Lauren Tom (born August 4, 1961) is an American actress. Her roles include Lena St. Clair in "The Joy Luck Club", Julie in the NBC sitcom "Friends", Dot in the final season of "Grace Under Fire", and the voices on "Futurama" as Amy Wong and on "King of the Hill" as Minh and Connie Souphanousinphone, also "The Powerpuff Girls" series voicing as numerous characters.
William Gianelli
William Gianelli (February 19, 1919 – March 30, 2020) was an American lawyer, engineer and politician. He was the United States Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) from 1981 to 1984 during the Ronald Reagan. Before this, Gianelli as head of the California Department of Water Resources. He was born in Stockton, California.
Gianelli died on March 30, 2020 in Monterey, California at the age of 101.
Stephen Wilkinson (musician)
Stephen Wilkinson MBE (born 29 April 1919) is an English choral conductor and composer. From 1947 to 1953, Wilkinson was director of the Hertfordshire Rural Music School at Hitchin. From 1953 to 1979 he was on the Music Staff of the BBC, first in Leeds, then from 1961 in Manchester. Wilkinson also performed with other professional choirs - the BBC Singers in London, the RTE Singers in Dublin and the Nederlands Kammerkoor.
Basil Yamey
Basil S. Yamey, CBE (4 May 1919 – 9 November 2020) was a South African economist. He was born in Cape Town in South Africa. For many years he was a Professor at the London School of Economics. He was a part-time member of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission from 1966 to 1978.
Yamey died on 9 November 2020 in Cape Town at the age of 101.
June Spencer
June Rosalind Spencer (born 14 June 1919) is an English actress. She is best known for her role in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera "The Archers" as Peggy Woolley. She was born in Nottingham, England.
Mauro Cía
Gualberto Mauro Cía Montañero (born 3 July 1919) is a retired Argentine boxer and actor. He was born in Buenos Aires. At the age of 29, when he was an assistant officer at the Argentine Federal Police. He was in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, United Kingdom in the light heavyweight classification.
After a brief acting career in the boxing-themed movies "Su última pelea" (1949), "Diez segundos" (1949) and "Nace un campeón" (1952), Cía unsuccessfully attempted to qualify for the 1956 Summer Olympics
Robert Morgenthau
Robert Morris Morgenthau ( ; July 31, 1919 – July 21, 2019) was an American lawyer. From 1975 until his retirement in 2009, he was the District Attorney for New York County, the borough of Manhattan. He also was United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York throughout much of the 1960s on the appointment of John F. Kennedy.
Morgenthau was the longest-serving district attorney in the history of the State of New York until 2018.
Morgenthau died at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan on July 21, 2019 from a short-illness, ten days before his 100th birthday.
Margaret Burbidge
Eleanor Margaret Burbidge ("née" Peachey), FRS (August 12, 1919 – April 5, 2020) was a British-born American astrophysicist. She was known for her original research and holding many educational posts, including Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
During her career, she worked at the University of London Observatory, Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago, Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, the California Institute of Technology, and from 1979 to 1988 was first director of the Center for Astronomy and Space Sciences at the University of California San Diego, where she has worked since 1962.
In 2003, Burbidge was added into the Women's Museum of California Hall of Fame honoring her career and achievements.
Burbidge died on April 5, 2020 in San Francisco at the age of 100 after suffering a fall.
Walter Bernstein
Walter Bernstein (August 20, 1919 – January 23, 2021) an American screenwriter and movie producer. He was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City.
His first major work was screenwriting Sidney Lumet's "That Kind of Woman". He is known for his writing works "Paris Blues" (1961), "Fail-Safe" (1964), "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) and "The Train" (1964).
Bernstein died on January 23, 2021 in New York City from pneumonia, aged 101.
Gladys Davis (baseball)
Gladys Davis [״Terrie״] (born September 1, 1919) is a Canadian shortstop and outfielder. She played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League between the 1943 and 1946 seasons with the Rockford Peaches from Rockford, Illinois. Davis batted and threw right handed. She was born in Toronto, Ontario.
Mario Bunge
Mario Augusto Bunge (; ; 21 September 1919 – 24 February 2020) was an Argentine philosopher, philosopher of science and physicist. He was born in Buenos Aires. Bunge has written more than 400 papers and 80 books, notably his best known work "Treatise on Basic Philosophy" in 8 volumes (1974–1989). He is known for his work that involved the core of modern philosophy: semantics, ontology, epistemology, philosophy of science and ethics. He was a critic of the lack of democratic process in the United Nations.
Edward L. Feightner
Rear Admiral Edward Lewis "Whitey" Feightner (October 14, 1919 – April 1, 2020) was a United States Navy officer. He was known for his services in World War II Pacific Theater of Operations. During two combat tours, he shot down nine enemy aircraft to become a flying ace.
He commanded two Navy ships, served as the head of Navy Fighter Design, and was a key contributor to fighter studies that resulted in the development of jet aircraft that are still in active service.
Feightner was the only pilot to land the dash-1 variant of the Vought F7U Cutlass aboard a carrier. He led VF-11 to become the first Atlantic fleet unit in which every pilot received the coveted "E" award in a single exercise. He turned 100 in October 2019.
Feightner died on April 1, 2020 in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho at the age of 100.
Feightner was awarded the following decorations for his military service.
Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont
Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, (5 December 1919 – 10 January 2020) was a British politician. He was a retired British Army officer and historian. He was awarded the Efficiency Medal in October 1950. He was a minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1964 to 1970 and appointed to the Privy Council in the former year.
On 27 March 1967, in the House of Lords, Chalfont became the spokesman/figurehead for Harold Wilson. He was the author of several military history books on subjects including the Napoleonic Wars.
He retired from the House of Lords on 10 November 2015. Jones died on 10 January 2020 at the age of 100.
Bert J. Harris Jr.
Bert J. Harris Jr. (December 9, 1919 – May 19, 2019) was an American politician. He was born in Warwick, Georgia. Harris Jr. was a member of the Democratic Party. He was in the Florida House of Representatives from 1982 to 1996 for district 77.
Harris Jr. died on May 19, 2019 in Lake Placid, Florida at the age of 99.
Warwick, Georgia
Warwick is a city in Worth County, Georgia, United States. The population was 430 at the 2000 census. Warwick is located at (31.830351, -83.920705). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land.
Charles E. McGee
Charles E. McGee (born December 7, 1919) is a retired African-American fighter pilot. He was one of the Tuskegee Airmen and a career officer in the United States Air Force for 30 years who flew a total of 409 combat missions in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. McGee was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
Vasily Reshetnikov
Vasily Vasiliyevich Reshetnikov () (born December 23, 1919) was a Soviet pilot during World War II. Reshetnikov flew 307 missions mainly as a pilot for a long-range bomber and in the summer of 1943. He was honored with Hero of the Soviet Union. He was Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force of the Soviet Union from 1980 to 1986.
Pierre Soulages