That honour goes to Geert Adriaans Boomgaard. He was born in the Netherlands on September 21, 1788 and died on February 3, 1899, at the age of 110. Boomgaard, who served in the 33rd Light Infantry Regiment of Napoleon's Grande Armée, is considered to be the first validated case of a supercentenarian.
So defined, our best guess is that the emergence of centenarians occurred once world population rose to about 100 million around 2500 B.C. at the time of the first great civilizations of the ancient world.
life expectancy in the mid-Victorian period was not markedly different from what it is today”. A five-year-old girl would live to 73; a boy, to 75. Not only are these numbers comparable to our own, they may be even better.
The oldest verified man ever is Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013) of Japan, who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days. The oldest known living person is Lucile Randon of France, aged 118 years, 334 days. The oldest known living man is Juan Vicente Pérez Mora, of Venezuela, aged 113 years, 229 days.
According to one tradition, Epimenides of Crete (7th, 6th centuries BC) lived nearly 300 years.
In the last 100 years, the life expectancy of Australians has increased by 20 years. Now Australia has 3700 people aged over 100.
Born on an Alabama farm in July 1899, Susannah Mushatt Jones was also the last living American born in the 19th Century. She lived in three centuries, through two world wars and 20 US presidencies.
Jan. 5, 2023, at 12:21 p.m. LAKE CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa woman who was believed to be the oldest living person in the U.S. has died at the age of 115. Bessie Laurena Hendricks, of Lake City, died Tuesday at the Shady Oaks Care Center, according to Lampe & Powers Funeral Home in Lake City.
Ancient Through Pre-Industrial Times
Unhygienic living conditions and little access to effective medical care meant life expectancy was likely limited to about 35 years of age. That's life expectancy at birth, a figure dramatically influenced by infant mortality—pegged at the time as high as 30%.
Life Expectancy Was Shorter
In the United States, the life expectancy for men in 1920 was around 53.6 years. For women, it was 54.6 years. If you compare that number to today's average life expectancy of 78.93 years, you can see just how much better we are doing!
By 2050, we could all be living to 120, but how? As hard as it is to believe, just 150 years ago the average lifespan was 40 years. Yes, what we'd consider mid-life today was a full innings for our great-great-grandparents.
An ancient leg bone found near the famed skull of a human ancestor is providing new evidence that our lineage may have been walking upright 7 million years ago.
Modern humans originated in Africa within the past 200,000 years and evolved from their most likely recent common ancestor, Homo erectus, which means 'upright man' in Latin. Homo erectus is an extinct species of human that lived between 1.9 million and 135,000 years ago.
The more than 80 skeletons found in the area show the approximate average lifespan of the people living there then was between 25 and 30 years.
Fun fact: The oldest person ever lived to 122 years old
Jeanne Louise Calment of France was born on Feb. 21, 1875, around 14 years before the Eiffel Tower was constructed and some 15 years before the dawn of cinema.
Saparman Sodimejo, known more commonly as Mbah Gotho (reportedly born 31 December 1870 – 30 April 2017) was an Indonesian man apparently verified by the Indonesian Government to have lived over 140 years with the only known proof being an issued ID card.
Only 2 in 100,000 women live to 110; for men, the chances of becoming a supercentenarian are 2 in 1,000,000. At age 105, according to the new study, the odds of surviving to your 106th birthday are in the ballpark of 50 percent.
Born about a month before 1900 began and when England's Queen Victoria was still on the throne, Emma Morano is now the oldest living person. Incredibly, she still lives on her own in northern Italy.
STAMFORD -- Ten years ago, at 10:21 p.m. on New Year's Eve in 1999, Keisha Nielsen gave birth to the last Stamford baby of the century. Destiny Day Nielsen was delivered and wrapped in a millennium blanket less than two hours before the ball dropped and the new decade began.
The life-span of Jeanne Calment, who died in Arles, France, on 4 August 1997, at the age of 122 years and 164 days, is the longest ever recorded in a human being, exceeding the 120 years generally acknowledged as the ultimate limit.
Humans' life expectancy (average) is 70-85 years. However, the oldest verified person (Jeanne Clement, 1875-1997) lived up to 122 years. As a person ages, the telomeres (chromosome ends) tend to become shorter in every consecutive cycle of replication. Also, bones start getting weaker by reducing in size and density.
About one in every 5,000 people in the United States is a centenarian—someone who's 100 or more years old—and about 85 percent of them are women. As the New England Centenarian Study has shown, centenarians age slowly, delaying age-related diseases to much later in life.
The oldest adults had other qualities in common as well, including positivity, a strong work ethic and close bonds with family, religion and the countryside. Most of the older adults in the study were still active, working regularly in their homes and on their land.