Longevity claims are cases of asserted human longevity that have no evidence or have partial evidence. Those asserting lifespans of 110 years or more are generally referred by as supercentenarians. Many have no available evidence or only partial evidence. Cases where longevity has been fully verified, according to modern standards of longevity research, are reflected in an established list of supercentenarians based on the work of organizations such as the Gerontology Research Group or Guinness World Records. This article lists living claims greater than that of the oldest living person whose age has been independently verified, Spanish woman Maria Branyas, aged 115 years, 329 days, and deceased claims greater than that of the oldest person ever whose age has been verified, French woman Jeanne Calment, who died at the age of 122 years and 164 days.
Guinness World Records from its beginning in 1955, had a list of oldest living people. To be in the list, a supercentenarian needs to have at least 3 verified documents.
The oldest person verified by modern standards, and the only person with evidence to have lived to be at least 120 years of age, is French woman Jeanne Calment (21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997), aged 122 years and 164 days. 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 Spanish-American born woman Maria Branyas, born 4 March 1907, aged 115 years, 329 days. Lucy Hannah, previously regarded as having reached age 117, had her verification removed in 2020 following the discovery of additional documents. In numerous editions from the 1960s through the 1980s, Guinness stated that
No single subject is more obscured by vanity, deceit, falsehood, and deliberate fraud than the extremes of human longevity.
Maggie Barnes (1882/1880/1881-1998) claimed to be 117 at her death on January 19 1998. Inconsistent records claim that she was a year younger, 6 March 1882 is the latest, but possibly a year earlier.
Hanna Barysevich: Barysevich claimed to have been 118. This can be neither verified nor disproven from Belarus records. The claim is demographically possible but incompletely verified.
Pasikhat Dzhukalaeva: In 2004, The Moscow Times reported that Dzhukalayeva, of Chechnya, claimed to have been born in 1881 (age 122). The claim is possible but incompletely verified. Her death has not been reported since that time, so no age above 122 has been verifiably claimed.
Susie Brunson: Her obituaries appear in Star-News newspaper and The New York Times. Her family claimed that she was born 25 December 1870 and lived to age 123, dying in late November 1994.
These are lists of people whose lifespans remain unverified. The individual's supercentenarian lifespan is not (yet) backed by records sufficient to the standards of modern longevity research are listed as unverified. They may be factually true, even though records do not exist (or have not yet been found), so such lists include these grey-area cases.
Name | Sex | Reported birth date | Claimed Age | Country | Latest report | Ref |
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Johanna Mazibuko | F | 11 May 1894 | 130 years, 64 days | South Africa | 15 May 2022 | [1] |
Sivananda | M | 8 August 1896 | 127 years, 341 days | India | 21 March 2022 | [2][3][4] |
Maria Gomes dos Reis | F | 16 June 1900 | 124 years, 28 days | Brazil | 3 May 2022 | [5] |
Teodora Maria de Alcântara | F | 18 August 1900 | 123 years, 331 days | Brazil | 4 February 2022 | [6] |
Andrelino Vieira da Silva | M | 3 February 1901 | 123 years, 162 days | Brazil | 8 February 2022 | [7] |
Ratu Ruhaya | F | 21 February 1901 | 123 years,
874 days |
Indonesia | 15 June 2022 | [8] |
Sebastião Batista dos Santos | M | 15 March 1902 | 122 years, 121 days | Brazil | 17 March 2022 | [9] |
Maria Vikentyevna Kononovich | F | 27 May 1904 | 120 years, 48 days | Belarus | 5 November 2021 | [10] |
These are deceased
Name | Sex | Reported birth date | Death date / latest report | Reported age | Country |
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Ali Ben Mohamed El Amri[11][12] | M | 5 October 1880 | 30 September 2010 | 129 years, 360 days | Tunisia |
Koku Istambulova[13] | F | 1 June 1889 | 27 January 2019 | 129 years, 240 days | Russia |
José Aguinelo dos Santos[14] | M | 7 July 1888 | 20 December 2017 | 129 years, 166 days | Brazil |
Maria do Carmo Gerônimo[15] | F | 5 March 1871 | 14 June 2000 | 129 years, 101 days | Brazil |
Jean Causeur[16] | M | 3 March 1645 | 30 April 1774 | 129 years, 58 days | France |
Mary Ewen[17] | F | 5 May 1878 | 10 April 2007 | 128 years, 340 days | Jamaica |
Cruz Hernández[15] | F | 3 May 1878 | 8 March 2007 | 128 years, 309 days | El Salvador |
Elizabeth Israel[15] | F | 27 January 1875 | 14 October 2003 | 128 years, 260 days | Dominica |
Safiah Ujang[18] | F | 11 February 1889 | 26 October 2017 | 128 years, 257 days | Malaysia |
José Rosario Serrano Arencas[19] | M | 5 March 1881 | 24 April 2009 | 128 years, 50 days | Colombia |
Swami Kalyandev[15] | M | 21 June 1876 | 14 July 2004 | 128 years, 23 days | India |
William Johnson[20] | M | 8 May 1881 | 15 May 2009 | 128 years, 7 days | United States |
José Paulino Gomes | M | 4 August 1895 | 28 July 2023 | 127 years, 358 days | Brazil |
Ajiben Chandravadia[21][22] | F | 1 January 1891 | 13 December 2018 | 127 years, 346 days | India |
Luo Meizhen[23][24] | F | 9 July 1885 | 9 June 2013 | 127 years, 335 days | China |
Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodríguez[25] | F | 2 February 1885 | 24 December 2012 | 127 years, 326 days | Cuba |
Luang Pu Chant Siri[26][27] | M | 10 April 1849 | 23 February 1977 | 127 years, 319 days | Thailand |
Halim Solmaz[28] | F | 1 July 1884 | 29 March 2012 | 127 years, 272 days | Turkey |
Tshinyelo Dora Muzila[29] | F | 4 May 1880 | 14 January 2008 | 127 years, 255 days | South Africa |
Leandra Becerra Lumbreras | F | 31 August 1887 | 19 March 2015 | 127 years, 200 days | Mexico |
Tian Longyu[30][31][32] | F | 9 June 1893 | 28 September 2020 | 127 years, 111 days | China |
Nicolas Savin[33] | M | 17 April 1768 | 29 November 1894 | 126 years, 226 days | Russia |
Maria Gonçalves dos Santos[34] | F | 24 June 1890 | 15 December 2016 | 126 years, 174 days | Brazil |
Benito Martínez Abrogán[15] | M | 19 June 1880 | 11 October 2006 | 126 years, 114 days | Cuba |
Margarita Lacsi[35][36][37] | F | 30 March 1878 | 27 May 2004 | 126 years, 58 days | Argentina |
Jackson Pollard[15] | M | 25 December 1869 | 7 September 1995 | 125 years, 304 days | United States |
Nuri Öztunç[38] | M | 1 July 1885 | 6 March 2011 | 125 years, 248 days | Turkey |
Juan Ramos[15] | M | 24 June 1880 | 24 January 2006 | 125 years, 214 days | United States |
Aberewa Grace[15] | F | 16 August 1878 | 18 January 2004 | 125 years, 155 days | Ghana |
Anna Visser[15] | F | 25 December 1878 | 8 January 2004 | 125 years, 14 days | Namibia |
Maria Etelvina dos Santos[15] | F | 15 July 1878 | 8 March 2003 | 124 years, 236 days | Brazil |
Hu Yeh-mei[39] | F | 10 February 1885 | 24 August 2009 | 124 years, 195 days | Taiwan |
Mariam Amash[40][41][42] | F | 1 July 1888 | 22 December 2012 | 124 years, 171 days | Israel |
Socorro Medrano Guevara[43] | F | 17 June 1894 | 13 September 2018 | 124 years, 88 days | Mexico |
Francisca Susano[44][45] | F | 11 September 1897 | 22 November 2021 | 124 years, 72 days | Philippines |
Armando Frid[15][46] | M | 24 May 1866 | 28 July 1990 | 124 years, 65 days | Argentina |
Maria Verissimo de Matos[47][48] | F | 5 June 1888 | 17 June 2012 | 124 years, 12 days | Brazil |
Ana Martinha da Silva[15] | F | 25 August 1880 | 27 July 2004 | 123 years, 337 days | Brazil |
Carmelo Flores Laura[49] | M | 16 July 1890 | 9 June 2014 | 123 years, 328 days | Bolivia |
Deolinda Soares Rodrigues[50] | F | 24 June 1898 | 1 May 2022 | 123 years, 311 days | Brazil |
Juana Chox Yac[51][52][53][54] | F | 29 November 1893 | 27 September 2017 | 123 years, 302 days | Guatemala |
Arthur Reed[15] | M | 28 June 1860 | 15 April 1984 | 123 years, 292 days | United States |
Tanzilya Bisembeyeva[55][56] | F | 14 March 1896 | 25 October 2019 | 123 years, 225 days. | Russia |
Daw Mya Kyi[57][58][59][60] | F | 9 October 1892 | fl. 17 May 2016 | 123 years, 221 days | Myanmar |
Hava Rexha[15] | F | 14 August 1880 | 8 November 2003 | 123 years, 86 days | Albania |
Appaz Iliev[61] | M | March 1, 1896 | May 10, 2019 | 123 years, 70 days | Russia |
Nguyễn Thị Trù[62][63] | F | 4 May 1893 | 12 July 2016 | 123 years, 69 days | Vietnam |
Turupu Aimaiti[64][65] | M | 5 February 1892 | fl. 26 February 2015 | 123 years, 21 days | China |
Live Larsdatter[66] | F | 6 August 1575 | 9 July 1698 | 122 years, 337 days | Denmark |
Shukhrat Aliyeva[67] | F | 1 January 1887 | 1 December 2009 | 122 years, 334 days | Brazil |
Oberia Coffin[15] | F | 1 December 1883 | 18 October 2006 | 122 years, 321 days | url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227100035/https://www.thehindu |
Sudhakar Chaturvedi[68][69] | M | 20 April 1897 | 27 February 2020 | 122 years, 313 days | India |
Nehemiah Ndur[70] | M | 25 February 1890 | 10 December 2012 | 122 years, 289 days | Nigeria |
Dora Jacobs[15] | F | 6 May 1880 | 19 January 2003 | 122 years, 258 days | South Africa |
Mamie Evans[15] | F | 2 July 1872 | 15 January 1995 | 122 years, 197 days | United States |
David Peterson[15] | M | 22 November 1850 | 31 May 1973 | 122 years, 190 days | United States |
Sarah Hoover[15] | F | 25 June 1874 | 15 December 1996 | 122 years, 173 days | United States |
Salma Abdulqadir[71] | F | 1 July 1897 | 18 December 2019 | 122 years, 170 days | Syria |
Longevity myths are traditions about long-lived people (generally supercentenarians), either as individuals or groups of people, and practices that have been believed to confer longevity, but which current scientific evidence does not support, nor the reasons for the claims. While literal interpretations of such myths may appear to indicate extraordinarily long lifespans, many scholars believe such figures may be the result of incorrect translations of number systems through various languages, coupled along with the cultural and symbolic significance of certain numbers.
Some scientists estimate that in case of the most ideal conditions people can live up to 127 years.
Name | Sex | Born- died | Age at death | Country of residence |
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Anonymous | M | 2989 BC - living | 5000 (still alive) | Egypt |
Mahavatar Babaji | M | 30 / 11/ 203 AD-living | 1,820 | India |
Anna Persdotter | F | 665-1689 | 1024 | Sweden |
Billafunda Sayadaw U. Kowida | M | 908- living | 1115 | Myanmar |
Ignacy Lewski | M | 1231-1913 | 682 | Poland |
cOLESTEIN vEGLIN | M | 1261-1876 | 615 | USA |
LP Suwang | M | 1551-1995 | 443-444 | Thailand |
Anonymous | F | 1622-living | 400+ | ? |
Zuo Ci | M | 20 BC-280 AD | 300 | China |
Trailanga | M | 27 November 1607-26 December 1887 | 280 | India |
Li-Ching Yuen | M | 1637-6 May 1933 | 256 | China |
Zaro Aga | M | February 16 1764-June 29 1934 | 170 | Turkiye |
Shirali Muslimov | M | 1805-September 2 1973 | 168 | Azerbaijan |
Chesten Marchant | M | 1511-1676 | 164-165 | England |
Tom Parr | M | 1482-November 13 1635 | 153 | England |
Mahmud Eyvazov | M | 1808-1960 | 152 | Azerbaijan |
Ravidas | M | 1377-1528 | 151 | India |
Maftei Pop | M | June 12 1804-March 15 1952 | 147 | Romania |
Mbah Gotho | M | December 31 1870-April 2017 | 146 | Indonesia |
Emperor Keikō | M | 14 BC - 143 AD | 142-144 | Japan |
Jackson Pollard | M | 1869-1995 | 125 | USA |
Name | Born-died | Age | Country | Reason |
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Anonymous (surnamed Rahman ) | ?-? | 125 | Bangladesh | Born-died/ status year unknown. |
Johnny Gatsu | 1902-2022 | 119-120 | Bangladesh | Verified by TV channel showing his burial, estimated age 120 years 0 month 12 days, claim not independently verified. |
Anonymous (surnamed Rahman) | 1902-2018 | 116 | Bangladesh | Claim not verified by any independent source or record-tracking body or anyone. |
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