20 Accomplished seniors over 80 years old

• At 80, Christine Brown of Laguna Hills, California, flew to China and scaled the Great Wall of China
• At 81, Bill Painter became the oldest person to climb Mt. Rainier’s 14,411-foot summit.
• At 82, William Ivy Baldwin became the world’s oldest tightrope walker when he crossed the South Boulder Canyon in Colorado on a 320-foot wire.
• At 83, Benjamin Spock, a famous infant doctor, advocated for global peace.
• At 84, W. Somerset Maugham published “Points of View.”
• At 85, Theodor Mommsen received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• At 86, It took Katherine Pelton 3 minutes, 1.14 seconds to swim the 200-meter butterfly, which is more than 20 seconds faster than the men’s world record for that age group.
• At 87, Mary Baker Eddy started the Christian Science Monitor.
• At 88, Michelangelo designed the architectural blueprints for the Church of Santa Maria Degli Angeli.
• At 89, In Carnegie Hall, Arthur Rubinstein gave one of his best performances.
• At 90, Marc Chagall was the first living artist to show his work at the Louvre.
• At 91, Allan Stewart of New South Wales graduated from the University of New England with a Bachelor of Law degree.
• At 92, Paul Spangler ran his 14th marathon.
• At 93, Wodehouse wrote his 97th book, was honoured, and passed.
• At 94, George Burns played in Schenectady, New York, 63 years after his first appearance there.
• At 95, Nola Ochs became the world’s oldest college graduate.
• At 96, Harry Bernstein released his first book, “The Invisible Wall,” three years after he began writing to deal with loneliness following the death of his wife of 70 years, Ruby.
• At 97, Martin Miller was still working full-time as a lobbyist for senior benefits.
• At 98, Beatrice Wood, a ceramicist, displayed her most recent work.
• At 99, Teiichi Igarashi reached the summit of Mt. Fuji.
• At 100, Frank Schearer is the world’s oldest active water skier.