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Longevity claims are individual claims to extreme human longevity (generally age 110 or older, or supercentenarianism). Many individual claims have either no verification or only partial evidence; longevity claims that have been fully verified according to the standards of the Gerontology Research Group and/or the Guinness Book of World Records are reflected in the established list of supercentenarians.

Fully verified claims

For fully verified human longevity claims, see supercentenarian and oldest people.

Longevity claims differ from longevity myths in that the age claimed is within the margin of scientific possibility (generally considered to be 130 years or less) and the claim was not constructed solely within a longevity tradition framework (such as in narratives of the Biblical patriarchs, village elders, or the fountain of youth). The main point of difference is that a "longevity claim" is theoretically possible whereas a longevity narrative is not, or has already been proven false.

  • Only approximately seventy people in modern history have been documented as reaching the age of 114.
  • Only about twenty-five of these reached the age of 115.
  • The current oldest verified living person is Kama Chinen of Japan, who is 129 years, 177 days old.
  • The oldest person verified by modern standards, and the only person with absolutely undisputed evidence to have lived to be over 120, was Jeanne Calment of France (21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997), aged 122 years, 164 days.

Problems in documenting

  • The first two people Guinness accepted as reaching 113, both of whom were male, have now been discredited.
  • The first three people to be acknowledged by Guinness as reaching 114 have all had their claims disputed.
  • Of the ten people regarded by Guinness or the Gerontology Research Group to have reached 116, three are subject to substantial doubt.

As the Guinness states in numerous editions from the 1960s to the 1980s, "No single subject is more obscured by vanity, deceit, falsehood, and deliberate fraud than the extremes of human longevity." Despite the evidence of the extremes of verified modern longevity, as established by Guinness and the Gerontology Research Group (GRG), stories in reliable sources still surface regularly, stating that these limits have been exceeded, even at extremely unlikely odds. Responsible validation of longevity claims involves investigation of records following the claimant from birth to the present, and claims far outside the demonstrated records regularly fail such scrutiny. The United States Social Security Administration has public death records of over 100 people said to have died in their 160s to 190s.

It is typical that extreme longevity claims come from remote areas where recordkeeping is poor. However, generally speaking, the life expectancy is rather lower in these areas than in the areas where undisputed claims are typically found.[citation needed]

In the transitional period of record-keeping, records tend to exist for the wealthy and upper-middle classes, but are often spotty and nonexistent for the poor. In the United States, birth registration did not begin in Mississippi until 1912 and was not universal until 1933. Hence, in many longevity cases no actual birth record exists. This type of case is classified by gerontologists as "partially validated".

Proximate records

Since some cases were recorded in the census, there may be obtainable evidence that tends to support the age claim. Sometimes, however, a single year may be off.

  • Susie Gibson: Gibson and her family claimed a birthdate of 31 October 1889. The earliest record available, the 1900 census, lists her as born in October 1890. The 1900 census is a proximate record, not an immediate record written in 1890. The gerontologist's methodological conclusion is that it is nearly certain (sufficiently verified) that Gibson was at least 115, and that additional documentation establishing 116 is possible.
  • Maggie Barnes: Barnes claimed to be 117. Inconsistent records suggested that she was at least 115, but possibly a year older. The conclusion is that Barnes was at least 115, but could have been 116 or 117.
  • Rosa Williams: Some evidence exists to support the allegation made by the family that Williams was born in May 1886. The 1910 census listed her as 22, suggesting she was born, rather, in May 1887 or 1888. She died in January 2001. The conclusion is that she was at least 112 years old at the time of her death.

Late-life records

In another type of case, the only records that exist are late-life documents. Because age inflation often occurs in adulthood (to avoid military service or to apply for a pension early), or because the government may have begun record-keeping during the claimant's mid-lifetime, claims unverified by proximate records also exist. Unverified claims are less likely to be true (because the records are written later), but are still possible. Modern demographic mortality tables show ages above 130 to be extremely unlikely on the order of trillions-to-one odds. Longevity narratives did not come in for serious scrutiny until the work of William Thoms in 1873, who proposed the 100th birthday test: is there evidence of the person claiming to be age 100, prior to the post-centenarian claim? This test does not prove a person's age, but does separate the typical pension-claim longevity exaggeration (which tends to reach 115 to 125) and the spontaneous claim that a certain village elder is over 150.

  • Hanna Barysevich: Barysevich claimed to have been 118. This can be neither verified nor disproven from Belarus records. The claim is possible because it is within the realm of modern demographic possibility. However, the odds of surviving to age 118 are very small (billions to one).
  • Pasikhat Dzhukalayeva: In 2004, The Moscow Times reported that 122-year-old Dzhukalayeva of Chechnya claimed to have been born in 1881. The claim is possible, but her death has not been reported since that time.[1]
  • Susie Brunson: There is an obituary of her in The Morning Star Newspaper[2], and The New York Times[3]. The NY Times says that her family claims that she was born in 1870 and lived to age 123. Her Social Security records indicate that she was born in 1888; making her only 106 when she died.[4]

Unverified claims

Standardized lists of incompletely verified longevity claims include the present and past range of individual claims not linked to longevity myths. Lower ages are more likely to be true and higher ages less likely.

The wide range of geographical distribution of extreme claims tends to be counterevidence against the "longevity village" myth, or the idea that extreme longevity tends to come from only certain specific regions. Rather, demographers believe that age claims are universal except where documented systems of recordkeeping are sufficient to separate the factual cases from the fictional. All notable claimants without records may be listed as incompletely verified. Claims may be true even though records do not exist or have not been found, so such lists include all such grey area cases.

Recent claims

These notable claims of age 113 or more, with full birthdate, were made or updated within the past two years, and have no publicly available early-life records to support them.

Name Sex Claimed birth Claimed living age as of 3 November Country of Residence Last Known Update
Maria Olívia da Silva[5] F 28 February 1880? 144 years, 249 days  Brazil 28 February 2009
Tuti Yusupova[6] F 1 July 1880? 144 years, 125 days  Uzbekistan 29 January 2009
Jose del Rosario Serrano[7] M 5 March 1881? 143 years, 243 days  Colombia 9 August 2008
Halim Solmaz[8] F 1 July 1884? 140 years, 125 days  Turkey 12 November 2009
Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodríguez[9][10] F 2 February 1885? 139 years, 275 days  Cuba 25 November 2009
Nuri Oztunc[11] M 8 July 1885? 139 years, 118 days  Turkey 3 July 2009
Sadiq Sawut[12] M 9 August 1887? 137 years, 86 days  China 26 October 2009
Joana Ribeiro da Silva[13] F 25 May 1888? 136 years, 162 days  Brazil 25 March 2008
Anna Ragel[14] F 4 July 1889? 135 years, 122 days  Belarus 5 July 2009
Magomed Labazanov[15] M 1 May 1890? 134 years, 186 days  Russia 12 August 2009
Khabibamal Khamitova[16] F 1 July 1890? 134 years, 125 days  Russia 9 July 2009
Arme Tsering[17] F 16 March 1891? 133 years, 232 days  China 16 March 2009
Ulya Margusheva[18] F 15 April 1891? 133 years, 202 days  Russia 17 April 2009
Lucas Melón Ayala[19] M 6 August 1891? 133 years, 89 days  Peru 3 June 2009
Swami Maharajah[20] M 13 April 1892? 132 years, 204 days  India 26 January 2009
Elizabeth Johnson[21][22] F 25 December 1892? 131 years, 314 days  USA 13 January 2009
Lu Zijian[23] M 15 October 1893 131 years, 19 days  China 5 November 2009
Doralina Borba[24] F 22 January 1894? 130 years, 286 days  Brazil 7 April 2009
Margarita Torres[25] F 15 April 1894? 130 years, 202 days  Peru 11 November 2009
Tǎnase Tǎnase[26][27] M 15 October 1894? 130 years, 19 days  Romania 21 May 2009
María Norberta Rivera-Ramírez[28] F 5 June 1895? 129 years, 151 days  Mexico 15 October 2008
Doña Tránsito Ayala[29][dead link][30][dead link] F 13 August 1895? 129 years, 82 days  Colombia 14 August 2008
Melinda Harris[31] F 4 May 1896? 128 years, 183 days  USA 2 May 2009
Hyun-pin Show[32] M 5 July 1896? 128 years, 121 days  Thailand 23 July 2009
Katerina Heyman[33] F 8 August 1896? 128 years, 87 days  South Africa 11 August 2009
Luang Phu Supha[34] M 17 September 1896? 128 years, 47 days  Thailand 17 September 2009

Limbo claims

These notable claims of age 114 or more, with full birthdate, were not made or updated within the past two years, and have no publicly available early-life records to support them.

Name Sex Claimed birth Claimed if living age as of 3 November Country of Residence Last Known Update
Nelson Schneider[35] M 1 January 1879? 145 years, 307 days  Brazil 21 February 2007
Cliceria Gómez-Morales[36] F 20 September 1885? 139 years, 44 days  Mexico 28 April 2007
Noninji Elizabeth Bete[37] F 21 May 1886? 138 years, 166 days  South Africa 4 December 2005
Rosalina Francisca da Silva[38] F 6 August 1886? 138 years, 89 days  Brazil 27 October 2007
Goshada Tsallaeva[39] F 15 November 1886? 137 years, 354 days  Russia 1 July 2006
Józef Piotrowski[40] M 7 September 1887? 137 years, 57 days  Poland 8 September 2005
Amelia Costa dos Santos[41] F 15 May 1888? 136 years, 172 days  Brazil 18 August 2007
LaJean Smith[42] F 15 June 1889? 135 years, 141 days  USA 23 June 2006
Marfa Salaikijskaja[43] F 10 September 1889? 135 years, 54 days  Lithuania 10 September 2004
Floripes Luzia Damasio[44] F 13 December 1889? 134 years, 326 days  Brazil 15 January 2005
Clara MacLeash[citation needed] F 1 January 1890? 134 years, 307 days  Jamaica January 2006
Pa Igboezu Asoegwu[45] M 20 April 1890? 134 years, 197 days  Nigeria 29 March 2006
Baji Safaorva[citation needed] F 3 July 1890? 134 years, 123 days  Azerbaijan 17 July 2006
Elias Athanasiades[citation needed] M 14 May 1891? 133 years, 173 days  Greece 20 November 2005
Sóstenes Martínez[46] M 21 May 1891? 133 years, 166 days  Mexico 23 May 2007
Aloyan Hube[47] F 27 August 1891? 133 years, 68 days  Armenia 1 October 2007
Ángel Alberto Rengifo Cerquera[48] M 31 December 1891? 132 years, 308 days  Colombia 22 August 2006
Ellen Spencer[49][dead link] F 3 January 1893? 131 years, 305 days  Jamaica 22 January 2006

Past claims

These notable claims of age 115–130, with full birthdate and deathdate, have no publicly available early-life records to support them. As with all such claims, lower ages are more likely to be true, higher ages less likely, and ages over 130 extremely unlikely (at trillions-to-one odds according to modern demographic data). Those over 130 are listed in the longevity myths article.

Name Sex Claimed birth Death Claimed age Country (birth/death, if different from each other)
Habib Miyan[50] M 20 May 1878? 19 August 2008 130 years, 91 days  India
Sahan Dosova[51] F 27 March 1879? 9 May 2009 130 years, 43 days  Kazakhstan
Maria Do Carmo Geronimo[52] F 5 March 1871? 14 June 2000 129 years, 101 days  Brazil
Mary Ewen[53] F 5 May 1878? 10 April 2007 128 years, 340 days  Jamaica
Cruz Hernández[52] F 3 May 1878? 8 March 2007 128 years, 309 days  El Salvador
Elizabeth Israel[52] F 27 January 1875? 14 October 2003 128 years, 260 days  Dominica
Swami Kalyan Dev[52] M 26 June 1876? 12 July 2004 128 years, 16 days  India
Tshinyelo Dora Muzila[54] F 4 May 1880? 14 January 2008 127 years, 255 days  South Africa
Benito Martínez Abrogán[55] M 19 June 1880? 11 October 2006 126 years, 114 days  Haiti/ Cuba
Juan Ramos[52][56] M 24 June 1880? 24 January 2006 125 years, 214 days  Cuba/ USA
Aberewa Grace[57] F 16 August 1878? 18 January 2004 125 years, 155 days  Ghana
Alberta Davis[52][58] F 24 December 1881? 27 January 2007 125 years, 34 days  USA
Anna Visser[52][59] F 25 December 1878? 8 January 2004 125 years, 14 days  Namibia
Augusta Watts[52] F 15 August 1876? 9 July 2001 124 years, 328 days  USA
Maria Etelvina dos Santos[52] F 15 July 1878? 8 March 2003 124 years, 236 days  Brazil
Hu Yeh-mei[60] F 10 February 1885? 24 August 2009 124 years, 195 days Taiwan region
Armando Frid[52][61] M 24 May 1866? 28 July 1990 124 years, 65 days  Argentina
Ana Martinha da Silva[52] F 25 August 1880 27 July 2004 123 years, 337 days  Brazil
Arthur Reed[52] M 28 June 1860? 15 April 1984 123 years, 292 days  USA
Hava Rexha[52] F 14 August 1880? 8 November 2003 123 years, 86 days  Albania
Shukhrat Aliyeva F 1 January 1887? 1 December 2009 122 years, 334 days  USA
Oberia Coffin[52] F 1 December 1883? 18 October 2006 122 years, 321 days  USA
Dora Jacobs[52] F 6 May 1880? 19 January 2003 122 years, 258 days  South Africa
Mamie Evans[52] F 2 July 1872? 15 January 1995 122 years, 197 days  USA
David Peterson[52] M 22 November 1850? 31 May 1973 122 years, 190 days  USA
Sarah Hoover[52] F 25 June 1874? 15 December 1996 122 years, 173 days  USA
Seher Bulut[62][63] F 18 November 1884? 4 April 2007 122 years, 137 days  Turkey
Lich Nguyen[52] M 4 December 1876? 15 December 1998 122 years, 11 days  Vietnam
 USA
William DuBerry[52] M 7 February 1870? 13 November 1991 121 years, 279 days  USA
Fred Greenwell[52] M 26 January 1880? 22 January 2001 120 years, 362 days  USA
Joseph Brunner[64] M 26 November 1706? 19 November 1827 120 years, 358 days  Germany
Mark Thrash[52] M 25 December 1822? 17 December 1943 120 years, 357 days  USA
Atidje Starkova[52] F 12 May 1875? 24 January 1996 120 years, 257 days  Bulgaria
Du Pinhua[65] F 22 April 1886? 11 December 2006 120 years, 233 days  China
Mary Thompson[52] F 27 March 1876? 3 August 1996 120 years, 129 days  USA
Ruperto Hernández[66] M 13 June 1887? 10 August 2007 120 years, 58 days  Nicaragua
Francisco Mateus de Santana[67] M 21 September 1889? 6 September 2009 119 years 350 days  Brazil
Li Cairong[52] F 12 November 1885? 9 May 2005 119 years, 178 days  China
Józef Buszyło[68][dead link] M 7 October 1887? 8 March 2007 119 years, 152 days  Poland
Ana María Pérez González[69] F 22 June 1890? 17 November 2009 119 years, 148 days  Mexico
Mary J. Thompson[52] F 2 August 1882? 8 October 2001 119 years, 67 days  USA
Hanna Barysevich[52] F 18 May 1888? 23 February 2007 118 years, 281 days  Belarus
Rose Peters[52] F 25 February 1883? 26 September 2001 118 years, 281 days  Dominica
Maikup Zhan[70] F 15 June 1890? 5 February 2009 118 years, 235 days  China
Yaso Kobayashi[52] F 2 March 1846? 29 May 1964 118 years, 88 days  Japan
Alberto Yoip[citation needed] M 12 May 1886? 23 July 2004 118 years, 72 days  Cuba
Varvara Semennikova[71] F 10 May 1890? 9 March 2008 117 years, 304 days  Russia
Dominga Pantoja Nique[72] F 11 May 1889? 14 February 2007 117 years, 279 days  Peru
Maria Andersson[52] F 24 December 1828? 24 August 1946 117 years, 243 days  Finland
Li Ada[52] F 11 April 1889? 24 September 2006 117 years, 166 days  China
Katie Bruce[73] F 11 March 1890? 16 July 2007 117 years, 127 days  USA
María Díaz Cortés[74][75] F 4 January 1892? c15 January 2009 117 years, c11 days  Spain
Jubee Nakamura[52] M 10 December 1852? 4 November 1969 116 years, 329 days  Japan
Agora Rafle[citation needed] F 13 March 1890? 9 January 2007? 116 years, 302 days  Romania
Ito Morimoto[76] F 15 August 1853? 7 June 1970 116 years, 296 days  Japan
Amanda Aguilar F 3 May 1890? 14 February 2007 116 years, 287 days  Nicaragua
Nils Öhrberg[77] M 10 January 1700? 12 October 1816 116 years, 276 days  Sweden
Anísio Rodrigues Alves[78][79] M 30 December 1892? 17 August 2009 116 years, 237 days  Brazil
Clementina Rodríguez Quiros[80] F 13 November 1891? 23 March 2008 116 years, 131 days  Panama
Minnie Lee Nave[52] F 15 August 1890? 21 November 2006 116 years, 98 days  USA
Richard Washington[81] M 13 April 1893? 7 July 2009 116 years, 85 days  USA
Paweł Parniak[52] M 27 February 1890? 27 March 2006 116 years, 28 days  Poland
Tránsita Santana Damil[52] F 15 August 1888? 3 June 2004 115 years, 293 days  Chile
Nancy Lawhead[52] F 12 March 1884? 1 September 1999 115 years, 173 days  USA
He Wenzhang[82] M 9 April 1894? 13 August 2009 115 years, 126 days  China
Catherine Singletary[52] F 16 September 1885? 12 January 2001 115 years, 118 days  USA
Ellen Carroll[52] F 20 October 1828? 8 December 1943 115 years, 49 days  Canada
Maria Strelnikova[83][84] F 15 March 1890? 3 May 2005 115 years, 49 days  Russia

Incomplete claims

These notable claims of age 115 or more, with incomplete birthdate or deathdate, have no publicly available early-life records to support them. Those aged over 130 are considered either discredited or simply not believable.

Name Sex Claimed birth Death or
(last update) 		Alleged age Country (birth/death, if different from each other)
Katrina Cuaresma Sapal[85][86] F 1875? 10 June 2004 129 years  Philippines
Watfa al-Ghanem[87][88] F 1880? Living (28 September 2009) 129 years  Syria
Leah Lesczynski[89] F 1768? 26 December 1892 124 years  USA
Zabani Khakimova[citation needed] F 1879? 2003 124 years  Russia
Zeyneb Mammadova[90] F 1886? September 2008 122 years  Azerbaijan
Mariam Amash[91] F 1888? Living (15 February 2008) 136 years
  Israel
Feime Hassanova[92] F 14 April 1879? fl. 2 October 1999 120 years +  Bulgaria
Sarah Efua Andrews[93] F January 1889? 22 May 2009 120 years  Ghana
Fulla Nayak[94] F 1886? November 2006 120 years  India
Wesukwa Binti Pembe[95] F 1889? Living (18 August 2009) 135 years  Tanzania
Gulsara Bekmuradova[96] F 1890? Living (25 March 2009) 134 years  Uzbekistan
Swami Bua[97][98] M 1890? Living (28 March 2009) 134 years  USA
 India
Maria Shakwei Chepkemoi[99] F 1885? August 2004 119 years  Kenya
Taejo of Goguryeo M 47? 165? 118 years  Korea
Anton Adner[100][101] M 1704/1705? 15 March 1822 117 years  Germany
Franz Josef Eder[102] M 1794? 5 May 1911 116 years  Germany
Maria Nakalema Namagembe[103] F 1894? Living (20 August 2009) 130 years  Uganda
Daniel Wanjau[104] M 1889? August 2004 115 years  Kenya

Withdrawn claims

These claims have been shown to be exaggerated.

  • Ida Stewart of Alexandria, Jamaica, allegedly born 5 November 1886, is now said to have been born 13 November 1896, age 127 years, 356 days.[105]
  • Rosa Brown of Pleasantville, New Jersey, allegedly born 15 March 1890, is now said to have been born in 1899, and died on 16 March 2009 aged 110; according to her Social Security records.[106]
  • Rosie Dollison of Whitehaven, Tennessee, allegedly born 10 June 1891, is now said to have been born in 1904, age 105.[107]
  • Micajah Weiss (born 3 June 1800?) was listed in the 26 September 1914 The New York Times obituary as a 114-year-old claimant to longevity, where it was stated he was New York's oldest person. He was a U.S. Civil War veteran.[108] Census data suggests he was born in 1810 or later.[109]
  • Sylvester M. Magee, allegedly 126, and Charlie Smith, allegedly 125, were featured by Time magazine in 1967.[110] Magee claimed a 29 May 1841 date of birth and Smith claimed an 1842 birth. Smith died in 1979, but his marriage certificate indicated he lived only to 105, and the 1900 census indicated he lived only to 100.
  • Mary Ramsey Wood of Hillsboro, Oregon (20 May 1787? – 1 January 1908), was allegedly 120. The only Mary Wood of Hillsboro in the 1880 and 1900 censuses was born in 1809 or 1811,[111] which yields an age of either 96 or 98 on Wood's deathdate.
  • William Coates (1889 or 1911 – 23 February 2004) was widely called the oldest man in the United States. The Washington Post stated that William Coates was aged only 18 in the 1930 Census; this suggested he was no older than 92.[112]
  • Annibal Camoux of France, allegedly born 1638, died in 1759 in Marseilles, allegedly aged 121. In 1957 the French historian Louis Thibaux discovered that Camoux had in reality been born in Nice in 1669, and was thus actually only 90 years old when he died.[113]
  • Noah Raby (1 April 1772? – 1 March 1904) was featured in The New York Times and the New York Herald; he claimed to have heard Washington speak at Norfolk and to have fought in the War of 1812. However, census data indicates that Noah Raby was only 81 years old at the time of his death. He is listed as 28 years old in the 1850 Census.[114]

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  8. ^ Report on Halim Solmaz at the claimed age of 125
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  16. ^ Report on Khabibamal Khamitova's claimed 119th birthday Template:Ru icon
  17. ^ Report on Arme Tsering's claimed 118th birthday
  18. ^ Report on Ulya Marguseva's claimed 119th birthday
  19. ^ Report on Lucas Melón Ayala's claimed 117th birthday Template:Es icon
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  34. ^ Report on Luang Phu Supha's claimed 113th birthday
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  42. ^ Report on LaJean Smith's claimed 117th birthday
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  44. ^ Report on Floripes Luzia Damasio's claimed 115th birthday
  45. ^ Report on Pa Igboezu Asoegwu's claimed 116th birthday
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  54. ^ Report on the death of Tshinyelo Dora Muzila
  55. ^ Report on the death of Benito Martínez
  56. ^ Report on Juan Ramos's claimed 120th birthday
  57. ^ Report on the death of Aberewa Grace
  58. ^ Report on the death of Alberta Davis
  59. ^ Report on the death of Anna Visser
  60. ^ Report on the death of Hu Yeh-mei
  61. ^ Report on the death of Armando Frid
  62. ^ Report on the death of Seher Bulut Template:Tr icon
  63. ^ Report on Seher Bulut's claimed 122nd birthday Template:Tr icon
  64. ^ Report on Joseph Brunner Template:De icon
  65. ^ Report on the death of Du Pinhua
  66. ^ Report on the death of Ruperto Hernández Template:Es icon
  67. ^ Report on the death of Francisco Mateus de Santana
  68. ^ Report on the death of Józef Buszyło
  69. ^ Report on the death of Ana María Pérez González Template:Es icon
  70. ^ Report on the death of Maikup Zhan Template:Cn icon
  71. ^ Report on the death of Varvara Semennikova
  72. ^ Report on the death of Dominga Pantoja Nique
  73. ^ Report on the death of Katie Bruce
  74. ^ Report on María Díaz Cortés's death Template:Es icon
  75. ^ Report on the death of María Díaz Cortés
  76. ^ Report on Ito Morimoto
  77. ^ Report on Nils Öhrberg
  78. ^ Report on the death of Anísio Rodrigues Alves Template:Pt icon
  79. ^ Report on Anísio Rodrigues Alves' claimed 116th birthday Template:Pt icon
  80. ^ Report on the death of Clementina Rodríguez Quiros Template:Sp icon
  81. ^ Report on the death of Richard Washington
  82. ^ Report on the death of He Wenzhang Template:Cn icon
  83. ^ Report on Maria Strelnikova's claimed 115th birthday
  84. ^ Report on the death of Maria Strelnikova Template:Ru icon
  85. ^ Report on Katrina Cuaresma Sapal at the claimed age of 124
  86. ^ Report on the death of Katrina Cuaresma Sapal
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  89. ^ Report on the death of Leah Lesczynski
  90. ^ Report on the death of Zeyneb Mammadova
  91. ^ Report on Miriam Amash at the claimed age of 120
  92. ^ Report on Feime Hassanova at the claimed age of 120 Template:Nl icon
  93. ^ Report on the death of Sarah Efua Andrews
  94. ^ Report on the death of Fulla Nayak
  95. ^ Report on Wesukwa Binti Pembe at the claimed age of 120
  96. ^ Report on Gulsara Bekmuradova's claimed 119th birthday
  97. ^ Report on Swami Bua at the claimed age of 119
  98. ^ Report on Swami Bua at the claimed age of 111
  99. ^ Report on the death of Maria Shakwei Chepkemoj
  100. ^ Report on Anton Adner Template:De icon
  101. ^ Another report on Anton Adner
  102. ^ Report on Franz Josef Eder Template:De icon
  103. ^ Report on Maria Nakalema at the claimed age of 115
  104. ^ Report on the death of Daniel Wanjau
  105. ^ "Miss Ida Not the World's Oldest, But Among Longest Living Jamaicans". Jamaica Information Service. 2009-02-21. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
  106. ^ Social Security Death Index SSN 151-16-8532
  107. ^ GRG: Listing of Incomplete, Exaggerated, or Fraudulent Cases
  108. ^ "Micajah Weiss dies at 114.; Oldest Man in New York, a Raftsman, Was Married Four Times". The New York Times. 1914-09-26. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
  109. ^ "Micajah Weiss/Wise: claimed 1800-1914 (114); evidence suggests 1811-". World's Oldest People. 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
  110. ^ "Gerontology: Secret of Long Life". Time Magazine. 1967-04-14. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
  111. ^ 1880 "United States Census Individual Record: Mary Wood". Family Search. Retrieved 2008-03-02. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  112. ^ Schwartzman, Paul (2004-03-03). "Census records cast doubt on whether man was 114". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2008-06-28. {{cite news}}: More than one of |author= and |last= specified (help)
  113. ^ L.-L. B. Petersen and B. Jeune. "Age Validation of Centenarians in the Luxdorph Gallery". Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  114. ^ "Uncle Noah Raby, Who Lives on a New-Jersey 'Poor Farm'". The New York Times. 1896-04-07. Retrieved 2007-10-31.
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