List of oldest people by year of birth

Below is a list of the verified, to the standards of the Gerontology Research Group

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, or both; of the oldest people by year of birth. The person is usually, but not always, the last survivor by year of birth. (see references below). Cases where that is not the case are marked with footnotes. Further information can be found on individuals without direct links in the "Records" and "Supercentenarians" sections under "Longevity" below. When possible, an entry has been provided for both the oldest man and the oldest woman of a particular year. For the living, only those who have been verified to have reached the age of 110 are included in this list.

Oldest people by year of birth

Year	Name	Sex	Birth date	Death date	Age	Place of birth	Place of death or residence
1529	Thomas von Ramm	M	1529	16 February 1631	101 years, 47 days+	Livonia Livonia Livonia is a historic region along the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea. It was once the land of the Finnic Livonians inhabiting the principal ancient Livonian County Metsepole with its center at Turaida...	Livonia
1600	Jacques Foucaud	M	26 March 1600	5 December 1700	100 years, 247 days	France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...	France
1682	Eilif Philipsen	M	21 July 1682	20 June 1785	102 years, 333 days	Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...	Norway
1694	Barbe Guichard	F	12 May 1694	14 October 1794	100 years, 155 days	Réunion Réunion Réunion is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France...	Réunion
1695	Ferdinand Ashmall	M	9 January 1695	5 February 1798	103 years, 27 days	United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	United Kingdom
1724	Lorenzo Malori	M	27 August 1724	16 March 1830		Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	Italy
1725	Marie-Louise Plante	F	10 March 1725	14 June 1832	107 years, 96 days	Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...	Canada
1728	Edward Augustus Holyoke Edward Augustus Holyoke Edward Augustus Holyoke was an American educator and physician.-Biography:Born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, son of the Reverend Edward Holyoke, a former President of Harvard, Edward Augustus graduated from that college in 1746. He opened a medical practice in 1748 and practiced for 73 more years,...	M	1 August 1728	31 March 1829	100 years, 242 days	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	United States
1729	Pierre Darcourt Pierre Darcourt Pierre Darcourt was an early documented Belgian centenarian who was the first proven case of a person living to the age of 108. He survived for another 108 days.-References:...	M	23 January 1729	11 May 1837	108 years, 108 days	Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...	Belgium
1731	Marie-Anne Lizotte	F	6 July 1731	14 January 1835	103 years, 192 days	Canada	Canada
1734	Barbe Dijoux	F	14 January 1734	12 June 1837	103 years, 149 days	Réunion	Réunion
1736	Marie-Thérèse Laveau	F	26 June 1736	21 May 1838	101 years, 329 days	Canada	Canada
1737	Jeanne Hudenot	F	28 February 1737	20 May 1843	106 years, 81 days	France	France
1738	Marie-Rosalie Lizotte	F	25 December 1738	5 March 1847	108 years, 70 days	Canada	Canada
1741	Marie-Therese Hamel	F	14 February 1741	17 July 1841	100 years, 153 days	Canada	Canada
1743	Marie-Anne Colin	F	20 March 1743	24 July 1849	106 years, 126 days	Belgium	Belgium
1745	Thomas Peters Thomas Peters (supercentenarian) Thomas Peters was a Dutch supercentenarian. He is the earliest recorded supercentarian accepted by Guinness World Records. Originally in a footnote, the Peters case was later promoted although subsequent questions were raised about documentation. Indeed, it appears that if the documentation ever...	M	6 April 1745	26 March 1857	111 years, 354 days	Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...	Netherlands
1746	Johanna Axtell	F	21 March 1746	5 May 1846	100 years, 45 days	United States	United States
1749	Conrad Heyer	M	10 April 1749	19 February 1856	106 years, 315 days	United States	United States
1750	Marie Francois Fleury	F	15 October 1750	28 April 1857	106 years, 195 days	France	France
1755	David Rennie	M	28 February 1755	2 March 1857	102 years, 2 days	United Kingdom	United Kingdom
1759	Daniel F. Bakeman Daniel F. Bakeman Daniel Frederick Bakeman may have been the last surviving veteran of the War for American Independence . He is buried in Sandusky Cemetery, Freedom, New York....	M	9 October 1759	5 April 1869	109 years, 178 days	United States	United States
1767	Jacob William Luning	M	19 May 1767	23 June 1870	103 years, 35 days	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	United Kingdom
1771	Catherine Shafto	F	10 February 1771	19 May 1872	101 years, 99 days	United Kingdom	United Kingdom
1782	Willem van Renterghem	M	9 December 1782	24 October 1888	105 years, 320 days	Belgium	Belgium
1783	Anne D'Evergroote	F	18 October 1783	14 March 1892	108 years, 148 days	Belgium	Belgium
1784	Elisabeth Vandevraye	F	19 November 1784	26 November 1889	105 years, 7 days	Belgium	Belgium
1786	Thomas Morgan	M	4 May 1786	29 January 1893	106 years, 270 days	United Kingdom	United Kingdom
1788	Geert Adriaans Boomgaard Geert Adriaans Boomgaard Geert Adriaans Boomgaard is accepted by most demographic scholars as the first validated supercentenarian case on record...	M	21 September 1788	3 February 1899	110 years, 135 days	Netherlands	Netherlands
1792	Margaret Ann Neve Margaret Ann Neve Margaret Ann Neve, née Harvey of St. Peter Port, Guernsey, was the first recorded female supercentenarian, and the first supercentenarian of either sex in the 20th century. Neve was the only supercentenarian born in the 18th century who lived to the 20th century, and she was the first...	F	18 May 1792	4 April 1903	110 years, 321 days	Guernsey Guernsey Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet...	Guernsey
1793	John Chessell Buckler John Chessell Buckler John Chessell Buckler was a British architect, the eldest son of the architect John Buckler. J.C. Buckler initially worked with his father before working for himself. His work included restorations of country houses and at the University of Oxford.-Career:Buckler received art lessons from the...	M	8 December 1793	10 January 1894	100 years, 32 days	United Kingdom	United Kingdom
1799	Sophia Wijnberg	F	12 March 1799	11 July 1905	106 years, 121 days	Netherlands	Netherlands
1800	Johann Roeder	M	21 January 1800	23 July 1909	109 years, 183 days	Germany	Germany
1804	Sophie Lacomte	F	12 May 1804	2 April 1910	105 years, 325 days	Belgium	Belgium
1805	Maria-Theresia Vleminckx	F	8 October 1805	29 October 1913	108 years, 21 days	Belgium	Belgium
1807	Ann Pouder	F	8 April 1807	10 July 1917	110 years, 93 days	United Kingdom	United States
1808	Marie-Marguerite Gomain	F	25 September 1808	30 April 1914	105 years, 217 days	Belgium	Belgium
1812	Melchora Aquino Melchora Aquino Melchora Aquino de Ramos was a Filipina revolutionary who became known as "Tandang Sora" in the history of the Philippines because of her age when the Philippine Revolution broke out in 1896...	F	6 January 1812	2 March 1919		Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...	Philippines
1813	Florentin Rémy Chatel	M	1 November 1813	February 1921	107 years, ca Circa Circa , usually abbreviated c. or ca. , means "approximately" in the English language, usually referring to a date... . 92 days	France	Réunion
1814	Louisa Thiers	F	2 October 1814	17 February 1926	111 years, 138 days	United States	United States
1815	Delina Filkins Delina Filkins Delina Filkins, née Ecker was an American supercentenarian who was the earliest verified person to reach the ages of 112 and 113, in 1927 and 1928, respectively. Filkins was the first verified person to surpass the longest confirmed lifespan by two years...	F	4 May 1815	4 December 1928	113 years, 214 days	United States	United States
1816	Princess Leonilla Baryatinskaya	F	9 May 1816	1 February 1918	101 years, 268 days	Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
1817	Miriam Bannister Miriam Bannister Miriam Sparks Banister née Voisey was one of the earliest supercentenarians. Born in Salcombe Regis, Devon, England to John and Hester Voisey, she married John Bodman Banister in 1850 at the age of 33. She later moved to the United States in 1854. She attributed her longevity to "simple foods,...	F	19 March 1817	9 April 1928	111 years, 21 days	United Kingdom	United States
1818	Mariano Álvarez Mariano Álvarez Mariano Álvarez was a Filipino revolutionary and politician.-Pre-war life:Álvarez was born in Noveleta, Cavite. He received formal schooling at the San José College in Manila, and obtained a teacher's diploma. He returned to Cavite and worked as a schoolteacher in Naic and Maragondon. He was...	M	15 March 1818	25 August 1924	106 years, 163 days	Philippines	Philippines
1819	Marie-Catherine Delfairière	F	21 June 1819	26 December 1926	107 years, 188 days	Belgium	Belgium
1820	Katherine Plunket Katherine Plunket Katherine Plunket was an Irish aristocrat from County Louth, a prolific botanical artist and the oldest person in Irish history...	F	22 November 1820	14 October 1932	111 years, 327 days	Ireland Ireland Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...	Ireland
1821	Jean-Pierre Dupont	M	26 June 1821	2 November 1926	105 years, 129 days	Belgium	Belgium
1822	Elisabeth De Witte	F	1 November 1822	9 September 1928	106 years, 312 days	Netherlands	Netherlands
1823	Herlindis Goeminne	F	18 October 1823	21 January 1926	105 years, 95 days	Belgium	Belgium
1825	Victoire Joseph Desrumaux	F	11 January 1825	1 February 1932	107 years, 21 days	France	France
1827	Rachel MacArthur	F	26 November 1827	10 December 1936	109 years, 14 days	United Kingdom	United Kingdom
1829	Gebke Hinrichs Tjaden	F	29 March 1829	13 May 1935	106 years, 45 days	Netherlands	Netherlands
1830	Rachel Swain	F	1 September 1830	12 October 1938	108 years, 41 days	United Kingdom	United Kingdom
1831	Giovanni Battista Borea d’Olmo	M	11 October 1831	19 October 1936	105 years, 8 days	Italy	Italy
1832	Mary Davey	F	3 June 1832	October 1940	≥108 years, 120 days	United Kingdom	United Kingdom
1833	Enrico Danucci	M	3 September 1833	27 May 1943	109 years, 266 days	Italy	United States
1835	John Christian Francklow	M	30 May 1835	15 October 1944	109 years, 138 days	United Kingdom	United Kingdom
1836	Mary Ann Crow	F	2 February 1836	31 July 1945	109 years, 179 days	United Kingdom	Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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|14 June 1837
|14 May 1938
|100 years, 334 days
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|1838
|Sarah Olive Fitt
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|16 November 1838
|14 January 1947
|108 years, 59 days
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|Isabella Shepheard
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|22 August 1839
|20 November 1948
|109 years, 90 days
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|1840
|Elizabeth Sellwood
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|21 June 1840
|19 March 1948
|107 years, 272 days
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|1841
|Petronella Braams
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|8 December 1841
|29 June 1948
|106 years, 204 days
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|1842
|Betsy Baker

Betsy Baker (supercentenarian)

Betsy Russell Baker was the first listed supercentenarian in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's then-oldest person...

James Hard

James Albert Hard was the last verified combat veteran of the Civil War and the second-to-last verified veteran overall. Though he claimed to have been born in 1841, research in 2006 found that the 1850 Census indicated a birthdate of 1843...

Lithuania

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Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

John Mosely Turner

John Mosely Turner was a British supercentenarian and the oldest recognised living person for more than two years...

South Africa

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|1858
|Ada Roe

Ada Roe

Ada Roe, née Giddings was a British supercentenarian. She was born in Islington, England, and moved to Lowestoft over 60 years before her death with her husband, who died shortly afterwards. Roe was the oldest recognised living person between c. October 1968 and her death aged 111 years 339 days...

Spain

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|1861
|Alice Stevenson

Alice Stevenson

Alice Stevenson was born at Piccadilly, England and became a British supercentenarian. She was the oldest recognised living person in the world between the death of 112-year-old Josefa Salas Mateo on 27 February 1973 and Stevenson's own death, aged 112 years 39 days when she died at Sutton,...

Friedrich Wedeking

Friedrich Wedeking was one of the first German supercentenarians. He was born in Blomberg and died in Dortmund...

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

Anna Eliza Williams

Anna Eliza Williams was a British supercentenarian and the oldest person in the world during 1987....

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

Jeanne Calment

Jeanne Louise Calment was a French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human life span in history, living to the age of . 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...

Alphaeus Philemon Cole

Alphaeus Philemon Cole 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...

John Evans (supercentenarian)

John Evans of Fforestfach, Swansea was the longest-lived authenticated man ever from the United Kingdom from 27 May 1989 until 29 March 2009, when Henry Allingham broke his record...

Margaret Skeete

Margaret Skeete née Seward was an American supercentenarian and the oldest living American from 1993 to 1994. Skeete is the oldest person ever from Texas. She was 115 years 192 days old at the time of her death, and is the 15th oldest person ever as of October 2008...

Tane Ikai

holds the record as the oldest undisputed person ever from Japan. She was also the oldest undisputed person ever from Asia.Ikai became Japan's oldest person at age 113 in 1992 following the death of 114-year-old Waka Shirahama. She outlived her daughter and three sons. Ikai moved to a retirement...

Sarah Knauss

Sarah DeRemer Knauss was an American supercentenarian considered the world's oldest living person by Guinness World Records from April 16, 1998, the date of the death of 117-year-old Canadian Marie-Louise Meilleur, until her own death...

Christian Mortensen

Thomas Peter Thorvald Kristian Ferdinand Mortensen , known as an adult as Christian Mortensen, was a Danish supercentenarian. At the time of his death he was 115 years and 252 days old—the longest fully authenticated lifespan of any male in history...

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

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||Lucy Jane Askew
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|8 September 1883
|9 December 1997
|114 years, 92 days
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|Charles Shebanek
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|9 September 1883
|27 August 1994
|110 years, 352 days
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|Annie Jennings

Annie Jennings

Annie Jennings, née Thomas was a British supercentenarian and the world's second oldest living person, after American Sarah Knauss, at Jennings' death at age 115 years 8 days. Jennings hailed from Chesterfield, Derbyshire where she celebrated her 114th birthday...

Eva Morris

Eva Morris née Sharpe was the oldest recognised person in the world, by the Guinness Book of Records, from December 1999 until November 2000...

Marie Brémont

Marie Marthe Augustine Lemaitre Brémont was a French supercentenarian and the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 until her death. This means she was the oldest living person at the turn of the century, and the new millenium, and therefore the person with the earliest...

Kamato Hongo

was a Japanese supercentenarian and apparently the world's oldest recognized living person from March 2002 until her death. Aged 116 years 45 days at the time of her death, she was the last remaining documented person born before 1889.-Biography:...

Cape Verde

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|John Painter

John Painter

John George Painter was posthumously recognized as the world's oldest man and oldest American veteran, as a result of the United States's SSA supercentenarian study. Painter was also the last surviving American veteran of the First World War to be born in the 1880s. Only recently he was also...

María Capovilla

María Esther Heredia de Capovilla 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. She was the last remaining person born in the 1880s...

Ecuador

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|Yukichi Chuganji

Yukichi Chuganji

was a Japanese supercentenarian and "...was recognised by Guinness World Records as the oldest man..." in Japan until his death at age 114 years 189 days....

Elizabeth Bolden

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden was an American supercentenarian woman who, at the time of her death at age 116 years and 118 days, was recognized by Guinness World Records as the then world's oldest living person. She was the last remaining documented person born in 1890. Bolden was the seventh...

Emiliano Mercado del Toro

Emiliano Mercado del Toro was, at age 115, the world's oldest person for six weeks, and the world's oldest man from November 19, 2004 until his own death on January 24, 2007. He is the oldest verified military veteran ever...

Puerto Rico

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|Julie Winnefred Bertrand

Julie Winnefred Bertrand

Julie Winnefred Bertrand was a Canadian supercentenarian who was the oldest living Canadian and the oldest verified living recognized woman at the time of her death at age 115 years 124 days....

Edna Parker

Edna Ruth Parker was an American supercentenarian and, until her death, was recognized as the oldest person in the world following the death of Yone Minagawa of Japan on August 13, 2007. She assumed the title at age 114 years 115 days...

Moses Hardy

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Gertrude Baines

Gertrude Baines was an American supercentenarian, who became the oldest recognized living person according to Guinness World Records on January 2, 2009, until her own death on September 11, 2009, at age 115 years 158 days...

George Johnson (supercentenarian)

George Henry Johnson was, at the time of his death, California's oldest man and one of the last few surviving veterans of the First World War in the United States.-Life:...

Kama Chinen

was a Japanese supercentenarian, who at the age of 114 years 357 days, became the oldest validated living person when American supercentenarian Gertrude Baines died on 11 September 2009. At the age of 114 years 331 days, she became the last person born in 1895 when American supercentenarian Neva...

Besse Cooper

Besse Berry Cooper is an American supercentenarian. After the death of the Brazilian supercentenarian Maria Gomes Valentim on June 21, 2011, Cooper became the world's oldest living person...

Walter Breuning

Walter Breuning 1896 2011) was an American supercentenarian. He was the last known surviving man who was born in 1896. Breuning is the oldest undisputed American-born man on record. He was the last verified American man born in the 19th Century. At the time of his death, Breuning was the third...

Jiroemon Kimura

Jiroemon Kimura is a Japanese supercentenarian who, at the age of , is currently the world's oldest living man, since the death of Walter Breuning on 14 April 2011. Being 113 years 361 days at the succession , Kimura is the oldest man ever to gain the title of oldest living man...

Leila Denmark

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Portugal

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James Sisnett

James Emmanuel Sisnett is the oldest verified living man in North America. He is currently the world's second-oldest living man, behind Jiroemon Kimura. Sisnett is one of the last three men verfiably born in the 19th century...

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Addendum

Several claims are disputed; accordingly, an addendum of proven claims is included. Note references for additional information.

Year	Name	Sex	Birth date	Death date	Age	Place of birth	Place of death
1849	Christina Backs-Karnebeek	F	2 October 1849	7 October 1959	110 years, 5 days	Netherlands	Netherlands
1870	Emma Wilson	F	12 May 1870	12 October 1983	113 years, 153 days	United States	United States
1874	Caroline Mockridge	F	11 December 1874	6 November 1987	112 years, 330 days	Australia	Australia
1876	Birdie Vogt	F	3 August 1876	23 July 1989	112 years, 354 days	United States	United States
1887

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|21 January 1887
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|115 years, 56 days
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a Although Daggett was the oldest validated person from 1837 to die, Henry R. Gibson

Henry R. Gibson

Henry Richard Gibson was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 2nd congressional district of Tennessee.-Biography:...

of the United States was the last to die, on 25 May 1938.

b Although Blackistone was the oldest validated person from 1871 to die, Elizabeth Neu of the United States was the last to die, on 18 October 1982.

c Although Williams was the oldest validated person from 1873 to die, Florence Knapp of the United States was the last to die, on 11 January 1988.

d Although Barnes was the oldest validated person from 1882 to die, Christian Mortensen of the United States was the last to die on 25 April 1998.

e Although Farris-Luse was the oldest undisputed person from 1887 to die, Grace Clawson of the United States was the last to die on 28 May 2002.

f Although Loiseau was the oldest validated person from 1892 to die, Emma Tillman

Emma Tillman

Emmaline "Emma" Fanchon Tillman, was an American supercentenarian and, at age 114 years 67 days, the oldest validated living person from January 24, 2007 until her own death four days later. She was the last remaining documented person born in 1892....

of the United States was the last to die on 28 January 2007.

g Although Parker was the oldest validated person from 1893 to die, Maria de Jesus

Maria de Jesus

Maria de Jesus dos Santos was a Portuguese supercentenarian who was the world's oldest verified living person for 37 days, until her death at 115 years 114 days. She assumed this status after the 26 November 2008 death of American Edna Parker, who was 115 years 220 days old...

of Portugal was the last to die on 2 January 2009.

h Currently the longest-lived person in his or her year of birth. There are other verified living supercentenarians remaining for those years of birth.

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