Notable Centenarians

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1. This man was a Japanese skiing legend and at the age of 70 was the oldest person to climb Mt. Everest. Kozi Hisatake Keizo Miura Tsutomu Hosokawa Yoshiro Mori

2. She was born Anna Mary Robertson and became a famous American painter. Her painting "Fourth of July" hangs in the White House. Grandma Moses Mary Cassatt Georgia O'Keeffe Eva Hesse

3. This Hungarian born centenarian was the founder of Paramount Pictures. Cecil B DeMille Marcus Loew Charles B Mintz Adolph Zukor

4. This woman, born in Shanghai, China, was on the cover of Time magazine twice. She was the first Chinese national and only the second woman to address the United States Congress. She is also known as "Madame Chiang Kai-Shek". Li Kao Mayling Soong Nikki Wong Xu Shen

5. This centenarian became a famous composer, though he could barely read music. Among his many compositions was "White Christmas", one of the most recorded songs in history. George Gershwin Richard Rodgers Irving Berlin Aaron Copland

6. These sisters were both centenarians and are in the "Guinness Book of World Records" as the world's oldest authors. Sarah Louise and Annie Elizabeth Delany Anne and Isabel Sullivan Susan Mary and Jenna Marie Delany Martha and Mary Gruenwald

7. This French woman was born on 21 February 1875 and when she died at the age of 122 had the longest documented lifespan. Louise Malheur Suzanne Lafleur Marguerite Calment Jeanne Calment

8. This woman proved that age was not a barrier to patriotic actions. She was known as the "Grand-woman of the Philippine Revolution" for sheltering revolutionaries in her store. Zepphora Aquino Melchora Aquino Maria Bonifacio Felicia Ramos

9. In 1924 this woman was the first of her gender to graduate from the University of Alaska and became known as the "Grandmother of the Conservation Movement". Marie Thomas Margaret Delaquese Mary Vocer Margaret Murie

10. This member of a prominent American family won a gold medal in rowing in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. James Stillman Rockefeller Benjamin Spock William Rockefeller George Carnegie

11. This geophysicist was born in Lancashire, England 6 August 1900 and founded Texas Instruments. Nolan Bushnell Cecil B. Black Cecil Howard Green William Hewlett

12. This centenarian was a member of Britain's national ice hockey team and became a pioneer in aviation. His company produced a famous World War I airplane that was mentioned in the popular comic strip "Peanuts". Eddie Rickenbacker Thomas Sopwith Claude Graham White Brian Walpole

13. This centenarian was the first United States citizen to receive a monthly Social Security benefits check. Ida May Fuller Jane Summersby George W. Sires Franklin Huffman

14. This military man was fluent in French and German and gained fame as the founder of the Green Berets. Marcus Banks James McAllister William Donovan Aaron Bank

15. This pediatrician was a co-developer of the pertussis vaccine. Augusta Stowe-Gullen Leilia Daughtry Denmark Mary Putnam Jacobi Emily Howard Stowe

16. This centenarian became one of the most notable accordionists who ever lived and was responsible for its acceptance as a serious instrument. Anthony Galla-Rini Eddie Cantor Lawrence Welk Jorgen Sundequist

17. This Russian emigrant was the father of sleep research and the first to discover REM sleep. Nathaniel Kleitman Stephen Herschel Charles Bonnet Mathias Baker

18. This man was President of Turkey and his term in office ended in 1960 after a military coup. Mustafa Inonu Turgut Ozal Cevdet Sunay Mahmud Celal Bayar

19. She was the second wife of a famous World War II general and was given the Legion of Merit by the Philippine government in 1993. Mamie Eisenhower Beatrice Ayer Patton Mary Elizabeth Quayle Bradley Jean Faircloth MacArthur

20. This woman was the daughter of two Nobel Prize winners, the sister of a Nobel Prize winner and the wife of a man who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Louisa Fried Eve Curie Labouisse Pauline Rutherford Watson Gwendolyn Nobel