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List_of_American_supercentenarians

American supercentenarians are citizens or residents of the United States who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 782 American supercentenarians. As of March 12, 2024, it lists the oldest living American-born person as Spanish emigrant Maria Branyas (born in San Francisco, California, on March 4, 1907), aged 117 years, 8 days. The oldest American resident is listed as Elizabeth Francis (born in Houston, Texas, on July 25, 1909), aged 114 years, 231 days. The longest-lived person ever from the United States is Sarah Knauss, of Hollywood, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, who died on December 30, 1999, aged 119 years and 97 days.

Hernando_Guerra_García

Hernando Guerra-García Campos (14 May 1963 – 29 September 2023), better known as Nano Guerra, was a Peruvian politician, businessman, and television presenter. He served as a congressman representing Lima for Fuerza Popular from 27 July 2021, until his death in office.

Bill_Cody_Jr.

Bill Cody Jr. (April 18, 1925 – August 11, 1989) was an American motion picture child actor.
Born William Joseph Cody Jr. in Los Angeles, California, where his father Bill Cody was a cowboy star of B-movie westerns, the youngster was reportedly 7 years old when he accompanied his father on a personal appearance tour throughout the United States. Bill Cody Jr. was nine years old when he began appearing in films, the first four of which were with his father.

Randi_Flesland

Randi Runa Svenkerud Flesland (born 17 November 1955 in Oslo) is a Norwegian civil servant.
Flesland was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, with education in economics, with addition of psychology and pedagogy in the universities of Oslo and Davis, California. She had several leading positions in Norges Statsbaner, for 17 yrs until 2000, such as head of Intercity, Financial director and finally deputy CEO.
She then became director of the Norwegian National Airport Administration; later the agency became Avinor. She was in charge of a substantial restructurering of work processes and increased efficiency in order to make financial room for large safety investments. She resigned December 2005 after a long conflict of interests with the trade unions for traffic controllers. She was instead hired in IBM. In 2008, she became the new director of the Norwegian Consumer Council. She has also held several executive board positions, mostly within transport and public health.She shares the name Flesland with Norway's second largest airport.

Arlene_Williams

Arlene Williams (January 9, 1946 – September 20, 2017) was the host of Cornerstone Television's show At Home With Arlene Williams. The show has been on the air weekly since July 1991. It has been in over 100 markets in America, and in Jamaica, Eastern Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. The show gives viewers simple recipes and cooking hints along with Williams preparing the food and giving directions on how to make it. Williams died on September 20, 2017.
A native of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area, Williams started cooking when she was nine years old. Her father was a pastor. Her mother encouraged her to try recipes that seemed difficult.

Eva_Dahr

Eva Frederikke Dahr (30 October 1958 – 12 May 2019) was a Norwegian film director, playwright, and film producer. She studied at Volda University College and the Bela Balaz studio in Budapest, Hungary.Dahr was a prolific director of short films. She was the conceptual director of the TV drama Himmelblå (2008–10) and also directed the film The Orange Girl, a 2009 adaptation of the 2003 Jostein Gaarder novel Appelsinpiken. Together with her sister, actress Juni Dahr, she made two short films, Dolce Vita (1989) and Troll (1991).The director won many Norwegian and international awards, including an Amanda Award and a Gullstolen at the Kortfilmfestivalen i Grimstad, for the short film En mann (1997).
Dahr died in 2019 at age 60, following a long illness.

Annichen_Kringstad

Annichen Kringstad (born 15 July 1960 in Oslo, Norway) is a Swedish orienteer. Kringstad was the first household name orienteer in Sweden, and she was a major reason for the popularisation of the sport. Kringstad won the world championships individually as well as in the relay format in 1981, 1983 and 1985, before retiring at the age of 25. She represented Säffle OK, OK Ravinen and Stora Tuna IK orienteering clubs.
She won the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal and Jerring Award in 1981.

Teri_Suzanne

Teri Suzanne (born August 18, 1948) is an American bilingual actress, freehand cut paper artist, author, children's songwriter, and creator of the first bilingual family theatre program and theatre group Performing Arts Group (P.A.G) at the Aoyama Theatre in Japan. She is also a producer of English and bilingual multi-media edutainment products, and edutainer with music labels and companies such as Nippon Columbia, Polygon Records, Crayola, Benesse, and SONY Suzanne is known for her television series English in Action produced through NHKsoftware for the Ministry of Science and Education. She was Head of the International Department at the National Children's Castle.The Tokyo Journal named her as one of 50 foreigners who have made a difference in Japan.