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A 104-year-old Jewish-American likely lesbian female poet has passed away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Replansky

Japanese-Canadian, sorry.

A 113-year-old Japanese woman has passed away: https://globalsupercentenarianforum.com/index.php/community/deaths110-2023/shige-mineshiba-jap-can-1909-2023/#post-6969

As a side note, Bessie Hendricks, while being the US's oldest living person, was not the oldest living US-born person. That honor belongs to this woman, who was born in the US to Spanish parents and lived in Spain ever since her childhood...

Bessie Hendricks reminds me of Valentine Ligny, who also reached age 115 but died shortly afterwards. They died almost exactly one year apart as well: https://gerontology.fandom.com/wiki/Valentine_Ligny#:~:text=Valentine%20Ligny%20(n%C3%A9e%20Bonel%3B%2022,validated%20person%20in%20the%20world

I thought that she had at least several months left in her, maybe even a year or more but at least several months. She did not strike me as being near-death yet. Though at that age, anything can happen extremely rapidly. Walter Breuning, for instance, was in great shape a month before his death...

Yeah, she died earlier than I thought she would, but at least she reached age 115 and the year 2023!

The US's oldest living person Bessie Hendricks passed away at age 115: https://globalsupercentenarianforum.com/index.php/community/deaths110-2023/bessie-hendricks-usa-1907-2023/#post-6811 May she RIP. :(

May he RIP. :( A gigantic tragedy for all foodies everywhere. :(

Very sad. :( May she RIP. :( She was in part descended from Lodz Jewry, which I find very interesting. Former WOLM Israel Kristal (1903-2017) also had his origins in Lodz.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/jiang-zemin-ex-china-leader-who-led-economic-boom-political-repression-dies-at-96/

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/26/europe/belarus-foreign-minister-dies-intl/index.html

Luise Pompe (1908-2022), Austria's oldest living person and indeed Austria's oldest person ever (if we're looking at Austria within its present-day borders rather than its pre-World War I borders), has died at age 114...

May he RIP. :( At least he lived a very long life. :)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/politics/michael-gerson-dies/index.html

Japan's oldest living man has died at age 111 years and 10 months: https://gerontology.fandom.com/wiki/Shigeru_Nakamura Japan's new oldest living man has only just recently celebrated his 111th birthday: https://gerontology.fandom.com/wiki/Gisaburo_Sonobe

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/politics/virginia-mclaurin-dies/index.html

May he RIP. :( Heart attacks are extremely dangerous since they can come unexpectedly and be deadly. :( Mexico's oldest living man as died at almost age 111.5: https://globalsupercentenarianforum.com/index.php/community/deaths110-2022/francisco-juarez-iglesias-1911-2022/ Mexico's new oldest...

@Sergeant Foley FWIW, another member of the Ferguson v. McKiernan majority, specifically former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Ralph Cappy, also died young, with him unexpectedly dying at age 65 in 2009: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Cappy

lolno. I meant I knew about him.