Διαβάζοντας κανείς την ειδική έκδοση που είχε χθές το ΒΗΜΑ για τις επετείους που συμπληρώνονται το 2008, βλέπει πως τη χρονιά που άρχισε "κλείνουν" εκατό χρόνια από τη γέννηση των Χέρμπερτ φον Κάραγιαν, Ιαν Φλέμιγκ, Ανρί Καρτιέ Μπρεσόν, Τζόν Γκαλμπρέϊθ και Κλόντ Λεβί- Στρός.Η συγκέντρωση στη μικρή αυτή λίστα πολλών διασήμων μου κίνησε την περιέργεια να δώ, ποιοί άλλοι "αναλόγων προσόντων" έχουν γεννηθεί το 1908. Χρησιμοποιώντας, λοιπόν, τη μηχανή αναζήτησης του Google "έπεσα" στο μπλόγκ "What do I know?", όπου και βρήκα ό,τι ακριβώς είχα στο μυαλό μου να αναρτήσω:
"As we move into 2008 it seems useful to look back to get some perspective. Doing that I found on brainyhistory.com a day-by-day list of events for 1908. You can click the link to see it. The page included people born in 1908. I thought that list more interesting. This list of people seems to be US centric, though I spotted some European born people and at least three African Americans.
Of all the people on the list only two appear to be possibly still alive. Deadoralive.com says that Claude Levi-Strauss is still alive. But it didn't have George Kimble, a famous geographer, listed, so I couldn't tell. I have not double checked all the dates that I got from brainyhistory.com. However, for all the people who did not have death dates, I googled and got added the death dates with and *, mainly from Wikipedia.
Abraham H. Maslow 1908 - 1970
Alistair Cooke 1908 - 2004
Amy Vanderbilt 1908 - 1974
Arthur J. Goldberg 1908 - 1990
Bette Davis 1908 - 1989
Cesare Pavese 1908 - 1950
Claude Levi-Strauss 1908 -
Edward R. Murrow 1908 - 1965
Edward Teller 1908 - 2003
Estee Lauder 1908 - 2004
Frank Leahy 1908 - 1973
George Kimble 1908 - ??
Harry A. Blackmun 1908 - 1999*
Jacob Bronowski 1908 - 1974
Jimmy Stewart 1908 - 1997
John Kenneth Galbraith 1908 - 2006*
Joshua Logan 1908 - 1988*
Lawrence Welk 1908 - 1992
Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 - 1973
Leo Rosten 1908 - 1997
Louis L'Amour 1908 - 1988
Milton Berle 1908 - 2002
Quentin Crisp 1908 - 1999
Rex Harrison 1908 - 1990
Richard Wright 1908 - 1960
Robert Morley 1908 - 1992
Rosalind Russell 1908 - 1976
Simone de Beauvoir 1908 - 1986
Theodore Roethke 1908 - 1963
Thurgood Marshall 1908 - 1993
William Randolph Hearst, Jr. 1908 - 1993*
William Saroyan 1908 - 1981
Yousuf Karsh 1908 - 2002
Mary Hemingway 1908 - 1984*
Eddie Albert 1908 - 2005*
Lefty Gomez 1908 - 1989*
Paul Brown 1908 - 1991
Ethel Merman 1908 - 1984
Carl Albert 1908 - 2000*
Rene Daumal 1908 - 1944
Greer Garson 1908 - 1996
Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908 -2004
Pauline Frederick 1908 - 1990
Carole Lombard 1908 - 1942
John Holt 1908 - 1967
Osbert Lancaster 1908 - 1980
Who are they all? I don't know them all, but there are at least three US Supreme Court justices, lots of actors, a great photographer, newsman, comedian, a US president, an economist and ambassador to India, the psychologist who authored the Hierarchy of Needs, a baseball player, a congressman, a key architect of the atom bomb, several writers...
I thought it would be interesting to see how many people born in 1908 are still alive. That is a fairly complicated question to ask it appears. The best I can find is the number of centarians, but that is everyone over 100. Actually as of today, most people born in 2008 would still be 99. Here's the Google-answer for the question: Number of 100 year old U.S. citizens per 100,000 population for various dates.
In 2000, there were 50,454 centenarians in the United States, or 1 per 5,578 people, or roughly 18 per 100,000
In 1990, there were 37,306 centenarians in the United States. or 1 per 6,667 people, or roughly 15 per 100,000
Apparently the numbers before these are less accurate. But the researcher did provide this as well:
In 1900, there were 46 centenarians per million people in the US, or4.6 per 100,000In 1930, there were approximately 35 centenarians per million peopleor 3.5 per 100,000So, there are a lot more today (18/100,000 rather than 4.6/100,000 in 1900). I'm guessing the drop between 1900 and 1930 might reflect the 1918-20 flu epidemic.
Who born in 2008 will be on this list in 2108? Among all those babies born will be a host of people who will go on to be world famous. So treat them with respect. You never know what the will achieve".
In 1900, there were 46 centenarians per million people in the US, or4.6 per 100,000In 1930, there were approximately 35 centenarians per million peopleor 3.5 per 100,000So, there are a lot more today (18/100,000 rather than 4.6/100,000 in 1900). I'm guessing the drop between 1900 and 1930 might reflect the 1918-20 flu epidemic.
Who born in 2008 will be on this list in 2108? Among all those babies born will be a host of people who will go on to be world famous. So treat them with respect. You never know what the will achieve".
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Thanks for the link, glad you liked the post. What does the Greek say? My trip through Greece long, long ago (1965) is one of my favorite memories. Starting in Thesalonika, hitching south, getting picked up by a motorcyclist in March and riding along in a snowstorm. Stopping in villages and being dragged into the bakeries and put near the oven to warm up and eating give delicious warm bread and yogurt and honey. And that was just the beginning.
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