This is a list of the 100 verified oldest women, arranged in descending order, based on each individual's age in years and days. A "year" typically refers to a calendar year

Calendar year

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, the time between two dates with the same name. However, years may be of different lengths due to the presence or absence of a leap day within the year, or to the conversion of dates from one calendar

Calendar

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 to another. 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

Gerontology Research Group

The Gerontology Research Group was started in 1990, and is a global eGroup of researchers in gerontology, some of who also meet monthly at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. The primary function of the group is to further gerontology research, with the objective of reversing or retarding aging...

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The oldest verified person ever was French

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...

 Jeanne Calment

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...

, who died at the age of 122 years 164 days. As of , there are 5 verified living supercentenarians on the list, the oldest of whom is American Besse Cooper

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...

 age .

100 verified oldest women

Rank	Name	Birth date	Death date	Age	Place of death or residence
1	Jeanne Calment 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...	21 February 1875	4 August 1997	122 years, 164 days	France
2	Sarah Knauss 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...	24 September 1880	30 December 1999	119 years, 97 days	United States
3	Lucy Hannah Lucy Hannah Lucy Hannah née Terrell was an American supercentenarian. Hannah is the third-oldest person ever and the oldest black person ever, as well as the oldest living American at the time of her death...	16 July 1875	21 March 1993	117 years, 248 days	United States
4	Marie-Louise Meilleur Marie-Louise Meilleur Marie-Louise Fébronie Meilleur was a French Canadian supercentenarian who, upon the death of Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, became the oldest recognized living person. Meilleur is still the oldest validated Canadian ever.-Biography:...	29 August 1880	16 April 1998	117 years, 230 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...
5	María Capovilla 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...	14 September 1889	27 August 2006	116 years, 347 days	Ecuador Ecuador Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
6	Tane Ikai 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...	18 January 1879	12 July 1995	116 years, 175 days	Japan 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...
7	Elizabeth Bolden 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...	15 August 1890	11 December 2006	116 years, 118 days	United States
8	Carrie C. White	18 November 1874	14 February 1991	116 years, 88 days	United States
9	Kamato Hongo 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:...	16 September 1887	31 October 2003	116 years, 45 days	Japan
10	Maggie Barnes	6 March 1882	19 January 1998	115 years, 319 days	United States
11	Charlotte Hughes	1 August 1877	17 March 1993	115 years, 228 days	United Kingdom
12	Edna Parker 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...	20 April 1893	26 November 2008	115 years, 220 days	United States
13	Margaret Skeete 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...	27 October 1878	7 May 1994	115 years, 192 days	United States
14	Gertrude Baines 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...	6 April 1894	11 September 2009	115 years, 158 days	United States
15	Aniţica Butariu	17 June 1882	21 November 1997	115 years, 157 days	Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
16	Bettie Wilson	13 September 1890	13 February 2006	115 years, 153 days	United States
17	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....	16 September 1891	18 January 2007	115 years, 124 days	Canada
18	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...	10 September 1893	2 January 2009	115 years, 114 days	Portugal Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
19	Susie Gibson Susie Gibson Susie Elizabeth Gibson née Potts was an American supercentenarian and the third-oldest person in the world at the time of her death. She currently ranks as one of the 25 oldest validated persons of all time. Moreover, Susie was older than several 'world's oldest persons'...	31 October 1890	16 February 2006	115 years, 108 days	United States
20	Besse Cooper 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...	26 August 1896	Living		United States
21	Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper Hendrikje "Henny" van Andel-Schipper was the oldest person ever in the history of the Netherlands , and from 29 May 2004 was thought to be the oldest recognized person in the world until her death Hendrikje "Henny" van Andel-Schipper (née Schipper) (29 June 1890 – 30 August 2005) was the...	29 June 1890	30 August 2005	115 years, 62 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...
22	Maude Farris-Luse Maude Farris-Luse Maude Farris-Luse, , also known as Maud Luse, was an American supercentenarian. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, she was the oldest person in the world from June 2001 until her death nine months later, at age 115 years, 56 days.-Birth, marriage and family:Maude Farris-Luse was born...	21 January 1887	18 March 2002	115 years, 56 days	United States
23	Marie Brémont 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...	25 April 1886	6 June 2001	115 years, 42 days	France
24	Chiyono Hasegawa Chiyono Hasegawa is a Japanese supercentenarian. Aged , she is the oldest verified person in Japan since the death of Kama Chinen on 2 May 2010, and the oldest person in Asia. She is currently the 2nd oldest verified living person in the world behind American Besse Cooper. On 22 August 2011, Hasegawa became the...	20 November 1896	Living		Japan
25	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...	12 November 1884	20 November 1999	115 years, 8 days	United Kingdom
26	Eva Morris 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...	8 November 1885	2 November 2000	114 years, 360 days	United Kingdom
27	Kama Chinen 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...	10 May 1895	2 May 2010	114 years, 357 days	Japan
28	Maria Gomes Valentim Maria Gomes Valentim Maria Gomes Valentim was a Brazilian supercentenarian who died at the age of 114 years 347 days. She was the oldest verified living person in the world from the time her age was validated on 18 May 2011 until her death a little more than a month later...	9 July 1896	21 June 2011	114 years, 347 days	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
29	Mary Bidwell	19 May 1881	25 April 1996	114 years, 342 days	United States
30	Mary Josephine Ray Mary Josephine Ray Mary Josephine Ray was the world's second-oldest verified living person at the time of her death...	17 May 1895	7 March 2010	114 years, 294 days	United States
31	Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes	24 October 1890	25 July 2005	114 years, 274 days	Portugal
32	Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan de Soler was a Puerto Rican supercentenarian, and, according to documents compiled in March 2004, the oldest documented person in the world after the death of Japanese woman Mitoyo Kawate, although German American woman Charlotte Benkner, who was about 3½ months...	31 August 1889	29 May 2004	114 years, 272 days	Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
33	Eugénie Blanchard Eugénie Blanchard Anne Eugénie Blanchard was a French supercentenarian, who at the age of was the oldest living person at the time of her death. She became the recognised titleholder upon the death of Japanese supercentenarian Kama Chinen on 2 May 2010...	16 February 1896	4 November 2010	114 years, 261 days	France
34	Venere Pizzinato-Papo	23 November 1896	2 August 2011	114 years, 252 days	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...
35	Neva Morris Neva Morris Neva Morris was an American supercentenarian. At the age of 114 years, 246 days, she was the oldest verified living person in the United States following the death of 114-year-old Mary Josephine Ray and the last known American born surviving from 1895...	3 August 1895	6 April 2010	114 years, 246 days	United States
36	Dina Manfredini	4 April 1897	Living		United States
37	Hide Ohira	15 September 1880	9 May 1995	114 years, 236 days	Japan
38	Yone Minagawa Yone Minagawa was a Japanese supercentenarian believed to have been the world's oldest living person from 29 January 2007 until her death of old age, aged 114 years 221 days...	4 January 1893	13 August 2007	114 years, 221 days	Japan
39	M.A.C.C.	10 June 1881	16 January 1996	114 years, 220 days	Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
40	Carrie Lazenby	9 February 1882	14 September 1996	114 years, 218 days	United States
	Ura Koyama	30 August 1890	5 April 2005	114 years, 218 days	Japan
42	Myrtle Dorsey	22 November 1885	25 June 2000	114 years, 216 days	United States
43	Anna Eliza Williams Anna Eliza Williams Anna Eliza Williams was a British supercentenarian and the oldest person in the world during 1987....	2 June 1873	27 December 1987	114 years, 208 days	United Kingdom
44	Eunice Sanborn	20 July 1896	31 January 2011	114 years, 195 days	United States
45	Grace Clawson	15 November 1887	28 May 2002	114 years, 194 days	United States
46	Tase Matsunaga	11 May 1884	18 November 1998	114 years, 191 days	Japan
47	Lydie Vellard	18 March 1875	17 September 1989	114 years, 183 days	France
	Wilhelmina Kott	7 March 1880	6 September 1994	114 years, 183 days	United States
	Adelina Domingues	19 February 1888	21 August 2002	114 years, 183 days	United States
50	Mitoyo Kawate Mitoyo Kawate was a Japanese supercentenarian and, at the age of 114 years 182 days, briefly the oldest recognized living person after the death of either Kamato Hongo or Yukichi Chuganji, both also from Japan....	15 May 1889	13 November 2003	114 years, 182 days	Japan
51	Martha Graham	December 1844	25 June 1959	114 years, ca Circa Circa , usually abbreviated c. or ca. , means "approximately" in the English language, usually referring to a date... . 180 days	United States
	Charlotte Benkner Charlotte Benkner Charlotte Benkner née Enterlein was an American supercentenarian and the oldest verified living person from November 2003 until sufficient documentation was found to validate the age of Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan of Puerto Rico in March 2004...	16 November 1889	14 May 2004	114 years, 180 days	United States
	Camille Loiseau	13 February 1892	12 August 2006	114 years, 180 days	France
54	Anne Primout	5 October 1890	26 March 2005	114 years, 172 days	France
55	Ettie Mae Greene Ettie Mae Greene Ettie Mae Greene née Thomas was an American supercentenarian who was recognized by Guinness World Records as the 'oldest living American' in 1991 . She was born in Wayside, West Virginia, and worked as a seamstress and a farmer...	8 September 1877	26 February 1992	114 years, 171 days	United States
56	Irene Frank	1 October 1881	28 February 1996	114 years, 150 days	United States
57	Christina Cock Christina Cock Christina Cock is recorded as the oldest verified supercentenarian in Australian history, aged when she died. She is one of the 60 oldest verified people of all time. For over a year, Cock was the oldest person ever of the Southern Hemisphere, until being surpassed by María Capovilla of Ecuador...	25 December 1887	22 May 2002	114 years, 148 days	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...
58	Olivia Patricia Thomas	29 June 1895	16 November 2009	114 years, 140 days	United States
59	Emma Verona Johnston Emma Verona Johnston Emma Verona Johnston née Calhoun was an American supercentenarian recognized as the "oldest living American" from May 2004 until her death at age 114 years 117 days. Verona was born in Indianola, Iowa as one of a large family...	6 August 1890	1 December 2004	114 years, 117 days	United States
60	Bettie Chatmon	30 April 1884	16 August 1998	114 years, 108 days	United States
61	Odie Matthews	28 December 1878	14 April 1993	114 years, 107 days	United States
62	Chiyo Shiraishi	6 August 1895	19 November 2009	114 years, 105 days	Japan
63	Asa Takii	28 April 1884	31 July 1998	114 years, 94 days	Japan
64	Florence Knapp	10 October 1873	11 January 1988	114 years, 93 days	United States
	Elena Slough	4 July 1889	5 October 2003	114 years, 93 days	United States
66	Lucy Jane Askew	8 September 1883	9 December 1997	114 years, 92 days	United Kingdom
	Mary Anna Boone	10 February 1887	13 May 2001	114 years, 92 days	United States
68	M.C.L.L.	3 April 1883	3 July 1997	114 years, 91 days	Spain
69	Waka Shirahama	23 March 1878	16 June 1992	114 years, 85 days	Japan
70	Suekiku Miyanaga	7 April 1884	20 June 1998	114 years, 74 days	Japan
71	Shige Hirooka	16 January 1897	29 March 2011	114 years, 72 days	Japan
72	Maggie Renfro Maggie Renfro Maggie Mae Renfro was an American supercentenarian who was, at 114, the third-oldest living person in the United States and the oldest person in Louisiana until her death on January 22, 2010...	14 November 1895	22 January 2010	114 years, 69 days	United States
73	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....	22 November 1892	28 January 2007	114 years, 67 days	United States
74	Florrie Baldwin Florrie Baldwin Florence Emily Baldwin, née Davies was, at the time of her death, the oldest living person in the United Kingdom and Europe.-Biography:...	31 March 1896	8 May 2010	114 years, 38 days	United Kingdom
75	Delma Kollar Delma Kollar Delma Dorothie Kollar is an American supercentenarian. On 16 November 2011, she is one of the oldest 100 verified people ever. On her last birthday, she became one of only 88 people to have attained the age of 114. Before recent research, she was thought to have been born in 1898...	31 October 1897	Living		United States
76	Amy Hulmes Amy Hulmes Amy Isabel Hulmes née Matthews from Bury, Lancashire, England was a British supercentenarian and the oldest person in Britain until her death, at the age of 114 years and 22 days. She was also thought to be the oldest person in the world, before the discovery of Maude Farris-Luse who was nine...	5 October 1887	27 October 2001	114 years, 22 days	United Kingdom
77	Grace Thaxton	18 June 1891	6 July 2005	114 years, 18 days	United States
78	Minnie Ward	19 November 1885	2 December 1999	114 years, 13 days	United States
79	Arbella Ewing Arbella Ewing Arbella Ewing née Perkins was an American supercentenarian. At the time of her death, at age 114, she was the third-oldest living person in the world, the second-oldest person in the United States and the oldest living African American...	13 March 1894	22 March 2008	114 years, 9 days	United States
80	Catherine Hagel Catherine Hagel Catherine Helen Hagel née Dahlheimer was an American supercentenarian.She was born in Dayton, Minnesota, and was, at the time of her death, the third-oldest validated person in the world...	28 November 1894	6 December 2008	114 years, 8 days	United States
81	Virginia Dighero-Zolezzi	24 December 1891	28 December 2005	114 years, 4 days	Italy
82	Miriam Carpelan	8 July 1882	22 June 1996	113 years, 350 days	United States
83	Yasu Akino	1 March 1885	12 February 1999	113 years, 348 days	Japan
	Bertha Fry Bertha Fry Bertha Fry née Vanosdol was an American supercentenarian. She was age 113 years 348 days old at the time of her death. She lived in Muncie, Indiana....	1 December 1893	14 November 2007	113 years, 348 days	United States
85	Mae Harrington	20 January 1889	29 December 2002	113 years, 343 days	United States
86	Daisey Bailey Daisey Bailey Daisey Bailey was an African American supercentenarian, who at the age of 113 years and 342 days, was the fifth oldest person in the world and the third oldest living person in the United States...	30 March 1896	7 March 2010	113 years, 342 days	United States
87	Agatha Mitchell	26 March 1887	25 February 2001	113 years, 336 days	United States
88	Clara Huhn	28 January 1887	20 December 2000	113 years, 327 days	United States
89	Corinne Dixon Taylor Corinne Dixon Taylor Corinne Taylor née Dixon was an American supercentenarian posthumously recognized as the oldest living American and second oldest person in the world upon the death of Emma Tillman on January 28, 2007 until her own death 17 days later. She is also the age record-holder for the District of Columbia...	2 April 1893	14 February 2007	113 years, 318 days	United States
90	Mary Christian Mary Christian Mary Dorothy Christian née Perry was an American supercentenarian who became the oldest recognized person in the United States at age 113 upon the death of 113-year-old Mae Harrington and was succeeded in this title by another 113-year-old, Elena Slough.Perry was born in Taunton, Massachusetts to...	12 June 1889	20 April 2003	113 years, 312 days	United States
91	Leila Denmark Leila Denmark Leila Alice Denmark is an American pediatrician. She was once the oldest practicing pediatrician in the world, until she retired in May 2001 at the age of 103. She is one of the rare supercentenarians known for reasons other than longevity...	1 February 1898	Living		United States
92	Luce Maced	2 May 1886	25 February 2000	113 years, 299 days	France
93	Rosa Ann Comfort	21 January 1879	6 November 1992	113 years, 290 days	United Kingdom
94	Mississippi Winn Mississippi Winn Mississippi Winn was an American supercentenarian. At the age of , she was the 7th oldest person in the world at the time of her death. She became the oldest resident in Louisiana upon the death of Maggie Renfro on January 22, 2010. After Daisey Bailey's death on March 7, 2010, Winn became the...	31 March 1897	14 January 2011	113 years, 289 days	United States
95	Fannie Thomas	14 April 1867	22 January 1981	113 years, 283 days	United States
	Mitsu Fujisawa	9 April 1876	17 January 1990	113 years, 283 days	Japan
97	Tsuneyo Toyonaga Tsuneyo Toyonaga was a Japanese supercentenarian who was the oldest living person in Japan from the death of Shitsu Nakano on August 19, 2007 until Toyonaga's death. She was the fifth-oldest living person in the world following the November 14, 2007 death of fellow 113-year-old Bertha Fry...	21 May 1894	22 February 2008	113 years, 277 days	Japan
98	Anne Samson	27 February 1891	29 November 2004	113 years, 276 days	Canada
99	Beatrice Mears	4 March 1888	3 December 2001	113 years, 274 days	Australia
100	Mary Parr Mary Parr Mary Parr was an American supercentenarian. She was believed to be the oldest person in the United States and second oldest in the world when she died....	29 January 1889	29 October 2002	113 years, 273 days	United States

Addendum

Several claims are disputed; accordingly, an addendum of proven claims is included.

Rank	Name	Birth date	Death date	Age	Place of death or residence
101	Misawo Okawa	5 March 1898	Living		Japan
102	Kame Nakamura	8 March 1898	Living		Japan
103	Beatrice Farve Beatrice Farve Beatrice Farve was an American supercentenarian who was, at age 113, the world's second-oldest verified person. She was also the second-oldest person in the United States, and the second-oldest African American, all behind California resident Gertrude Baines...	30 April 1895	19 January 2009	113 years, 264 days	United States
104	Amalia Barone	6 October 1884	26 June 1998	113 years, 263 days	United States

a Ray is a native of Canada.

b Pizzinato-Papo is a native of Ala, which had then been a part of Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...

; it is presently located in Italy.

c Manfredini is a native of Italy.

d Clawson is a native of the United Kingdom.

e Domingues is a native of Cape Verde

Cape Verde

The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...

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f Benkner is a native of 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...

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g Primout was a native of French Algeria

French Algeria

French Algeria lasted from 1830 to 1962, under a variety of governmental systems. From 1848 until independence, the whole Mediterranean region of Algeria was administered as an integral part of France, much like Corsica and Réunion are to this day. The vast arid interior of Algeria, like the rest...

; it is presently Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

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h Carpelan is a native of the United Kingdom.

i Barone is a native of Italy.