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Dutch supercentenarians (people who have attained the age of at least 110 years 0 days) include:
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[edit] Thomas Peters
Thomas Peters (Leeuwarden, April 6, 1745? - Arnhem, March 26, 1857) was a supercentenarian from the Netherlands. He is the earliest recorded one accepted by Guinness World Records. Originally in a footnote, the Peters case was later promoted although subsequent questions were raised about documentation. Indeed, it appears that if the documentation ever existed, it has been lost. Thus, on paper Thomas Peters lived to be 111 years and 354 days, but scientifically the lack of reproducible evidence makes this case subject to doubt.[1]
[edit] Geert Adriaans Boomgaard
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Geert Adriaans Boomgaard' (September 21, 1788 - February 3, 1899) is accepted by most demographic scholars as the first validated supercentenarian case on record.[citation needed] However, some may view him as the second internationally recognized supercentenarian in the world after the meanwhile disputed case of his fellow countryman Thomas Peters (1745 - 1857) was grandfathered into the Guinness Book main tables (from the footnotes) in the early 1990s.[citation needed]
Little is known about Geert Adriaans Boomgaard's life. He was born and died in Groningen, the Netherlands. His father was captain on a boat and civil records say that Geert did the same work as his father. Other sources say that he served as a soldier in the army of Napoleon.[citation needed]
He married on March 4, 1818 to Stijntje Bus and remarried after her death on March 17, 1831 to Grietje Abels Jonker.[citation needed]
Boomgaard lived to be 110 years and 135 days eventually.[citation needed]
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Research on Geert Adriaans Boomgaard was published in three articles by E. J. Heeres in the genealogical periodical Gruoninga in 1976, 1977 and 1978. The website http://www.sthelene.org, which is dedicated to the rebuilding of the lost archives on the Médaille de Sainte-Hélène, shows his photograph, his (presumed) personal Sainte-Hélènemedal, and a certificate which states that "Adriaans, Gerrit, à Groningue, Pays-Bas, received this medal" on behalf of his active military service during the reign of Napoleon I. The certificate is registered at la Grande Chancellerie No. 1871, and bears the stamped signature of the Duc de Plaisance Général Anne-Charles Lebrun, Grand Chancelier 1853-1859.
[edit] Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper
Hendrikje "Henny" van Andel-Schipper [hɛndrikjɛ van andɛl ʃxipɛr] (Kloosterveen, June 29, 1890 - Hoogeveen, August 30, 2005) was the oldest person ever in the history of the Netherlands.
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This is an incomplete list of British supercentenarians (people who have attained the age of at least 110 years 0 days), ordered by date of birth.
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[edit] Margaret Ann Neve
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Margaret Ann Harvey Neve (18 May 1792 – 4 April 1903) of Guernsey was the first recorded female supercentenarian, and the first of either gender in the 20th century. She was the oldest person in the world at the time of her death (aged 110 years and 321 days) and also the oldest person ever at that point in time, if we discount the disputed case of Thomas Peters. Either way, she was surpassed by Louisa Thiers in 1925, but she is still the only ever supercentenarian from the Channel Islands and one of the few recorded persons who lived in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
[edit] John Mosely Turner
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John Mosely Turner (June 15, 1856 – March 21, 1968) from Mitcham in the UK was a supercentenarian and the world's oldest person for the last two years of his life. He was first listed in the 1964 edition of the Guinness Book of Records as Britain's oldest man, and was in fact the oldest man in the world. He surpassed Geert Adriaans Boomgaard and Demetrius Philipovitch in 1967, and the disputed case of James Henry Brett, Jr. in 1968, to become the oldest man ever, unless Thomas Peters is considered validated. Turner's record was allegedly broken by Shigechiyo Izumi in 1977 and Mathew Beard in 1982, but these cases are also considered circumspect, and so it may have been Alphaeus Philemon Cole who surpassed him, as late as 1988.
[edit] Hannah Smith
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Hannah Smith (Salford, England, January 7, 1856 - Sheffield, England, January 10, 1966) was a British supercentenarian and oldest recognised living person in the world when she died at 110 years and 3 days. She was listed in the 1967 Guinness Book of Records.
[edit] Ada Roe
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Ada Giddings Roe (Islington, England, February 6, 1858 - Lowestoft, England, January 11, 1970) was a British supercentenarian and the oldest recognized living person in the world between around October 1968 and her death aged almost 112. She was the last documented person born in the 1850s.
[edit] Alice Stevenson
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Alice Stevenson (Piccadilly, England, July 10, 1861 - Sutton, England, August 18, 1973) was a British supercentenarian. She was the oldest recognised living person in the world between February 27, 1973 and her death at age 112.
[edit] Anna Eliza Williams
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Anna Eliza Davies Williams (2 June 1873 – 27 December 1987) was a supercentenarian born in Gloucestershire, England and dying in Swansea, Wales, aged 114. She broke the UK longevity record in 1985. In 1987, Williams became the oldest undisputed person to date when she reached age 113 years 284 days. In June the same year, she reached age 114, becoming the first undisputed person to do so. Her age was provably surpassed in 1989 by Jeanne Calment. Her United Kingdom record of 114 years and 208 days was broken by Charlotte Hughes in 1992, who still holds that particular record.
[edit] Kate Begbie
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Kate Begbie (January 9, 1877 - September 5, 1988) of Scotland was the oldest person in the United Kingdom until her death at 111 years and 240 days.
[edit] Charlotte Hughes
Charlotte Marion Milburn Hughes (1 August 1877[1] – 17 March 1993[citation needed]) is the longest-lived person ever documented in the United Kingdom, despite legendary claims such as that of Thomas Parr.[citation needed] She was a schoolteacher, but retired and married when she was 63, over fifty years before her death. Her husband died in 1980, aged 103.[1]
She remained fit into extreme old age and achieved public recognition for her longevity, including tea with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whom she admonished against cuddling up to her, as Hughes was a Labour supporter. Hughes told Thatcher that she "Supported Labour". However, she described the Prime Minister as "personally a very nice woman". When she turned 110, she flew on the Concorde to New York, one of only two supercentenarian air passengers ever recorded.[1]
She became the oldest person in the United Kingdom when Scotland's Kate Begbie died in 1988, and broke the national longevity record, held until then by Anna Eliza Williams, in early 1992.[citation needed] Several British women including Eva Morris (who died at almost 115), the only British world's-oldest since Williams, have reached 114 since, and one, Annie Jennings (1884-1999), barely reached 115, but the record set by Hughes still stands.
She was the last surviving person documented as born in 1877.[citation needed]
[edit] Lucy Askew
Lucy Jane Askew (8 September 1883 – 9 December 1997) was an English supercentenarian and the oldest in her country at the time of her death at the age of 114 years and 92 days. Askew was born and died in Loughton. She had five other siblings, all of whom she outlived, though three of them also lived past 100. Askew was always in good health, and only moved into a nursing home when she was 106. She even sailed through a leg operation at 108, and was the last person doucmented to have been born in 1883.[2]
[edit] Annie Jennings
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Annie Thomas Jennings (12 November 1884 – 20 November 1999) was a supercentenarian from the UK and the world's second-oldest person, after American Sarah Knauss, at her death aged 115. She became the oldest person in the UK following the passing of Lucy Jane Askew in 1997. Jennings held the title for about two years and was succeeded as the oldest person in the UK by Eva Morris. A teacher who never married, she is second only to Charlotte Hughes on the UK's all time list, and 23rd in the world of the oldest ever.
She was the last surviving person documented as born in 1884.
[edit] Eva Morris
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Eva Sharpe Morris (8 November 1885 – 2 November 2000) was the oldest recognized person in the world from December 1999 until her death. She was a native of Stone, Staffordshire, England.
Eva had become the oldest person in the UK following the passing of Annie Jennings (12 November 1884 - 20 November 1999), who died only eight days after turning 115. Eva, for her part, died just six days short of her 115th birthday.
She was the last surviving person documented as born in 1885.
[edit] Florrie Baldwin
Florence Emily 'Florrie' Baldwin (born 1 March 1896) is a supercentenarian and, at 112 years, 70 days, believed to be the oldest person in the United Kingdom following the death on 9 February 2007 of Aida Mason, who was also 111.[3] Born in Hunslet, she married engineer Clifford Baldwin in 1919. After his death in 1973, she lived alone until she was 105, when she moved to Radcliffe Gardens in Leeds.[3] She credits her longevity to eating an egg sandwich every day.[citation needed]
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- ^ a b c "On this day, 1 August 1989: Britain's oldest person turns 112", BBC News. Retrieved on 2007-11-19.
- ^ "Britain's oldest woman dies at 114", BBC News, 10 December 2007. Retrieved on 2007-11-19.
- ^ a b {{cite news |url=http://www.leedstoday.net/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=39&ArticleID=1416391 |title=110 years old – and still going strong.. |author=Katie Baldwin |date= |work=Yorkshire Evening Post |date=1 April [[2006] |accessdate=2007-11-19}}
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American supercentenarians (people who have attained the age of at least 110 years 0 days) include:
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[edit] Florence Knapp
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Florence Knapp (October 10, 1873 - January 11, 1988) was, for the last two weeks of her life, recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest person in the world.
Born in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, she lived in nearby Montgomery Square much of her life and came from a large and long-lived family, eight of her siblings dying in their 80s and 90s and one sister reaching 108.
By October 1987, when she was honored by the Pennsylvania legislature, she was recognized by Guinness as the oldest person in the United States, and the death of Anna Eliza Williams that December made her oldest authenticated person in the world. Her death shortly thereafter meant that she never appeared in a Guinness Book as oldest living person.
Her death caused some confusion as to who her successor was, with Guinness recognition and press publicity alighting first on Orpha Nusbaum (August 1875 - March 1988), who died before the 1989 edition's deadline, then Birdie May Vogt (August 1876 - July 1989), who appeared in the 1989 edition's main text, then Jeanne Calment, mentioned in the addenda section, and finally in November 1988 on Carrie C. White, whose claim to birth in November 1874 was accepted. However, with recent census research calling White's authentication into question, Jeanne Calment may very well have been Florence Knapp's actual immediate successor.
[edit] Clara Huhn
Clara Herling Huhn (January 28, 1887 – December 20, 2000) was an American homemaker and supercentenarian. Born near Clarkson, Nebraska, she lived near Schuyler for most of her life. She remained active, healthy and independent until the last few months of her life, and even answered an interview right before her 113th birthday. At age 113 years 327 days, she is the oldest person born in Nebraska, but she was not the oldest to die in that particular state, since she died in La Mesa, California. That title belongs to Helen Stetter, who died on June 1, 2007 at age 113 years and 195 days.[1]
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[edit] Jean Teillet
Jean Teillet (November 6, 1866 – March 17, 1977) was a French supercentenarian from Issy-les-Moulineaux. When he died, age 110 years and 131 days, he was the oldest man in France[1] and could have been the oldest man on the planet (the case of Japanese man Shigechiyo Izumi remains doubtful).[citation needed]
[edit] Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Louise Calment (IPA: [ʒan lwiːz kal'mɑ̃]; February 21, 1875 – August 4, 1997) reached the longest confirmed lifespan in history at 122 years and 164 days (44,724 days in total).
[edit] Henri Pérignon
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Henri Pérignon (Cabourg, France, October 14, 1879 – June 18, 1990) became the oldest man in the world after the death of John Evans. He held this title for only eight days.
[edit] Marie Brémont
Marie Marthe Augustine Mesange Lemaitre Brémont (April 25, 1886 – June 6, 2001) was a French supercentenarian, the the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 to June 2001 and the second French woman to hold the title, after Jeanne Calment.
She was born in Noëllet, and her first husband, railroad worker Constant Lemaitre, was killed in the First World War. She married again to a taxi driver, Florentin Brémont, who died in 1967. Over the course of her life, she worked in a pharmaceutical factory, as a nanny and as a seamstress. At 103, she was hit by a car and broke her arm. She died at her retirement home at age 115 and 42 days in Candé, Maine-et-Loire. She had no children. She was the last documented surviving person born in 1886.[2]
[edit] Germaine Haye
Germaine Germain Haye (October 10, 1888 – April 18, 2002) was a supercentenarian and France's oldest living person[3] for about a year, following the passing of 115-year-old Marie Brémont on June 6, 2001 until her own death at age 113 years 190 days, when she ranked as one of the 100 oldest persons of all time.
[edit] Camille Loiseau
Camille Loiseau (February 13, 1892 – August 12, 2006) was the oldest living person in France for more than a year, until her death at age 114. Loiseau was ranked fifth in the world in the 2007 edition of Guinness World Records. She achieved the position of France's oldest woman, known in France as the Doyenne de France, on the death of Anne Primout on 26 March 2005, who also died at age 114.
She was the oldest verified person living in Europe since the 28 December 2005 death of again 114-year-old Italian Virginia Dighero-Zolezzi, and became the fifth oldest verified living person in the world on the death of 115-year-old American Susie Gibson on 16 February 2006. Madame Loiseau was succeeded as doyenne of France by Marie-Simone Capony, aged 112 at the time, though the title was first given to fellow 112-year-old Marie Mornet Robin who lived in the western town of Poitou-Charentes, but was three weeks younger than her.[4]
The French longevity recordholder, also the oldest verified person in history, is Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122.
Following the January 28, 2007 death of 114-year-old American Emma Tillman, Camille Loiseau was confirmed as the oldest verified person from the year 1892 (in other words, although born in the same year, the ten+ months between their births was longer than the five months between their deaths, and thus Tillman never outaged Loiseau).
She was born in Paris and never moved out of the city until her hospitalization in 1998 due to a fall. She was the youngest of nine children, fours boys and five girls. On August 13, 1910 she married René Frédéric Chadal, although their marriage lasted only 15 days.[5] As is common in France, Camille Loiseau chose not to use her husband's last name.
She had celebrated her last birthday "with a little Champagne", and was known right to the end of her life for her humour and flirtatiousness. She died in the Hôpital Paul-Brousse in Villejuif.[citation needed]
[edit] Lucie Péré-Pucheu
'Anne' Lucie Léonie Péré-Pucheu (August 13, 1893 - April 6, 2006), was the vice-doyenne of France and by a quirk of fate, also ranked as the second-oldest person in Western Europe when she died at 112 years and 236 days old. Anne was more than two years older than Germany's oldest person and well ahead of the UK's oldest person, born in 1895. She was a month older than the oldest persons in Portugal and Italy, and more than a year ahead of Spain's oldest-known person. Only fellow Frenchwoman and Parisian, Camille Loiseau, 114, ranked higher among verified living European supercentenarians. Anne lived in southwest France.[6][7]
[edit] Marie Mornet Robin
Marie Elise Mornet Robin (Lessart, April 4, 1894 - L'Isle Jourdain, January 5, 2007) was a French supercentenarian and the second-oldest person in France, very close behind Marie-Simone Capony, when she died at age 112 years and 276 days. At the time of her passing she also ranked third-oldest in Western Europe and 13th-oldest in the world.[8]
[edit] Maurice Floquet
Maurice Noël Floquet (Poissons, December 25, 1894 - Montauroux, November 10, 2006) was France's oldest man on record and was one of the last surviving French veterans of World War I.
[edit] Aimé Avignon
Aimé Avignon (February 2, 1897 – August 23, 2007) was the oldest living man in France, at 110 years of age, from the death of 111-year-old Maurice Floquet on November 10, 2006 until his own death over nine months later. He also became the seventh French man to become a supercentenarian. He was the eighth-oldest man in the world, and the third-oldest in Europe. He never fought in the First World War, however, so he was not a poilu. Louis de Cazenave is the oldest living French World War I veteran and, at 109, took over as oldest living Frenchman.[9]
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- ^ The Oldest Human Beings
- ^ BBC obituary of Marie Brémont
- ^ (German)"113-jährige Französin in Seniorenheim verstorben", (""113 year old Frenchwoman dies in retirement home"), ShortNews.de, 2002-04-19. Retrieved 2007-11-11.
- ^ Camille Loiseau, oldest person in France, dies aged 114
- ^ Pictures of Camille Loiseau (French)
- ^ http://sauveterre.canalblog.com/archives/2006/04/08/index.html
- ^ http://www.genarians.com/Archives2006.html
- ^ website of Marie Mornet Robin' nephew
- ^ http://www.midilibre.com/actuv2/article.php?num=1187979182
