BORN PRE-1924
Turning 101+ in 2024
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Jonathan
Seychellois-hatched St. Helenian giant tortoise, world's oldest known living land animal
c. 1832 |
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Maria Branyas
American-born Spanish supercentenarian, world's oldest validated living person
03/04/1907 |
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Marita Camacho Quirós
Costa Rican First Lady (1962–1966)
03/10/1911 |
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Fauja Singh
Indian-born English marathon runner
04/01/1911 |
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Muazzez İlmiye Çığ
Turkish archeologist
06/20/1914 |
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Ruth Johnson Colvin
American literacy activist
12/16/1916 |
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Lloyd Geering
New Zealand theologian
02/26/1918 |
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Brenda Milner
English-born Canadian clinical neuropsychologist
07/15/1918 |
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June Spencer
English actress, The Archers radio series
06/14/1919 |
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Sister Jean
American nun, chaplain for the Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team
08/21/1919 |
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Paul Ignatius
American government official, Secretary of the Navy (1967–1969)
11/11/1920 |
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Ágnes Keleti
Hungarian/Israeli Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast
01/09/1921 |
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Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow
Senegalese educator, UNESCO Director-General (1974–1987)
03/20/1921 |
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Edgar Morin
French philosopher and sociologist
07/08/1921 |
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Joe Caroff
American graphic designer
08/18/1921 |
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Ray Anthony
American bandleader and trumpeter
01/20/1922 |
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Gerald Holton
German-born American physicist and science historian
05/23/1922 |
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Rachel Robinson
American activist and educator, widow of baseball player Jackie Robinson
07/19/1922 |
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William Leuchtenburg
American historian, author of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
09/28/1922 |
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Yang Chen-Ning
Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist
10/01/1922 |
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Jacqueline White
American actress, Crossfire, The Narrow Margin
11/27/1922 |
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David H. Murdock
American businessman, CEO of Dole Food Company
04/11/1923 |
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Olav Thon
Norwegian real estate magnate
06/29/1923 |
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Rudolph A. Marcus
Canadian-born American Nobel Prize-winning chemist
07/21/1923 |
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Ida Vitale
Uruguayan poet and literary critic
11/02/1923 |
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Gloria Whelan
American poet and children's writer, Homeless Bird
11/23/1923 |
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Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
French mathematician and physicist
12/29/1923 |
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