Famous Centenarians

Name these famous people who lived to be at least 100 years old. They were selected as the ones who had a Wikipedia article in at least 50 languages in 2020.
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Age
Born
Country
Person
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100
1924
USA
Jimmy Carter
U.S. President 1977–1981
100
1923
USA
Henry Kissinger
U.S. Secretary of State 1973–1977
104
1907
Brazil
Oscar Niemeyer
architect who designed Brasilia
102
1917
China/USA
I. M. Pei
architect who designed the Louvre pyramid
100
1925
Malaysia
Mahathir Mohamad
PM of Malaysia 1981–2003 and 2018–2020
103
1916
USA
Kirk Douglas
classic Hollywood actor (Spartacus)
101
1902
Germany
Leni Riefenstahl
made Nazi propaganda films
100
1920
Peru
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
UN secretary-general 1982–1991
103
1909
Italy
Rita Levi-Montalcini
neurobiologist, 1986 Nobel Prize
104
1916
UK/USA
Olivia de Havilland
Hollywood actress (Gone With the Wind)
102
1911
Vietnam
Võ Nguyên Giáp
communist general in the Indochina wars
100
1908
France
Claude Lévi-Strauss
structural anthropologist
102
1922
China
Yang Chen-Ning
theoretical physicist (weak parity)
100
1925
Japan
Leo Esaki
solid-state physicist (tunnel diode)
102
1906
Switzerland
Albert Hofmann
chemist who systhesised LSD & psilocybin
101
1900
UK
The Queen Mother
mother of Queen Elizabeth II
103
1883
Turkey
Celâl Bayar
President of Turkey 1950–1960
102
1900
Germany
Hans-Georg Gadamer
continental philosopher (Truth and Method)
100
1903
USA
Bob Hope
hosted the Oscars 19 times
122
1875
France
Jeanne Calment
oldest human ever
102
1910
UK
Ronald Coase
economist, Nobel Prize 1991
104
1910
Germany
Luise Rainer
1st actress to win 2 Oscars (Great Ziegfeld)
101
1918
Japan
Yasuhiro Nakasone
Prime Minister of Japan 1982–1987
100
1910
USA
Gloria Stuart
actress and artist (Titanic)
101
1888
USA
Irving Berlin
songwriter of White Christmas
100
1916
Brazil
João Havelange
President of FIFA 1974–1998
104
1888
Denmark
Inge Lehmann
seismologist, dicovered Earth's inner core
108
1903
Netherlands
Johannes Heesters
ancient German-speaking actor & singer
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2 Comments
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Level 67
Sep 8, 2025
My score would have been slightly less dreadful if Mahathir had been accepted - never heard him called anything other than that single name. But maybe I typed it incorrectly and did not realise. Typo in third clue.
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Level 77
Sep 8, 2025
Added and fixed, my bad.