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Edna Ruth Parker (née Scott) [1] (April 20, 1893 – November 26, 2008) was an American supercentenarian who, for 15 months, was recognized as the oldest person in the world. She was featured in two documentaries and included in a Boston University DNA database of supercentenarians.
Maude Farris-Luse (February 21, 1887 – March 18, 2002), later known as Maud Luse, was an American supercentenarian.According to the Guinness World Records, she was the oldest person in the world from June 2001 until her death nine months later, she was Initially thought to have been born in January until subsequent research from Longeviquest [1]. at age 115 years, 25 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. The oldest known living person is Inah Canabarro Lucas of Brazil, aged 116 years, 267 days. [5] The oldest known living man is João Marinho Neto of Brazil, aged 112 years, 148 days. [6]
The oldest man verified by modern standards, and the only man with undisputed evidence to have lived to be over 115, is Japanese man Jiroemon Kimura (19 April 1897 – 12 June 2013), aged 116 years and 54 days. The oldest verified living person is Brazilian woman Inah Canabarro Lucas, born 8 June 1908, aged 116 years, 261 days.
Slotin died 9 days later; the other people in the room observing the experiment survived. [291] [292] Thomas Mantell: 7 January 1948: The 25-year-old P-51 Mustang fighter pilot crashed while in pursuit of an unidentified flying object near Franklin, Kentucky, thus becoming the first person known to have died as a result of a UFO sighting.
In the wake of Branyas's death, the oldest living person in the world is Japan's Tomiko Itooka, who was born on May 23, 1908 and is 116 years old, according to the U.S. Gerontology Research Group.
Kozak died of a heart attack at a hospital in Brooklyn, New York City, early in the morning of Tuesday June 11, 2013, [when?] barely around a quarter of a day before the oldest living person, 116-year-old Japaneseman Jiroemon Kimura (who died 2:08 a.m. the night of June 12 = 1:08 p.m. the afternoon of June 11 EDT).
Elizabeth Franics, a 114-year-old Houston woman has become the oldest living person in the U.S., according to LongeviQuest, an organization that tracks human longevity across the globe.