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The Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies in Japan at 117 (kottke.org)
Jason Kottke: As of 2015, only two women born in the 1800s and two others born in 1900 (the last year of the 19th century) were still alive. In the next two years, three of those women passed away, including Jamaican Violet Brown, the last living subject of Queen Victoria, who reigned over the British Empire starting in 1837. Last week Nabi Tajima, the last known survivor of the 19th century, died in Japan at age 117.
19th century didn't happen, totally fake news by the Fake News Media and overpaid WRONG government scientists. so sad.
Table-ized A.I.
I've noticed a disturbing bit of a trend, I think it indicates a global conspiracy: Someone is killing off the world's oldest people. Watch, I bet this will happen. They will identify who the next oldest person in the world is and shortly after that, that person will die. And they all seem to be dying of "natural causes" a statistical improbability. Someone is out there killing off the oldest people in the world. Mark my words.
No lifespans over 120 (two significant digits) years.
Still holding for 2500+ years of history.
Genesis 6:3
I demand equal lifespans for all people.
Do you know why husbands die before their wives?
Because they want to.
First day of April = April 2
Second day of April = April 3
Third day of April = April 4
Fourth day of April = April 5
Fifth day of April = April 6
Sixth day of April = April 7
Seventh day of April = April 7
Eighth day of April = April 8
Ninth day of April = April 9
Tenth day of April = April 10
Why can there be no year zero?
For the same reason, that ancient programming languages like Fortran have arrays that start with 1. Zero was a reasonably new concept that far back having only been invented around 4-5th century BC in India and using it would probably have confused most people.
This poor woman was still hanging on waiting to see The Year of Linux on the Desktop (tm)