He wrote eight dictionaries, four seminal works on dictionary science in Kannada. He also edited over sixty books and published several papers. His work "Igo Kannada", is a socio-linguistic dictionary and is used as a reference by linguists and sociologists. He was honored with the Kannada Sahitya Akademi Award and the Pampa Award.
Venkatasubbiah was best known for his work on Kannada dictionary science titled "Kannada Nighantu Shastra Parichaya" which came out exactly one hundred years after the first Kannada dictionary was authored by the German priest and Indologist Reverend Ferdinand Kittel in 1894.
Venkatasubbaiah died on 19 April 2021 in Bangalore from kidney disease, aged 107.
Smilja Avramov
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Avramov was a professor of international law at the Law Faculty at Belgrade University. She turned 100 in February 2018.
Avramov died at her apartment in Belgrade on 2 October 2018 from congestive heart failure at the age of 100.
William Frankland
Alfred William Frankland (19 March 1912 – 2 April 2020) was a British allergist. His works include keeping track of the pollen count as a piece of weather-related information to the British public, and for the prediction of increased levels of allergy to penicillin.
Frankland turned 100 in March 2012.
In 2015, he appeared in an episode of the BBC 2 TV series "Britain's Greatest Generation" and as a guest on BBC Radio 4's "Desert Island Discs".
In June 2015, at the age of 103, he was awarded an MBE for services to allergy research. In July 2015 he was, at age 103, the oldest recipient of the badge of the Order of Mercy.
Frankland died on 2 April 2020 in London at the age of 108. The cause of death was COVID-19.
Charles Godfrey
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Godfrey turned 100 in September 2017.
Florence Knoll
Florence Marguerite Knoll Bassett (née Schust; May 24, 1917 – January 25, 2019) was an American architect and furniture designer who studied under Mies van der Rohe and Eliel Saarinen. She was born Florence Schust in Saginaw, Michigan, and was known in familiar circles as "Shu".
Knoll felt architects should contribute their design ability to furniture as well. Some of these furniture designs would become design icons of the 20th century and have remained in the Knoll line for decades due to their timeless design.
Knoll's most famous creations are the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company Headquarters building in Bloomfield, Connecticut and the interior of the CBS Building in New York City.
Harry E. Goldsworthy
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He was responsible for all Air Force logistics support which includes maintenance engineering, transportation, supply and services, and foreign military assistance and sales.
His military decorations and awards include the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters and the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters.
Goldsworthy turned 100 in April 2014.
Felicity Hill
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Hill joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) during World War II. She died on 30 January 2019, aged 103.
Kenneth Mayhew
Major Kenneth George Mayhew (18 January 1917 – 14 May 2021) was a British Army veteran of World War II. Mayhew was one of the only four living knights of the very exclusive Military William Order, the highest honour of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
In 1939 Mayhew was an officer of the 1st Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment. He commanded a company which landed in Normandy in 1944 and fought in the North West Europe Campaign. Mayhew was injured while fighting in the Netherlands.
In 1946, Mayhew was knighted by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, receiving the Knight fourth class of the Military William Order. The chapter of the order lost contact with him in the 1980s until he was seen wearing his medal at a memorial service in 2011.
Mayhew died on 14 May 2021, aged 104.
James Megellas
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Megellas was "the most-decorated officer in the history of the 82nd Airborne Division," having received a Distinguished Service Cross, a Silver Star, and been nominated for the Medal of Honor.
Megellas died on April 2, 2020 in Colleyville, Texas at the age of 103.
Neil D. Van Sickle
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Van Sickle was born in Minot, North Dakota on July 8, 1915.
On January 15, 1965, he assumed command of the U.S. Air Force Recruiting Service, with headquarters at Randolph Air Force Base.
Anton Coppola
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Coppola was the musical director of six Broadway musicals, including "Silk Stockings", "Bravo Giovanni" and "The Boy Friend". He conducted two movie scores, 1990's "The Godfather Part III" and 1992's "Dracula". He appeared in the former, shown conducting "Cavalleria rusticana" in the Teatro Massimo of Palermo.
Coppola turned 100 in March 2017. He died on March 9, 2020 in New York City, aged 102.
Francis Jackson
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Eleanor Sokoloff
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She turned 100 in June 2014. Sokoloff died on July 12, 2020 at a hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the age of 106.
Bernardino Piñera
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In May 2020, he was diagnosed with COVID-19. Piñera died on 21 June 2020 from pneumonia caused by COVID-19 in Santiago de Chile, aged 104.
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