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Roekiah (Perfected Spelling: Rukiah; 31 December 1917 – 2 September 1945), often credited as Miss Roekiah, was an Indonesian kroncong singer and actress. The daughter of two stage performers, she began her career at the age of seven; by 1932 she had become well known in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia), as a singer and stage actress.
A person who has a news obituary (and not a paid death notice) in a national quality [1] newspaper, such as The New York Times or The Times, is usually notable. An individual obituary should be evaluated for bias in the same way as any other historical source, using the methods normally used by professional historians to evaluate historical ...
Van der Bijl was born in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, on 11 May 1928, [1] the fourth of six children of a poor blacksmith and an invalid mother. [2] In the 1940s he enlisted in the colonial army of the Dutch East Indies during the Indonesian National Revolution.
The list including known and validated supercentenarians who died before 2015 was compiled by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). [1] Later cases were sourced either from more recent GRG data, [2] from administrative reports or from press coverage, as indicated in the table.