Famous people in their 90s who are still alive

Not really three centuries.

Dr Ruth

I think Willie Nelson is the only person mentioned on this thread who is clearly still "active" at what he has been doing for decades -- I checked and, yes, he is currently on tour.

"Mr. Baseball" (Bob Uecker) turns 90 in January and still calls Brewers home games -- I would also consider that active.

Yes, 3 centuries: the 19th, 20th, and 21st. The first day of the 20th century was 1/1/1901.

Look it up.

Dick Van Dyke

Hahaha.

I forgot that there are people who go out of their way to publicly make this error.

Similarly, it was so precious when every loser in America spent the year 2000 chirping about how it wasn't yet the new millennium.

Queen Elizabeth was born in 1900 and lived in two (not three) different centuries: the 1900s and the 2000s. If it makes you feel better, she also lived in two different millennia.

Your ignorance is outstanding.

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Twentieth century does not begin on January 1, 1900.

On January 1, 1900, the twentieth century does not begin. Rather, this New Year's Day begins the last year of the nineteenth century. The twentieth century begins on January 1, 1901.

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LeBron is like 96

Meh, maybe technically but 1899 would have qualified her to be born in three different numerical centuries which is what most people would mean but you already knew that. Derp!

Exactly.

These twerps are so cute, thinking they are saying something we haven't already heard.

1900 was in the 1900s (and the 20th century) by all relevant usages. (Hint, the usage where you say '2000 is not actually a new millennium!' is not relevant to anyone but you.)

The meaning of the word is what the word means, kiddos. Think about that. ;)

Buddy.

We know.

We all listened to geeks who don't actually understand language babbling about this (and getting it wrong) through 1999 and 2000.😆

Get with the times:

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New millennium is heralded across Washington on January 1, 2000.

On January 1, 2000, revelers in Washington join those throughout the world to celebrate the arrival of the twenty-first century and the start of a new millennium. Seattle officials cancel the planned

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Years of Debate
Press coverage of the millennium celebrations consistently noted "some people felt that" or "technically" the new millennium would not arrive for another year, while making clear that for the vast majority of people the obvious changeover in all four digits of the year ("1999" to "2000"), rather than the slight change from 0 to 1 a year later, marked the start of the new century and millennium. This represented a significant difference from the previous century transition, when publications and events in Washington and worldwide celebrated the start of the twentieth century not in 1900 but in 1901.

Joan Collins is 90.

Ellen Burstyn is 90.

Rita Moreno is 91.

Barbara Eden is 92.

Gena Rowlands is 93.

Joanne Woodward is 93.

Cloris Leachman is 94.

Eva Marie Saint is 99.

Actually is. 1900 was 19th century and 2002 was 21st century.

Those Lizard people live forever

I haven't read every post so someone may have already mentioned Harrison Ruffin Tyler. Assuming he lasts until Nov.9 he'll be 95. His grandfather was John Tyler, the 10th US president who took office in 1840 after Zachary Taylor died. He had a brother who was alive not that long ago.

No, sorry, that's wrong. There was no Year Zero; the first century CE began with the first year i.e. 1 CE, and ended with the year 100.

So the nineteenth century CE ended with 1900, and the twentieth began with 1901.

Not gonna check all the others, but Cloris Leachman died a couple years ago.

Okay, I LOLed.