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1. Born in January 1888, Sir Thomas Sopwith died in January 1989 at the age of 101. What was the name of the single-seater biplane built by his aviation company, famously flown by British pilots in the First World War?
2. This is Aaron S. Daggett, who died in May 1938 at the age of 100. What was his particular claim to fame at the time of his death?
3. This picture shows Hollywood producer Hal Roach in 1920. He is now most fondly remembered for his work with which famous comic double-act in the 1920s and 30s?
4. This centenarian wrote some of the most popular songs of the twentieth century, including "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "White Christmas". Who is he?
5. This early photograph shows Anna Mary Robertson in the 1860s. By what name did she become famous much later in her long life?
6. This 1914 publicity photograph shows ballet dancer Ninette de Valois at the age of 16. With which famous ballet company, founded by Sergei Diaghilev, did she dance from 1923-27?s
7. This picture shows musician Mieczysław Horszowski in 1990 at the age of 98. Believe it or not, at that time he was still giving public recitals on his chosen instrument. What instrument did he play?
8. This centenarian had a distinguished, if sometimes controversial, career as a film-maker and photographer. Seen here in a striking 1928 image by Alexander Binder, who is she?
9. This picture is of Sir Nicholas Winton. Other than reaching his hundredth birthday, what did he do that makes him particularly deserving of a place in this quiz?
10. This rather charming photograph shows the subject of the question in 1897, at the age of 22. She died a full hundred years after it was taken, in 1997. Who was she?
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