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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 ]
Conrad Heyer (April 10, 1749 or 1753 [Note 1] – February 19, 1856) was an American farmer, veteran of the American Revolutionary War, and centenarian.He is often credited as being the earliest-born person to have been photographed alive, although several other contenders are known, most notably a shoemaker named John Adams and Caesar, an African.
Milton Badger. Herman Bagger. Samuel Bagster the Younger. Charles Baillie-Hamilton (Aylesbury MP) Edward Baines (1800–1890) Henry S. Baird. Franklin Baker (minister) Osmyn Baker. Frederick Bakewell.
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.
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. The photographs served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle classes.
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 ...