List of the verified oldest women
This is a list of the 100 verified oldest women. The oldest verified woman ever was French Jeanne Calment (1875-1997) who is also the oldest verified person ever and who died at the age of 122 years 164 days. There are eight verified living supercentenarians on this list, the oldest of whom is American woman Susannah Mushatt Jones, aged 116 years, 306 days.
100 verified oldest women
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 |
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1 | Jeanne Calment[1] | 21 February 1875 | 4 August 1997 | 122 years, 164 days | France |
2 | Sarah Knauss[2] | 24 September 1880 | 30 December 1999 | 119 years, 97 days | United States |
3 | Lucy Hannah[3] | 16 July 1875 | 21 March 1993 | 117 years, 248 days | United States |
4 | Marie-Louise Meilleur[4] | 29 August 1880 | 16 April 1998 | 117 years, 230 days | Canada |
5 | Misao Okawa[5][6] | 5 March 1898 | 1 April 2015 | 117 years, 27 days | Japan |
6 | María Capovilla[7] | 14 September 1889 | 27 August 2006 | 116 years, 347 days | Ecuador |
7 | Susannah Mushatt Jones[5][8] | 6 July 1899 | Living[5] | 116 years, 306 days | United States |
8 | Gertrude Weaver[5][9] | 4 July 1898 | 6 April 2015 | 116 years, 276 days | United States |
9 | Tane Ikai[10] | 18 January 1879 | 12 July 1995 | 116 years, 175 days | Japan |
10 | Emma Morano[5][11] | 29 November 1899 | Living[5] | 116 years, 160 days | Italy |
11 | Elizabeth Bolden[12] | 15 August 1890 | 11 December 2006 | 116 years, 118 days | United States |
12 | Besse Cooper[13] | 26 August 1896 | 4 December 2012 | 116 years, 100 days | United States |
13 | Violet Brown[5] | 10 March 1900 | Living[5] | 116 years, 58 days | Jamaica[a] |
14 | Jeralean Talley[14] | 23 May 1899 | 17 June 2015 | 116 years, 25 days | United States |
15 | Maggie Barnes[15] | 6 March 1882 | 19 January 1998 | 115 years, 319 days | United States |
16 | Nabi Tajima[5] | 4 August 1900 | Living[5] | 115 years, 277 days | Japan |
17 | Dina Manfredini[16] | 4 April 1897 | 17 December 2012 | 115 years, 257 days | United States[b] |
18 | Charlotte Hughes[17] | 1 August 1877 | 17 March 1993 | 115 years, 228 days | United Kingdom |
19 | Edna Parker[18] | 20 April 1893 | 26 November 2008 | 115 years, 220 days | United States |
20 | Mary Ann Rhodes[19] | 12 August 1882 | 3 March 1998 | 115 years, 203 days | Canada |
21 | Anonymous[20] | 15 March 1900 | 27 September 2015 | 115 years, 196 days | Japan |
22 | Margaret Skeete[21] | 27 October 1878 | 7 May 1994 | 115 years, 192 days | United States |
23 | Bernice Madigan[22] | 24 July 1899 | 3 January 2015 | 115 years, 163 days | United States |
24 | Gertrude Baines[23] | 6 April 1894 | 11 September 2009 | 115 years, 158 days | United States |
25 | Bettie Wilson[24] | 13 September 1890 | 13 February 2006 | 115 years, 153 days | United States |
26 | Julie Winnefred Bertrand[25] | 16 September 1891 | 18 January 2007 | 115 years, 124 days | Canada |
27 | Maria de Jesus[26] | 10 September 1893 | 2 January 2009 | 115 years, 114 days | Portugal |
28 | Susie Gibson[27] | 31 October 1890 | 16 February 2006 | 115 years, 108 days | United States |
29 | Augusta Holtz[28] | 3 August 1871 | 21 October 1986 | 115 years, 79 days | United States[c] |
30 | Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper[29] | 29 June 1890 | 30 August 2005 | 115 years, 62 days | Netherlands |
31 | Maude Farris-Luse[30] | 21 January 1887 | 18 March 2002 | 115 years, 56 days | United States |
32 | Marie Brémont[31] | 25 April 1886 | 6 June 2001 | 115 years, 42 days | France |
33 | Koto Okubo[32] | 24 December 1897 | 12 January 2013 | 115 years, 19 days | Japan |
34 | Antonia Gerena Rivera[5][33] | 19 May 1900 | 2 June 2015 | 115 years, 14 days | United States[d] |
35 | Chiyono Hasegawa[34] | 20 November 1896 | 2 December 2011 | 115 years, 12 days | Japan |
36 | Annie Jennings[35] | 12 November 1884 | 20 November 1999 | 115 years, 8 days | United Kingdom |
37 | Chiyo Miyako[5] | 2 May 1901 | Living[5] | 115 years, 5 days | Japan |
38 | Eva Morris[36] | 8 November 1885 | 2 November 2000 | 114 years, 360 days | United Kingdom |
39 | Kama Chinen[37] | 10 May 1895 | 2 May 2010 | 114 years, 357 days | Japan |
40 | Maria Gomes Valentim[38] | 9 July 1896 | 21 June 2011 | 114 years, 347 days | Brazil |
41 | Mary Bidwell[39] | 19 May 1881 | 25 April 1996 | 114 years, 342 days | United States |
42 | Mary Josephine Ray[40] | 17 May 1895 | 7 March 2010 | 114 years, 294 days | United States[e] |
43 | Goldie Steinberg[5][41][42] | 30 October 1900 | 16 August 2015 | 114 years, 290 days | United States[f] |
44 | Kiyoko Ishiguro | 4 March 1901 | 5 December 2015 | 114 years, 276 days | Japan |
45 | Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes | 24 October 1890 | 25 July 2005 | 114 years, 274 days | Portugal |
46 | Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan[43] | 31 August 1889 | 29 May 2004 | 114 years, 272 days | Puerto Rico |
47 | Eugénie Blanchard[44] | 16 February 1896 | 4 November 2010 | 114 years, 261 days | France (Saint Barthélemy) |
48 | Venere Pizzinato-Papo[45] | 23 November 1896 | 2 August 2011 | 114 years, 252 days | Italy[g] |
49 | Neva Morris[46] | 3 August 1895 | 6 April 2010 | 114 years, 246 days | United States |
50 | Hide Ohira[35] | 15 September 1880 | 9 May 1995 | 114 years, 236 days | Japan |
51 | Blanche Cobb[47] | 8 September 1900 | 1 May 2015 | 114 years, 235 days | United States |
52 | Ethel Lang[48] | 27 May 1900 | 15 January 2015 | 114 years, 233 days | United Kingdom |
53 | Yone Minagawa[49] | 4 January 1893 | 13 August 2007 | 114 years, 221 days | Japan |
54 | María Antonia Castro | 10 June 1881 | 16 January 1996 | 114 years, 220 days | Spain |
55 | Eudoxie Baboul[5] | 1 October 1901 | Living[5] | 114 years, 219 days | France (French Guiana) |
56 | Carrie Lazenby | 9 February 1882 | 14 September 1996 | 114 years, 218 days | United States |
Ura Koyama[50] | 30 August 1890 | 5 April 2005 | 114 years, 218 days | Japan | |
58 | Myrtle Dorsey[51] | 22 November 1885 | 25 June 2000 | 114 years, 216 days | United States |
59 | Anna Eliza Williams[52] | 2 June 1873 | 27 December 1987 | 114 years, 208 days | United Kingdom |
60 | Eunice Sanborn[53] | 20 July 1896 | 31 January 2011 | 114 years, 195 days | United States |
61 | Grace Clawson[54] | 15 November 1887 | 28 May 2002 | 114 years, 194 days | United States[h] |
62 | Tase Matsunaga[55] | 11 May 1884 | 18 November 1998 | 114 years, 191 days | Japan |
Ana María Vela Rubio[5] | 29 October 1901 | Living[5] | 114 years, 191 days | Spain | |
64 | Kame Nakamura[56] | 8 March 1898 | 12 September 2012 | 114 years, 188 days | Japan |
65 | Lydie Vellard | 18 March 1875 | 17 September 1989 | 114 years, 183 days | France |
Wilhelmina Kott[57] | 7 March 1880 | 6 September 1994 | 114 years, 183 days | United States | |
Adelina Domingues[58] | 19 February 1888 | 21 August 2002 | 114 years, 183 days | United States[i] | |
68 | Mitoyo Kawate[59] | 15 May 1889 | 13 November 2003 | 114 years, 182 days | Japan |
69 | Charlotte Benkner[60] | 16 November 1889 | 14 May 2004 | 114 years, 180 days | United States[j] |
Camille Loiseau[61] | 13 February 1892 | 12 August 2006 | 114 years, 180 days | France | |
71 | Anne Primout[62] | 5 October 1890 | 26 March 2005 | 114 years, 172 days | France[k] |
72 | Ettie Mae Greene[63] | 8 September 1877 | 26 February 1992 | 114 years, 171 days | United States |
73 | Dominga Velasco[20] | 12 May 1901 | 11 October 2015 | 114 years, 152 days | United States[l] |
74 | Toshie Yorimitsu | 30 September 1901 | 28 February 2016 | 114 years, 151 days | Japan |
75 | Irene Frank | 1 October 1881 | 28 February 1996 | 114 years, 150 days | United States |
76 | Christina Cock[64] | 25 December 1887 | 22 May 2002 | 114 years, 148 days | Australia[m] |
77 | Olivia Patricia Thomas[65] | 29 June 1895 | 16 November 2009 | 114 years, 140 days | United States |
78 | Anna Henderson[66] | 5 March 1900 | 1 July 2014 | 114 years, 118 days | United States |
79 | Emma Verona Johnston[67] | 6 August 1890 | 1 December 2004 | 114 years, 117 days | United States |
Mamie Rearden[68] | 7 September 1898 | 2 January 2013 | 114 years, 117 days | United States | |
81 | Bettie Chatmon | 30 April 1884 | 16 August 1998 | 114 years, 108 days | United States |
82 | Odie Matthews | 28 December 1878 | 14 April 1993 | 114 years, 107 days | United States |
83 | Chiyo Shiraishi | 6 August 1895 | 19 November 2009 | 114 years, 105 days | Japan |
84 | Asa Takii[69] | 28 April 1884 | 31 July 1998 | 114 years, 94 days | Japan |
85 | Florence Knapp[70] | 10 October 1873 | 11 January 1988 | 114 years, 93 days | United States |
Elena Slough[71] | 4 July 1889 | 5 October 2003 | 114 years, 93 days | United States | |
87 | Lucy Jane Askew[72] | 8 September 1883 | 9 December 1997 | 114 years, 92 days | United Kingdom |
Mary Anna Boone | 10 February 1887 | 13 May 2001 | 114 years, 92 days | United States | |
89 | María del Carmen López | 3 April 1883 | 3 July 1997 | 114 years, 91 days | Spain |
90 | Waka Shirahama[73] | 23 March 1878 | 16 June 1992 | 114 years, 85 days | Japan |
Delma Kollar[74] | 31 October 1897 | 24 January 2012 | 114 years, 85 days | United States | |
92 | Mitsue Toyoda[5] | 15 February 1902 | Living[5] | 114 years, 82 days | Japan |
93 | Suekiku Miyanaga[75] | 7 April 1884 | 20 June 1998 | 114 years, 74 days | Japan |
94 | Shige Hirooka | 16 January 1897 | 29 March 2011 | 114 years, 72 days | Japan |
95 | Maggie Renfro[76] | 14 November 1895 | 22 January 2010 | 114 years, 69 days | United States |
96 | Emma Tillman[77] | 22 November 1892 | 28 January 2007 | 114 years, 67 days | United States |
Anna Stoehr[78] | 15 October 1900 | 21 December 2014 | 114 years, 67 days | United States | |
98 | Leila Denmark[79] | 1 February 1898 | 1 April 2012 | 114 years, 60 days | United States |
99 | Naomi Conner[80] | 30 August 1899 | 18 October 2013 | 114 years, 49 days | United States |
Ora Holland[81] | 24 December 1900 | 11 February 2015 | 114 years, 49 days | United States |
a^ Brown was born in Jamaica, then a British colony.
b^ Manfredini was born in Italy.
c^ Holtz was born in the Province of Posen, which was then in the German Empire; it is now in Poland.
d^ Gerena was born in Puerto Rico.
e^ Ray was born in Canada.
f^ Steinberg was born in Kishinev, which was then a part of the Russian Empire; it is now the capital of Moldova.
g^ Pizzinato-Papo was born in Ala, which was then in Austria-Hungary; it is now in Italy.
h^ Clawson was born in the United Kingdom.
i^ Domingues was born in Cape Verde, at that time a colony of Portugal.
j^ Benkner was born in Germany.
k^ Primout was born in French Algeria, then a colony of France, now an independent country.
l^ Velasco was born in Mexico.
m^ Cock was born in the former British colony Victoria, which is now part of Australia.
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