Who is the oldest living person in the world?
List of the verified oldest people
As of , the oldest known living person is Kane Tanaka of Japan, aged . The oldest known living man is Gustav Gerneth of Germany, aged . Due to differences in life expectancy, the 100 oldest women have lived significantly longer than the 100 oldest men.
Oldest people
As women live longer than men on average, combined records for both sexes are predominated by women. The longest undisputed lifespan for a man is that of Jiroemon Kimura of Japan (1897–2013), who died at age 116 years, 54 days.
Trelawny Parish
The supercentenarian Violet Brown (1900-2017), who was at a time the oldest verified living person in the world, was born and resided in Trelawny.
List of British supercentenarians
Lucy Jane Askew (8 September 1883 – 9 December 1997) was an English supercentenarian and the oldest person in Europe at the time of her death at the age of 114 years and 92 days. Askew was born and died in Loughton, Essex. She was born to Arthur George Askew and Susan Elizabeth Askew née Ellis, prosperous landowners. Lucy had five other siblings, all of whom she outlived, although three of them also lived past 100. Askew never married and was a devout Christian. Askew moved into a nursing home when she was 106 and survived a leg operation at 108. She was in good health until shortly before her death when she died peacefully in her sleep. She attributed her longevity to a modest lifestyle.
John Overton (judge)
He is the great-great grandfather of World War II veteran Richard Arvin Overton (b. May 11, 1906; d. December 27, 2018) who, at the age of , was both the oldest living man in the United States, and the oldest living U.S. veteran of World War II.
Olive Riley
Olive Riley (20 October 1899 – 12 July 2008) was an Australian centenarian woman, from Woy Woy, New South Wales, believed for a time to have been the world's oldest online personal blogger and Youtube video poster.until American politician and radio talk show hostess Ruth Hamilton of Orlando, Florida was later found to be older and also a blogger
Riley who was born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, began her blog "The Life of Riley" (a name play on the popular 1940s radio serial) in February 2007 at the age of 107 and made her final post on 26 June 2008 from her Woy Woy nursing home complaining of a cough about two weeks before she died at the age of 108. She had posted over 70 entries, as well as several video posts on YouTube.
Her blog (or "blob" as she called it) began soon after the release of a film about her, "All About Olive", directed by documentary filmmaker Michael Rubbo and released in 2005. Rubbo gave Olive a co-directing credit, making her the oldest director in the world. The blog was suggested by Eric Shackle, a journalist in his late eighties, who was interested in promoting the idea that one is never too old for the internet.
Alphaeus Philemon Cole
Alphaeus Philemon Cole (Jersey City, New Jersey July 12, 1876 – New York City, November 25, 1988) was an American artist, engraver and etcher. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and died in New York City. He was the son of noted engraver Timothy Cole. At the time of his death, at age 112 years and 136 days, Alphaeus was the world's oldest verified living man.
Nicolas Savin
If Savin was indeed aged 126 when he died, in Russia, where he had resided for more than eighty years, he would be the longest-lived man on record, and the longest-lived human of any gender. However, as this age has not been verified, the record for the oldest man is held by the Japanese-born Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013), who died at the verified age of 116. The record for the longest verified lifespan of a human is currently 122 years, held by the Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) and that was challanged in 2018.
Christian Mortensen
Christian Mortensen (August 16, 1882 – April 25, 1998) was a Danish-American supercentenarian. When he died, his age of 115 years, 252 days was the longest verified lifespan of any male in modern history until 28 December 2012, when Jiroemon Kimura of Japan surpassed this record. Mortensen was the first man confirmed to reach age 115 (in 1997).
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum
Chau Sen Cocsal (; 1 September 1905 – 22 January 2009), also known as "Chhum" (), was a Cambodian civil servant and politician who served as interim Prime Minister of Cambodia in 1962 and President of the National Assembly twice, in 1962–63 and 1966–68. He lived for , making him the oldest-lived state leader in the world with the known date of birth and death. The only leader possibly longer living than him is another Cambodian Prime Minister, Ek Yi Oun (1910–2013). Chhum was awarded the honorary title "Samdech" in 1993 by King Norodom Sihanouk.
Besse Cooper
Besse Berry Cooper (née Brown; August 26, 1896 – December 4, 2012) was an American supercentenarian and suffragettewho was the world's oldest living person from June 21, 2011, until her death. She was the eighth person verified to have reached the age of 116.
Leandra Becerra Lumbreras
Becerra claimed to have lost her birth certificate in a move in 1974, meaning she could not conclusively prove her age. Since she did not have her birth certificate, the Guinness World Records could not verify Becerra's claim and instead recognized Misao Okawa (1898-2015) as the world's oldest living person, and Jeanne Calment (1875-1997) as the longest-lived person in history.
Alexander Imich
Imich died on June 8, 2014 at 9:03 AM from natural causes at the age of 111. He was succeeded as the world's oldest man by Sakari Momoi of Japan (born February 5, 1903, one day after Imich).
List of British supercentenarians
Baker was the first supercentenarian listed by "Guinness World Records" as the world's then-oldest person. In 2002, researchers confirmed she had been the world's oldest living person by modern verification standards for an unknown period of time prior to her death in 1955. She was the second person in the world (after Delina Filkins) to have reached the age of 113 and to have been validated by modern standards.
List of French supercentenarians
French supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from France who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. , the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 161 French supercentenarians. The oldest French person currently alive is Lucile Randon, born 11 February 1904, aged . France was also home to the oldest human being ever whose longevity was well documented, Jeanne Calment, who lived in Arles and remembered meeting Vincent Van Gogh when she was a teenager. She was born on 21 February 1875, and died on 4 August 1997, aged 122 years and 164 days. Nevertheless, a November 2018 study advanced the hypothesis that Calment's daughter Yvonne usurped her identity in 1934; Yvonne was born on 19 January 1898, which would have made her 99 years old upon her death in 1997. The verified oldest French man ever was Maurice Floquet, a veteran of World War I who lived 111 years and 320 days across three centuries (1894–2006).
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Grand Duke Jean now lives at Fischbach Castle. On 27 December 2016, Grand Duke Jean was hospitalized due to bronchitis and was discharged from hospital on 4 January 2017, a day before he celebrated his 96th birthday.
The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art (Mudam) bears his name. At age of , he is the oldest and the longest-living current or former monarch in the world.
List of Japanese supercentenarians
became the world's oldest living woman after the death of Mae Harrington on 29 December 2002, and the world's oldest living person after the death of Japanese man Yukichi Chuganji on 28 September 2003. On 31 October 2003, after Kamato Hongo's death, Kawate was recognized as the oldest living person in the world, though in fact, Kawate became the oldest living person in the world on 28 September 2003, because Kamato Hongo's record was revoked in 2012.
List of French supercentenarians
Marie Marthe Augustine Lemaitre Brémont (née Mesange; 25 April 1886 – 6 June 2001) was the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 until her death at age 115 years 42 days. Brémont is the second oldest French person to have ever lived, after longevity world record holder Jeanne Calment.
List of supercentenarians by continent
The oldest European ever, and the world's oldest person, was Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who lived 122 years, 164 days. The oldest European man ever was Christian Mortensen from Denmark, who emigrated to the United States where he died at the age of 115 years, 252 days. The oldest non-emigrant European man was Spaniard Joan Riudavets Moll, who lived 114 years and 81 days.
Violet Brown
Violet Brown (née Mosse; 10 March 1900 – 15 September 2017) was a Jamaican supercentenarian who was the oldest verified living person in the world for five months, following the death of Emma Morano on 15 April 2017 until her own death at the age of on 15 September 2017. She was the fifth-oldest person in history at the time of her death and along with Nabi Tajima of Japan, was one of the last two living people known to have been born in the 19th century.
Zhou Youguang
Zhou died on 14 January 2017 at his home in Beijing, the day after his 111th birthday; no cause was given. His wife had died in 2002, and his son had died in 2015. At the time, he was the seventh-oldest known living man and the oldest known living person in China. He is one of the 100 world's verified oldest men in history.
102 Not Out
Dattatraya wants to break the record of the oldest living person on earth, which is currently held by a Chinese man. He has to live 16 more years to do so, but in order to maintain his health to live that long, he has to stay away from negative minded people. Therefore, he decides to send his son to an old age home unless Babu fulfills certain conditions. Initially Babu thinks that his father, as he usually does, is joking but as Dattatraya calls the old age home and fixes an appointment, he realizes that he is serious and reluctantly agrees to abide by the conditions as he is utterly scared of staying in a geriatric home. Dattatraya decides to document the conditions that are to be fulfilled by Babu and keeps Dhiru as a witness to confirm if he is performing the tasks as desired. He also gives the option to Babu to decline any one of the tasks assigned to him as a part of the agreement.
Nicholas Kao Se Tseien
Nicholas Kao Se Tseien, O.C.S.O. (; 15 January 1897 – 11 December 2007) was a Chinese Roman Catholic priest living in Hong Kong who had been the oldest living Catholic priest and was the oldest ever person to have had a cataract operation according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Zaro Aga
Zaro Aga (, ) was a Kurdish man who claimed to be one of the longest-living humans ever. He claimed birth between 1774 and 1777, and died on 29 June 1934 in Istanbul, Turkey. He was allegedly aged 157 when he died, and thus claimed to be one of the longest-living humans ever.
List of Japanese supercentenarians
A resident of Hiroshima, she worked on a farm until injuring her hands at the age of 99. In 1945, two days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, she entered Hiroshima city in order to look for acquaintances. She was taken to a hospital shortly before her death aged 114 years, 182 days from pneumonia. Her death left Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan of Puerto Rico the oldest documented person in the world, though this was not recognized by Guinness World Records until 2004 (Charlotte Benkner of the U.S. had been given the title in the interim).
Alice Underwood Fitch
In 1908, the French Government conferred the Ordre des Palmes Académiques on her. In 1926, she moved to Santa Ana, California with her adopted son. While in Santa Ana, she painted the portrait of Senora De La Rosa, a 128-year-old Mexican lady, who is being researched as the oldest person to ever have lived. The "Old Senora" was born Martina de la Rosa in Aquas Callientes, Mexico on November 5, 1805 and passed on January 8. 1935 in Santa Ana, California. The painting of the "Old Senora" is in the collection of Samuel and Katheryn Othus. Extensive, documented provenance exists.
Waldo McBurney
Ralph Waldo McBurney (October 3, 1902 – July 8, 2009), usually known as Waldo, was said to be the oldest worker in the United States. Until a relatively short time before his death at age 106, he lived and worked as a beekeeper in the city of Quinter, Kansas. Although he was born in Quinter and had lived in the Quinter area for many years, he had also lived near the Kansas cities of Sterling and Beloit. In his last years, he was recognized nationwide for his longevity.
María Capovilla
Capovilla was named the World's Oldest Person by Guinness World Records on , thus superseding both Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper of the Netherlands thought to be the world's oldest person from to , when she died, and Elizabeth Bolden of the United States, thought to be the world's oldest person from to .
Katherine Plunket
Although it was not known at the time, Plunket became the oldest recognised person in the world at 8:00 a.m. on 4 December 1928, after the death of Delina Filkins, at the age of 108 years and 12 days, spanning a little over three years. As well as being the longest-lived Irish person, Plunket lived longer than anyone who died in Ireland or Britain, and at 109 received a telegram from King George V, holding the longevity record title for 38 years, until 1970, when Ada Roe lived to be 12 days older. She was the last living person who had met the author Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), when he stayed at her grandfather's house in Bray while she was visiting.
Sarah Knauss
Sarah DeRemer Clark was born on September 24, 1880, in Hollywood, Pennsylvania, a small coal mining village. She married Abraham Lincoln Knauss in 1901; he became a prominent Lehigh County, Pennsylvania Republican leader, and the recorder of deeds. Their only child Kathryn was born in 1903 and died in 2005 at the age of 101 years. Sarah's husband died in 1965 at 86 years old. In 1995, Knauss said she enjoyed her life because she still had her health and could "do things." At age 116, Knauss was recognized as being the new United States national longevity record holder, then thought to have been Carrie C. White (reportedly 1874–1991). In 1998, she became the world's oldest person when 117-year-old Canadian Marie-Louise Meilleur died. When her family members mentioned her newfound fame, Knauss responded with a smile and "So what?" Prior to her death, there were six living generations in her family.
Henry Allingham
Henry William Allingham (6 June 1896 – 18 July 2009) was an English supercentenarian, he was also the oldest surviving man ever from the United Kingdom, First World War veteran and, for one month, the verified oldest living man in the world. He is also the second oldest military veteran ever and, at the time of his death, he was the 12th-verified oldest man of all time.
Polish–Soviet War
Lieutenant Józef Kowalski, of Poland, was believed to be the last living veteran from this war. He was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta on his 110th birthday by the president of Poland. He died on 7 December 2013 at the age of 113. However, his age is not verified, and in any case, Alexander Imich, the world's verified oldest man when he died on 8 June 2014, aged 111, was a veteran from the same war, and therefore the real last living veteran.
Sarah Knauss
Sarah DeRemer Knauss (née Clark; September 24, 1880 – December 30, 1999) was an American supercentenarian. Knauss is the oldest person ever from the United States, and widely reported as the second-oldest fully documented person ever. She was recognized as the world's oldest living person by Guinness World Records from April 16, 1998, until her death.
List of Italian supercentenarians
Venere Pizzinato (married Papo, 23 November 1896 – 2 August 2011) was an Italian supercentenarian, living to the age of 114 years, 252 days. At the time of her death she was the oldest person ever from Italy, a title she held until 13 December 2011 when she was surpassed by Dina Manfredini. She was the world's third oldest living person, behind Besse Cooper and Chiyono Hasegawa. Pizzinato was also the oldest person ever to have been born in the Austro-Hungarian empire. She was the oldest person ever to be born and die in Italy, until being surpassed by Emma Morano on 9 August 2014.
Killay, County Tyrone
Killay was the home-town of one of the oldest men who ever lived, George Fletcher, who died in 1906 at the age of 118. Edward VII commemorated this with a gold snuff box in 1904. At the time Fletcher was the oldest person in the United Kingdom.
Tuti Yusupova
Tuti Tojiboyevna Yusupova (, ; 1 July 1880? – 28 March 2015) was an Uzbekistani longevity claimant. At the alleged age of , she was claimed to be the oldest living person in the world and oldest person ever, her claimed age exceeding that of the currently recognised claimant Jeanne Louise Calment by 12 years. She was born and died in the same village, but lived in four states: the Khanate of Khiva, the Khorezm People's Soviet Republic, the Soviet Union and independent Uzbekistan.
Jeanne Calment
In 1986 Jeanne Calment became the oldest living person in France at the age of 111. Her profile increased during the centennial of Vincent van Gogh's move to Arles. Calment claimed to reporters that she had met Van Gogh 100 years earlier, as a thirteen-year-old girl in her uncle's shop. She remembered the meeting as a disappointment, and described him as ugly and alcoholic. She was recognised by the Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living person when she was 112. At the age of 114, she briefly appeared in the 1990 documentary film "Vincent and Me", walking outside and answering questions. Her celebrity further increased when "Guinness" named her the oldest person ever in 1995. Far exceeding any other verified human lifespan, Calment was widely reckoned the best-documented supercentenarian ever recorded. For example, she was listed in fourteen census records, beginning in 1876 as a one-year-old infant. After Calment's death, at 122 years and 164 days, 116-year-old Marie-Louise Meilleur became the oldest validated living person. Several claims to have surpassed Calment's age were made, but no such case was proven. For over two decades, Calment has held the status of the oldest-ever human being whose age was validated by modern standards.
Robert Overton
Overton's great-great-grandson, John Overton (1766-1833) was a judge at the Superior Court of Tennessee between 1804-1810. John's great-great-grandson, Richard Arvin Overton (b. 1906) of Austin, Texas is a supercentenarian, who is believed to be the oldest living man as well as the oldest World War II veteran in the United States.
Oldest people
This is a list of tables of the oldest people in the world in ordinal ranks. To avoid including false or unconfirmed claims of extreme old age, names here are restricted to those people whose ages have been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity research, such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) or "Guinness World Records" (GWR), and others who have otherwise been .
List of Italian supercentenarians
Marie-Josephine Clarice Gaudette (25 March 1902 – 13 July 2017) was the oldest living person in Italy from the death of Emma Morano, who was the oldest living person in the world and the oldest Italian person ever on 15 April 2017 until her own death three months later. Gaudette was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States, and was the oldest living person born in the US from the death of Susannah Mushatt Jones on 12 May 2016 and the oldest emigrant from the US ever.
List of oldest living state leaders
This article lists the 100 longest-lived current or former heads of state or heads of government of sovereign states (often a president, prime minister or monarch) whose age can be proven beyond reasonable doubt. Leaders are not included if no reliable secondary sources have confirmed that the leader is alive within the last 10 years. The oldest living state leader is Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan at the age of . Leaders currently in office are in bold on purple, with Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia being the oldest currently-serving head of government and Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom being the oldest currently-serving head of state.
List of French supercentenarians
Marie-Simone Capony (14 March 1894 – 15 September 2007) was, at age 113, the oldest living person in France. She became the French following the death of 114-year-old Camille Loiseau in August 2006. At the time of her death, aged 113 years and 185 days, due to heart failure, she ranked as the fifth-oldest person in the world. Capony was born in Charlieu (Loire), and lived in a retirement facility in Cannes. She never married (her fiancé was killed in action at the beginning of the First World War in 1914). Capony had not been able to walk since she turned 100, after having an operation in order to fix a broken thighbone, but she still remained in fairly good health considering her very advanced age.
Bir Narayan Chaudhary
Bir Narayan Majhi Chaudhari (; 1856? – 20 April 1998) was a Nepali man who claimed to be the oldest person ever. He died in 1998 at the self-professed age of 141. Bir was unable to substantiate his longevity claims with documentation. Since he did not have a birth certificate, "The Guinness Book of Records" did not identify him as the oldest person in the world.
Susannah Mushatt Jones
Jones died in her sleep on the evening of May 12, 2016, aged 116 years, 311 days. Following her death, Emma Morano became the world's oldest living person as well as the last living person who was born in the 1800s.
List of American supercentenarians
Born of freed slaves, Solomon and Delia Rutherford, she is the oldest resident of the state of Mississippi ever recorded (the previous record was 113 years, 12 days set in 1994). In late April 2005, Wilson moved into a new home funded by donations. Wilson celebrated her 115th birthday in September 2005, at which time she ranked as the third-oldest living person in the world. Wilson died at her New Albany home on February 13, 2006, aged 115 years, 153 days. She was survived by her son, five grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren, 95 great-great-grandchildren and 38 great-great-great grandchildren.
María Capovilla
At the time of her death at age 116 years, 347 days, Capovilla was the fifth-oldest verified person to have ever lived. Capovilla is still currently the oldest verified South American to have ever lived. She is also the last verified person to have been born in the 1880s.
Jeanne Calment
According to census records, Calment outlived both her daughter and grandson. She was widely reported to have been the oldest living person in 1988 at 112, and was declared the oldest person ever in 1995 at age 120.
Little Big Man (film)
In 1970, 121 year-old Jack Crabb, the oldest living man in the world, is residing in a hospice, and recounts his plentiful life story to a curious historian. Among other things, Crabb claims to have been a captive of the Cheyenne, a gunslinger, an associate of Wild Bill Hickok, a scout for General George Armstrong Custer, and the sole white survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Tiffany Two
Tiffany Two (March 13, 1988 – May 22, 2015) was the world's second oldest living cat, aged 27 years, according to Guinness World Records. This distinction is different from the oldest cat ever verified; Creme Puff lived for 38 years, 3 days.
List of American supercentenarians
Lucy Hannah (née Terrell; July 16, 1875 (August 12, 1895?) – March 21, 1993) was an African American supercentenarian or nonagenerian. Hannah was the second-oldest person from the United States and the world's fourth-oldest verified person, after Jeanne Calment, Sarah Knauss and Nabi Tajima. She was also supposedly the oldest person never to have held the title of the world's oldest living person, since Jeanne Calment, who was supposedly about five months older, was still alive at the time of Hannah's death.
Kamouraska, Quebec
Kamouraska was also the hometown of Marie-Louise Meilleur, who went on to become the oldest person in the world in 1997-1998; she lived to 117 years of age.
List of French supercentenarians
Camille Blanche Loiseau Chadal (13 February 1892 – 12 August 2006) was the oldest living person in France until her death aged 114 years 180 days. Loiseau was ranked fifth in the world in the 2007 edition of Guinness World Records. She achieved the position of France's oldest woman, known in France as the "", on the death of Anne Primout on 26 March 2005, who also died at age 114.
List of Japanese supercentenarians
was, at the time of his death at age 113 years, 179 days, Japan's oldest living man since Masamitsu Yoshida's death on 29 October 2016 and the world's oldest living man since Spaniard Francisco Núñez Olivera's death on 30 January 2018. Nonaka was the oldest person ever born in Hokkaido Prefecture and Hokkaido's second oldest person ever behind Hatsue Ono (however, she was not born in Hokkaido).
Émile Turlant
Émile Turlant (April 1, 1904 – September 15, 2013) was, at the time of his death, France's oldest living man.
Paweł Parniak
Paweł Parniak (27 February 1890 – 27 March 2006) claimed to be the world's oldest living person and oldest combat veteran ever. He gained international attention in 2002, when he was named Poland's oldest man by the Polish Book of Records.
Maurice Floquet
Maurice Noël Floquet (Poissons, 25 December 1894 – Montauroux, 10 November 2006) was, at age 111, France's oldest man on record and was one of the last surviving French veterans of World War I. He was, at the age of 111 years and 320 days, France's longest-lived soldier of all time and the oldest French man ever. He held the record of France's oldest living man for more than three years.
Cookie (cockatoo)
Cookie (June 30, 1933 – August 27, 2016) was a male Major Mitchell's cockatoo residing at Brookfield Zoo, near Chicago, Illinois, United States. He was believed to be the oldest member of his species alive in captivity, at the age of 82 in June 2015, having significantly exceeded the average lifespan for his kind. He was one of the longest-lived birds on record and was recognised by the Guinness World Records as the oldest living parrot in the world.
List of American supercentenarians
American supercentenarians are citizens or residents of the United States who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. , the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 782 American supercentenarians. The oldest American alive is Alelia Murphy (born Grifton, North Carolina, July 6, 1905), aged . The longest-lived person ever from the United States was Sarah Knauss, of Hollywood, Pennsylvania, who died on December 30, 1999, aged 119 years, 97 days.
Du Pinhua
Du died at 1:00 AM on 11 December 2006, after suffering a fall. She died on the same day as Elizabeth Bolden, who was the oldest fully verified person at the time.
Jiroemon Kimura
Kimura became the oldest living man in Japan upon the death of Tomoji Tanabe on 19 June 2009, the world's oldest living man upon the death of Walter Breuning on 15 April 2011, the oldest living person in Japan upon the death of Chiyono Hasegawa on 2 December 2011, and the world's oldest living person upon the death of Dina Manfredini on 17 December 2012, until his own death. With Breuning's death, he was also the last living man born in the 1890s. He and Breuning were also the only verified men born in the 1800s who lived into the 2010s.
Raymond Abescat
Abescat became the oldest living French man upon the death of 110-year-old Alexis Daigneau on 3 April 2001. He died on 25 August 2001, just 16 days before his 110th birthday, and was succeeded as the oldest living French man by 109-year-old Polish-born Joseph Rabenda.
Emma Morano
Morano became the oldest living person in Italy and Europe after the death of Maria Redaelli on 2 April 2013. On her 114th birthday, she gave a short live TV interview to a RAI show. On her 116th birthday, Morano received congratulations from Pope Francis.
Henry Allingham
Allingham was the oldest living man in England for several years. Official recognition by Guinness World Records came in January 2007. On 8 February 2007, when 110-year-old Antonio Pierro died, Allingham became the oldest known living veteran of the First World War, and the third-oldest living man in the world. After French supercentenarian Maurice Floquet died on 10 November 2006, Allingham was the oldest validated living man in Europe. After Japanese man Sukesaburo Nakanishi died on 22 August 2007, Allingham shared the position of second-oldest man in the world with George Francis, an American man also born on 6 June 1896, for more than a year until Francis died on 27 December 2008. With the death of Tomoji Tanabe on 19 June 2009 he became the oldest living man in the world; after Allingham died, that title passed to Walter Breuning of Montana.
Alphaeus Philemon Cole
Although not recognized at the time, Cole is now recognized as the oldest living man for more than a year, between January 5, 1987 to his death, succeeding another notable supercentenarian, 111-year-old Norwegian skier Herman Smith-Johannsen. He was succeeded in title by then 111-year-old John Evans. As of August 11, 2013, prices for Cole's works now reach $5,000 or more. He died at the age of 112 years, 136 days.
Walter Breuning
Breuning died peacefully in his sleep of natural causes in a Great Falls hospital at 3:30 pm local time on April 14, 2011. He had been hospitalized since the beginning of the month with an undisclosed illness. At the time of his death, he was the third-oldest living person in the world, and the oldest male. After his death, Jiroemon Kimura took over as the world's oldest man, and he would later become the oldest male ever. With his death, Kimura also became the last living man born in the 1890s (and later, with the death of James Sisnett, the 19th century). He and Kimura were also the only two verified men born in the 1890s who lived into the 2010s.
Oldest people
Since the death of 117-year-old Chiyo Miyako of Japan on 22 July 2018, -year-old Kane Tanaka, also of Japan, born 2 January 1903, is the oldest living person in the world whose age has been validated. Since the death of 113-year-old Masazō Nonaka of Japan on 20 January 2019, 113-year-old Gustav Gerneth of Germany, born 15 October 1905, is the world's oldest living man.
Frank Levingston
Levingston became the oldest living American man on April 19, 2016 following the death of fellow Louisianan Felix Simoneaux Jr. (born May 24, 1905). He lived in Calcasieu Parish, Lake Charles, Louisiana until his death in May 2016 at the age of 110.
Adelina Domingues
Adelina Domingues (February 19, 1888 – August 21, 2002) was a Cape Verdean American supercentenarian who was the world's oldest person from the May 28, 2002 death of fellow 114-year-old American woman Grace Clawson until her own death less than three months later.
List of Spanish supercentenarians
Manuela Fernández Fojaco (18 June 1895 – 6 January 2009) was the fifth-oldest living person, the oldest person in Europe and the oldest living person in Spain at the time of her death, at the age of 113 years, 202 days.
Elizabeth Bolden
Elizabeth Bolden was verified in April 2005 as being the oldest documented resident of the United States since the death of Emma Verona Johnston the previous December. Prior to this, Bettie Wilson, had been the oldest known American. After the death of Hendrikje van Andel on August 30, 2005, she was thought to be the world's oldest living person until December 9, 2005, when María Capovilla was authenticated as older. She became the oldest living person following Capovilla's death on August 27, 2006. This was officially confirmed on September 17, 2006 by Guinness World Records.
Carmelo Flores Laura
Carmelo Flores Laura (c. 16 July 1906 – 9 June 2014) was a longevity claimant from Bolivia; however, neither Guinness World Records nor any other international agency had verified his claim. According to the Gerontology Research Group Flores actually may have been 123 years old when he died. Flores himself stated he was probably 100 years or older.
Mary Ramsey Wood
If Mary Ramsey Wood had lived to be 120, as claimed, she would have been the world's oldest person at that time, and would be the oldest American on record even today. That distinction, however, according to "Guinness World Records", belongs to Sarah Knauss, who died at age 119.
List of Spanish supercentenarians
Francisco Núñez Olivera (13 December 1904 – 29 January 2018), aged 113 years and 47 days, was the oldest living man after the death of Polish-born Israeli Yisrael Kristal on August 11, 2017. He was born in Extremadura and joined the army at the age of 19 to fight in the Rif War. He had his kidney removed when he was 90 and a cataract operation aged 98, and was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War. He was nicknamed "Marchena" after his resemblance to native flamenco singer-songwriter/actor Pepe Marchena.
Edna Parker
The Heritage House Convalescent Center planned two parties to celebrate her 115th birthday, a public celebration one and a private family one. One hundred fifteen multicolored balloons were released at each, because Parker enjoyed watching them float into the sky. Parker was included in a book for children, "Girls are Best" (2009), as the oldest woman in the world. She died at her nursing home seven months after her birthday, on November 26, 2008, aged 115 years 220 days. Her death was reported around the world. Parker is buried in Shelbyville's Miller Cemetery. After her death, a Portuguese woman Maria de Jesus became the world's oldest person.
Tom Bombadil
Gandalf calls Tom Bombadil the eldest being in existence; his Sindarin name "Iarwain Ben-adar" means "Eldest and Fatherless". Dwarves called him "Forn" (Old Norse, meaning "Ancient" or "Belonging to the distant past"; in Icelandic it can also mean that he has magical abilities). Men call him "Orald" (compare Dutch "oeroud" and German "uralt", "ancient, very old"). Treebeard calls himself the eldest living being of Middle-earth and says that he was there before anyone else. However, Tolkien remarked in another context, "Treebeard is a character in my story, not me; and though he has a great memory and some earthy wisdom, he is not one of the Wise, and there is quite a lot he does not know or understand."
Herman Smith-Johannsen
Johannsen died from pneumonia on January 5, 1987 at the age of 111 years, 204 days, near Tønsberg, Norway, being the oldest man in the world for the last 22 days of his life. He is buried by the St. Sauveur church in Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Canada, next to his wife, who died in 1963. His archives are held at the McGill University Archives in Montreal.
Frederica Sagor Maas
Sagor Maas died on January 5, 2012 from natural causes, at the Country Villa nursing facility in La Mesa, California. 
At the time of her death, she was the 44th oldest verified person in the world.
List of German supercentenarians
Wedeking was succeeded as world's oldest living man by Frederick Butterfield.
Ponhea Kraek District
Ponhea Kraek district was the home and birthplace of Sek Yi, reported to be the oldest ever Cambodian and one of the oldest people in the world. His grandson reported that he was born in 1883, in either January or February in a small village in the south-east province of what was then Kampong Cham. During two marriages, Sek Yi had twelve children who together produced 70 grandchildren, and an estimated 420 great-grandchildren. He outlived half of his 12 children, all of whom lived to 70 or 80. Sek Yi died in his home in Ponhea Kraek in October 2003, aged 120 years old.
Emma Tillman
She died in an East Hartford nursing home on January 28, 2007, aged 114 years, 67 days. She holds the record for the shortest period spent as the world's oldest person. After her death, Yone Minagawa of Japan became the world's oldest person.
Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper
On 9 December 2005, Guinness World Records recognized the claim of then 116-year-old María Capovilla of Ecuador to be the world's oldest person, supplanting Van Andel-Schipper from the revised title, she became thought to become the world's oldest living person on 29 May 2004 upon the death of Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, she would have become the world's oldest living person at the age of .
List of American supercentenarians
Charlotte Benkner (née Enterlein; November 16, 1889 – May 14, 2004) was an American supercentenarian and the oldest verified living person from Mitoyo Kawate's death in 2003 until sufficient documentation was found to validate the age of Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan of Puerto Rico in March 2004. The subsequent recognition of María Capovilla of Ecuador in December 2005 placed Benkner at third oldest at the time of her death.
Besse Cooper
Cooper became Georgia's oldest resident on January 19, 2009, following the death of 113-year-old Beatrice Farve. On January 31, 2011, Eunice Sanborn died, and Cooper became the oldest living person in the United States. She was thought to be the world's oldest living individual until May 18, 2011, when Brazil's Maria Gomes Valentim was verified as older. On June 21, 2011, Maria Gomes Valentim died, and Cooper became the world's oldest living person. Cooper reportedly attributed her longevity to "minding her own business" and avoiding junk food.
María Capovilla
María Esther Heredia Lecaro de Capovilla, known internationally as María Capovilla (14 September 1889 – 27 August 2006), was an Ecuadorian supercentenarian, and, at the time of her death at age 116 years, 347 days, was recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living person.
List of supercentenarians by continent
This is an incomplete list of supercentenarians who were born or died in Asia, or are living there. According to the Gerontology Research Group, the verified oldest Asian person ever was Nabi Tajima of Japan, who died on 21 April 2018, aged 117 years, 260 days. The verified oldest man is Jiroemon Kimura, also from Japan, who died on 12 June 2013, aged 116 years, 54 days. As of , the oldest living person in Asia is Kane Tanaka of Japan, born 2 January 1903, aged .
List of supercentenarians by continent
European supercentenarians are residents or emigrants from Europe who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. , the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of more than 600 European supercentenarians. The oldest living person in Europe is Maria Giuseppa Robucci from Italy, born 20 March 1903, aged .
John Whittemore
John Whittemore (November 20, 1899 – April 13, 2005) was an American centenarian from Montecito, California, who was previously credited as being the "world's oldest athlete". A long time Masters Track athlete, his last competition was on October 5, 2004, just six weeks before his 105th birthday. He threw the javelin and discus on that occasion.
Gustav Gerneth
He is also the oldest person ever to reside in Germany (and the fourth oldest German-born person ever behind Augusta Holtz, Charlotte Benkner and Luzia Mohrs) and the oldest living man in Europe since the death of Spaniard Francisco Núñez-Olivera on 29 January 2018 (however, Gerneth is still not fully verified).
List of the oldest living people
This is a list of the 100 oldest people who have been verified to be alive within the last year and whose death has not been reliably reported. It is estimated that there are between 150 and 600 living people who have reached the age of 110. The true number is uncertain as not all supercentenarians are known to researchers at a given time and some claims cannot be validated or are fraudulent. Since all the people on this list have ostensibly lived to at least the age of 110, all of them are supercentenarians.
Longevity claims
Longevity claims are unsubstantiated cases of asserted human longevity. Those asserting lifespans of 110 years or more are referred to as supercentenarians. Many have either no official verification or are backed only by partial evidence. Cases where longevity has been fully verified, according to modern standards of longevity research, are reflected in an established list of supercentenarians based on the work of organizations such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) or "Guinness World Records". This article lists living claims greater than that of the oldest person whose age has been independently verified, Kane Tanaka at , and deceased claims greater than that of the oldest person ever whose age has been verified, namely Jeanne Calment who died at the age of 122 years, 164 days. The upper limit for both lists is 130 years.
Du Pinhua
Guinness in London and the Gerontology Research Group both said at the time that María Capovilla of Ecuador was the world's oldest living person. Capovilla was born on 14 September 1889, about 3½ years after Pinhua’s alleged birth date.
List of French supercentenarians
Marie-Isabelle Diaz (née Rodriguez, 22 February 1898 – 29 October 2011) was posthumously recognized as the oldest living French person from the death of Eugénie Blanchard on 4 November 2010, until her own death a year later. She is also the oldest person ever from the French possession of Réunion. She was born in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria, then an overseas territory of France. She was married and had three children. Her husband died at 60. After its independence she left the country in 1962. She then settled in Spain with one of her sons. Then she lived a few years in Rouen. She lived in Réunion from 1983 until her death. She was 113 years 249 days old when she died.
Candé
Candé was noted in 2000-2001 as the residence of Marie Bremont, then the world's oldest person, who died at age 115.
Johanna Quaas
Johanna Quaas (née "Johanna Geißler"; born November 20, 1925 in Hohenmölsen) is a German gymnast. As of 2018 she is the oldest gymnast in the world. Quaas is a regular competitor in the amateur competition Landes-Seniorenspiele, staged in Saxony, Germany.
Richard Arvin Overton
Richard Arvin Overton (May 11, 1906 – December 27, 2018) was an American supercentenarian who at the age of 112 years, 230 days was the oldest verified surviving U.S. World War II veteran and oldest man in the United States. He served in the United States Army. In 2013, he was honored by President Barack Obama. He resided in Austin, Texas, until his death.
Du Pinhua
Du Pinhua (, 22 April 1886? – 11 December 2006) was a Chinese claimant to the world's oldest person title. She lived in Leshan. According to the "Shanghai Great World Guinness Book of Records" (unaffiliated with the similarly named "Guinness World Records" in London), Pinhua was proclaimed the world's oldest person in 2002. The claim disappeared for almost four years before resurfacing in April 2006, when it was claimed that Du celebrated her 120th birthday. Her age had not been internationally recognized.
Elizabeth Bolden
Elizabeth Bolden (née Jones; August 15, 1890 – December 11, 2006) was an American supercentenarian who, at the time of her death at age 116 years, 118 days, was recognized by Guinness World Records as the then world's oldest living person.
List of Spanish supercentenarians
Manuela Fernández Fojaco was born in Llamas, in the municipality of Aller, Asturias. On 2 January 2009, she became the oldest living European after the death of 115-year-old Portuguese woman Maria de Jesus. Her reign lasted for 4 days until her death on 6 January 2009. After her death, 112-year-old Lucia Lauria Vigna from Italy became Europe's oldest person (although Eugénie Blanchard was from Saint Barthélemy, which is part of the European Union).
Mary Ramsey Wood
According to obituaries of the time, "Grandma" Mary Ramsey Wood died at the age of 120 on January 1, 1908, at five o'clock in the morning. At the time of her death she was thought to be the oldest living person in the United States. She was also referred to as the "oldest Methodist in the world". Wood was buried at the Hillsboro Pioneer Cemetery. Her death and her supposed age were widely reported across the country at the time.
Yasuhiro Nakasone
At the age of , Nakasone is currently the oldest living former Japanese prime minister as well as the oldest living former state leader in the world, following the death of Babiker Awadalla on 17 January 2019. Nakasone is the second oldest Prime Minister of Japan by age after Naruhiko Higashikuni who lived to .
Emiliano Mercado del Toro
Mercado first came to the attention of longevity researchers in 2001, when a story ran about a 110-year-old veteran in a parade in Puerto Rico. After that, researchers tried to track him down, but only after the November 2004 death of Fred H. Hale, Sr. did someone finally start sending in documents. Following Mr. Hale's death, Emiliano apparently became the oldest man in the world, with documents supplied so far including a birth certificate, baptismal certificate, 1910 census record, and veteran ID card. By January 2005, Guinness had accepted Emiliano as the ""oldest living man whose age could be fully authenticated"".
In addition, Emiliano Mercado del Toro was 27 years old in October 1918 when the U.S. Army drafted him to serve in World War I. As a veteran of World War I he broke the record for longest-lived veteran of any military force, previously set by Antonio Todde (Mercado was still at a training camp in Panama when the November 11, 1918 armistice was declared). Mercado was discharged the following month, when he was still 27.