Centenarians by DoyleE

The holder of the record for longest confirmed human lifespan was born in what country, and died there in 1997 at age 122?

Alf Landon, who died in 1987 at age 100, was the Republican nominee for President of the United States in what year?

Ellen Albertini Dow, who died last May at age 101, performs the Sugarhill Gang song "Rapper's Delight" in what 1998 film?

Who wrote the 1964 novel Up the Down Staircase? She died in 2014 at age 103.

Strom Thurmond, who died in 2003 at age 100, represented what state for eight U.S. Senate terms?

What comedian, who died in 1996 at age 100, plays the titular role in the Oh, God! film trilogy?

Who wrote the songs "Cheek to Cheek," "Puttin' on the Ritz," and "There's No Business Like Show Business"? He died in 1989 at age 101.

Doris Haddock, who died in 2010 at age 100, walked from Pasadena, California, to Washington, D.C., to promote what cause? She began the walk on January 1, 1999, and ended it on February 29, 2000.

Basil Hayden, who died in 2003 at age 103, was a basketball player for the University of Kentucky, and later coach of the team. He is not to be confused with Basil Hayden's, a brand of what?

Who won the Academy Award for Best Actress two consecutive years, for The Great Ziegfeld and The Good Earth? She died in 2014 at age 104.

Who painted The Old Checkered House, The Old Covered Bridge, and The Old Oaken Bucket? When she died in 1961 at age 101, then-President Kennedy eulogized her as follows: "The directness and vividness of her paintings restored a primitive freshness to our perception of the American scene."

According to the title of a 2011 short story by Stephen King, this writer "Is Still Alive." The titular man released the memoir Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author in January 2016 at the predictable age of 100. (edited at 8:49 am, January 28, 2016 (EST))