Sir Lenox Hewitt (7 May 1917 – 28 February 2020) was an Australian public servant. He was the Secretary of the Prime Minister's Department under John Gorton (Liberal) 1968-71, and Secretary of the Department of Minerals and Energy under Rex Connor (Labor) 1972-75.
He remained active in public policy debate.
He was the father of Patricia Hewitt, a former Labour minister in Tony Blair's government in the United Kingdom.
Hewitt died, aged 102, of Lewy body dementia-related problems on 28 February 2020 at a care home in Edgecliff, New South Wales.
Axel Lewenhaupt
Count Axel Charles Emil Lewenhaupt (born 27 May 1917) is a former Swedish diplomat and Grand Master of Ceremonies at the Royal Court of Sweden. He was born in Helsingborg, Sweden.
He was second secretary at the Foreign Ministry from 1948 to 1952 and first legation secretary in Madrid from 1952 to 1956. Lewenhaupt was first secretary at the Foreign Ministry from 1956 to 1958 and director at the Foreign Ministry from 1958 to 1960.
Lewenhaupt was embassy counsellor in Washington, D.C. from 1960 to 1962 and ambassador in Leopoldville from 1962 to 1963. Lewenhaupt was acting head of the political department at the Foreign Ministry from 1964 to 1965 and its administrative department from 1965 to 1967. He was ambassador in Bangkok, Rangoon, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
Li Rui (politician)
Li Rui (; April 13, 1917 – February 16, 2019) was a Chinese politician. He was a member of the Communist Party of China. He was also a writer and supporter of democratic reform in China. He was born in Beijing.
In the mid-1950s, Li was briefly one of Mao Zedong's secretaries. His criticisms of Great Leap Forward, and support for Peng Dehuai, led to his exile. He briefly worked with the West German government.
He was a vice minister of the Ministry of Water Conservation.
Li turned 100 in April 2017. He died on February 16, 2019 in Beijing from multiple organ failure at the age of 101.
George Pearce
Henry George Pearce (born 17 September 1917) is a former Australian politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1961, representing the Liberal Party in the Division of Capricornia.
In 1960, Pearce was made Government Whip in the House of Representatives under Hubert Opperman.
Pearce turned 100 years old in September 2017. He is the first member of federal parliament to live to be 100. He and Bill Grayden are the only surviving MPs from the 1940s.
Bill Grayden
William Leonard Grayden (born 5 August 1920) is a former Australian politician. He was born in Perth, Western Australia. He was in the military with the 2/16th Infantry Battalion from 1940–1946.
In 1947, he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for Middle Swan, where he remained until 1949.
Along with George Pearce, Grayden is the earliest surviving MP, and one of only two living "Forty-Niner" Liberal MPs.
V. K. Rao
Valluri Kameswara Rao, ICS (15 July 1914 – 27 November 2018) was a former Indian Civil Service officer and former Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh. He was the oldest living former officer of the Indian Civil Service. He turned 100 in July 2014.
Rao entered the service of the central government on the Planning Commission of India before returning to Andhra Pradesh and becoming the state's Chief Secretary, the highest-ranking civil servant in a state.
After his retirement, he served as Vigilance Commissioner of Andhra Pradesh from 1974 to 1977, and then as Principal Secretary to the President of India, N. Sanjiva Reddy, from 1981 to 1982.
Rao died in Hyderabad on 27 November 2018 at the age of 104.
Song Ping
Song Ping (; born 24 April 1917) is a Chinese Communist revolutionary. He is a retired high-ranking politician. He was a member of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee. He is thought to be the only living member of the Second Generation of Chinese Leadership.
Song was the political mentors to Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao.
In 1987, Song left the Planning Commission to replace Wei Jianxing as head of the CPC Central Organization Department.
He criticized the pro-democracy demonstrations in the spring of 1989.
He retired as a member of the Politburo Standing Committee on October 19, 1992. He turned 100 in April 2017.
Pope Liberius
Pope Liberius (310 – 24 September 366) was Pope of the Catholic Church from 17 May 352 until his death on 24 September 366. According to the "Catalogus Liberianus", he was consecrated on 22 May as the successor to Pope Julius I. Liberius is mentioned in the Greek Menology, the Eastern equivalent to the martyrologies of the Western Church and a measure of sainthood prior to the institution of the formal Western processes of canonization.
Carl J. Shapiro
Carl J. Shapiro (February 15, 1913 – March 7, 2021) was an American businessman.
In 1939, he founded Kay Windsor, Inc. in New Bedford, Massachusetts. It became one of the largest women's clothing companies in the country. He is its former president and chairman of the board and was director of Vanity Fair Corp in 1971. He retired five years later.
Shapiro and his foundation reportedly lost some $550 million from Bernie Madoff, who received $250 million around December 1, 2008 from Shapiro, then one of Madoff's oldest friends and one of his biggest financial backers.
His wife, Ruth, died in 2012. Shapiro turned 100 in February 2013.
Shapiro died on March 7, 2021 in Boston at the age of 108.
Namibian Sun
The Namibian Sun is a daily tabloid and print newspaper in Namibia. The paper was launched on 20 September 2007 and publishes everyday. It had an initial print run of 36,000. The paper publishes mostly in English with some pages in "Oshiwambo" and targets a readership aged between 18 and 40. It has been published daily since 2010.
It is published by Namibia Media Holdings (formerly Democratic Media Holdings) which also publishes two other newspapers, the "Allgemeine Zeitung" and "Die Republikein". While "AZ" has a German-speaking readership, and "Republikein" targets Afrikaans speakers, the "Namibian Sun" focuses on an English-speaking audience.
Artur Brauner
Artur "Atze" Brauner (born Abraham Brauner; 1 August 1918 – 7 July 2019) was a Polish-born German movie producer and entrepreneur. He created over 300 movies from 1946 through 2019. He was Jewish and many of his relatives were killed by Nazis in the 1940s.
Brauner produced "Sag' die Wahrheit", one of the first movies produced in Germany after World War II. He also produced "Morituri", but received negative reviews and failed at the box office. He began to work with German Hollywood-based producers such as Robert Siodmak and later Fritz Lang who started a revival of Dr. Mabuse.
Some of his movies dealt with the Holocaust such as "Die Weiße Rose", "The Plot to Assassinate Hitler" ("Der 20. Juli") and "Man and Beast" ("Mensch und Bestie").
Brauner died on 7 July 2019 in Berlin at the age of 100.
Suzy Delair
Suzy Delair (born Suzanne Pierette Declair; 31 December 1917 – 15 March 2020) was a French actress and singer. She was known for her 1950 version of the song "C'est si bon".
Delair was known for her roles in "A Caprice of Pompadour", "Imperial Violets", "Let's Touch Wood", "Casanova", "Poliche", "The Crisis is Over", "Gold in the Street", "The Murderer Lives at Number 21", "Quai des Orfèvres", "Lady Paname", "Lost Souvenirs", "Atoll K", "Rocco and His Brothers", "Is Paris Burning?" and "The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob".
She worked with directors Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean Dréville, Jean Grémillon, Marcel L'Herbier, Christian-Jaque, Marcel Carné, Luchino Visconti, René Clément, and Gérard Oury.
Delair turned 100 in December 2017.
She died on 15 March 2020 in Paris at the age of 102.
Jean Erdman