BORN PRE-1920
Turning 102+ in 2021

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Jonathan
Seychellois-hatched St. Helenian giant tortoise, world's oldest known living land animal
c. 1832 |
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Kane Tanaka
Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest validated person
01/02/1903 |
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Ruthie Tompson
American animator
07/22/1910 |
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Fauja Singh
Indian-born English marathon runner
04/01/1911 |
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Renée Simonot
French actress and dubbing artist
09/10/1911 |
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Toko Shinoda
Japanese painter and printmaker
03/28/1913 |
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Boris Pahor
Italian Slovenian-language poet and novelist, Nekropolis
08/26/1913 |
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Muazzez İlmiye Çığ
Turkish archeologist
06/20/1914 |
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Norman Lloyd
American producer, director, and actor, Saboteur, TV's St. Elsewhere
11/08/1914 |
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Carmen Herrera
Cuban-born American painter
05/31/1915 |
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Beverly Cleary
American children's writer, the Henry Huggins and Ramona Quimby series
04/12/1916 |
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Everett Lee
American conductor and violinist
08/31/1916 |
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Lise Nørgaard
Danish journalist, novelist, and screenwriter
06/14/1917 |
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Marsha Hunt
American actress, Pride and Prejudice, Blossoms in the Dust
10/17/1917 |
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Lloyd Geering
New Zealand theologian
02/26/1918 |
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Naomi Replansky
American poet, The Dangerous World
05/23/1918 |
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Brenda Milner
English-born Canadian clinical neuropsychologist
07/15/1918 |
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Martin Pope
American physical chemist
08/22/1918 |
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Henri Vernes
Belgian action and science-fiction writer, the Bob Morane series
10/16/1918 |
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René de Obaldia
French poet, novelist, and playwright
10/22/1918 |
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Ann Hutchinson Guest
American dance researcher and notator
11/03/1918 |
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Louise Tobin
American singer, "There'll Be Some Changes Made"
11/11/1918 |
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Lester Wolff
American politician, New York representative (1965-1981)
01/04/1919 |
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Miroslav Zikmund
Czech travel writer
02/14/1919 |
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
American poet, A Coney Island of the Mind
03/24/1919 |
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James Lovelock
English atmospheric chemist, originated the Gaia theory
07/26/1919 |
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Nehemiah Persoff
Palestinian-born American actor, Some Like It Hot, Yentl
08/02/1919 |
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Walter Bernstein
American screenwriter, The Front, Semi-Tough
08/20/1919 |
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Pierre Soulages
French painter and sculptor
12/24/1919 |
