• Peter Mark Roget published the first edition of Roget’s Thesaurus at 73 and oversaw every update until he passed away at 90.
• Grandma Moses began painting art at age 76 and painted almost daily until her death at age 101.
• Nelson Mandela was elected President of South Africa at 76.
• Laura Ingalls Wilder’s first book in the “Little House on the Prairie” series was published when she was 64.
• When Harriette Thompson ran in her fifteenth marathon, the Suja Rock ‘n’ Roll San Diego Marathon, in 2014 she was 91.
• In 2018, at 95, Chau Thi Vo of Vaughan, Ontario, a prominent advocate for seniors in the Vietnamese community, was representing the Golden Age Village for the Elderly at fundraiser events and accompanying the Village’s board of directors to meetings with local politicians. She was also knitting hats and scarves for the homeless and leading charity efforts for disaster relief funds.