Jeanne Louise Calment, the world's longest living person (who died at the age of 122) was born in Arles, France on February 21, 1875 and died on August 4, 1997 in a nursing home in Arles. A Japanese woman officially certified as the world's oldest person has died aged 119.
According to one tradition, Epimenides of Crete (7th, 6th centuries BC) lived nearly 300 years.
The oldest person alive is named Lucile Randon. As of April 25, 2022, Guinness World Records reported her age to be 118 years and 73 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. The 100 oldest women have, on average, lived several years longer than the 100 oldest men.
The oldest person to have ever lived was Frenchwoman Jeanne Louise Calment who lived for 122 years and 164 days. Calment, who smoked until she was 117 and ate large amounts of chocolate every week, was born 21 February 1875 and died 4 August 1997.
On April 10 Tanaka became the second old person to have ever lived, surpassing U.S. citizen Sarah Knauss's final age of 119 years and 97 days. The oldest verified person to have lived is Jeanne Calment of France, who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days. Calment died in 1997.
He had the longest lifespan of all those given in the Bible, not dying, but taken to heaven at the age of 969. According to the Book of Genesis, Methuselah was the son of Enoch, the father of Lamech, and the grandfather of Noah.
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.
As of 4 January 2023, the only living people with such an age are Lucile Randon, Maria Branyas Morera and Fusa Tatsumi. Only Jeanne Calment from France has been validated to have reached 120.
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.
The oldest man living in the UK shares his secrets to longevity. 110 year old, John Alfred Tinniswood, has shared pearls of wisdom, in which he tells what helped him to live this long.
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.
The oldest known age ever attained was by Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who died in 1997 at the age of 122. Ms. Calment is also the only documented case of a person living past 120, which many scientists had pegged as the upper limit of the human lifespan.
Lifespan refers to the maximum number of years an individual can live, making lifespan unique to everyone. The longest recorded lifespan was Jeanne Calment who lived for 122 years and 5 months, making the maximum possible human lifespan 122 years and 5 months – that is, until someone outlives Calment.
Some scientists believe that within the next few decades, it could be possible for humans to live 1,000 years or more. Normally, as time passes, our cells undergo changes: Our DNA mutates, cells stop dividing, and harmful junk—by-products of cellular activity—builds up. All these processes together cause us to age.
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.
What are their tips for longevity? Here are mini-biographies of the five people on Earth who have witnessed three centuries. The oldest person in the world hails from Japan, noted for its abundance of people who live beyond 100. And Misao Okawa is the oldest Japanese person ever.
After all, they disobeyed God's command to not eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. God is the One who decides who does or does not enter heaven. There's no place in the Bible that says they were saved. But there is no place in the Bible that indicates the couple was lost, either.
Adam's age at death is given as 930 years.