List of living centenarians
The following is a list of living centenarians known for reasons other than just their longevity. For more lists of centenarians, see lists of centenarians.
For living people known just for their longevity, see List of the oldest living people.
| Name | Sex | Born | Age | Notability |
| Ruth Apilado | F | April 30, 1908 | American magazine editor and activist | |
| Stanisław Kowalski | M | April 14, 1910 | Polish masters athlete | |
| Ruthie Tompson | F | July 22, 1910 | American animator and artist | |
| Renée Simonot | F | September 10, 1911 | French actress, mother of Catherine Deneuve | |
| Eileen Ash | F | October 30, 1911 | British cricketer | |
| Robert Marchand | M | November 26, 1911 | French cyclist | |
| Jessie Lichauco | F | January 10, 1912 | Cuban-born American-Filipino philanthropist | |
| Roberta McCain | F | February 7, 1912 | American matriarch, mother of John McCain | |
| Dagny Carlsson | F | May 8, 1912 | Swedish blogger | |
| Louise Horne | F | May 12, 1912 | Trinidadian politician and nutritionist | |
| Viola Smith | F | November 29, 1912 | American drummer | |
| John Henderson | M | December 24, 1912 | American football player | |
| Carl J. Shapiro | M | February 15, 1913 | American philanthropist and entrepreneur | |
| Toko Shinoda | F | March 28, 1913 | Japanese painter | |
| M | June 15, 1913 | Swedish writer, teacher, Doctor of Philosophy | ||
| Vance Trimble | M | July 6, 1913 | American journalist | |
| Lotte Strauss | F | August 2, 1913 | German American author | |
| G. Venkatasubbiah | M | August 23, 1913 | Indian Kannada language lexicographer | |
| Boris Pahor | M | August 26, 1913 | Slovene writer | |
| M | February 15, 1914 | Polish soldier | ||
| Harry E. Goldsworthy | M | April 3, 1914 | American Air Force lieutenant general | |
| Anne Baker | F | May 14, 1914 | British writer | |
| Aiyappan Pillai | M | May 24, 1914 | Indian lawyer, politician and writer | |
| M | May 28, 1914 | French soldier | ||
| F | June 16, 1914 | French pianist | ||
| Muazzez İlmiye Çığ | F | June 20, 1914 | Turkish archaeologist | |
| Mieko Nagaoka | F | July 31, 1914 | Japanese masters athlete | |
| John Lysak | M | August 16, 1914 | American canoeist | |
| Tsuneko Sasamoto | F | September 1, 1914 | Japanese photographer | |
| Lambert Mascarenhas | M | September 17, 1914 | Indian journalist, freedom activist, and writer | |
| Marian Fuks | M | September 28, 1914 | Polish historian | |
| James C. Floyd | M | October 20, 1914 | Canadian aerospace engineer | |
| Eileen Kramer | F | November 8, 1914 | Australian dancer and choreographer | |
| Norman Lloyd | M | November 8, 1914 | American actor and director | |
| S. Prestley Blake | M | November 26, 1914 | American businessman, co-founder of the Friendly Ice Cream Corporation | |
| M | December 8, 1914 | Hungarian archaeologist | ||
| Mary Ward | F | March 6, 1915 | Australian actress and broadcaster | |
| Thelma McKenzie | F | April 6, 1915 | Australian cricketer | |
| Arthur Smith | M | May 8, 1915 | English professional footballer | |
| Ida Keeling | F | May 15, 1915 | American track and field athlete | |
| Carmen Herrera | F | May 30, 1915 | Cuban-American painter | |
| Hatsuko Morioka | F | June 22, 1915 | Japanese freestyle swimmer | |
| Donald Pellmann | M | August 12, 1915 | American masters athlete | |
| Frances Hesselbein | F | November 1, 1915 | American activist; president and CEO of the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute | |
| Isabel Crook | F | December 15, 1915 | Canadian anthropologist and professor | |
| Marvin Creamer | M | January 24, 1916 | American sailor | |
| Milton Thiago de Mello | M | February 5, 1916 | Brazilian primatologist | |
| F | February 7, 1916 | Polish activist | ||
| Damián Iguacén Borau | M | February 12, 1916 | Spanish Roman Catholic bishop | |
| Man Kaur | F | March 1, 1916 | Indian athlete | |
| Robert Finkelstein | M | March 26, 1916 | American theoretical physicist | |
| Beverly Cleary | F | April 12, 1916 | American writer | |
| Geneviève Callerot | F | May 6, 1916 | French farmer and novelist. | |
| M | May 14, 1916 | German architect | ||
| Ronald Atkins | M | June 13, 1916 | British politician | |
| Al G. Wright | M | June 23, 1916 | American bandleader and conductor | |
| Ronald R. Van Stockum | M | July 8, 1916 | American writer | |
| Stefan Arczyński | M | July 31, 1916 | Polish photographer | |
| Eunice Parsons | F | August 4, 1916 | American modernist artist | |
| M | August 13, 1916 | French politician | ||
| M | August 23, 1916 | Polish activist | ||
| F | August 28, 1916 | Brazilian university professor | ||
| Everett Lee | M | August 31, 1916 | American conductor and violinist | |
| F | September 7, 1916 | German architect | ||
| Eric Bentley | M | September 14, 1916 | British-born American critic, playwright, singer, editor and translator | |
| M | September 19, 1916 | Vietnamese director and scholar of culture | ||
| Frank Handlen | M | September 26, 1916 | American painter | |
| F | October 22, 1916 | American psychoanalyst | ||
| Eric Bransby | M | October 25, 1916 | American artist and muralist | |
| Mihai Șora | M | November 7, 1916 | Romanian philosopher and essayist | |
| M | November 16, 1916 | Swedish sculptor | ||
| F | November 23, 1916 | German Honorary Chairman of the International Otto Gross Society | ||
| M | November 25, 1916 | German singer | ||
| M | December 1, 1916 | Lithuanian engineer | ||
| Ruth Johnson Colvin | F | December 16, 1916 | American reading skill advocate, founder of ProLiteracy | |
| Frederico Fischer | M | January 6, 1917 | Brazilian athlete | |
| Kenneth Mayhew | M | January 18, 1917 | British Army veteran; knight of the Military William Order | |
| F | January 23, 1917 | Spanish basketball player and coach | ||
| Sinclair Hood | M | January 31, 1917 | British archaeologist and academic | |
| M | February 2, 1917 | German author and politician | ||
| Arnold Spielberg | M | February 6, 1917 | American electrical engineer; father of Steven Spielberg | |
| Whang-od Oggay | F | February 17, 1917 | Filipino mambabatok or tattoo artist | |
| Manuel Bromberg | M | March 6, 1917 | American artist | |
| Ruth Dayan | F | March 6, 1917 | Israeli fashion designer | |
| M | March 31, 1917 | German painter, graphic artist and sculptor | ||
| Henry J. Muller | M | April 7, 1917 | American soldier | |
| M | April 12, 1917 | Vietnamese monk | ||
| Song Ping | M | April 24, 1917 | Chinese Communist Party politician | |
| F | May 12, 1917 | Filipino writer | ||
| Odette Roy Fombrun | F | June 13, 1917 | Haitian writer and intellectual | |
| Lise Nørgaard | F | June 14, 1917 | Danish journalist and writer | |
| S. I. Padmavati | F | June 20, 1917 | Indian cardiologist | |
| Shyam Saran Negi | M | July 1, 1917 | Indian schoolteacher | |
| F | July 27, 1917 | Iranian environmentalist | ||
| Keith Rae | M | July 30, 1917 | Australian rules footballer | |
| Esther Cooper Jackson | F | August 21, 1917 | American civil rights activist | |
| Art Rupe | M | September 5, 1917 | American music industry executive and record producer | |
| Ena Collymore-Woodstock | F | September 10, 1917 | Jamaican solicitor and magistrate | |
| Carola B. Eisenberg | F | September 15, 1917 | American psychiatrist and educator | |
| George Pearce | M | September 17, 1917 | Australian politician | |
| M | September 20, 1917 | German clergyman | ||
| Charles Godfrey | M | September 24, 1917 | Canadian physician, professor and politician | |
| Francis Jackson | M | October 2, 1917 | British organist and composer | |
| F | October 4, 1917 | Spanish writer | ||
| Don Marion Davis | M | October 9, 1917 | American child actor | |
| Isabella Dryden | F | October 14, 1917 | Canadian educator | |
| Isabel Robalino | F | October 14, 1917 | Ecuadorian lawyer and politician | |
| Marsha Hunt | F | October 17, 1917 | American actress | |
| Yang You | M | October 17, 1917 | Chinese scientist | |
| William A. Jenkins | M | November 2, 1917 | United States Coast Guard rear admiral | |
| Florence Alice Lubega | F | November 5, 1917 | Ugandan politician | |
| Julien-François Zbinden | M | November 11, 1917 | Swiss composer | |
| M | November 21, 1917 | German typographer, calligrapher and graphic artist | ||
| Arne Konrad Eldegard | M | November 30, 1917 | Norwegian banker and politician | |
| Lucie Peyraud | F | December 11, 1917 | French winemaker and cook | |
| Karl-Günther von Hase | M | December 15, 1917 | German diplomat | |
| Robert R. Holt | M | December 27, 1917 | American psychologist | |
| John Cremona | M | January 6, 1918 | Maltese civil servant | |
| Robert E. Thacker | M | February 21, 1918 | American test pilot | |
| Lloyd Geering | M | February 26, 1918 | New Zealand theologian | |
| Joško Battestin | M | March 14, 1918 | Slovene electrical engineer, inventor, physics teacher and author | |
| Lloyd McCuiston | M | March 26, 1918 | American politician | |
| F | April 1, 1918 | Swedish author and journalist | ||
| Charles P. Roland | M | April 8, 1918 | American professor and Civil War historian | |
| H. S. Doreswamy | M | April 10, 1918 | Indian activist and journalist | |
| Philipose Chrysostom | M | April 27, 1918 | Indian religious leader | |
| Henrietta Boggs | F | May 6, 1918 | Costa Rican-American author, journalist, and activist | |
| Joe Krush | M | May 18, 1918 | American illustrator | |
| Naomi Replansky | F | May 23, 1918 | American poet | |
| Elisabeth Waldo | F | June 18, 1918 | American violinist, composer, songwriter, conductor and ethnomusicologist | |
| Adriana Sivieri | F | June 21, 1918 | Argentine-born Italian actress | |
| Doris Grumbach | F | July 12, 1918 | American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist | |
| Brenda Milner | F | July 15, 1918 | British-Canadian neuropsychologist | |
| F | August 6, 1918 | Austrian sociologist | ||
| Martin Pope | M | August 22, 1918 | American chemist and educator | |
| M | September 4, 1918 | Italian lawyer, journalist and politician | ||
| Ephraim Einhorn | M | September 12, 1918 | British Orthodox rabbi | |
| F | September 16, 1918 | Serbian actress | ||
| Harry Yee | M | September 26, 1918 | American mixologist | |
| Henri Vernes | M | October 16, 1918 | Belgian author | |
| René de Obaldia | M | October 22, 1918 | French playwright and poet | |
| Ann Hutchinson Guest | F | November 3, 1918 | American author | |
| M | November 7, 1918 | Italian spy | ||
| F | November 8, 1918 | Swiss writer | ||
| Guy Eby | M | November 9, 1918 | American airline captain | |
| Vittore Bocchetta | M | November 15, 1918 | Italian sculptor, painter, and academic | |
| Victor Mukete | M | November 15, 1918 | Cameroonian politician | |
| Ángeles Flórez Peón | F | November 17, 1918 | Spanish activist and writer | |
| M | November 24, 1918 | Polish Roman Catholic priest | ||
| Borys Paton | M | November 27, 1918 | Ukrainian scientist, chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1962 | |
| Timuel Black | M | December 7, 1918 | American historian, author and civil rights activist | |
| Dusty Anderson | F | December 17, 1918 | American actress | |
| Joyce Reynolds | F | December 18, 1918 | British author | |
| Lester L. Wolff | M | January 4, 1919 | American politician | |
| F | January 4, 1919 | German-Austrian environmental activist, painter and graphic designer | ||
| Doyle Royal | M | January 29, 1919 | American collegiate soccer and tennis coach | |
| Sidney Walton | M | February 11, 1919 | American army personnel of World War II | |
| Luis Bedoya Reyes | M | February 20, 1919 | Peruvian politician | |
| Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani | M | February 20, 1919 | Iranian Marja' | |
| S.K. Paramasivan | M | February 26, 1919 | Indian politician | |
| Sir Brian Urquhart | M | February 28, 1919 | British author | |
| Peter Florjančič | M | March 5, 1919 | Slovenian inventor | |
| Leonor Oyarzún | F | March 10, 1919 | First Lady of Chile; widow of President of Chile, Patricio Aylwin | |
| Donald Zec | M | March 12, 1919 | British journalist | |
| Irwin Marcus | M | March 18, 1919 | American psychiatrist, neurologist and psychoanalyst | |
| M | March 18, 1919 | Italian politician | ||
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti | M | March 24, 1919 | American poet and publisher | |
| William S. Anderson | M | March 29, 1919 | Chinese-English business salesman and president and chairman | |
| Henry Danton | M | March 30, 1919 | English ballet dancer | |
| Caren Marsh Doll | F | April 6, 1919 | American actress and dancer | |
| Emyr Humphreys | M | April 15, 1919 | Welsh novelist, poet and author | |
| Samuel L. Myers Sr. | M | April 18, 1919 | American economist | |
| Carmen A. Miró | F | April 19, 1919 | Panamanian sociologist, statistician and demographer | |
| Haneh Hadad | M | April 19, 1919 | Israeli police officer and politician | |
| Anne Buydens | F | April 23, 1919 | German-born Belgian-American philanthropist and producer; widow of centenarian Kirk Douglas | |
| Osman Nuhu Sharubutu | M | April 23, 1919 | Ghanaian Islamic cleric | |
| Stephen Wilkinson | M | April 29, 1919 | English choral conductor and composer | |
| M | April 30, 1919 | French romanist, occitanist, provincialist, lexicographer and writer | ||
| Traute Lafrenz | F | May 3, 1919 | German-American physician and anthroposophist | |
| Basil Yamey | M | May 4, 1919 | South African economist | |
| Walter Ferguson | M | May 7, 1919 | Panamanian-born Costa Rican calypso singer-songwriter | |
| Satya Mohan Joshi | M | May 13, 1919 | Nepali poet | |
| Jim Miller | M | May 30, 1919 | Australian rules footballer | |
| Władysław Siemaszko | M | June 8, 1919 | Polish publicist and lawyer | |
| June Spencer | F | June 14, 1919 | English actress | |
| K. R. Gowri Amma | M | June 21, 1919 | Indian politician | |
| Don Salls | M | June 24, 1919 | American football player and coach | |
| Malik Dohan al-Hassan | M | July 1, 1919 | Iraqi politician and jurist | |
| James Lovelock | M | July 26, 1919 | English independent scientist, environmentalist, and futurist | |
| Luboš Perek | M | July 26, 1919 | Czech astronomer | |
| M | July 26, 1919 | Polish textile entrepreneur | ||
| F | July 30, 1919 | American writer, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe | ||
| Nehemiah Persoff | M | August 2, 1919 | American actor | |
| Marjorie Johnson | F | August 9, 1919 | American baker | |
| Akintola Williams | M | August 9, 1919 | Nigerian chartered accountant | |
| Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit | F | August 15, 1919 | Argentine human rights activist | |
| Frances Wessells | F | August 18, 1919 | American dancer and choreographer | |
| Walter Bernstein | M | August 20, 1919 | American screenwriter and film producer | |
| Sister Jean | F | August 21, 1919 | American Catholic nun, Chaplain for the Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team. | |
| Marge Champion | F | September 2, 1919 | American actress, dancer and choreographer | |
| Meda Mládková | F | September 8, 1919 | Czech art collector | |
| Leo Traister | M | September 9, 1919 | American football coach | |
| M | September 12, 1919 | Polish army major | ||
| Victor Garber | M | September 14, 1919 | American politician | |
| Helmut Ashley | M | September 17, 1919 | Austrian cinematographer and film director | |
| Joshua Blau | M | September 22, 1919 | Israeli scholar of Arabic language and literature | |
| Madhav Prasad Ghimire | M | September 23, 1919 | Nepali poet | |
| Emmanuel Evans-Anfom | M | October 7, 1919 | Ghanaian physician | |
| Hal Singer | M | October 8, 1919 | American R&B and jazz bandleader and saxophonist | |
| Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov | M | October 17, 1919 | Russian physicist | |
| Orlando Drummond | M | October 18, 1919 | Brazilian stage, television and film actor | |
| F | October 20, 1919 | Italian stage, television and film actor | ||
| Albert Somit | M | October 25, 1919 | American political scientist | |
| Jeremiah Stamler | M | October 27, 1919 | American scientist | |
| Elinor Otto | F | October 28, 1919 | American riveter | |
| George Boscawen, 9th Viscount Falmouth | M | October 31, 1919 | British politician | |
| Helen LaFrance | F | November 4, 1919 | American artist | |
| Leo Marx | M | November 15, 1919 | American historian | |
| Sylvia Fein | F | November 20, 1919 | American surrealist painter and author | |
| M | November 26, 1919 | Italian partisan | ||
| M | November 30, 1919 | French politician | ||
| Klaus Obermeyer | M | December 2, 1919 | German inventor | |
| Guido Gorgatti | M | December 5, 1919 | Italian-born Argentine film actor | |
| Charles McGee | M | December 7, 1919 | African-American fighter pilot and USAF officer | |
| Marianne | F | December 9, 1919 | German photographer | |
| Alberto Dualib | M | December 14, 1919 | Brazilian businessman | |
| Yadlapati Venkatarao | M | December 16, 1919 | Indian politician | |
| Lim Kean Chye | M | December 22, 1919 | Malaysian lawyer and politician | |
| Vasily Reshetnikov | M | December 23, 1919 | Soviet pilot | |
| Pierre Soulages | M | December 24, 1919 | French painter and sculptor | |
| Thomas W. Horton | M | December 29, 1919 | New Zealand RAF pilot | |
| Folke Alnevik | M | December 31, 1919 | Swedish sprinter | |
| David Musuguri | M | January 4, 1920 | Tanzanian military officer | |
| Witold Sadowy | M | January 7, 1920 | Polish actor | |
| Stefan Żywotko | M | January 9, 1920 | Polish association football coach | |
| Raymond Cauchetier | M | January 10, 1920 | French photographer | |
| Trevor Dannatt | M | January 15, 1920 | British architect | |
| Theodore H. Geballe | M | January 20, 1920 | American physicist | |
| Henry Hu | M | January 20, 1920 | Hong Kong barrister | |
| Gottfried Böhm | M | January 23, 1920 | German architect and sculptor | |
| Charles Njonjo | M | January 23, 1920 | Kenyan attorney and politician | |
| F | January 26, 1920 | Yugoslavian war heroin | ||
| John Russell | M | February 2, 1920 | American equestrian | |
| Gordon Van Wylen | M | February 6, 1920 | American physicist and textbook author | |
| Jacqueline Diffring | F | February 7, 1920 | German-British sculptor | |
| Tony Murray | M | February 8, 1920 | French-born British businessman | |
| Bill Pitman | M | February 12, 1920 | American guitarist | |
| Albert J. McNeil | M | February 14, 1920 | American choral conductor, ethnomusicologist and author | |
| Fortune FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton | F | February 24, 1920 | British noble | |
| Celina Seghi | F | March 6, 1920 | Italian alpine skier | |
| Erwin Schild | M | March 9, 1920 | Canadian Conservative rabbi | |
| Robert Cardenas | M | March 10, 1920 | American brigadier general | |
| Ben Ferencz | M | March 11, 1920 | Hungarian-born American lawyer | |
| Nguyễn Đình Đầu | M | March 12, 1920 | Vietnamese historian | |
| Sid Hartman | M | March 15, 1920 | American sports journalist | |
| Laurent Noël | M | March 19, 1920 | Canadian Catholic bishop | |
| Josip Manolić | M | March 22, 1920 | Croatian politician | |
| Fanny Waterman | F | March 22, 1920 | English pianist and educator | |
| Helmut Winschermann | M | March 22, 1920 | German classical oboist, conductor and teacher | |
| Edwin Hunt | M | March 23, 1920 | English waterman | |
| Neal Edward Smith | M | March 23, 1920 | American politician | |
| Marga Minco | F | March 31, 1920 | Dutch journalist and writer | |
| Yosh Uchida | M | April 1, 1920 | American judo coach, businessman, entrepreneur and educator | |
| Edmond H. Fischer | M | April 6, 1920 | American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate | |
| Marthe Cohn | F | April 13, 1920 | French author, spy and Holocaust survivor | |
| Antônio Afonso de Miranda | M | April 14, 1920 | Brazilian Catholic bishop | |
| Bill Sidwell | M | April 16, 1920 | Australian tennis player | |
| Arnold Yarrow | M | April 17, 1920 | British actor | |
| M | April 19, 1920 | French Resistance fighter, Compagnon de la Libération | ||
| Marko Račič | M | April 25, 1920 | Slovenian Olympic athlete | |
| Captain Sir Tom Moore | M | April 30, 1920 | British Army officer | |
| Alan Burgess | M | May 1, 1920 | New Zealand cricketer | |
| Louis Siminovitch | M | May 1, 1920 | Canadian molecular biologist | |
| Joan van der Waals | M | May 2, 1920 | Dutch physicist | |
| Mollie Lentaigne | F | May 6, 1920 | British medical artist and Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse | |
| Jean Maran | M | May 8, 1920 | French politician | |
| Helen Nicol | F | May 9, 1920 | Canadian baseball player | |
| Vassos Lyssarides | M | May 13, 1920 | Cypriot politician and physician | |
| John Cruickshank | M | May 20, 1920 | British Victoria Cross recipient | |
| Sonja de Lennart | F | May 21, 1920 | German fashion designer | |
| Maria Gomori | F | May 25, 1920 | Canadian psychologist | |
| Diana Maggi | F | June 10, 1920 | Argentine actress | |
| Paula Stafford | F | June 10, 1920 | Australian fashion designer | |
| Diana Armfield | F | June 11, 1920 | British painter | |
| Qapik Attagutsiak | F | June 11, 1920 | Canadian Inuit elder | |
| Larry Kenney | M | June 13, 1920 | American basketball player | |
| Bob Ryland | M | June 16, 1920 | American tennis player | |
| Patrick Duffy | M | June 17, 1920 | English economist and president of the NATO Assembly | |
| John Waddy | M | June 17, 1920 | British Army officer | |
| Aster Berkhof | M | June 18, 1920 | Dutch author | |
| Saleh Ajeery | M | June 23, 1920 | Kuwaiti astronomer | |
| Clarissa Eden | F | June 28, 1920 | British noble and Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | |
| Armin Hofmann | M | June 29, 1920 | Swiss graphic designer | |
| Kim Hyung-suk | M | July 6, 1920 | South Korean philosopher | |
| M | July 7, 1920 | Yugoslav general and politician | ||
| M | July 11, 1920 | Hungarian jurist | ||
| Anna Halprin | F | July 13, 1920 | American dancer | |
| Zheng Min | F | July 18, 1920 | Chinese scholar and poet | |
| Émile Idée | M | July 19, 1920 | French road bicycle racer | |
| Thanga Darlong | M | July 20, 1920 | Indian folk musician | |
| L. Martin Griffin | M | July 23, 1920 | American environmentalist | |
| Walter Arlen | M | July 31, 1920 | American composer | |
| Franca Valeri | F | July 31, 1920 | Italian actress |