Who was the oldest living person who just died?

Lucile Randon, a French nun who was the oldest known person on Earth, died at age 118, French media outlets Tuesday, following a long life that began before the first World War and that Randon credited to a daily glass of wine. Lucile Randon prays in a wheelchair, on the eve of her 117th birthday in 2021.
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Who is the oldest person died 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.
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Who is the oldest person in the world that just died?

Sister André poses for a portrait at the Sainte Catherine Laboure care home in Toulon, southern France, on April 27, 2022. With her death, the oldest living person is now Maria Branyas Morera of Spain at age 115. Sister André, the world's oldest known person, died Tuesday at age 118 and 340 days.
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How old was the oldest person on Earth when they died?

Jeanne Calment of Arles, France, lived to nearly 122½. A French supercentenarian and the oldest human whose age is documented, Calment lived 122 years and 164 days. Born Feb. 21, 1875, she died on Aug.
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Who is the oldest person alive 2023?

She has survived the horrors of two world wars, a civil war and two global pandemics. Now US-born Maria Branyas Morera has been named the world's oldest person by Guinness World Records (GWR), following the death of French nun Sister André earlier this month aged 118.
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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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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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Who lived the longest alive?

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 lived longest in history?

Jeanne Calment

Jeanne Louise Calment, the world's longest living person (who died at the age of 122) was born in Arles, France on February 21, 1875 and died on August 4, 1997 in a nursing home in Arles. “I've waited 110 years to be famous, I count on taking advantage of it,” she quipped at her 120th birthday party.
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Is someone still alive from the 1800s?

Italian Emma Morano, born on November 29, 1899, is now the last living person officially recognised to have been born in the 1800s. Currently aged 116 years and 166 days, Morano was born in Civiasco, Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy, during the reign of King Umberto I.
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Who is the oldest person alive in America?

As of February 17, 2023, it lists the oldest living American-born person as Spanish emigrant Maria Branyas (born in San Francisco, California on March 4, 1907), aged 115 years, 350 days. The oldest American resident is listed as Edie Ceccarelli (born in Willits, California on February 5, 1908), aged 115 years, 12 days.
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Who is the oldest person in the world 157 years old?

According to the death certificate provided by his Turkish doctor, Zaro Aga's age was 157. He died in Istanbul, although some confusion about the place of death exists, probably because the body was sent to the US right after his death.
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What is the oldest dog?

Bluey, The Oldest Dog Ever Recorded. An Australian Cattle Dog standing on a rock. The greatest reliable age recorded for a dog is 29 years and 5 months for an Australian cattle dog named Bluey, owned by Les Hall of Rochester, Victoria.
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Who is the oldest person in the Bible?

In the Bible

According to the Bible, Methuselah died the year of the flood but the Bible does not record whether he died during or prior to the flood. He was also the oldest of all the figures mentioned in the Bible.
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How old is the oldest dog in the world 2022?

According to Guinness World Records, Spike, a 23-year-old chihuahua mix, has recently been given the title of the world's oldest living dog. A spokesperson for Guinness said Spike was certified in December 2022 to have been born at least 23 years ago and weighs about 13 pounds.
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What's the longest someone has been asleep?

Peter Powers holds the world record for longest hypnotic sleep. He stayed asleep for about eight days in 1959 this record was exclusively covered by the European media.
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What's the longest someone has gone without blinking?

What is the longest to not blink? Although the Guinness World Records do not have a world record set for the longest time without blinking, Record Setter claims that Michael Thomas from Florida has been able to keep his eyes open without blinking for 1 hour and 5.61 seconds.
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Who is the youngest father to have a baby?

The youngest father in the world is reportedly a boy from China, who, at 9 fathered a child with an 8-year-old girl. This occurred in 1910. There is also a 10-year-old father recorded in the USA, no details about the mother. This happened in 2001.
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What is the oldest woman to ever give birth?

The current world record holder for the oldest woman to give birth belongs to Maria del Carmen Bousada Lara whose twin boys were delivered by Caesarean section when she was 66 years, 358 days old, in Spain.
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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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How many humans have ever lived?

No demographic data exist for more than 99% of the span of human existence. Still, with some assumptions about population size throughout human history, we can get a rough idea of this number: About 117 billion members of our species have ever been born on Earth.
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