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Parent. Callie & Mary Mushatt. Susannah Mushatt Jones (July 6, 1899 – May 12, 2016) [1] was an American supercentenarian who was, aged 116 years and 311 days, the world's oldest living person and the last living American born in the 19th century. [2] She received tributes from the United States House of Representatives [3] and from the ...
1. Emma Martina Luigia Morano OMRI [ 1 ] (29 November 1899 – 15 April 2017) was an Italian supercentenarian. She was the world's oldest living person from 13 May 2016 until her death on 15 April 2017, aged 117 years and 137 days. Until her death, she was also the last living person verified to have been born in the 1800s. [ 2 ]
The true number is uncertain, as not all supercentenarians are known to researchers at a given time, and some claims cannot be validated or are fraudulent. [ 1 ] Tomiko Itooka (born 23 May 1908) of Japan is the world's oldest living person whose age has been validated. [ 2 ]
Hij leest nog elke dag met een loep de krant" [Hilversumer John Huang (110 years and 44 days) is the oldest resident of the Netherlands. He still reads the newspaper every day with a magnifying glass] (in Dutch). Noordhollands Dagblad. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
Ali Khan Maragha'i. Amjad Ali Shah. Elijah Anderson (Underground Railroad) Henry Anderson (street vendor) Antônio Pinto Chichorro da Gama. Thomas Archer (American politician) Ardashir Mirza. Eulalia Ares de Vildoza. James Charles Armytage.
George Rene Francis (June 6, 1896 – December 27, 2008) [ 60 ][ 61 ][ 62 ] was an American supercentenarian and the joint second-oldest living man in the world, together with Englishman Henry Allingham, also born on June 6, 1896, until Francis's death aged 112 years and 204 days. He was also the oldest living man in the United States ...
First Lady of Italy; widow of President of Italy, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi [ 77 ] Iris Cummings. F. December 21, 1920. 103 years, 298 days. American. Olympic swimmer and aviator [ 78 ] Loretta Ford. F.
Longevity myths are traditions about long-lived people (generally supercentenarians), either as individuals or groups of people, and practices that have been believed to confer longevity, but which current scientific evidence does not support, nor the reasons for the claims. [ 1 ][ 2 ] While literal interpretations of such myths may appear to ...