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Allingham was the oldest living man in England for several years. Official recognition by Guinness World Records came in January 2007. [44] On 8 February 2007, when 110-year-old Antonio Pierro died, Allingham became the oldest known living veteran of the First World War, and the third-oldest living man in the world.
The 100 oldest women have, on average, lived several years longer than the 100 oldest men. 100 verified oldest women The list includes supercentenarians validated by organisations specialising in extreme age verification such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG), [ 5 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] with, in some cases, press coverage as a supplementary source.
Canadian civil servant, frontier teacher, land surveyor, and soldier [12] Caroline Anthonypillai: 1908–2009: 100: Ceylonese/Sri Lankan political activist and trade unionist; wife of S. C. C. Anthony Pillai. [13] Frank Pierpoint Appleby: 1913–2015: 101: Canadian soldier and politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1971 ...
Richard Dean Parsons (April 4, 1948 – December 26, 2024) was an American business executive, notably the chairman of Citigroup and the chairman and CEO of Time Warner.He had also been the interim CEO of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the interim chairman of the board for CBS.
John Alfred Tinniswood (26 August 1912 – 25 November 2024) was a British supercentenarian who was the world's oldest verified living man from the death of 112-year-old Shi Ping of China on 29 June 2024 until his own death on 25 November 2024, at the age of 112 years and 91 days. [1]
Kimsey groomed Case to become chairman and CEO when Kimsey retired, and the transition formally took place in 1991 (CEO) and 1995 (chairman). As part of the changes that gave birth to Quantum, Case changed the company's strategy, creating an online service called Quantum Link (Q-Link for short) for the Commodore 64 in 1985 with programmer (and ...
British peer [12] Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother: 1900–2002: 101: British queen consort and last Empress of India [13] George Boscawen, 9th Viscount Falmouth: 1919–2022: 102: British peer and Lord Lieutenant [14] Baron Eduard von Falz-Fein: 1912–2018: 106: Russian-born Liechtensteiner businessman [15] Alexandra Pavlovna Galitzine: 1905 ...
At age 16, Shortz began regularly contributing crossword puzzles to Dell publications. [6] He eventually graduated from Indiana University in 1974, [7] and is the only person known to hold a college degree in enigmatology, [8] the study of puzzles. Shortz wrote his thesis about the history of American word puzzles. [9]