List of the verified oldest men

This is a list of the 100 verified oldest men, arranged in descending order of each individual's age in years and days. A year typically refers to a calendar year, the time between two dates of the same name. However, years can 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 to another. The oldest man ever whose age has been verified is Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013) a Japanese man who died at age 116 years, 54 days. There are five living people on this list, the oldest of whom is Polish-Israeli man, Yisrael Kristal, aged 112 years, 235 days.

100 verified oldest men

      Deceased       Living
†^ denotes age at death, or, if living, age as of 7 May 2016

Rank	Name	Birth date	Death date	Age ^[†]	Place of death or residence
1	Jiroemon Kimura	19 April 1897	12 June 2013	116 years, 54 days	Japan
2	Christian Mortensen	16 August 1882	25 April 1998	115 years, 252 days	United States^[a]
3	Emiliano Mercado del Toro	21 August 1891	24 January 2007	115 years, 156 days	Puerto Rico
4	Mathew Beard	9 July 1870	16 February 1985	114 years, 222 days	United States
5	Walter Breuning	21 September 1896	14 April 2011	114 years, 205 days	United States
6	Yukichi Chuganji	23 March 1889	28 September 2003	114 years, 189 days	Japan
7	Joan Riudavets	15 December 1889	5 March 2004	114 years, 81 days	Spain
8	Fred Hale	1 December 1890	19 November 2004	113 years, 354 days	United States
9	Johnson Parks	15 October 1884	17 July 1998	113 years, 275 days	United States
10	Tomoji Tanabe	18 September 1895	19 June 2009	113 years, 274 days	Japan
11	John Ingram McMorran	19 June 1889	24 February 2003	113 years, 250 days	United States
12	Frederick Frazier	27 January 1880	14 June 1993	113 years, 138 days	United States
13	James Sisnett	22 February 1900	23 May 2013	113 years, 90 days	Barbados^[b]
14	Walter Richardson	7 November 1885	25 December 1998	113 years, 48 days	United States
15	Henry Allingham	6 June 1896	18 July 2009	113 years, 42 days	United Kingdom
16	Antonio Todde	22 January 1889	3 January 2002	112 years, 346 days	Italy
17	Moses Hardy	6 January 1894	7 December 2006	112 years, 335 days	United States
18	Yasutaro Koide	13 March 1903	19 January 2016[1]	112 years, 312 days	Japan
19	John Evans	19 August 1877	10 June 1990	112 years, 295 days	United Kingdom
20	Yisrael Kristal[2]	15 September 1903	Living	112 years, 235 days	Israel^[c]
21	George Francis	6 June 1896	27 December 2008	112 years, 204 days	United States
22	Denzo Ishizaki	20 October 1886	29 April 1999	112 years, 191 days	Japan
23	Josep Armengol	23 July 1881	20 January 1994	112 years, 181 days	Spain
24	Giovanni Frau	29 December 1890	19 June 2003	112 years, 172 days	Italy
25	John Painter	20 September 1888	1 March 2001	112 years, 162 days	United States
26	Sakari Momoi	5 February 1903	5 July 2015	112 years, 150 days	Japan
27	Alphaeus Philemon Cole	12 July 1876	25 November 1988	112 years, 136 days	United States
28	Augusto Moreira	6 October 1896	13 February 2009	112 years, 130 days	Portugal
29	George Johnson	1 May 1894	30 August 2006	112 years, 121 days	United States
30	Salustiano Sanchez	8 June 1901	13 September 2013	112 years, 97 days	United States^[d]
31	Gengan Tonaki	30 October 1884	24 January 1997	112 years, 86 days	Japan
32	Tadanosuke Hashimoto	27 April 1891	31 May 2003	112 years, 34 days	Japan
33	Kumekichi Tani	20 April 1891	12 May 2003	112 years, 22 days	Japan
34	James Wiggins	15 October 1879	16 October 1991	112 years, 1 day	United States
35	Arturo Licata	2 May 1902	24 April 2014	111 years, 357 days	Italy
36	Masamitsu Yoshida[3]	30 May 1904	Living	111 years, 343 days	Japan
37	Walter H. Seward	13 October 1896	14 September 2008	111 years, 337 days	United States
38	Maurice Floquet	25 December 1894	10 November 2006	111 years, 320 days	France
39	James McCoubrey	13 September 1901	5 July 2013	111 years, 295 days	United States^[e]
40	John Mosely Turner	15 June 1856	21 March 1968	111 years, 280 days	United Kingdom
41	Hermann Dörnemann	27 May 1893	2 March 2005	111 years, 279 days	Germany
42	Antonio Urrea	18 February 1888	15 November 1999	111 years, 270 days	Spain
43	Arthur Carter	5 October 1889	11 June 2001	111 years, 249 days	United States
44	Jan Machiel Reyskens	11 May 1878	7 January 1990	111 years, 241 days	Netherlands^[f]
45	Joe Thomas	1 May 1875	14 December 1986	111 years, 227 days	United States
46	James Zackry	15 August 1881	14 March 1993	111 years, 211 days	United States
47	Tanekichi Onishi	15 February 1900	11 September 2011	111 years, 208 days	Japan
48	Kiyoshi Igarashi	2 August 1897	23 February 2009	111 years, 205 days	Japan
49	Herman Smith-Johannsen	15 June 1875	5 January 1987	111 years, 204 days	Norway
50	Ernest Pusey	5 May 1895	19 November 2006	111 years, 198 days	United States
51	Thomas Nelson, Sr.	8 July 1895	9 January 2007	111 years, 185 days	United States
52	Jokichi Ikarashi	26 January 1902	23 July 2013	111 years, 178 days	Japan
53	Earl Brush	17 July 1893	10 January 2005	111 years, 177 days	United States
54	Asaki Miyagi[4]	15 November 1904	Living	111 years, 174 days	Japan
55	Antonio de Castro	6 January 1898	22 June 2009	111 years, 167 days	Portugal
56	Sukesaburo Nakanishi	15 March 1896	22 August 2007	111 years, 160 days	Japan
57	Luther Goding	1 July 1884	5 December 1995	111 years, 157 days	United States
58	Jan Pieter Bos	12 July 1891	15 December 2002	111 years, 156 days	Netherlands
59	Emile Fourcade	29 July 1884	29 December 1995	111 years, 153 days	France^[g]
60	Benjamin Harrison Holcomb	3 July 1889	2 December 2000	111 years, 152 days	United States
61	Aarne Arvonen	4 August 1897	1 January 2009	111 years, 150 days	Finland^[h]
62	George Frederick Ives	17 November 1881	12 April 1993	111 years, 146 days	Canada^[i]
	Francisco Núñez Olivera[5][6]	13 December 1904	Living	111 years, 146 days	Spain
64	Jan Goossenaerts	30 October 1900	21 March 2012	111 years, 143 days	Belgium
65	Garland Adair	30 July 1898	11 December 2009	111 years, 134 days	United States
66	Anders Engberg	1 July 1892	6 November 2003	111 years, 128 days	Sweden
67	Alexander Imich	4 February 1903	8 June 2014	111 years, 124 days	United States^[j]
68	Jack Lockett	22 January 1891	25 May 2002	111 years, 123 days	Australia^[k]
69	Henry Hartmann	14 July 1894	10 November 2005	111 years, 119 days	United States
70	Shelby Harris	31 March 1901	25 July 2012	111 years, 116 days	United States
71	Daniel Guzmán-García	6 February 1897	21 May 2008	111 years, 105 days	Colombia
72	Sadayoshi Tanabe	20 October 1888	18 January 2000	111 years, 90 days	Japan
73	Makaru Nakanishi	15 December 1901	28 February 2013	111 years, 75 days	Japan
74	Henry Pfeiffer	22 March 1881	23 May 1992	111 years, 62 days	United States
75	Zachariah Blackistone	16 February 1871	18 April 1982	111 years, 61 days	United States
76	Satoru Tomizawa[7]	10 March 1905	Living	111 years, 58 days	Japan
77	Antonio Baldo	6 July 1887	28 August 1998	111 years, 53 days	Italy
78	Edward Bernard	22 June 1889	11 August 2000	111 years, 50 days	United States
79	Francisco Fernández	24 July 1901	7 September 2012	111 years, 45 days	Spain
80	Norio Kawada	25 April 1892	6 June 2003	111 years, 42 days	Japan
81	Kama Nakasone	23 November 1891	1 January 2003	111 years, 39 days	Japan
82	Harry Patch	17 June 1898	25 July 2009	111 years, 38 days	United Kingdom
83	Peter Solum	3 May 1882	5 June 1993	111 years, 33 days	United States
84	Masao Kaga	1 June 1902	26 June 2013	111 years, 25 days	Japan
85	Giovanni Ligato	18 February 1901	2 March 2012	111 years, 13 days	Italy
86	Domenico Minervino	10 May 1880	22 May 1991	111 years, 12 days	Italy
87	Nijiro Tokuda	10 June 1895	12 June 2006	111 years, 2 days	Japan
88	Valentino Stella	2 January 1886	1 January 1997	110 years, 365 days	Italy
89	Giichi Okumura	18 October 1896	13 October 2007	110 years, 360 days	Japan
90	Charles Shebanek	9 September 1883	27 August 1994	110 years, 352 days	United States
91	Antonio Pierro	22 February 1896	8 February 2007	110 years, 351 days	United States^[l]
92	Carl Berner	27 January 1902	7 January 2013	110 years, 346 days	United States^[m]
93	Gregory Pandazes	15 January 1873	22 December 1983	110 years, 341 days	United States^[n]
	Eiju Tsuru	4 February 1879	11 January 1990	110 years, 341 days	Japan
95	Charlie Nelson	21 September 1867	20 August 1978	110 years, 333 days	United States
	Yoshio Nakagawa	19 December 1901	16 November 2012	110 years, 333 days	Japan
97	Masatake Kinoshita	20 August 1897	17 July 2008	110 years, 332 days	Japan
98	Felix Simoneaux	24 May 1905	19 April 2016	110 years, 331 days	United States
99	Linus Reinhart	28 July 1892	14 June 2003	110 years, 321 days	United States
100	Lloyd Myers	20 March 1892	1 February 2003	110 years, 318 days	United States

a^ Mortensen was born in Denmark.
b^ Sisnett was born in Barbados, which was at the time of his birth a British colony; now it is an independent country.
c^ Kristal was born in Maleniec, which was then a part of the Russian Empire. It is now in Poland
d^ Sanchez was born in Spain.
e^ McCoubrey was born in Newfoundland, which was then a separate British colony in 1901. It is now a part of Canada.
f^ Reyskens was born in Belgium.
g^ Fourcade was born in French Algeria; it is now Algeria.
h^ Arvonen was born in Finland, then an autonomous state of the Russian Empire.
i^ Ives was born in the United Kingdom.
j^ Imich was born in Częstochowa, which was then a part of the Russian Empire. It is now in Poland.
k^ Lockett was born in the former British colony Victoria, which is now part of Australia.
l^ Pierro was born in Italy.
m^ Berner was born in Germany.
n^ Pandazes was born in Greece.

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