List of the verified oldest people


These are lists of the 100 known verified oldest people sorted in descending order by age in years and days.
The oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified is Jeanne Calment of France, who lived to the age of 122 years, 164 days. The oldest verified man ever is Jiroemon Kimura of Japan, who lived to the age of 116 years, 54 days.
As of, the oldest known living person is Kane Tanaka of Japan, aged. The oldest known living man is Saturnino de la Fuente, of Spain, aged. The 100 oldest women have, on average, lived several years longer than the 100 oldest men.

100 verified oldest women

The list including known and validated supercentenarians who died before 2015 was compiled by the Gerontology Research Group. Later cases are included in more recent GRG data, with administrative reports or press coverage as supplementary sources, as indicated in the table.
RankNameBirth dateDeath dateAgePlace of death
or residence
1Jeanne Calment21 February 18754 August 1997France
2Sarah Knauss24 September 188030 December 1999United States
3Nabi Tajima4 August 190021 April 2018Japan
4Lucy Hannah16 July 187521 March 1993United States
5Marie-Louise Meilleur29 August 188016 April 1998Canada
6Kane Tanaka2 January 1903LivingJapan
7Violet Brown10 March 190015 September 2017Jamaica
8Emma Morano29 November 189915 April 2017Italy
9Chiyo Miyako2 May 190122 July 2018Japan
10Misao Okawa5 March 18981 April 2015Japan
11María Capovilla14 September 188927 August 2006Ecuador
12Susannah Mushatt Jones6 July 189912 May 2016United States
13Gertrude Weaver4 July 18986 April 2015United States
14Tane Ikai18 January 187912 July 1995Japan
15Lucile Randon 11 February 1904LivingFrance
16Elizabeth Bolden15 August 189011 December 2006United States
17Besse Cooper26 August 18964 December 2012United States
18Maria Giuseppa Robucci20 March 190318 June 2019Italy
19Ana María Vela Rubio29 October 190115 December 2017Spain
20Giuseppina Projetto30 May 19026 July 2018Italy
21Jeralean Talley23 May 189917 June 2015United States
22Maggie Barnes6 March 188219 January 1998United States
23Francisca Celsa dos Santos21 October 1904LivingBrazil
24Dina Manfredini4 April 189717 December 2012United States
25Shimoe Akiyama19 May 190329 January 2019Japan
26Charlotte Hughes1 August 187717 March 1993United Kingdom
27Edna Parker20 April 189326 November 2008United States
28Mary Ann Rhodes12 August 18823 March 1998Canada
29Jeanne Bot14 January 1905LivingFrance
30Anonymous of Tokyo15 March 190027 September 2015Japan
31Margaret Skeete27 October 18787 May 1994United States
32Shigeyo Nakachi1 February 1905LivingJapan
33Bernice Madigan24 July 18993 January 2015United States
34Gertrude Baines6 April 189411 September 2009United States
35Bettie Wilson13 September 189013 February 2006United States
36Shin Matsushita30 March 190427 August 2019Japan
37Julie Winnefred Bertrand16 September 189118 January 2007Canada
38Maria de Jesus10 September 18932 January 2009Portugal
39Marie Josephine Gaudette25 March 190213 July 2017Italy
40Susie Gibson31 October 189016 February 2006United States
41Augusta Holtz3 August 187121 October 1986United States
42Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper29 June 189030 August 2005Netherlands
43Maude Farris-Luse21 January 188718 March 2002United States
44Marie Brémont25 April 18866 June 2001France
45Koto Okubo24 December 189712 January 2013Japan
46Antonia Gerena Rivera19 May 19002 June 2015United States
47Chiyono Hasegawa20 November 18962 December 2011Japan
48Annie Jennings12 November 188420 November 1999United Kingdom
49Eva Morris8 November 18852 November 2000United Kingdom
50Kama Chinen10 May 18952 May 2010Japan
51Hester Ford15 August 1905LivingUnited States
52Maria Gomes Valentim9 July 189621 June 2011Brazil
53Mary Bidwell19 May 188125 April 1996United States
54Iris Westman28 August 1905LivingUnited States
55Mary Josephine Ray17 May 18957 March 2010United States
56Goldie Steinberg30 October 190016 August 2015United States
57Kiyoko Ishiguro4 March 19015 December 2015Japan
58Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes24 October 189025 July 2005Portugal
58Eudoxie Baboul1 October 19011 July 2016France
60Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan31 August 188929 May 2004Puerto Rico
60Mina Kitagawa3 November 1905LivingJapan
62Yukie Hino17 April 190213 January 2017Japan
63Delphine Gibson17 August 19039 May 2018United States
64Eugénie Blanchard16 February 18964 November 2010France
65Venere Pizzinato-Papo23 November 18962 August 2011Italy
66Neva Morris3 August 18956 April 2010United States
67Hide Ohira15 September 18809 May 1995Japan
68Blanche Cobb8 September 19001 May 2015United States
69Ethel Lang27 May 190015 January 2015United Kingdom
70Yone Minagawa4 January 189313 August 2007Japan
71María Antonia Castro10 June 188116 January 1996Spain
72Carrie Lazenby9 February 188214 September 1996United States
72Ura Koyama30 August 18905 April 2005Japan
74Myrtle Dorsey22 November 188525 June 2000United States
75Iso Nakamura23 April 190323 November 2017Japan
76Faustina Sarmiento-Pupo15 February 190516 September 2019Cuba
77Anna Eliza Williams2 June 187327 December 1987United Kingdom
78Eunice Sanborn20 July 189631 January 2011United States
79Grace Clawson15 November 188728 May 2002United States
80Mitsue Toyoda15 February 190225 August 2016Japan
81Tase Matsunaga11 May 188418 November 1998Japan
81Kame Ganeko10 April 190518 October 2019Japan
83Kame Nakamura8 March 189812 September 2012Japan
84Lydie Vellard18 March 187517 September 1989France
84Wilhelmina Kott7 March 18806 September 1994United States
84Adelina Domingues19 February 188821 August 2002United States
87Mitoyo Kawate15 May 188913 November 2003Japan
87Gabrielle des Robert4 June 19043 December 2018France
89Charlotte Benkner16 November 188914 May 2004United States
89Camille Loiseau13 February 189212 August 2006France
91Anne Primout5 October 189026 March 2005France
92Ettie Mae Greene8 September 187726 February 1992United States
93Geertje Kuijntjes19 July 190524 December 2019Netherlands
94Dominga Velasco12 May 190111 October 2015United States
95Toshie Yorimitsu30 September 190128 February 2016Japan
96Irene Frank1 October 188128 February 1996United States
97Christina Cock25 December 188722 May 2002Australia
98Olivia Patricia Thomas29 June 189516 November 2009United States
98Alelia Murphy6 July 190523 November 2019United States
100Tae Ito11 July 190313 November 2017Japan

100 verified oldest men

The list including all known and validated supercentenarians who died before 2015 was compiled by the Gerontology Research Group. Later cases are sourced either from more recent GRG data, from administrative reports, or from press coverage. Most recent cases from 2017 forward have not been verified by an organization specializing in age verification, such as the GRG, because they are only concentrating on cases of individuals aged 113+.
RankNameBirth dateDeath dateAgePlace of death
or residence
1Jiroemon Kimura19 April 189712 June 2013Japan
2Christian Mortensen16 August 188225 April 1998United States
3Emiliano Mercado del Toro21 August 189124 January 2007Puerto Rico
4Mathew Beard9 July 187016 February 1985United States
5Walter Breuning21 September 189614 April 2011United States
6Yukichi Chuganji23 March 188928 September 2003Japan
7Joan Riudavets15 December 18895 March 2004Spain
8Gustav Gerneth15 October 190522 October 2019Germany
9Fred Hale1 December 189019 November 2004United States
10Yisrael Kristal15 September 190311 August 2017Israel
11Johnson Parks15 October 188417 July 1998United States
12Tomoji Tanabe18 September 189519 June 2009Japan
13John Ingram McMorran19 June 188924 February 2003United States
14Masazō Nonaka25 July 190520 January 2019Japan
15Frederick Frazier27 January 188014 June 1993United States
16James Sisnett22 February 190023 May 2013Barbados
17Walter Richardson7 November 188525 December 1998United States
18Francisco Núñez Olivera13 December 190429 January 2018Spain
19Henry Allingham6 June 189618 July 2009United Kingdom
20Chitetsu Watanabe5 March 190723 February 2020Japan
21Antonio Todde22 January 18893 January 2002Italy
22Moses Hardy6 January 18947 December 2006United States
23Yasutaro Koide13 March 190319 January 2016Japan
24John Evans19 August 187710 June 1990United Kingdom
25Richard Arvin Overton11 May 190627 December 2018United States
26George Francis6 June 189627 December 2008United States
27Denzo Ishizaki20 October 188629 April 1999Japan
28Josep Armengol23 July 188120 January 1994Spain
29Giovanni Frau29 December 189019 June 2003Italy
30John Painter20 September 18881 March 2001United States
31Masamitsu Yoshida30 May 190429 October 2016Japan
32Sakari Momoi5 February 19035 July 2015Japan
33Alphaeus Philemon Cole12 July 187625 November 1988United States
34Augusto Moreira6 October 189613 February 2009Portugal
35George Johnson1 May 189430 August 2006United States
36Salustiano Sanchez8 June 190113 September 2013United States
37CP Crawford25 August 190723 November 2019United States
38Yoshikazu Yamashita10 April 19077 July 2019Japan
39Gengan Tonaki30 October 188424 January 1997Japan
40Robert Weighton29 March 190828 May 2020United Kingdom
41Tadanosuke Hashimoto27 April 189131 May 2003Japan
42Kumekichi Tani20 April 189112 May 2003Japan
43James Wiggins15 October 187916 October 1991United States
44George Feldman2 December 19062 December 2018United States
45Tsunahei Ogawa9 January 19074 January 2019Japan
46Arturo Licata2 May 190224 April 2014Italy
47Walter H. Seward13 October 189614 September 2008United States
48Maurice Floquet25 December 189410 November 2006France
49Valerio Piroddi13 November 190518 September 2017Italy
50James McCoubrey13 September 19015 July 2013United States
50Shivakumara Swami1 April 190721 January 2019India
52John Mosely Turner15 June 185621 March 1968United Kingdom
53Hermann Dörnemann27 May 18932 March 2005Germany
54Antonio Urrea18 February 188815 November 1999Spain
55Choki Miyagi15 November 19047 August 2016Japan
56Arthur Carter5 October 188911 June 2001United States
57Jan Machiel Reyskens11 May 18787 January 1990Netherlands
58Jesús Mosteo1 January 190828 August 2019Spain
59Dumitru Comănescu8 November 190827 June 2020Romania
60Henry Tseng12 July 190727 February 2019United States
61Joe Thomas1 May 187514 December 1986United States
62James Zackry15 August 188114 March 1993United States
63Tanekichi Onishi15 February 190011 September 2011Japan
64Roger Auvin20 March 190813 October 2019France
65Kiyoshi Igarashi2 August 189723 February 2009Japan
65Lester Townsend31 March 190822 October 2019United States
67Herman Smith-Johannsen15 June 18755 January 1987Norway
68Ernest Pusey5 May 189519 November 2006United States
69Thomas Nelson, Sr.8 July 18959 January 2007United States
70Jokichi Ikarashi26 January 190223 July 2013Japan
71Earl Brush17 July 189310 January 2005United States
71Qin Hanzhang19 February 190815 August 2019China
73Saturnino de la Fuente8 February 1909LivingSpain
74Antonio de Castro6 January 189822 June 2009Portugal
75Sukesaburo Nakanishi15 March 189622 August 2007Japan
76Luther Goding1 July 18845 December 1995United States
77Jan Pieter Bos12 July 189115 December 2002Netherlands
78Emile Fourcade29 July 188429 December 1995France
79Benjamin Harrison Holcomb3 July 18892 December 2000United States
80Aarne Arvonen4 August 18971 January 2009Finland
81George Frederick Ives17 November 188112 April 1993Canada
82Jan Goossenaerts30 October 190021 March 2012Belgium
83Carl Mattsson7 March 190824 July 2019Sweden
84Garland Adair30 July 189811 December 2009United States
85Anders Engberg1 July 18926 November 2003Sweden
86Alfred Smith29 March 19083 August 2019United Kingdom
87Alexander Imich4 February 19038 June 2014United States
88Jack Lockett22 January 189125 May 2002Australia
89Henry Hartmann14 July 189410 November 2005United States
90Shelby Harris31 March 190125 July 2012United States
91Jules Théobald17 April 1909LivingFrance
92Daniel Guzmán-García6 February 189721 May 2008Colombia
93Sadayoshi Tanabe20 October 188818 January 2000Japan
94Clarence Matthews1 May 190622 July 2017United States
95Makaru Nakanishi15 December 190128 February 2013Japan
96Irving Piken20 December 190827 February 2020United States
97Kamado Tsuha10 June 190815 August 2019Japan
97Juan Vicente Pérez Mora27 May 1909LivingVenezuela
99Henry Pfeiffer22 March 188123 May 1992United States
100Zachariah Blackistone16 February 187118 April 1982United States