World's oldest people since 1955

The Gerontology Research Group and Guinness World Records keep track of who was the oldest verifiable person on Earth since 1955 (only six of whom were male), as well as the oldest man since 1973. This quiz is next to impossible.

Countries are as they were when these people were born

Blue box = the world's oldest person was male

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Last updated: April 14, 2020

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World's oldest living person
1842-1955	USA (b. UK)	Betsy Baker
1845-1956	USA (b. UK)	Jennie Howell
1849-1958	USA (b. Denmark)	Anne Marie Carstenson
1849-1958	USA	Nancy Ryan
1849-1959	Netherlands	Christina Karnebeek-Backs
1850-1959	Norway	Marie Olsen
1851-1964	USA	Mary Kelly
1855-1965	UK	Elizabeth Kensley
1855-1965	USA	William Fullingim
1856-1966	UK	Hannah Smith
1856-1968	UK	John Turner
1857-1968	South Africa	Johanna Booyson
1857-1969	Czechoslovakia	Marie Bernátková
1858-1970	UK	Ada Roe
1860-1973	Spain	Josefa Salas Mateo
1861-1973	UK	Alice Stevenson
1863-1973	UK	Elizabeth Watkins
1863-1975	Japan	Mito Umeta
1863-1976	Japan	Niwa Kawamoto
1866-1977	USA	Sophia DeMuth
1866-1978	France	Marie-Virginie Duhem
1867-1981	USA	Fannie Thomas
1869-1981	France	Augustine Teissier
1869-1982	USA	Nellie Spencer
1870-1983	USA	Emma Wilson
1870-1985	USA	Mathew Beard
1871-1986	USA (b. German Empire)	Augusta Holtz
1873-1987	USA	Mary McKinney
1873-1987	UK	Anna Eliza Williams
1873-1988	USA	Florence Knapp
1875-1997	France	Jeanne Calment
1880-1998	Canada	Marie-Louise Meilleur
1880-1999	USA	Sarah Knauss
1885-2000	UK	Eva Morris
1886-2001	France	Marie Brémont
1887-2002	USA	Maud Farris-Luse
1887-2002	USA (b. UK)	Grace Clawson
1888-2002	USA (b. Cape Verde)	Adelina Domingues
1889-2002	USA	Mae Harrington
1889-2003	Japan	Yukichi Chuganji
1889-2003	Japan	Mitoyo Kawate
1889-2004	USA (Puerto Rico)	Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan
1889-2006	Ecuador	María Capovilla
1890-2006	USA	Elizabeth Bolden
1891-2007	USA (Puerto Rico)	Emiliano Mercado del Toro
1892-2007	USA	Emma Tillman
1893-2007	Japan	Yone Minagawa
1893-2008	USA	Edna Parker
1893-2009	Portugal	Maria de Jesus
1894-2009	USA	Gertrude Baines
1895-2010	Japan	Kama Chinen
1896-2010	France (Saint Barthélemy)	Eugénie Blanchard
1896-2011	Brazil	Maria Gomes Valentim
1896-2012	USA	Besse Cooper
1897-2012	USA (b. Italy)	Dina Manfredini
1897-2013	Japan	Jiroemon Kimura
1898-2015	Japan	Misao Okawa
1898-2015	USA	Gertrude Weaver
1899-2015	USA	Jeralean Talley
1899-2016	USA	Susannah Mushatt Jones
1899-2017	Italy	Emma Morano
1900-2017	Jamaica	Violet Brown
1900-2018	Japan	Nabi Tajima
1901-2018	Japan	Chiyo Miyako
b. 1903	Japan	Kane Tanaka

World's oldest living man
1862-1973	(West) Germany	Friedrich Wedeking
1864-1974	UK	Frederick Butterfield
1866-1977	France	Jean Teillet
1867-1978	USA	Charlie Nelson
1870-1980	USA	Charlie Phillips
1870-1985	USA	Mathew Beard
1875-1986	USA	Joe Thomas
1875-1987	Norway	Herman Smith-Johannsen
1876-1988	USA	Alphaeus Cole
1877-1990	UK	John Evans
1879-1990	France	Henri Pérignon
1879-1991	USA	James Wiggins
1880-1993	USA	Frederick Frazier
1881-1994	Spain	Josep Armengol Jover
1882-1998	USA (b. Denmark)	Christian Mortensen
1884-1998	USA	Johnson Parks
1885-1998	USA	Walter Richardson
1886-1999	Japan	Denzo Ishizaki
1888-1999	Spain	Antonio Urrea Hernández
1888-2001	USA	John Painter
1889-2002	Italy	Antonio Todde
1889-2003	Japan	Yukichi Chuganji
1889-2004	Spain	Joan Riudavets Moll
1890-2004	USA	Fred Hale
1891-2007	USA (Puerto Rico)	Emiliano Mercado del Toro
1895-2009	Japan	Tomoji Tanabe
1896-2009	UK	Henry Allingham
1896-2011	USA	Walter Breuning
1897-2016	Japan	Jiroemon Kimura
1901-2013	USA (b. Spain)	Salustiano Sanchez Blazquez
1902-2014	Italy	Arturo Licata
1903-2014	USA (b. Russian Empire)	Alexander Imich
1903-2015	Japan	Sakari Momoi
1903-2016	Japan	Yasutaro Koide
1903-2017	Israel (b. Russian Empire)	Israel Kristal
1904-2018	Spain	Francisco Núñez Olivera
1905-2019	Japan	Masazō Nonaka
1905-2019	Germany	Gustav Gerneth
1907-2020	Japan	Chitetsu Watanabe
b. 1908	UK	Bob Weighton