This is a list of the 100 verified oldest men, arranged in descending order, based on each individual's age in years and days. A "year" typically refers to a calendar year

Calendar year

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, the time between two dates with the same name. However, years may be of different lengths due to the presence or absence of a leap day within the year, or to the conversion of dates from one calendar

Calendar

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 to another. A supercentenarian is considered 'verified' if his or her claim has been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity research, such as the Gerontology Research Group

Gerontology Research Group

The Gerontology Research Group was started in 1990, and is a global eGroup of researchers in gerontology, some of who also meet monthly at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. The primary function of the group is to further gerontology research, with the objective of reversing or retarding aging...

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The oldest man ever was Christian Mortensen

Christian Mortensen

Thomas Peter Thorvald Kristian Ferdinand Mortensen , known as an adult as Christian Mortensen, was a Danish supercentenarian. At the time of his death he was 115 years and 252 days old—the longest fully authenticated lifespan of any male in history...

, a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 émigré

Émigré

Émigré is a French term that literally refers to a person who has "migrated out", but often carries a connotation of politico-social self-exile....

 to the United States

United States

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, who died at the age of age 115 years 252 days. As of , there are 5 verified living supercentenarians on the list, the oldest of whom is Jiroemon Kimura

Jiroemon Kimura

Jiroemon Kimura is a Japanese supercentenarian who, at the age of , is currently the world's oldest living man, since the death of Walter Breuning on 14 April 2011. Being 113 years 361 days at the succession , Kimura is the oldest man ever to gain the title of oldest living man...

 from Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 at age .

100 verified oldest men

Rank	Name	Birth date	Death date	Age	Place of death or residence
1	Christian Mortensen Christian Mortensen Thomas Peter Thorvald Kristian Ferdinand Mortensen , known as an adult as Christian Mortensen, was a Danish supercentenarian. At the time of his death he was 115 years and 252 days old—the longest fully authenticated lifespan of any male in history...	16 August 1882	25 April 1998	115 years, 252 days	United States
2	Emiliano Mercado del Toro Emiliano Mercado del Toro Emiliano Mercado del Toro was, at age 115, the world's oldest person for six weeks, and the world's oldest man from November 19, 2004 until his own death on January 24, 2007. He is the oldest verified military veteran ever...	21 August 1891	24 January 2007	115 years, 156 days	Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
3	Jiroemon Kimura Jiroemon Kimura Jiroemon Kimura is a Japanese supercentenarian who, at the age of , is currently the world's oldest living man, since the death of Walter Breuning on 14 April 2011. Being 113 years 361 days at the succession , Kimura is the oldest man ever to gain the title of oldest living man...	19 April 1897	Living		Japan
4	Mathew Beard	9 July 1870	16 February 1985	114 years, 222 days	United States
5	Walter Breuning Walter Breuning Walter Breuning 1896 2011) was an American supercentenarian. He was the last known surviving man who was born in 1896. Breuning is the oldest undisputed American-born man on record. He was the last verified American man born in the 19th Century. At the time of his death, Breuning was the third...	21 September 1896	14 April 2011	114 years, 205 days	United States
6	Yukichi Chuganji Yukichi Chuganji was a Japanese supercentenarian and "...was recognised by Guinness World Records as the oldest man..." in Japan until his death at age 114 years 189 days....	23 March 1889	28 September 2003	114 years, 189 days	Japan
7	Joan Riudavets Joan Riudavets Joan Riudavets Moll was a Spanish supercentenarian and at the time of his death, was believed to be the oldest verified person ever in the history of Spain. However, subsequent research by the International Database on Longevity has revealed that there were two anonymous women who were older than...	15 December 1889	5 March 2004	114 years, 81 days	Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
8	Fred Hale	1 December 1890	19 November 2004	113 years, 354 days	United States
9	Moses Hardy Moses Hardy Moses Hardy was, at age 112 or 113, the last black veteran of World War I and one of the last surviving American veterans of that war. The son of former slaves, Hardy was born in either 1893 or 1894 and lived a religious and farming life until he signed up to serve overseas in World War I in July...	6 January 1893	7 December 2006	113 years, 335 days	United States
10	Johnson Parks	15 October 1884	17 July 1998	113 years, 275 days	United States
11	Tomoji Tanabe	18 September 1895	19 June 2009	113 years, 274 days	Japan
12	John Ingram McMorran John Ingram McMorran John Ingram McMorran was an American supercentenarian and is one of the recognized oldest people in the world, living to the age of 113 years and 250 days. He was born in Goodland Township, Michigan, the oldest child of George McMorran and Lydia Ingram...	19 June 1889	24 February 2003	113 years, 250 days	United States
13	Frederick Frazier	27 January 1880	14 June 1993	113 years, 138 days	United States
14	Walter Richardson Walter Richardson Walter C. Richardson 1885 1998) was an American supercentenarian. He was the last known surviving man who was born in 1885. He became the world's oldest verified man on 17 July 1998, upon the death of 113-year-old Johnson Parks at the age of 112 years, 252 days, until his own death on Christmas...	7 November 1885	25 December 1998	113 years, 48 days	United States
15	Henry Allingham Henry Allingham Henry William Allingham was a British supercentenarian, First World War veteran and, for one month, the verified oldest living man in the world...	6 June 1896	18 July 2009	113 years, 42 days	United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
16	Antonio Todde Antonio Todde Antonio Todde He was the oldest man in the world from the death of American John Painter until Todde's own death on January 3, 2002, at age 112 years, 346 days...	22 January 1889	3 January 2002	112 years, 346 days	Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
17	John Evans John Evans (supercentenarian) John Evans of Fforestfach, Swansea was the longest-lived authenticated man ever from the United Kingdom from 27 May 1989 until 29 March 2009, when Henry Allingham broke his record...	19 August 1877	10 June 1990	112 years, 295 days	United Kingdom
18	George Francis	6 June 1896	27 December 2008	112 years, 204 days	United States
19	Denzo Ishizaki	20 October 1886	29 April 1999	112 years, 191 days	Japan
20	Josep Armengol	23 July 1881	20 January 1994	112 years, 181 days	Spain
21	Giovanni Frau	29 December 1890	19 June 2003	112 years, 172 days	Italy
22	John Painter John Painter John George Painter was posthumously recognized as the world's oldest man and oldest American veteran, as a result of the United States's SSA supercentenarian study. Painter was also the last surviving American veteran of the First World War to be born in the 1880s. Only recently he was also...	20 September 1888	1 March 2001	112 years, 162 days	United States
23	Alphaeus Philemon Cole Alphaeus Philemon Cole Alphaeus Philemon Cole was an American artist, engraver and etcher. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and died in New York City. He was the son of noted engraver Timothy Cole...	12 July 1876	25 November 1988	112 years, 136 days	United States
24	Augusto Moreira	6 October 1896	13 February 2009	112 years, 130 days	Portugal Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
25	George Johnson George Johnson (supercentenarian) George Henry Johnson was, at the time of his death, California's oldest man and one of the last few surviving veterans of the First World War in the United States.-Life:...	1 May 1894	30 August 2006	112 years, 121 days	United States
26	Gengan Tonaki	30 October 1884	24 January 1997	112 years, 86 days	Japan
27	Tadanosuke Hashimoto	27 April 1891	31 May 2003	112 years, 34 days	Japan
28	Kumekichi Tani	20 April 1891	12 May 2003	112 years, 22 days	Japan
29	James Wiggins	15 October 1879	16 October 1991	112 years, 1 day	United States
30	Thomas Peters Thomas Peters (supercentenarian) Thomas Peters was a Dutch supercentenarian. He is the earliest recorded supercentarian accepted by Guinness World Records. Originally in a footnote, the Peters case was later promoted although subsequent questions were raised about documentation. Indeed, it appears that if the documentation ever...	6 April 1745	26 March 1857	111 years, 354 days	Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
31	Walter H. Seward Walter H. Seward Walter Hamilton Seward was an American supercentenarian who was, at the time of his death, the third-oldest verified man living in the United States, the sixth-oldest man in the world, one of the 30 oldest living people and was the verified oldest recognized living person in New Jersey...	13 October 1896	14 September 2008	111 years, 337 days	United States
32	Maurice Floquet Maurice Floquet Maurice Noël Floquet was, at age 111, France's oldest man on record and was one of the last surviving French veterans of World War I. He was, at the age of 111 years and 320 days, France's longest-lived soldier ever. Moreover, Maurice was France's oldest living man for more than four years...	25 December 1894	10 November 2006	111 years, 320 days	France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
33	James Sisnett James Sisnett James Emmanuel Sisnett is the oldest verified living man in North America. He is currently the world's second-oldest living man, behind Jiroemon Kimura. Sisnett is one of the last three men verfiably born in the 19th century...	22 February 1900	Living		Barbados Barbados Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...
34	John Mosely Turner John Mosely Turner John Mosely Turner was a British supercentenarian and the oldest recognised living person for more than two years...	15 June 1856	21 March 1968	111 years, 280 days	United Kingdom
35	Hermann Dörnemann Hermann Dörnemann Hermann Dörnemann of Germany was hailed in the press as the oldest living man in the world upon the death of 113-year-old American Fred Hale on 19 November 2004...	27 May 1893	2 March 2005	111 years, 279 days	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
36	Antonio Urrea	18 February 1888	15 November 1999	111 years, 270 days	Spain
37	Arthur Carter	5 October 1889	11 June 2001	111 years, 249 days	United States
38	Jan Machiel Reyskens	11 May 1878	7 January 1990	111 years, 241 days	Netherlands
39	Joe Thomas	1 May 1875	14 December 1986	111 years, 227 days	United States
40	James Zackry	15 August 1881	14 March 1993	111 years, 211 days	United States
41	Tanekichi Onishi	15 February 1900	11 September 2011	111 years, 208 days	Japan
42	Kiyoshi Igarashi	2 August 1897	23 February 2009	111 years, 205 days	Japan
43	Herman Smith-Johannsen Herman Smith-Johannsen Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen, CM was a Norwegian-Canadian supercentenarian who gained widespread recognition for being one of the first people to introduce the sport of cross-country skiing to Canada and North America...	15 June 1875	5 January 1987	111 years, 204 days	Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
44	James Henry Brett, Jr.	25 July 1849	10 February 1961	111 years, 200 days	United States
45	Ernest Pusey Ernest Pusey Ernest Charles Pusey was, at age 111, Florida's oldest living person, General Motors's oldest pensioner, and was thought to be Florida's last surviving veteran of World War I, until Harry Richard Landis was discovered a month later.He joined the United States Navy, and then fought aboard the...	5 May 1895	19 November 2006	111 years, 198 days	United States
46	Thomas Nelson, Sr.	8 July 1895	9 January 2007	111 years, 185 days	United States
47	Earl Brush	17 July 1893	10 January 2005	111 years, 177 days	United States
48	Antonio de Castro	6 January 1898	22 June 2009	111 years, 167 days	Portugal
49	Sukesaburo Nakanishi	15 March 1896	22 August 2007	111 years, 160 days	Japan
50	Luther Goding	1 July 1884	5 December 1995	111 years, 157 days	United States
51	Jan Pieter Bos	12 July 1891	15 December 2002	111 years, 156 days	Netherlands
52	Emile Fourcade	29 July 1884	29 December 1995	111 years, 153 days	France
53	Benjamin Holcomb	3 July 1889	2 December 2000	111 years, 152 days	United States
54	Aarne Arvonen	4 August 1897	1 January 2009	111 years, 150 days	Finland Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
55	George Frederick Ives George Frederick Ives -External links:*...	17 November 1881	12 April 1993	111 years, 146 days	Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
56	Garland Adair	30 July 1898	11 December 2009	111 years, 134 days	United States
57	Anders Engberg	1 July 1892	6 November 2003	111 years, 128 days	Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
58	Jack Lockett Jack Lockett John Henry "Jack" Lockett OAM , was a farmer and an Australian veteran of the First World War. At the time of his death, aged 111 years, 123 days, he was the oldest man in Australia...	22 January 1891	25 May 2002	111 years, 123 days	Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
59	Henry Hartmann	14 July 1894	10 November 2005	111 years, 119 days	United States
60	Daniel Guzmán-García	6 February 1897	21 May 2008	111 years, 105 days	Colombia Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
61	Sadayoshi Tanabe	20 October 1888	18 January 2000	111 years, 90 days	Japan
62	Henry Pfeiffer	22 March 1881	23 May 1992	111 years, 62 days	United States
63	Zachariah Blackistone	16 February 1871	18 April 1982	111 years, 61 days	United States
64	Antonio Baldo	6 July 1887	28 August 1998	111 years, 53 days	Italy
65	Edward Bernard	22 June 1889	11 August 2000	111 years, 50 days	United States
66	Norio Kawada	25 April 1892	6 June 2003	111 years, 42 days	Japan
67	Kama Nakasone	23 November 1891	1 January 2003	111 years, 39 days	Japan
68	Harry Patch Harry Patch Henry John "Harry" Patch , known in his latter years as "the Last Fighting Tommy", was a British supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe, and the last surviving soldier to have fought in the trenches of the First World War...	17 June 1898	25 July 2009	111 years, 38 days	United Kingdom
69	Peter Solum	3 May 1882	5 June 1993	111 years, 33 days	United States
70	Jan Goossenaerts Jan Goossenaerts Joannes "Jan" Aloïsius Goossenaerts is a Belgian supercentenarian. Since the death of Stanley Lucas of the United Kingdom he has been the oldest living man in Europe. He is currently the world's third-oldest living man. The Gerontology Research Group lists him as the fifty-six oldest living...	30 October 1900	Living		Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
71	Domenico Minervino	10 May 1880	22 May 1991	111 years, 12 days	Italy
72	Nijiro Tokuda Nijiro Tokuda was the oldest man in Japan and, at his death, aged 111 years 2 days, was the sixth oldest verified man in the world. He was believed to have become the "doyen" of Japan following the death of Kohachi Shigetaka almost one year before at age 110....	10 June 1895	12 June 2006	111 years, 2 days	Japan
73	Valentino Stella	2 January 1886	1 January 1997	110 years, 365 days	Italy
74	Giichi Okumura	18 October 1896	13 October 2007	110 years, 360 days	Japan
75	Charles Shebanek	9 September 1883	27 August 1994	110 years, 352 days	United States
76	Antonio Pierro Antonio Pierro Antonio "Tony" Pierro was, at age 110, recognized as the oldest living man in the U.S. and the world's oldest living WWI veteran . He was one of the last surviving veterans of World War I...	22 February 1896	8 February 2007	110 years, 351 days	United States
77	Gregory Pandazes	15 January 1873	22 December 1983	110 years, 341 days	United States
	Eiju Tsuru	4 February 1879	11 January 1990	110 years, 341 days	Japan
79	Masatake Kinoshita	20 August 1897	17 July 2008	110 years, 332 days	Japan
80	Linus Reinhart	28 July 1892	14 June 2003	110 years, 321 days	United States
81	Lloyd Myers	20 March 1892	1 February 2003	110 years, 318 days	United States
82	Frank Ahmann	11 May 1889	22 March 2000	110 years, 316 days	United States
83	Leopold Vietoris Leopold Vietoris Leopold Vietoris was an Austrian mathematician and a World War I veteran who gained additional fame by becoming a supercentenarian...	4 June 1891	9 April 2002	110 years, 309 days	Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
84	Takashi Hattori	12 March 1898	12 January 2009	110 years, 306 days	Japan
85	Giovanni Ligato	18 February 1901	Living		Italy
86	Walter Wilcox	1 November 1872	11 August 1983	110 years, 283 days	United States
87	Galo Leoz	22 April 1879	23 January 1990	110 years, 276 days	Spain
88	A.L.M.	11 April 1879	1 January 1990	110 years, 265 days	Spain
89	Gregorio Merino	24 December 1886	9 September 1997	110 years, 259 days	Spain
90	Hilliard Hudson	23 February 1899	6 November 2009	110 years, 256 days	United States
91	Henri Pérignon	14 October 1879	18 June 1990	110 years, 247 days	France
92	Gerald Gilman	30 April 1893	1 January 2004	110 years, 246 days	United States
93	Shelby Harris Shelby Harris Shelby Harris is an American supercentenarian. At , he is currently the oldest living resident of Illinois and the oldest man in the United States. The record for Illinois' oldest person is held by 114 year old Wilhelmina Kott. On 24 October 2011, aged 110 years 207 days he became one of 100...	31 March 1901	Living		United States
94	Alexis Daigneau	4 August 1890	3 April 2001	110 years, 242 days	France
95	Aurelio Diaz	16 October 1878	13 June 1989	110 years, 240 days	Spain
96	Alton Gilbert	11 June 1878	20 January 1989	110 years, 223 days	United States
97	James Nash	31 July 1872	4 March 1983	110 years, 216 days	United States
98	Bernard Delhom	9 July 1885	7 February 1996	110 years, 213 days	France
99	Charles Young	28 December 1894	27 July 2005	110 years, 211 days	United States
100	Friedrich Wedeking Friedrich Wedeking Friedrich Wedeking was one of the first German supercentenarians. He was born in Blomberg and died in Dortmund...	10 October 1862	5 May 1973	110 years, 207 days	Germany

Addendum

Three claims are disputed; accordingly, an addendum of proven claims is included. Note that Moses Hardy has proven to be at least 112 years, 335 days, although there is equal evidence that suggests 113 years, 335 days. Hence, taking the age as the younger one, he is still in the top 100 list, therefore no addendum is provided.

Rank	Name	Birth date	Death date	Age	Place of death
101	Aimé Avignon	2 February 1897	23 August 2007	110 years, 202 days	France
102	Arno Wagner	4 June 1894	22 December 2004	110 years, 201 days	Germany
103	Chiake Nakamura	31 December 1889	7 July 2000	110 years, 189 days	Japan

a Mortensen is a native of Denmark.

b Reyskens is a native of Belgium.

c Fourcade was a native of French Algeria

French Algeria

French Algeria lasted from 1830 to 1962, under a variety of governmental systems. From 1848 until independence, the whole Mediterranean region of Algeria was administered as an integral part of France, much like Corsica and Réunion are to this day. The vast arid interior of Algeria, like the rest...

; it is presently Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

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d Ives is a native of the United Kingdom.

e Pierro is a native of Italy.

f Pandazes was a native of the Kingdom of Greece

Kingdom of Greece

The Kingdom of Greece was a state established in 1832 in the Convention of London by the Great Powers...

; it is presently Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

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