# Turning 100 at least

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**Created:** [May 1, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-100-at-least/852941 "2020-05-01T02:03:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-100-at-least/852941/1 "2020-05-01T02:03:21Z")

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I didn’t want to hijack this thread by cochrane:

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=895309](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=895309)

Major Tom is amazing!!!

But I just ran across this guy on YouTube, who turned 100 in March. I’d never heard of him myself, but he is a prominent figure, and the last of the prosecutors of the Nuremberg trials.

[Ben Ferencz, the last living Nuremberg prosecutor, turns 100 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZHTtfTXjrA) Nuremberg prosecutor

> **[The man behind ‘the biggest murder trial in history’](https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/3/11/benjamin-ferencz-the-last-surviving-nuremberg-prosecutor)**
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> At 27, he took on the Nazis in the courtroom at Nuremberg and has been fighting for justice ever since.

Mr. Ferencz also has a Wikipedia article, and a lot about him all around the internet.

Feel free to add your stories of amazing centenarians.