List of the verified oldest people facts for kids

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This page 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 women and men sorted in descending order by age in years and days.

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. 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 (born in the USA), aged 117 years, 262 days. The oldest known living man is John Tinniswood of the United Kingdom, aged 112 years, 87 days. The 100 oldest women have, on average, lived several years longer than the 100 oldest men.

100 verified oldest women

The list includes supercentenarians validated by organisations specialising in extreme age verification such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG), with, in some cases, press coverage as a supplementary source.

Deceased Living

Rank	Name	Birth date	Death date	Age	Place of death or residence
01	Jeanne Calment	21 February 1875	4 August 1997	122 years, 164 days	France
02	Kane Tanaka	2 January 1903	19 April 2022	119 years, 107 days	Japan
03	Sarah Knauss	24 September 1880	30 December 1999	119 years, 97 days	United States
04	Lucile Randon	11 February 1904	17 January 2023	118 years, 340 days	France
05	Nabi Tajima	4 August 1900	21 April 2018	117 years, 260 days	Japan
06	Marie-Louise Meilleur	29 August 1880	16 April 1998	117 years, 230 days	Canada
07	Violet Brown	10 March 1900	15 September 2017	117 years, 189 days	Jamaica
08	Emma Morano	29 November 1899	15 April 2017	117 years, 137 days	Italy
09	Chiyo Miyako	2 May 1901	22 July 2018	117 years, 81 days	Japan
10	Delphia Welford	9 September 1875	14 November 1992	117 years, 66 days	United States
11	Maria Branyas	4 March 1907	Living	117 years, 262 days	Spain
12	Misao Okawa	5 March 1898	1 April 2015	117 years, 27 days	Japan
13	Francisca Celsa dos Santos	21 October 1904	5 October 2021	116 years, 349 days	Brazil
14	María Capovilla	14 September 1889	27 August 2006	116 years, 347 days	Ecuador
15	Susannah Mushatt Jones	6 July 1899	12 May 2016	116 years, 311 days	United States
16	Gertrude Weaver	4 July 1898	6 April 2015	116 years, 276 days	United States
17	Fusa Tatsumi	25 April 1907	12 December 2023	116 years, 231 days	Japan
18	Antonia da Santa Cruz	13 June 1905	23 January 2022	116 years, 224 days	Brazil
19	Tane Ikai	18 January 1879	12 July 1995	116 years, 175 days	Japan
20	Jeanne Bot	14 January 1905	22 May 2021	116 years, 128 days	France
21	Elizabeth Bolden	15 August 1890	11 December 2006	116 years, 118 days	United States
22	Besse Cooper	26 August 1896	4 December 2012	116 years, 100 days	United States
23	Maria Giuseppa Robucci	20 March 1903	18 June 2019	116 years, 90 days	Italy
24	Tekla Juniewicz	10 June 1906	19 August 2022	116 years, 70 days	Poland
25	Ana María Vela Rubio	29 October 1901	15 December 2017	116 years, 47 days	Spain
26	Giuseppina Projetto	30 May 1902	6 July 2018	116 years, 37 days	Italy
27	Jeralean Talley	23 May 1899	17 June 2015	116 years, 25 days	United States
28	Edith Ceccarelli	5 February 1908	22 February 2024	116 years, 17 days	United States
29	Shigeyo Nakachi	1 February 1905	11 January 2021	115 years, 345 days	Japan
30	Tomiko Itooka	23 May 1908	Living	116 years, 182 days	Japan
31	Maggie Barnes	6 March 1882	19 January 1998	115 years, 319 days	United States
32	Inah Canabarro Lucas	8 June 1908	Living	116 years, 166 days	Brazil
33	Dina Manfredini	4 April 1897	17 December 2012	115 years, 257 days	United States
34	Shimoe Akiyama	19 May 1903	29 January 2019	115 years, 255 days	Japan
35	Hester Ford	15 August 1905	17 April 2021	115 years, 245 days	United States
36	Charlotte Hughes	1 August 1877	17 March 1993	115 years, 228 days	United Kingdom
37	Edna Parker	20 April 1893	26 November 2008	115 years, 220 days	United States
38	Mary Ann Rhodes	12 August 1882	3 March 1998	115 years, 203 days	Canada
39	Anonymous of Tokyo	15 March 1900	27 September 2015	115 years, 196 days	Japan
40	Margaret Skeete	27 October 1878	7 May 1994	115 years, 192 days	United States
41	Bernice Madigan	24 July 1899	3 January 2015	115 years, 163 days	United States
42	Gertrude Baines	6 April 1894	11 September 2009	115 years, 158 days	United States
43	Bettie Wilson	13 September 1890	13 February 2006	115 years, 153 days	United States
44	Shin Matsushita	30 March 1904	27 August 2019	115 years, 150 days	Japan
45	Iris Westman	28 August 1905	3 January 2021	115 years, 128 days	United States
46	Julie Winnefred Bertrand	16 September 1891	18 January 2007	115 years, 124 days	Canada
47	Maria de Jesus	10 September 1893	2 January 2009	115 years, 114 days	Portugal
48	Marie-Josephine Gaudette	25 March 1902	13 July 2017	115 years, 110 days	Italy
49	Susie Gibson	31 October 1890	16 February 2006	115 years, 108 days	United States
49	Thelma Sutcliffe	1 October 1906	17 January 2022	115 years, 108 days	United States
51	Edna Kern	14 October 1900	20 January 2016	115 years, 98 days	United States
52	Casilda Benegas Gallego	8 April 1907	28 June 2022	115 years, 81 days	Argentina
53	Augusta Holtz	3 August 1871	21 October 1986	115 years, 79 days	United States
54	Valentine Ligny	22 October 1906	4 January 2022	115 years, 74 days	France
55	Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper	29 June 1890	30 August 2005	115 years, 62 days	Netherlands
56	Bessie Hendricks	7 November 1907	3 January 2023	115 years, 57 days	United States
57	Mina Kitagawa	3 November 1905	19 December 2020	115 years, 46 days	Japan
58	Marie Brémont	25 April 1886	6 June 2001	115 years, 42 days	France
59	Yoshi Otsunari	17 December 1906	26 January 2022	115 years, 40 days	Japan
60	Maud Farris-Luse	21 February 1887	18 March 2002	115 years, 25 days	United States
61	Koto Okubo	24 December 1897	12 January 2013	115 years, 19 days	Japan
62	Antonia Gerena Rivera	19 May 1900	2 June 2015	115 years, 14 days	United States
63	Chiyono Hasegawa	20 November 1896	2 December 2011	115 years, 12 days	Japan
64	Annie Jennings	12 November 1884	20 November 1999	115 years, 8 days	United Kingdom
65	Anonymous of Hyōgo	29 April 1907	30 April 2022	115 years, 1 day	Japan
66	Eva Morris	8 November 1885	2 November 2000	114 years, 360 days	United Kingdom
67	Kama Chinen	10 May 1895	2 May 2010	114 years, 357 days	Japan
68	Mary Bidwell	9 May 1881	25 April 1996	114 years, 352 days	United States
69	Sofia Rojas	13 August 1907	30 July 2022	114 years, 351 days	Colombia
70	Maria Gomes Valentim	9 July 1896	21 June 2011	114 years, 347 days	Brazil
71	Hazel Plummer	19 June 1908	25 May 2023	114 years, 340 days	United States
72	Ophelia Burks	25 October 1903	27 September 2018	114 years, 337 days	United States
73	Kahoru Furuya	18 February 1908	25 December 2022	114 years, 310 days	Japan
74	Mary Josephine Ray	17 May 1895	7 March 2010	114 years, 294 days	United States
75	Goldie Steinberg	30 October 1900	16 August 2015	114 years, 290 days	United States
76	Kiyoko Ishiguro	4 March 1901	5 December 2015	114 years, 276 days	Japan
77	Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes	24 October 1890	25 July 2005	114 years, 274 days	Portugal
77	Eudoxie Baboul	1 October 1901	1 July 2016	114 years, 274 days	France (French Guiana)
79	Ramona Trinidad Iglesias Jordan	1 September 1889	29 May 2004	114 years, 271 days	Puerto Rico
79	Yukie Hino	17 April 1902	13 January 2017	114 years, 271 days	Japan
81	Delphine Gibson	17 August 1903	9 May 2018	114 years, 265 days	United States
82	Eugénie Blanchard	16 February 1896	4 November 2010	114 years, 261 days	France (Saint Barthélemy)
83	Mary Royster	15 April 1875	28 December 1989	114 years, 257 days	United States
83	Elizabeth Francis	25 July 1909	Living	115 years, 119 days	United States
85	Venere Pizzinato	23 November 1896	2 August 2011	114 years, 252 days	Italy
86	Neva Morris	3 August 1895	6 April 2010	114 years, 246 days	United States
87	Hide Ohira	15 September 1880	9 May 1995	114 years, 236 days	Japan
88	Blanche Cobb	8 September 1900	1 May 2015	114 years, 235 days	United States
89	Ethel Lang	27 May 1900	15 January 2015	114 years, 233 days	United Kingdom
90	Mila Mangold	14 November 1907	2 July 2022	114 years, 230 days	United States
90	Ethel Caterham	21 August 1909	Living	115 years, 92 days	United Kingdom
92	Yone Minagawa	4 January 1893	13 August 2007	114 years, 221 days	Japan
93	María Antonia Castro	10 June 1881	16 January 1996	114 years, 220 days	Spain
94	Myrtle Dorsey	20 November 1885	25 June 2000	114 years, 218 days	United States
	Ura Koyama	30 August 1890	5 April 2005	114 years, 218 days	Japan
	Okagi Hayashi	2 September 1909	Living	115 years, 80 days	Japan
97	Yoshi Baba	3 June 1907	4 January 2022	114 years, 215 days	Japan
98	Iso Nakamura	23 April 1903	23 November 2017	114 years, 214 days	Japan
99	Faustina Sarmiento-Pupo	15 February 1905	16 September 2019	114 years, 213 days	Cuba
100	Cecile Klein	15 June 1907	13 January 2022	114 years, 212 days	Canada

100 verified oldest men

The list includes supercentenarians validated by an organisation specialising in extreme age verification such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG), with, in some cases, press coverage as a supplementary source.

Deceased Living

Rank	Name	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
03	Emiliano Mercado del Toro	21 August 1891	24 January 2007	115 years, 156 days	Puerto Rico
04	Juan Vicente Pérez	27 May 1909	2 April 2024	114 years, 311 days	Venezuela
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	Joan Riudavets Moll	15 December 1889	5 March 2004	114 years, 81 days	Spain
08	Fred Harold Hale Sr.	1 December 1890	19 November 2004	113 years, 354 days	United States
09	Israel Kristal	15 September 1903	11 August 2017	113 years, 330 days	Israel
10	Efraín Antonio Ríos García	4 April 1910	11 January 2024	113 years, 282 days	Colombia
11	Johnson Parks	15 October 1884	17 July 1998	113 years, 275 days	United States
12	Tomoji Tanabe	18 September 1895	19 June 2009	113 years, 274 days	Japan
13	John Ingram McMorran	19 June 1889	24 February 2003	113 years, 250 days	United States
14	Masazō Nonaka	25 July 1905	20 January 2019	113 years, 179 days	Japan
15	Mauro Ambriz Tapia	21 November 1897	18 April 2011	113 years, 148 days	Mexico
16	Frederick Frazier	27 January 1880	14 June 1993	113 years, 138 days	United States
17	Eusebio Quintero López	6 March 1910	16 July 2023	113 years, 132 days	Colombia
18	James Sisnett	22 February 1900	23 May 2013	113 years, 90 days	Barbados
18	Wenceslao Leyva González	28 September 1903	27 December 2016	113 years, 90 days	Mexico
20	Domingo Villa Avisencio	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	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	Emilio Flores Márquez	8 August 1908	12 August 2021	113 years, 4 days	Puerto Rico
25	Chitetsu Watanabe	5 March 1907	23 February 2020	112 years, 355 days	Japan
26	Antonio Todde	22 January 1889	3 January 2002	112 years, 346 days	Italy
27	Saturnino de la Fuente García	11 February 1909	18 January 2022	112 years, 341 days	Spain
28	Moses Hardy	6 January 1894	7 December 2006	112 years, 335 days	United States
29	Yasutaro Koide	13 March 1903	19 January 2016	112 years, 312 days	Japan
30	John Evans	19 August 1877	10 June 1990	112 years, 295 days	United Kingdom
31	Richard Arvin Overton	11 May 1906	27 December 2018	112 years, 230 days	United States
32	Delio Venturotti	25 October 1909	1 June 2022	112 years, 219 days	Brazil
33	Denzō Ishizaki	2 October 1886	29 April 1999	112 years, 209 days	Japan
34	George Francis	6 June 1896	27 December 2008	112 years, 204 days	United States
35	Josep Armengol	23 July 1881	20 January 1994	112 years, 181 days	Spain
36	Giovanni Frau	29 December 1890	19 June 2003	112 years, 172 days	Italy
37	John Painter	20 September 1888	1 March 2001	112 years, 162 days	United States
38	Marcel Meys	12 July 1909	15 December 2021	112 years, 156 days	France
39	Masamitsu Yoshida	30 May 1904	29 October 2016	112 years, 152 days	Japan
40	Sakari Momoi	5 February 1903	5 July 2015	112 years, 150 days	Japan
41	Gisaburō Sonobe	6 November 1911	31 March 2024	112 years, 146 days	Japan
42	Alphaeus Philemon Cole	12 July 1876	25 November 1988	112 years, 136 days	United States
43	Augusto Moreira	6 October 1896	13 February 2009	112 years, 130 days	Portugal
44	George Johnson	1 May 1894	30 August 2006	112 years, 121 days	United States
44	Mikizō Ueda	11 May 1910	9 September 2022	112 years, 121 days	Japan
46	Lawrence Brooks	12 September 1909	5 January 2022	112 years, 115 days	United States
47	Salustiano Sanchez	8 June 1901	13 September 2013	112 years, 97 days	United States
48	CP Crawford	25 August 1907	23 November 2019	112 years, 90 days	United States
49	Jorge Durán Coral	23 April 1909	21 July 2021	112 years, 89 days	Mexico
50	Yoshikazu Yamashita	10 April 1907	7 July 2019	112 years, 88 days	Japan
51	Gengan Tonaki	30 October 1884	24 January 1997	112 years, 86 days	Japan
52	Robert Weighton	29 March 1908	28 May 2020	112 years, 60 days	United Kingdom
53	Tadanosuke Hashimoto	27 April 1891	31 May 2003	112 years, 34 days	Japan
54	Kumekichi Tani	20 April 1891	12 May 2003	112 years, 22 days	Japan
55	Ernest Peronneau	7 March 1902	26 March 2014	112 years, 19 days	United States
56	James Wiggins	15 October 1879	16 October 1991	112 years, 1 day	United States
57	George Feldman	2 December 1906	2 December 2018	112 years, 0 days	United States
58	Tsunahei Ogawa	9 January 1907	4 January 2019	111 years, 360 days	Japan
59	Arturo Licata	2 May 1902	24 April 2014	111 years, 357 days	Italy
60	Walter H. Seward	13 October 1896	14 September 2008	111 years, 337 days	United States
61	Faustino Vargas Pérez	27 September 1896	20 August 2008	111 years, 328 days	Costa Rica
62	Maurice Floquet	25 December 1894	10 November 2006	111 years, 320 days	France
63	Valerio Piroddi	13 November 1905	18 September 2017	111 years, 309 days	Italy
64	Shigeru Nakamura	11 January 1911	15 November 2022	111 years, 308 days	Japan
65	Arthur Nash	7 January 1885	4 November 1996	111 years, 302 days	Canada
66	James McCoubrey	13 September 1901	5 July 2013	111 years, 295 days	United States
67	Ezra Hill	19 December 1910	4 October 2022	111 years, 289 days	United States
68	John Mosley Turner	15 June 1856	21 March 1968	111 years, 280 days	United Kingdom
69	Hermann Dörnemann	27 May 1893	2 March 2005	111 years, 279 days	Germany
70	Antonio Urrea	18 February 1888	15 November 1999	111 years, 270 days	Spain
71	Choki Miyagi	15 November 1904	7 August 2016	111 years, 266 days	Japan
72	Reuben Sinclair	5 December 1911	27 August 2023	111 years, 265 days	Canada
73	Arthur Carter	5 October 1889	11 June 2001	111 years, 249 days	United States
74	Santos Hildebrando Rivas García	17 August 1911	17 April 2023	111 years, 243 days	El Salvador
75	Jan Machiel Reyskens	11 May 1878	7 January 1990	111 years, 241 days	Netherlands
76	Tōichi Sasaki	4 September 1905	20 April 2017	111 years, 228 days	Japan
77	Joe Thomas	1 May 1875	14 December 1986	111 years, 227 days	United States
78	John Tinniswood	26 August 1912	Living	112 years, 87 days	United Kingdom
79	André Boite	6 December 1910	15 July 2022	111 years, 221 days	France
80	Dumitru Comănescu	21 November 1908	27 June 2020	111 years, 219 days	Romania
81	André Ludwig	6 June 1912	7 January 2024	111 years, 215 days	France
82	James Zackry	15 August 1881	14 March 1993	111 years, 211 days	United States
83	Tanekichi Onishi	15 February 1900	11 September 2011	111 years, 208 days	Japan
84	Kiyoshi Igarashi	2 August 1897	23 February 2009	111 years, 205 days	Japan
84	Lester Townsend	31 March 1908	22 October 2019	111 years, 205 days	United States
86	Herman Smith-Johannsen	15 June 1875	5 January 1987	111 years, 204 days	Norway
87	Ernest Pusey	5 May 1895	19 November 2006	111 years, 198 days	United States
88	Albano Andrade	14 December 1909	29 June 2021	111 years, 197 days	Portugal
89	Dexter Kruger	13 January 1910	20 July 2021	111 years, 188 days	Australia
90	Thomas Nelson Sr.	8 July 1895	9 January 2007	111 years, 185 days	United States
91	Jokichi Ikarashi	26 January 1902	23 July 2013	111 years, 178 days	Japan
92	Earl Brush	17 July 1893	10 January 2005	111 years, 177 days	United States
92	Manuel Benavente Sanhueza	25 September 1909	21 March 2021	111 years, 177 days	Chile
94	Francisco Juárez Iglesias	8 May 1911	25 October 2022	111 years, 170 days	Mexico
95	Antonio de Castro	6 January 1898	22 June 2009	111 years, 167 days	Portugal
96	Sukesaburo Nakanishi	15 March 1896	22 August 2007	111 years, 160 days	Japan
97	Luther Goding	1 July 1884	5 December 1995	111 years, 157 days	United States
98	Jan Pieter Bos	12 July 1891	15 December 2002	111 years, 156 days	Netherlands
99	Émile Fourcade	29 July 1884	29 December 1995	111 years, 153 days	France
100	Benjamin Harrison Holcomb	3 July 1889	2 December 2000	111 years, 152 days	United States

List of the verified oldest people facts for kids

100 verified oldest women

100 verified oldest men

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