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Supercentenarian
A supercentenarian, sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian, is a person who is 110 or older. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Supercentenarians typically live a life free of significant age-related diseases until shortly before the Maximum life span#In humans, maximum human lifespan is reached. Etymology The term "supercentenarian" has been used since 1832 or earlier. Norris McWhirter, editor of ''Guinness World Records, The Guinness Book Of Records'', used the term in association with age claims researcher A. Ross Eckler Jr. in 1976, and the term was further popularised in 1991 by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book ''Generations (book), Generations''. The term "semisupercentenarian", has been used to describe someone aged 105–109. Originally the term "supercentenarian" was used to mean someone well over the age of 100, but 110 years and over became the cutoff point of accepted criteria for demographers. Incidence The Gerontology Research ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Caterham
Ethel May Caterham (née Collins; born 21 August 1909) is a British supercentenarian who, at the age of , is the world's oldest known living person since the death of Inah Canabarro Lucas on 30 April 2025, the oldest British person ever, and the last living person born in the 1900s decade. Biography Ethel May Collins was born in Shipton Bellinger, Hampshire, England, on 21 August 1909 as the second-youngest of eight children, and was raised nearby in Tidworth. Her sister, Gladys Babilas (1897–2002), lived to be 104. In 1927, aged 18, she went on a voyage to British India and worked as an au pair to a military family until she was 21. In 1931, after returning to England, she met her future husband Norman Caterham (1905–1976) at a dinner party. They later married in Salisbury Cathedral, where Norman had been a choirboy. He later became a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Army Pay Corps, and the couple lived in Harnham, Salisbury before being stationed in Hong Kong and Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Branyas Morera (117è Aniversari)
Maria Branyas Morera (; 4 March 1907 – 19 August 2024) was an American-Catalan supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 117 years, 168 days, was the world's oldest verified living person, following the death of Lucile Randon on 17 January 2023. Personal life Branyas was born on 4 March 1907 in San Francisco, California. She was the first child and eldest daughter to Joseph Branyas Julià (1877–1915) and Teresa Morera Laque (1880–1968). Maria was part of an expatriate family (of Catalan origin) who had moved there in 1906, the year prior to her birth. She and her family later moved to Texas, then subsequently to New Orleans. While in New Orleans, her father Joseph worked as a journalist and founded the Spanish-language magazine ''Mercurio''. The family decided to return to Catalonia in 1915 due to major events that impacted Branyas's father. He was both struggling financially, declared bankruptcy, and his doctor recommended a move amid his declining health. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerontology Research Group
The Gerontology Research Group (GRG) based in Los Angeles, California, US, is a global non-profit scientific organization of researchers in various fields of gerontology, primarily concerned with validating the ages of, recording and researching supercentenarians (people who are at least 110 years old). The group endeavors to further gerontology research with a goal of slowing and reversing aging. Many of its worldwide correspondents are respected scientists and PhD holders. History The GRG was founded in 1990 by L. Stephen Coles and Stephen M. Kaye. The original chapter of the LA-GRG holds meetings each month, though the organization has members worldwide who meet via online forums and video meetings. The GRG's current director, upon the death of Dr L. Stephen Coles, is John M. Adams, known as Johnny. Lead in supercentenarian research for the GRG is Robert Douglas Young. The GRG validates the ages of supercentenarians by finding proof-of-age documents. People that have att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longevity Claims
Longevity claims are unsubstantiated cases of asserted human longevity. Those asserting lifespans of 110 years or more are referred to as supercentenarians. Many have either no official verification or are backed only by partial evidence. Cases where longevity has been fully verified, according to modern standards of longevity research, are reflected in an established List of the verified oldest people, list of supercentenarians based on the work of organizations such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) or ''Guinness World Records''. This article lists living claims greater than that of the oldest living person whose age has been independently verified, British people, British woman Ethel Caterham, aged , and deceased claims greater than that of the oldest person ever whose age has been verified, France, French woman Jeanne Calment, who died aged 122 years and 164 days. The upper limit for both lists is 130 years. Scientific status Prior to the 19th century, there was insuffic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geert Adriaans Boomgaard
Geert Adriaans Boomgaard (21 September 1788; baptized 23 September 1788Baptismal certificate 23 September 1788 Groningen Martinikerk Retrieved 14 March 2019. – 3 February 1899) was a Dutch and is generally accepted by scholars as the first validated case on record.Photo Gallery for Supercentenarians born before 1850, as of May 17, 2019 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centenarian
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, and 573,000 in 2020, almost quadruple the 2000 estimate of 151,000. As world population and life expectancy continue to increase, the number of centenarians is expected to increase substantially in the 21st century. According to the Office of National Statistics in the United Kingdom, one-third of babies born in the country in 2013 are expected to live to 100. According to a 1998 United Nations demographic survey, Japan is expected to have 272,000 centenarians by 2050; other sources suggest that the number could be closer to 1 million. The incidence of centenarians in Japan was one per 3,522 people in 2008. In Japan, the population of centenarians is highly skewed towards females. Japan in fiscal year 2016 had 57,52 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Ann Neve
Margaret Ann Neve (' Marguerite Anne Harvey; 18 May 1792 – 4 April 1903) was the second validated supercentenarian after Geert Adriaans Boomgaard. She lived at Saint Peter Port on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel. Family history Her family was well-established on the island. Her father, John Harvey, was born in Cornwall in 1771 to John (1736–1778) and Margaret Ann (née Parker; 1736–1790) Harvey. Her father was involved in merchant shipping and privateering, earning a great amount of wealth over the years, and married Elizabeth Guille when they were both 19. John died on 4 December 1820, aged 49, while Elizabeth lived with her remaining children in a house called "Chaumière" ("The Thatched Cottage"), which he had bought in 1808. Elizabeth died in 1871 aged 99. They had seven children: * Marguerite (1792–1903) * John (1793–1865) – married Anne Sophia Grut (1802–1844) in 1826 and moved to Jersey, then England. They had a son named Thomas, who served i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LongeviQuest
LongeviQuest (LQ) is a scientific organization that specializes in extreme longevity and age validation of supercentenarians. It was founded by Ben Meyers and Robert Young in 2022, and has been cited in several media outlets as an authority on the subject, including Guinness World Records. History LongeviQuest members, along with director Ben Meyers, have visited and interviewed numerous supercentenarians and centenarians worldwide. Their first visit was to Maria Branyas Maria Branyas Morera (; 4 March 1907 – 19 August 2024) was an American-Catalan supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 117 years, 168 days, was the List of oldest living people, world's oldest verified living person, following t ... in Catalonia, Spain, who was the world's oldest living person at the time. They have also met with Elizabeth Francis, formerly the oldest living person in the United States, and of Japan, the world's oldest living active barber as of March 2025. As of December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiroemon Kimura
Jiroemon Kimura (Japanese: 木村 次郎右衛門, Hepburn: ''Kimura Jirōemon''; 19 April 1897 – 12 June 2013) was a Japanese supercentenarian who was the verified oldest living person between Dina Manfredini's death on 17 December 2012 and his own death at age 116 years and 54 days on 12 June 2013. Kimura became the verified oldest living man on 25 September 2011 at the age of 114, upon the death of Peru's Horacio Celi Mendoza, and later also the oldest man in history whose lifespan is verified on 28 December 2012, when he surpassed the age of Christian Mortensen (1882–1998), as well as the only verified man who has lived to age 116. Kimura was, after 113-year-old James Sisnett's death on 23 May 2013, the last surviving man born in the 19th century. Family According to records, Kimura, then named , was born on 19 April 1897 in the fishing village of Kamiukawa, in the Kyoto Prefecture of the Empire of Japan, as the fifth of eight children to farmers Morizo Miyake (1858� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Louise Calment (; 21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) was a French supercentenarian. With a documented lifespan of 122 years and 164 days, she was the oldest people, oldest person in history whose age has been verified. Her longevity attracted media attention and medical studies of her health and lifestyle. Calment is the only person in history who has been verified to have reached the age of 120. According to census records, Calment outlived both her daughter and her grandson. In January 1988, she was widely reported to be the oldest living person in the world. In 1995, at age 120, she was declared to be the oldest person in history with a verified date of birth. Early life Calment was born on 21 February 1875 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence. Some of her close family members also had above-average lifespans. Her older brother, François (1865–1962), lived to the age of 97; her father, Nicolas (1837–1931), who was a shipbuilding, shipbuilder, lived to be 93 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Marinho Neto
João Marinho Neto (born 5 October 1912) is a Brazilian supercentenarian who has been the world's oldest verified living man following the death of John Tinniswood from the United Kingdom. Biography João Marinho Neto was born in Maranguape, Ceará, on 5 October 1912 to a farming family. While in his infancy, he moved to Apuiarés with his whole family. Marinho Neto was married to Josefa Albano dos Santos (1920–1994), with whom he had four children: Antônio, José, Fátima, and Vanda (deceased). His wife inherited land in Fazenda Massapê ("Massapê Farm", translated in English), where he farmed corn and beans. He also raised cattle, goats, pigs, and chicken The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated subspecies of the red junglefowl (''Gallus gallus''), originally native to Southeast Asia. It was first domesticated around 8,000 years ago and is now one of the most common and w ...s. Later, he had three more sons, Vinícius, Jarbas, and Concei� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hiseland
William Hiseland (6 August 1620 (claimed) – 7 February 1732), sometimes spelt William Hasland or Haseland, was an English soldier and reputed supercentenarian. In 1709, at the purported age of eighty-nine, he fought at the Battle of Malplaquet and was believed to be the oldest soldier on the field. He claimed to become the last survivor of the English Civil Wars, which he said he had served in from 1642 to 1651. Hiseland attained the rank of sergeant. In extreme old age he became a Chelsea pensioner, although he had to give up his place as an in-pensioner when he married at the claimed age of 103. He is buried at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. Life A native of Wiltshire, Hiseland first became a soldier at the age of thirteen and served through the English Civil Wars.''The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine'', vol. 28 (Wiltshire Archeological and Natural History Society, 1896), p. 169: "This was William Hiseland (Hazeland P), born in the year 1620. dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
