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Dead at age 101
138 Notable deaths
Piet de Jong
43rd prime minister of the netherlands (1915-2016).
Born April 3rd, 1915 in Apeldoorn.
Died July 27th, 2016 at 101 years old in The Hague. [ref]
Walter Munk
American oceanographer (1917-2019).
Born October 19th, 1917 in Vienna.
Died February 8th, 2019 at 101 years old in La Jolla.
Xue Yue
National revolutionary army general.
Born December 26th, 1896 in Lechang.
Died May 3rd, 1998 at 101 years old in Chiayi County.
Roman Totenberg
Polish-american musician.
Born January 1st, 1911 in Łódź.
Died May 8th, 2012 at 101 years old in Newton. [ref]
Naomi Mitchison
Scottish novelist and poet (1897–1999).
Born November 1st, 1897 in Edinburgh.
Died January 11th, 1999 at 101 years old in Carradale.
Helge Ingstad
Norwegian explorer.
Born December 30th, 1899 in Meråker. [ref]
Died March 29th, 2001 at 101 years old in Oslo. [ref]
Friedrich Hund
German physicist (1896-1997).
Born February 4th, 1896 in Karlsruhe. [ref]
Died March 31st, 1997 at 101 years old in Göttingen. [ref]
Gottfried Böhm
German architect (1920-2021).
Born January 21st, 1920 in Offenbach am Main. [ref]
Died June 9th, 2021 at 101 years old in Cologne. [ref]
Edmond H. Fischer
American biochemist.
Born April 6th, 1920 in Shanghai.
Died August 27th, 2021 at 101 years old in Seattle. [ref]
Neagu Djuvara
Romanian historian.
Born August 31st, 1916 in Bucharest.
Died January 25th, 2018 at 101 years old in Bucharest (pneumonia). [ref]
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. Leo Tolstoy