Monday, May 4, 2015

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 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 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.
The oldest man ever, whose age has been verified, is Jiroemon Kimura, a Japanese man who died on 12 June 2013 at the age of 116 years, 54 days. There are twoverified living supercentenarians on this list, both of whom live in Japan, the older of whom is Sakari Momoi, age 112 years, 87 days.

100 verified oldest men

      Deceased       Living
RankNameBirth dateDeath dateAge (at death,
or as of 3 May 2015)
Place of death
or residence
1Jiroemon Kimura19 April 189712 June 2013116 years, 54 daysJapan
2Christian Mortensen16 August 188225 April 1998115 years, 252 daysUnited States[a]
3Emiliano Mercado del Toro21 August 189124 January 2007115 years, 156 daysPuerto Rico
4Mathew Beard9 July 187016 February 1985114 years, 222 daysUnited States
5Walter Breuning21 September 189614 April 2011114 years, 205 daysUnited States
6Yukichi Chuganji23 March 188928 September 2003114 years, 189 daysJapan
7Joan Riudavets15 December 18895 March 2004114 years, 81 daysSpain
8Fred Hale1 December 189019 November 2004113 years, 354 daysUnited States
9Johnson Parks15 October 188417 July 1998113 years, 275 daysUnited States
10Tomoji Tanabe18 September 189519 June 2009113 years, 274 daysJapan
11John Ingram McMorran19 June 188924 February 2003113 years, 250 daysUnited States
12Frederick Frazier27 January 188014 June 1993113 years, 138 daysUnited States
13James Sisnett22 February 190023 May 2013113 years, 90 daysBarbados[b]
14Walter Richardson7 November 188525 December 1998113 years, 48 daysUnited States
15Henry Allingham6 June 189618 July 2009113 years, 42 daysUnited Kingdom
16Antonio Todde22 January 18893 January 2002112 years, 346 daysItaly
17Moses Hardy6 January 18947 December 2006112 years, 335 daysUnited States
18John Evans19 August 187710 June 1990112 years, 295 daysUnited Kingdom
19George Francis6 June 189627 December 2008112 years, 204 daysUnited States
20Denzo Ishizaki20 October 188629 April 1999112 years, 191 daysJapan
21Josep Armengol23 July 188120 January 1994112 years, 181 daysSpain
22Giovanni Frau29 December 189019 June 2003112 years, 172 daysItaly
23John Painter20 September 18881 March 2001112 years, 162 daysUnited States
24Alphaeus Philemon Cole12 July 187625 November 1988112 years, 136 daysUnited States
25Augusto Moreira6 October 189613 February 2009112 years, 130 daysPortugal
26George Johnson1 May 189430 August 2006112 years, 121 daysUnited States
27Salustiano Sanchez8 June 190113 September 2013112 years, 97 daysUnited States[c]
28Sakari Momoi[1]5 February 1903Living[1]112 years, 87 daysJapan
29Gengan Tonaki30 October 188424 January 1997112 years, 86 daysJapan
30Yasutaro Koide[1]13 March 1903Living[1]112 years, 51 daysJapan
31Tadanosuke Hashimoto27 April 189131 May 2003112 years, 34 daysJapan
32Kumekichi Tani20 April 189112 May 2003112 years, 22 daysJapan
33James Wiggins15 October 187916 October 1991112 years, 1 dayUnited States
34Arturo Licata2 May 190224 April 2014111 years, 357 daysItaly
35Walter H. Seward13 October 189614 September 2008111 years, 337 daysUnited States
36Maurice Floquet25 December 189410 November 2006111 years, 320 daysFrance
37James McCoubrey13 September 19015 July 2013111 years, 295 daysUnited States[d]
38John Mosely Turner15 June 185621 March 1968111 years, 280 daysUnited Kingdom
39Hermann Dörnemann27 May 18932 March 2005111 years, 279 daysGermany
40Antonio Urrea18 February 188815 November 1999111 years, 270 daysSpain
41Arthur Carter5 October 188911 June 2001111 years, 249 daysUnited States
42Jan Machiel Reyskens11 May 18787 January 1990111 years, 241 daysNetherlands[e]
43Joe Thomas1 May 187514 December 1986111 years, 227 daysUnited States
44James Zackry15 August 188114 March 1993111 years, 211 daysUnited States
45Tanekichi Onishi15 February 190011 September 2011111 years, 208 daysJapan
46Kiyoshi Igarashi2 August 189723 February 2009111 years, 205 daysJapan
47Herman Smith-Johannsen15 June 18755 January 1987111 years, 204 daysNorway
48Ernest Pusey5 May 189519 November 2006111 years, 198 daysUnited States
49Thomas Nelson, Sr.8 July 18959 January 2007111 years, 185 daysUnited States
50Jokichi Ikarashi26 January 190223 July 2013111 years, 178 daysJapan
51Earl Brush17 July 189310 January 2005111 years, 177 daysUnited States
52Antonio de Castro6 January 189822 June 2009111 years, 167 daysPortugal
53Sukesaburo Nakanishi15 March 189622 August 2007111 years, 160 daysJapan
54Luther Goding1 July 18845 December 1995111 years, 157 daysUnited States
55Jan Pieter Bos12 July 189115 December 2002111 years, 156 daysNetherlands
56Emile Fourcade29 July 188429 December 1995111 years, 153 daysFrance[f]
57Benjamin Harrison Holcomb3 July 18892 December 2000111 years, 152 daysUnited States
58Aarne Arvonen4 August 18971 January 2009111 years, 150 daysFinland
59George Frederick Ives17 November 188112 April 1993111 years, 146 daysCanada[g]
60Jan Goossenaerts30 October 190021 March 2012111 years, 143 daysBelgium
61Garland Adair30 July 189811 December 2009111 years, 134 daysUnited States
62Anders Engberg1 July 18926 November 2003111 years, 128 daysSweden
63Alexander Imich4 February 19038 June 2014111 years, 124 daysUnited States[h]
64Jack Lockett22 January 189125 May 2002111 years, 123 daysAustralia[i]
65Henry Hartmann14 July 189410 November 2005111 years, 119 daysUnited States
66Shelby Harris31 March 190125 July 2012111 years, 116 daysUnited States
67Daniel Guzmán-García6 February 189721 May 2008111 years, 105 daysColombia
68Sadayoshi Tanabe20 October 188818 January 2000111 years, 90 daysJapan
69Makaru Nakanishi15 December 190128 February 2013111 years, 75 daysJapan
70Henry Pfeiffer22 March 188123 May 1992111 years, 62 daysUnited States
71Zachariah Blackistone16 February 187118 April 1982111 years, 61 daysUnited States
72Antonio Baldo6 July 188728 August 1998111 years, 53 daysItaly
73Edward Bernard22 June 188911 August 2000111 years, 50 daysUnited States
74Francisco Fernández24 July 19017 September 2012111 years, 45 daysSpain
75Norio Kawada25 April 18926 June 2003111 years, 42 daysJapan
76Kama Nakasone23 November 18911 January 2003111 years, 39 daysJapan
77Harry Patch17 June 189825 July 2009111 years, 38 daysUnited Kingdom
78Peter Solum3 May 18825 June 1993111 years, 33 daysUnited States
79Masao Kaga1 June 190226 June 2013111 years, 25 daysJapan
80Giovanni Ligato18 February 19012 March 2012111 years, 13 daysItaly
81Domenico Minervino10 May 188022 May 1991111 years, 12 daysItaly
82Nijiro Tokuda10 June 189512 June 2006111 years, 2 daysJapan
83Valentino Stella2 January 18861 January 1997110 years, 365 daysItaly
84Giichi Okumura18 October 189613 October 2007110 years, 360 daysJapan
85Charles Shebanek9 September 188327 August 1994110 years, 352 daysUnited States
86Antonio Pierro22 February 18968 February 2007110 years, 351 daysUnited States[j]
87Carl Berner27 January 19027 January 2013110 years, 346 daysUnited States[k]
88Gregory Pandazes15 January 187322 December 1983110 years, 341 daysUnited States[l]
Eiju Tsuru4 February 187911 January 1990110 years, 341 daysJapan
90Charlie Nelson21 September 186720 August 1978110 years, 333 daysUnited States
Yoshio Nakagawa19 December 190116 November 2012110 years, 333 daysJapan
92Masatake Kinoshita20 August 189717 July 2008110 years, 332 daysJapan
93Linus Reinhart28 July 189214 June 2003110 years, 321 daysUnited States
94Lloyd Myers20 March 18921 February 2003110 years, 318 daysUnited States
95Frank Ahmann11 May 188922 March 2000110 years, 316 daysUnited States
96Leopold Vietoris4 June 18919 April 2002110 years, 309 daysAustria
97Takashi Hattori12 March 189812 January 2009110 years, 306 daysJapan
98Walter Wilcox1 November 187211 August 1983110 years, 283 daysUnited States
99Galo Leoz22 April 187923 January 1990110 years, 276 daysSpain
100A.L.M.[2]11 April 18791 January 1990110 years, 265 daysSpain
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^ Sanchez was born in Spain.
d^ McCoubrey was born in Newfoundland, which was then a separate British colony in 1901. It is now a part of Canada.
e^ Reyskens was born in Belgium.
f^ Fourcade was born in French Algeria; it is now Algeria.
g^ Ives was born in the United Kingdom.
h^ Imich was born in Częstochowa, which was then a part of the Russian Empire. It is now in Poland.
i^ Lockett was born in the former British colony Victoria, which is now part of Australia.
j^ Pierro was born in Italy.
k^ Berner was born in Germany.
l^ Pandazes was born in Greece.

The War of the Worlds

On the evening of October 30, 1938, the audience listening to CBS Radio were told they were going to be treated to the music of Ramon Raquello and his orchestra, broadcast live from the Meridian Room at the Park Plaza in New York City. The performance began, but mere minutes into it a reporter from Intercontinental Radio News interrupted to deliver an important announcement. Astronomers had just detected enormous blue flames shooting up from the surface of Mars.


An undated edition of H.G. Wells' story, from Whitman Publishing. 
Probably from the 1940s.

The broadcast returned to the music of Ramon Raquello, but soon it was interrupted again with more news. Now a strange meteor had fallen to earth, impacting violently on a farm near Grovers Mill, New Jersey. A reporter was soon on hand to describe the eerie scene around the meteor crater, and the broadcast switched over to continuous coverage of this rapidly unfolding event.

To the dismay of the terrified radio audience, the events around the Grovers Mill meteor crater rapidly escalated from the merely strange to the positively ominous. It turned out that the meteor was not a meteor. It was, in fact, a spaceship, out of which a tentacled creature, presumably a Martian, emerged and blasted the onlookers with a deadly heat-ray. 

The Martian sunk back into the crater, but reemerged soon afterwards housed inside a gigantic, three-legged death machine. The Martian quickly disposed of 7,000 armed soldiers surrounding the crater, and then it began marching across the landscape, joined by other Martians. The Martian invaders blasted people and communication lines with their heat-rays, while simultaneously releasing a toxic black gas against which gas masks proved useless.

Mass Panic


Orson Welles in the CBS studios during the broadcast.
Believing that the nation had been invaded by Martians, many listeners panicked. Some people loaded blankets and supplies in their cars and prepared to flee. One mother in New England reportedly packed her babies and lots of bread into a car, figuring that "if everything is burning, you can't eat money, but you can eat bread." Other people hid in cellars, hoping that the poisonous gas would blow over them. One college senior drove forty-five miles at breakneck speed in a valiant attempt to save his girlfriend.

By the time the night was over, however, almost all of these people had learned that the news broadcast was entirely fictitious. It was simply the weekly broadcast of Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre. That week, in honor of Halloween, they had decided to stage a highly dramatized and updated version of H.G. Wells' story, The War of the Worlds.

The broadcast reached a huge audience, demonstrating the enormous reach of radio at that time. Approximately six million people heard it. Out of this number it was long thought that almost one million people panicked. More recent research, however, suggests that the number of people who panicked is probably far lower. In fact, some skeptics contend that the idea that the broadcast touched off a huge national scare is more of a hoax than the broadcast itself, which was never intended to fool anyone. (At four separate points during the broadcast, including the beginning, it was clearly stated that what people were hearing was a play.) The idea that hundreds of thousands of people panicked may have arisen because the media exaggerated the figures in order to dramatize the panic.

Reasons for belief


In this famous photo, New Jersey farmer Bill Dock prepares to fight off the invading Martians. The image was actually posed by a Life Magazine photographer a few days after the panic.
Despite the contention that the panic may not have been as widespread as originally thought, many people undeniably did panic. What might have caused them to believe that the broadcast was real?

First, many people tuned in late and missed the announcement made at the beginning of the broadcast that what followed was merely a staged dramatization. By the time a second disclaimer was made, the most alarming portion of the play had already been broadcast.

Second, the global situation in 1938 provided a context that allowed many to believe such a series of events could be unfolding. Tensions in Europe were rising, and it had been very common during the previous three months for radio broadcasts to be interrupted by reporters delivering ominous news from Europe. Many who panicked later explained they had assumed the Martian invasion was a cleverly disguised German attack.

Most of those who panicked were middle-aged or older. Younger listeners tended not to panic because they recognized Orson Welles's voice as the voice of the hero in the popular radio series, The Shadow.

Later Panics

The 1938 broadcast was not the only time a dramatized broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds was mistaken for an account of real events. In November 1944 the play caused a similar panic when it was broadcast in Santiago, Chile, and in February 1949 it once again stirred up unrest when it was performed by a radio station in Quito, Ecuador. The situation in Ecuador provoked an angry mob to surround the radio station and burn it to the ground.

How to hear the broadcast

The original 1938 Mercury Theatre broadcast of the War of the Worlds has been archived and can now be heard on the internet at EarthStation1.com
War of the Worlds Haiku (Submitted by Hoax Museum visitors)
The night has grown still.
Nothing stirs but that Martian
blasting its heat ray.
(by AB) 
Tripods fire their beams
Spreading death and destruction
Across the landscape. 
(by bobbaxter)
You silly people!
Don't you think you'd see a sign
if aliens came? 
(by Alia)
Aliens shoot, zap and destroy
This is surely the end of time.
But no, it was a ploy.
(by Cuke)

The Boy with the Golden Tooth

In 1593 reports began to spread of a young boy in Silesia, seven-year-old Christoph Müller, who had grown a golden tooth. Jakob Horst, a professor of medicine at Julius University in Helmstedt, decided to investigate. He found the boy did indeed have a gold tooth set firmly in his jaw. Tests with a touchstone (a small tablet of dark stone on which soft metals such as gold leave a visible trace) confirmed the gold was real, though not as high quality, Horst noted, as Hungarian gold. 


Horst wrote a 145-page treatise about the case, De aureo dente maxillari pueri Silesii (Of the Golden Tooth of the Boy from Silesia), in which he attributed the golden tooth to astrological causes. He noted that the boy was born on December 22, 1585, when there was an unusual alignment of the planets that must have increased the heat of the sun, causing the bone in the boy's jaw to turn to gold. He also argued that the tooth was a portent of important events to come: the dawn of a new golden age for the Holy Roman Empire. However, because the tooth was located on the boy's left side, considered to be the sinister side, the golden age would be preceded by many calamities.


Jakob Horst's De aureo dente maxillari pueri Silesii

Not all doctors agreed with Horst's opinion. Duncan Liddell, a Scottish physician living in Helmstedt, published his own analysis of the case, Tractatus de dente aureo pueri Silesiani, in which he argued that the boy's golden tooth had to be man-made.

Time confirmed Liddell's analysis to be correct. The daily pressure of chewing, combined with the repeated tests with a touchstone, wore down the gold enough to reveal that it was merely a thin layer of metal skillfully fitted over the boy's tooth. At first the boy attempted to conceal this by refusing to allow any more learned gentlemen to examine his tooth. However, a drunken nobleman became enraged when his request to see the tooth was refused, and he stabbed the boy in the cheek. When a doctor came to suture the wound, he discovered the fraud.

Christoph was taken to prison, and the man who fitted the gold layer over his tooth reportedly fled. But despite having been created for deceptive, not therapeutic, reasons, the golden tooth earned a distinguished place in the history of dentistry. It is considered to be the first documented case of the creation of a gold crown for a tooth. 

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