Who is oldest living human?

The oldest living person in the world whose age has been validated is 115-year-old Maria Branyas of Spain, born 4 March 1907. The world's oldest known living man is 113-year-old Juan Vicente Pérez of Venezuela, born 27 May 1909.
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Who is the oldest person alive 2022?

Sister André became the oldest living person last year when the previous oldest person, Kane Tanaka of Japan, died at 119 years old in April 2022. According to the Gerontology Research Group, the oldest living person is now Maria Branyas Morera of Spain at 115 years and 320 days, as of Wednesday.
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Who is the oldest living human in history?

The oldest person ever whose age has been verified is Jeanne Calment (1875-1997) of France, who lived to the age of 122.
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Who lived more than 300 years?

According to one tradition, Epimenides of Crete (7th, 6th centuries BC) lived nearly 300 years.
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Has anyone lived through 3 centuries?

Born on an Alabama farm in July 1899, Susannah Mushatt Jones was also the last living American born in the 19th Century. She lived in three centuries, through two world wars and 20 US presidencies.
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Is it possible to live forever?

No matter how advanced technology gets, it might be impossible for our bodies to go on forever. Some researchers believe there's a limit on how long it's physically possible to live: perhaps 125 years.
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Who lived the oldest in the Bible?

He had the longest lifespan of all those given in the Bible, having died at the age 969. According to the Book of Genesis, Methuselah was the son of Enoch, the father of Lamech, and the grandfather of Noah. Elsewhere in the Bible, Methuselah is mentioned in genealogies in 1 Chronicles and the Gospel of Luke.
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Who lived 157 years?

Zaro Agha enjoyed extreme popularity while was alive. He was born in 1774, according to population registers, and died on June 30, 1934 (Figure 1). He died at the age of 157 years, and is claimed to be one of the longest-living humans ever [3, 4].
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Who is the oldest person to have a baby?

Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara is the oldest verified mother; she was aged 66 years 358 days when she gave birth to twins; she was 130 days older than Adriana Iliescu, who gave birth in 2005 to a baby girl. In both cases the children were conceived through IVF with donor eggs.
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How many people are 100 years old?

The United Nations estimates that currently there are 573,000 centenarians, almost quadruple the estimate of 151,000 made in 2000. According to a 1998 United Nations demographic survey, Japan is expected to have 272,000 centenarians by 2050; other sources suggest that the number could be closer to 1 million.
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Who is the oldest person who died?

Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122 in Arles, southern France, holds the record for the oldest confirmed age reached by any human.
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Is immortality ever possible?

Whether human immortality is possible greatly depends on how you define it. If you define it as living forever and being unkillable like in a comic book or movie, then, no, it is highly unlikely.
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Can humans ever be immortal?

"It's impossible for us because our bodies are super complex," Martínez said. Humans have stem cells that can repair and even regrow parts of the body, such as in the liver, but the human body is not made almost entirely of these cells, like hydra are.
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Can humans stop aging?

According to nutritionists and fitness coaches all over the world, regular exercise and keeping a balanced diet is the only key to delaying aging. But as the world is progressing, scientists have come up with ways to delay, stop, and even reverse aging with the help of biotechnology and gene therapy.
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Can humans live 200 years?

Humans' life expectancy (average) is 70-85 years. However, the oldest verified person (Jeanne Clement, 1875-1997) lived up to 122 years. As a person ages, the telomeres (chromosome ends) tend to become shorter in every consecutive cycle of replication. Also, bones start getting weaker by reducing in size and density.
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Why do humans live so long?

The increased longevity of humans is, in part, attributable to environmental changes; improved food, water, and hygiene; reduced impact of infectious disease; and improved medical care at all ages.
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Who live 200 years in the world?

This is the story a lot of people choose not to believe, but most people do believe it that a man can live beyond 200 years. Isn't it amazing? That's how long someone's family tree or a nation's existence might be! But Chinese man Li Ching-Yuen's legend says he did live till he was 256 years old.
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Who was the last person born in 1999?

STAMFORD -- Ten years ago, at 10:21 p.m. on New Year's Eve in 1999, Keisha Nielsen gave birth to the last Stamford baby of the century. Destiny Day Nielsen was delivered and wrapped in a millennium blanket less than two hours before the ball dropped and the new decade began.
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What are the odds of living to 105?

Only 2 in 100,000 women live to 110; for men, the chances of becoming a supercentenarian are 2 in 1,000,000. At age 105, according to the new study, the odds of surviving to your 106th birthday are in the ballpark of 50 percent. It's another 50-50 coin flip to 107, then again to 108, 109 and 110.
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