List of living centenarians
Encyclopedia
The following is a list of living centenarian
s (living people who have attained the age of at least 100 years) known for reasons other than their longevity
. For more lists of centenarians, see lists of centenarians. For living people known especially for their longevity see List of living supercentenarians.
Centenarian
A centenarian is a person who is or lives beyond the age of 100 years. Because current average life expectancies across the world are less than 100, the term is invariably associated with longevity. Much rarer, a supercentenarian is a person who has lived to the age of 110 or more, something only...
s (living people who have attained the age of at least 100 years) known for reasons other than their longevity
Longevity
The word "longevity" is sometimes used as a synonym for "life expectancy" in demography or known as "long life", especially when it concerns someone or something lasting longer than expected ....
. For more lists of centenarians, see lists of centenarians. For living people known especially for their longevity see List of living supercentenarians.
| Name | Born | Age | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leila Denmark Leila Denmark Leila Alice Denmark is an American pediatrician. She was once the oldest practicing pediatrician in the world, until she retired in May 2001 at the age of 103. She is one of the rare supercentenarians known for reasons other than longevity... |
1898 | American pediatrician Pediatrics Pediatrics or paediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. A medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician or paediatrician... who developed the pertussis Pertussis Pertussis, also known as whooping cough , is a highly contagious bacterial disease caused by Bordetella pertussis. Symptoms are initially mild, and then develop into severe coughing fits, which produce the namesake high-pitched "whoop" sound in infected babies and children when they inhale air... vaccine Vaccine A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe or its toxins... |
|
| Frederica Sagor Maas Frederica Sagor Maas Frederica Alexandrina Sagor Maas is an American playwright, screenwriter, memoirist and author, the youngest daughter of Russian immigrants. Maas is best known for a detailed, tell-all memoir of her time spent in early Hollywood. She is one of the rare supercentenarians known for reasons other... |
1900 | American playwright Playwright A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder... , essayist and author |
|
| Alice Herz-Sommer Alice Herz-Sommer Alice Herz-Sommer, also known as Alice Sommer-Hertz and Alice Sommer, is a Czech pianist, music teacher and survivor of the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Herz-Sommer has lived in North London, United Kingdom since 1986, and is the world’s oldest known Holocaust survivor... |
1903 | Czech pianist | |
| Johannes Heesters Johannes Heesters Johan Marius Nicolaas "Johannes" Heesters is a Dutch actor, singer and entertainer with a -year career, almost exclusively in the German-speaking world. In Germany and Austria, Heesters is mainly known for his acting career... |
1903 | Dutch actor and singer | |
| Carmen Martínez Sierra | 1904 | Spanish actress | |
| Gerardus Philippus Helders Gerardus Philippus Helders Gerardus Philippus Helders is a retired Dutch politician of the defunct Christian Historical Union now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal . He served as Minister of Colonial Affairs from February 16, 1957 until May 19, 1959 in the cabinets Drees IV and Beel II... |
1905 | Dutch politician | |
| Sergey Nikolsky | 1905 | Russian mathematician | |
| Leopold Engleitner Leopold Engleitner Leopold Engleitner is a Holocaust survivor and conscientious objector who speaks publicly on his experiences with students. He is the subject of the documentary Unbroken Will... |
1905 | Austrian lecturer, oldest survivor of Buchenwald Buchenwald concentration camp Buchenwald concentration camp was a German Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937, one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil.Camp prisoners from all over Europe and Russia—Jews, non-Jewish Poles and Slovenes,... , Niederhagen and Ravensbrück Ravensbrück concentration camp Ravensbrück was a notorious women's concentration camp during World War II, located in northern Germany, 90 km north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück .... concentration camps Nazi concentration camps Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps throughout the territories it controlled. The first Nazi concentration camps set up in Germany were greatly expanded after the Reichstag fire of 1933, and were intended to hold political prisoners and opponents of the regime... |
|
| Irving Kahn Irving Kahn Irving Kahn is an American value investor and money manager and the oldest living investment professional. He was an early disciple of Benjamin Graham, the creator of the value investing methodology. Kahn began his career in 1928 and continues to work to this day at the age of... |
1905 | American financial analyst | |
| Zhou Youguang Zhou Youguang Zhou Youguang is a Chinese linguist who is often credited as the "father of Hanyu Pinyin", the official romanization for Mandarin in the People's Republic of China. He was born in Changzhou.-Education and early career:... |
1906 | Chinese linguist and father of Pinyin Pinyin Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into... |
|
| Antoine Nguyên Van Thien | 1906 | Vietnamese bishop of the Roman Catholic Church | |
| Emmanuel Kriaras Emmanuel Kriaras Emmanuel G Kriaras is a Greek lexicographer and philologist, he is Emeritus Professor of the School of Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki... |
1906 | Greek lexicographer | |
| Zoltan Sarosy Zoltan Sarosy Zoltan Sarosy is a Hungarian–Canadian chess master. He was born in Budapest.He won Chess Club tournaments in different cities in Hungary: Nagykanizsa 1929; Pecs 1932; Budapest 1934... |
1906 | Hungarian-Canadian chess Chess Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player... master |
|
| John Donnelly | 1906 | American table tennis Table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net... player |
|
| Eva Zeisel Eva Zeisel Eva Striker Zeisel is a Hungarian-born industrial designer known for her work with ceramics, primarily from the period after she immigrated to the United States. Her forms are often abstractions of the natural world and human relationships... |
1906 | Hungarian industrial designer | |
| Eldred G. Smith Eldred G. Smith Eldred Gee Smith holds the position of patriarch emeritus to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and held the calling of Patriarch to the Church of the same church between 1947 and 1979. In 2009, Smith surpassed Joseph Anderson as the oldest-lived general authority in the history of... |
1907 | American Mormon leader, former Presiding Patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | |
| Lina Haag Lina Haag Lina Haag née Jäger is a former member of the Youth movement of the Communist Party of Germany in the small Württemberg town of Schwäbisch Gmünd in the 1920s. In 1927, she married fellow Communist Alfred Haag. Alfred was a member of the regional Parliament for the KPD until Hitler's rise to... |
1907 | German Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis... resistance fighter |
|
| Kathryn Wasserman Davis Kathryn Wasserman Davis Kathryn Wasserman Davis is an American philanthropist and the widow of businessman Shelby Cullom Davis, who was the United States Ambassador to Switzerland from 1969-74. Her husband died in 1994... |
1907 | American philanthropist | |
| Kyozan Joshu Sasaki Kyozan Joshu Sasaki Kyozan Joshu Sasaki , Roshi is a Japanese Rinzai Zen teacher who has lived in the United States since 1962. Joshu Sasaki is the founder and head abbot of the Mount Baldy Zen Center, near Mount Baldy in California, and of the Rinzai-Ji order of affiliated Zen centers. As of , he is still actively... |
1907 | Japanese Rinzai Rinzai school The Rinzai school is , one of three sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism.Rinzai is the Japanese line of the Chinese Linji school, which was founded during the Tang Dynasty by Linji Yixuan... Zen Zen Zen is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism founded by the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma. The word Zen is from the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word Chán , which in turn is derived from the Sanskrit word dhyāna, which can be approximately translated as "meditation" or "meditative state."Zen... teacher |
|
| Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji Dr. Sree Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji is the present head of Sree Siddaganga Mutt in Tumkur District, South India and founder of the Sree Siddaganga Education Society. He was initiated into viraktashram order in 1930. Swamiji was born in Veerapura near Magadi Taluk. He studied English in college... |
1907 | Indian humanitarian | |
| Walter Walsh Walter Walsh Colonel Walter Rudolph Walsh is a former FBI agent, USMC shooting instructor and Olympic shooter. Walsh joined the FBI in 1934, serving during the Public enemy era, and was involved in several high-profile FBI cases, including the capture of Arthur Barker and the killing of Al Brady... |
1907 | American FBI agent and Olympic Shooter | |
| Jaroslav Kozlík Jaroslav Kozlík Jaroslav Kozlík is a Czech pedagogue, theorist of pedagogy, senior member of Sokol, pioneer of Volleyball in Czechoslovakia, and former Czechoslovak Volleyball champion. He was born in Bystřice pod Hostýnem. Kozlík is an author of 30 books and over 300 articles, mostly devoted to theory of... |
1907 | Czech reformer of physical education | |
| Wesley E. Brown | 1907 | American district court judge | |
| Miguel Morayta Miguel Morayta Miguel Morayta is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He directed 74 films between 1944 and 1978. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Moryata was a Spanish artillery officer who joined the Republican side... |
1907 | Mexican film director | |
| Bruno Giacometti Bruno Giacometti Bruno Giacometti is a Swiss architect and the brother of the artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti. He is among the most notable post-World War II architects in Switzerland.... |
1907 | Swiss architect | |
| Draga Matkovic Draga Matkovic Draga Matkovic is a contemporary German classical pianist of Croatian origin.- Life :... |
1907 | German classical pianist Pianist A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:... |
|
| Günter Fronius Günter Fronius Günter Fronius is an entrepreneur and the founder of Fronius International GmbH.Fronius was born in Hermannstadt, Austria-Hungary , and obtained his engineering degree from Wroclaw University of Technology in 1945.... |
1907 | Austrian entrepreneur | |
| Jacques Barzun Jacques Barzun Jacques Martin Barzun is a French-born American historian of ideas and culture. He has written on a wide range of topics, but is perhaps best known as a philosopher of education, his Teacher in America being a strong influence on post-WWII training of schoolteachers in the United... |
1907 | American historian | |
| Run Run Shaw Run Run Shaw Sir Run Run Shaw CBE, GBM is a Hong Kong media mogul.-Overview:Sir Run Run Shaw was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China in 1907. There has been no official or formal announcement on the exact day and month of his birth. According to A&C Black published Who's Who 2007, Shaw Run Run was born on 14... |
1907 | Hong Kong media mogul | |
| Ruth Patrick Ruth Patrick Dr. Ruth Myrtle Patrick is a botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology, who developed ways to measure the health of freshwater ecosystems and established a number of research facilities. She attended the Sunset Hill School in Kansas City, Missouri, graduating in 1925.... |
1907 | American limnologist Limnology Limnology , also called freshwater science, is the study of inland waters. It is often regarded as a division of ecology or environmental science. It covers the biological, chemical, physical, geological, and other attributes of all inland waters... |
|
| Roy Douglas Roy Douglas Roy Douglas is a British composer and arranger. He worked with Ralph Vaughan Williams and Richard Addinsell.-Works as composer:*Oboe quartet [1932]... |
1907 | British composer | |
| Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho is a Brazilian architect specializing in international modern architecture... |
1907 | Brazilian modernist architect | |
| Bill Tapia Bill Tapia Uncle Bill “Tappy” Tapia is an American musician, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, of Portuguese parents. At age 10, Tapia was already a professional musician, playing “Stars and Stripes Forever” for World War I troops in Hawaii.... |
1908 | American musician | |
| Ida Pollock Ida Pollock Ida Pollock, née Crowe , is a British writer of several short-stories and over a hundred romance novels under her married name, Ida Pollock, and under her numerous pseudonyms: Susan Barrie, Pamela Kent, Averil Ives, Anita Charles, Barbara Rowan, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, Mary Whistler and... |
1908 | British romance novelist | |
| Bernard Bierman Bernard Bierman Bernard Bierman is an American composer of popular songs. He was born in New York City.He studied pre-law and law at NYU and Brooklyn Law School, passing the bar in 1930. He practised law until 1942 when he joined the U.S... |
1908 | American composer | |
| Abdul Rashid Khan Abdul Rashid Khan Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan is a vocalist of Hindustani music genre. His sings in the tradition of Mian Tansen. Apart from khayal, he sings dhrupad, dhamar and thumri with equal versatility.-Early life:... |
1908 | Indian musician | |
| Aaron Schwartzman Aaron Schwartzman Aaron Schwartzman is a former Argentine chess master who was prominent in chess tournaments of the 1930s and 1940s.... |
1908 | Argentine chess master | |
| Elliott Carter Elliott Carter Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music... |
1908 | American classical music Classical music Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times... composer |
|
| Manoel de Oliveira Manoel de Oliveira Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira, GCSE is a Portuguese film director born in Cedofeita, Porto. He began working on films in the late 1920s, but did not receive international recognition until the early 1970s. Since the late 1980s he has been one of the most prolific working film directors and... |
1908 | Portuguese film director | |
| George Beverly Shea George Beverly Shea George Beverly "Bev" Shea is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian-born American gospel singer and hymn composer. Shea has often been described as "America's beloved Gospel singer" and is considered "the first international singing 'star' of the gospel world," as a consequence of his solos at Billy... |
1909 | Canadian-born American gospel music Gospel music Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music.... singer and songwriter |
|
| Silvio Zavala Silvio Zavala Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado is a pioneer in law history studies and Mexico’s institutions. Born in Mérida, Yucatán, he studied at the National University of Mexico and at the University of Madrid, obtaining a Ph.D. in law from the latter... |
1909 | Mexican historian | |
| Elisabeth Murdoch | 1909 | Australian philanthropist | |
| Hans Erni Hans Erni Hans Erni is a Swiss painter, designer and sculptor. Born in Lucerne, he is known in particular for illustrating postage stamps, activism, lithographs for the Swiss Red Cross, and participation on the Olympic Committee. The Hans Erni Museum, situated in the grounds of the Swiss Museum of... |
1909 | Swiss painter and sculptor | |
| Rita Levi-Montalcini Rita Levi-Montalcini Rita Levi-Montalcini , Knight Grand Cross is an Italian neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of nerve growth factor... |
1909 | Italian Nobel Prize-winning neurologist and Senator for life. | |
| Mae Laborde Mae Laborde Mae Laborde is an American television and film actress, who began her career at the age of 93 and who is, as of 2010 at age 101, still active .-Background:... |
1909 | American television actress | |
| Nicholas Winton Nicholas Winton Sir Nicholas George Winton, MBE is a British humanitarian who organised the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport. Winton found homes for them and arranged for their safe... |
1909 | British humanitarian | |
| Leila Danette Leila Danette Leila Danette is an American stage, film and television actress. She is noted for her stage work and for her role as Helen on the short-lived sitcom You Take the Kids.-Early life and career:... |
1909 | American actress | |
| Robert R. Bowie Robert R. Bowie Robert R. Bowie is an American diplomat and scholar who served as CIA Deputy Director from 1977-1979.Robert Bowie graduated from Princeton University in 1931 and received a law degree from Harvard University in 1934 and turned down offers to work as a corporate lawyer with New York's major law... |
1909 | American deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency Central Intelligence Agency The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers... |
|
| Frits Thors Frits Thors Frits Thors is a retired Dutch journalist and news anchor. Thors is best known as the newscaster of the NTS-Journaal from 1965 until 1972.-Life:... |
1909 | Dutch journalist and news anchor | |
| Yutaka Katayama Yutaka Katayama Yutaka Katayama , also known as Mr K, is a former Japanese automotive executive who was employed by Nissan and served as the first president of Nissan Motor Corporation U.S.A... |
1909 | Japanese automotive executive | |
| Carla Laemmle Carla Laemmle Rebecca Isabelle "Carla" Laemmle is an American actress and the niece of Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle. She was a movie actress in the 1920s and 1930s, and is, along with Lupita Tovar, one of the very few surviving actors of the silent film era.-Career:Laemmle entered films in 1925... |
1909 | American silent film actress | |
| Evelyn Johnson Evelyn Johnson Evelyn Bryan Johnson , nicknamed “Mama Bird”, was born in Corbin, Kentucky, United States. She is the female pilot with the most number of flying hours in the world... |
1909 | American pilot and flight instructor | |
| Michio Mado Michio Mado is a Japanese poet. He was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1994.-Early life:Mado was born as Michio Ishida in Tokuyama, Yamaguchi prefecture. He spent his childhood with his grandfather because his parents went to work in Taiwan. Later he joined his family there... |
1909 | Japanese poet | |
| Géry Leuliet Géry Leuliet Géry-Jacques-Charles Leuliet is a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and is currently the 2nd oldest bishop living and the oldest French bishop.... |
1910 | French bishop of the Roman Catholic Church | |
| Luise Rainer Luise Rainer Luise Rainer is a former German film actress. Known as The "Viennese Teardrop", she was the first woman to win two Academy Awards, and the first person to win them consecutively. She was discovered by MGM talent scouts while acting on stage in Austria and Germany and after appearing in Austrian... |
1910 | German Academy Award-winning actress | |
| Benzion Netanyahu Benzion Netanyahu Benzion Netanyahu is an Israeli historian and a professor emeritus at Cornell University. He is a specialist in the golden age of Jewish History in Spain, and is known for his opus, the Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain... |
1910 | Polish-born Israeli historian | |
| Magda Olivero Magda Olivero Magda Olivero is a soprano of the verismo-school of singing. She was born in Saluzzo, Italy. Olivero made her operatic debut in 1932 on Turin radio in Cattozzo’s oratorio I misteri dolorosi. She performed widely and increasingly successfully until 1941, when she married and retired from performing... |
1910 | Italian soprano Soprano A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody... |
|
| Joseph Oliver Bowers Joseph Oliver Bowers Joseph Oliver Bowers, S.V.D. is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church from Dominica. At the age of he is the third-oldest Roman Catholic bishop and the oldest in the Caribbean.... |
1910 | Dominican Roman Catholic bishop | |
| Barys Kit Barys Kit Barys Kit is a Belarusian mathematician, physicist, chemist and philosopher.-Biography:... |
1910 | Belarusian scientist | |
| Yosef Shalom Eliashiv | 1910 | Israeli rabbi | |
| José de Jesús García Ayala José de Jesús García Ayala José de Jesús García Ayala is a Mexican Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. At the age of , he is currently the 4th oldest bishop in the Church and oldest Mexican bishop.... |
1910 | Mexican Roman Catholic bishop | |
| Arthur Gardner Arthur Gardner (producer) Arthur Gardner is an American actor and film producer.Gardner was born Arthur Goldberg in Marinette, Wisconsin. He started his show business career as an actor. One of his first roles was as a student in 1930's All Quiet on the Western Front... |
1910 | American television producer Television producer The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking... |
|
| H. Owen Reed H. Owen Reed Herbert Owen Reed is an American composer, conductor, and author.-Education:Reed was raised in rural Odessa, Missouri, where his first exposure to music was his father's playing of the old-time fiddle... |
1910 | American composer, conductor, and author | |
| Bill King | 1910 | British naval Royal Navy The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service... officer |
|
| Margaret Dunning Margaret Dunning Margaret Isabel Dunning is a philanthropist and benefactor of the Plymouth Historical Museum. She was born in Redford, Wayne County, Michigan.-Personal life:... |
1910 | American philanthropist | |
| James Coyne James Coyne James Elliott Coyne, BCL, BA was the second Governor of the Bank of Canada, from 1955 to 1961, succeeding Graham Towers. During his time in office, he had a much-publicized debate with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, a debate often referred to as the "Coyne Affair" .-Life and career:Coyne was... |
1910 | Canadian Governor of the Bank of Canada Bank of Canada The Bank of Canada is Canada's central bank and "lender of last resort". The Bank was created by an Act of Parliament on July 3, 1934 as a privately owned corporation. In 1938, the Bank became a Crown corporation belonging to the Government of Canada... |
|
| Lupita Tovar Lupita Tovar Lupita Tovar is a Mexican actress, best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish language version of Dracula, filmed in Los Angeles by Universal Pictures at night using the same sets as the Bela Lugosi version, but with a different cast and director.Born as Guadalupe Tovar , in Matías... |
1910 | Mexican-American actress | |
| Gustav Lantschner Gustav Lantschner Gustav "Guzzi" Lantschner is an Austrian-born German alpine skier turned actor. He competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics.... |
1910 | Austrian Olympic silver medal-winning alpine skier and actor | |
| Dorothea Tanning Dorothea Tanning Dorothea Tanning is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer. She has also designed sets and costumes for ballet and theatre.-Biography:... |
1910 | American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer | |
| Walter Haefner Walter Haefner Walter Haefner is a businessman and a Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder in Ireland. He was born in Switzerland.As a young man, Walter Haefner went to work in the auto industry as an employee of the Swiss division of General Motors Corporation... |
1910 | Swiss businessman and racehorse breeder Horse breeding Horse breeding is reproduction in horses, and particularly the human-directed process of selective breeding of animals, particularly purebred horses of a given breed. Planned matings can be used to produce specifically desired characteristics in domesticated horses... |
|
| Curt Meyer-Clason Curt Meyer-Clason Curt Meyer-Clason is a German writer and translator.After graduating from high school, Meyer-Clason worked as a commercial clerk in Bremen and from 1936 as an independent businessman in Argentina and Brazil. From 1942 to 1944, he was interned in Brazil as an illegal alien... |
1910 | German writer and translator | |
| Malcolm Renfrew Malcolm Renfrew Malcolm MacKenzie Renfrew is an American polymer chemist, inventor, and professor emeritus at the University of Idaho in the Moscow, Idaho. Renfrew Hall, the university's chemistry building, was named for him in 1985.... |
1910 | American chemist | |
| Tyrus Wong Tyrus Wong Tyrus Wong is a Chinese-American painter, muralist, ceramicist, lithographer, designer and kite maker. As film production illustrator in the film industry, Wong has worked for Disney and Warner Bros.. Wong's most famous work was for the Disney animated classic, Bambi.-Early life:Wong was born in... |
1910 | Chinese artist | |
| Augusto Gansser-Biaggi Augusto Gansser-Biaggi Augusto Gansser-Biaggi is a Swiss geologist who specialised in the geology of the Himalayas. He was born in Milan.-Career:His geological researches were global in scope:* East Greenland , a 4 month expedition under Lauge Koch.... |
1910 | Swiss geologist | |
| Errie Ball Errie Ball Samuel Henry "Errie" Ball is a retired Welsh-American professional golfer who competed at the inaugural Augusta National golf tournament in 1934 . He is perhaps best known as the only player who competed in that tournament that is alive today.Ball was born in Bangor, Wales... |
1910 | Welsh-American golf Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes.... er |
|
| Eduardo Morales Miranda Eduardo Morales Miranda Eduardo Morales Miranda was one of the founders of Universidad Austral de Chile, and its first rector. He was born to Abdón Morales and Amelia Miranda, who lived in Constitución, Maule Region, Chile... |
1910 | Chilean founder of the Southern University of Chile | |
| Ronald Coase Ronald Coase Ronald Harry Coase is a British-born, American-based economist and the Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. After studying with the University of London External Programme in 1927–29, Coase entered the London School of Economics, where he took... |
1910 | British Nobel Prize Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895... -winning economist |
|
| Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg is a Polish-born, American-raised Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva who, since 1965, makes his home in the Kiryat Mattersdorf neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the rosh yeshiva of the Torah Ore yeshiva in Kiryat Mattersdorf and Yeshivas Derech Chaim in Brooklyn... |
1910 | + | Israeli rabbi |
| Roman Totenberg Roman Totenberg Roman Totenberg is a Polish-American violinist and educator.He is the father of National Public Radio journalist Nina Totenberg... |
1911 | Polish-American violinist and educator | |
| Kurt Maetzig Kurt Maetzig Kurt Maetzig is an East German film director who had a significant effect on the film industry in the GDR. He is one of the most respected filmmakers of East Germany. He currently lives in Wildkuhl, Mecklenburg, and has three children.... |
1911 | German film director | |
| Johan van Hulst Johan van Hulst Johan Wilhelm van Hulst is a Dutch emeritus professor and retired politician of the dissolved Christian Historical Union , now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal and an emeritus professor of education.-Early life:... |
1911 | Dutch politician | |
| Ebby Halliday Ebby Halliday Ebby Halliday is an American realtor and businesswoman who founded Ebby Halliday Realtors, which now sells more homes than any other broker in Texas, was the 11th-biggest in the country in 2007, according to a new report from RealTrends Inc.She is one of the first successful female entrepreneurs... |
1911 | American realtor | |
| Cyril Perkins Cyril Perkins George Cyril Perkins is a former English cricketer. Perkins was a right-handed batsman who bowled both slow left-arm orthodox and left-arm medium pace. He was born in Wollaston, Northamptonshire. On 4 June 2011, he became the 12th former first-class player to reach 100 years of age, and the 4th... |
1911 | English cricketer | |
| Sergei Sokolov | 1911 | Russian marshal | |
| Vo Nguyen Giap Vo Nguyen Giap Võ Nguyên Giáp is a retired Vietnamese officer in the Vietnam People’s Army and a politician. He was a principal commander in two wars: the First Indochina War and the Vietnam War... |
1911 | Vietnamese officer |