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This article is about specific supercentenarian claims validated by modern standards. For the oldest currently living people, see List of oldest living people.

These are lists of the 100 known verified oldest people sorted in descending order by age in years and days.[a]

The oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified is Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) of France, who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days.[b] The oldest verified man ever is Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013) of Japan, who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days.

The oldest known living person is Maria Branyas of Spain, aged 116 years, 41 days.[5] The oldest known living man is Juan Vicente Pérez of Venezuela, aged 113 years, 322 days.[5] The 100 oldest women have, on average, lived several years longer than the 100 oldest men.

100 verified oldest women

The list including known and validated supercentenarians who died before 2015 was compiled by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).[6] Later cases are included in more recent GRG data,[5][7] with administrative reports or press coverage as supplementary sources, as indicated in the table.

  Deceased
  Living

Rank Name Birth date Death date Age Place of death
or residence
01 Jeanne Calment[8] 21 February 1875 4 August 1997 122 years, 164 days[b] France
02 Kane Tanaka[7] 2 January 1903 19 April 2022[9] 119 years, 107 days Japan
03 Sarah Knauss[10] 24 September 1880 30 December 1999 119 years, 97 days United States
04 Lucile Randon[5] 11 February 1904 17 January 2023[11] 118 years, 340 days France
05 Nabi Tajima[7] 4 August 1900 21 April 2018 117 years, 260 days Japan
06 Marie-Louise Meilleur[12] 29 August 1880 16 April 1998 117 years, 230 days Canada
07 Violet Brown[7] 10 March 1900 15 September 2017 117 years, 189 days Jamaica
08 Emma Morano[7][13] 29 November 1899 15 April 2017 117 years, 137 days Italy
09 Chiyo Miyako[7][14] 2 May 1901 22 July 2018[15] 117 years, 81 days Japan
10 Misao Okawa[7] 5 March 1898 1 April 2015 117 years, 27 days Japan
11 Francisca Celsa dos Santos[7] 21 October 1904 5 October 2021 116 years, 349 days Brazil
12 María Capovilla[16] 14 September 1889 27 August 2006 116 years, 347 days Ecuador
13 Susannah Mushatt Jones[7] 6 July 1899 12 May 2016 116 years, 311 days United States
14 Gertrude Weaver[7] 4 July 1898 6 April 2015 116 years, 276 days United States
15 Antonia da Santa Cruz[7] 13 June 1905 23 January 2022 116 years, 224 days Brazil
16 Tane Ikai[17] 18 January 1879 12 July 1995 116 years, 175 days Japan
17 Jeanne Bot[7] 14 January 1905 22 May 2021[18] 116 years, 128 days France
18 Elizabeth Bolden[19] 15 August 1890 11 December 2006 116 years, 118 days United States
19 Besse Cooper[20] 26 August 1896 4 December 2012 116 years, 100 days United States
20 Maria Giuseppa Robucci[7] 20 March 1903 18 June 2019[21] 116 years, 90 days Italy
21 Tekla Juniewicz[7] 10 June 1906 19 August 2022 116 years, 70 days Poland[c]
22 Ana María Vela Rubio[7] 29 October 1901 15 December 2017 116 years, 47 days Spain
23 Maria Branyas[5] 4 March 1907 Living 116 years, 41 days Spain[d]
24 Giuseppina Projetto[7] 30 May 1902 6 July 2018 116 years, 37 days Italy
25 Jeralean Talley[7] 23 May 1899 17 June 2015 116 years, 25 days United States
26 Fusa Tatsumi[5] 25 April 1907 Living 115 years, 354 days Japan
27 Shigeyo Nakachi[7] 1 February 1905 11 January 2021 115 years, 345 days Japan
28 Maggie Barnes[22][e] 6 March 1882 19 January 1998 115 years, 319 days United States
29 Dina Manfredini[6] 4 April 1897 17 December 2012 115 years, 257 days United States[f]
30 Shimoe Akiyama[7] 19 May 1903 29 January 2019 115 years, 255 days Japan
31 Hester Ford[7] 15 August 1905 17 April 2021 115 years, 245 days United States
32 Charlotte Hughes[23] 1 August 1877 17 March 1993 115 years, 228 days United Kingdom
33 Edna Parker[24] 20 April 1893 26 November 2008 115 years, 220 days United States
34 Mary Ann Rhodes[25] 12 August 1882 3 March 1998 115 years, 203 days Canada
35 Anonymous of Tokyo[7] 15 March 1900 27 September 2015 115 years, 196 days Japan
36 Margaret Skeete[26] 27 October 1878 7 May 1994 115 years, 192 days United States
37 Bernice Madigan[7] 24 July 1899 3 January 2015[27] 115 years, 163 days United States
38 Gertrude Baines[28] 6 April 1894 11 September 2009 115 years, 158 days United States
39 Bettie Wilson[29] 13 September 1890 13 February 2006 115 years, 153 days United States
40 Shin Matsushita[7] 30 March 1904 27 August 2019 115 years, 150 days Japan
41 Iris Westman[7] 28 August 1905 3 January 2021[30] 115 years, 128 days United States
42 Julie Winnefred Bertrand[31] 16 September 1891 18 January 2007 115 years, 124 days Canada
43 Maria de Jesus[32] 10 September 1893 2 January 2009 115 years, 114 days Portugal
44 Marie-Josephine Gaudette[7] 25 March 1902 13 July 2017[33] 115 years, 110 days Italy[g]
45 Susie Gibson[34] 31 October 1890 16 February 2006 115 years, 108 days United States
Thelma Sutcliffe[7] 1 October 1906 17 January 2022 United States
47 Casilda Benegas Gallego[7] 8 April 1907 28 June 2022[35] 115 years, 81 days Argentina[h]
48 Augusta Holtz[36] 3 August 1871 21 October 1986 115 years, 79 days United States[i]
49 Valentine Ligny[7] 22 October 1906 4 January 2022 115 years, 74 days France
50 Edie Ceccarelli[5] 5 February 1908 Living 115 years, 68 days United States
51 Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper[37] 29 June 1890 30 August 2005 115 years, 62 days Netherlands
52 Bessie Hendricks[5] 7 November 1907 3 January 2023[38] 115 years, 57 days United States
53 Maude Farris-Luse[39] 21 January 1887 18 March 2002 115 years, 56 days United States
54 Mina Kitagawa[7] 3 November 1905 19 December 2020 115 years, 46 days Japan
55 Marie Brémont[40] 25 April 1886 6 June 2001 115 years, 42 days France
56 Yoshi Otsunari[7] 17 December 1906 26 January 2022 115 years, 40 days Japan
57 Koto Okubo[41] 24 December 1897 12 January 2013 115 years, 19 days Japan
58 Antonia Gerena Rivera[7] 19 May 1900 2 June 2015 115 years, 14 days United States[j]
59 Chiyono Hasegawa[42] 20 November 1896 2 December 2011 115 years, 12 days Japan
60 Annie Jennings[43] 12 November 1884 20 November 1999 115 years, 8 days United Kingdom
61 Anonymous of Hyōgo[7] 29 April 1907 30 April 2022 115 years, 1 day Japan
62 Eva Morris[44] 8 November 1885 2 November 2000 114 years, 360 days United Kingdom
63 Kama Chinen[45] 10 May 1895 2 May 2010 114 years, 357 days Japan
64 Mary Bidwell[46] 9 May 1881 25 April 1996[47] 114 years, 352 days United States
65 Sofia Rojas[7] 13 August 1907 30 July 2022 114 years, 351 days Colombia
66 Maria Gomes Valentim[48] 9 July 1896 21 June 2011 114 years, 347 days Brazil
67 Ophelia Burks[49] 25 October 1903 27 September 2018 114 years, 337 days United States
68 Tomiko Itooka[5] 23 May 1908 Living 114 years, 326 days Japan
69 Kahoru Furuya[7] 18 February 1908 25 December 2022[50] 114 years, 310 days Japan
Inah Canabarro Lucas[5] 8 June 1908 Living 114 years, 310 days Brazil
71 Hazel Plummer[5] 19 June 1908 Living 114 years, 299 days United States
72 Mary Josephine Ray[51] 17 May 1895 7 March 2010 114 years, 294 days United States[k]
73 Goldie Steinberg[7][52] 30 October 1900 16 August 2015[53] 114 years, 290 days United States[l]
74 Kiyoko Ishiguro[7] 4 March 1901 5 December 2015 114 years, 276 days Japan
75 Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes[6] 24 October 1890 25 July 2005 114 years, 274 days Portugal
Eudoxie Baboul[7] 1 October 1901 1 July 2016 France (French Guiana)
77 Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan[54] 31 August 1889 29 May 2004 114 years, 272 days Puerto Rico
78 Yukie Hino[7] 17 April 1902 13 January 2017 114 years, 271 days Japan
79 Delphine Gibson[7] 17 August 1903 9 May 2018 114 years, 265 days United States
80 Eugénie Blanchard[55] 16 February 1896 4 November 2010 114 years, 261 days France (Saint Barthélemy)
81 Venere Pizzinato[6] 23 November 1896 2 August 2011 114 years, 252 days Italy[m]
82 Neva Morris[56] 3 August 1895 6 April 2010 114 years, 246 days United States
83 Hide Ohira[6] 15 September 1880 9 May 1995 114 years, 236 days Japan
84 Blanche Cobb[7][57] 8 September 1900 1 May 2015[58] 114 years, 235 days United States
85 Ethel Lang[7] 27 May 1900 15 January 2015 114 years, 233 days United Kingdom
86 Mila Mangold[7] 14 November 1907 2 July 2022[59] 114 years, 230 days United States
87 Yone Minagawa[60] 4 January 1893 13 August 2007 114 years, 221 days Japan
88 María Antonia Castro[6][61] 10 June 1881 16 January 1996 114 years, 220 days Spain
89 Carrie Lazenby[6] 9 February 1882 14 September 1996 114 years, 218 days United States
Ura Koyama[62] 30 August 1890 5 April 2005 Japan
91 Myrtle Dorsey[63] 22 November 1885 25 June 2000 114 years, 216 days United States
92 Yoshi Baba[7] 3 June 1907 4 January 2022[64] 114 years, 215 days Japan
93 Iso Nakamura[7] 23 April 1903 23 November 2017 114 years, 214 days Japan
94 Faustina Sarmiento-Pupo[7] 15 February 1905 16 September 2019 114 years, 213 days Cuba
95 Cecile Klein[7] 15 June 1907 13 January 2022 114 years, 212 days Canada
96 Anna Eliza Williams[65] 2 June 1873 27 December 1987 114 years, 208 days United Kingdom
97 Eunice Sanborn[66] 20 July 1896 31 January 2011 114 years, 195 days United States
98 Grace Clawson[67] 15 November 1887 28 May 2002 114 years, 194 days United States[n]
99 Mitsue Toyoda[7] 15 February 1902 25 August 2016 114 years, 192 days Japan
100 Tase Matsunaga[68] 11 May 1884 18 November 1998 114 years, 191 days Japan
Kame Ganeko[7] 10 April 1905 18 October 2019[69] Japan
  1. ^ The exact lifespan of people listed with the same number of years and days may differ because of leap days that occurred during their lifetime.
  2. ^ a b Calment’s case was disputed in a Russian study posted online in November 2018,[1][2] and a followup paper published in January 2019,[3] although other researchers have dismissed this hypothesis on the basis of extensive prior research into Calment’s life.[4]
  3. ^ Juniewicz was born in Krupsko near Lviv, then in Austria-Hungary, now in Ukraine.
  4. ^ Branyas was born in the United States.
  5. ^ May have been older (116 or 117); possibly born in 1881 or 1880.
  6. ^ Manfredini was born in Italy.
  7. ^ Gaudette was born in the United States.
  8. ^ Benegas Gallego was born in Paraguay.
  9. ^ Holtz was born in the German Empire; her birthplace is now in Poland.
  10. ^ Gerena Rivera was born in Puerto Rico.
  11. ^ Ray was born in Canada.
  12. ^ Steinberg was born in Chișinău, then part of the Russian Empire, now the capital of Moldova.
  13. ^ Pizzinato was born in Ala, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Italy.
  14. ^ Clawson was born in the United Kingdom.

100 verified oldest men

The list including all known and validated supercentenarians who died before 2015 was compiled by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).[6] Later cases are sourced either from more recent GRG data, from administrative reports, or from press coverage.[5][7] From 2017 most cases have not been verified by an organization specializing in age verification, such as the GRG, unless they are aged 113+.

  Deceased
  Living

Rank Name[a] Birth date Death date Age Place of death
or residence
01 Jiroemon Kimura 19 April 1897 12 June 2013 116 years, 54 days Japan
02 Christian Mortensen 16 August 1882 25 April 1998 115 years, 252 days United States[b]
03 Emiliano Mercado del Toro 21 August 1891 24 January 2007 115 years, 156 days Puerto Rico
04 Horacio Celi Mendoza[70] 3 January 1897 25 September 2011 114 years, 265 days Peru
05 Walter Breuning 21 September 1896 14 April 2011 114 years, 205 days United States
06 Yukichi Chuganji 23 March 1889 28 September 2003 114 years, 189 days Japan
07 Tomás Pinales Figuereo[70] 31 March 1906 24 September 2020 114 years, 177 days Dominican Republic
08 Joan Riudavets-Moll 15 December 1889 5 March 2004 114 years, 81 days Spain
09 Gustav Gerneth[71] 15 October 1905 21 October 2019[72] 114 years, 6 days Germany[c]
10 Fred Harold Hale, Sr. 1 December 1890 19 November 2004 113 years, 354 days United States
11 Yisrael Kristal[7] 15 September 1903 11 August 2017 113 years, 330 days Israel[d]
12 Juan Vicente Pérez[5] 27 May 1909 Living 113 years, 322 days Venezuela
13 Johnson Parks 15 October 1884 17 July 1998 113 years, 275 days United States
14 Tomoji Tanabe 18 September 1895 19 June 2009 113 years, 274 days Japan
15 John Ingram McMorran 19 June 1889 24 February 2003 113 years, 250 days United States
16 Masazō Nonaka[7] 25 July 1905 20 January 2019 113 years, 179 days Japan
17 Frederick Frazier 27 January 1880 14 June 1993 113 years, 138 days United States
18 James Sisnett 22 February 1900 23 May 2013 113 years, 90 days Barbados[e]
Wenceslao Leyva González[73] 28 September 1903 27 December 2016 Mexico
20 Domingo Villa Avisencio[73] 26 August 1906 3 November 2019 113 years, 69 days Mexico
21 Walter Richardson 7 November 1885 25 December 1998 113 years, 48 days United States
22 Francisco Núñez Olivera[7] 13 December 1904 29 January 2018 113 years, 47 days Spain
23 Henry Allingham 6 June 1896 18 July 2009 113 years, 42 days United Kingdom
24 Eusebio Quintero López[74] 6 March 1910 Living 113 years, 39 days Colombia
25 Efraín Antonio Ríos García[75] 4 April 1910 Living 113 years, 10 days Colombia
26 Emilio Flores Márquez[76] 8 August 1908 12 August 2021[77] 113 years, 4 days Puerto Rico
27 Chitetsu Watanabe[7][78] 5 March 1907 23 February 2020 112 years, 355 days Japan
28 Antonio Todde 22 January 1889 3 January 2002 112 years, 346 days Italy
29 Saturnino de la Fuente García[79][80] 11 February 1909 18 January 2022[81] 112 years, 341 days Spain
30 Moses Hardy 6 January 1894 7 December 2006 112 years, 335 days United States
31 Yasutaro Koide[7] 13 March 1903 19 January 2016[82] 112 years, 312 days Japan
32 John Evans 19 August 1877 10 June 1990 112 years, 295 days United Kingdom
33 Richard Arvin Overton[7] 11 May 1906 27 December 2018 112 years, 230 days United States
34 Delio Venturotti[83] 25 October 1909 1 June 2022[84] 112 years, 219 days Brazil[f]
35 George Francis 6 June 1896 27 December 2008 112 years, 204 days United States
36 Denzo Ishizaki[g] 20 October 1886 29 April 1999 112 years, 191 days Japan
37 Josep Armengol 23 July 1881 20 January 1994 112 years, 181 days Spain
38 Giovanni Frau 29 December 1890 19 June 2003 112 years, 172 days Italy
39 Jules Théobald[86] 17 April 1909 5 October 2021 112 years, 171 days France (Martinique)
40 John Painter 20 September 1888 1 March 2001 112 years, 162 days United States
41 Marcel Meys[87][88] 12 July 1909 15 December 2021[89] 112 years, 156 days France
42 Masamitsu Yoshida[7] 30 May 1904 29 October 2016 112 years, 152 days Japan
43 Sakari Momoi[7] 5 February 1903 5 July 2015 112 years, 150 days Japan
44 Alphaeus Philemon Cole 12 July 1876 25 November 1988 112 years, 136 days United States
45 Augusto Moreira 6 October 1896 13 February 2009 112 years, 130 days Portugal
46 Yang Longsheng[90] 13 December 1910 Living 112 years, 122 days China[h]
47 George Johnson 1 May 1894 30 August 2006 112 years, 121 days United States
Mikizo Ueda[91][92] 11 May 1910 9 September 2022[93] Japan
49 Lawrence Brooks[94] 12 September 1909 5 January 2022[95] 112 years, 115 days United States
50 Salustiano Sanchez 8 June 1901 13 September 2013 112 years, 97 days United States[i]
51 CP Crawford[7] 25 August 1907 23 November 2019 112 years, 90 days United States
52 Jorge Duran Coral[96] 23 April 1909 21 July 2021 112 years, 89 days Mexico
53 Yoshikazu Yamashita[7] 10 April 1907 7 July 2019 112 years, 88 days Japan
54 Gengan Tonaki 30 October 1884 24 January 1997 112 years, 86 days Japan
55 Robert Weighton[7][97] 29 March 1908 28 May 2020 112 years, 60 days United Kingdom
56 Tadanosuke Hashimoto 27 April 1891 31 May 2003 112 years, 34 days Japan
57 Kumekichi Tani 20 April 1891 12 May 2003 112 years, 22 days Japan
58 James Wiggins 15 October 1879 16 October 1991 112 years, 1 day United States
59 George Feldman[98] 2 December 1906 2 December 2018[99] 112 years, 0 days United States
60 Tsunahei Ogawa[100] 9 January 1907 4 January 2019[101] 111 years, 360 days Japan
61 Arturo Licata 2 May 1902 24 April 2014 111 years, 357 days Italy
62 Stanisław Kowalski[102] 14 April 1910 5 April 2022 111 years, 356 days Poland[j]
63 Walter H. Seward 13 October 1896 14 September 2008 111 years, 337 days United States
64 Maurice Floquet 25 December 1894 10 November 2006 111 years, 320 days France
65 Valerio Piroddi[103] 13 November 1905 18 September 2017 111 years, 309 days Italy
66 Shigeru Nakamura[104][105] 11 January 1911 15 November 2022[106] 111 years, 308 days Japan
67 James McCoubrey 13 September 1901 5 July 2013 111 years, 295 days United States[k]
Shivakumara Swami[107] 1 April 1907[108] 21 January 2019 India[l]
69 Ezra Hill[109][110] 19 December 1910 4 October 2022[111] 111 years, 289 days United States
70 Melvin Campbell[112] 22 March 1910 31 December 2021[113] 111 years, 284 days United States
71 John Mosley Turner 15 June 1856 21 March 1968 111 years, 280 days United Kingdom
72 Hermann Dörnemann 27 May 1893 2 March 2005 111 years, 279 days Germany
73 Antonio Urrea 18 February 1888 15 November 1999 111 years, 270 days Spain
74 Choki Miyagi[7] 15 November 1904 7 August 2016 111 years, 266 days Japan
75 Arthur Carter 5 October 1889 11 June 2001 111 years, 249 days United States
76 Jan Machiel Reyskens 11 May 1878 7 January 1990 111 years, 241 days Netherlands[m]
77 Santos Ildebrando Rivas[114] 17 August 1911 Living 111 years, 240 days El Salvador
78 Jesús Mosteo[115] 1 January 1908 28 August 2019[116] 111 years, 239 days Spain
79 Dumitru Comănescu[117] 8 November 1908 27 June 2020[118] 111 years, 232 days Romania
80 Henry Tseng[119] 12 July 1907 27 February 2019[120] 111 years, 230 days United States[n]
81 Joe Thomas 1 May 1875 14 December 1986 111 years, 227 days United States
82 André Boite[121] 6 December 1910 15 July 2022[122] 111 years, 221 days France
83 James Zackry 15 August 1881 14 March 1993 111 years, 211 days United States
84 Tanekichi Onishi 15 February 1900 11 September 2011 111 years, 208 days Japan
85 Roger Auvin[123] 20 March 1908 13 October 2019[124] 111 years, 207 days France
86 Kiyoshi Igarashi 2 August 1897 23 February 2009 111 years, 205 days Japan
Lester Townsend[125] 31 March 1908 22 October 2019[126] United States
88 Herman Smith-Johannsen 15 June 1875 5 January 1987 111 years, 204 days Norway
89 Ernest Pusey 5 May 1895 19 November 2006 111 years, 198 days United States
90 Albano Andrade[127] 14 December 1909 29 June 2021[128] 111 years, 197 days Portugal
91 Dexter Kruger[129] 13 January 1910 20 July 2021 111 years, 188 days Australia
92 Thomas Nelson, Sr. 8 July 1895 9 January 2007 111 years, 185 days United States
93 Jokichi Ikarashi 26 January 1902 23 July 2013 111 years, 178 days Japan
94 Earl Brush 17 July 1893 10 January 2005 111 years, 177 days United States
Qin Hanzhang[130] 19 February 1908 15 August 2019[131] China[h]
Manuel Benavente Sanhueza[73] 25 September 1909 21 March 2021[132] Chile
97 Francisco Juárez Iglesias[73] 8 May 1911 25 October 2022 111 years, 170 days Mexico
98 Antonio de Castro 6 January 1898 22 June 2009 111 years, 167 days Portugal
99 Sukesaburo Nakanishi 15 March 1896 22 August 2007 111 years, 160 days Japan
100 Gisaburo Sonobe[133] 6 November 1911 Living 111 years, 159 days Japan
  1. ^ All entries are sourced to GRG «table B» as of 1 January 2015, unless otherwise noted.[6]
  2. ^ Mortensen was born in Denmark.
  3. ^ Gerneth was born in Stettin, then part of the German Empire, now in Poland and renamed Szczecin.
  4. ^ Kristal was born in Maleniec, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Poland.
  5. ^ Sisnett was born in Barbados, which was at the time of his birth part of the British colony of the Leeward Islands; it is now an independent country.
  6. ^ Venturotti was born in Italy.
  7. ^ Although Ishizaki’s birth date is officially verified as 20 October 1886, he claimed himself to be born in 1884 and asserted that his birth record was «delayed by two years».[85]
  8. ^ a b Longsheng and Hanzhang were born in Qing dynasty China.
  9. ^ Sanchez was born in Spain.
  10. ^ Kowalski was born in Rogówek, then part of Congress Poland within the Russian Empire, now Poland.
  11. ^ McCoubrey was born in Newfoundland, then a separate British colony, now part of Canada.
  12. ^ Shivakumara was born in Magadi, Kingdom of Mysore, then part of British India, now a state of India.
  13. ^ Reyskens was born in Belgium, lived (from 1897) and died in the Netherlands, but never obtained Dutch citizenship.
  14. ^ Tseng was born in Yokohama, Japan, and emigrated to China. He subsequently lived in Los Angeles, United States, from 1975 until his death.

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This is a list of tables of the oldest people in the world in ordinal ranks. To avoid including false or unconfirmed claims of old age, names here are restricted to those people whose ages have been validated by an international body dealing in longevity research, such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) or Guinness World Records (GWR), and others who have otherwise been reliably sourced.

The longest documented and verified human lifespan is that of Jeanne Calment of France (1875–1997), a woman who lived to age 122 years and 164 days. She claimed to have met Vincent van Gogh when she was 12 or 13.[1] She received news media attention in 1985, after turning 110. Calment’s claim was investigated and authenticated by Jean-Marie Robine and Dr Michel Allard for the GRG.[2] Her longevity claim was put into question in 2018, but the original assessing team stood by their judgement.[3]

As females live longer than males on average, women predominate in combined records. The longest lifespan for a man is that of Jiroemon Kimura of Japan (1897–2013), who lived to age 116 years and 54 days.

The oldest living person in the world whose age has been validated is 116-year-old Maria Branyas of Spain, born 4 March 1907.[4] The world’s oldest known living man is 113-year-old Juan Vicente Pérez of Venezuela, born 27 May 1909.[5]

Academics have hypothesized the existence of a number of blue zones around the world where people live longer than average.

Ten oldest verified people ever

Systematic verification of longevity has only been practiced since the 1950s and only in certain parts of the world. All ten oldest verified people ever are women.

Oldest people

Rank Name Sex Birth date Death date Age Country of death
or residence
1 Jeanne Calment F 21 February 1875 4 August 1997 122 years, 164 days France
2 Kane Tanaka[6] F 2 January 1903 19 April 2022 119 years, 107 days Japan
3 Sarah Knauss[7] F 24 September 1880 30 December 1999 119 years, 97 days United States
4 Lucile Randon[4] F 11 February 1904 17 January 2023 118 years, 340 days France
5 Nabi Tajima[6] F 4 August 1900 21 April 2018 117 years, 260 days Japan
6 Marie-Louise Meilleur[8] F 29 August 1880 16 April 1998 117 years, 230 days Canada
7 Violet Brown[6] F 10 March 1900 15 September 2017 117 years, 189 days Jamaica
8 Emma Morano[6] F 29 November 1899 15 April 2017 117 years, 137 days Italy
9 Chiyo Miyako[9] F 2 May 1901 22 July 2018 117 years, 81 days Japan
10 Misao Okawa[6] F 5 March 1898 1 April 2015 117 years, 27 days Japan

Oldest men

Rank Name Birth date Death date Age Country of death
or residence
1 Jiroemon Kimura[10][11] 19 April 1897 12 June 2013 116 years, 54 days Japan
2 Christian Mortensen[11] 16 August 1882 25 April 1998 115 years, 252 days United States[a]
3 Emiliano Mercado del Toro[11] 21 August 1891 24 January 2007 115 years, 156 days Puerto Rico
4 Horacio Celi Mendoza[12] 3 January 1897 25 September 2011 114 years, 265 days Peru
5 Walter Breuning[13] 21 September 1896 14 April 2011 114 years, 205 days United States
6 Yukichi Chuganji[14] 23 March 1889 28 September 2003 114 years, 189 days Japan
7 Tomás Pinales Figuereo[12] 31 March 1906 24 September 2020 114 years, 177 days Dominican Republic
8 Joan Riudavets[15] 15 December 1889 5 March 2004 114 years, 81 days Spain
9 Gustav Gerneth[16] 15 October 1905 21 October 2019 114 years, 6 days Germany[b]
10 Fred H. Hale, Sr.[17] 1 December 1890 19 November 2004 113 years, 354 days United States


a^ Mortensen was born in Denmark.
b^ Gerneth was born in Stettin, then part of the German Empire, now in Poland and renamed Szczecin.

Ten oldest living people

Oldest living people

Rank Name Sex Birth date Age as of
13 April 2023
Country of
residence
1 Maria Branyas[4] F 4 March 1907 116 years, 40 days Spain[c]
2 Fusa Tatsumi[4] F 25 April 1907 115 years, 353 days Japan
3 Edie Ceccarelli[4] F 5 February 1908 115 years, 67 days United States
4 Tomiko Itooka[4] F 23 May 1908 114 years, 325 days Japan
5 Inah Canabarro Lucas[4] F 8 June 1908 114 years, 309 days Brazil
6 Hazel Plummer[4] F 19 June 1908 114 years, 298 days United States
7 Nina Willis[4] F 14 January 1909 114 years, 89 days United States
8 Ushi Makishi[4] F 15 February 1909 114 years, 57 days Japan
9 Juan Vicente Pérez[4] M 27 May 1909 113 years, 321 days Venezuela
10 Elizabeth Francis[4] F 25 July 1909 113 years, 262 days United States


c^ Branyas was born in the United States.

Oldest living men

Rank Name Birth date Age as of
13 April 2023
Country of
residence
1 Juan Vicente Pérez[4] 27 May 1909 113 years, 321 days Venezuela
2 Eusebio Quintero López[18] 6 March 1910 113 years, 38 days Colombia
3 Efraín Antonio Ríos García[19] 4 April 1910 113 years, 9 days Colombia
4 Yang Longsheng[20] 13 December 1910 112 years, 121 days China
5 Santos Ildebrando Rivas[21] 17 August 1911 111 years, 239 days El Salvador
6 Gisaburo Sonobe[22] 6 November 1911 111 years, 158 days Japan
7 Reuben Sinclair[23] 5 December 1911 111 years, 129 days Canada
8 André Ludwig[24] 6 June 1912 110 years, 311 days France
9 Tripoli Giannini[25] 20 August 1912 110 years, 236 days Italy
10 John Tinniswood[26] 26 August 1912 110 years, 230 days United Kingdom

Chronological list of the oldest known living person since 1955

This table lists the sequence of the world’s oldest known living person from 1955 to present, according to GRG research.[27] Due to the life expectancy difference between sexes, nearly all the oldest living people have been women (thus the maximum life span is guided by the female numbers); a sequence of the oldest living men is provided below the main list.

From Duration Name Sex Age(s)
when
oldest
Lifespan Country of death
or residence
Unknown date Betsy Baker F ? – 113 20 August 1842 – 24 October 1955
113 years, 65 days
United States
24 October 1955 1 year, 53 days Jennie Howell F 110–111 11 February 1845 – 16 December 1956
111 years, 309 days
United States
16 December 1956 1 year, 104 days Anne Marie Carstenson F 107–109 24 January 1849 – 30 March 1958
109 years, 65 days
United States
30 March 1958 201 days Nancy Ryan F 108–109 5 September 1849 – 17 October 1958
109 years, 42 days
United States
17 October 1958 355 days Christina Karnebeek-Backs [nl] F 109–110 2 October 1849 – 7 October 1959
110 years, 5 days
Netherlands
7 October 1959 48 days Marie Olsen F 109 1 May 1850 – 24 November 1959
109 years, 207 days
Norway
24 November 1959 5 years, 36 days Mary Kelly F 108–113 7 June 1851 – 30 December 1964
113 years, 206 days
United States
30 December 1964 66 days Elizabeth Kensley F 109 12 May 1855 – 6 March 1965
109 years, 298 days
United Kingdom
6 March 1965 153 days William Fullingim M 109–110 7 July 1855 – 6 August 1965
110 years, 30 days
United States
6 August 1965 157 days Hannah Smith F 109–110 7 January 1856 – 10 January 1966
110 years, 3 days
United Kingdom
10 January 1966 2 years, 71 days John Mosely Turner M 109–111 15 June 1856 – 21 March 1968
111 years, 280 days
United Kingdom
21 March 1968 87 days Johanna Booyson F 111 17 January 1857 – 16 June 1968
111 years, 151 days
South Africa
16 June 1968 322 days Marie Bernátková F 110–111 22 October 1857 – 4 May 1969[28]
111 years, 194 days
Czechoslovakia[a]
4 May 1969 252 days Ada Roe F 111 6 February 1858 – 11 January 1970
111 years, 339 days
United Kingdom
11 January 1970 3 years, 47 days Josefa Salas Mateo F 109–112 14 July 1860 – 27 February 1973
112 years, 228 days
Spain
27 February 1973 172 days Alice Stevenson F 111–112 10 July 1861 – 18 August 1973
112 years, 39 days
United Kingdom
18 August 1973 145 days Ettie Crist[29] F 111 14 February 1862 – 10 January 1974
111 years, 330 days
United States
10 January 1974 1 year, 141 days Mito Umeta F 110–112 27 March 1863 – 31 May 1975
112 years, 65 days
Japan
31 May 1975 1 year, 169 days Niwa Kawamoto F 111–113 5 August 1863 – 16 November 1976
113 years, 105 days
Japan
16 November 1976 1 year, 16 days Sophia DeMuth F 110–111 30 June 1866 – 2 December 1977
111 years, 155 days
United States
2 December 1977 144 days Marie-Virginie Duhem F 111 2 August 1866 – 25 April 1978
111 years, 266 days
France
25 April 1978 2 years, 272 days Fannie Thomas F 111–113 14 April 1867 – 22 January 1981
113 years, 283 days
United States
22 January 1981 45 days Augustine Tessier F 112 2 January 1869 – 8 March 1981
112 years, 65 days
France
8 March 1981 1 year, 250 days Nellie Spencer F 111–113 24 August 1869 – 13 November 1982
113 years, 81 days
United States
13 November 1982 334 days Emma Wilson F 112–113 12 May 1870 – 13 October 1983
113 years, 154 days
United States
13 October 1983 3 years, 8 days Augusta Holtz F 112–115 3 August 1871 – 21 October 1986
115 years, 79 days
United States
21 October 1986 104 days Mary McKinney F 113 30 May 1873 – 2 February 1987
113 years, 248 days
United States
2 February 1987 328 days Anna Eliza Williams F 113–114 2 June 1873 – 27 December 1987
114 years, 208 days
United Kingdom
27 December 1987 15 days Florence Knapp F 114 10 October 1873 – 11 January 1988
114 years, 93 days
United States
11 January 1988 9 years, 205 days Jeanne Calment[b] F 112–122 21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997
122 years, 164 days
France
4 August 1997 255 days Marie-Louise Meilleur F 116–117 29 August 1880 – 16 April 1998
117 years, 230 days
Canada
16 April 1998 1 year, 258 days Sarah Knauss F 117–119 24 September 1880 – 30 December 1999
119 years, 97 days
United States
30 December 1999 308 days Eva Morris F 114 8 November 1885 – 2 November 2000
114 years, 360 days
United Kingdom
2 November 2000 216 days Marie Brémont F 114–115 25 April 1886 – 6 June 2001
115 years, 42 days
France
5 June 2001 286 days Maude Farris-Luse F 114–115 21 January 1887 – 18 March 2002
115 years, 56 days
United States
18 March 2002 71 days Grace Clawson F 114 15 November 1887 – 28 May 2002
114 years, 194 days
United States
28 May 2002 85 days Adelina Domingues F 114 19 February 1888 – 21 August 2002
114 years, 183 days
United States
21 August 2002 130 days Mae Harrington F 113 20 January 1889 – 29 December 2002
113 years, 343 days
United States
29 December 2002 273 days Yukichi Chuganji M 113–114 23 March 1889 – 28 September 2003
114 years, 189 days
Japan
28 September 2003 46 days Mitoyo Kawate F 114 15 May 1889 – 13 November 2003
114 years, 182 days
Japan
13 November 2003 198 days Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan F 114 31 August 1889 – 29 May 2004
114 years, 272 days
Puerto Rico
29 May 2004 2 years, 90 days María Capovilla F 114–116 14 September 1889 – 27 August 2006
116 years, 347 days
Ecuador
27 August 2006 106 days Elizabeth Bolden F 116 15 August 1890 – 11 December 2006
116 years, 118 days
United States
11 December 2006 44 days Emiliano Mercado del Toro M 115 21 August 1891 – 24 January 2007
115 years, 156 days
Puerto Rico
24 January 2007 4 days Emma Tillman F 114 22 November 1892 – 28 January 2007
114 years, 67 days
United States
29 January 2007[c] 196 days Yone Minagawa F 114 4 January 1893 – 13 August 2007
114 years, 221 days
Japan
13 August 2007 1 year, 105 days Edna Parker F 114–115 20 April 1893 – 26 November 2008
115 years, 220 days
United States
26 November 2008 37 days Maria de Jesus F 115 10 September 1893 – 2 January 2009
115 years, 114 days
Portugal
2 January 2009 252 days Gertrude Baines F 114–115 6 April 1894 – 11 September 2009
115 years, 158 days
United States
11 September 2009 233 days Kama Chinen F 114 10 May 1895 – 2 May 2010
114 years, 357 days
Japan
2 May 2010 186 days Eugénie Blanchard F 114 16 February 1896 – 4 November 2010
114 years, 261 days
Saint Barthélemy,
France
4 November 2010 229 days Maria Gomes Valentim F 114 9 July 1896 – 21 June 2011
114 years, 347 days
Brazil
21 June 2011 1 year, 166 days Besse Cooper F 114–116 26 August 1896 – 4 December 2012
116 years, 100 days
United States
4 December 2012 13 days Dina Manfredini F 115 4 April 1897 – 17 December 2012
115 years, 257 days
United States[d]
17 December 2012 177 days Jiroemon Kimura M 115–116 19 April 1897 – 12 June 2013
116 years, 54 days
Japan
12 June 2013 1 year, 292 days Misao Okawa F 115–117 5 March 1898 – 1 April 2015
117 years, 27 days
Japan
31 March 2015[e] 6 days Gertrude Weaver F 116 4 July 1898 – 6 April 2015
116 years, 276 days
United States
6 April 2015 72 days Jeralean Talley F 115–116 23 May 1899 – 17 June 2015
116 years, 25 days
United States
17 June 2015 331 days Susannah Mushatt Jones F 115–116 6 July 1899 – 12 May 2016
116 years, 311 days
United States
13 May 2016[f] 337 days Emma Morano F 116–117 29 November 1899 – 15 April 2017
117 years, 137 days
Italy
15 April 2017 153 days Violet Brown F 117 10 March 1900 – 15 September 2017
117 years, 189 days
Jamaica
16 September 2017[g] 217 days Nabi Tajima F 117 4 August 1900 – 21 April 2018
117 years, 260 days
Japan
21 April 2018 92 days Chiyo Miyako[31] F 116–117 2 May 1901 – 22 July 2018
117 years, 81 days
Japan
22 July 2018 3 years, 271 days Kane Tanaka F 115–119 2 January 1903 – 19 April 2022
119 years, 107 days
Japan
19 April 2022 273 days Lucile Randon F 118 11 February 1904 – 17 January 2023
118 years, 340 days
France
17 January 2023 86 days Maria Branyas

F

115–116* born 4 March 1907
116 years, 40 days
Spain[h]

Chronological list of the oldest living man since 1973

This table lists the sequence of the world’s oldest known living man from 1973 to present.[11][32]

From Duration Name Age(s)
when
oldest
Lifespan Country of death
or residence
Unknown date Friedrich Wedeking ? – 110 10 October 1862 – 5 May 1973
110 years, 207 days
West Germany
5 May 1973 308 days Frederick Butterfield 109–110 28 February 1864 – 9 March 1974
110 years, 9 days
United Kingdom
9 March 1974 3 years, 8 days Jean Teillet 107–110 6 November 1866 – 17 March 1977
110 years, 131 days
France
17 March 1977 1 year, 156 days Charlie Nelson 109–110 21 September 1867 – 20 August 1978
110 years, 333 days
United States
20 August 1978 2 years, 16 days Charlie Phillips 108–110 5 May 1870 – 5 September 1980
110 years, 123 days
United States
5 September 1980 1 year, 217 days Zachariah Blackistone 109–111 16 February 1871 – 10 April 1982
111 years, 61 days
United States
10 April 1982 328 days James Nash 109–110 31 July 1872 – 4 March 1983
110 years, 216 days
United States
4 March 1983 160 days Walter Wilcox 110 1 November 1872 – 11 August 1983
110 years, 283 days
United States
11 August 1983 133 days Gregory Pandazes 110 15 January 1873 – 22 December 1983
110 years, 341 days
United States[i]
22 December 1983 2 years, 357 days Joe Thomas 108–111 1 May 1875 – 14 December 1986
111 years, 227 days
United States
14 December 1986 22 days Herman Smith-Johannsen 111 15 June 1875 – 5 January 1987
111 years, 204 days
Norway
5 January 1987 1 year, 325 days Alphaeus Philemon Cole 110–112 12 July 1876 – 25 November 1988
112 years, 136 days
United States
25 November 1988 1 year, 197 days John Evans 111–112 19 August 1877 – 10 June 1990
112 years, 295 days
United Kingdom
10 June 1990 8 days Henri Pérignon 110 14 October 1879 – 18 June 1990
110 years, 247 days
France
18 June 1990 1 year, 120 days James Wiggins 110–112 15 October 1879 – 16 October 1991
112 years, 1 day
United States
16 October 1991 1 year, 241 days Frederick Frazier 111–113 27 January 1880 – 14 June 1993
113 years, 138 days
United States
14 June 1993 220 days Josep Armengol Jover 111–112 23 July 1881 – 20 January 1994
112 years, 181 days
Spain
20 January 1994 4 years, 95 days Christian Mortensen 111–115 16 August 1882 – 25 April 1998
115 years, 252 days
United States
25 April 1998 83 days Johnson Parks 113 15 October 1884 – 17 July 1998
113 years, 275 days
United States
17 July 1998 161 days Walter Richardson 112–113 7 November 1885 – 25 December 1998
113 years, 48 days
United States
25 December 1998 125 days Denzo Ishisaki 112 20 October 1886 – 29 April 1999
112 years, 191 days
Japan
29 April 1999 200 days Antonio Urrea Hernandez 111 16 February 1888 – 15 November 1999
111 years, 272 days
Spain
15 November 1999 1 year, 106 days John Painter 111–112 20 September 1888 – 1 March 2001
112 years, 162 days
United States
1 March 2001 308 days Antonio Todde 112 22 January 1889 – 3 January 2002
112 years, 346 days
Italy
3 January 2002 1 year, 268 days Yukichi Chuganji 112–114 23 March 1889 – 28 September 2003
114 years, 189 days
Japan
28 September 2003 159 days Joan Riudavets-Moll 113–114 15 December 1889 – 5 March 2004
114 years, 81 days
Spain
5 March 2004 259 days Fred H. Hale Sr. 113 1 December 1890 – 19 November 2004
113 years, 354 days
United States
19 November 2004 2 years, 66 days Emiliano Mercado del Toro 113–115 21 August 1891 – 24 January 2007
115 years, 156 days
Puerto Rico
24 January 2007 2 years, 146 days Tomoji Tanabe 111–113 18 September 1895 – 19 June 2009
113 years, 274 days
Japan
19 June 2009 29 days Henry Allingham 113 6 June 1896 – 18 July 2009
113 years, 42 days
United Kingdom
18 July 2009 1 year, 270 days Walter Breuning 112–114 21 September 1896 – 14 April 2011
114 years, 205 days
United States
14 April 2011 164 days Horacio Celi Mendoza[12] 114 3 January 1897 – 25 September 2011
114 years, 265 days
Peru
25 September 2011 1 year, 259 days Jiroemon Kimura 114–116 19 April 1897 – 12 June 2013
116 years, 54 days
Japan
11 June 2013[j] 94 days Salustiano Sanchez 112 8 June 1901 – 13 September 2013
112 years, 97 days
United States
13 September 2013 223 days Arturo Licata 111 2 May 1902 – 24 April 2014
111 years, 357 days
Italy
24 April 2014 45 days Alexander Imich 111 4 February 1903 – 8 June 2014
111 years, 124 days
United States[k]
8 June 2014 1 year, 27 days Sakari Momoi 111–112 5 February 1903 – 5 July 2015
112 years, 150 days
Japan
5 July 2015 198 days Yasutaro Koide 112 13 March 1903 – 19 January 2016
112 years, 312 days
Japan
18 January 2016[l] 1 year, 205 days Yisrael Kristal 112–113 15 September 1903 – 11 August 2017
113 years, 330 days
Israel[m]
11 August 2017 171 days Francisco Núñez Olivera 112–113 13 December 1904 – 29 January 2018
113 years, 47 days
Spain
30 January 2018[n] 355 days Masazō Nonaka 112–113 25 July 1905 – 20 January 2019
113 years, 179 days
Japan
20 January 2019 274 days Gustav Gerneth[33] 113–114 15 October 1905 – 21 October 2019
114 years, 6 days
Germany[o]
21 October 2019 339 days Tomás Pinales Figuereo[12] 113–114 31 March 1906 – 24 September 2020
114 years, 177 days
Dominican Republic
24 September 2020[p] 322 days Emilio Flores Márquez[35] 112–113 8 August 1908 – 12 August 2021
113 years, 4 days
Puerto Rico
12 August 2021 159 days Saturnino de la Fuente García[36] 112 11 February 1909 – 18 January 2022
112 years, 341 days
Spain
18 January 2022 1 year, 85 days Juan Vicente Pérez[5] 112–113* born 27 May 1909
113 years, 321 days
Venezuela
  1. ^ Bernátková was born and died in a part of it which is now the Czech Republic
  2. ^ Calment’s case was disputed in a study posted online in November 2018.[30] Current analysis supports the hypothesis that Calment’s listed age is legitimate.
  3. ^ Emma Tillman died 28 January 2007 (EST). However, in Fukuoka Prefecture, where Minagawa lived, the date was already 29 January 2007 (JST).
  4. ^ Manfredini was born in Italy.
  5. ^ Misao Okawa died 1 April 2015 (JST). However, in Arkansas, where Weaver lived, the date was still 31 March 2015 (Central Time Zone).
  6. ^ Susannah Mushatt Jones died 12 May 2016 8:26pm EDT. However, in Italy, where Morano lived, the date was already 13 May 2016 (CEST).
  7. ^ Violet Brown died on 15 September 2017 in Jamaica (UTC-5). However, in Japan, where Tajima lived, the date was already 16 September 2017 (JST).
  8. ^ Branyas was born in the United States.
  9. ^ Pandazes was born in Greece.
  10. ^ Jiroemon Kimura died 12 June 2013 (JST). However, in New York, where Sanchez lived, the date was still 11 June 2013 (Eastern Time Zone).
  11. ^ Imich was born in Częstochowa, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Poland.
  12. ^ Yasutaro Koide died 19 January 2016 12:17 a.m. JST. However, in Israel, where Kristal lived, the date was still 18 January 2016 (IST).
  13. ^ Kristal was born in Maleniec, Końskie County, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Poland.
  14. ^ Francisco Núñez Olivera died 29 January 2018 around 10:30pm CET. However, in Japan, where Nonaka lived, the date was already 30 January 2018 (JST).
  15. ^ Gerneth was born in Stettin, then part of the German Empire, now in Poland and renamed Szczecin.
  16. ^ Between 28 May 2020 and 27 June 2020, Guinness World Records recognised Dumitru Comănescu from Romania as the world’s oldest living man. However, it was later shown that Emilio Flores Márquez was born three months earlier than Comănescu.[34]

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The greatest fully authenticated age to which any human has ever lived is 122 years 164 days by Jeanne Louise Calment (France). Born on 21 February 1875 to Nicolas (1837 — 1931) and Marguerite (neé Gilles 1838 — 1924), Jeanne died at a nursing home in Arles, southern France on 4 August 1997.

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She was born on 21 February 1875, around 14 years before the Eiffel Tower was constructed (she saw it being built), and some 15 years before the advent of movies. The year after her birth, Tolstoy published Anna Karenina and Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone. Jeanne Louise Calment from France lived a quiet life. But an unprecedentedly long one.

Her marriage to a wealthy distant cousin, Fernand Nicolas Calment, in 1896 meant that Jeanne didn’t have to work for a living. That may have played a part in her extraordinary longevity: she was free to swim, play tennis, cycle (she was still cycling until the age of 100) and roller skate, all of which promoted excellent good health. Inevitably, in due course, those around her passed away – including her husband (poisoned by some spoiled cherries, aged 73), her daughter Yvonne (who died from pneumonia in 1934) and even her grandson, Frédéric (who died in a car accident in 1963). But not Jeanne.

As she was without heirs, in 1965 a lawyer named André-François Raffray set up a “reverse mortgage” with Jeanne. According to this arrangement, he would pay her 2,500 francs every month until she died, whereupon he would inherit her apartment. It must have seemed like a good deal for Monseiur Raffray (then aged 47) – after all, Jeanne was 90 at the time. Incredibly, however, Jeanne outlived him. He died thirty years later and his family continued the payments. By the time of her death, they had paid Jeanne more than double the value of her apartment.

Jeanne remained in fine health for the majority of her life – she even took up fencing at the tender age of 85. Her diet was good too, rich in olive oil (which she also rubbed into her skin), and she restricted herself to a modest glass of wine every now and then. But she also had a sweet tooth, with a particular fondness for chocolate: she ate almost 1 kg (2 lb 3 oz) of it each week. And she loved her cigarettes: Jeanne had smoked from the age of 21 and only quit when she was 117. She was able to walk on her own until she was one month before her 115th birthday, when she fell and fractured her femur; thereafter she needed a wheelchair to get around.

She lived on her own until the age of 110, when she had to move into a nursing home. Two years later, on 11 January 1988, she became the oldest living person; and two years after that, now aged 114, she appeared in a film about Van Gogh, Vincent et moi (1990), as herself, thereby becoming the Oldest film actress ever. Working as a girl in her father’s shop in Arles, France, she had sold painting canvasses to Van Gogh. “He was ugly as sin, had a vile temper and smelled of booze,” she later recalled:

She even went on to become a recording artist: aged 120, her voice featured on a four-track CD, Time’s Mistress:

Her tranquil state of mind probably contributed to Jeanne’s long, long life (“That’s why they call me Calment,” she quipped at her 121st birthday in 1996), and may have helped her stave off senility – she remained clear thinking right up to the day she passed away in 1997, aged 122 years 164 days.

Jeanne was also famous for her wit, and felt that her sense of humour also played its part in her remarkable longevity. At her 120th birthday, journalists asked her what kind of future she expected. “A very short one,” she replied.

In the video below we look back at the oldest people on record and explore the science behind old age. What makes some people live longer than others? And is it likely that anyone will beat the current record from Jeanne Louise Calment of 122 years and 164 days? Experts give us their take on the future of this record, and what makes humans live to a ripe old age.

Although the world’s average life expectancy is about 71.5 years (68 years and 4 months for males and 72 years and 8 months for females), all ten of the people on this list have defied these numbers and are supercentenarians, or someone who has lived beyond their 110th birthday.

All of the oldest living people in the world are women, as women typically live longer than men — additionally, the oldest living people ever in the world (with validation by Gerontology Research Group, which keeps track of the world’s oldest people) have been women.

Until recently, majority of the women on this list were from Japan, which according to the World Health Organization, has the highest life expectancy in the world. However, the current list of oldest living people come from many different parts of the world.

As of April 2021, the information on this list is as accurate as possible and will be updated as needed.

10. Thelma Sutcliffe (October 1, 1906 – Present)

 Current Age (as of April 2021): 114 years, 6 months, 13 days
Country of Origin:  USA
Sex: Female
Previous Occupation: Worked for the War Department in 1940s and Homemaker

Thelma Sutcliffephoto source: Lincoln Journal Star

Thelma Sutcliffe is currently the second oldest living American, after Hester Ford. Sutcliffe is a Nebraska native and is the oldest person ever recorded in the state at 114 years old. She celebrated her most recent birthday at her nursing home, but was unable to have any outside visitors due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Sutcliffe got married when she was 17 and although she and her husband never had any kids, Sutcliffe did not work outside of the home. Before moving to an assisted living facility in 2017, Sutcliffe lived on her own and reportedly exercised every morning, did her own laundry, and played bridge several times a week. Sutcliffe is still very sharp and enjoys playing bridge with her fellow residents.

Did You Know?

During World War II, Thelma Sutcliffe worked for the U.S. War Department.


9. Tekla Juniewicz (June 10, 1906 – Present)

 Current Age (as of April 2021): 114 years, 10 months, 4 days
Country of Origin:  Modern-day Ukraine (formerly Austria-Hungary)
Sex: Female
Previous Occupation: Miner

Tekla Juniewiczphoto source: gliwice.naszemiasto.pl

Tekla Juniewicz is the longest-lived person ever in Poland’s history and is currently 114 years old – her next birthday is this summer. Juniewicz was born in part of the Austria-Hungarian empire, which is now Ukraine. Since the end of World War II, Juniewicz has lived in Gliwice, Poland.

According to Juniewicz, she attended the school of Szarytki Sisters in Przeworsk, Poland, where she learned how to be “a good housewife.” She learned to sew, embroider, and cook. While she lived in Przeworsk, Juniewicz did meet her future husband, who was 22 years older than she was. The couple had two daughters. Juniewicz’s husband died in 1980 when he was 96 years old and she continued to live on her own until she was 103 years old. She now lives with her grandson.

Did You Know?

Tekla Juniewicz was the first validated supercentenarian in Poland’s history to have reached the ages of 112, 113, and 114.


8. Noeme de Silveira Freitas (September 7, 1905 – Present)

 Current Age (as of April 2021): 115 years, 7 months, 7 days
Country of Origin:  Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
Sex: Female
Previous Occupation: Seamstress

Noeme de Silveira Freitasphoto source: g1.globo.com

Noeme de Silveria Freitas is another reported supercentenarian who has not yet had her age verified by Gerontology Research Group. According to news report 2019, Freitas was born in 1905, which would make her 115 years old. If Freitas’ claims are true, she is one of the oldest living people in South America.

Freitas is fairly healthy, but does suffer from some thyroid issues and also has limited mobility. Her daughter Elizabeth takes care of her and Freitas has dubbed her a “saint” for not abandoning her like the rest of their family.

Did You Know?

Noeme de Silveria Freitas was married to her teenage sweetheart until he passed away at the age of 98.


7. Hester Ford (August 15, 1905 – Present)

 Current Age (as of April 2021): 115 years, 7 months, 30 days
Country of Origin:  Lancaster, South Carolina, USA
Sex: Female
Previous Occupation: Farm Worker and Nanny

Hester Fordphoto source: en.newsner.com

Hester Ford is the oldest living person in the United States and she will be turning 116 this summer.. According to older news stories as well as the Gerontology Research Group’s records, Ford’s birth year is listed as 1905. However, more recent stories state that Ford’s family found old census records that say Ford may have actually been born in 1904. The Gerontology Research Group stands by its findings and says that Ford was born in 1905.

Ford was born in South Carolina and worked on a farm doing various jobs. In 1953, Ford moved to North Carolina and worked as a nanny for more than 20 years. Ford and her husband, John Ford, had 12 children and she has been reported to have up to 68 grandchildren, 120 great-grandchildren, and 126 great-great-grandchildren.

Did You Know?

Over the years, Hester Ford has succumbed to dementia, but surprisingly still perfectly remembers certain Bible verses.


6. Antonia da Santa Cruz (June 13, 1905 – Present)

 Current Age (as of April 2021): 115 years, 10 months, 1 day
Country of Origin:  Brazil
Sex: Female
Previous Occupation: Homemaker

Antonia da Santa Cruzphoto source: informabahia.com.br

Antonia da Santa Cruz had her age verified on February 4, 2021. At 115 years old, Santa Cruz is the second oldest living person in Brazil and all of Latin America. Santa Cruz was born on the the feast day of Saint Anthony, which is why her name is Antonia.

Santa Cruz raised 11 children and even adopted one of her nephews. As of 2017, Santa Cruz has 68 grandchildren, 110 great-grandchildren and 35 great-great-grandchildren. Santa Cruz is currently in the care of one of her daughters, who said that Santa Cruz does not take any medication, but does need a lot of help getting around due to her old age.

Did You Know?

On February 18, 2021, Antonia da Santa Cruz received the first dose of the COVI-19 vaccine, becoming the oldest known person to receive the vaccine.


5. Jeanne Bot (January 14, 1905 – Present)

 Current Age (as of April 2021): 116 years, 3 months
Country of Origin:  France
Sex: Female
Previous Occupation: Bookkeeper

Jeanne Botphoto source: gerontology.wikia.com

Jeanne Bot is the second oldest living person in France after Lucile Randon and celebrated her 116th birthday earlier in the year. Bot was born on January 14, 1905 in the military barracks of Mont-Louis where her father, Louis, was a non-commissioned officer.

Bot spent 50 years as a bookkeeper in a car garage and never got married or had any kids. Currently, Bot still lives independently in her own apartment and is helped by housekeepers. Bot’s nephew, who is 71, also visits her every few days.

Did You Know?

Jeanne Bot is still quite physically fit, she can move with the assistance of a walker and besides some difficulty hearing, Bot has no major health problems.


4. Francisca Celsa dos Santos (October 21, 1904 – Present)

 Current Age (as of April 2021): 116 years, 5 months, 24 days
Country of Origin:  Brazil
Sex: Female
Previous Occupation: Housekeeper and Clothing Merchant

Francisca Celsa dos Santosphoto source: Gerontology Wiki

Francisca Celsa dos Santos is a new addition to this list as her age was verified over the summer of 2020. Celsa dos Santos is currently 116 years old and is the oldest living person in Latin America. Although she is fourth on this list, Celsa dos Santos is technically the oldest person whose age has been verified by the Gerontology Research Group.

Celsa dos Santos was born and raised in Brazil and worked as a housekeeper and clothing merchant. In 1935 she married Raimundo Celso and the couple had six kids. Celsa dos Santos and her husband were together until he passed away in 1979 and she never remarried. Since then, Celsa dos Santos has been looked after by her remaining children and grandchildren.

Did You Know?

Although Francisca Celsa dos Santos is no longer very lucid, her physical health is not so bad and she doesn’t take any medication and rarely gets sick.


3. Maria Kononovich (May 27, 1904 – Present)

Current Age (as of April 2021): 116 years, 10 months, 18 days
Country of Origin:  Belarus
Sex: Female
Previous Occupation: Farm Worker

Maria Kononovichphoto source: www.sb.by

Maria Kononovich is one of the few supercentenarians in the world that has not yet had her age verified by the Gerontology Research Group. However, according to news reports, Kononovich’s passport lists her date of birth as May 27, 1904, which means she should be included on this list.

Kononovich is the oldest person living in Belarus and Eastern Europe. Despite her advanced age, according to several accounts, Kononovich is still active and able to do small tasks around her house. A social worker checks up on Kononovich twice a week and journalists often drop by to cover her story.

As of 2021, Kononovich’s age still has not been verified and there has been no recent updates on her health.

Did You Know?

Maria Kononovich still enjoys gardening and until a few years ago, she even kept bees and extracted their honey by simply placing some comb on a cheesecloth and squeezing the honey out.


2. Lucile Randon (February 11, 1904 – Present)

Current Age (as of April 2021): 117 years, 2 months, 3 days
Country of Origin:  France
Sex: Female
Previous Occupation: Nurse; currently serving as a Catholic Nun

Lucile Randonphoto source: gerontology.wikia.com

Lucile Randon is the second oldest validated living person in the world and the oldest living person in France. A few months ago Randon celebrated her 117th birthday and according to a French news report from 2017, Randon is still an active nun. Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Randon is currently the oldest person to have survived the virus after an outbreak at her retirement home in early 2021.

Today, Randon is known as Sister André and currently serves as the Vice-Dean of the Varois. Randon says that she chose her name, Sister André, in honor of her older brother who took care of her. Although Randon is now blind and in a wheelchair, her memory is still exceptionally sharp. Randon survived both World Wars and recalls how tough times were doing those years.

Did You Know?

Before becoming a nun in 1944, Lucile Randon was a governess and teacher and worked for various households during World War I.


1. Kane Tanaka (January 2, 1903 – Present)

Current Age (as of April 2021): 118 years, 3 months, 12 days
Country of Origin:  Japan
Sex: Female
Previous Occupation: Rice Cake and Noodle Shop Owner/Worker

Kane Tanakaphoto source: gerontology.wikia.com

Kane Tanaka celebrated her 118th birthday at the beginning of the year and is currently the oldest living person in the world and one of several Japanese supercentenarians. She was born in 1903 and currently lives in a nursing home in the Fukuoka prefecture. Tanaka became the world’s oldest living person following the death of Chiyo Miyako on July 22, 2018. Since September 2020, Tanaka is now the longest-lived Japanese person of all time and the third oldest person in history whose age has been verified.

In 2016, Tanaka’s great nephew Gary Okada Funakoshi and his wife Linda visited her in Japan to celebrate her 113th birthday. Funakoshi says that his aunt likes to write poetry and still remembers her trip to the U.S. in the 1970s to visit her relatives in California (the Funakoshis are from California) and Colorado. He also said that she attributes her long life to her faith in God.

Did You Know?

When she was 103 years old, Kane Tanaka was diagnosed with colon cancer and survived and has not relapsed since.

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This is a list of the oldest living people in the world. Supercentenarians that are categorized as «validated» have had their ages authenticated by an organization that specializes in age validation, such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) or International Database on Longevity (IDL).[1]

Supercentenarians that are categorized as «pending validation» have their ages partially authenticated, but remain to be fully processed by an age validation organization. The last group, «unvalidated», refers to supercentenarians that have not had their ages authenticated but for whom there is sufficient reliable-source reporting to at least have a claimed date of birth. However, only claimants age 110–114 that could potentially be validated in the future are included here, although claims 115-129 can be found at Living Longevity Claims, and those above 130 can be found at Living Longevity Myths.

Since the death of Lucile Randon of France on 17 January 2023, Maria Branyas Morera of Spain is the oldest living person whose age is validated. There are currently 88 validated living supercentenarians, 26 of whom are listed on the GRG’s World Supercentenarian Rankings List (WSRL) (10 unranked), and the rest of them are validated by LongeviQuest (LQ) (62 unranked).[2] If a validated supercentenarian is not on the WSRL or unranked by LQ, that supercentenarian is marked «UR» (unranked).

See also: List of oldest living men.

Bold names indicates the individual is believed to be the oldest known living resident of their country.

List

      Validated
      Pending[3][4]
      Unvalidated

Rank Name Sex Birth Age as of
14 Apr 2023
Country
1 Maria Branyas Morera [1] F 4 Mar 1907 116 years, 41 days United StatesUSASpainESP
2 Fusa Tatsumi [1] F 25 Apr 1907 115 years, 354 days JapanJPN
3 Edie Ceccarelli [1] F 5 Feb 1908 115 years, 68 days United StatesUSA
4 Tomiko Itooka [1] F 23 May 1908 114 years, 326 days JapanJPN
5 Inah Canabarro Lucas [1] F 8 June 1908 114 years, 310 days BrazilBRA
6 Hazel Plummer [1] F 19 June 1908 114 years, 299 days United StatesUSA
7 Nina Willis [1] F 14 Jan 1909 114 years, 90 days United StatesUSA
8 Ushi Makishi [1] F 15 Feb 1909 114 years, 58 days JapanJPN
9 Juan Vicente Perez Mora [1] M 27 May 1909 113 years, 322 days VenezuelaVEN
10 Elizabeth Francis [1] F 25 July 1909 113 years, 263 days United StatesUSA
11 Ethel Caterham [1] F 21 Aug 1909 113 years, 236 days United Kingdom UK
12 Okagi Hayashi [1] F 2 Sept 1909 113 years, 224 days JapanJPN
13 Pearl Berg [1] F 1 Oct 1909 113 years, 195 days United StatesUSA
Shina Seki [1] F 1 Oct 1909 113 years, 195 days JapanJPN
15 Tane Matsubara [1] F 15 Oct 1909 113 years, 181 days JapanJPN
Albertina Alves de Albuquerque [5] F 9 Nov 1909 113 years, 156 days BrazilBRA
16 Masa Matsumoto [1] F 29 Nov 1909 113 years, 136 days JapanJPN
Charlotte Kretschmann [6] F 3 Dec 1909 113 years, 132 days GermanyGER
Concepcion Alarcon Vega [7] F 8 Dec 1909 113 years, 127 days CubaCUB
Gou Zhijie [8] F 4 Jan 1910 113 years, 100 days ChinaCHN
UR Ada Avila [1] F 14 Jan 1910 113 years, 90 days EcuadorECUUnited StatesUSA
Ana da Silva [9] F 5 Mar 1910 113 years, 40 days BrazilBRA
UR Eusebio Quintero Lopez [2] M 6 Mar 1910 113 years, 39 days ColombiaCOL
Efrain Antonio Rios Garcia [10] M 4 Apr 1910 113 years, 10 days ColombiaCOL
Ramona Casamayor de Medina [11] F 19 Apr 1910 112 years, 360 days VenezuelaVEN
UR Kikue Taira [1] F 26 Apr 1910 112 years, 353 days JapanJPN
Qiu Fuzhen [12] F 1 May 1910 112 years, 348 days ChinaCHN
Lorenzo Cayunao Millan [13] [14] M 15 May 1910 112 years, 334 days ChileCHL
UR Hisako Shiroishi [1] F 19 May 1910 112 years, 330 days JapanJPN
UR Marie-Rose Tessier [2] F 21 May 1910 112 years, 328 days FranceFRA
UR Susana Gutierrez Godoy [1] F 24 May 1910 112 years, 325 days MexicoMEX
Otilio Dominguez Santos [15] M 15 June 1910 112 years, 303 days MexicoMEX
UR Silveria Martin Diaz [2] F 20 June 1910 112 years, 298 days SpainESP
UR Domenica Ercolani [1] F 3 July 1910 112 years, 285 days Italy ITA
UR Mabel Mah [2] F 4 July 1910 112 years, 284 days CanadaCAN
Francisca Mangonez Martinez [16] F 4 July 1910 112 years, 284 days ColombiaCOL
Enriqueta Moreno Casares [17] F 15 July 1910 112 years, 273 days MexicoMEX
Ana Cordeiro da Silva [18] F 21 July 1910 112 years, 267 days BrazilBRA
Wu Zhicheng [19] F 10 Aug 1910 112 years, 247 days ChinaCHN
Mercedes Brenes Estrada [20] F 15 Aug 1910 112 years, 242 days NicaraguaNIC
Celmira Somoza Sotelo [21] F 21 Aug 1910 112 years, 236 days NicaraguaNIC
UR Mine Kondo [1] F 1 Sept 1910 112 years, 225 days JapanJPN
UR Naomi Whitehead [1] F 26 Sept 1910 112 years, 200 days United StatesUSA
UR Claudia Baccarini [2] F 13 Oct 1910 112 years, 183 days Italy ITA
Velma Hinds [22] F 22 Oct 1910 112 years, 174 days United StatesUSA
UR Kikuyo Honma [1] F 1 Nov 1910 112 years, 164 days JapanJPN
UR Louise Levy [2] F 1 Nov 1910 112 years, 164 days United StatesUSA
UR Clarabell Demers [1] F 3 Nov 1910 112 years, 162 days United StatesUSA
UR Lucia Laura Sangenito [2] F 22 Nov 1910 112 years, 143 days Italy ITA
Obdulia Carpena Gascon [23] F 29 Nov 1910 112 years, 136 days SpainESP
Klavdiya Gadyuchkina [24] F 5 Dec 1910 112 years, 130 days RussiaRUS
Yang Longsheng [25] M 13 Dec 1910 112 years, 122 days ChinaCHN
Carmen Lucia Betancour de Velasquez [11] F 13 Dec 1910 112 years, 122 days VenezuelaVEN
Masu Usui [26] F 18 Dec 1910 112 years, 117 days JapanJPN
Pauline Bryant [27] F 26 Dec 1910 112 years, 109 days United StatesUSA
Francis Zouein [28] M 1 Jan 1911 112 years, 103 days LebanonLBNUnited StatesUSA
Andree Bertoletto [29] F 1 Jan 1911 112 years, 103 days FranceFRA
Iolanda Beltrao de Aleveda [30] F 13 Jan 1911 112 years, 91 days BrazilBRA
Erna Brosig [31] F 15 Jan 1911 112 years, 89 days GermanyGER
Miyoko Hiroyasu [32] F 23 Jan 1911 112 years, 81 days JapanJPN
Minervina de Castro [33] F 25 Jan 1911 112 years, 79 days BrazilBRA
UR Rosa De Vita [2] F 8 Feb 1911 112 years, 65 days Italy ITA
UR Marguerite Larmignat [2] F 9 Feb 1911 112 years, 64 days FranceFRA
Chiyo Yamamoto [34] F 18 Feb 1911 112 years, 55 days JapanJPN
Natalia Villanueva Ruiz [35] F 24 Feb 1911 112 years, 49 days ColombiaCOL
UR Margarete Troestl [2] F 26 Feb 1911 112 years, 47 days AustriaAUT
UR Herlda Senhouse [2] F 28 Feb 1911 112 years, 45 days United StatesUSA
Berta Grez Martinez [36] F 1 Mar 1911 112 years, 44 days ChileCHL
Tomiyo Hara [37] F 2 Mar 1911 112 years, 43 days JapanJPN
Aline Miles [38] F 2 Mar 1911 112 years, 43 days United StatesUSA
UR Edna Strickland [1] F 6 Mar 1911 112 years, 39 days United Kingdom UK
UR Marita Camacho Quiros [2] F 10 Mar 1911 112 years, 35 days Costa RicaCRI
Tokue Suzuki [39] F 15 Mar 1911 112 years, 30 days JapanJPN
Lillian Moran [40] F 18 Mar 1911 112 years, 27 days United StatesUSA
Haruyo Fukazawa [41] F 21 Mar 1911 112 years, 24 days JapanJPN
Bernadette Thompson [42] F 24 Mar 1911 112 years, 21 days Saint LuciaLCA
Fumie Matsuda [43] F 31 Mar 1911 112 years, 14 days JapanJPN
G. M. de A. F. [35] F 12 Apr 1911 112 years, 2 days BrazilBRA
Leonila Maria de las Nieves Falcon Castellano [44] F 19 Apr 1911 111 years, 360 days SpainESPCubaCUB
Margaret Hollenshead [45] F 22 Apr 1911 111 years, 357 days United StatesUSA
UR Dolores Maria Vazquez [2] F 1 May 1911 111 years, 348 days PanamaPAN
Hana Sato [46] F 1 May 1911 111 years, 348 days JapanJPN
M. P. de C. [35] F 2 May 1911 111 years, 347 days BrazilBRA
UR Henriqueta Soares Marques [2] F 6 May 1911 111 years, 343 days BrazilBRA
UR Mary Harris [2] F 13 May 1911 111 years, 336 days United StatesUSA
Shigeko Kagawa [47] F 28 May 1911 111 years, 321 days JapanJPN
Emilienne Becarmin [48] F 4 June 1911 111 years, 314 days Guadeloupe (France)GLP,FranceFRA
UR Andree Guyon [2] F 6 June 1911 111 years, 312 days FranceFRA
Giuseppa Salerno [49] F 17 June 1911 111 years, 301 days Italy ITA
Inacia Carmelino [50] F 17 June 1911 111 years, 301 days AngolaAGOPortugalPOR
Anonymous (Kyoto) [34] F 2 July 1911 111 years, 286 days JapanJPN
Bonita Gibson [51] F 4 July 1911 111 years, 284 days United StatesUSA
Marina Maria da Conceicao [52] F 20 July 1911 111 years, 268 days BrazilBRA
Tsune Mori [53] F 22 July 1911 111 years, 266 days JapanJPN
Okiwa Miyoki [54] F 4 Aug 1911 111 years, 253 days JapanJPN
Goncalino Norberto [55] M 8 Aug 1911 111 years, 249 days BrazilBRA
Isabel Alvarado [11] F 9 Aug 1911 111 years, 248 days VenezuelaVEN
Aline Blain [56] F 10 Aug 1911 111 years, 247 days FranceFRA
Susie Lewis [57] F 11 Aug 1911 111 years, 246 days United StatesUSA
Fuji Takashima [58] F 15 Aug 1911 111 years, 242 days JapanJPN
UR Santos Rivas [2] M 17 Aug 1911 111 years, 240 days El SalvadorSLV
Mary Florence Walker [59] F 28 Aug 1911 111 years, 229 days United Kingdom UK
Hiro Matsumoto [60] F 9 Sept 1911 111 years, 217 days JapanJPN
Piedad Loriente Perez [61] F 11 Sept 1911 111 years, 215 days SpainESP
Isabel Barletta [62] F 12 Sept 1911 111 years, 214 days ArgentinaARG
Keiko Nagatsuka [63] F 18 Sept 1911 111 years, 208 days JapanJPN
Asayo Sato [64] F 22 Sept 1911 111 years, 204 days JapanJPN
Chiyo Nonaka [65] F 27 Sept 1911 111 years, 199 days JapanJPN
Candelaria Padilla [66] F 4 Oct 1911 111 years, 192 days ColombiaCOL
Purificacion Garcia de la Ceca [67] F 8 Oct 1911 111 years, 188 days SpainESP
Winnie Felps [68] F 10 Oct 1911 111 years, 186 days United StatesUSA
Fusae Miyamoto [69] F 15 Oct 1911 111 years, 181 days JapanJPN
Toshiko Minagawa [70] F 16 Oct 1911 111 years, 180 days JapanJPN
Josias de Oliveira [71] M 21 Oct 1911 111 years, 175 days BrazilBRA
UR Matilda D’Souza [2] F 25 Oct 1911 111 years, 171 days IndiaIND
UR Ines Sommovigo [2] F 6 Nov 1911 111 years, 159 days Italy ITA
UR Doris Johnson [2] F 6 Nov 1911 111 years, 159 days United StatesUSA
Toshiko Asaumi [72] F 6 Nov 1911 111 years, 159 days JapanJPN
Gisaburo Sonobe [60] M 6 Nov 1911 111 years, 159 days JapanJPN
Avelina Lorenzo Berian [73] F 11 Nov 1911 111 years, 154 days SpainESP
Gertruda Gorecka [74] F 12 Nov 1911 111 years, 153 days PolandPOLCanadaCAN
UR Helene Sandvig [2] F 25 Nov 1911 111 years, 140 days United StatesUSA
Marie-Therese (Anonymous) [75] F 25 Nov 1911 111 years, 140 days FranceFRA
Gwen Moore [76] F 27 Nov 1911 111 years, 138 days United Kingdom UK AustraliaAUS
Maria Antonia Vaz [77] F 5 Dec 1911 111 years, 130 days BrazilBRA
UR Reuben Sinclair [2] M 5 Dec 1911 111 years, 130 days CanadaCAN
Stefanie Kurner [78] F 7 Dec 1911 111 years, 128 days AustriaAUT
Lucia Chacon Hechavarria [79] F 13 Dec 1911 111 years, 122 days CubaCUB
Juanita Mitchell [80] F 15 Dec 1911 111 years, 120 days United StatesUSA
Fuyo Kishimoto [81] F 20 Dec 1911 111 years, 115 days JapanJPN
Una Webster [82] F 25 Dec 1911 111 years, 110 days Trinidad & TobagoTRI
Mitsuno Sawada [83] F 1 Jan 1912 111 years, 103 days JapanJPN
Charlotte McLauchlin [84] F 9 Jan 1912 111 years, 95 days United StatesUSA
UR Francesca Fioriglio [2] F 11 Jan 1912 111 years, 93 days Italy ITA
Rose Girone [85] F 13 Jan 1912 111 years, 91 days PolandPOLUnited StatesUSA
Mary Provost-Slocum [86] F 19 Jan 1912 111 years, 85 days United StatesUSA
Joe Baker [87] M 29 Jan 1912 111 years, 75 days United StatesUSA
Teresa Moraga Jara [88] F 29 Jan 1912 111 years, 75 days ChileCHL
Sumiko Mori [89] F 30 Jan 1912 111 years, 74 days JapanJPN
Anonymous [90] F 5 Feb 1912 111 years, 68 days JapanJPN
UR Hazel Skuce [2] F 7 Feb 1912 111 years, 66 days CanadaCAN
Estelline Kancel [91] F 7 Feb 1912 111 years, 66 days Guadeloupe (France)GLP,FranceFRA
Sabina Garay [92] F 10 Feb 1912 111 years, 63 days El SalvadorSLV
Tomiko Naito [93] F 10 Feb 1912 111 years, 63 days JapanJPN
Elisabelle Lallemand [94] F 14 Feb 1912 111 years, 59 days Réunion (France)REU, FRA
FranceFRA
Leanora Watson [95] F 18 Feb 1912 111 years, 55 days JamaicaJAM
UR Ruth Stryzewski [2] F 20 Feb 1912 111 years, 53 days United StatesUSA
UR Merle O’Hara [2] F 20 Feb 1912 111 years, 53 days JamaicaJAMCanadaCAN
UR Antonia Manzi [2] F 20 Feb 1912 111 years, 53 days Italy ITA
Hatsuko Ito [96] F 22 Feb 1912 111 years, 51 days JapanJPN
Virginia Atkinson-Johnson [97] F 28 Feb 1912 111 years, 45 days JamaicaJAM
UR Mary Keir [2] F 3 Mar 1912 111 years, 42 days United Kingdom UK
Jozefa Ciesielska [98] F 6 Mar 1912 111 years, 39 days PolandPOL
Maria Farrugia [99] F 7 Mar 1912 111 years, 38 days MaltaMLT
Leonardo Hernande Vazques [100] M 14 Mar 1912 111 years, 31 days MexicoMEX
Ilse Meingast [101] F 14 Mar 1912 111 years, 31 days GermanyGERUnited StatesUSA
UR Magda Janssens [2] F 16 Mar 1912 111 years, 29 days BelgiumBEL
Margaret Romans [102] F 16 Mar 1912 111 years, 29 days LatviaLATCanadaCAN
Angeles de la Fuente Campo [103] F 24 Mar 1912 111 years, 21 days SpainESP
UR Amelia Addari [2] F 25 Mar 1912 111 years, 20 days Italy ITA
UR Marie Guerne [2] F 26 Mar 1912 111 years, 19 days SwitzerlandSUI
Mercedes Cebrian Asin [104] F 26 Mar 1912 111 years, 19 days SpainESP
Ai Maeda [105] F 27 Mar 1912 111 years, 18 days JapanJPN
Teodora Cea Bermejo [106] F 1 Apr 1912 111 years, 13 days SpainESP
Hatsu Onoue [107] F 8 Apr 1912 111 years, 6 days JapanJPN
Lucia [108] F 9 Apr 1912 111 years, 5 days CubaCUB
Anna Dixel [109] F 14 Apr 1912 111 years, 0 days AustriaAUT
UR Maria Carmela Ricci [2] F 16 Apr 1912 110 years, 363 days Italy ITA
UR Rosa Castrodad Melendez [2] F 20 Apr 1912 110 years, 359 days Puerto RicoPRI,United StatesUSA
Gunborg Hancock [110] F 20 Apr 1912 110 years, 359 days FinlandFINSwedenSWE
Paulette Magne-Ducamin [111] F 21 Apr 1912 110 years, 358 days FranceFRA
Suzanne Jacquet [112] F 22 Apr 1912 110 years, 357 days MauritiusMRIFranceFRA
Maria Teresa Bustos [113] F 26 Apr 1912 110 years, 353 days ArgentinaARG
UR Marie-Noelle Duhamel [2] F 28 Apr 1912 110 years, 351 days FranceFRA
UR Agnes Bostrom [2] F 29 Apr 1912 110 years, 350 days SwedenSWE
Eva Johnson [114] F 30 Apr 1912 110 years, 349 days United StatesUSA
Augusta Oteiza [115] F 3 May 1912 110 years, 346 days FranceFRA
Maria Mendoza Sanchez [35] F 9 May 1912 110 years, 340 days MexicoMEX
Rashid Karimov [116] M 9 May 1912 110 years, 340 days TajikistanTJK
Evadney Talbot [117] F 10 May 1912 110 years, 339 days GuyanaGUY
Cristina Paloscia [118] F 15 May 1912 110 years, 334 days Italy ITA
UR Ruby Lockhart [2] F 17 May 1912 110 years, 332 days United StatesUSA
Beatrice Pruitt [119] F 22 May 1912 110 years, 327 days United StatesUSA
UR Anonymous (Paraiba) [2][120] F 28 May 1912 110 years, 321 days BrazilBRA
Andre Ludwig [121] M 6 June 1912 110 years, 312 days FranceFRA
Chiyoko Yagida [122] F 22 June 1912 110 years, 296 days JapanJPN
UR Ejra Grimstam [2] F 29 June 1912 110 years, 289 days SwedenSWE
Jeanette Tucker [123] F 4 July 1912 110 years, 284 days United StatesUSA
UR Tranquilina Urrutia Roque [2] F 6 July 1912 110 years, 282 days MexicoMEX
Yuki Okawa [124] F 11 July 1912 110 years, 277 days JapanJPN
Jadwiga Zak-Stuart [125] F 15 July 1912 110 years, 273 days PolandPOL
Berthe Levaillant [126] F 16 July 1912 110 years, 272 days FranceFRA
Mineyo Miyai [127] F 20 July 1912 110 years, 268 days JapanJPN
Hildegard Rau [128] F 31 July 1912 110 years, 257 days GermanyGER
Mary Chesney [129] F 3 Aug 1912 110 years, 254 days United StatesUSA
Marie-Madeleine Saint-Laurent [130] F 9 Aug 1912 110 years, 248 days FranceFRA
Octavie Augustine [131] F 14 Aug 1912 110 years, 243 days Saint LuciaLCA
UR Virginia Jefferson [2] F 14 Aug 1912 110 years, 243 days United StatesUSA
Leola Porter [132] F 15 Aug 1912 110 years, 242 days United StatesUSA
Marguerite Pouponeau [133] F 15 Aug 1912 110 years, 242 days SeychellesSEY
Ayano Aoyama [134] F 18 Aug 1912 110 years, 239 days JapanJPN
Hildegard Kress [135] F 18 Aug 1912 110 years, 239 days LuxembourgLUXGermanyGER
Tripolino Giannini [136] M 20 Aug 1912 110 years, 237 days Italy ITA
UR John Tinniswood [2] M 26 Aug 1912 110 years, 231 days United Kingdom UK
UR Catherina van der Linden [2] F 26 Aug 1912 110 years, 231 days NetherlandsNEDAustraliaAUS
Anonymous (Chiba) [137] F 1 Sept 1912 110 years, 225 days JapanJPN
Ida Ortolani [138] F 4 Sept 1912 110 years, 222 days United StatesUSAItaly ITA
Olyra de Miranda Netto [139] F 6 Sept 1912 110 years, 220 days BrazilBRA
Gertrud Blohm [140] F 7 Sept 1912 110 years, 219 days GermanyGER
Mireille Brun [141] F 18 Sept 1912 110 years, 208 days FranceFRA
Estelle Zimmermann [142] F 18 Sept 1912 110 years, 208 days FranceFRA
UR Bertha Chapa Maltos [2] F 20 Sept 1912 110 years, 206 days MexicoMEX
Rosa Micaela Puertas [143] F 29 Sept 1912 110 years, 197 days ArgentinaARG
Hanayo Hashimoto [144] F 30 Sept 1912 110 years, 196 days JapanJPN
Kulzhamilya Akhmedyanova [145] F 1 Oct 1912 110 years, 195 days KazakhstanKAZ
Anna Matschewsky [146] F 3 Oct 1912 110 years, 193 days GermanyGER
Atilana Garcia Holgado [147] F 5 Oct 1912 110 years, 191 days SpainESP
UR Dorothea Duisberg [2] F 7 Oct 1912 110 years, 189 days GermanyGERChileCHL
Kathe von Reeken [148] F 9 Oct 1912 110 years, 187 days GermanyGER
UR Catherine Ferrell [2] F 10 Oct 1912 110 years, 186 days United StatesUSA
Pilar Calix Busquets [149] F 12 Oct 1912 110 years, 184 days SpainESP
Pilar Yague Sanchez [150] F 13 Oct 1912 110 years, 183 days SpainESP
Salvatore Nardi [151] M 14 Oct 1912 110 years, 182 days Italy ITA
UR Susan Keane [2] F 14 Oct 1912 110 years, 182 days United StatesUSA
UR Herbert Wolding [2] M 15 Oct 1912 110 years, 181 days United StatesUSA
UR Marie-Louise Andre [2] F 16 Oct 1912 110 years, 180 days FranceFRA
Laure Lescouzeres [152] F 19 Oct 1912 110 years, 177 days FranceFRA
Paule I. [153] F 22 Oct 1912 110 years, 174 days FranceFRA
Rafael Chinchilla [154] M 23 Oct 1912 110 years, 173 days El SalvadorSLV
Lucienne Moreau [155] F 25 Oct 1912 110 years, 171 days FranceFRA
Emilie Kreckmann [156] F 28 Oct 1912 110 years, 168 days GermanyGER
Julijana Zakrajsek [157] F 28 Oct 1912 110 years, 168 days SloveniaSVN
Rudy Thompson [158] M 28 Oct 1912 110 years, 168 days United StatesUSA
Senovio Saavedra Muela [159] M 30 Oct 1912 110 years, 166 days EcuadorECU
Shi Ping [160] M 1 Nov 1912 110 years, 164 days ChinaCHN
Hisao Ikeda [161] M 2 Nov 1912 110 years, 163 days JapanJPN
Beatrice Jensen [162] F 3 Nov 1912 110 years, 162 days CanadaCAN
UR Merah Smith [2] F 9 Nov 1912 110 years, 156 days JamaicaJAMUnited Kingdom UK
Louise Burkhalter [163] F 13 Nov 1912 110 years, 152 days United StatesUSA
Rita Rosaria Lotta [164] F 17 Nov 1912 110 years, 148 days Italy ITA
Anonymous [165] M 20 Nov 1912 110 years, 145 days BrazilBRA
UR Anna Natella [2] F 21 Nov 1912 110 years, 144 days Italy ITA United StatesUSA
Georgette Huard [166] F 24 Nov 1912 110 years, 141 days FranceFRA
Virgilia de Diego Carnicero [167] F 27 Nov 1912 110 years, 138 days SpainESP
Gisele Lesieux [168] F 30 Nov 1912 110 years, 135 days FranceFRA
Hildegard Mengering [169] F 30 Nov 1912 110 years, 135 days GermanyGER
Felicia Zaiko [170] F 30 Nov 1912 110 years, 135 days PolandPOLBelarusBLR
Christine Roseman [171] F 6 Dec 1912 110 years, 129 days United StatesUSA
Philomene Fibleuil [172] F 10 Dec 1912 110 years, 125 days Martinique (France)MTQ,FranceFRA
Willie Clark [173] M 12 Dec 1912 110 years, 123 days United StatesUSA
Toshi Arashiro [174] F 12 Dec 1912 110 years, 123 days JapanJPNBrazilBRA
Mary Kawakami [175] F 12 Dec 1912 110 years, 123 days United StatesUSA
Ida Belle Austin [176] F 17 Dec 1912 110 years, 118 days United StatesUSA
Maria da Conceicao Brito [177] F 22 Dec 1912 110 years, 113 days PortugalPOR
UR Mary Ransopher [2] F 25 Dec 1912 110 years, 110 days United StatesUSA
Maria Martin Rodriguez [178] F 27 Dec 1912 110 years, 108 days SpainESP
Hilario Polegario [179] M 27 Dec 1912 110 years, 108 days BrazilBRA
Linda Yale [180] F 28 Dec 1912 110 years, 107 days CanadaCAN
UR Clarice Patterson [2] F 29 Dec 1912 110 years, 106 days United StatesUSA
Luis Torras Martinez [181] M 29 Dec 1912 110 years, 106 days SpainESP
Tsuruji Mitsui [182] F 1 Jan 1913 110 years, 103 days JapanJPN
UR Adela Harrison [2] F 2 Jan 1913 110 years, 102 days United Kingdom UK
Lina Galvani [183] F 7 Jan 1913 110 years, 97 days BrazilBRA
Luciana Covo [184] F 7 Jan 1913 110 years, 97 days VenezuelaVEN
UR Rhoda Binge [2] F 8 Jan 1913 110 years, 96 days United Kingdom UK
Tsuneji Oyama [185] M 9 Jan 1913 110 years, 95 days JapanJPN
UR Hazel Schultz [2] F 12 Jan 1913 110 years, 92 days CanadaCANUnited StatesUSA
Fiorina Fiorelli [186] F 13 Jan 1913 110 years, 91 days Italy ITA
Hide Endo [187] F 13 Jan 1913 110 years, 91 days JapanJPN
UR Mary Petrosky [2] F 14 Jan 1913 110 years, 90 days United StatesUSA
Kura Kurihara [188] F 14 Jan 1913 110 years, 90 days JapanJPN
UR Marion Dawson [2] F 19 Jan 1913 110 years, 85 days United Kingdom UK
Fotima Salimova [189] F 20 Jan 1913 110 years, 83 days TajikistanTJK
UR Felicity Crump [2] F 21 Jan 1913 110 years, 83 days United Kingdom UK
GuernseyGGY,United Kingdom UK
Maria Rodriguez Sanchez [190] F 24 Jan 1913 110 years, 80 days SpainESP
UR Dulcie Fawcett [2] F 30 Jan 1913 110 years, 74 days AustraliaAUS
Irena Sila-Nowicka [191] F 30 Jan 1913 110 years, 74 days PolandPOL
Margarete Thurner [192] F 2 Feb 1913 110 years, 71 days AustriaAUT
Michi Sato [193] F 2 Feb 1913 110 years, 71 days JapanJPN
Mary Franklin [194] F 3 Feb 1913 110 years, 70 days United StatesUSA
Zoila de la Paz [195] F 4 Feb 1913 110 years, 69 days CubaCUB
Irineu Lopes da Silva [196] M 7 Feb 1913 110 years, 66 days BrazilBRA
Madelaine Stanley [197] F 8 Feb 1913 110 years, 65 days United Kingdom UK CanadaCAN
UR Bernice Laboda [2] F 9 Feb 1913 110 years, 64 days United StatesUSA
Antonia Torregroza de Effio [198] F 11 Feb 1913 110 years, 62 days PanamaPAN
UR Eulalia Bravo Bravo [2] F 12 Feb 1913 110 years, 61 days MexicoMEX
Yone Kawabata [199] F 14 Feb 1913 110 years, 59 days JapanJPN
Deolinda da Nazare [200] F 20 Feb 1913 110 years, 53 days PortugalPOR
Bertha Gutierrez [201] F 22 Feb 1913 110 years, 51 days United StatesUSA
Pierre Pineau [202] M 23 Feb 1913 110 years, 50 days FranceFRA
Masako Soga [203] F 23 Feb 1913 110 years, 50 days JapanJPN
Ai Iwabuchi [204] F 24 Feb 1913 110 years, 49 days JapanJPN
Maria Peitz [205] F 25 Feb 1913 110 years, 48 days GermanyGER
Emi Matsuda [206] F 2 Mar 1913 110 years, 43 days JapanJPN
Marina van der Es-Siewers [207] F 4 Mar 1913 110 years, 41 days NetherlandsNED
Gertrud Pawlik [208] F 4 Mar 1913 110 years, 41 days GermanyGER
Helene Gruat [209] F 8 Mar 1913 110 years, 37 days FranceFRA
Anonymous (Bourgogne-Franche-Comte) [210] F 8 Mar 1913 110 years, 37 days FranceFRA
UR Emilia Zuccolo [2] F 9 Mar 1913 110 years, 36 days Italy ITA
Marcelle Demorgny [211] F 10 Mar 1913 110 years, 35 days FranceFRA
Marie-Louise Bresson [212] F 15 Mar 1913 110 years, 30 days French Algeria (1830–1962)F-ALG, FRAFranceFRA
Angelina Torres Vallbona [213] F 18 Mar 1913 110 years, 27 days SpainESP
Amelie Courbiere [214] F 22 Mar 1913 110 years, 23 days FranceFRA
Yoshiko Takioto [215] F 25 Mar 1913 110 years, 20 days JapanJPN
Anonymous (Takasaki, Gunma) [216] F 27 Mar 1913 110 years, 18 days JapanJPN
Adele Lankenau [217] F 27 Mar 1913 110 years, 18 days GermanyGER
Pauline Cook [218] F 30 Mar 1913 110 years, 15 days United StatesUSA

See also

  • Potential future supercentenarians

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We would all love to live longer, so long as we can do it functionally and with all our faculties in place. There is much argument and many conflicting ideas on what allows people to live a long and healthy life. Despite this there is evidence of people living to an extraordinary age while smoking all their life, eating chocolate, drinking alcohol and all sorts of other contraindicated behaviors.

This is a list not of centenarians (people who have reached the age of 100 years), but of supercentenarians, who are those that have reached the ripe old age of 110 years or more. supercentenarians represent only a small portion of those living over 100 years. Only 1 in 1000 centenarians reach the age of 110. Further, only 2 percent of supercentenarians live to see age 115. Currently there are a documented 76 female and 2 male supercentenarians.

This list includes only verified supercentenarians, leaving out claims like Shirali Muslim (although he is a bonus item). However there are a few disputed claims that do have some proof.

So here they are in order from youngest to oldest.

10

Kamato Hongo

16 September 1887 – 31 October 2003 (Disputed) Age: 116 years 45 days

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Kamato Hongo, a Japanese supercentenarian, who was apparently the oldest living person from March 2002 until her death in 2003. She lived in Kagoshima and celebrated her 116th birthday a month before her death from pneumonia.

Hongo was born on the small island of Tokunoshima, she later moved to Kagoshima where she lived with her daughter. She became a minor celebrity and was a focus of some merchandise including wash-cloths, key-rings, phone cards and more (imagine how stylish a shirt with a wrinkled great grandmother on it would look). Hongo was 58 years old when World War II ended.

Kyushu, where Kagoshima is located is home to several other age record holders, making it an island of longevity, much like Okinawa.

9

Carrie C. White

November 18th 1874 – February 14th 1991 Age: 116 years 88 days

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Carrie C. White was recognized by Guinness world records as the oldest person in the world at around the time of her 114th birthday in 1988. Carrie was a resident of Palatka, Florida nursing home. She was in a nursing home not because of age, but due to a nervous breakdown in 1909, which left her institutionalized. Carrie is another case of dispute, however her documentation seems to be in order enough to give her the title of world’s oldest person between January 11th 1988 and February 14th 1991.

8

Elizabeth Bolden

15 August 1890 – 11th December 2006 Age: 116 years 118 days

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Elizabeth is a case that is not disputed, with documents in perfect order. And yes, she is another one from the United States. In fact, the US has more supercentenarians than any country in the world. They are not considered a land of longevity though due to the number per capita.

Elizabeth Bolden was one of only seven people worldwide that lived until age 116. Her birth was the last remaining documented birth of 1890. Elizabeth Jones (later Bolden) was born in Somerville Tennessee, the daughter of freed slaves. Lizzie married Lewis Bolden circa 1908 and their first child, a son named Ezell, was born on September 21st 1909. She had seven children in total, only two of whom were still alive at the time of her death in 2006.

In addition to Lizzie’s seven children she had 40 grand-children, 75 great grand-children, 150 great-great grand-children, 220 great-great-great grand-children and 75 great-great-great-great grand-children. Geez, imagine Christmas at granny’s house.

During my research I couldn’t find any documentation on her lifestyle habits. However a few lower down on this list reveal some of their secrets.

7

Tane Ikai

18th January 1879 – 12th July 1995 Age: 116 years 175 days

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Tane Ikain is Japan’s oldest female on record ever. She is also the oldest undisputed person since the Koseki system in 1879.

Tane Ikai outlived her daughter and her three sons. Ikai moved to a retirement home in 1972 at age 93 where she enjoyed sewing and pottery until she had a stroke at age 99. She also suffered a stroke at age 113 and was bed-ridden ever since. She survived on three meals of rice gruel a day (mmm yummy, I promise there are better supercentenarian diets lower on this list). She died at age 116 and 175 days of kidney failure.

Her body was the first of a supercentenarian known to be autopsied.

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Maria Esther Heredia de Capovilla

14th September 1889 – 27th August 2006 Age: 116 years 347 days

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Maria was a supercentenarian born in Ecuador and, until the time of her death, was recognized as the world’s oldest living person. She was the oldest documented person to have lived in three centuries.

Maria was the daughter of a colonel and lived a life in the upper-class elite. She attended social functions and art classes. She never smoked or drank hard liquor, unlike others on this list. At age 100 Capovilla nearly died and was given last rites, but has been reasonably free of health problems since then until her death. At age 116 she was said to be in good health and was able to watch TV, read newspapers and walk without the aid of a cane.

By March 2006 Capovilla’s health had declined somewhat and she was no longer able to read the newspaper. She had also stopped talking and was only able to walk with the help of two people. Still she was able to sit upright in a chair and was said to be doing fine. She died of Pneumonia just 18 days before her 117th birthday.

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Marie-Louise Meilleur

29th August 1880 – 16th April 1998 Age: 117 years 230 days

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Meilleur was a French-Canadian supercentenarian, who upon the death of Jeanne Calment (number one on the list), was the oldest living person. She is still the oldest ever Canadian.

By the time she died of a blood clot at age 117, her son was already in the same nursing home and her oldest living daughter was 90 years old. Now that would make you feel old, a 90 year old daughter. She was said to be a vegetarian and an “Avid Cigarette Smoker” (as opposed to a normal cigarette smoker?).

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Lucy Hannah

16th July 1875 – 21st March 1993 Age: 117 years 248 days

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Lucy Hannah was an American super centenarian, that’s right another American. But I can’t help it, she’s fourth on the list due to age. Hannah is the oldest African American to have ever lived and the oldest American at the time of her death. She is also, strangely, the oldest person to have never held the title of oldest LIVING person because she coincided with Jeanne Calment.

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Sarah Knauss

24th September 1880 – 30th December 1999 Age: 119 years 97 days

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Sarah Knauss, was the oldest person to have ever lived in America. She died 33 hours before the year 2000. Sarah Knauss lived her entire life in Pennsylvania. She was born in a small coal-mining town called Hollywood. That’s right folks, Hollywood, the other Hollywood.

Knauss was a homemaker and insurance office manager. Her daughter, who was 96 at the time of her death and lived to be 101 herself, said she was a very tranquil and peaceful person. She said nothing fazed her mother. “This is why she has lived so long“. In 1995 she was asked if she enjoyed her long life. Her answer was that she enjoyed it because she had her health and could still do many things into old age. Her interests were needlepoint, watching televised golf and eating chocolate turtles, cashews and potato chips. Knauss was an elegant lady, very refined.

Sarah died quietly in her room at the Phoebe-Devitt Home Foundation Facility on December 30th 1999. Doctors said she was in good health with no signs of illness. She just simply ‘expired’. Had she lived three days longer she would have lived in three different centuries.

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Shigechiyo Izumi

29th June 1865 – 21st February 1986 Age: 120 years 237 days

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Izumi is another disputed case like the first couple of list items. However Guinness World Record still maintains that his record is valid. Izumi is unique on a list of supercentenarians because he is male. There is a pattern of longevity that seems to favor women. This may be due to a lot of reasons. One theory is that males live harsher, more stressful lives. Well they did in the first part of this century and before.

Izumi was a Japanese born supercentenarian. His name was recorded in Japan’s first census in 1871. He also holds the world record for the longest working life. He worked a total of 98 years. His wife died at age 90, which is still a pretty good run. He drank brown sugar shochu, an alcoholic beverage distilled from barley or rice. Interestingly he took up smoking at age 70. Lord knows why. Hanging with the cool kids maybe? He started working in 1872, when he was six years old (this is what he says anyway) and continued working until 1970 at age 105. He says his long life is the work of the gods, Buddha and the sun. he lived through a total of 71 Japanese prime ministers.

Izumi died of pneumonia after being in hospital a short time on February 21st 1986, the same day as Jeanne Calment’s 111th birthday (see item one). There is some research to suggest that Izumi was not the oldest person at the time and put his age at a juvenile 105 years. However this is still up for debate. If this is true Christian Mortensen is the oldest man to have ever lived at 115 years, 252 days. Christian’s age has been verified and is undisputed.

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Jeanne Calment

21st February 1875 – 4th August 1997 Age: 122 years 164 days

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Jeanne Calment is my favorite. Super longevity is a fascinating topic for me. Considering that the maximum human lifespan possible is considered to be 123 – 125 years of age, makes Jeanne very special indeed. She definitely overstayed her time here on Earth.

Jeanne Louise Calment was a French supercentenarian from Arles. She outlived her daughter and her grandson. She was very well known at age 113 on the centenary of Vincent Van Gogh’s visit to Arles. She was the last person living to have personally met the artist. Her lifespan has been thoroughly documented, with more proof of her age than for any other case.

Funny Fact: Calment had no living heirs in 1965 at age 90. She made a deal to sell her apartment to lawyer Andrea-Francois Raffray on a contingency contract. This is often referred to as a reverse mortgage. He agreed to pay her 2500 francs every month until her death. Sounds like a smart move on his part considering she was 90 years old. He ended up paying her what equates to $180,000, which is more than double the apartment’s worth. After Raffray’s death in 1995 from cancer at age 77, his wife continued the payments until Calment’s death. How silly would you feel making that deal then having her live over 32 years after age 90?

Calment met Vincent Van Gogh in 1888 when he came to her father’s shop to buy some paint and pencils. She described him as dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable. She remembers this visit clearly along with watching the Eiffel tower being built.

At age 85 Jeanne took up fencing and at age 100 she was still riding a bicycle. She claimed to never have been athletic or fanatical about health and fitness. Calment lived alone until just before her 110th birthday. It was decided that she would be better off in a nursing home after a cooking accident nearly killed her. Jeanne was in great health and was able to walk right up until age 114 and 11 months when she fractured her femur from a fall. after an operation on the broken limb she required a wheelchair. She became ill with the flu just before her 116th birthday. She smoked right up until she was 117. Calment ascribed her longevity and youthful looks to olive oil. She rubbed it on her skin, drank it and used it in cooking. She enjoyed port wine and ate almost one kilogram (2.2lbs) of chocolate per week. Here is another photo of Jeanne aged 22.

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Shirali Muslimov

1805 – 1973 (Allegedly) Age: 168 years

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Shirali Muslimov is an interesting case. Some say his age is for real, most dispute his extreme longevity. Muslimov was a Talysh shepherd from the village of Barzavu in the Lerik region of Azerbaijan, a mountainous area near the Iranian border.

The only evidence of Muslimov’s age is a passport that states his birth date in 1805. So there could be some truth to it. What is more likely however is that he has been confused with someone else, possibly his father or grandfather. It would be nice to believe though. Imagine a healthy 168 years of life. In the photo above on the right, Muslimov was allegedly over 160 years old.


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There are, however, far fewer “supercentenarians,” people who live to age 110 or even longer. The oldest living person, Jeanne Calment of France, was 122 when she died in 1997; currently, the world’s oldest person is 118-year-old Kane Tanaka


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Kane’s early childhood was during the last years of the Meiji period, which ended when she was nine, in 1912. Kane married her cousin Hideo Tanaka in 1922, with whom she had two sons and two daughters. The couple also adopted a third daughter during their marriage, the second daughter of Hideo’s sister.


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Who is the oldest person alive 2021?

ICYMI: We verified the world’s oldest living man at the age of 112. While Saturnino is the oldest living man in the world, Japan’s Kane Tanaka is the oldest living person at age 118.

What is the world record for age?

The oldest person ever to have lived, according to Guinness World Records, is Jeanne Calment, from France, who lived to be 122 years and 164 days old. The oldest man ever is Jiroemon Kimura, from Japan, who was born on April 19th, 1897, and died, the age of 116 years and 54 days, on June 12th, 2013.

What is the world record for not talking?

In December 1963/January 1964, 17-year-old Gardner stayed awake for 11 days and 25 minutes (264.4 hours), breaking the previous record of 260 hours held by Tom Rounds.

Can a person live to be 200 years old?

Humans may be able to live for between 120 and 150 years, but no longer than this «absolute limit» on human life span, a new study suggests. … If therapies were to be developed to extend the body’s resilience, the researchers argue, these may enable humans to live longer, healthier lives.

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Is anyone from the 1800s still alive?

Emma Martina Luigia Morano OMRI (29 November 1899 – 15 April 2017) was an Italian supercentenarian who, before her death at the age of 117 years and 137 days, was the world’s oldest living person whose age had been verified, and the last living person to have been verified as being born in the 1800s.

What’s the oldest dog ever?

The greatest reliable age recorded for a dog is 29 years 5 months for an Australian cattle-dog named Bluey, owned by Les Hall of Rochester, Victoria, Australia. Bluey was obtained as a puppy in 1910 and worked among cattle and sheep for nearly 20 years before being put to sleep on 14 November 1939.

Do dogs think you’re never coming back?

Evidence shows that they will remember you for a very long time. The bond between the owner and the dog leaves a lasting impression in their memory. It is quite possible that they are thinking about you while you are gone just as much as you think about them.

Is 17 old for a dog?

Physical and Mental Development. A 16-year-old dog, depending on his size, is roughly the equivalent of an 80- to 123-year-old person. Like elderly humans, your dog is moving more slowly and sleeping more than he did in his spryer years. He may be showing signs of cognitive deterioration as well.

Who is Queen Hester?

Hester Ford (née McCardell; 15 August 1905 – 17 April 2021) was an American supercentenarian who was the oldest living person in the United States from the death of 114 year-old Alelia Murphy on 23 November 2019 until her own death on 17 April 2021.

What birth month lives the longest?

OCTOBER: People born in October live the longest.

Is there anyone alive from the 1700s?

There’s no way to know for sure, but Margaret Ann Neve was one of them. Emma Morano was 117 years old when she died in Italy last month. If someone born in 1999 lives to be 117, like Morano did, that person may live to see the year 2117. …

Is Hester dead scream queens?

After «Hell Week» starts for the new pledges, Hester is buried in the ground only showing her head along with Zayday, Tiffany, Jennifer, and Sam. The Red Devil appears using a lawnmower and decapitates Tiffany, leaving the other girls screaming terrified.

Who is the oldest American alive today?

A 114-year-old Nebraska woman is now the oldest living person in America. Thelma Sutcliffe, who was born in 1906, became the oldest living American after a 115-year-old woman from North Carolina died on April 17. She is also the seventh oldest living person in the world, according to the Gerontology Research Group.

What is the oldest woman to have a baby?

Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara is the oldest verified mother; she was aged 66 years 358 days when she gave birth to twins; she was 130 days older than Adriana Iliescu, who gave birth in 2005 to a baby girl. In both cases the children were conceived through IVF with donor eggs.

How old are dogs in human years?

According to the American Veterinary Medical Association: The first year of a medium-sized dog’s life is equal to approximately 15 years of a human’s life. The second year of a dog’s life equals about nine years for a human. And after that, every human year equals approximately four or five years for a dog.

Is 13 old for a dog?

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A 13- to 15-year-old dog, depending on her size and health, is roughly equivalent to a 70- to 115-year-old person. In her elder years, it is harder for your dog to learn new things. … Older dogs may find it more difficult or painful to move around.

Do dogs get sad when you yell at them?

When our dogs act up, one of the first instinctive reactions is to shout. … However, experts have revealed that shouting at your dog can actually do more harm then good when trying to teach your pup to be well behaved. In fact, not only is it likely to make them naughtier, it can even lead to even stress and depression.

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If you want to know the record holder for the oldest person in the world, then you’re in the right place. Jeanne Louise Calment (born in 1875 / died 1997) was the oldest living person and had the longest confirmed human life span in history, living to the age of 122 years, 164 days. She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life, and outlived both her daughter and grandson. She became especially well known from the age of 113, when the centenary of Vincent van Gogh’s visit brought reporters to Arles. She entered the Guinness Book of Records in 1988, and on 17 October 1995 she became the oldest person ever.

She said she was 12 or 13 when she saw Vincent Van Gogh in Arles, and she said later that he was «very ugly, ungracious, impolite, sick, I forgive him, they called him loco.». Madame Calment once said: «I have an enormous will to live and a good appetite, especially for sweets». She used to eat more than two pounds of chocolate a week and treat her skin with olive oil, rode a bicycle until she was 100.

The oldest undisputed lifespan for a man supercentenarian is that of Christian Mortensen, who lived to be 115 years, 252 days. He was the oldest undisputed man ever. He was also the first undisputed man to reach 114 and 115 years of age.

The longest documented lifespan for a living person is that of 114-year-old Besse Cooper, of Georgia, United States, who was born on 26 August 1896. She succeeded Eunice Sanborn of Texas, United States, on 31 January 2011.

Tuti Yusupova (claimed birth date July 1, 1880) is an Uzbekistani who claims, at an alleged age of 130, to be the oldest living person in the world. It has been claimed that she has a birth certificate recording her as having been born in 1880, but this has not been independently verified.

Antisa Khvichava (born 8 July 1880) is a Georgian woman who is 130 years old, which would make her the oldest person of all time. Her passport is given as evidence. However it is claimed that it is likely that her birth records were either misrecorded or falsified.

Did you know that a supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians. There are estimated to be 300–450 living supercentenarians in the world, though only about 90 individual verified living supercentenarians are known. A supercentenarian is considered ‘verified’ if his or her claim has been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity research, such as the Gerontology Research Group or Guinness World Records.

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The longest documented lifespan for a living woman is that of 114-year-old Besse Cooper, of Georgia, United States, who was born on 26 August 1896. She succeeded Eunice Sanborn of Texas, United States, on 31 January 2011.

Tuti Yusupova (claimed birth date July 1, 1880) is an Uzbekistani who claims, at an alleged age of 130, to be the oldest living woman in the world. It has been claimed that she has a birth certificate recording her as having been born in 1880, but this has not been independently verified.

Antisa Khvichava (born 8 July 1880) is a Georgian woman who is 130 years old, which would make her the oldest person of all time. Her passport is given as evidence. However it is claimed that it is likely that her birth records were either misrecorded or falsified.

Did you know that evidence-based studies indicate that longevity is based on two major factors, genetics and lifestyle choices. Twin studies, have estimated that approximately 20-30% of an individual’s lifespan is related to genetics, the rest is due to individual behaviors and environmental factors which can be modified. Study of the regions of the world known as blue zones, where people commonly live active lives past 100 years of age, have shown that longevity is related to a healthy social and family life, not smoking, eating a plant-based diet, frequent consumption of legumes and nuts, and engaging in regular physical activity.

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People are living well into their 100s in the United States and all over the world. All of the 26 oldest living people in the world today are women. Many of them are from the United States, Japan, and Italy. The oldest living person is currently over 115 years old.

Who is the oldest person in the world? Misao Okawa, of Japan, was born on March 5, 1898 making her 116 years old. She is the third oldest person ever in Japan and the 10th oldest person who ever lived. She was recognized by Guinness World Records on February 27, 2013. She currently resides in a nursing home in Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka.

Jeralean Talley is the second oldest person in the world and the oldest in the United States. She was born on May 23, 1899 making her 114 years old. She was an avid bowler until age 104 and she still loves to go fishing. She currently resides in Inkster, Michigan. The third oldest person in the world is Susannah Mushatt Jones of the United States who was born on July 6, 1899 making her 114 years old.

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Who are the oldest people ever to have lived, and what are their secrets to longevity? If you’re looking to live a long and healthy life, it may be good to examine the characteristics of centenarians to find the common threads. What are some centenarian secrets? We’ve taken a closer look at the top 100 verified oldest people in the world and some key aspects of their lives. We’ve also taken some tips from the top ten oldest people ever. Here’s what the oldest people on Earth have to tell us!

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Statistics on the World’s 100 Oldest Centenarians

Sex

Gender Number of Centenarians
Male 6
Female 94

Place of Residence

Country/Territory Number of Centenarians
Australia 1
Brazil 1
Canada 3
Ecuador 1
France 5
French Guiana 1
Saint Barthélemy 1
Italy 5
Jamaica 1
Japan 25
Netherlands 1
Portugal 2
Puerto Rico 2
Spain 2
United Kingdom 5
United States 44

Birth Month

Month Number of Centenarians
January 4
February 6
March 12
April 9
May 11
June 4
July 9
August 15
September 11
October 8
November 8
December 3

Birth Decade

Decade Number of Centenarians
1870-79 12
1880-89 28
1890-99 38
1900-1909 22

Still Living

Status Number of Centenarians
Living 7
Deceased 93

The Top Ten Oldest People

Name Age, Status, Nationality Facts About Them Their “Secret”
Jeanne Calment 122, Deceased (1997), France
  • She had the longest confirmed human lifespan.
  • She met Vincent Van Gogh and lived through the Russian Revolution, the advent of the motorcar, film, and the telephone, and both world wars.
  • She smoked for 96 years and loved chocolate and red wine.
She was quoted as saying “If you can’t do anything about it, don’t worry about it.”
Sarah Knauss 119, Deceased (1999), United States
  • This insurance agency manager and homemaker died just 33 hours shy of the year 2000.
  • She was one of seven living generations of her family.
  • When she was first told that she was the oldest living person alive, she responded with a smile and said, «So what?»
She said not letting things upset her was the secret to her longevity.
Lucy Hannah (nee Terrell) 117, Deceased (1993), United States
  • The oldest African-American had escaped racial tensions in the South to live in Detroit.
  • Far less is known about her than many other super-centenarians.
Her status was recognized 10 years after her death, which is why not many interviews were found.
Marie-Lousie Fébronie Meilleur 117, Deceased (1998), Canada
  • Out of her 12 children, only four survived her. She had 85 grandchildren, 80 great-grandchildren, 57 great-great-grandchildren, and four great-great-great-grandchildren.
  • She smoked well into her 90s.
She’s quoted by her daughter as saying, “Hard work could never kill a person.”
Nabi Tajima 117, Living, Japan She has a huge family of more than 140 descendants. She has claimed that her secret to longevity is to “eat delicious things.”
Violet Brown 117, Deceased (2017), Jamaica
  • She was a devoted member of her church.
  • She was a sugar plantation worker, maid, and entrepreneur and the last living subject of Queen Victoria.
  • She owned a bread shop.
  • She ate «plenty of fruit» and sometimes cow’s foot.
“Hard work,” she said in an interview. “I was a cane farmer. I would do every work I could manage to help myself.”
Emma Morano 117, Deceased (2017), Italy
  • She ate two raw eggs and one cooked egg every day since she was diagnosed with anemia at 20.
  • She also avoided meat and loved cookies.
She said “being single” was the top reason she was still alive — that and getting to bed early.
Misao Okawa 117, Deceased (2015), Japan
  • She outlived her husband by 84 years. (He died in 1931.)
  • On her 117th birthday, she said her life seemed short.
She claimed sushi and sleep were the top reasons she lived so long.
María Capovilla 116, Deceased (2006), Ecuador
  • She was a member of upper-class society.
  • She nearly died and was given last rites at age 100, but she lived another 16 years after.
  • She was famous for fanning herself with a fine fan, and she loved reading the newspaper.
Her daughter said, “She always had a very tranquil character,” and “she does not get upset by anything.”
Susannah Mushatt Jones 116, Deceased (2016), United States
  • She lived in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance and for most of her life.
  • Her parents were sharecroppers, and her grandparents were slaves.
  • She was a teacher and did not have children.
  • She refused to get a colonoscopy, a mammogram, or a recommended pacemaker.
  • She was famous for eating eggs, bacon, and grits every morning.
“I have no secret. I just live with my family. That’s the only thing I can say — my family makes me happy.”

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A centenarian is a person who has lived a hundred years or more. Supercentenarians are those who survive past their 110th birthday — yes, like Bilbo Baggins, if he was a real person!

One out of every thousand centenarians lived to be a supercentenarian. The list of oldest people includes 663 validated cases of supercentenarians, living and dead, which may seem like a lot, but considering how many billions of people have existed, it’s not very many. The list of the oldest people in the world is short, and the list of verified world’s oldest people is even shorter. This top 100 list of the oldest people includes supercentenarians between the ages of 114 and 122, living and dead.

Who is the oldest person in the world who ever lived?

The verified oldest person ever was Jeanne Louise Calment, a French woman who lived in Arles to be a ripe age of 122 and gained fame during a celebration of the centennial of Vincent van Gogh’s visit to the town. She met van Gogh (who she later described as ugly and drunk), had German soldiers sleeping in her rooms in World War II, enjoyed killing wild boars in her spare time and survived her husband by 55 years. She was born in 1875 and died in 1997, having survived major technological changes in our world, from the advent of the telephone to the television and the Internet age. She was the oldest person to ever live in recorded history. Outside of a handful of supposedly possible and unconfirmed longevity myths (she once claimed to “compete with Methuselah”), she was the oldest human ever. So what did the longest-living person do to stay healthy? Eat chocolates, smoke cigarettes, and enjoy champagne!

How old is the oldest person alive right now?

Calment was the oldest person ever to live, but the oldest person alive currently lives on the other side of the globe: Nabi Tajima. She is 117 years old and the oldest person on Earth. A Japanese woman who doesn’t often give interviews, she recently surpassed Violet Brown of Jamaica, who lived through some very tough physical labor and died last year. Among the other oldest living people in the world are Chiyo Miyako of Japan, Giuseppina Projetto of Italy, and Kane Tanaka of Japan. The oldest people alive right now in the US are Delphine Gibson of Pennsylvania (114 years old) and Lessie Brown of Ohio (113 years old). But there are hundreds of living centenarians around the world, and many of them are still unverified.

What do centenarians have in common?

What can we learn from our elders? Advice from centenarians tends to be pretty simple, such as not worrying so much about the small stuff, sleeping soundly, enjoying hard work, having a family that makes you happy around you, or enjoying food. We can learn more by looking closer at their lives to find common characteristics in the list of centenarians. Japan and America, which have relatively good health care systems and less physical labor in the workforce, are the home countries of the most supercentenarians. The world’s oldest people tend to be female to a great extent, for many reasons. The most common birth month is August. Beyond these facts, what are the secrets from the statistics we can glean on their lifestyles? Some of these elders were famous for smoking most of their lives, eating bacon and grits, and enjoying foods supposedly horrible for you! Is it all genetics? Not exclusively, as avoiding obesity and keeping your brain sharp can certainly help. Perhaps someday we’ll discover the secrets to longevity and we’ll all live as long as Calment!


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