Fully Verified Claims
For fully verified human longevity claims, see supercentenarian and list of the verified oldest people.- Less than 100 people in modern history have been documented as reaching the age of 114.
- Only 28 of these people are fully verified as reaching 115; only 8 reached 116.
- The oldest person verified by modern standards, and the only person with undisputed evidence to have lived to be 120 (and over), was French woman Jeanne Calment (21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997), aged 122 years 164 days.
- As of 1 December 2012, the oldest verified living person is American woman Besse Cooper, born 26 August 1896, age 7002116000000000000116 years, 700197000000000000097 days.
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