Saturday, July 28, 2012

Wally Hayward: 36

Wallace ("Wally") Henry Hayward (10 July 1908 – 28 April 2006) was a South African endurance athlete with a 60 year career. He has won the Comrades Marathon five times and completed the distance of around 90 km the last time just before his eighty-first birthday. Sportsman of the Year 1953. Wikipedia

Sophie Pienaar: 35

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19700604&id=eAkyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tpADAAAAIBAJ&pg=1888,591377 Sophie Pienaar (born Smit) - born on 5 dec 1927 in Morreesburg. Springbok Netball 1967. Husband - Louis, Son - Wessel. East London.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Leendert Hasenbosch: 34

Survived: around 6 months on the Ascension Islands Leendert Hasenbosch was a Dutch soldier who went aboard a VOC-ship as the bookkeeper. After the ship made a stop at Cape Town in 1725 he was sentenced for sodomy and set ashore on Ascension Island. He was given a tent and the amount of water for about a month, some seeds, a bible, clothing and writing materials. Hasenbosch survived by eating sea turtles and seabirds as well as drinking his own urine. It is believed he probably died in a terrible condition after about six months. Leendert Hasenbosch wrote a diary that was found by British mariners in 1726 who brought the diary back to Britain. The diary was rewritten and published a number of times. from:http://listverse.com/2008/10/06/10-incredible-real-life-castaway-tales/