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George Clarke, University of Tasmania's first vice-chancellor May 1890 to May 1898, and chancellor from May 1898 to May 1907; William Field, convict turned businessman; Harold Gatty, navigator and aviation pioneer; John Gellibrand, founder of Legacy Australia; Dorothy Edna Genders, Anglican deaconess, early woman pioneer in church leadership
Tomiko Itooka (born 23 May 1908) of Japan is the world's oldest living person whose age has been validated. [2] João Marinho Neto (born 5 October 1912) of Brazil is the world's oldest living man whose age has been validated. [2]
This is a list of the oldest people by country and in selected territories. It includes the individual(s) for each given country or territory who are reported to have had the longest lifespan. Such records can only be determined to the extent that the given country's records are reliable.
The 100 oldest women have, on average, lived several years longer than the 100 oldest men. 100 verified oldest women The list includes supercentenarians validated by organisations specialising in extreme age verification such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG), [ 5 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] with, in some cases, press coverage as a supplementary source.
Truganini was born around 1812 [9] at Recherche Bay (Lyleatea) in southern Tasmania. [10] Her father was Manganerer, a senior figure of the Nuenonne people whose country extended from Recherche Bay across the D'Entrecasteaux Channel to Bruny Island (Lunawanna-alonnah).
This is a list of tables of the oldest people in the world in ordinal ranks. To avoid including false or unconfirmed claims of old age , names here are restricted to those people whose ages have been validated by an international body dealing in longevity research, such as the Gerontology Research Group or Guinness World Records , and others ...
World War II battalion commander, Holocaust liberator and oldest living West Point graduate [28] Gerd Göran F: January 5, 1919: 105 years, 363 days: Swedish: Artist [29] Maj-Britt Håkansson F: March 29, 1919: 105 years, 279 days: Swedish: Actress [30] Hsu Li-nung: M: April 4, 1919: 105 years, 273 days: Taiwanese: General [31] Caren Marsh Doll ...
A picture of the last four Tasmanian Aboriginal people of solely Aboriginal descent c. 1860s. Truganini, the last to survive, is seated at far right.. The Aboriginal Tasmanians (palawa kani: Palawa or Pakana [4]) are [5] the Aboriginal people of the Australian island of Tasmania, located south of the mainland.