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First Lady of the People's Republic of China; widow of the President of China Li Xiannian [264] David W. Torrance: M: June 22, 1924: 100 years, 260 days: British: Church minister [265] László Fuchs: M: June 24, 1924: 100 years, 258 days: Hungarian-born American: Mathematician [266] Roberto Ledesma: M: June 26, 1924: 100 years, 256 days: Cuban ...
Inah Canabarro Lucas (born 8 June 1908) of Brazil 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]
A centenarian is a person who has reached the age of 100. Because life expectancies at birth worldwide are well below 100, the term is invariably associated with longevity.The United Nations estimated that there were 316,600 living centenarians worldwide in 2012, [1] and 573,000 in 2020, almost quadruple the 2000 estimate of 151,000.
Nationally, 17.3% of people fall into this age group. What state has the oldest average age? Maine has the oldest average age of residents, at 45.1 years old — 43.9 among men and 46.4 for women.
Adelina Domingues (February 19, 1888 – August 21, 2002) was a Cape Verdean American supercentenarian who was the world's oldest person from the death of 114-year-old British-American woman Grace Clawson on May 28, 2002, to her own death less than three months later. [44]
Prior to the 19th century, there was insufficient evidence either to demonstrate or to refute centenarian longevity. [1] Even today, no fixed theoretical limit to human longevity is apparent. [ 2 ] Studies [ 1 ] in the biodemography of human longevity indicate a late-life mortality deceleration law : that death rates level off at advanced ages ...
“If [a centenarian] has something negative to say, like, ‘If you drink 15 pints of beer a day, you’ll live to 100’, then you know they’re not worth listening to,” he said.
The oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified is Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) of France, who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days. [b] The oldest verified man ever is Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013) of Japan, who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days.