oldest person to ever live
There is apparently no way to verify his age and Saeed Bin Saeed Al-Humri will most likely disappear among many others, particularly from countries that did little years ago to document births, who have claimed to be the oldest living person. [1]
The greatest fully-authenticated age to which any human has ever lived is 122 years 164 days by Madam Jeanne Louise Calment of FRANCE. [2]
She moved to Allentown, and in 1901 at the age of 21 she married Abraham Lincoln Knauss, a Republican politician and well known local political figure. [3]
She became particularly well-known from the age of 113, when the centenary of Vincent van Gogh ’s visit brought reporters to Arles, as she was the last person living to have met the artist. [4]
Yone Minagawa of Japan officially became, at 114, the oldest living person yesterday, with the death of her, um, predecessor. [5]
Mr. Shigechiyo Izumi of Isen on Tokunoshima, an island 820 miles (1,320 Km) Southwest of Japan, was born on June 29, 1865 and died on February 21, 1986. [...] Mrs. Maude Ferris-Luse (ne? Davis) born on January 21, 1887 in Morley, Michigan now at age 114 is currently the world’s oldest living person whose date-of-birth can be fully authenticated. [2]
Some nations below were European colonies when the recordholder was born (i.e. French Algeria, Spanish Morocco) and the persons holding the record were in fact European as were the record-keeping systems. [6]
He and his first wife were happily married until she died in 1954 — at the age of 61, which passes for adolescence in these parts. [7]
National longevity recordholders are those individuals who have survived to the oldest age in a given country. [6]
A supercentenarian (sometimes hyphenated) is someone who has reached the age of 110 years or more, something achieved by only one among hundreds of centenarians. [5]
But the Guinness Book of Records did not give him this recognition because his pension papers say he was born on May 20, 1878 at Rajgarh in Alwar district. [8]
They found nothing conclusive, and most researchers tend to attribute longevity here to a combination of clean, stress-free living and genes that are programmed to last. [7]
She died at the age of 122 years 164 days in Arles, France; the same town she was born in. [5]
She passed away just 30 hours before the beginning of the year 2000, and so missed out on living in three different centuries and in two millennia. [3]
Sources:
[1] What is the oldest age anyone has ever reached? | Answerbag.com
[2] Guinness Book of Records 2002
[3] Oldest American Who Ever Lived: Sarah Knauss Reached the Age of 119 …
[4] Jeanne Calment - Wikipedia
[5] The World’s Oldest Person
[6] National longevity recordholders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[7] Journal: Secret to Long Life in Azerbaijan? It’s Not the Yogurt
[8] What is the Guinness Record for oldest person to ever live?