |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[John L. Hines]]|| 1868-1968 || 100 || American general and Chief of Staff of the [[United States Army]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Frederick Augustus Irving]]|| 1894-1995 || 101 || American General, Superintendent of [[United States Military Academy|West Point]] Military Academy |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Richard H. Jackson]] || 1866-1971 || 105 || American Admiral |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Wacław Jędrzejewicz]] || 1893-1993 || 100 || [[Polish Land Forces]] officer, diplomat and college professor |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Keizō Komura]] || 1896-2000 || 103 || Japanese Admiral |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Stanisław Maczek]] || 1892-1994 || 102 || Polish General |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Masaichi Niimi]] || 1887-1993 || 106 || Japanese Admiral |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Gearóid O'Sullivan]] || 1891-1994 || 102-103 || Irish army officer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | Sir [[Henry Oliver]] || 1865-1965 || 100 || British [[Admiral of the Fleet]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Dorothy C. Stratton]] || 1899-2006 || 107 || American director of the [[SPARS]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Marcus Valerius Corvus]] || 370 BC-270 BC || 100 || [[Ancient Rome|Ancient Roman]] General and [[Roman consul|consul]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[James Alward Van Fleet]] || 1892-1992 || 100 || American General |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | Sir [[Provo Wallis]] || 1791-1892 || 100 || British Admiral of the Fleet |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Sun Yuanliang]] || 1904-2007 || 103 || Chinese General |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Xue Yue]] || 1896-1998 || 101 || Chinese General |} == Musicians, composers and music patrons== {| class="wikitable" |- ! style="background-color: yellow" | Name ! style="background-color: yellow" | Lifespan ! style="background-color: yellow" | Age ! style="background-color: yellow" | Notability |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Frances Adaskin]] || 1900-2001 || 100 || Canadian [[pianist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Robert Alexander Anderson (composer)|Robert Alexander Anderson]] || 1894-1995 || 100-101 || American [[composer]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Irving Berlin]] || 1888-1989 || 101 || Russian-American lyricist and composer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Henri Büsser]] || 1872-1973 || 101 || French composer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Irving Caesar]] || 1895-1996 || 101 || American composer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Giacobbe Cervetto]] || 1682-1783 || 100-101 || English [[cello|cellist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Hugues Cuénod]]''''' || '''''1902 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1902|6|26}}''''' || '''''Swiss [[tenor]]''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Annette Richardson Dinwoodey]] || 1906-2007 || 100 || American [[Latter Day Saint]] vocalist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Roy Douglas]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|12|12}}''''' || '''''British composer''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Anthony Galla-Rini]] || 1904-2006 || 102 || American [[accordion]]ist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García]] || 1805-1906 || 101 || Spanish music and singing teacher |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Peggy Gilbert]] || 1905-2007 || 102 || American [[jazz]] [[saxophone|saxophonist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Sidonie Goossens]] || 1899-2004 || 105 || English [[harp]]ist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Roy Henderson]] || 1899-2000 || 100 || English [[baritone]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Mieczysław Horszowski]] || 1892-1993 || 100 || Polish pianist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Bill Johnson (jazz musician)|Bill Johnson]] || 1872-1972 || 100 || American jazz musician |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Maurice Journeau]] || 1898-1999 || 100 || French composer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Allauddin Khan]] || 1862–1972 || 109-110 || Indian classical [[sarod]] player |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Mykola Kolessa]] || 1903–2006 || 102 || Ukrainian composer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Margaret Ruthven Lang]] || 1867-1972 || 104 || American composer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Johnny Lange]] || 1905-2006 || 100 || American [[Academy Award]] nominated [[songwriter]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Paul Le Flem]] || 1881-1984 || 103 || French composer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Conrad Leonard]] || 1898-2003 || 104 || British pianist and composer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Huey Long (singer)|Huey Long]]''''' || '''''1904 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1904|4|25}}''''' || '''''American jazz singer''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Lawrence Lucie]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|12|18}}''''' ||'''''American jazz musician'''''<ref>{{cite news|last = Eligon| first = John|title = Living to 100, and Looking Back on a Legacy of New York Jazz|publisher = ''[[New York Times]]''|date = [[December 19]] [[2007]]|url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/nyregion/19musician.html?_r=1&oref=slogin5|accessdate = 2008-03-01}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" ||'''''[[Wade Mainer]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|4|21}}''''' || '''''American [[country music]] singer and [[banjo]]ist'''''<ref>{{cite web|url = http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=local&id=5221870|title = 100 years old and still playing|publisher = ABC 12|accessdate = 2007-10-28}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Draga Matkovic]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|11|4}}''''' || '''''[[Germany|German]] classical [[pianist]]''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | Sir [[Robert Mayer]] || 1879-1985 || 105 || German born British philanthropist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Marcel Mule]] || 1901-2001 || 100 || French classical saxophonist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Leo Ornstein]] || 1893-2002 || 108 || American pianist and composer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Uncle Charlie Osborne]] || 1890-1992 || 101 || American [[Appalachian mountains|Appalachian mountain]] musician |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ernest "Doc" Paulin]] || 1907-2007 || 100 || American [[brass band]] leader |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Elsa Respighi]] || 1894-1996 || 101 || Italian composer, singer and wife of [[Ottorino Respighi]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Olga Rudge]] || 1895-1996 || 100 || American [[violinist]] and mistress of [[Ezra Pound]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Joseph Salemi]] || 1902-2003 || 100 || American jazz [[trombone|trombonist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Nicolas Slonimsky]] || 1895-1996 || 101 || Russian-American composer and conductor |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Jenő Takács]] || 1902-2005 || 103 || Austrian-Hungarian composer and pianist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Bill Tapia]]''''' || '''''1908 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1908|1|1}}''''' || '''''American musician''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Tillit Sidney Teddlie]] || 1885-1987 || 102 || American [[hymn]] composer |} == Philosophers and theologians == {| class="wikitable" |- ! style="background-color: yellow" | Name ! style="background-color: yellow" | Lifespan ! style="background-color: yellow" | Age ! style="background-color: yellow" | Notability |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ruth Nanda Anshen]] || 1900-2003 || 103 || American philosopher, author and editor |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Hans-Georg Gadamer]] || 1900-2002 || 102 || German philosopher |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Errol Harris]]''''' || '''''1908 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1908|2|19}}''''' || '''''[[South Africa]]n philosopher and author'''''<ref>{{cite news|title = Errol Harris|publisher = The Westmorland Gazette|date = [[February 22]] [[2008]]|url = http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/search/display.var.2065022.0.errol_harris.php|accessdate = 2008-02-29}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Charles Hartshorne]] || 1897-2000 || 103 || American pioneer of [[process theology]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Karl Holzamer]] || 1906-2007 || 100 || German philosopher and director general of [[ZDF]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[William Mitchell (philosopher)|Sir William Mitchell]] || 1861-1962 || 101 || Australian philosopher, professor and author |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Oswald von Nell-Breuning]] || 1861-1962 || 101 || German [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[theology|theologian]] and sociologist |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Alfred Vaucher]] || 1887-1993 || 106 || French theologian and church historian |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Paul Weiss (philosopher)|Paul Weiss]] || 1901-2002 || 101 || American philosopher |} == Politicians and government servants == {| class="wikitable" |- ! style="background-color: yellow" | Name ! style="background-color: yellow" | Lifespan ! style="background-color: yellow" | Age ! style="background-color: yellow" | Notability |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Randi Anda]] || 1898-1999 || 100 || Norwegian deputy member of parliament |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Hastings Banda]] || 1896-1997 || 101 || President of [[Malawi]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Jesse Bankston]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|10|7}}''''' || '''''American [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic party]] activist and president of [[Louisiana Public Broadcasting]]''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Celal Bayar]] || 1883-1986 || 103 || President of Turkey |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Earl Hanley Beshlin]] || 1870-1971 || 101 || American [[United States Congress|congressman]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | Sir [[Harry Brittain]] || 1873-1974 || 100 || British politician, journalist and founder of the [[Commonwealth Press Union|Empire Press Union]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne]] || 1901-2002 || 100 || Longest serving British peer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Nripen Chakraborty]] || 1904-2004 || 100 || Indian politician, former Chief-minister of [[Tripura]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Chang Ch'ün]] || 1889-1990 || 101 || Chinese politician |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Roswell K. Colcord]] || 1839-1939 || 100 || American governor of [[Nevada]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Cornelius Cole]] || 1822-1924 || 102 || Longest-lived American [[United States Senate|senator]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Elizabeth Couchman]] || 1876-1982 || 106 || Australian [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal Party]] politician |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | Sir [[Walter Crocker]] || 1902-2002 || 100 || Australian diplomat, politician and writer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Jimmie Davis]] || 1899-2000 || 101 || American governor of [[Louisiana]] and singer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Peter J. De Muth]] || 1892-1993 || 101 || American Congressman |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres]] || 1721-1824 || 102 || Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Georges-Casimir Dessaulles]] || 1827-1930 || 102 || Canadian [[Senate of Canada|senator]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Kazi Lhendup Dorjee]] || 1904-2007 || 103 || Indian politician and first [[Chief Minister]] of [[Sikkim]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Willem Drees]] || 1886-1988 || 101 || Prime minister of the Netherlands |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Eleanor Lansing Dulles]] || 1895-1996 || 101 || American diplomat |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Jules Ellenberger]] || 1871-1972 || 100-101 || British colonial administrator |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Josef Felder]] || 1900-2000 || 100 || German politician |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Edward "Ned" Fenlon]]''''' || '''''1903 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1903|10|7}}''''' || '''''American member of the [[Michigan State House of Representatives]]''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Hamilton Fish III]] || 1888-1991 || 102 || American Congressman |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Henry R. Gibson]] || 1837-1938 || 100 || American Congressman |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Marinus van der Goes van Naters]] || 1900-2005 || 104 || Dutch politician |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Edgar Granville, Baron Granville of Eye]] || 1898-1998 || 100 || British politician and [[life peer]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Hassan al-Hakim]] || 1886-1998 || 101-102 || [[Syria]]n Prime Minister |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Augustus F. Hawkins]] || 1907-2007 || 100 || American Congressman |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Bert Hazell]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|4|18}}''''' || '''''British [[Member of Parliament]]''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[John Netherland Heiskell]] || 1872-1972 || 100 || American Senator from [[Arkansas]] and newspaper publisher |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko|Naruhiko Higashikuni]] || 1887-1990 || 102 || Japanese Prime Minister |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Christopher Hornsrud]] || 1859-1960 || 101 || Prime Minister of Norway |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Russell Jump]] || 1895-2000 || 105 || American mayor of [[Wichita, Kansas]]<ref>{{cite web|title = 1950-1989|work = Previous Wichita Mayors|publisher = The City of Wichita|date = [[2007]]|url = http://www.wichitagov.org/Government/CityCouncil/Mayor/PreviousMayors/1950-1989.htm#FRJump|accessdate = 2007-12-23}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Konstantinos Kallias]] || 1901-2004 || 102 || Greek politician |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Toshikazu Kase]] || 1903-2004 || 101 || Japanese diplomat |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[George F. Kennan]] || 1904-2005 || 101 || American [[Cold War]] policy architect |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[John Landeryou]]''''' || '''''1905 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1905|4|2}}''''' || '''''Canadian [[chef]], seniors' rights activist and elected member of the [[Social Credit Party of Canada]]''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Alf Landon]] || 1887-1987 || 100 || American governor of [[Kansas]] and presidential nominee |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Haakon Lie]]''''' || '''''1905 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1905|9|22}}''''' || '''''Norwegian former secretary of the [[Norwegian Labour Party]]''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Aylmer Liesemer]]''''' || '''''1905 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1905|11|27}}''''' || '''''Canadian candidate for the [[Co-operative Commonwealth Federation]]''''' |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Cameron Ross McIntosh]] || 1871-1971 || 100 || Canadian politician and newspaper publisher |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Enolia McMillan]] || 1904-2006 || 102 || American former president of NAACP |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | Sir [[Moses Montefiore]] || 1784-1885 || 100 || British [[Sheriff]] of [[London, England|London]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Cecil Morgan]] || 1898-1999 || 100 || American politician in Louisiana |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | Sir [[William Mulock]] || 1844-1944 || 100 || Canadian politician and [[Cabinet of Canada|cabinet]] member |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Muhammad al-Muqri]] || 1844/1854-1957 || 102-112 || [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Grand Vizier]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[George Alexander Parks]] || 1883-1984 || 100 || American territorial governor of [[Alaska]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Norman McLeod Paterson]] || 1883-1983 || 100 || Canadian senator and businessman |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Antoine Pinay]] || 1891-1994 || 102 || French prime minister |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Edward Bernard Raczyński]] || 1891-1993|| 102 || Polish diplomat and [[President of Poland|President]] in exile |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Richard Gavin Reid]] || 1879-1980 || 101 || Canadian premier of [[Alberta]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ernie Renzel]] || 1907-2007 || 100 || American mayor of [[San Jose, California]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Elmer Ernest Roper]] || 1893-1994 || 100 || Canadian mayor of [[Edmonton]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Nellie Tayloe Ross]] || 1876-1977|| 100 || American governor, first female governor in the United States |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Susanna M. Salter]] || 1860-1961 || 101 || American mayor of [[Argonia, Kansas]], first female mayor in the United States |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Murray Seasongood]] || 1878-1983 || 104 || American mayor of [[Cincinnati, Ohio]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Keshavram Kashiram Shastri]] || 1905-2006 || 101 || Indian politician |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell|Emanuel Shinwell]] || 1884-1986 || 101 || British politician |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[William Alex Stolt]] || 1900-2001 || 100 || American [[List of mayors of Anchorage, Alaska|mayor]] of [[Anchorage, Alaska]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ramón Serrano Súñer]] || 1901-2003 || 101 || Spanish politician |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Soong May-ling]] || 1897/8-2003 || 105-106 || Chinese politician and wife of [[Chiang Kai-shek]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[John Ward Studebaker]] || 1887-1989 || 102 || American [[Commissioner of Education]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Henrik Svensen]] || 1904-2007 || 103 || Norwegian Member of Parliament<ref>{{cite web|title = Svensen, Henrik (1904-2007) Høyre|publisher = Stortinget|date = [[2007]]|url = http://epos.stortinget.no/Biografi.aspx?initialer=HESV|accessdate = 2008-04-08}} {{no icon}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Maurice Thatcher]] || 1870-1973 || 102 || American congressman and [[List of Governors of Panama Canal Zone|Military Governor of Panama Canal Zone]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Strom Thurmond]] || 1902-2003 || 100 || American Senator |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[David Wark]] || 1804-1905 || 101 || Canadian Senator |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Cornelius Wiebe]] || 1893-1999 || 106 || Canadian [[Member of the Legislative Assembly|MLA]] from [[Manitoba]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Jim Wiwa]] || 1904-2005 || 100-101 || [[Nigeria]]n chief of the [[Ogoni]] people |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Zhang Xueliang]] || 1901-2001 || 100 || Chinese General and instigator of the [[Xi'an Incident]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Xenophon Zolotas]] || 1904-2004 || 100 || Prime Minister of Greece |} == Relative of someone well-known == {| class="wikitable" |- ! style="background-color: yellow" | Name ! style="background-color: yellow" | Lifespan ! style="background-color: yellow" | Age ! style="background-color: yellow" | Notability |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Nora Barlow]] || 1885-1989 || 104 || British granddaughter of [[Charles Darwin]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Anthony DePalma]] || 1904-2005 || 100 || American father of [[Brian De Palma|Brian]] and [[Bruce De Palma]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Mary Ejercito]]''''' || '''''1905 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1905|5|2}}''''' || '''''Filipino mother of Philippine president [[Joseph Estrada]]'''''<ref>{{cite news|author = Sheryll Mundo|title = Doña Mary Ejercito celebrates 103rd birthday|url = http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryID=116972|publisher = ABS-CBN News Online|date = 2008-05-02|accessdate=2008-05-03}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Jolie Gabor]] || 1896-1997 || 100 || Hungarian mother of the [[Gabor sisters]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Rose Kennedy]] || 1890-1995 || 104 || American mother of [[John F. Kennedy]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Rush Limbaugh, Sr.]] || 1891-1996 || 104 || American grandfather of [[Rush Limbaugh]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Jean MacArthur]] || 1898-2000 || 101 || American wife of General [[Douglas MacArthur]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Isabel Meighen]] || 1883-1985 || 102 || Canadian wife of Canadian [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Arthur Meighen]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Richard Mudd]] || 1901-2002 || 101 || American grandson of [[Samuel Mudd]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ruth Stafford Peale]] || 1906-2008 || 101 || American wife of [[Norman Vincent Peale]] and public speaker<ref>{{cite news|title = Ruth Stafford Peale, Wife of Late Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Dies at the Age of 101|publisher = BusinessWire|date = [[2008-02-06]]|url=http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080206006281&newsLang=en|accessdate = 2008-02-06}}</ref> |} == Religious figures == {| class="wikitable" |- ! style="background-color: yellow" | Name ! style="background-color: yellow" | Lifespan ! style="background-color: yellow" | Age ! style="background-color: yellow" | Notability |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Pope Agatho]] || 577-681 || 103-104 || Greek Roman Catholic [[Pope]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Laban Ainsworth]] || 1757-1858 || 100 || American clergyman and pastor |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Joseph Anderson (Mormon)|Joseph Anderson]] || 1889-1992 || 102 || American [[general authority]] of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]<ref>Flake, Lawrence R. "Joseph Anderson" in Garr, Arnold K, Donald Q. Cannon and Richard O. Cowan, ed. ''Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History'' (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000)</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Balangoda Ananda Maitreya]] || 1896-1998 || 101 || [[Sri Lanka]]n scholar-[[monk]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Anthony the Great|Saint Anthony]] || 251-356 || 105 || [[Egypt]]ian Christian [[saint]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Corrado Bafile]] || 1903-2005 || 101 || Italian [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]] in the Roman Catholic Church<ref>{{cite web|title = Corrado Cardinal Bafile|publisher = Catholic Hierarchy|date = [[January 17]], [[2008]]|url = http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbafile.html|accessdate = 2008-05-27}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Carey W. Barber]] || 1905-2007 || 101 || American member of the [[Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Henry Boehm]] || 1775-1875 || 100 || American clergyman and [[pastor]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Laurence Chaderton]] || 1536/9-1640 || 100-104 || English [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] [[Puritan]] divine |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Jorge da Costa]] || 1406-1508 || 101-102 || Portuguese cardinal |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF" | | [[Indra Devi]] || 1899-2002 || 102|| Indian [[yoga]] teacher |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Bhante Dharmawara]] || 1889-1999 || 110 || [[Cambodia]]n-born monk and educator |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Ralph Edward Dodge]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|1|25}}''''' || '''''American retired bishop of the [[United Methodist Church]] and [[The Methodist Church (USA)|The Methodist Church]]'''''<ref>{{cite news|last = Skelley|first = Steven|title = ‘Revolutionary’ bishop celebrates 100th birthday|work = e-Review|publisher = Florida United Methodist News Serivce|date = [[March 2]], [[2007]]|url = http://www.flumc.info/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000032/003259.htm|accessdate = 2008-05-13}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Sophia Lyon Fahs]] || 1876-1978 || 101 || American [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]] minister, educator and writer |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Gregory of Khandzta]] || 759-861 || 101-102 || Georgian saint of the [[Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Nolan Bailey Harmon]] || 1892-1993 || 100 || American Methodist [[Bishop (Catholic Church)|bishop]] and author |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Edward Howard (bishop)|Edward Howard]] || 1877-1983 || 105 || American Roman Catholic [[archbishop]]<ref>{{Find A Grave|id=8511264|name=Edward Howard}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Isaac of Armenia]] || 338-439 || 100-101 || [[Parthia]]n [[Catholicos of Armenia]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[John the Silent]] || 452-558 || 106 || Greek Christian saint |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | Rabbi [[Yitzchak Kaduri]] || 1899/1900-2006 || 106 || [[Iraq]]i-born [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] rabbi and [[Kabbalah|kabbalist]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Mordecai Kaplan]] || 1881-1983 || 102 || [[Lithuania]]n founder of [[Reconstructionist Judaism]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Antonio Rosario Mennonna]]''''' || '''''1906 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1906|5|27}}''''' || '''''Italian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church'''''<ref>{{cite web|title = Bishop Antonio Rosario Mennonna|publisher = Catholic Hierarchy|date = [[January 17]], [[2008]]|url = http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmennonna.html|accessdate = 2008-05-25}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[William McElwee Miller]] || 1892-1993 || 100 || American missionary and author |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Francesco Minerva]] || 1904-2004 || 100 || Italian archbishop emeritus of [[Lecce]]<ref>{{cite web|title = Archbishop Francesco Minerva|publisher = Catholic Hierarchy|date = [[January 17]], [[2008]]|url = http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bminerva.html|accessdate = 2008-05-27}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Ruby Muhammad]]''''' || '''''1897 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1897|3|20}}''''' || '''''American named 'Mother of the Nation of Islam' by [[Louis Farrakhan]] in 1986'''''<ref>{{cite news|last = Barrow|first = Genoa|title = Mother Muhammad Goes Mobile|work = News|publisher = The Sacramento Observer|date = [[February 5]], [[2008]]|url = http://www.sacobserver.com/news/020508/ruby_muhammad_scooter.shtml|accessdate = 2008-05-25}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Antoine Nguyên Van Thien]]''''' || '''''1906 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1906|3|13}}''''' || '''''[[Vietnam]]ese bishop of the Roman Catholic Church'''''<ref>{{cite web|title = Bishop Antoine Nguyên Van Thien|publisher = Catholic Hierarchy|date = [[January 17]], [[2008]]|url = http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bngvta.html|accessdate = 2008-05-25}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Kyozan Joshu Sasaki]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|4|1}}''''' || '''''Japanese [[Rinzai school|Rinzai]] [[Zen]] teacher'''''<ref>{{cite news|last = Blumenthal|first = Ralph|title = A Very Old Zen Master and His Art of Tough Love|work = U.S.|publisher = [[New York Times]]|date = [[December 9]], [[2007]]|url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/us/09zen.html|accessdate = 2008-05-25}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Eldred G. Smith]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|1|9}}''''' || '''''American former [[Presiding Patriarch]] of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints'''''<ref>{{cite web|title = Eldred G. (Gee) Smith|publisher = Grampa Bill's General Authority Pages|date = [[2008]]|url = http://gapages.com/smitheg1.htm|accessdate = 2008-05-25}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Tillit Sidney Teddlie]] || 1885-1987 || 102 || American hymnalist and pastor<ref>{{Find A Grave|id=11006462|name=Tillit Sydney Teddlie}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Tenkai]] || 1536-1643 || 106-107 || Japanese [[Tendai]] Buddhist monk |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Nicholas Kao Se Tseien]] || 1897-2007 || 110 || Chinese [[Holy Orders|Catholic priest]] and oldest person ever to have a [[cataract]] operation |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Marian Tumler]] || 1887-1987 || 100 || Austrian theologian and Grand Master of the [[Teutonic Knights|Teutonic Order]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Daniel Waldo]] || 1762-1864 || 101 || American clergyman |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Warren Prall Watters]] || 1890-1992 || 102 || American founding archbishop of the [[Free Church of Antioch]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Herbert George Welch (Methodist Bishop)|Herbert Welch]] || 1862-1969 || 106 || American Methodist bishop and president of [[Ohio Wesleyan University]] |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Elazar Shach]] || 1898-2001 || 103 || [[Israel]]i leading [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi]] rabbi |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | Sri [[Chandrashekarendra Saraswati]] || 1893-1993 || 100 || Indian [[Hindu]] monk and Supreme Pontiff of Kanchi Mutt from 1907 to 1993 |} == Royalty and nobility== {| class="wikitable" |- ! style="background-color: yellow" | Name ! style="background-color: yellow" | Lifespan ! style="background-color: yellow" | Age ! style="background-color: yellow" | Notability |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | H.R.H. [[Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester]] || 1901-2004 || 102 || British royal<ref>{{cite news|title = Obituary: Princess Alice|work = UK News|publisher = BBC|date = [[October 30]], [[2004]]|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1673159.stm|accessdate = 2008-05-12}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | H.M. [[Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon|Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother]] || 1900-2002 || 101 || British royal and last [[Emperor of India|Empress of India]] (consort to [[George VI of the United Kingdom|George VI]])<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/queenmother/article/0,,678048,00.html|journal=The Guardian|first=Stephen|last=Bates|accessdate=2007-02-26|date=3 April 2002|title=Piper's farewell for Queen Mother}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Judith Hare, Countess of Listowel]] || 1903-2003 || 100 || British-Hungarian [[count]]ess<ref>{{cite news|title = Judith, Countess of Listowel|work = Obituaries|publisher = [[The Telegraph]]|date = [[July 21]], [[2003]]|url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1436725/Judith%2C-Countess-of-Listowel.html|accessdate = 2008-05-12}}</ref> |} == Scientists and mathematicians == {| class="wikitable" |- ! style="background-color: yellow" | Name ! style="background-color: yellow" | Lifespan ! style="background-color: yellow" | Age ! style="background-color: yellow" | Notability |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Charles Greeley Abbot]] || 1872-1973 || 101 || American [[astronomer]] and secretary of the [[Smithsonian Institution]]<ref>{{cite web|title = Charles Greeley Abbot - BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS|publisher = National Academy of Sciences|url = http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/cabbot.html|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Horace Alexander]] || 1889-1989 || 100 || British biologist<ref>{{cite web|last = Chmielewski|first = Wendy|title = Horace Gundry Alexander - Papers, 1916-1983|publisher = Swarthmore College Peace Collection|url = http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/DG100-150/dg140Alexander.html|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Doris Allen]] || 1901-2002 || 100 || American [[psychologist]] and founder of [[Children's International Summer Villages]]<ref>{{cite web|title = Doris Twitchell Allen, PhD|publisher = Children's International Summer Villages|url = http://www.cisv.ca/dorisallen.htm|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Heinz Ansbacher]] || 1904-2006 || 101 || German-American psychologist<ref>{{cite news|last = Noble|first = Holcomb B.|title = Heinz Ansbacher, 101, Adlerian Psychology Expert, Dies|work = U.S.|publisher = [[New York Times]]|date = [[June 24]], [[2006]]|url = http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/24/us/24ansbacher.html|accessdate = 2008-05-11}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Rudolf Arnheim]] || 1904-2007 || 102 || German psychologist of [[visual perception]]<ref>{{cite news|last = Fox|first = Margalit|title = Rudolf Arnheim, 102, Psychologist and Scholar of Art and Ideas, Dies|work = Obituaries|url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/obituaries/14arnheim.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin||date = [[June 14]], [[2007]]|publisher = [[New York Times]]|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Elizabeth Bagshaw]] || 1881-1982 || 100 || Canadian [[physician]] and director of the first [[birth control]] clinic in Canada<ref>{{cite web|title = Elizabeth Bagshaw|work =Celebrating Women's Achievements|publisher = Library and Archives Canada|date = [[2007-03-07]]|url = http://www.collectionscanada.ca/women/002026-296-e.html|accessdate = 2007-12-13}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ira Baldwin]]|| 1895-1999 || 104 || American [[microbiology|bacteriologist]] and educator<ref>{{cite web|title = In Memoriam: Ira Baldwin|work = Digital Collections Center|publisher = University of Wisconsin|date = [[2000]]|url = http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/wiacrev/wiacrev-idx?type=HTML&rgn=DIV1&byte=592641&q1=&q2=&q3=|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Preston Bassett]] || 1892-1993 || 100 || American inventor and aeronautics pioneer<ref>{{cite web|title = History of the Bassett Planetarium|publisher = Amherst College|url = http://www.amherst.edu/~bassett/history.html|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Henry Beachell]] || 1906-2006 || 100 || American developer of "miracle rice"<ref>{{cite web|title = 1996 World Food Prize Laureates|publisher = The World Food Prize|date = [[2006]]|url = http://www.worldfoodprize.org/laureates/Past/1996.htm#beachell|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Julia Bell]] || 1879-1979 || 100 || English human [[geneticist]]<ref>Greta Jones, ‘Bell, Julia (1879–1979)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/38514, accessed 10 May 2008]</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Harry Benjamin]] || 1885-1986 || 101 || German [[sexology|sexologist]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last = Stryker|first = Susan|title = Benjamin, Dr. Harry|encyclopedia = glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture|publisher = glbtq, Inc.|location = Chicago|date = [[December 29]], [[2004]]|url = http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/benjamin_h.html|accessdate = 2008-05-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Boris Yakovych Bukreyev]] || 1859-1962 || 103 || Ukranian [[mathematician]]<ref>V P Belousova, V A Dobrovol'skii, I G Il'in and A S Smogorzevskii, ''Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev : On the hundredth anniversary of his birth'' (Russian), Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 14 5(89) (1959), 181-195.</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Su Buqing]] || 1902-2003 || 100 || Chinese mathematician<ref>{{cite press release|title = Su Buqing, CAS Member and Mathematician, Passes Away|publisher = Chinese Academy of Sciences|date = [[March 19]], [[2003]]|url = http://english.cas.ac.cn/english/news/detailnewsb.asp?infono=24493|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Henri Cartan]]''''' || | '''''1904 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1904|7|8}}''''' || '''''French mathematician'''''<ref>{{cite news|title = Henri Cartan|publisher = Academie des sciences|date = [[2004-07-08]]|url=http://www.academie-sciences.fr/actualites/communiques/pdf/Cartan_08_07_04_communique.pdf|accessdate = 2007-12-11|format=PDF}} (French)</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Michel Eugène Chevreul]] || 1786-1889 || 102 || French [[chemist]]<ref>McKenna, Charles. "Michel-Eugène Chevreul." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03650b.htm accessed 10 May 2008]</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Harriette Chick]] || 1875-1977 || 102 || British biologist<ref>{{cite journal|last = Copping|first = AM|year = 1978|title = Obituary Notice: Dame Harriette Chick (5 January 1875 - 9 July 1977)|journal = British Journal of Nutrition|volume = 39|pages =3&ndash;4}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | Sir [[Samuel Rickard Christophers]] || 1873-1978 || 104 || British protozoologist<ref>Service, M.W. [http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/pdfs/MS11N01P055.PDF Obituary* Sir Rickard Christophers: A Tribute] ''Mosquito Systematics'' Vol. 11 (l), 1979, 55-58</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[T. H. Clark|Thomas H. Clark]] || 1893-1996 || 102 || Canadian [[geologist]]<ref>{{cite news|title = In Memoriam - Dr. T.H. Clark, 1893 - 1996|work = McGill Reporter Volume 28, Number 16|publisher = McGill University|date = [[1996]]|url = http://reporter-archive.mcgill.ca/Rep/r2816/clark.htm|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | Sir [[William David Coolidge]] || 1873-1975 || 101 || American engineer and developer of the [[X-ray tube#Coolidge tube|Coolidge tube]] for production of [[x-ray]]s<ref>{{cite web|last = Suits|first = C. G.|title = National Academy of Sciences Memorial Biography|publisher = National Academy of Sciences|url = http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/coolidge.html|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Morton W. Coutts]] || 1904-2004 || 100 ||New Zealand inventor and developer of the continuous [[fermentation (food)|fermentation]] method<ref>''Morton Coutts, brewing pioneer, dies at 100''. Modern Brewery Age. July 26, 2004. FindArticles.com. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3469/is_30_55/ai_n6158981 accessed 10 May. 2008]</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ray Crist]] || 1900-2005 || 105 || American chemist<ref>{{cite press release|title = Dr. Ray Crist, Class of 1920|publisher = Dickinson College|date = [[2005]]|url = http://www.dickinson.edu/news/features/2005/crist/|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Philip D'Arcy Hart]] || 1900-2006 || 106 || British [[epidemiology|epidemiologist]]<ref>{{cite news|last = Draper|first = Philip|coauthors = John Skehel|title = Philip D'Arcy Hart|work = Obituaries|publisher = [[The Guardian]]|date = [[August 30]], [[2006]]|url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/aug/30/guardianobituaries.mainsection|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Leila Denmark]]''''' || '''''1898 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1898|2|1}}''''' || '''''American [[pediatrics|pediatrician]] who discovered the [[pertussis]] [[vaccine]]'''''<ref>Meyer, M.D., Charles R. "The Graying Physician" 'MMA Publications'. August 2006</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Nikolay Dollezhal]] || 1899-2000 || 101 || Russian mechanical engineer<ref>{{cite web|title = Nikolay A. Dollezhal|work = Brief History|publisher = N.A. Dollezhal Research and Development Institute of Power Engineering|url = http://www.nikiet.ru/eng/history/dollezh.html|accessdate = 2008-05-11}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[William Gould Dow]] || 1895-1999 || 104 || American scientist and inventor who helped develop [[radar]] jamming<ref>{{cite press release|title = U-M Prof. William Dow died Oct. 17 at age 104.|url = http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=2950|publisher = The Regents of the University of Michigan|date = [[October 20]], [[1999]]|accessdate = 2007-07-24}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Frank Ellis (radiologist)|Frank Ellis]] || 1905-2006 || 100 || British [[radiology|radiologist]]<ref>{{cite news|last = Paine|first = Christopher|title = Frank Ellis|work = Obituaries|publisher = [[The Guardian]]|date = [[February 20]], [[2006]]|url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/feb/20/guardianobituaries.obituaries1|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Henri Fabre]] || 1882-1984 || 101 || French aviation pioneer and inventor of the [[seaplane]]<ref>{{cite web|last = Naughton|first = Russell|title = Henri Fabre (1882-1984)|work = Monash University Centre for Telecommunications and Information Engineering|publisher = Monash University|date = [[May 15]], [[2002]]|url = http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/fabre.html|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Gordon S. Fahrni]] || 1887-1995 || 108 || Canadian physician and expert on [[goitre]]<ref>{{cite journal| last = Rafuse|first = Jill|title = Dr. Gordon Fahrni, who lived history of both Canada and the CMA, dies at 108| journal = Canadian Medical Association|volume = 153| issue = 12| pages = 1773–1775|publisher = Canadian Medical Association|date = 1995|url = http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/201/300/cdn_medical_association/cmaj/vol-153/issue-12/1773.htm|accessdate = 2007-12-13}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Raymond Firth]] || 1901-2002 || 100 || New Zealand anthropologist<ref name="AA">Huntsman, Judith, 2003, 'Raymond Firth 1901-2002' ''American Anthropologist'' 105(2):10-13</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Henry Jacques Gaisman]] || 1869-1974 || 104|| American inventor, first to develop the [[safety razor]]<ref>{{cite news|title = Deaths|publisher = [[New York Times]]|date = [[August 7]], [[1974]]}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch]] || 1907-2007 || 100 || German-American geneticist<ref>{{cite news|last = Pearce|first = Jeremy|title = Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch, 100, Geneticist, Is Dead|work = Science|publisher = [[New York Times]]|date = [[November 15]], [[2007]]|url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/science/15waelsch.html|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Viktor Hamburger]] || 1900-2001 || 100 || German professor and [[embryology|embryologist]]<ref>{{cite web|last = Noden|first = Drew M.|title = Viktor Hamburger (1900-2001)|publisher = Society for Developmental Biology|url = http://www.sdbonline.org/archive/SDBMembership/hamburger-obit.html|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Erich Häßler]] || 1899-2005 || 106 || German pediatrician<ref>{{cite news|last = Zintl|first = Felix|coauthors = Dietlinde Fuchs|title = Nachruf auf Prof. Dr. Erich Häßler|work = Personalia|language = German|publisher = Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin e.V.|date = [[February 14]], [[2006]]|url = http://www.dgkj.de/764.html|accessdate = 2008-05-11}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Michael Heidelberger]] || 1888-1991 || 103 || American [[immunology|immunologist]]<ref>{{cite web|work=Profiles in Science|title = The Michael Heidelberger Papers - Biographical Information|publisher = National Library of Medicine|url = http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/DH/Views/Exhibit/narrative/biographical.html|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Rudolf Hell]] || 1901-2002 || 100 || German inventor<ref>{{cite web|last = Robat|first = C|title = Rudolf Hell|publisher = The History of Computing Project|date = [[November 11]], [[2007]]|url = http://www.thocp.net/biographies/hell_rudolf.htm|accessdate = 2008-05-11}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Joel Henry Hildebrand]] || 1881-1983 || 101 || American chemist<ref>{{cite web|title = 1985, University of California: In Memoriam|publisher = [[University of California]] (System) Academic Senate|date = [[1985]]|url = http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=hb4d5nb20m&chunk.id=div00068&brand=calisphere&doc.view=entire_text|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Polly Hill (horticulturist)|Polly Hill]] || 1907-2007 || 100 || American [[horticulture|horticulturist]]<ref>Hevesi, Dennis (April 30, 2007). [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/us/30hill.html?ex=1335585600&en=4fdef9edafeac824&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss "Polly Hill Is Dead at 100; Tested Hardiness of Plants"], ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Arthur R. von Hippel]] || 1898-2003 || 105 || German-American physicist and co-developer of the radar<ref>{{cite news|last = Rose|first = Derek|title = Arthur R. von Hippel|publisher = The Tech|date = [[January 4]], [[2004]]|url = http://www-tech.mit.edu/V123/N63/63vonHippel.63n.html|accessdate = 2008-05-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Dorrit Hoffleit]] || 1907-2007 || 100 || American research astronomer<ref>{{Citation|title = Dorrit Hoffleit (1907 - 2007)|newspaper = AAS Newsletter|year = 2007|date = May/June 2007}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Albert Hofmann]] || 1906-2008 || 102 || Swiss discoverer of [[lysergic acid diethylamide|LSD]]<ref>{{cite news|last = Cage|first = Sam|title = Father of LSD celebrating 100th birthday|publisher = Associated Press|date = [[2006-01-10]]|url=http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2006/01/10/father_of_lsd_celebrating_100th_birthday/|accessdate = 2007-12-11}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Edward Augustus Holyoke]] || 1728-1829 || 100 || American physician<ref>{{cite web|title = People: Edward Augustus Holyoke...|work = Department of History and Science|publisher = [[Harvard University]]|url = http://dssmhi1.fas.harvard.edu/emuseumdev/code/emuseum.asp?action=advsearch&newsearch=1&profile=people&rawsearch=constituentid/,/is/,/6757/,/false/,/true&style=single&searchdesc=Edward%20Augustus%20Holyoke|accessdate = 2008-05-11}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Friedrich Hund]] || 1896-1997 || 101 || German physicist<ref>''Friedrich Hund'' Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/276471/Friedrich-Hund accessed 10 May 2008].</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ancel Keys]] || 1904-2004 || 100 || American biologist<ref>{{cite press release|title = Ancel Keys.|url = http://www.the-aps.org/membership/obituaries/ancel_keys.htm|publisher = The American Physiological Society|date = 2004|accessdate = 2007-11-13}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Nathaniel Kleitman]] || 1895-1999 || 104 || American father of sleep research and co-discoverer of REM sleep<ref>{{cite web|last = Siegel|first = J. M.|title = A tribute to Nathaniel Kleitman|work = Psychiatry and Brain Research Institute|publisher = [[University of California, Los Angeles]]|url = http://www.npi.ucla.edu/sleepresearch/Kleitman/Kleitman.htm|accessdate = 2008-05-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Paul E. Klopsteg]] || 1889-1991 || 101 || American [[physicist]]<ref>{{cite web|title = Paul Earnest Klopsteg|work = About AAAS|publisher = [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]]|date = [[2007]]|url = http://archives.aaas.org/people.php?p_id=33|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Jerome F. Lederer]] || 1902-2004 || 101 || American engineer<ref>{{cite news|last = O'Keefe|first = Sean|title = NASA Safety Pioneer Jerome Lederer Dies at 101|work = NASA News|publisher = [[NASA]]|date = [[February 17]], [[2004]]|url = http://www.nasa.gov/news/highlights/lederer_obit.html|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Inge Lehmann]] || 1888-1993 || 104 || [[Denmark|Danish]] [[seismology|seismologist]]<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.agu.org/inside/awards/lehmann2.html|title = INGE LEHMANN (1888-1993)|date = [[2005]]|accessdate = 2007-12-25|first = Michael|last = Carlowicz|publisher = American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Emma Lehmer]] || 1906-2007 || 100 || Russian-American mathematician<ref>{{cite journal|last = Brillhart|first = John|authorlink = John Brillhart|title = Emma Lehmer 1906-2007|journal = Notices of the AMS|volume = 54|issue = 11|pages = 1500–1501|publisher = [[American Mathematical Society]]|date = December [[2007]]|url = http://www.ams.org/notices/200711/tx071101500p.pdf|accessdate = 2008-05-09|format=PDF}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF" | | [[Goethe Link]] || 1879-1981 || 101 || American [[surgeon]], aviation pioneer and amateur astronomer<ref>{{cite web|title = Dr. Goethe Link|work = Department of Astronomy|publisher = [[Indiana University (Bloomington)]]|date = [[January 13]], [[2004]]|url = http://www.astro.indiana.edu/drlink.shtml|accessdate = 2008-05-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[August Luebs]] || 1889-1989 || 100 || American mechanical engineer<ref>{{cite news|title = August Luebs, 100, an Expert on Heating|work = Obituaries|publisher = [[New York Times]]|date = [[September 12]], [[1989]]|url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE0DF153EF931A2575AC0A96F948260|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ernst W. Mayr]] || 1904-2005 || 100 || German-American biologist<ref>Diamond, Jared. 2005. [http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/diamond_ernstmayr.pdf Obituary: Ernst Mayr (1904−2005)]. ''Nature'' 433:700-701.</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Wilhelm Meise]] ||1901-2002|| 101 || German ornithologist<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3793/is_200304/ai_n9167258 ''In memoriam'': Wilhelm Meise, 1901-2002] ''The Auk,'' '''120'''(2): 540. (Apr 2003)</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Margaret Murray]] || 1863-1963 || 100 || British anthropologist<ref>{{cite news|title = Dr. Margaret Murray Is Dead; Egyptologist and Teacher, 100|pages = 33|publisher = [[New York Times]]|date = [[November 15]], [[1963]]}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Sergey Nikolsky]]''''' || '''''1905 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1905|4|30}}''''' || '''''Russian mathematician'''''<ref>{{cite news|title = Сергей Михайлович Никольский|publisher = Courier of Education|date = [[2005-04-30]]|url=http://www.courier.com.ru/kvant/kv0405nikolsky.htm|accessdate = 2007-12-11}} (Russian)</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Georg Nöbeling]] || 1907-2008 || 100 || German mathematician<ref>{{cite press release|title = Zum Geburtstag des Mathematikers Prof. Dr. Georg Nöbeling|publisher = Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg|date = 2008-01-14|language = German|url = http://www.presse.uni-erlangen.de/infocenter/presse/pressemitteilungen/2007/nachrichten_2007/11_07/263noebeling.shtml|accessdate = 2008-02-24}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Ruth Patrick]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|11|26}}''''' || '''''American [[limnology|limnologist]]'''''<ref>{{cite web|title = Celebration - The 100th Birthday of Dr. Ruth Partick - November 17, 2007|publisher = The Academy of Natural Sciences|date = 2007|url = http://www.ansp.org/Patrick100/index.php|accessdate = 2007-12-11}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Luigi Poletti (mathematician)|Luigi Poletti]] || 1864-1967 || 103 || Italian mathematician<ref>{{cite web|title = Luigi Poletti|work = La guida di Pontremoli|publisher = Lunigiana.net|date = 1998|url = http://www.lunigiana.net/pontremoli/personaggi/personaggi08.htm|accessdate = 2007-12-13}} (Italian)</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina]] || 1899-1999 || 100 || Russian mathematician<ref>{{cite web|title = Pelageia Yakovlevna Polubarinova Kochina|publisher = [[MacTutor History of Mathematics archive]]|date = [[2002]]|url = http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kochina.html|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Franco Rasetti]] || 1901-2001 || 100 || Italian physician<ref>{{cite web|last = Ludvigsen|first = Rolf|coauthors = Brian Chatterton|title = FRANCO RASETTI (1901 - 2001)|work = Trilobite Papers 14|publisher = Denman Institute Research on Trilobites|date = [[2002]]|url = http://www.fossilhut.com/DIRT/rolf_ludvigsen/TP14.htm|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Robert Hallowell Richards]] || 1844-1945 || 100 || American [[metallurgy|metallurgist]]<ref>{{cite book|last = Stratton|first = Julius Adams|authorlink = Julius Adams Stratton|coauthors = Loretta H. Mannix|title = Mind and Hand: The Birth of MIT|publisher = [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] Press|date = [[2005]]|location = [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]|pages = 789|url = http://books.google.com/books?id=ngigRJQEPXoC&pg=PA719&lpg=PA719&dq=%22robert+hallowell+richards%22+1945&source=web&ots=jdwUiwNDa_&sig=KT1akng09b65LK3emnHo0hnBOrk&hl=en|isbn = 0262195240}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Henry Nicholas Ridley]] || 1855-1956 || 100 || British biologist<ref>{{cite journal|last = Holttum|first = R.E.|title = Henry Nicholas Ridley, C. M. G., F. R. S. 1855-1956|journal = Taxon|volume = 6|issue = 1|pages = 1–6|publisher = International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT)|date = January-February [[1957]]|url = http://www.jstor.org/stable/1217861|accessdate = 2008-05-12}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Jennie Smillie Robertson]] || 1878-1981 || 103 || | Canadian physician, the first female surgeon in Canada<ref>{{cite news|title=Dr. Jennie Smillie Robertson Woman surgeon was first to enter practice in Canada|work=[[The Globe and Mail]]|date=[[March 3]], [[1981]]}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Paul Rohmer]] || 1876-1977 || 100 || French pediatrician and biologist<ref>''[http://www.fnac.com/Shelf/article.asp?PRID=1715967&OrderInSession=1&Mn=1&Mu=-13&SID=a4ed873e-ba89-508b-a46c-df49b8d90007&TTL=051020062346&Origin=FnacAff&Ra=-1&To=0&Nu=1&UID=104F752B3-5A2D-B667-6BFB-F59411AE884D&Fr=0 "Paul Rohmer une vie au service de l'enfance"]'' by Florent Grange, 2005, 240 pages, Le Verger editeur, ISBN 2-84574-054-9 (French) </ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Victor Blanchard Scheffer]]''''' || '''''1906 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1906|11|27}}''''' || '''''American [[zoology|zoologist]] and author'''''<ref>{{cite web|title = Victor B. Scheffer, Science Advisor|work = BirdNote|date = 2007|url = http://www.birdnote.org/birdnote-info.cfm?id=25|accessdate = 2008-04-14}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Waldo Semon]] || 1898-1999 || 100 || American chemist<ref>{{cite web|title = WALDO SEMON (1898-1999)|work = Inventor of the Week|publisher = Michigan Institute of Technology|date = November 1999|url = http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/semon.html|accessdate = 2007-12-13}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Bei Shizhang]]''''' || '''''1903 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1903|10|10}}''''' || '''''Chinese biologist and educator'''''<ref>{{cite news|title = President LU Yongxiang Visits CAS Member BEI Shizhang|publisher = CASAD News|date = [[2007-01-26]]|url=http://209.85.207.104/search?q=cache:8CzLx8flnbwJ:www.osgeo.org.cn/casad/index.php%3Fchannel%3Dnews_single%26id%3D50+%22Bei+Shizhang%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us|accessdate = 2007-12-11}} (Inactive as of [[December 11]], [[2007]])</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Gerolf Steiner]]''''' || '''''1908 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1908|3|23}}''''' || '''''German professor of zoology'''''<ref>{{cite press release|title = On Gerolf Steiner's 100th birthday|url = http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/visitors/8934.php|publisher = Universität Karlsruhe|date = [[March 23]], [[2008]]|accessdate = 2007-04-12}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ralph Randles Stewart]] || 1890-1993 || 103 || American [[botany|botanist]]<ref>{{cite web|last = Ali|first = S.I.|coauthors = A. Ghaffar|title = DR. R. R. STEWART (1890-1993)|publisher = Pakistan Botanical Society|date = [[1994]]|url = http://www.pjbot.org/pjbot/abstracts/26(1)/1.htm|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Dirk Jan Struik]] || 1894-2000 || 106 || Dutch mathematician<ref>MIT News Office (2000-10-25). Mathematician Professor Dirk Struik dies at 106. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2000/struik-1025.html, accessed [[2007-07-23]]</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[John Kenneth Terres]] || 1905-2006 || 100 || American naturalist and author<ref>{{cite web|title = Dr. John Terres: Bird Expert & Naturalist Still Making the H|work = Old Growth Interview|publisher = The Southern Nature Project|date = [[2006]]|url = http://www.southernnature.org/profile_interview.php?ID=19|accessdate = 2008-05-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Dorothy Burr Thompson]] ||1900-2001 || 100 || American [[classical archaeology|classical archaeologist]] and art historian<ref>{{cite news|last = O'Connor|first = Anahad|title = Dorothy Burr Thompson, 101, Archaeologist|work = Science|publisher = [[New York Times]]|date = [[May 24]], [[2001]]|url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CEFDD103DF937A15756C0A9679C8B63|accessdate = 2008-05-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Germaine Tillion]] || 1907-2008 || 100 || French anthropologist<ref>{{cite news|title = Célébration du centenaire de Germaine Tillion|publisher = Germaine Tillion.org|date = [[2007]]|url=http://www.germaine-tillion.org/actualites/actualites2007/#item_54|accessdate = 2008-04-20}} (French)</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Constance Tipper]] || 1894-1995 || 101 || British metallurgist and [[Crystallography|crystallographer]]<ref>Hetzel, Phyllis. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19951220/ai_n14024925/print Obituary], ''[[The Independent]]'' (1995). Retrieved on [[May 27]], [[2007]].</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[László Tisza]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|7|7}}''''' || '''''Hungarian-American physicist'''''<ref>{{cite web|title = Spring 2007|work = Department of Physics Colloquia Schedule|publisher = Michigan Institute of Technology|date = 2007|url = http://web.mit.edu/physics/newsandevents/colloquia/spring2007.html|accessdate = 2007-12-11}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Leopold Vietoris]] || 1891-2002 || 110 || Austrian mathematician<ref>Reitberger, Heinrich. [http://www.ams.org/notices/200210/fea-vietoris.pdf "Leopold Vietoris (1891-2002)"], ''Notices of the American Mathematical Society'', Vol. 49, No. 10 ([[November 2002]])</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya]] || 1860-1962 || 101 || Indian engineer<ref>{{cite web|title = Sir M. Visvesvaraya|work = Personalities|publisher = Karnataka.com|date = [[May 2008]]|url = http://www.karnataka.com/personalities/visvesvaraya/|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Marthe Vogt]] || 1903-2003 || 100 || German-English [[neuroscientist]]<ref>Christopher Bell, ‘Vogt, Marthe Louise (1903–2003)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', online edn, Oxford University Press, Jan 2007; online edn, Oct 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/56125, accessed 9 May 2008]</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Walter Francis Willcox]] || 1861-1964 || 103 || American [[statistician]]<ref>{{cite journal|last = Rice|first = Stuart A|authorlink = Stuart A. Rice|title = Walter Francis Willcox March 28, 1861 - October 30, 1964|journal = Revue de l'Institut International de Statistique / Review of the International Statistical Institute|volume = 32|issue = 3|pages = 340–346|publisher = International Statistical Institute (ISI)|date = [[1964]]|url = http://www.jstor.org/stable/1401885|accessdate = 2008-05-12}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Arvo Ylppö]] || 1887-1992 || 104 || Finnish pediatrician<ref>{{cite journal|last = Dunn|first = P M|title = Arvo Ylppö (1887–1992): pioneer of Finnish paediatrics|journal = Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition|volume = 92|issue = 3|pages = F230–F232|publisher = BMJ Publishing Group Ltd|location = San Diego|date = [[2007]]|url = http://fn.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/92/3/F230|doi = 10.1136|accessdate = 2008-05-12}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF" | | [[Filippo Zappata]] || 1894-1994 || 100 || Italian aircraft designer and pioneer<ref>{{cite web|title = ZAPPATA FILIPPO|work = Il Portale dell'Aeronautica Militare - Le schede|publisher = Ministero Della Difesa|date = [[May 9]], [[2002]]|url = http://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/SitoAM/Default.asp?idnot=5642&idsez=1&idarg=7&idente=1394|accessdate = 2008-05-12}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF" | | '''''[[Zheng Ji (biochemist)|Zheng Ji]]''''' || '''''1900 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1900|5|15}}''''' || '''''Chinese [[nutritionist]] and [[biochemist]]'''''<ref>{{cite news|title = 108岁郑集教授重阳节畅谈养生之道|language = Chinese|publisher = hnljd.njgl.gov.cn|date = [[2007-10-22]]|url = http://hnljd.njgl.gov.cn/art/2007/10/22/art_2586_61553.html|accessdate = 2008-06-17}}</ref> |} == Sportspeople == {| class="wikitable" |- ! style="background-color: yellow" | Name ! style="background-color: yellow" | Lifespan ! style="background-color: yellow" | Age ! style="background-color: yellow" | Notability |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Constance M. K. Applebee]] || 1873-1981 || 107 || American [[field hockey]] player<ref>{{cite web|title = Constance M.K. Applebee|publisher = Encyclopædia Britannica|date = 2007|url = http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9124910/Constance-MK-Applebee|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Charlie Booth]] || 1903-2008 || 104 || Australian athlete<ref>{{cite news|title = Booth's 104th birthday|publisher = goldcoast.com.au|date = [[2007-09-27]]|url=http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2007/09/27/3166_gossip-news.html|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Alida van den Bos]] || 1902-2003 || 101 || Dutch Olympic [[gymnastics|gymnast]]<ref>{{cite journal|last = Bijkerk|first = Tony|title = Alida Johanna van den Bos|journal = Journal of Olympic History|volume = 11|issue = 3|pages = 55–56|date = September 2003|url = http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv11n3/johv11n3v.pdf|accessdate = 2007-12-10|format=PDF}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Carmelo Camet]] || 1904-2007 || 102 || Argentine Olympic [[fencing|fencer]]<ref>{{cite web|title = Obituaries|publisher = Association of National Olympic Committees|date = 2007|url = http://www.acnolympic.org/en/news/news_en.html#070722_camet|accessdate = 2008-03-20}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Abe Coleman]] || 1905-2007 || 101 || Polish-American wrestler<ref>{{cite news|title = Oldest pro wrestler passes away today|publisher = Wrestling Observer|date = [[2007-03-28]]|url=http://www.wrestlingobserver.com/wo/news/headlines/default.asp?aID=19072|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ray Cunningham]] || 1905-2005 || 100 || American [[Major League Baseball]] [[St. Louis Cardinals]] [[third baseman]] (1931-1932)<ref name="BaseballR2">{{baseball-reference|id=c/cunnira01}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |[[Sam Dana]] ||1903-2007|| 104 || [[American football]] player<ref>{{cite news|title = Sam Dana, NFL's oldest former player, dies at 104|publisher = The Courier-Journal|date = [[2007-10-31]]|url=http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071031/SPORTS/710310941/1002/SPORTS|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[D. B. Deodhar]] || 1892-1993 || 101 || Indian [[cricket]] player and [[Sanskrit]]ist<ref>{{cite web|last = Williamson|first = Martin|title = D.B.Deodhar|work = cricinfoindia|publisher = Cricinfo|date = 2007|url = http://content-www.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/28036.html|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[George Fisher (baseball)|George Fisher]] || 1889-1994 || 105 || American Major League Baseball player<ref name="BaseballR3">{{baseball-reference|id=f/fishesh01}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Joaquim Fiúza]]''''' || '''''1908 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1908|2|8}}''''' || '''''Portuguese Olympic [[Sailing at the Summer Olympics|sailor]]'''''<ref>{{cite news|title = Joaquim Fiúza festeja 100 anos|publisher = MSN Desporto|date = [[2008-02-07]]|url = http://desporto.pt.msn.com/especial/article.aspx?cp-documentid=7480777|accessdate = 2008-03-20}} (Portuguese)</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Jacques Gerschwiler]] || 1898-2000 || 101 || Swiss [[figure skating|figure skater]]<ref>{{cite news|last = Bird|first = Dennis|title = Obituary: Jacques Gerschwiler|publisher = The Independent (London)|date = [[2000-06-07]]|url = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000607/ai_n14319272|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Howdy Groskloss]] || 1906-2006 || 100 || American Major League Baseball player<ref>{{cite news|title = Howard H. "Howdy" Groskloss|work = Obituaries and Death Notices|publisher = TC Palm|date = [[2006-07-18]]|url=http://www.legacy.com/tcpalm/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=18513369|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ernst Jakob Henne]] || 1904-2005 || 101 || German [[auto racing|racecar]] driver<ref> {{cite video|title = Das weiss Phantom (The White Phantom)|medium = DVD/Video|publisher = Bentley Publishing|location = Germany|date = 2005}} ISBN-13: 978-0-8376-1358-1 </ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Erik Herseth]] || 1892-1993 || 100 || Norwegian Olympic sailor and gold medalist<ref>{{cite web|last = Reber|first = Bernard|title = Norway's first Olympic champions|publisher = Olympic-medallists.com|work=Olympic Champions 1896-1936|url = http://www.olympic-medallists.com/NOR.html|accessdate = 2007-12-11}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Chet Hoff]] || 1891-1998 || 107 || Oldest American Major League Baseball player ever<ref name="BaseballR4">{{baseball-reference|id=h/hoffre01}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Lajos Homonnai]] || 1904-2007 || 103 || Hungarian Olympic [[water polo]] player<ref>{{cite web|title = Homonnai Lajos (Hlavacsek Lajos)|publisher = Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság|date = 2007|url = http://www.mob.hu/Engine.aspx?page=MOB_bajnokaink_olimpiai&spid=22723|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Charles Howard (cricketer)|Charles Howard]]''''' || '''''1904 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1904|11|7}}''''' || '''''English cricketer'''''<ref>{{cite web|title = Charles Howard|publisher = Cricinfo|date = 2007|url = http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/14984.html|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Jim Hutchinson]] || 1896-2000 || 103 || Longest-lived English [[cricket]]er<ref>{{cite web | url=http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/91740.html | title=Oldest ever first-class cricketer dies | accessdate=2007-04-23 | date=[[2000-11-08]] | publisher=[[Cricinfo]]}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ulrich Inderbinen]] || 1900-2004 || 103 || Swiss mountain guide<ref>{{cite news|title = Ulrich Inderbinen im 104. Altersjahr gestorben|publisher = NZZ Online|date = [[2004-06-15]]|url=http://www.nzz.ch/2004/06/15/vm/newzzDVHJWTHA-12.html|accessdate = 2007-12-10}} (German)</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Fernand Jaccard]] || 1907-2008 || 100 || Swiss [[association football]] [[midfielder]]<ref>{{cite news|title = Fernand Jaccard s'est éteint|publisher = 20 Minutes|date = [[2008-04-16]]|url=http://www.20min.ch/ro/sports/football/story/27078764|accessdate = 2008-04-29}} (French)</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Dirk Janssen]] || 1881-1986 || 105 || Longest-lived Olympic competitor<ref name="Almanack">{{cite book|last = Greenberg|first = Stan|title = Olympian Almanack 2008|date = September 2007}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Signe Johansson-Engdahl]]''''' || '''''1905 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1905|5|27}}''''' || '''''Swedish Olympian and [[swimming|swimmer]]'''''<ref name="Signe">{{cite news|title = Signe 103 - äldsta olympiern i världen|publisher = SOK|date = [[2008-05-29]]|url=http://www.sok.se/nyheter/nyheter/nyhetsarkiv/signe103aldstaolympiernivarlden.5.2c4b8bee11a31fca49e800090.html|accessdate = 2008-06-02}} (Swedish)</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Feroze Khan (field hockey)|Feroze Khan]] || 1904-2005 || 100 || [[Pakistan]]i field hockey Olympian<ref name="Khan">{{cite web|title=World's oldest Olympian Feroze Khan passes away|work=Daily Times|url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_22-4-2005_pg2_3|accessdate=April 22|accessyear=2005}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Jalmari Kivenheimo]] || 1889-1994 || 105 || Longest-lived Olympic medalist<ref name="Almanack"/> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Hans Kleppen]]''''' || '''''1907 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1907|3|16}}''''' || '''''Norwegian Olympic [[ski jumping|ski jumper]]'''''<ref>{{cite news|title = 101-årig olympier med gyldig sertifikat|publisher = Varden|date = [[2008-03-18]]|url=http://www.varden.no/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080318/NYHET/586745985/1003/_|accessdate = 2008-06-13}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Keizo Miura]] || 1904-2006 || 101 || Japanese skier and ski instructor<ref>{{cite news|title = Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: Keizo Miura 100th Birthday & 4 Generations Skiing Expedition Successful|publisher = EverestNews.com|date = [[2004]]|url=http://www.everestnews.com/stories004sec4002/ski03012004.htm|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Adolf Möller]] || 1867-1968 || 101 || German Olympic [[Rowing at the Summer Olympics|rower]] and bronze medalist<ref>{{cite book|last = Kamper|first = Erich|coauthors = Bill Mallon|title = The Golden Book of the Olympic Games|publisher = Vallardi & Associati|date = [[1993-11-30]]|location = Italy|isbn = 978-8885202351}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Phyllis Mudford]] || 1905-2006 || 100 || British [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon]] champion<ref>{{cite news|last = Gilbert|first = Helen|title = 100 year old Former Champion Dies|publisher = Wimbledon|date = [[2006]]|url=http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/news/phyllisking.html|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | '''''[[Emilio Navarro]]''''' || '''''1905 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1905|9|26}}''''' || '''''[[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] baseball player'''''<ref>{{cite news|title = Celebran en grande el centenario de Emilio Navarro|publisher = AL DÍA|date = [[2005-09-30]]|url=http://www.pontealdia.com/article.php?article=19772&edition=273&shownav=1|accessdate = 2007-12-10}} (Spanish)</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Hal Haig Prieste]] || 1896-2001 || 104 || [[Armenia]]n-American high diver and bronze medalist at the [[1920 Summer Olympics]]<ref>{{cite news|last = Sandomir|first = Richard|title = OLYMPICS: NOTEBOOK; Missing Flag Returns to Glory, Courtesy of a Prankster|publisher = The New York Times|date = [[2006-09-12]]|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE3DE1738F931A2575AC0A9669C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/F/Flags,%20Emblems%20and%20Insignia|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Philip Rabinowitz (runner)|Philip Rabinowitz]] || 1904-2008 || 104 || South African [[sprint (race)|sprinter]], fastest centenarian over [[100 metres]]<ref>{{cite news|title = Philip Rabinowitz is Officially the World’s Fastest Centenarian|work = SeniorJournal.com|publisher = New Tech Media|date = [[2004-07-10]]|url=http://www.seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Sports/4-07-10Fastest.htm|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ted Radcliffe]] || 1902-2005 || 103 || American Major League Baseball player<ref>{{cite news|last = Goldstein|first = Richard|title = Ted Radcliffe, Star of the Negro Leagues, Is Dead at 103|publisher = The New York Times|date = [[2005-08-12]]|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/12/sports/baseball/12radcliffe.html?_r=1&oref=slogin|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[James Stillman Rockefeller]] || 1902-2004 || 102 || American rower, gold medalist at the [[1924 Summer Olympics]] and founder of the First National [[Citibank|City Bank]] of New York<ref>{{cite news|title = Yale Olympic Rower Passes Away at 102|publisher = Ivy League Sports.com|date = [[2004-08-10]]|url=http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=3538|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Silas Simmons]] || 1893/8-2006 || 108-113 || American [[semi-professional]] and [[professional]] [[baseball]] player<ref>{{cite news|last = Schwarz|first = Alan|title = Silas Simmons, 111, Veteran of Baseball’s Negro Leagues, Is Dead|publisher = The New York Times|date = [[2006-11-01]]|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/sports/baseball/01simmons.html|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Herman Smith-Johannsen]] || 1875-1987 || 111 || Norwegian-Canadian [[cross-country skiing|cross-country skier]]<ref>Johannsen, Alice E.(1993). The Legendary Jackrabbit Johannsen. McGill-Queens University Press. ISBN 0-7735-1151-2</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Amos Alonzo Stagg]] || 1862-1965 || 102 || American football player<ref>Robin Lester, ''Stagg's University: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-time Football at Chicago'', [[University of Illinois]] Press, 1995</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Rollie Stiles]] || 1906-2007 || 100 || American Major League Baseball player<ref>{{cite news|last = Salter|first = Jim|title = Former Major Leaguer Stiles Dies at 100|publisher = Associated Press|date = [[2007-07-23]]|url=http://www.softcom.net/webnews/wed/dh/Abbo-obit-stiles.ROQ4_HlN.html|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Leon Štukelj]] || 1898-1999 || 100 || [[Slovenia]]n gymnast who won six Olympic medals<ref>{{cite news|last = Manuel|first = Sasha|title = Leon Štukelj, the 100-Year-Old Olympic Legend|publisher = Light the Torch|date = [[2006-09-13]]|url=http://www.lightthetorch.net/2006/leon-stukelj-the-100-year-old-olympic-legend|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |'''''[[Billy Werber]]'''''|| '''''1908 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1908|6|20}}''''' || '''''American baseball player'''''<ref>{{cite news|last = Livingstone|first = Seth|title = Oldest big-leaguer Werber turns 100|publisher = USA Today|date = [[2008-06-20]]|url=http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2008-06-19-werber-birthday_N.htm|accessdate = 2008-06-20}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Edvin Wide]] || 1896-1996 || 100 || Swedish long-distance runner<ref>{{cite news|title = Edvin Wide, 100, Olympic Track Medalist|publisher = The New York Times|date = [[1996-06-22]]|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E3DC1539F931A15755C0A960958260|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" || '''''[[Wallace Ignatius "Bucky" Williams]]''''' || '''''1906 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1906|12|15}}''''' || '''''American baseball player'''''<ref>{{cite news|last = Kirkland|first = Kevin|title = Penn Hills man helped history play out in Negro League|publisher = Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date = [[2007-02-06]]|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07037/759649-51.stm|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Willem Winkelman]] || 1887-1990 || 102 || Dutch Olympic medalist<ref>{{cite web|title = Nederlandse deelnemers|work = Sport.nl|url= http://www2.sport.nl/olympischarchief2006/show.php3?naam=Winkelman&pgr=0|accessdate = December 28|accessyear=2007}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Bob Wright (baseball)|Bob Wright]] || 1891-1993 || 101 || American Major League Baseball player<ref name="BaseballR">{{baseball-reference|id=w/wrighbo01}}</ref> |} == Miscellaneous== {| class="wikitable" |- ! style="background-color: yellow" | Name ! style="background-color: yellow" | Lifespan ! style="background-color: yellow" | Age ! style="background-color: yellow" | Notability |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Elly Beinhorn]] || 1907-2007 || 100 || German pilot<ref>{{cite news|last = Jürgens|first = Malte|title = Elly Beinhorn gestorben|work = Motor Klassik|language =German|date = [[2007-11-30]]|url=http://www.motor-klassik.de/aktuell/panorama/hxcms_article_508750_14702.hbs|accessdate = 2007-12-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Myra Bennett]] || 1890-1990 || 100 || Canadian [[nurse]]<ref>{{cite web|last = Abelseth|first = Grace Eveline|title = Bennett House|work = Registered Heritage Structures|publisher = Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage|date = February 1999|url = http://www.heritage.nf.ca/society/rhs/cf_listing/043.html|accessdate = 2007-12-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Sadie Bonnell]] || 1888-1993 || 105 || British [[First Aid Nursing Yeomanry|FANY]] [[ambulance]] driver and first woman to win the [[Military Medal]]<ref>{{cite web|last = Beardwood|first = Anette|title = War Tales 1914-1919 - Page 8|work = Our Proud History|publisher = First Aid Nursing Yeomanry|date = 1997|url = http://www.fany.org.uk/history/ww1/ww1_page_08.html#txt81|accessdate = 2007-12-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF" || '''''[[Helen Brockman]]''''' || '''''1902 &ndash;''''' || '''''{{age|1902|9|24}}''''' || '''''American fashion designer, author and professor'''''<ref>{{cite news|title = Celebration to honor 100th birthday of Helen Brockman.|work = M2 Presswire|date = [[2002-09-04]]|url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-2142254_ITMs|accessdate = 2007-12-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Cyril Demarne]] || 1905-2007 || 101 || British military [[firefighter]]<ref>{{cite news|title = Cyril Demarne|work = Obituaries|publisher = The Times|date = [[2007-02-15]]|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1386760.ece|accessdate = 2007-12-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF" | | [[Gregorio Fuentes]] || 1897-2002 || 104 || [[Cuba]]n fisherman and friend of [[Ernest Hemingway]]<ref>{{cite news|title = Gregorio Fuentes, 104, friend of Hemingway for 3 decades|publisher = Chicago Sun-Times|date = [[2002-01-14]]|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20020114/ai_n9611575|accessdate = 2007-12-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ida May Fuller]] || 1874-1975 || 100 || First American citizen to receive a [[Social Security (United States)|social security]] check<ref>{{cite web|last = DeWitt|first = Larry|title = Research Note #3|work = Agency History|publisher = Social Security Online|date = July 1996|url = http://www.ssa.gov/history/idapayroll.html|accessdate = 2007-12-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF" | | [[Dan Keating]] || 1902-2007 || 105 || Member of the [[Irish Republican Army]]<ref>{{cite news|title = Ireland's oldest man dies aged 105|work = BreakingNews.ie|date = 2007-10-03|url = http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhmhaueyidgb/|accessdate = 2007-10-03}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF" | | [[Constance Kent]] || 1844-1944 || 100 || English criminal whose trial raised issues concerning [[priest-penitent privilege in the UK]]<ref>{{cite web|last = Harrison|first = A.J.|title = Kent, Constance (1844 - 1944)|publisher = Australian Dictionary of Biography Online|date = 2005|url = http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10541b.htm|accessdate = 2007-12-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Eleanor Lambert]] || 1903-2003 || 100 || American fashion pioneer<ref>{{cite news|last = Columbia|first = David Patrick|title = The List - In Memoriam|publisher = New York Social Diary|date = [[2003-10-08]]|url=http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/list/im/114im.php|accessdate = 2007-12-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Tom Maguire]] || 1892-1993 || 101 || Irish Republican Army activist, commander and politician<ref>Robert White, Ruairi O Bradaigh, The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary, 2006</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF" | | [[Elizabeth Holloway Marston]] || 1893-1993 || 100 || American [[comics|comic]] pioneer and inspiration for [[Wonder Woman]]<ref>{{cite news|title = Elizabeth H. Marston, Inspiration for Wonder Woman, 100|publisher = The New York Times|date = [[1993-04-03]]|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7D6153FF930A35757C0A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print|accessdate = 2007-12-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF" | | [[Hannah Myrick]] || 1871-1973 || 101-102 || American superintendent of the New England Hospital for Women and Children<ref>{{cite web|title = Hannah Glidden Myrick (1871-1973)|work=Women Working, 1800-1930|publisher = Harvard University Library|date = [[2006-02-01]]|url = http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/people_myrick.html|accessdate = 2007-12-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Anton Nilson]] || 1887-1989 || 101 || Swedish militant [[Communism|communist]]<ref>{{cite web|title = Amaltheamannen Anton Nilson|publisher = Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna|language=Swedish|date = [[2007-01-04]]|url = http://offensiv.socialisterna.org/sv/731/analys/1084|accessdate = 2007-12-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF" | | [[Irene Wells Pennington]] || 1898-2003 || 104 || American multimillionaire oil widow<ref>{{cite news|last = Wingfield|first = Brian|title = America's Youngest And Oldest Billionaires|work = The World's Richest People|publisher = Forbes|date = [[2007-11-07]]|url=http://www.forbes.com/business/2007/11/06/billionaires-wealth-forbes-400-biz-cx_bw_1031400ages.html|accessdate = 2007-12-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Ed Russenholt]] || 1890-1991 || 100 || Canadian [[weather forecasting|weatherman]]<ref>{{cite web|title = Edgar S. Russenholt (1890-1991)|publisher = Manitoba Historical Society|date = 2007|url = http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/russenholt_es.shtml|accessdate = 2007-12-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Fyodor Uglov]] || 1904-2008 || 103 || Russian [[surgeon]]<ref>{{cite web|title = Fyodor Uglov|publisher = The Daily Telegraph|date = [[2008-06-25]]|url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2195041/Fyodor-Uglov.html|accessdate = 2008-06-26}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;" | | [[Len Vale-Onslow]] || 1900-2004 || 103 || British [[motorcycle]] builder<ref>{{cite news|title = Bike legend laid to rest|work = Birmingham Features|publisher = [[BBC]]|date = [[May 7]], [[2004]]|url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/features/2004/05/vale_onslow/vale_onslow.shtml|accessdate = 2008-05-09}}</ref> |- style="background-color: #FFFFFF" | | [[Joseph Weil]] || 1875-1976 || 100 || American [[confidence trick|confidence man]]<ref>{{cite news|title = Milestones|publisher = Time Magazine|date = [[1976-03-08]]|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,879649,00.html|accessdate = 2007-12-09}}</ref> |} ==References== {{reflist|2}} {{longevity}} [[Category:Centenarians| ]] [[Category:Lists of people by age|Centenarians]] [[de:Liste berühmter Hundertjähriger]] [[pl:Lista stulatków]] [[fi:Luettelo tunnetuista 100-vuotiaiksi eläneistä]]