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Oldest Booker Prize winner at 81 British author M. John Harrison

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  2. FAUJA Singh, the world’s oldest distance runner, has died in a road accident aged 114 after getting hit by a car in Punjab, India.

    World’s oldest marathoner dies at 114

    Fauja Singh, the legendary “Turbaned Tornado” and world’s oldest distance runner, has died at age 114 after a tragic road accident in Punjab, ending a…

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  6. This handout photo taken on 5 March 2025 and releaced by the Guinness World Records 7 March 2025 shows 108-year-old Japanese woman Shitsui Hakoishi, born in 1916, posing with her certificate recognized as the world's oldest working female barber at her shop in Nakagawa, Tochigi Prefecture. Hakoishi, 108-year-old, has been certified the world's oldest barber, Guinness World Records said — and she has pledged to keep working until at least 110.

    Japanese barber, 108, crowned world's oldest

    Shitsui Hakoishi, a 108-year-old Japanese barber, has been certified as the world's oldest by Guinness World Records. Still actively cutting hair, she aims to…

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  9. Agnes Keleti shows the gold medals that she won in the Olympic Games in Helsinki 1952 and Melbourne 1956 in this file photo. Keleti, the world’s oldest Olympic champion, has died at 103.

    Keleti, oldest Olympic champion, dies at 103

    Agnes Keleti, the legendary gymnast and Holocaust survivor, has passed away at 103. Known as the world's oldest Olympic champion, she won ten medals and…

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