She had a long way to go to get to the next prime number age, so she kicked the bucket sadly. Almost 117 though. Only one verified person still alive who was born in the 1800s

[url]http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/05/13/worlds-oldest-person-dies-new-york-age-116/84319294/[/url]

and 2 more born in 1900

[QUOTE=firejuggler;433837]and 2 more born in 1900[/QUOTE]
which technically is still the 19th century, as the 20th century starts at Jan 1st 1901... :razz:

[QUOTE=LaurV;434061]which technically is still the 19th century, as the 20th century starts at Jan 1st 1901... :razz:[/QUOTE]
...around which date my rather irrascible great-grandfather received a card from an acquaintance wishing him a "happy new century", to which he replied "Thankyou for your card, which was unaccountably delivered to me a year late."

[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali]Muhammad Ali[/url], né Cassius Clay.

Ali, back in era where it took huge guts for such a public figure - especially a black man - to go against the establishment this vehemently, had it 100% right re. US warmongering:
[i]
I ain’t got nothin’ against no Viet Cong ... Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? ... My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother or some darker people or some poor, hungry people in the mud for big, powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn’t put no dogs on me, they didn’t rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father. Shoot them for what? How can I shoot them poor people? Poor little black people and babies and children and women. How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail.[/i]
--Muhammad Ali

For those who've not seen it, I highly recommend the great 70s documentary [i]When We Were Kings[/i], centered on the Rumble in the Jungle.

And lastly, an article on one of Ali's [url=http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/37158310/the-real-story-behind-the-1965-muhammad-ali-floyd-patterson-fight]most misunderstood fights[/url], in the runup to which he taunted his opponent similarly to the way he would later taunt Joe Frazier prior to the first fight of their legendary trilogy, but in what appears to have been a very different spirit.

[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36464406"]Viktor Korchnoi[/URL] (85)

[QUOTE=Batalov;435667][URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36464406"]Viktor Korchnoi[/URL] (85)[/QUOTE]
Rest in peace! Great player! I see (on the web) they call him "the strongest player who never was world champion". This may be quite in my consent, during my youth behind the communist curtain we heard stories about him intentionally losing against Karpov after he ran out - russians would not take it well if the champion was a "renegade", and that is why he was still alive at that time. Of course, that could also be just rumors spreaded by the "enemy of the class"... :shock:

[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36462783"]Peter Shaffer[/URL] (1926–2016)

[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimbo_Slice"]Kimbo Slice[/URL] dies at 42.

[URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/02/tom-kibble-uk-physicist-who-worked-on-higgs-boson-dies-says-his/"]Tom Kibble[/URL]

[URL="http://www.mlive.com/redwings/index.ssf/2016/06/wayne_gretzky_would_like_to_se.html"]Gordie Howe[/URL]