List of centenarians (miscellaneous)
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The following is a list of centenarians known for reasons other than their longevity
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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 ....
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| Name | Lifespan | Age | Notability |
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| Carl Aschan Carl Aschan Carl Aschan was a Swedish-born British intelligence officer and spy during World War II. Aschan later helped to track down some of Adolf Hitler's associates following the defeat of Nazi Germany.- References :... |
1906–2008 | 102 | British spy |
| Elly Beinhorn Elly Beinhorn Elly Beinhorn-Rosemeyer was a German pilot.-Early life:She was born in Hannover, Germany on 30 May 1907.... |
1907–2007 | 100 | German pilot |
| Helen Brockman Helen Brockman Helen Lewis Brockman was an American fashion designer, author and professor.-Biography:Brockman was born in Palo, Iowa to Levi Lewis and Ida Mae Ashworth. She attended the University of Iowa and graduated with a B.A. in Latin and Greek... |
1902–2008 | 105 | American fashion designer, author and professor |
| Cyril Demarne Cyril Demarne Cyril Thomas Demarne OBE was a British firefighter. He served in London during the Second World War, throughout the Blitz. He was later involved in establishing aviation firefighting units in Australasia and in Beirut. In retirement, he wrote several books based on his wartime... |
1905–2007 | 101 | British military firefighter Firefighter Firefighters are rescuers extensively trained primarily to put out hazardous fires that threaten civilian populations and property, to rescue people from car incidents, collapsed and burning buildings and other such situations... |
| Albert Facchiano Albert Facchiano Albert Joseph Facchiano , also known as "Chinkie" and "the Old Man", was a Miami mobster with the New York Genovese crime family who was involved in loansharking and extortion in South Florida... |
1910–2011 | 101 | American mobster |
| 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 | |
| Ralph S. Johnson Ralph S. Johnson Ralph Samuel Johnson was a pioneer of American aviation who served a single term from 1951-1953 as a Republican member of the Wyoming House of Representatives. He represented Cheyenne, the seat of Laramie County, Wyoming, where he resided from 1935-1988... |
1906–2010 | 103 | American aviation Aviation Aviation is the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft. Aviation is derived from avis, the Latin word for bird.-History:... pioneer and politician |
| Thorleif Karlsen Thorleif Karlsen Thorleif Oscar Karlsen was a Norwegian police inspector, who also became known through the radio program Trafikk og musikk.... |
1909–2010 | 100 | Norwegian police inspector |
| Constance Kent | 1844–1944 | 100 | English criminal whose trial raised issues concerning priest-penitent privilege in the UK |
| Eleanor Lambert Eleanor Lambert Eleanor Lambert Berkson -Background:Born in Crawfordsville Indiana. She attended the John Herron School of Art and the Chicago Art Institute to study Fashion. She started at an advertising agency in Manhattan New York, dealing mostly with artists and art galleries... |
1903–2003 | 100 | American fashion pioneer |
| Arthur Lessac Arthur Lessac Arthur Lessac was the creator of Lessac Kinesensic Training for the voice and body. Lessac’s voice text teaches the “feeling process” for discovering vocal sensation in the body for developing tonal clarity, articulation, and for better connecting to text and the rhythms of speech.-Development of... |
1909–2011 | 101 | American voice trainer |
| Tom Maguire Tom Maguire Tom Maguire was an Irish republican who held the rank of commandant-general in the Western Command of the Irish Republican Army and led the South Mayo flying column.... |
1892–1993 | 101 | Irish Republican Army activist, commander and politician |
| Elizabeth Holloway Marston Elizabeth Holloway Marston Elizabeth "Sadie" Holloway Marston was an American psychologist who was a career woman at a time when it was difficult for women to be so. She was involved in the creation of the comic book character, Wonder Woman with her husband, William Moulton Marston... |
1893–1993 | 100 | American comics Comics Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in... pioneer and inspiration for Wonder Woman Wonder Woman Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston. She first appeared in All Star Comics #8 . The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986.... |
| Mikhail Mukasei Mikhail Mukasei Mikhail Isaakovich Mukasei was a Soviet spy codenamed Zephyr.-Biography:... |
1907–2008 | 101 | Russian spy |
| Scott Nearing Scott Nearing Scott Nearing was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, and advocate of simple living.-The early years:... |
1883–1983 | 100 | American radical economist |
| Anton Nilson Anton Nilson Anton Nilson was a Swedish militant socialist and convicted murderer.Nilson was born and grew up in a peasant region in Skåne, the southernmost province of Sweden... |
1887–1989 | 101 | Swedish militant communist Communism Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production... |
| Edward Rondthaler Edward Rondthaler Edward Rondthaler was a typographist as well as a simplified spelling champion and chairman of the American Literacy Council. He was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania... |
1905–2009 | 104 | American typographer Typography Typography is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading , adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters... |
| Ed Russenholt Ed Russenholt Ed Stanford Russenholt was best known as CBWT's first weather person. Ed distinguished himself from other weathermen by saying "Ah, yes, the heart of the continent" in his weathercasts... |
1890–1991 | 100 | Canadian weatherman Weather forecasting Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a given location. Human beings have attempted to predict the weather informally for millennia, and formally since the nineteenth century... |
| 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 |
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| 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 | |
| Mollie Sneden Mollie Sneden "Mollie" Sneden , was the operator of a ferry service at Sneden's Landing, New York. She performed this activity before and after the Revolutionary War. During the war she was prohibited from running the ferry because of her British sympathies... |
1709–1810 | 101 | American ferry Ferry A ferry is a form of transportation, usually a boat, but sometimes a ship, used to carry primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services... operator |
| Len Vale-Onslow Len Vale-Onslow Leonard Leslie Hubert Vale-Onslow was a motorcycle builder.He invented the SOS racing bike in 1926. He repaired and test-rode motorbikes and lived above one of his shops in Birmingham, England, close to his three children, six grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and three... |
1900–2004 | 103 | British motorcycle Motorcycle A motorcycle is a single-track, two-wheeled motor vehicle. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as long distance travel, navigating congested urban traffic, cruising, sport and racing, or off-road conditions.Motorcycles are one of the most... builder |
| Joseph Weil Joseph Weil Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil was one of the best known American con men of his era. Weil's biographer, W. T. Brannon, wrote of Weil's "...uncanny knowledge of human nature." Over the course of his career, Weil is reputed to have stolen more than $8 million."Each of my victims had larceny in his... |
1875–1976 | 100 | American confidence man Confidence trick A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence. A confidence artist is an individual working alone or in concert with others who exploits characteristics of the human psyche such as dishonesty and honesty, vanity, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility,... |