Jeanne Calment, the world's oldest verified person, lived to the age of 122 years, 164 days. These are lists of the 100 known verified oldest women and men sorted in descending order by age in years and days.

Dec 5, 2023 · 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. However, there is one man who was once thought – and still is by some – to have been several decades older than both Jiroemon and Jeanne.

Jeanne Calment (here depicted at age 20 in 1895) holds the record for the longest documented lifespan with 122 years and 164 days. This is a list of tables of the oldest people in the world in ordinal ranks.

Jeanne Louise Calment (French: [ʒan lwiz kalmɑ̃] ⓘ; 21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) was a French supercentenarian and, with a documented lifespan of 122 years and 164 days, the oldest person ever whose age has been verified. [1]

Dec 5, 2023 · From 122-year-old Jeanne Calment of France to 116-year-old María Branyas Morera of Spain, meet the longest-living people ever and the world's oldest person alive right now. Learn their surprising secrets to living a long life.

The greatest fully authenticated age to which any human has ever lived is 122 years 164 days by Jeanne Louise Calment (France). Born on 21 February 1875 to Nicolas (1837 - 1931) and Marguerite (neé Gilles 1838 - 1924), Jeanne died at a nursing home in …

Today, the oldest person alive (as of December 2024), is Japan’s Tomiko Itooka. She is a sprightly 116 years, an age well beyond the average life expectancy of a human. In the UK, …

Jeanne Calment holds the verified world record as the oldest person in human history. Born in Arles, France in 1875, she is the only human to verifiably surpass 120 years. Calment lived independently until she was nearly 110 years old and famously met Vincent Van Gogh as a …

Jiroemon Kimura holds the verified global record as the oldest man in human history.Kimura was the world’s oldest person for the final six months of his life. Kimura is the only man to verifiably reach the age of 116 and the eighth-oldest Japanese person ever.. Born into the Miyake family of farmers, Kimura changed his last name upon marriage because his wife’s family did not have …

Oct 1, 2020 · The oldest person to ever live and the oldest person ever (female) was Jeanne Louise Calment (b. 21 February 1875) from Arles, France who died at the age of 122 years and 164 days old. When asked on her 120 th birthday what she expected from the future, she replied: “I expect a short one.”

Mar 13, 2025 · What is the Oldest a Human Has Ever Lived? The oldest human lifespan ever independently verified belongs to Jeanne Louise Calment of France, who lived to the remarkable age of 122 years and 164 days. Born on February 21, 1875, she passed away on August 4, 1997.

These are lists of the 100 known verified oldest women and men sorted in descending order by age in years and days. Jeanne Calment, the world's oldest verified person, lived to the age of 122 years, 164 days.

Oct 19, 2023 · In January 2023, at 115 years old, Guinness World Records dubbed María Branya Morera the "oldest person living." She is a supercentenarian born on March 4, 1907, in San Francisco, California. Her parents immigrated from Spain to the United States one year before her birth. And when she was 8, the family moved to Catalonia.

Jan 10, 2024 · Who is the Oldest Person Ever? Jeanne Louise Calment is both the oldest human in history and the oldest woman in history. She lived to 122 years and 164 days, from 1875 to 1997. Currently, Calment is the only verified person to have lived beyond 120 years of age.

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]

Since the death of 116-year-old Tomiko Itooka of Japan on 29 December 2024, Inah Canabarro Lucas (born 8 June 1908) of Brazil is the oldest living person whose age is validated.

Apr 25, 2017 · Jeanne Calment of France was the oldest well-document person ever known. Emma Morano is the only person on the list still living as of July of 2016.

Jeanne Calment secured the record for world's oldest person at the age of 112 years 324 days; as well as becoming the oldest person ever, she holds the record for the longest period as the world's oldest person, reigning for 9 years 205 days.

Jan 16, 2024 · Jeanne Calment is recognised as the oldest person in recorded history. She lived for 122 years and 164 days. Calment’s longevity has sparked interest and research into the factors contributing to a long life.

Mar 24, 2025 · Lindsey Vonn becomes the oldest woman to podium at World Cup, placing second in the Super-G race at the Audi FIS Ski World Cup finals in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Sunday, March 23.

Dec 5, 2023 · From 122-year-old Jeanne Calment of France to 116-year-old María Branyas Morera of Spain, meet the longest-living people ever and the world's oldest person alive right now.

Mar 21, 2025 · Gut health study of world’s oldest person reveals key to ageing well. Maria Branyas Morera, who died last year aged 117, had extremely youthful gut health . Vishwam Sankaran.

Mar 13, 2025 · Learn more about Homo affinis erectus, Western Europe’s oldest human ancestor. By Monica Cull. Mar 13, 2025 9:15 PM Mar 13, 2025 9:13 PM. Original fossil (ATE7-1) alongside the mirrored right side by means of virtual 3D imaging techniques of the face of a hominin assigned to Homo aff. erectus found in level the TE7 of Sima del Elefante site ...

Feb 21, 2024 · Jeanne, born in Arles, France, on 21 February 1875 (14 years before the Eiffel Tower was built), lived on to become the oldest person ever verified, reaching the age of 122 years 164 days when she passed away on 4 August 1997.

Mar 14, 2025 · In 2007, in the Sima del Elefante (Pit of the Elephant), a site no more than 300 metres from the Gran Dolina, the oldest human in Europe was found once again. This time it was a human jawbone ...

Mar 18, 2025 · Mungo Man is the oldest skeleton ever found in Australia at approximately 42 thousand years old — older than the pyramids in Egypt — and some of the earliest human remains discovered anywhere ...

Toggle Oldest ever subsection. 1.1 Territorial and overseas regions recordholders. 2 Oldest living by country. Toggle Oldest living by country subsection. ... so records establishing human longevity are necessarily fragmentary. The earliest comprehensive recordkeeping systems arose in Western Europe. For example, the United Kingdom organized a ...

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