The following is a list of centenarians (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

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Encarnacion Alzona	1895-2001	105	Filipino suffragette, historian and author
Albert Jean Amateau	1889-1996	106	Turkish-born American rabbi and social activist
Melchora Aquino	1812-1919	107	Filipino revolutionary
Brooke Astor	1902-2007	105	American socialite and philanthropist
Arnold Orville Beckman	1900-2004	104	American philanthropist and inventor of the pH meter
Catherine Caradja	1893-1993	100	Romanian aristocrat and philanthropist
Leonora Cohen	1873-1978	105	British suffragette
Kathryn Wasserman Davis	1907 –		American philanthropist
Muriel Duckworth	1908-2009	100	Canadian pacifist, feminist and social activist
Charles Duguid	1884-1986	102	Australian activist for Aboriginal rights
Hallie Ford	1905-2007	102	American business woman and philanthropist
Ruth May Fox	1853-1958	104	American women's rights activist
Miep Gies	1909 –		Austrian-born Dutch humanitarian
Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa	1908 –		Brazilian humanitarian
Lina Haag	1907 –		German World War II resistance fighter
Alice Hamilton	1869-1970	101	American toxicologist
Shidzue Katō	1897-2001	104	Japanese feminist and politician
Evelyn Lett	1896-1999	102	Canadian woman's rights pioneer
Paul Moyer Limbert	1897-1998	101	American former YMCA Secretary General
Enolia McMillan	1904-2006	102	American former NAACP president
Elisabeth Murdoch	1909 –		Australian philanthropist
Margaret Murie	1902-2003	101	American conservationist
Scott Nearing	1883-1983	100	American conservationist
Sanzo Nosaka	1892-1993	101	Japanese politician
Andrée Peel	1905 –		French Resistance member during World War II
Nittoor Srinivasa Rau	1903-2004	100	Indian independence activist and jurist
Frederick J. Schlink	1891-1995	103	American co-founder of Consumers Research
Floyd Schmoe	1895-2001	105	American peace activist and naturalist
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky	1897-2000	102	Austrian architect and political activist
Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji	1907 –		Indian humanitarian
Thomas Wyatt Turner	1877-1978	101	American civil rights activist, biologist and educator
Marie Wadley	1906-2009	102	Native American activist and historian
Rachel Mellon Walton	1899-2006	107	American philanthropist
Mary Warburg	1908-2009	100	American philanthropist
Edgar Wayburn	1906 –		American environmentalist
Irvin F. Westheimer	1879-1980	101	American businessman, banker and philanthropist
Nicholas Winton	1909 –		British humanitarian
Hazel Wolf	1898-2000	101	American environmental activist and civil-rights campaigner

Actors, filmmakers and entertainers

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
George Abbott	1887-1995	107	American theatre producer
Rosa Albach-Retty	1874-1980	105	Austrian movie and stage actress
Nikolay Annenkov	1899-1999	100	Russian actor
Etta Moten Barnett	1901-2004	102	African American stage actress and singer
Bruce Bennett	1906-2007	100	American actor and Olympian
Margaret Booth	1898-2002	104	American film editor
Osmond Borradaile	1898-1999	100	Canadian cameraman and cinematographer
Robert F. Boyle	1909 –		American art director and production designer
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia	1894-1998	103	Italian film director and screenwriter
Renate Brausewetter	1905-2006	100	German silent film actress
Don Brodie	1899-2001	101	American character actor
Oscar Brodney	1907-2008	100	American screenwriter
Mona Bruns	1899-2000	100	American actress
George Burns	1896-1996	100	American actor and comedian
Jean Delannoy	1908-2008	100	French actor and film director
Dorothy Dickson	1893-1995	102	British-American stage actress
Claire Du Brey	1892-1993	100	American film actress
Mary Ellis	1897-2003	105	British stage actress
Carl Esmond	1902-2004	102	German-American actor
Gwen Ffrangcon Davies	1891-1992	101	English actress
Rina Franchetti	1907 –		Italian actress
Erwin Geschonneck	1906-2008	101	German actor
Marie Glory	1905-2009	103	French actress
Dercy Gonçalves	1907-2008	101	Brazilian actress
Liane Haid	1895-2000	105	Austrian actress
Rose Hamburger	1890-1996	105	American race track fixture known as "Gamblin' Rose"
Kathleen Harrison	1892-1995	103	British actress
Johannes Heesters	1903 –		Dutch-German actor
Bob Hope	1903-2003	100	British-born American comedian
Pola Illéry	1908 –		Romanian actress
Joli Jászai	1907-2008	101	Hungarian actress
John Kenley	1906-2009	103	American Broadway director and producer
Barbara Kent	1906 –		Canadian actress
Mae Laborde	1909 –		American television actress
Carla Laemmle	1909 –		American silent film actress
Charles Lane	1905-2007	102	American character actor
Sid Laverents	1908-2009	100	American amateur filmmaker
Erna Lazarus	1903-2006	102	American screenwriter
Francis Lederer	1899-2000	100	American actor
Florence Lee	1858-1962	104	American silent film actress
Sherman Maxwell	1907-2008	100	American sportscaster
Madeleine Milhaud	1902-2008	105	French actress and widow of Darius Milhaud
Igor Moiseyev	1906-2007	101	Russian choreographer
Audrey Munson	1891-1996	104	American model and actress
Grim Natwick	1890-1990	100	American animator
Ivan Novikoff	1899-2002	102	Russian ballet teacher
Randi Lindtner Næss	1905-2009	104	Norwegian actress and singer
Manoel de Oliveira	1908 –		Portuguese film director
Risto Orko	1899-2001	102	Finnish film producer and director
Emily Perry	1907-2008	100	British actress
Tullio Pinelli	1908-2009	100	Italian playwright and screenwriter
Irving Rapper	1898-1999	101	British-American film director
Connie Douglas Reeves	1901-2003	101	American cowgirl
Leni Riefenstahl	1902-2003	101	German filmmaker
Hal Roach	1892-1992	100	American film and television producer
Zvonimir Rogoz	1887-1988	100	Croatian actor
Frederica Sagor Maas	1900 –		American playwright, essayist and author
Ivy Sawyer	1898-1999	101	American singer, actress and dancer
Robert C. Schnitzer	1906-2008	101	American actor, producer, educator and theater administrator
Miriam Seegar	1907 –		American actress
Tonio Selwart	1896-2002	106	Bavarian actor and stage performer
Marina Semyonova	1908 –		Russian prima ballerina
Athene Seyler	1889-1990	101	English actress
Dorothy Stickney	1896-1998	101	American actress
Frank M. Thomas	1889-1989	100	American supporting actor
Doris Eaton Travis	1904 –		American last surviving Ziegfeld girl
Ninette de Valois	1898-2001	102	British founder of Royal Ballet, London
Señor Wences	1896-1999	103	Spanish-American ventriloquist
Gösta Werner	1908-2009	101	Swedish film director
Estelle Winwood	1883-1984	101	English stage and movie actress
Dorothy Young	1907 –		American entertainer and assistant to Harry Houdini
Miguel Zacarías	1905-2006	101	Mexican director
Adolph Zukor	1873-1976	103	Hungarian-American founder of Paramount Pictures

Artists

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Manuel Álvarez Bravo	1902-2002	100	Mexican photographer
Harland Bartholomew	1889-1989	100	American urban planner
Ruth Bernhard	1905-2006	101	German-American photographer
Sorcha Boru	1900-2006	105	American potter
John Chessell Buckler	1793-1894	100	British architect
Frederick Carder	1863-1963	100	British-born American glassmaker and artist
Alphaeus Philemon Cole	1876-1988	112	American painter
Robert Couturier	1905-2008	103	French sculptor
Sylvia Daoust	1902-2004	102	Canadian sculptor
Boris Efimov	1899/1900-2008	108-109	Russian cartoonist
Hans Erni	1909 –		Swiss painter and sculptor
Moisey Feigin	1904-2008	103	Russian artist
Hannah Frank	1908-2008	100	Scottish sculptor
Margaret Gardiner	1904-2005	100	British artist and political activist
Temima Gezari	1905-2009	103	Russian-American artist and arts educator
Bruno Giacometti	1907 –		Swiss architect
Kathleen Hale	1898-2000	101	British illustrator
Hermann Ottomar Herzog	1831-1932	100	German-American painter
Mary Rockwell Hook	1877-1978	101	American architect
Clementine Hunter	1886/87-1988	100/101	American folk artist
Ion Irimescu	1903-2005	102	Romanian sculptor and sketcher
Max Kahn	1902-2005	103	Belarussian-American lithographer, sculptor and painter
Motoichi Kumagai	1909 –		Japanese photographer and illustrator
Eyre de Lanux	1894-1996	102	American artist
Ulrich Leman	1885-1988	102	German painter
Stanley Cornwell Lewis	1905 –		Welsh illustrator and artist
Tamás Lossonczy	1904-2009	105	Hungarian painter
Louis Maurer	1832-1932	100	American lithographer and printer
Donal McLaughlin	1907-2009	102	American architect who helped design the Flag of the United Nations
Ursula Mommens	1908 –		British potter
Grandma Moses	1860-1961	101	American folk artist
Oscar Niemeyer	1907 –		Brazilian modernist architect
Johan Nordhagen	1856-1956	100	Norwegian artist
Kazuo Ohno	1906 –		Japanese dancer
Togyu Okumura	1889-1990	101	Japanese painter of the nihonga style of watercolour painting
Katherine Plunket	1820-1932	111	Irish botanic artist and noblewoman
Don Potter	1902-2004	102	British sculptor and potter
Mirko Rački	1879-1982	102	Croatian painter
Eleanor Raymond	1887-1989	102	American architect
Marie Lucas Robiquet	1858-1959	100-101	French artist
Andrée Ruellan	1905-2006	101	American painter
Abolhassan Khan Sadighi	1894-1995	100-101	Iranian sculptor and painter
Viktor Schreckengost	1906-2008	101	American artist and industrial designer
Bernarda Bryson Shahn	1903-2004	101	American painter, lithographer and widow of artist Ben Shahn
Koloman Sokol	1902-2003	100	Slovakian painter and graphic artist
Count Louis Sparre	1863-1964	101	Swedish painter, designer and Finnish film pioneer
Olin Stephens	1908-2008	100	American yacht designer
Lenore Tawney	1907-2007	100	American fiber artist
Jack Turner	1889-1989	100	Canadian photographer
Hiratsuka Unichi	1895-1997	102	Japanese wood carver and leader of the Sōsaku hanga movement
Josefina de Vasconcellos	1904-2005	100	Brazilian-British sculptor
Martha Walter	1875-1976	100	American impressionist painter
Seema Aissen Weatherwax	1905-2006	100	Ukrainian-American photographer
Richard K. Webel	1900-2000	100	American landscape architect and designer
Martin J. Weber	1905-2007	102	American graphic artist
Beatrice Wood	1893-1998	105	American artist and ceramist
Ogura Yuki	1895-2000	105	Japanese painter
Eva Zeisel	1906 –		Hungarian industrial designer
Milford Zornes	1908-2008	100	American watercolor artist and teacher

Authors, poets and journalists

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Francisco Ayala	1906-2009	103	Spanish novelist
Ba Jin	1904-2005	100	Chinese author
Ralph Bates	1899-2000	101	English novelist
Georgina Battiscombe	1905-2006	100	British biographer
Pierre Béarn	1902-2004	102	French poet
José Bello	1904-2008	103	Spanish writer
H. J. Blackham	1903-2009	105	British humanist author and philosopher
Lesley Blanch	1904-2007	102	English author and fashion critic
Ralph de Boissière	1907-2008	100	Trinidadian-Australian author
Arthur Judson Brown	1856-1963	106	American clergyman, missionary and author
Pura Santillan-Castrence	1905-2007	101	Filipino author and diplomat
Fulgence Charpentier	1897-2001	103	Canadian journalist and columnist
Nirad C. Chaudhuri	1897-1999	101	Bengali-Indian writer
Yehuda Chitrik	1899-2006	106	American-Jewish author and Mashpia
Victoriano Crémer	1906-2009	102	Spanish poet
Anna J. Cooper	1858-1964	105	American author and teacher
Fleur Cowles	1908-2009	101	American author, editor and artist
Ève Curie	1904-2007	102	Daughter of Marie Curie and American author of biography of her mother
Geoffrey Dearmer	1893-1996	103	British poet
Annie Elizabeth Delany	1891-1995	104	American author and civil rights pioneer
Sarah Louise Delany	1889-1999	109	American author and civil rights pioneer
Marjory Stoneman Douglas	1890-1998	108	American conservationist and writer
Milt Dunnell	1905-2008	102	Canadian sportswriter
Richard Eberhart	1904-2005	101	American Pulitzer Prize winning poet
Julius Eisenstein	1854-1956	101	Russian-American writer and historian
Jeannette Eyerly	1908-2008	100	American writer
Neta Lohnes Frazier	1890-1990	100	American children's author
Mariana Frenk-Westheim	1898-2004	106	German-Spanish writer
Dorothy Frooks	1896-1997	101	American author, publisher, military figure and actress
Luciana Frassati Gawronska	1902-2007	105	Polish-Italian author
Margot Gayle	1908-2008	100	American author and historical preservationist
Edward K. Gaylord	1873-1974	101	American newspaper publisher and philanthropist
Itche Goldberg	1904-2006	102	Yiddish writer, scholar and political activist
George F. Grant	1906-2008	102	American author on angling and innovator of fly tying
Andrés Henestrosa	1906-2008	101	Mexican writer and politician
Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh	1892-1997	105	Iranian writer
Ernst Jünger	1895-1998	102	German writer
Joseph Nathan Kane	1899-2002	103	American author
Sasha Krasny	1882-1995	113	Russian poet
Stanley Kunitz	1905-2006	100	American Poet Laureate
Michio Mado	1909 –		Japanese poet
Klára Marik	1903-2005	101	Hungarian writer and Olympic art competitor
Kojima Masajirō	1894-1994	100	Japanese novelist
Erik Mesterton	1903-2004	100-101	Swedish writer
Naomi Mitchison	1897-1999	101	Scottish writer
Alicia Moreau de Justo	1885-1986	100	Argentine writer
Ruth Munce	1898-2001	103	American romance novelist and founder of the Keswick Christian School
Fumio Niwa	1904-2005	100	Japanese novelist
Lillian Rogers Parks	1897-1997	100	American co-author of White House memoirs
Frances Partridge	1900-2004	103	English member of the Bloomsbury Group
James Larkin Pearson	1879-1981	101	American Poet Laureate of North Carolina (1953-1981)
Fernando Pessa	1902-2002	100	Portuguese journalist and radio broadcaster
Giuseppe Prezzolini	1882-1982	100	Italian journalist and writer
Ida Pollock	1908 –		British romance novelist
Edith B. Price	1897-1997	100	American author of children's books
Carl Rakosi	1903-2004	101	American Objectivist poet
George Seldes	1890-1995	104	American journalist and writer
K. D. Sethna	1904 –		Indian author and poet
Edna Staebler	1906-2006	100	Canadian writer
Barrie Stavis	1906-2007	100	American playwright
Grace Zaring Stone	1891-1991	100	American novelist
Audrey Stubbart	1895-2000	105	American newspaper columnist
Surdas	1478-1583	104-105	Indian Hindu poet and saint
Dragutin Tadijanović	1905-2007	101	Croatian poet and writer
Gladys Tantaquidgeon	1899-2005	106	American anthropologist and author
Ellen Tarry	1906-2008	101	American author of children's books
Jean Thomas	1881-1982	101	American folk festival promoter, traveler and author
Walter Trohan	1903-2003	100	American writer and historian
Edward Upward	1903-2009	105	English writer
Edward Wagenknecht	1900-2004	104	American co-author of White House memoirs
Arthur Walworth	1903-2005	101	American writer and biographer of Woodrow Wilson
Curt Weibull	1886-1991	105	Swedish historian and author
Phyllis A. Whitney	1903-2008	104	American mystery writer
Lester Ziffren	1906-2007	101	First American journalist to report on the Spanish Civil War

Businessmen

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Bion Barnett	1857-1958	101	American founder of Barnett Bank
Charles D. Barney	1844-1945	101	American stock broker and financier
Edward Bernays	1891-1995	103	Austrian-American publicist
Andrew George Burry	1873-1975	101	Swiss-American businessman, manufacturer and philanthropist
Godfrey Lowell Cabot	1861-1962	101	American businessman
Daniel Carasso	1905-2009	103	Greek-born French businessman
William F. "Bill" Cotton	1897-2006	108	American businessman
Frederick Coolidge Crawford	1891-1994	103	American industrialist and philanthropist
Maxwell Cummings	1898-2001	103	Canadian real estate builder and philanthropist
A. Wallace Denny	1906-2008	101	Canadian Deputy Chief Scout of Scouts Canada and vice-president of Goodyear Canada
D. Howard Doane	1883-1984	100	American founder and Chairman of Doane Agricultural Services
Günter Fronius	1907 –		Transylvanian Saxon entrepreneur
A. G. Gaston	1892-1996	103	African American businessman
Albert Hamilton Gordon	1901-2009	107	American businessman
Cecil Howard Green	1900-2003	102	British-American co-founder of Texas Instruments
Mary Guiney	1901-2004	103	Irish chairperson of Clerys
Sir Jack Harris, 2nd Baronet	1906-2009	103	British-born New Zealand businessman
Isaac Charles Johnson	1811-1911	100	British cement manufacturer
Joseph M. Juran	1904-2008	103	Romanian-American quality management guru
Irving Kahn	1905 –		American financial analyst
Yutaka Katayama	1909 –		Japanese automotive executive
Hans List	1896-1996	100	Austrian businessman
Garnet Hercules Mackley	1883-1986	102	New Zealand head of the New Zealand Railways Department
Ronald Mansbridge	1905-2006	100	British publisher
Arthur Marshall	1903-2007	103	British aviator and founder of Marshall Aerospace
Samuel McLaughlin	1871-1972	100	Canadian businessman, 1st president of General Motors of Canada
Walter L. Morgan	1898-1998	100	American founder of Wellington Fund
Roy Neuberger	1903 –		American financier
Mohan Singh Oberoi	1898-2002	103	Indian hotelier
Frits Philips	1905-2005	100	Dutch chairman of Philips
Herbert V. Prochnow	1897-1998	101	American banking executive and author
Günter Reimann	1904-2005	100	German economist
Morris Schwartz	1901-2004	103	Russian-American photographer, inventor and businessman
Run Run Shaw	1907 –		Hong Kong media mogul
Hermann von Siemens	1885-1986	101	German industrialist
Michael Sobell	1892-1993	100	British business leader and philanthropist
Sir Thomas Sopwith	1888-1989	101	English aircraft pioneer
W. Clement Stone	1902-2002	100	American insurance leader
Sir James Swinburne	1858-1958	100	British electrical engineer and manufacturer
Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr.	1906-2007	100	American former president and chairman of Walgreen Drug Company
Jack Weil	1901-2008	107	American founder and CEO of Rockmount Ranch Wear
Frank H. Wheaton, Sr.	1881-1983	102	American who chaired Wheaton Industries until his death
Abdul Majid Zabuli	1896-1998	102	Afghan founder of Afghanistan's banking system

Educators, school administrators, social scientists and linguists

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Vasily Abaev	1900-2001	100	Ossetian linguist and philologist
Henry Angus	1891-1991	100	Canadian educator, lawyer and administrator
John Haden Badley	1865-1967	102	English educator and founder of the Bedales School
Ann Barzel	1905-2007	101	American writer, critic and lecturer on dance
Henri Baruk	1897-1999	101	French neuropsychiatrist
Jacques Barzun	1907 –		American historian
Giuliano Bonfante	1904-2005	101	Italian linguistics expert
Louise Marion Bosworth	1881-1982	101	American social scientist
Hallie Quinn Brown	1849-1949	100	African American educator and writer
Ambrose Burke	1895-1998	102	American President of Saint Ambrose University
Elizabeth Campbell	1902-2004	101	American public broadcasting pioneer and educator
Chen Han-seng	1897-2004	107	Chinese sociologist and economist
Thomas D. Clark	1903-2005	101	American historian
Stanwood Cobb	1881-1982	101	American Bahá'í educator and author
Anna J. Cooper	1858-1964	105	African American educator and civil rights advocate
Julia Davis	1891-1993	101	African American educator
Aaron Director	1901-2004	102	Ukrainian-American professor
Murray Barnson Emeneau	1904-2005	101	American linguist
Leopold Engleitner	1905 –		Austrian lecturer, oldest survivor of Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrück concentration camps
Jules Gros	1890-1992	102	Breton linguist
Luther Gulick	1892-1993	100	American social scientist
Bertrand Hallward	1901-2003	102	British first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham
Fletcher Hodges Jr.	1905-2006	100	American expert on the music of Stephen Foster
Emily Howland	1827-1929	101	American philanthropist and educator
Emmanuel Kriaras	1906 –		Greek lexicographer
Hasan Karmi	1905-2007	101	Palestinian linguist, broadcaster and scholar.
Hans Kurath	1891-1992	100	Austrian-American linguist
Countess Karolina Lanckorońska	1898-2002	104	Polish art historian and writer
Harold Lawton	1899-2005	106	British scholar of French literature
Wolf Leslau	1906-2006	100	American leading scholar on Ethiopian languages and culture
Claude Lévi-Strauss	1908-2009	100	French anthropologist
Adolph Lowe	1893-1995	102	German sociologist and economist
Seymour Lubetzky	1898-2003	104	Belarussian-American librarian
Ernest Manheim	1900-2002	102	American sociologist, anthropologist and composer
Henry Evans Maude	1906-2006	100	British anthropologist
John Morton-Finney	1889-1998	108	African American civil rights activist and lawyer
Xue Muqiao	1904-2005	100	Chinese economist
Dorothy Nyswander	1894-1998	104	American health educator and advocate
Norman Walker Porteous	1898-2003	104	British Dean at the University of Edinburgh
Eva Gabriele Reichmann	1897-1998	101	German historian and sociologist
Laban Lacy Rice	1870-1973	102	American educator, President of Cumberland University
Louise Rosenblatt	1904-2005	100	American literary critic and scholar
Raymond J. Saulnier	1908-2009	100	American Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
Laura Scales	1879-1990	110	American Dean at Smith College
Akaki Shanidze	1887-1987	100	Georgian linguist and philologist
Peter J. Shields	1862-1962	100	American who helped establish the University of California, Davis
Sadayoshi Tanabe	1888-2000	111	Japanese bibliographer
Silvio Zavala	1909 –		Mexican historian
Władysław Żeleński	1903-2006	102	Polish lawyer, historian and publicist
Zhou Youguang	1906 –		Chinese linguist and father of Pinyin

Explorers

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Riccardo Cassin	1909-2009	100	Italian mountaineer
Alexandra David-Néel	1868-1969	100	French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer
Ardito Desio	1897-2001	104	Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist and cartographer
Helge Ingstad	1899-2001	101	Norwegian explorer
Freya Stark	1893-1993	100	British travel writer
Norman D. Vaughan	1905-2005	100	American Arctic explorer
Jean-Frederic Waldeck	1766-1875	109	French explorer

Jurists and practitioners of law

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Sampson Salter Blowers	1742-1842	100	Canadian defence attorney representing the soldiers accused after the Boston Massacre
William Augustus Bootle	1902-2005	102	American attorney and jurist
Wesley E. Brown	1907 –		American district court judge
Joseph Burke	1888-1990	101	American judge
Melville Henry Cane	1879-1980	100	American lawyer and poet
Arnold Wilson Cowen	1905-2007	101	American lawyer and judge
Thomas Simpson Crawford	1875-1976	100	Australian lawyer and politician
Tom Denning, Baron Denning	1899-1999	100	English Master of the Rolls
Nico Gunzburg	1882-1984	101	Belgian lawyer and criminologist
Trevor Henry	1902-2007	105	New Zealand justice on the Supreme Court of New Zealand
Oliver Hill	1907-2007	100	American lawyer and civil rights activist
Harold Medina	1888-1990	102	American lawyer, teacher and judge
L. Welch Pogue	1899-2003	103	American aviation attorney
Hartley Shawcross	1902-2003	101	Lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal
Marion Yorck von Wartenburg	1904-2007	102	German jurist, judge and World War II resistance fighter
Samuel Williston	1861-1963	101	American lawyer and law professor
Joseph William Woodrough	1873-1977	104	Longest-lived and longest-serving American judge

Military commanders

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Mariano Álvarez	1818-1924	106	Filipino General
Aaron Bank	1902-2004	101	American founder of the US Army Special Forces
Elliott B. Strauss	1903-2003	100	American Rear Admiral
Waldemar Levy Cardoso	1900-2009	108	Last living Brazilian Field Marshal
Sir Philip Christison	1893-1993	100	British General
Lewis Combs	1895-1996	101	American Admiral
Aaron S. Daggett	1837-1938	100	Last surviving Union General of the American Civil War
Henry Fancourt	1900-2004	103	British Royal Navy officer
John William Finn	1909 –		American Navy officer
Amedeo Guillet	1909 –		Italian army officer
Sir George Higginson	1826-1927	100	British General
John L. Hines	1868-1968	100	American general and Chief of Staff of the United States Army
Frederick Augustus Irving	1894-1995	101	American General, Superintendent of West Point Military Academy
Richard H. Jackson	1866-1971	105	American Admiral
Wacław Jędrzejewicz	1893-1993	100	Polish Land Forces officer, diplomat and college professor
Keizō Komura	1896-2000	103	Japanese Admiral
Stanisław Maczek	1892-1994	102	Polish General
Masaichi Niimi	1887-1993	106	Japanese Admiral
Gearóid O'Sullivan	1891-1994	102-103	Irish army officer
Sir Henry Oliver	1865-1965	100	British Admiral of the Fleet
Dorothy C. Stratton	1899-2006	107	American director of the SPARS
Marcus Valerius Corvus	370 BC-270 BC	100	Ancient Roman General and consul
James Van Fleet	1892-1992	100	American General
Sir Provo Wallis	1791-1892	100	British Admiral of the Fleet
Sun Yuanliang	1904-2007	103	Chinese General
Xiao Ke	1907-2008	101	Chinese General
Xue Yue	1896-1998	101	Chinese General
Lü Zhengcao	1905-2009	104	Chinese General

Musicians, composers and music patrons

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Frances Adaskin	1900-2001	100	Canadian pianist
Robert Alexander Anderson	1894-1995	100-101	American composer
Irving Berlin	1888-1989	101	Russian-American lyricist and composer
Bernard Bierman	1908 –		American composer
Slim Bryant	1908 –		American country music singer and songwriter
Henri Büsser	1872-1973	101	French composer
Irving Caesar	1895-1996	101	American composer
Elliott Carter	1908 –		American classical music composer
Giacobbe Cervetto	1682-1783	100-101	Italian-English cellist
Alice Chalifoux	1908-2008	100	American harpist
Orlando Cole	1908 –		American cellist
Hugues Cuénod	1902 –		Swiss tenor
Annette Richardson Dinwoodey	1906-2007	100	American Latter Day Saint vocalist
Roy Douglas	1907 –		British composer
Anthony Galla-Rini	1904-2006	102	American accordionist
Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García	1805-1906	101	Spanish music and singing teacher
Peggy Gilbert	1905-2007	102	American jazz saxophonist
Sidonie Goossens	1899-2004	105	English harpist
Roy Henderson	1899-2000	100	English baritone
Dolores Hope	1909 –		American singer and philanthropist
Mieczysław Horszowski	1892-1993	100	Polish pianist
William Manuel Johnson	1872-1972	100	American jazz musician
Maurice Journeau	1898-1999	100	French composer
Abdul Rashid Khan	1908 –	101	Indian musician
Allauddin Khan	1862–1972	109-110	Indian classical sarod player
Mykola Kolessa	1903–2006	102	Ukrainian composer
Margaret Ruthven Lang	1867-1972	104	American composer
Johnny Lange	1905-2006	100	American Academy Award nominated songwriter
Paul Le Flem	1881-1984	103	French composer
Conrad Leonard	1898-2003	104	British pianist and composer
Huey Long	1904-2009	105	American jazz singer
Lawrence Lucie	1907-2009	101	American jazz musician
Wade Mainer	1907 –		American country music singer and banjoist
Draga Matkovic	1907 –		German classical pianist
Sir Robert Mayer	1879-1985	105	German born British philanthropist
Blanche Honegger Moyse	1909 –		Swiss conductor
Marcel Mule	1901-2001	100	French classical saxophonist
Leo Ornstein	1893-2002	108	American pianist and composer
Uncle Charlie Osborne	1890-1992	101	American Appalachian mountain musician
Ernest "Doc" Paulin	1907-2007	100	American brass band leader
Elsa Respighi	1894-1996	101	Italian composer, singer and wife of Ottorino Respighi
Rosa Rio	1902 –		American organ
Olga Rudge	1895-1996	100	American violinist and mistress of Ezra Pound
Joseph Salemi	1902-2003	100	American jazz trombonist
Teresa Saporiti	1763-1869	106	Italian soprano
George Beverly Shea	1909 –		Canadian-born American gospel music singer and songwriter
Nicolas Slonimsky	1895-1996	101	Russian-American composer and conductor
Jenő Takács	1902-2005	103	Austrian-Hungarian composer and pianist
Bill Tapia	1908 –		American musician
Tillit Sidney Teddlie	1885-1987	102	American hymn composer

Philosophers and theologians

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Ruth Nanda Anshen	1900-2003	103	American philosopher, author and editor
Hans-Georg Gadamer	1900-2002	102	German philosopher
Errol Harris	1908-2009	101	South African philosopher and author
Charles Hartshorne	1897-2000	103	American pioneer of process theology
Karl Holzamer	1906-2007	100	German philosopher and director general of ZDF
Sir William Mitchell	1861-1962	101	Australian philosopher, professor and author
Oswald von Nell-Breuning	1861-1962	101	German Roman Catholic theologian and sociologist
Alfred Vaucher	1887-1993	106	French theologian and church historian
Paul Weiss	1901-2002	101	American philosopher

Politicians and government servants

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Giuseppe Alessi	1905-2009	103	Italian politician
Randi Anda	1898-1999	100	Norwegian deputy member of parliament
Jesse Bankston	1907 –		American Democratic party activist and president of Louisiana Public Broadcasting
Celal Bayar	1883-1986	103	President of Turkey
Earl Hanley Beshlin	1870-1971	101	American congressman
Robert R. Bowie	1909 –		American deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Sir Harry Brittain	1873-1974	100	British politician, journalist and founder of the Empire Press Union
Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne	1901-2002	100	Longest serving British peer
Nripen Chakraborty	1904-2004	100	Indian politician, former Chief-minister of Tripura
Chang Ch'ün	1889-1990	101	Chinese politician
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum	1905-2009	103	Cambodian Prime Minister
Roswell K. Colcord	1839-1939	100	American governor of Nevada
Cornelius Cole	1822-1924	102	Longest-lived American senator
Elizabeth Couchman	1876-1982	106	Australian Liberal Party politician
Sir Walter Crocker	1902-2002	100	Australian diplomat, politician and writer
Jimmie Davis	1899-2000	101	American governor of Louisiana and singer
Peter J. De Muth	1892-1993	101	American Congressman
Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres	1721-1824	102	Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman
Leon Despres	1908-2009	101	American Chicago City Council member and attorney
Georges-Casimir Dessaulles	1827-1930	102	Canadian senator
Kazi Lhendup Dorjee	1904-2007	103	Indian politician and first Chief Minister of Sikkim
Willem Drees	1886-1988	101	Prime minister of the Netherlands
Eleanor Lansing Dulles	1895-1996	101	American diplomat
Jules Ellenberger	1871-1972	100-101	British colonial administrator
Josef Felder	1900-2000	100	German politician
Edward "Ned" Fenlon	1903 –		American member of the Michigan State House of Representatives
Hamilton Fish III	1888-1991	102	American Congressman
Henry R. Gibson	1837-1938	100	American Congressman
Marinus van der Goes van Naters	1900-2005	104	Dutch politician
Edgar Granville, Baron Granville of Eye	1898-1998	100	British politician and life peer
Hassan al-Hakim	1886-1998	101-102	Syrian Prime Minister
Augustus F. Hawkins	1907-2007	100	American Congressman
Bert Hazell	1907-2009	101	British Member of Parliament
John N. Heiskell	1872-1972	100	American Senator from Arkansas and newspaper publisher
Gerardus Philippus Helders	1905 –		Dutch politician
Naruhiko Higashikuni	1887-1990	102	Japanese Prime Minister
Christopher Hornsrud	1859-1960	101	Prime Minister of Norway
Russell Jump	1895-2000	105	American mayor of Wichita, Kansas
Konstantinos Kallias	1901-2004	102	Greek politician
Toshikazu Kase	1903-2004	101	Japanese diplomat
George F. Kennan	1904-2005	101	American Cold War policy architect
Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak	1908-2008	100	Pakistani politician
Alf Landon	1887-1987	100	American governor of Kansas and presidential nominee
Haakon Lie	1905-2009	103	Norwegian former secretary of the Norwegian Labour Party
Sigurd Marcussen	1905-2007	101	Norwegian politician
Richard McHeffy	1773-1874	100	Canadian politician
Cameron Ross McIntosh	1871-1971	100	Canadian politician and newspaper publisher
Enolia McMillan	1904-2006	102	American former president of NAACP
Sir Moses Montefiore	1784-1885	100	British Sheriff of London
Cecil Morgan	1898-1999	100	American politician in Louisiana
Sir William Mulock	1844-1944	100	Canadian politician and cabinet member
Muhammad al-Muqri	1844/1854-1957	102-112	Moroccan Grand Vizier
William Oliver	1850-1951	100-101	Canadian politician and mayor of Lethbridge, Alberta
George Alexander Parks	1883-1984	100	American territorial governor of Alaska
Norman McLeod Paterson	1883-1983	100	Canadian senator and businessman
Antoine Pinay	1891-1994	102	French prime minister
Edward Bernard Raczyński	1891-1993	102	Polish diplomat and President in exile
Richard Gavin Reid	1879-1980	101	Canadian premier of Alberta
Ernie Renzel	1907-2007	100	American mayor of San Jose, California
Elmer Ernest Roper	1893-1994	100	Canadian mayor of Edmonton
Nellie Tayloe Ross	1876-1977	100	American governor, first female governor in the United States
Susanna M. Salter	1860-1961	101	American mayor of Argonia, Kansas, first female mayor in the United States
Murray Seasongood	1878-1983	104	American mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio
Keshavram Kashiram Shastri	1905-2006	101	Indian politician
Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell	1884-1986	101	British politician
Ma. Po. Si.	1906 –		Indian politician
William Alex Stolt	1900-2001	100	American mayor of Anchorage, Alaska
Ramón Serrano Súñer	1901-2003	101	Spanish politician
Soong May-ling	1897/8-2003	105-106	Chinese politician and wife of Chiang Kai-shek
John Ward Studebaker	1887-1989	102	American Commissioner of Education
Henrik Svensen	1904-2007	103	Norwegian Member of Parliament
Theodore Cooke Taylor	1850-1952	102	Longest-lived member of the British Parliament
Maurice Thatcher	1870-1973	102	American congressman and Military Governor of Panama Canal Zone
Strom Thurmond	1902-2003	100	American Senator
David Wark	1804-1905	101	Canadian Senator
Cornelius Wiebe	1893-1999	106	Canadian MLA from Manitoba
Jim Wiwa	1904-2005	100-101	Nigerian chief of the Ogoni people
Zhang Xueliang	1901-2001	100	Chinese General and instigator of the Xi'an Incident
Xenophon Zolotas	1904-2004	100	Prime Minister of Greece

Relative of someone well-known

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Nora Barlow	1885-1989	104	British granddaughter of Charles Darwin
Anthony DePalma	1904-2005	100	American father of Brian De Palma
Mary Ejercito	1905-2009	103	Filipino mother of Philippine president Joseph Estrada
Jolie Gabor	1896-1997	100	Hungarian mother of the Gabor sisters
Rose Kennedy	1890-1995	104	American mother of John F. Kennedy
Rush Limbaugh, Sr.	1891-1996	104	American grandfather of Rush Limbaugh
Jean MacArthur	1898-2000	101	American wife of General Douglas MacArthur
Isabel Meighen	1883-1985	102	Canadian wife of Canadian Prime Minister Arthur Meighen
Richard Mudd	1901-2002	101	American grandson of Samuel Mudd
Ruth Stafford Peale	1906-2008	101	American wife of Norman Vincent Peale and public speaker
Terentia	98BC-4AD	103	Ancient Roman wife of Cicero

Religious figures

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Pope Agatho	577-681	103-104	Greek Roman Catholic Pope
Laban Ainsworth	1757-1858	100	American clergyman and pastor
Joseph Anderson	1889-1992	102	American general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Balangoda Ananda Maitreya	1896-1998	101	Sri Lankan scholar-monk
Saint Anthony	251-356	105	Egyptian Christian saint
Corrado Bafile	1903-2005	101	Italian cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church
Carey W. Barber	1905-2007	101	American member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses
Henry Boehm	1775-1875	100	American clergyman and pastor
Laurence Chaderton	1536-1640	103	English Anglican Puritan divine
Hosius of Córdoba	256-359	102	Ancient Roman Catholic bishop of Córdoba, Spain
Jorge da Costa	1406-1508	101-102	Portuguese cardinal
Indra Devi	1899-2002	102	Indian yoga teacher
Bhante Dharmawara	1889-1999	110	Cambodian-born monk and educator
Ralph Edward Dodge	1907-2008	101	American bishop of the The Methodist Church
Sophia Lyon Fahs	1876-1978	101	American Unitarian minister, educator and writer
Reginald C. Fuller	1908 –		British Catholic priest
Augoustinos Kantiotes	1906 –	103	Greek Orthodox bishop
Gregory of Khandzta	759-861	101-102	Georgian saint of the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church
Nolan Bailey Harmon	1892-1993	100	American Methodist bishop and author
Edward Howard	1877-1983	105	American Roman Catholic archbishop
Isaac of Armenia	338-439	100-101	Parthian Catholicos of Armenia
John the Silent	452-558	106	Greek Christian saint
Yitzchak Kaduri	1899/1900-2006	106	Iraqi-born Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist
Mordecai Kaplan	1881-1983	102	Lithuanian founder of Reconstructionist Judaism
Antonio Rosario Mennonna	1906-2009	103	Italian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church
William McElwee Miller	1892-1993	100	American missionary and author
Francesco Minerva	1904-2004	100	Italian archbishop emeritus of Lecce
Michel Nguyên Khác Ngu	1909-2009	100	Vietnamese bishop of the Roman Catholic Church
Antoine Nguyên Van Thien	1906 –		Vietnamese bishop of the Roman Catholic Church
Kyozan Joshu Sasaki	1907 –		Japanese Rinzai Zen teacher
Elazar Shach	1896/8-2001	103-105	Israeli leading Haredi rabbi
Eldred G. Smith	1907 –		American former Presiding Patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Tillit Sidney Teddlie	1885-1987	102	American hymnalist and pastor
Tenkai	1536-1643	106-107	Japanese Tendai Buddhist monk
Nicholas Kao Se Tseien	1897-2007	110	Chinese Catholic priest and oldest person ever to have a cataract operation
Marian Tumler	1887-1987	100	Austrian theologian and Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
Daniel Waldo	1762-1864	101	American clergyman
Warren Prall Watters	1890-1992	102	American founding archbishop of the Free Church of Antioch
Herbert Welch	1862-1969	106	American Methodist bishop and president of Ohio Wesleyan University
Eleutherius Winance	1909-2009	100	Belgian monk and co-founder of St. Andrew's Abbey

Royalty and nobility

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
H.R.H. Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester	1901-2004	102	British royalty
H.M. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother	1900-2002	101	British royalty and last Empress of India (consort to George VI)
Judith Hare, Countess of Listowel	1903-2003	100	British-Hungarian noblewoman, countess
François, 9th duc de Noailles	1905-2009	103	French nobleman

Scientists and mathematicians

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Charles Greeley Abbot	1872-1973	101	American astronomer and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Horace Alexander	1889-1989	100	British biologist
Doris Allen	1901-2002	100	American psychologist and founder of Children's International Summer Villages
Heinz Ansbacher	1904-2006	101	German-American psychologist
Rudolf Arnheim	1904-2007	102	German psychologist of visual perception
Elizabeth Bagshaw	1881-1982	100	Canadian physician and director of the first birth control clinic in Canada
Ira Baldwin	1895-1999	104	American bacteriologist and educator
Preston Bassett	1892-1993	100	American inventor and aeronautics pioneer
Henry Beachell	1906-2006	100	American developer of "miracle rice"
Julia Bell	1879-1979	100	English human geneticist
Harry Benjamin	1885-1986	101	German sexologist
Sidney W. Bijou	1908-2009	100	American child psychologist
Boris Yakovych Bukreyev	1859-1962	103	Ukranian mathematician
Su Buqing	1902-2003	100	Chinese mathematician
Henri Cartan	1904-2008	104	French mathematician
Michel Eugène Chevreul	1786-1889	102	French chemist
Harriette Chick	1875-1977	102	British biologist
Sir Samuel Rickard Christophers	1873-1978	104	British protozoologist
Thomas H. Clark	1893-1996	102	Canadian geologist
Sir William David Coolidge	1873-1975	101	American engineer and developer of the Coolidge tube for production of x-rays
Morton W. Coutts	1904-2004	100	New Zealand inventor and developer of the continuous fermentation method
Ray Crist	1900-2005	105	American chemist
Philip D'Arcy Hart	1900-2006	106	British epidemiologist
Leila Denmark	1898 –		American pediatrician who discovered the pertussis vaccine
Nikolay Dollezhal	1899-2000	101	Russian mechanical engineer
William Gould Dow	1895-1999	104	American scientist and inventor who helped develop radar jamming
Frank Ellis	1905-2006	100	British radiologist
Rica Erickson	1908 –		Australian naturalist
Henri Fabre	1882-1984	101	French aviation pioneer and inventor of the seaplane
Gordon S. Fahrni	1887-1995	108	Canadian physician and expert on goitre
Raymond Firth	1901-2002	100	New Zealand anthropologist
R. M. Foster	1896-1998	101	American engineer
Henry Jacques Gaisman	1869-1974	104	American inventor, first to develop the safety razor
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch	1907-2007	100	German-American geneticist
Sir George Godber	1908-2009	100	Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom
Viktor Hamburger	1900-2001	100	German professor and embryologist
Erich Häßler	1899-2005	106	German pediatrician
Michael Heidelberger	1888-1991	103	American immunologist
Rudolf Hell	1901-2002	100	German inventor
Joel Henry Hildebrand	1881-1983	101	American chemist
Polly Hill	1907-2007	100	American horticulturist
Arthur R. von Hippel	1898-2003	105	German-American physicist and co-developer of the radar
Dorrit Hoffleit	1907-2007	100	American research astronomer
Albert Hofmann	1906-2008	102	Swiss discoverer of LSD
Edward Augustus Holyoke	1728-1829	100	American physician
Friedrich Hund	1896-1997	101	German physicist
Ancel Keys	1904-2004	100	American biologist
Nathaniel Kleitman	1895-1999	104	American father of sleep research and co-discoverer of REM sleep
Paul E. Klopsteg	1889-1991	101	American physicist
Jerome F. Lederer	1902-2004	101	American engineer
Inge Lehmann	1888-1993	104	Danish seismologist
Emma Lehmer	1906-2007	100	Russian-American mathematician
Goethe Link	1879-1981	101	American surgeon, aviation pioneer and amateur astronomer
Rita Levi-Montalcini	1909 –		Italian neurologist (Nobel laureate) and senator
August Luebs	1889-1989	100	American mechanical engineer
Ernst W. Mayr	1904-2005	100	German-American biologist
Rogers McVaugh	1909-2009	100	American botanist and educator
Wilhelm Meise	1901-2002	101	German ornithologist
Russell L. Mixter	1906-2007	100	American biologist
Ralph S. Moore	1907-2009	102	American horticulturalist
Margaret Murray	1863-1963	100	British anthropologist
Sergey Nikolsky	1905 –		Russian mathematician
Georg Nöbeling	1907-2008	100	German mathematician
Ruth Patrick	1907 –		American limnologist
Luigi Poletti	1864-1967	103	Italian mathematician
Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina	1899-1999	100	Russian mathematician
Franco Rasetti	1901-2001	100	Italian physician
Robert Hallowell Richards	1844-1945	100	American metallurgist
Henry Nicholas Ridley	1855-1956	100	British biologist
Jennie Smillie Robertson	1878-1981	103	Canadian physician, the first female surgeon in Canada
Paul Rohmer	1876-1977	100	French pediatrician and biologist
Victor Blanchard Scheffer	1906 –		American zoologist and author
Waldo Semon	1898-1999	100	American chemist
Bei Shizhang	1903-2009	106	Chinese biologist and educator
Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind	1901-2002	101	American psychiatry researcher
Gerolf Steiner	1908-2009	101	German professor of zoology
Ralph Randles Stewart	1890-1993	103	American botanist
Dirk Jan Struik	1894-2000	106	Dutch mathematician
John Kenneth Terres	1905-2006	100	American naturalist and author
Dorothy Burr Thompson	1900-2001	100	American classical archaeologist and art historian
Germaine Tillion	1907-2008	100	French anthropologist
Constance Tipper	1894-1995	101	British metallurgist and crystallographer
László Tisza	1907-2009	101	Hungarian-American physicist
Victor Vacquier	1907-2009	101	Russian-American geophysicist
Leopold Vietoris	1891-2002	110	Austrian mathematician
Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya	1860-1962	101	Indian engineer
Marthe Vogt	1903-2003	100	German-English neuroscientist
Walter Francis Willcox	1861-1964	103	American statistician
Arvo Ylppö	1887-1992	104	Finnish pediatrician
Filippo Zappata	1894-1994	100	Italian aircraft designer and pioneer
Zheng Ji	1900 –		Chinese nutritionist and biochemist

Sportspeople

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Constance M. K. Applebee	1873-1981	107	American field hockey player
Charlie Booth	1903-2008	104	Australian athlete
Alida van den Bos	1902-2003	101	Dutch Olympic gymnast
Carmelo Camet	1904-2007	102	Argentine Olympic fencer
Jimmy Coffey	1909 –		Irish hurler
Abe Coleman	1905-2007	101	Polish-American wrestler
Ray Cunningham	1905-2005	100	American Major League Baseball player
Sam Dana	1903-2007	104	American football player
Frans De Blaes	1909 –		Belgian Olympic canoeist
D. B. Deodhar	1892-1993	101	Indian cricket player and Sanskritist
John Donnelly	1906 –		American table tennis player
Joaquim Fiúza	1908 –		Portuguese Olympic sailor
Jacques Gerschwiler	1898-2000	101	Swiss figure skater
Alf Goullet	1891-1995	103	Australian cyclist
Howdy Groskloss	1906-2006	100	American Major League Baseball player
Basil Hayden	1899-2003	103	American college basketball coach
Mac Henderson	1907-2009	101	Scottish international rugby union player
Ernst Jakob Henne	1904-2005	101	German racecar driver
Erik Herseth	1892-1993	100	Norwegian Olympic sailor and gold medalist
Chet Hoff	1891-1998	107	Longest-lived American Major League Baseball player
Jim Hutchinson	1896-2000	103	Longest-lived English cricketer
Ulrich Inderbinen	1900-2004	103	Swiss mountain guide
Gonçalves Isabelinha	1908 –		Portuguese association football player and doctor
Fernand Jaccard	1907-2008	100	Swiss association football midfielder
Dirk Janssen	1881-1986	105	Dutch gymnast and longest-lived Olympic competitor
Erwin Jaskulski	1902-2006	103	Ukranian-American sprinter
Signe Johansson-Engdahl	1905 –		Swedish Olympian and swimmer
Feroze Khan	1904-2005	100	Pakistani field hockey Olympian
Jalmari Kivenheimo	1889-1994	105	Longest-lived Olympic medalist
Hans Kleppen	1907-2009	102	Norwegian Olympic ski jumper
Tony Malinosky	1909 –		American Major League Baseball player
Ettore Meini	1903 –		Italian road bicycle racer
Keizo Miura	1904-2006	101	Japanese skier and ski instructor
Adolf Möller	1867-1968	101	German Olympic rower and bronze medalist
Phyllis Mudford	1905-2006	100	British Wimbledon champion
Emilio Navarro	1905 –		Puerto Rican baseball player
Marjorie Okell	1908-2009	101	British athlete
Luis Oliva	1908-2009	101	Argentine Olympic athlete
Hal Haig Prieste	1896-2001	104	Armenian-American high diver and bronze medalist at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Alfred Proksch	1908 –		Austrian Olympic athlete and graphic designer
Philip Rabinowitz	1904-2008	104	South African sprinter, fastest centenarian over 100 metres
Ted Radcliffe	1902-2005	103	American Negro League Baseball player
Godfrey Rampling	1909-2009	100	English Olympic relay runner
James Stillman Rockefeller	1902-2004	102	American rower, gold medalist at the 1924 Summer Olympics and founder of the First National City Bank of New York
Silas Simmons	1893/8-2006	108-113	American semi-professional and professional baseball player
Rupert de Smidt	1883-1986	102	South African cricketer
Herman Smith-Johannsen	1875-1987	111	Norwegian-Canadian cross-country skier
Amos Alonzo Stagg	1862-1965	102	American football player and coach.
Rollie Stiles	1906-2007	100	American Major League Baseball player
Leon Štukelj	1898-1999	100	Slovenian gymnast who won six Olympic medals
Sydney Walling	1907-2009	102	Antiguan cricketer
Walter Walsh	1907 –		American FBI agent and Olympic shooter
Billy Werber	1908-2009	100	American baseball player
Martin White	1909 –		Irish hurler
Edvin Wide	1896-1996	100	Swedish Olympic long-distance runner
Bucky Williams	1906-2009	102	American baseball player
Willem Winkelman	1887-1990	102	Dutch Olympic athlete
Bob Wright	1891-1993	101	American Major League Baseball player

Miscellaneous

Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Carl Aschan	1906-2008	102	British spy
Elly Beinhorn	1907-2007	100	German pilot
Myra Bennett	1890-1990	100	Canadian nurse
Sadie Bonnell	1888-1993	105	British FANY ambulance driver and first woman to win the Military Medal
Helen Brockman	1902-2008	105	American fashion designer, author and professor
Cyril Demarne	1905-2007	101	British military firefighter
Gregorio Fuentes	1897-2002	104	Cuban fisherman and friend of Ernest Hemingway
Ida May Fuller	1874-1975	100	First American citizen to receive a social security check
Evelyn Johnson	1909 –		American pilot and flight instructor
Dan Keating	1902-2007	105	Member of the Irish Republican Army
Constance Kent	1844-1944	100	English criminal whose trial raised issues concerning priest-penitent privilege in the UK
Edith Kent	1908 –		First British woman to receive equal pay
Eleanor Lambert	1903-2003	100	American fashion pioneer
Arthur Lessac	1909 –		American voice trainer
Tom Maguire	1892-1993	101	Irish Republican Army activist, commander and politician
Elizabeth Holloway Marston	1893-1993	100	American comics pioneer and inspiration for Wonder Woman
Mikhail Mukasei	1907-2008	101	Russian spy
Hannah Myrick	1871-1973	101-102	American superintendent of the New England Hospital for Women and Children
Anton Nilson	1887-1989	101	Swedish militant communist
Irene Wells Pennington	1898-2003	104	American multimillionaire oil widow
Edward Rondthaler	1905-2009	104	American typographer
Ed Russenholt	1890-1991	100	Canadian weatherman
Zoltan Sarosy	1906 –		Hungarian-Canadian chess master
Aaron Schwartzman	1908 –		Argentine chess master
Mollie Sneden	1709-1810	101	American ferry operator
Fyodor Uglov	1904-2008	103	Russian surgeon
Len Vale-Onslow	1900-2004	103	British motorcycle builder
Joseph Weil	1875-1976	100	American confidence man

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