List of centenarians (military commanders and soldiers) explained

The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as military commanders or soldiers – known for reasons other than their longevity. Living people are listed bolded. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.

NameLifespanAgeNotability
1888–1989 100 American admiral[1]
1910–2013 102 Iranian Army general[2]
1818–1924 106 Filipino general and President of the Magdiwang[3]
1922–2024 102 American Air Force officer and World War II flying ace[4]
1898–2003 104 German Luftwaffe general[5]
1881–1981 100 American vice admiral of the Navy[6]
1915–2015 100 British Army officer; recipient of the George Cross[7]
1918–2022 104 American World War II veteran[8] [9]
1902–2004 101 American army officer; founder of the Special Forces[10]
1919–2020 100 Canadian fighter pilot[11]
1912–2012 100 British army officer[12]
1918–2021 103 Soviet Air Defence Forces officer[13]
Bir Protik Noorjahan Kakon Bibi1915–2018 102/103 Bangladeshi spy[14]
1885–1986 101 British general[15]
1840–1942 102 American general[16]
1918–2021 103 American World War II flying ace[17]
1917–2020103 Soviet colonel, spy, partisan and intelligence officer[18]
1907–2011 103 American Navy officer[19]
Hugo Broch 1922– German World War II flying ace[20]
1921–2023 101 British prison governor, Women's Royal Army Corps officer, and aristocrat[21]
1920–2021 101 French Resistance fighter[22]
1920–2022 102 American Air Force general[23]
1900–2009 108 Last surviving Brazilian field marshal[24]
1910–2012 102 British Royal Air Force officer[25]
1922–2022 100 American World War II flying ace[26]
1921–2022 101 American air force colonel and test pilot[27]
1893–1993 100 British general[28]
1915–2019 103 American Air Force officer and last living participant of the Doolittle Raid[29]
1895–1996 101 American Navy admiral[30]
1920–2020 100 French Resistance fighter (Compagnon de la Libération)[31]
1917–2017 100 British Royal Navy officer and submariner[32]
1915–2015 100 American Navy officer; first female gunnery officer in U.S. Navy[33]
1917–2021 103 American Navy vice admiral[34]
1837–1938 100 Union Army general of the American Civil War[35]
Perry J. Dahl 1923– American Air Force officer and World War II flying ace[36]
1921–2024 102 French Navy admiral[37]
1909–2009 100 Indian Army general[38]
1916–2017 101 Chinese Air Force major[39]
1904–2015 111 American soldier (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps)[40]
1913–2018 104 American Navy lieutenant[41]
1918–2019 100 American Marine Corps lieutenant general[42]
1921–2022 100 Canadian fighter pilot[43]
1911–2017 105 American Army officer[44]
1913–2016 102 American Army officer[45]
1900–2004 103 British Royal Navy officer[46]
1917–2019 101 Chinese Army major general[47]
1914–2021 106 French soldier, Grand Croix of the Legion of Honour recipient[48] [49] [50]
1919–2020 100 American admiral[51]
1909–2010 100 American Navy officer; Medal of Honor recipient[52]
1918–2022 103 Italian partisan, spy and mathematician[53]
1913–2013 100 British Royal Air Force officer and businessman[54]
1896–1997 101 American author, publisher, military officer, and military lawyer[55]
1910–2015 104 American Navy officer
John Gonge 1921– American Air Force officer[56]
1914–2022 107 American Air Force officer[57]
1909–2010 101 Italian Army officer[58]
1920–2022 101 American Berlin Airlift pilot.[59]
1916–2017 100 American military officer[60]
1920–2022 101 Belgian World War II resistance fighter[61]
1913–2018 105 German U-boat commander[62]
James H. Harvey 1923– American Air Force pilot[63]
1916–2017 100 British Army officer[64]
1920–2021 100 American aviator and member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots[65]
1877–1977 100 American rmy general[66]
1826–1927 100 British general[67]
1915–2019 103 British Royal Air Force officer; Director of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF; 1966–69)[68]
John L. Hines1868–1968 100 American general and Chief of Staff of the United States Army[69]
1919–2020 100 Irish soldier and mercenary[70]
1922–2024 101 American Air Force general[71]
Frederick Augustus Irving1894–1995 101 American Army general and West Point Military Academy Superintendent[72]
1917–2018 101 American brigadier general[73]
1901–2001 100 Soviet Army major general[74]
1866–1971 105 American Navy admiral[75]
1893–1993 100 Polish Land Forces officer, diplomat and college professor[76]
1921–2022 101 British Royal Air Force officer and last surviving original member of No. 617 Squadron RAF and of Operation Chastise, the "Dambusters" raid of 1943[77]
Ed Keats1915–2019 104 American Navy officer[78] [79]
1913–2014 100 British Royal Navy officer[80]
1914–2016 102 British Naval officer; director of the Wrens (1966–1970)[81]
Bill King1910–2012 102 British Navy officer, yachtsman and author[82]
Nikolai Kirtok1921–2022 101 Ukrainian-born Russian Red Army pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945)[83]
1916–2016 100 American World War II Navy dive-bomber pilot[84]
1916–2017 100 Polish fighter pilot[85] [86]
1856–1958 102 German Army general[87]
1916–2016 100 Norwegian Army officer[88]
1919–2023 103 German-American resistance fighter (White Rose)[89]
1921–2022 101 American World War II flying ace[90]
1917–2019 101 British Army officer; educator[91]
1921–2023 102 South African-born New Zealand intelligence officer (SOE)[92]
1914–2020 106 Chinese Army major general[93]
1917–2018 101 Chinese Navy admiral[94]
1910–2018 108 French soldier during World War II[95]
Lu Zhengcao1905–2009 104 Chinese Army general[96]
1915–2020 104 British Army general[97]
1892–1994 102 Polish Army general[98]
1921–2021 100 Yugoslav army officer and politician[99]
1914–2020 105 British Royal Navy officer and first-class cricketer[100]
1921–2021 100 American American Air Force lieutenant general, joint commander of Operation Ivory Coast[101]
1913–2014 101 American Army officer[102]
Kenneth Mayhew1917–2021 104 British Army officer; recipient of the Military Order of William[103]
William V. McBride1922–2022 100 American Air Force general[104]
1919–2022 102 American fighter pilot and Tuskegee Airman[105]
1916–2016 100 American Air Force general[106]
James Megellas1917–2020 103 American Army officer[107]
1921–2023 102 American Air Force officer and WWII flying ace[108]
1887–1993 106 Japanese Navy admiral[109]
1913–2015 102 American Navy officer[110]
1918–2019 100 American Air Force major general[111]
1865–1965 100 British Admiral of the Fleet[112]
1912–2016 103 Greek military officer and politician, member of the Greek junta[113]
1911–2015 104 American Marine Corps officer[114] [115]
1914–2019 105 British Army general
1918–2023 105 American army general[116] [117]
Erich Priebke1913–2013 100 German Nazi SS captain and war criminal[118]
1913–2017 104 Israeli general[119]
John Carpenter Raaen Jr. 1922– American Major General.[120] [121] [122]
1911–2012 101 American army officer; director, Women's Army Corps[123]
1919–2023 103 Soviet colonel-general of aviation, Hero of the Soviet Union[124]
1914–2015 101 American Navy officer[125]
1917–2017 100 American Army officer[126]
1914–2015 101 Australian Royal Air Force pilot[127]
1915–2015 100 German Army officer[128]
1907–2010 103 English superintendent of the Women's Royal Naval Service[129]
1913–2015 102 Chinese military officer and agricultural reformer[130]
1920–2023 103 British Army officer, last original member of the Special Air Service[131]
1918–2018 100 Spanish Army officer and aviator[132]
1893–1995 102 German Army general[133]
1877–1978 101 American Medal of Honor recipient from the Boxer Rebellion[134]
1919–2021 102 American Marine Corps colonel, who led the company responsible for raising the flag on Iwo Jima[135]
1917–2017 100 American Women Airforce Service Pilot and activist[136]
Surindra Nath Sharma 1923– Indian Army general.[137]
1921–2022 100 American general[138]
1893–1998 104 American major general[139]
1911–2012 101 Marshal of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Soviet Union and Soviet Minister of Defence[140]
1918–2018 100 British Royal Air Force Air Marshal[141]
1922–2023 101 German-American decorated member of the Ritchie Boys[142] [143]
1899–2006 107 American SPARS director[144]
1903–2003 100 American Navy rear admiral
1904–2007 103 Chinese National Revolutionary Army general[145]
1888–1989 100 Japanese lieutenant general[146]
1920–2023 102 Lithuanian-born German Nazi concentration camp guard[147]
1917–2018 101 Polish brigadier general[148]
1916–2018 101 Armenian-born French resistance fighter (FTP-MOI) and historian[149]
1918–2020 102 American test pilot and bomber pilot of three wars[150]
1911–2014 103 New Zealand Naval officer[151]
1918–2022 103 Soviet soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945)[152]
Dan Tolkowsky 1921– Israeli Air Force officer[153]
1921–2021 100 Turkish military officer[154]
1920–2020 100 Soviet lieutenant general[155]
1892–1992 100 American Army general[156]
Neil D. Van Sickle1915–2019 104 American Air Force general[157]
Ronald R. Van Stockum1916–2022 105 American Marine brigadier general, who commanded Marine Corps Reserve.[158]
1912–2013 100 Ecuadorian general (Chief of Staff)[159]
1880–1985 104 Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle; recipient of the Black Emblem of the Macedonian Struggle[160]
1913–2015 101 British Royal Air Force officer[161]
1911–2013 102 Vietnamese general and Minister of Defence[162]
Herbert Wahler 1921– German Einsatzgruppe C member.[163]
1916–2017 101 British Army officer[164]
1791–1892 100 British Admiral of the Fleet[165]
1920–2023 102 Chinese general[166]
1917–2020 102 American Vice Admiral[167]
1915–2017 101 British Army Major[168]
1914–2017 102 British Royal Navy officer[169]
1912–2013 100 Dutch military officer and pilot[170]
1907–2008 101 Chinese general[171]
1896–1998 101 Chinese general[172]
1919–2022 103 Chinese military officer[173]
1914–2016 101 Israeli lieutenant-colonel in the Israeli Defence Forces[174]
1901–2001 100 Chinese general[175]
1914–2015 100 Chinese general[176]
1917–2017 100 Soviet Air Force major general[177]

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  58. News: Amedeo Guillet, il Lawrence d'Arabia italiano, compie 100 anni. it. Il Velino.it. 2009-02-07. 2009-02-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20110722040318/http://www.ilvelino.it/articolo.php?Id=762557. 2011-07-22. dead.
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