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The following is the list of the 100 verified oldest men ever, arranged in descending order, based on each man's age in years and days. A year typically refers to a calendar year, the time between two dates with the same name. However, years may be of different lengths due to the presence or absence of a leap day within the year, or to the conversion of dates from one calendar to another. A supercentenarian is considered verified if his claim has been accepted by an international body that specifically engages in longevity research, such as the Gerontology Research Group or the Guinness World Records.

Number one on the list is Shigechiyo Izumi (29 June 1865? – 21 February 1986), from Japan, who officially lived to the age of 120 years 237 days?, but this is disputed.^[1] Number two on the list is Danish American Christian Mortensen, who lived to the age of 115 years 252 days, and represents the longest undisputed lifespan for a man.

This list is automatically updated to reflect the current date 6 August the age of people living, there are two living supercentenarians on the list. The oldest living man is American Walter Breuning (born 21 September 1896, aged 127 years, 320 days).

List

Rank	Name	Birth	Death	Age	Country
1	fuck you (disputed)	29 June 1865?	21 February 1986	120 years, 237 days?^[1]	Japan
2	Christian Mortensen	16 August 1882	25 April 1998	115 years, 252 days	Denmark United States
3	Emiliano Mercado del Toro	21 August 1891	24 January 2007	115 years, 156 days	Puerto Rico
4	Mathew Beard (disputed)	9 July 1870?	16 February 1985	114 years, 222 days?^[2]	United States
5	Yukichi Chuganji	23 March 1889	28 September 2003	114 years, 189 days	Japan
6	Joan Riudavets	15 December 1889	5 March 2004	114 years, 81 days	Spain
7	Fred Hale	1 December 1890	19 November 2004	113 years, 354 days	United States
8	Moses Hardy (rank disputed)	6 January 1893?	7 December 2006	113 years, 335 days?^[3]	United States
9	Johnson Parks	15 October 1884	17 July 1998	113 years, 275 days	United States
10	Tomoji Tanabe	18 September 1895	19 June 2009	113 years, 274 days	Japan
11	John Ingram McMorran	19 June 1889	24 February 2003	113 years, 250 days	United States
12	Frederick L. Frazier	27 January 1880	14 June 1993	113 years, 138 days	United States
13	Walter Breuning	21 September 1896	Living	127 years, 320 days	United States
14	Walter Richardson	7 November 1885	25 December 1998	113 years, 48 days	United States
15	Henry Allingham	6 June 1896	18 July 2009	113 years, 42 days	United Kingdom
16	Antonio Todde	22 January 1889	3 January 2002	112 years, 346 days	Italy
17	John Evans	19 August 1877	10 June 1990	112 years, 295 days	United Kingdom
18	Jiroemon Kimura	19 April 1897	Living	127 years, 109 days	Japan
19	George R. Francis	6 June 1896	27 December 2008	112 years, 204 days	United States
20	Denzo Ishizaki	20 October 1886	29 April 1999	112 years, 191 days	Japan
21	Josep Armengol Jover	23 July 1881	20 January 1994	112 years, 181 days	Spain
22	Giovanni Frau	29 December 1890	19 June 2003	112 years, 172 days	Italy
23	John Painter	20 September 1888	1 March 2001	112 years, 162 days	United States
24	Alphaeus Philemon Cole	12 July 1876	25 November 1988	112 years, 136 days	United States
25	Augusto Moreira	6 October 1896	13 February 2009	112 years, 130 days	Portugal
26	George Johnson	1 May 1894	30 August 2006	112 years, 121 days	United States
27	Gengan Tonaki	30 October 1884	24 January 1997	112 years, 86 days	Japan
28	Yuinosuke Hashimoto	27 April 1891	31 May 2003	112 years, 34 days	Japan
29	Kumekichi Tani	20 April 1891	12 May 2003	112 years, 22 days	Japan
30	James Wiggins	15 October 1879	16 October 1991	112 years, 1 day	United States
31	Thomas Peters (disputed)	6 April 1745?	26 March 1857	111 years, 354 days?^[4]	Netherlands
32	Walter H. Seward	13 October 1896	14 September 2008	111 years, 337 days	United States
33	Maurice Floquet	25 December 1894	10 November 2006	111 years, 320 days	France
34	John Mosely Turner	15 June 1856	21 March 1968	111 years, 280 days	United Kingdom
35	Hermann Dörnemann	27 May 1893	2 March 2005	111 years, 279 days	Germany
36	Antonio Urrea-Hernández	16 February 1888	15 November 1999	111 years, 272 days	Spain
37	Arthur Carter	5 October 1889	11 June 2001	111 years, 249 days	United States
38	Jan Machiel Reyskens	11 May 1878	7 January 1990	111 years, 241 days	Belgium Netherlands
39	Joe Thomas	1 May 1875	14 December 1986	111 years, 227 days	United States
40	James Zackry	15 August 1881	14 March 1993	111 years, 211 days	United States
41	Kiyoshi Igarashi	2 August 1897	23 February 2009	111 years, 205 days	Japan
42	Herman Smith-Johannsen	15 June 1875	5 January 1987	111 years, 204 days	Norway
43	James Henry Brett, Jr. (disputed)	25 July 1849?	10 February 1961	111 years, 200 days?^[5]	United States
44	Ernest Pusey	5 May 1895	19 November 2006	111 years, 198 days	United States
45	Thomas Nelson	8 July 1895	9 January 2007	111 years, 185 days	United States
46	Earl Brush	17 July 1893	10 January 2005	111 years, 177 days	United States
47	Antonio de Castro	6 January 1898	22 June 2009	111 years, 167 days	Portugal
48	Sukesaburo Nakanishi	15 March 1896	22 August 2007	111 years, 160 days	Japan
49	Luther Goding	1 July 1884	5 December 1995	111 years, 157 days	United States
50	Jan Pieter Bos	12 July 1891	15 December 2002	111 years, 156 days	Netherlands
51	Emile Fourcade	29 July 1884	29 December 1995	111 years, 153 days	French Algeria (now Algeria) France
52	Benjamin Holcomb	3 July 1889	2 December 2000	111 years, 152 days	United States
53	Aarne Arvonen	4 August 1897	1 January 2009	111 years, 150 days	Finland
54	George Frederick Ives	17 November 1881	12 April 1993	111 years, 146 days	United Kingdom Canada
55	Garland Adair	30 July 1898	11 December 2009	111 years, 134 days	United States
56	Anders Engberg	1 July 1892	6 November 2003	111 years, 128 days	Sweden
57	Jack Lockett	22 January 1891	25 May 2002	111 years, 123 days	Australia
58	Henry Hartmann	14 July 1894	10 November 2005	111 years, 119 days	United States
59	Daniel Guzmán-García	6 February 1897	21 May 2008	111 years, 105 days	Colombia
60	Sadayoshi Tanabe	20 October 1888	18 January 2000	111 years, 90 days	Japan
61	Henry Pfeiffer	22 March 1881	23 May 1992	111 years, 62 days	United States
62	Zachariah Blackistone	16 February 1871	18 April 1982	111 years, 61 days	United States
63	Antonio Baldo	6 July 1887	28 August 1998	111 years, 53 days	Italy
64	Edward Bernard	22 June 1889	11 August 2000	111 years, 50 days	United States
65	Norio Kawada	25 April 1892	6 June 2003	111 years, 42 days	Japan
66	Kama Nakasone	23 November 1891	1 January 2003	111 years, 39 days	Japan
67	Harry Patch	17 June 1898	25 July 2009	111 years, 38 days	United Kingdom
68	Peter Solum	3 May 1882	5 June 1993	111 years, 33 days	United States
69	Domenico Minervino	10 May 1880	21 May 1991	111 years, 11 days	Italy
70	Nijiro Tokuda	10 June 1895	12 June 2006	111 years, 2 days	Japan
71	Valentino Stella	2 January 1886	1 January 1997	110 years, 365 days	Italy
72	Giichi Okumura	18 October 1896	13 October 2007	110 years, 360 days	Japan
73	Charles Shebanek	9 September 1883	27 August 1994	110 years, 352 days	United States
74	Antonio Pierro	22 February 1896	8 February 2007	110 years, 351 days	Italy United States
75	Gregory Pandazes	15 January 1873	22 December 1983	110 years, 341 days	Greece United States
75	Eiju Tsuru	4 February 1879	11 January 1990	110 years, 341 days	Japan
77	Masatake Kinoshita	20 August 1897	17 July 2008	110 years, 332 days	Japan
78	Linus Reinhart	28 July 1892	14 June 2003	110 years, 321 days	United States
79	Lloyd Myers	20 March 1892	1 February 2003	110 years, 318 days	United States
80	Frank Ahmann	11 May 1889	22 March 2000	110 years, 316 days	United States
81	Leopold Vietoris	4 June 1891	9 April 2002	110 years, 309 days	Austria
82	Takashi Hattori	12 March 1898	12 January 2009	110 years, 306 days	Japan
83	Utaro Tamura	5 April 1892	? January 2003	110 years, c.285 days	Japan
84	Walter Wilcox	1 November 1872	11 August 1983	110 years, 283 days	United States
85	Galo Leoz-Ortin	22 April 1879	23 January 1990	110 years, 276 days	Spain
86	Hilliard Hudson	23 February 1899	6 November 2009	110 years, 256 days	United States
87	Henri Pérignon	14 October 1879	18 June 1990	110 years, 247 days	France
88	Gerald Gilman	30 April 1893	1 January 2004	110 years, 246 days	United States
89	Alexis Daigneau	4 August 1890	3 April 2001	110 years, 242 days	France
90	Aurelio Diaz	16 October 1878	13 June 1989	110 years, 240 days	Spain
91	Alton Gilbert	11 June 1878	21 January 1989	110 years, 224 days	United States
92	James Nash	31 July 1872	4 March 1983	110 years, 216 days	United States
93	Bernard Delhom	9 July 1885	7 February 1996	110 years, 213 days	France
94	Charles Young	28 December 1894	27 July 2005	110 years, 211 days	United States
95	Friedrich Wedeking	10 October 1862	5 May 1973	110 years, 207 days	Germany
96	Aimé Avignon	2 February 1897	23 August 2007	110 years, 202 days	France
97	Arno Wagner	4 June 1894	22 December 2004	110 years, 201 days	Germany
98	Chiake Nakamura	31 December 1889	7 July 2000	110 years, 189 days	Japan
99	Olav Hovatn	23 October 1892	26 April 2003	110 years, 185 days	Norway
100	Vincenzo Izzillo	29 July 1883	23 January 1994	110 years, 178 days	Italy United States

Addendum

Several claims are disputed; accordingly, an addendum of proven claims is included.

Rank	Name	Birth	Death	Age	Country
101	Lora David Trueblood	7 May 1887	24 October 1997	110 years, 170 days	United States
102	Joseph Athmann	23 March 1888	2 September 1998	110 years, 163 days	United States
103	Shozo Otani	5 March 1897	13 August 2007	110 years, 161 days	Japan
104	Salvatore Fiore	10 September 1888	11 February 1999	110 years, 154 days	Italy United States

References

^ ^a ^b Guinness accepted in 1978 the claim that Shigechiyo Izumi was born 29 June 1865, and from the 1980 edition considered him the oldest person. However, subsequent research by some Japanese scholars has cast doubt on his claim, as his birth certificate is believed to refer to that of his older brother who died young and whose name might have been reused as a necronym. There remains continued speculation that he may have only lived to the age of 105.[1] Cite error: The named reference "Izumi" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
^ The USA Social Security Administration recognizes Beard's claim, based on census information, but that census match is not universally accepted.
^ Moses Hardy may have been born on 6 January 1894, and therefore may have been 112 years 335 days old at death.[2]
^ The Thomas Peters claim was accepted by Guinness but documentation, if it ever existed, has been lost. The claim is therefore subject to doubt.GRG list with Peters in italics, indicating it is a questionable case.
^ The Gerontology Research Group labels James Henry Brett, Jr. claim a "questionable case"[3] because of census data. "The issue of positive identification remains unresolved.[4]

[Izumi-1] Guinness accepted in 1978 the claim that Shigechiyo Izumi was born 29 June 1865, and from the 1980 edition considered him the oldest person. However, subsequent research by some Japanese scholars has cast doubt on his claim, as his birth certificate is believed to refer to that of his older brother who died young and whose name might have been reused as a necronym. There remains continued speculation that he may have only lived to the age of 105.[1] Cite error: The named reference "Izumi" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).

[Beard-2] The USA Social Security Administration recognizes Beard's claim, based on census information, but that census match is not universally accepted.

[Hardy-3] Moses Hardy may have been born on 6 January 1894, and therefore may have been 112 years 335 days old at death.[2]

[Peters-4] The Thomas Peters claim was accepted by Guinness but documentation, if it ever existed, has been lost. The claim is therefore subject to doubt.GRG list with Peters in italics, indicating it is a questionable case.

[Brett-5] The Gerontology Research Group labels James Henry Brett, Jr. claim a "questionable case"[3] because of census data. "The issue of positive identification remains unresolved.[4]

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