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This is a list of the oldest living people who have been verified to be alive as of the dates of the cited supporting sources. It was estimated in 2015 that between 150 and 600 living people had reached the age of 110. [1]
The oldest living person in the world whose age has been validated is 116-year-old Tomiko Itooka of Japan, born 23 May 1908. [1] [2] The oldest living verified man is 112-year-old John Tinniswood of the United Kingdom, born 26 August 1912. [3]
These are lists of the 100 known verified oldest women and men sorted in descending order by age in years and days. [a] 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.
116-year-old Tomiko Itooka (b. 23 May 1908) is now the world’s oldest living woman and oldest living person, following the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas Morera.
The current oldest person living (male) is Saturnino de la Fuente García (Spain), at the age of 112 years and 211 days (as verified on 10 September 2021). The last person to hold the record for the oldest person living (male) was Bob Weighton (UK, b. 29 March 1908), who was 112 years 1 day old as of 30 March 2020.
A 116-year-old Japanese woman is now the oldest living person in the world, the Guinness World Records declared Wednesday. Tomiko Itooka's title comes after Maria Branyas Morera died this...
Now US-born Maria Branyas Morera has been named the world’s oldest person by Guinness World Records (GWR), following the death of French nun Sister André earlier this month aged 118.
The Gerontology Research Group has confirmed the ages of dozens of living supercentenarians, those who are 110 and older. Nearly all are women, and most are located in North America, Europe and Japan, where proof-of-age records are more readily available.
The oldest man ever verified by Guinness World Records was a Japanese man named Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013), who lived to be 116 years old. And the oldest person ever, a woman named Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) from France, lived over half a decade longer than that, reaching the grand old age of 122.
Kane Tanaka, the world’s oldest living person, turned 119 years old on Sunday, according to a Twitter post published by her great-granddaughter, Junko Tanaka.