List of the verified oldest men
These list of 100 verified oldest men. The oldest man ever, whose age has been verified, is Jiroemon Kimura (1897-2013) a Japanese man who died at the age of 116 years 54 days. There is one verified living supercentenarian on this list, Japanese man, Yasutaro Koide, aged Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist..
100 verified oldest men
Deceased Living
†^ denotes age at death, or, if living, age as of 26 December 2024
Rank | Name | Birth date | Death date | Age [†] | Place of death or residence |
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1 | Jiroemon Kimura | 19 April 1897 | 12 June 2013 | 116 years, 54 days | Japan |
2 | Christian Mortensen | 16 August 1882 | 25 April 1998 | 115 years, 252 days | United States[a] |
3 | Emiliano Mercado del Toro | 21 August 1891 | 24 January 2007 | 115 years, 156 days | Puerto Rico |
4 | Mathew Beard | 9 July 1870 | 16 February 1985 | 114 years, 222 days | United States |
5 | Walter Breuning | 21 September 1896 | 14 April 2011 | 114 years, 205 days | United States |
6 | Yukichi Chuganji | 23 March 1889 | 28 September 2003 | 114 years, 189 days | Japan |
7 | Joan Riudavets | 15 December 1889 | 5 March 2004 | 114 years, 81 days | Spain |
8 | Fred Hale | 1 December 1890 | 19 November 2004 | 113 years, 354 days | United States |
9 | Johnson Parks | 15 October 1884 | 17 July 1998 | 113 years, 275 days | United States |
10 | Tomoji Tanabe | 18 September 1895 | 19 June 2009 | 113 years, 274 days | Japan |
11 | John Ingram McMorran | 19 June 1889 | 24 February 2003 | 113 years, 250 days | United States |
12 | Frederick Frazier | 27 January 1880 | 14 June 1993 | 113 years, 138 days | United States |
13 | James Sisnett | 22 February 1900 | 23 May 2013 | 113 years, 90 days | Barbados[b] |
14 | Walter Richardson | 7 November 1885 | 25 December 1998 | 113 years, 48 days | United States |
15 | Henry Allingham | 6 June 1896 | 18 July 2009 | 113 years, 42 days | United Kingdom |
16 | Antonio Todde | 22 January 1889 | 3 January 2002 | 112 years, 346 days | Italy |
17 | Moses Hardy | 6 January 1894 | 7 December 2006 | 112 years, 335 days | United States |
18 | Yasutaro Koide[1] | 13 March 1903 | Living[1] | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Japan |
19 | John Evans | 19 August 1877 | 10 June 1990 | 112 years, 295 days | United Kingdom |
20 | George Francis | 6 June 1896 | 27 December 2008 | 112 years, 204 days | United States |
21 | Denzo Ishizaki | 20 October 1886 | 29 April 1999 | 112 years, 191 days | Japan |
22 | Josep Armengol | 23 July 1881 | 20 January 1994 | 112 years, 181 days | Spain |
23 | Giovanni Frau | 29 December 1890 | 19 June 2003 | 112 years, 172 days | Italy |
24 | John Painter | 20 September 1888 | 1 March 2001 | 112 years, 162 days | United States |
25 | Sakari Momoi | 5 February 1903 | 5 July 2015 | 112 years, 150 days | Japan |
26 | Alphaeus Philemon Cole | 12 July 1876 | 25 November 1988 | 112 years, 136 days | United States |
27 | Augusto Moreira | 6 October 1896 | 13 February 2009 | 112 years, 130 days | Portugal |
28 | George Johnson | 1 May 1894 | 30 August 2006 | 112 years, 121 days | United States |
29 | Salustiano Sanchez | 8 June 1901 | 13 September 2013 | 112 years, 97 days | United States[c] |
30 | Gengan Tonaki | 30 October 1884 | 24 January 1997 | 112 years, 86 days | Japan |
31 | Tadanosuke Hashimoto | 27 April 1891 | 31 May 2003 | 112 years, 34 days | Japan |
32 | Kumekichi Tani | 20 April 1891 | 12 May 2003 | 112 years, 22 days | Japan |
33 | James Wiggins | 15 October 1879 | 16 October 1991 | 112 years, 1 day | United States |
34 | Arturo Licata | 2 May 1902 | 24 April 2014 | 111 years, 357 days | Italy |
35 | Walter H. Seward | 13 October 1896 | 14 September 2008 | 111 years, 337 days | United States |
36 | Maurice Floquet | 25 December 1894 | 10 November 2006 | 111 years, 320 days | France |
37 | James McCoubrey | 13 September 1901 | 5 July 2013 | 111 years, 295 days | United States[d] |
38 | John Mosely Turner | 15 June 1856 | 21 March 1968 | 111 years, 280 days | United Kingdom |
39 | Hermann Dörnemann | 27 May 1893 | 2 March 2005 | 111 years, 279 days | Germany |
40 | Antonio Urrea | 18 February 1888 | 15 November 1999 | 111 years, 270 days | Spain |
41 | Arthur Carter | 5 October 1889 | 11 June 2001 | 111 years, 249 days | United States |
42 | Jan Machiel Reyskens | 11 May 1878 | 7 January 1990 | 111 years, 241 days | Netherlands[e] |
43 | Joe Thomas | 1 May 1875 | 14 December 1986 | 111 years, 227 days | United States |
44 | James Zackry | 15 August 1881 | 14 March 1993 | 111 years, 211 days | United States |
45 | Tanekichi Onishi | 15 February 1900 | 11 September 2011 | 111 years, 208 days | Japan |
46 | Kiyoshi Igarashi | 2 August 1897 | 23 February 2009 | 111 years, 205 days | Japan |
47 | Herman Smith-Johannsen | 15 June 1875 | 5 January 1987 | 111 years, 204 days | Norway |
48 | Ernest Pusey | 5 May 1895 | 19 November 2006 | 111 years, 198 days | United States |
49 | Thomas Nelson, Sr. | 8 July 1895 | 9 January 2007 | 111 years, 185 days | United States |
50 | Jokichi Ikarashi | 26 January 1902 | 23 July 2013 | 111 years, 178 days | Japan |
51 | Earl Brush | 17 July 1893 | 10 January 2005 | 111 years, 177 days | United States |
52 | Antonio de Castro | 6 January 1898 | 22 June 2009 | 111 years, 167 days | Portugal |
53 | Sukesaburo Nakanishi | 15 March 1896 | 22 August 2007 | 111 years, 160 days | Japan |
54 | Luther Goding | 1 July 1884 | 5 December 1995 | 111 years, 157 days | United States |
55 | Jan Pieter Bos | 12 July 1891 | 15 December 2002 | 111 years, 156 days | Netherlands |
56 | Emile Fourcade | 29 July 1884 | 29 December 1995 | 111 years, 153 days | France[f] |
57 | Benjamin Harrison Holcomb | 3 July 1889 | 2 December 2000 | 111 years, 152 days | United States |
58 | Aarne Arvonen | 4 August 1897 | 1 January 2009 | 111 years, 150 days | Finland[g] |
59 | George Frederick Ives | 17 November 1881 | 12 April 1993 | 111 years, 146 days | Canada[h] |
60 | Jan Goossenaerts | 30 October 1900 | 21 March 2012 | 111 years, 143 days | Belgium |
61 | Garland Adair | 30 July 1898 | 11 December 2009 | 111 years, 134 days | United States |
62 | Anders Engberg | 1 July 1892 | 6 November 2003 | 111 years, 128 days | Sweden |
63 | Alexander Imich | 4 February 1903 | 8 June 2014 | 111 years, 124 days | United States[i] |
64 | Jack Lockett | 22 January 1891 | 25 May 2002 | 111 years, 123 days | Australia[j] |
65 | Henry Hartmann | 14 July 1894 | 10 November 2005 | 111 years, 119 days | United States |
66 | Shelby Harris | 31 March 1901 | 25 July 2012 | 111 years, 116 days | United States |
67 | Daniel Guzmán-García | 6 February 1897 | 21 May 2008 | 111 years, 105 days | Colombia |
68 | Sadayoshi Tanabe | 20 October 1888 | 18 January 2000 | 111 years, 90 days | Japan |
69 | Makaru Nakanishi | 15 December 1901 | 28 February 2013 | 111 years, 75 days | Japan |
70 | Henry Pfeiffer | 22 March 1881 | 23 May 1992 | 111 years, 62 days | United States |
71 | Zachariah Blackistone | 16 February 1871 | 18 April 1982 | 111 years, 61 days | United States |
72 | Antonio Baldo | 6 July 1887 | 28 August 1998 | 111 years, 53 days | Italy |
73 | Edward Bernard | 22 June 1889 | 11 August 2000 | 111 years, 50 days | United States |
74 | Francisco Fernández | 24 July 1901 | 7 September 2012 | 111 years, 45 days | Spain |
75 | Norio Kawada | 25 April 1892 | 6 June 2003 | 111 years, 42 days | Japan |
76 | Kama Nakasone | 23 November 1891 | 1 January 2003 | 111 years, 39 days | Japan |
77 | Harry Patch | 17 June 1898 | 25 July 2009 | 111 years, 38 days | United Kingdom |
78 | Peter Solum | 3 May 1882 | 5 June 1993 | 111 years, 33 days | United States |
79 | Masao Kaga | 1 June 1902 | 26 June 2013 | 111 years, 25 days | Japan |
80 | Giovanni Ligato | 18 February 1901 | 2 March 2012 | 111 years, 13 days | Italy |
81 | Domenico Minervino | 10 May 1880 | 22 May 1991 | 111 years, 12 days | Italy |
82 | Nijiro Tokuda | 10 June 1895 | 12 June 2006 | 111 years, 2 days | Japan |
83 | Valentino Stella | 2 January 1886 | 1 January 1997 | 110 years, 365 days | Italy |
84 | Giichi Okumura | 18 October 1896 | 13 October 2007 | 110 years, 360 days | Japan |
85 | Charles Shebanek | 9 September 1883 | 27 August 1994 | 110 years, 352 days | United States |
86 | Antonio Pierro | 22 February 1896 | 8 February 2007 | 110 years, 351 days | United States[k] |
87 | Carl Berner | 27 January 1902 | 7 January 2013 | 110 years, 346 days | United States[l] |
88 | Gregory Pandazes | 15 January 1873 | 22 December 1983 | 110 years, 341 days | United States[m] |
Eiju Tsuru | 4 February 1879 | 11 January 1990 | 110 years, 341 days | Japan | |
90 | Charlie Nelson | 21 September 1867 | 20 August 1978 | 110 years, 333 days | United States |
Yoshio Nakagawa | 19 December 1901 | 16 November 2012 | 110 years, 333 days | Japan | |
92 | Masatake Kinoshita | 20 August 1897 | 17 July 2008 | 110 years, 332 days | Japan |
93 | Linus Reinhart | 28 July 1892 | 14 June 2003 | 110 years, 321 days | United States |
94 | Lloyd Myers | 20 March 1892 | 1 February 2003 | 110 years, 318 days | United States |
95 | Frank Ahmann | 10 May 1889 | 22 March 2000 | 110 years, 317 days | United States |
96 | Leopold Vietoris | 4 June 1891 | 9 April 2002 | 110 years, 309 days | Austria |
97 | Takashi Hattori | 12 March 1898 | 12 January 2009 | 110 years, 306 days | Japan |
98 | Walter Wilcox | 1 November 1872 | 11 August 1983 | 110 years, 283 days | United States |
99 | Galo Leoz | 22 April 1879 | 23 January 1990 | 110 years, 276 days | Spain |
100 | A.L.M.[2] | 11 April 1879 | 1 January 1990 | 110 years, 265 days | Spain |
a^ Mortensen was born in Denmark.
b^ Sisnett was born in Barbados, which was at the time of his birth a British colony; now it is an independent country.
c^ Sanchez was born in Spain.
d^ McCoubrey was born in Newfoundland, which was then a separate British colony in 1901. It is now a part of Canada.
e^ Reyskens was born in Belgium.
f^ Fourcade was born in French Algeria; it is now Algeria.
g^ Arvonen was born in Finland, then an autonomous state of the Russian Empire.
h^ Ives was born in the United Kingdom.
i^ Imich was born in Częstochowa, which was then a part of the Russian Empire. It is now in Poland.
j^ Lockett was born in the former British colony Victoria, which is now part of Australia.
k^ Pierro was born in Italy.
l^ Berner was born in Germany.
m^ Pandazes was born in Greece.