This is a list of supercentenarian

Supercentenarian

A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....

s who died before 1980. The list includes people whose lifespans have been "verified" and "pending", also known as lifespans whom have not had their age validated, by 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...

 (GRG). There are currently 43 such people whose lifespans have been "verified" by the GRG, of whom 33 are female and 10 are male. There are currently 3 such people whose cases are considered "pending" by the GRG, of whom 1 is female and 2 are male.

Name	Sex	Birth date	Death date	Age	Place of death
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...	M				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...
Geert Adriaans Boomgaard Geert Adriaans Boomgaard Geert Adriaans Boomgaard is accepted by most demographic scholars as the first validated supercentenarian case on record...	M				Netherlands
Margaret Ann Neve Margaret Ann Neve Margaret Ann Neve, née Harvey of St. Peter Port, Guernsey, was the first recorded female supercentenarian, and the first supercentenarian of either sex in the 20th century. Neve was the only supercentenarian born in the 18th century who lived to the 20th century, and she was the first...	F				Guernsey Guernsey Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet...
Ann Pouder	F				United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Louisa Thiers	F				United States
Miriam Bannister Miriam Bannister Miriam Sparks Banister née Voisey was one of the earliest supercentenarians. Born in Salcombe Regis, Devon, England to John and Hester Voisey, she married John Bodman Banister in 1850 at the age of 33. She later moved to the United States in 1854. She attributed her longevity to "simple foods,...	F				United States
Demetrius Philipovitch	M		fl Floruit Floruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active... .	+	Kingdom of Yugoslavia Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a state stretching from the Western Balkans to Central Europe which existed during the often-tumultuous interwar era of 1918–1941...
Delina Filkins Delina Filkins Delina Filkins, née Ecker was an American supercentenarian who was the earliest verified person to reach the ages of 112 and 113, in 1927 and 1928, respectively. Filkins was the first verified person to surpass the longest confirmed lifespan by two years...	F				United States
Katherine Plunket Katherine Plunket Katherine Plunket was an Irish aristocrat from County Louth, a prolific botanical artist and the oldest person in Irish history...	F				Ireland Ireland Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
Betsy Baker Betsy Baker (supercentenarian) Betsy Russell Baker was the first listed supercentenarian in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's then-oldest person...	F				United States
Christina Backs-Karnebeek	F				Netherlands
Martha Graham	F			ca Circa Circa , usually abbreviated c. or ca. , means "approximately" in the English language, usually referring to a date... .	United States
James Henry Brett, Jr.	M				United States
Joseph Saint-Amour	M				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...
Mary Kelly	F				United States
William Fullingim	M				United States
Hannah Smith Hannah Smith (supercentenarian) Hannah Smith was born in Salford, England and lived to become a British supercentenarian and the oldest recognised living person in the world....	F				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...
Yoshiguki Ito	M				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...
John Mosely Turner John Mosely Turner John Mosely Turner was a British supercentenarian and the oldest recognised living person for more than two years...	M				United Kingdom
Johanna Booyson	F				South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
Marie Bernátková	F		fl.	+	Czech Republic Czech Republic The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
Ada Roe Ada Roe Ada Roe, née Giddings was a British supercentenarian. She was born in Islington, England, and moved to Lowestoft over 60 years before her death with her husband, who died shortly afterwards. Roe was the oldest recognised living person between c. October 1968 and her death aged 111 years 339 days...	F				United Kingdom
Khasako Dzugayev	M		fl.	+	Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
Ada Sharp	F				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...
Mary Ann Cragie	F				United Kingdom
Josefa Salas	F				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...
Maria Imperiali-Cesarini	F				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...
Alice Stevenson Alice Stevenson Alice Stevenson was born at Piccadilly, England and became a British supercentenarian. She was the oldest recognised living person in the world between the death of 112-year-old Josefa Salas Mateo on 27 February 1973 and Stevenson's own death, aged 112 years 39 days when she died at Sutton,...	F				United Kingdom
Elizabeth Watkins	F				United Kingdom
Frederick Butterfield Frederick Butterfield Frederick Victor Butterfield of Harrogate, England became the world's oldest man on 5 May 1973 after the death of Friedrich Wedeking. He was succeeded by the now disputed case of Shigechiyo Izumi. Born at Thirsk, he qualified as a chemist in 1885 after training for five years...	M				United Kingdom
Clarida Roy	F				United States
Mito Umeta	F				Japan
Rose Heeley	F				United Kingdom
Mary Bittlebrun	F				United States
Niwa Kawamoto	F				Japan
Jean Teillet	M				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...
Sophia DeMuth	F				United States
Sarah Morgan	F				United Kingdom
Caroline Campistron	F				France
Lida Bertonati-Guerrieri	F				Italy
Charlie Nelson	M				United States
Marie-Virginie Duhem	F				France
Lilias Williams	F				United Kingdom
Frederique Noël	F				France
Annette Faron	F				France
Josefa Llobet	F				Spain

a Pouder is a native of the United Kingdom.

b Bannister is a native of the United Kingdom.

c Baker is a native of the United Kingdom.

d Dzugayev was a native of the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...

; it is presently Russia.

d Bernátková was a native in a part of Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...

; it is presently located in the Czech Republic.

e Roy is a native of Canada.