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People who gave to the world. The oldest man in the world - how many years did he live?

It is quite natural that each of us wants to live as long as possible, and admires centenarians who managed to see many world events at once. Almost everyone has relatives who managed to live over 95 years, and we are very proud of them. But there are also people in the world whose life expectancy is over 110 years, and we propose to get acquainted with where the oldest people on the planet live.

At the end of November 1899, Emma Martina Luigia Morano was born in the Italian town of Civiasco. Later she had four more sisters and three brothers. Note that many representatives of this family are among the long-livers. For example, Emma’s mother, aunt and her brothers were lucky enough to live to be more than 90 years old, but one of her sisters even lived to be 102 years old.

Her father's work forced Emma's family to move to Ossola. But climatic conditions there they turned out to be so severe that doctors recommended moving to a province with a more acceptable climate. Since then, Emma has lived next to Lake Lago Maggiore in Pallanza.

A month before her 27th birthday, Emma became the wife of Giovanni Martinzuzzi, and after 11 years of marriage they had a child, but, unfortunately, he died six months after birth. Although a couple long time continued to remain married, she can hardly be counted among the happy ones, and since 1938 they practically did not live together. In 1975, Emma decided to retire.

Today, she continues to live alone in her lakeside home. Emma shared the secrets of her longevity with reporters, saying that she did not use medicines, eats 3 soft-boiled eggs daily, as well as meat. In addition, he does not miss the opportunity to have a glass of homemade brandy and enjoy chocolate. She considers her optimism to be the most important criterion for longevity; she is also sure that an extremely short period of marriage also helped in longevity.

Another one old resident planet - Jamaican Violet Brown, who is 3.5 months younger than the Italian (born March 10, 1900). Violet's mother also lived a fairly long life (she died at the age of 96). When Violet's age exceeded 60, she decided to get married, Augustus Gaynor Brown became her chosen one, and soon their daughter was born.

After the British woman Ethel Lang died at the beginning of 2015, Violet received the title of the last living subject of Queen Victoria, who managed to survive the Victorian era.

Born on August 4th, Japanese woman Nabi Tazima currently holds the title of the oldest verified resident of all of Asia. Currently, she is among the TOP 20 oldest inhabitants of the planet in history. In addition, the Japanese woman gave birth to 9 children, who gave her 28 grandchildren, 56 great-grandchildren and 35 great-great-grandchildren.

The oldest people on the planet in history

Born on February 21, 1875 in French city Arles Jeanne Louise Calment can boast that almost all members of her family are long-livers. For example, her mother managed to live to 86 years, her brother to 97, and her father was one year short of his centenary. Unfortunately, this cannot be said about Jeanne’s offspring, because she outlived her daughter and even one grandson.

Jeanne managed to survive two world wars, she personally watched the construction of the Eiffel Tower, was a little familiar with Vincent Van Gogh, and in 1990 she even starred in a film about him. Zhanna passed away in 1997; at that time she was 123 years old.

The title of the second officially registered record holder belongs to the American Sarah Knaus, born on September 20, 1880. As you know, the daughters considered Sarah very calm and reserved woman, which almost nothing can piss off. A woman died in a nursing home on December 30, 1999.

Another representative of the United States in this ranking was born on July 16, 1875. Lucy had good heredity - her two sisters managed to live for more than a century, but her mother did not live to see it for one year. Lucy herself died at the age of 117 years and 248 days. At the same time, the woman’s relatives claimed that as a result of problems with documents, Hannah’s age was underestimated by a year, but this fact could not be proven.

The oldest man on the planet among men

The title of the oldest man on the planet belongs to Mziroemon Kimura, who was born on April 19, 1897. For a long period of time he acted as a postman, however, having reached 40 years of service, he decided to retire. His next calling was to work on a farm, which he continued until his 90th birthday, when his legs began to weaken.

Talking about secrets so long life, Kimura talked about eating in moderation. In addition, the Japanese was a very sociable person and often received guests. He liked to spend time reading newspapers and watching TV, where he was interested in politics and sumo.

Kimura died at the age of 116 from pneumonia. The list of his heirs consisted of seven children, 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren.

Unofficial centenarians

Until this point, the article listed only those centenarians whose age could be officially determined. But, unfortunately, it did not include other “very, very” centenarians, who, due to various objective reasons, were unable to prove their age (wars, as a result of which records with data on newborns were destroyed, lack of literacy in small villages, where there is no documentation and was not carried out at all, etc.).

Therefore, this list should still be supplemented by representatives of Hungary Petridge and Zortai, who managed to live 186 and 185 years, respectively, Ossetian Tense Abziva (180 years), Albanian Hagger (170 years) and representative of Pakistan Sayyad Mabuda, who failed only a year live to see your 160th birthday.

One of the oldest women in Italy, Theresia Staffler, died on Monday evening in the mountain town of Santa Valpurga in the northern Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige at the age of 112. Staffler was far from the only famous centenarian whose age exceeded 100 years.

Duration human life depends on many reasons. This is both a genetic predisposition and environment, and a person’s mood, his desire to live. Only people live to be a hundred years old small share percent of the total number of people on Earth.

According to gerontologists, life expectancy modern man 40% less than what is allotted to it by nature: 100-120 years of active and full life not the limit for the human body.

By classification World Organization In healthcare, long-livers include elderly people who have crossed the 90-year mark.

According to the Guinness Book of Records, the limit for human life expectancy is 122 years. Jeanne Louise Calmat, a resident of France, born on February 21, 1875 in Arles, lived this long. Japanese resident Shigechio Izumi, who was born in 1865 and died of pneumonia in 1986, lived two years less.

But many scientists and journalists believe that the Guinness Book of Records does not have all the data on centenarians. Thus, a reporter from the Cairo newspaper Al-Akhbar talks about a man who, according to him, is 195 years old and perfectly remembers the opening of the Suez Canal.

The population census in Vietnam in 1991 also made its own adjustments to the question of centenarians. A man aged 142 was discovered in Cun Khol County, Nget Tinh Province. There, in Vietnam, they found a centenarian who was born in 1847, outlived her three husbands and has four children who are already over 100 years old.

According to unverified data, one of the oldest inhabitants of the planet was Chinese citizen Li-Chgung-yan, who was born in 1680 and died in 1933 at the age of 253 years. However, these reports are not documented.

One of the oldest inhabitants of Colombia, Javier Pereira, lived to be 169 years old. A special edition was issued in his honor Postage Stamp. On the day Pereira turned 146 years old, government officials and senior officials came to congratulate him. They asked the hero of the day for his consent to issue a commemorative stamp with his image in his honor. Pereira agreed, but set a condition: at the bottom corner of the stamp it should be written: “I drink and I smoke.”

In the Soviet Union, a postage stamp was also issued in honor of the long-lived Mukhamed Eyvazov (he was 148 years old at the time). After this, Eyvazov lived for another three years. He died in August 1959.

An interesting case is described by English historians. In 1635, the peasant Thomas Parr came from the provinces to London to appear before King Charles as a miracle of longevity. Parr claimed that he had outlived nine kings and was 152 years old. In honor of the long-liver, the king threw a magnificent feast, after which Thomas Parr suddenly died. It was opened by the famous English doctor William Harvey, who discovered blood circulation. According to Harvey, Parr died of pneumonia, but, as legends say, the cause of his death was the rich treat at the king's table. Parr was buried with honors in Westminster Abbey.

Of the most famous centenarians The following can also be noted:

Zoltan Petridzh (Hungary) - 186 years old.

Peter Zortai (Hungary) - 185 years old (1539-1724).

Cantigern is the founder of Glasgow Abbey. Known as Saint Mungo. Lived 185 years.

Tense Abziva (Ossetia) - 180 years old.

Huddiye (Albania) - 170 years old. His offspring numbered 200.

Hancer Nine (Türkiye). Lived 169 years. Died in 1964.

Sayyad Abdul Mabud (Pakistan) - 159 years old.

IN developed countries There is a constant struggle in the world for the survival and improvement of the nation, for increasing the life expectancy of each person. Increasing life expectancy in all countries of the world is achieved by reducing child mortality and reducing mortality from cancer and heart diseases. Thus, by defeating diseases, humanity strives to get closer to achieving the upper limit of human life.

Leonard Hayflick, professor of anatomy at the University of California, based on his human survival charts for individual countries and different periods obtained a theoretical curve with an upper limit of 115 years. At the same time, Hayflick discovered another interesting pattern: it turns out that a person’s life expectancy is proportionally related to the ratio of brain weight to body weight. The greater this ratio, the longer life, and this has changed quite dramatically at certain periods during evolution. Last time its strong increase occurred 100 thousand years ago, after which it practically did not change, just as the ratio of brain weight to body weight did not change.

Leonard Hayflick also expressed an original point of view on the aging of the body. According to him, aging occurs after growth stops, and those creatures whose growth does not stop over time (shark, sturgeon, Galapagos tortoise) age very, very slowly.

About the upper limit of human life various world scientists they say differently. The famous medieval physician Paracelsus believed that a person could live 600 years. Albrecht von Haller and Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (scientists of the 18th century) considered the age of 200 years to be the limit of human life. Russian scientists Ilya Mechnikov and Alexander Bogomolets spoke about 160 years.

As paradoxical as it may sound, rarely do any long-livers die a natural death directly from old age. Almost always the cause of death is various diseases - cardiovascular, oncological, infectious.

In his “Etudes of Optimism,” Mechnikov pointed out that “in 1902 in Paris, out of 1000 deaths between 70 and 74 years, only 85 people died of old age. Most old people died from contagious diseases: pneumonia and consumption, from heart disease, kidney disease or cerebral hemorrhage." Even the famous long-livers, the Englishman Thomas Parr (152 years old) and the Turk Zara Aga (156 years old), died not from age, but from disease (the first from pneumonia, the second from uremic coma caused by prostate disease).

Among centenarians, drunkards are often found. The surgeon Politiman died at 140 years old (1685-1825); From the age of 25, he used to get drunk every day after finishing his studies. Gascony, a butcher in Trieu (Pyrenees), who died in 1767 at the age of 120, got drunk twice a week. The example of one Irish landowner Brown, who lived to be 120 years old, is striking. He bequeathed a tombstone inscription to be made for him, stating that “he was always drunk and so terrible in this state that death itself was afraid of him.”

But some centenarians loved wine, others coffee. So, for example, the famous Voltaire loved coffee very much, and when one doctor began to tell him that coffee is poison, Voltaire replied: “It will be 80 years since I have been poisoned by this poison.” Coffee lover Elizabeth Durien lived to be 114 years old.

They say that smoking shortens life. However, many centenarians smoked. Ross, who received the Longevity Award at age 102 (1896), was a heavy smoker.

Scientists have always been interested in the so-called “foci of longevity,” isolated areas where people live much longer than in other places and retain vitality and energy until the end of their lives. One such region is Abkhazia, where almost 3% of the population are centenarians, over 100 years old.

In 2000, there were an estimated 70,000 to 80,000 people in the United States aged 100 years or older. Centenarians represent one of the fastest growing age groups in the US population.

The average life expectancy in Cuba, a neighbor of the United States, is one of the highest in the world: 76 years. At the same time, for the country's 11 million population, there are about 3 thousand people who have crossed the century mark.

Taiwan boasts the number of its centenarians over 100 years of age. According to the Xinhua Agency as of October 2009, there are 1,223 of them in the state. Among the elderly people, 853 are women and 370 are men. The oldest of them are a 116-year-old resident of Kaohsiung City and a 113-year-old resident of Lianhua County, Taipei City.

In November 2009, peasant Halima Solmaz, the oldest woman on the planet who lives in eastern Turkey in the highland province of Diyarbakir, turned 125 years old. In confirmation of this, a representative of the provincial census bureau showed the identity card of the ecumenical hero of the day, which recorded the date of birth of grandmother Halime - 1884.

On January 11, 2010, at the age of 112, one of the oldest women in Italy, Theresia Staffler, died in the mountain town of Santa Valpurga in the northern Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige.

Staffler, who was born in 1898, managed to live in the 19th, 20th and XXI centuries. She ranked 45th on the world list of centenarians.

Teresia will be buried by her two daughters, who are 88 and 85 years old, as well as numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources

Every person wants to live as long as possible, so he looks with admiration at centenarians who have seen a lot in their lifetime. As a rule, if among our friends and acquaintances there are relatives who have reached the age of 95, they become an object of pride and close attention. At the same time, there are people in the world whose lives will surely be the envy of many. Today's rating is dedicated to the centenarians of our planet, who have lived more than 110 years. Many of them throughout their lives have not had bad habits, some smoked almost all their lives, or did not deny themselves alcohol. In any case, each of the centenarians presented below knew his own secret of longevity.

Christian Mortensen115 years 252 days (1882-1998)

Mortensen is recognized as the oldest male centenarian officially registered. The record holder, born on August 16, 1882, lived in Denmark for the first 11 years of his life, then moved to the USA. The centenarian was married for only 10 years, and considered the secret of longevity to be “Great cigars, friends, abstinence from alcohol, singing and drinking high-quality water in large quantities" Christian Mortensen passed away on April 25, 1998.

Maggie Pauline Barnes115 years 319 days (1882-1998)

Maggie became the only long-livers born into slavery (03/06/1882). Little is known about her life, but Barnes outlived 11 of her 15 children. The long-liver passed away on January 19, 1998.

Bessie Cooper 116 years 102 days (1896–2012)

The American was born on August 26, 1896, and was a teacher almost all her life. After she was widowed (Bessie was 68 years old at the time), she went to live on a farm, where she lived until she was 105 years old, after which she moved to a nursing home. Like all long-livers, Cooper had her own secret to longevity: “I don’t eat unhealthy foods, and I’m not interested in other people’s secrets.” Bessie Cooper died on December 4, 2012.

Elizabeth Bolden 116 years 118 days (1890–2006)

Elizabeth was born on August 15, 1890 in the American state. Tennessee in a family of freed slaves. It is noteworthy that by the time of her death on December 11, 2006, she had more than 500 descendants and 75 great-great-grandchildren. By this time, of her 7 children, only 2 were alive.

Tane Ikai 116 years 175 days (1879-1995)

The Japanese woman was recognized as the oldest representative of Asia. Tane was born on January 18, 1879, in the Japanese city of Kansei. Ikai's favorite pastimes were stucco and embroidery. The Japanese woman considered traditional Japanese nutrition, the basis of which is an abundance of seafood, to be one of the secrets of longevity. Also, Tane Ikai is the only one of all centenarians who underwent a post-mortem autopsy (which showed that the cause of death of the Japanese woman was kidney failure). Ikai outlived all 4 of her children; the record holder died on June 12, 1995.

Maria Capovilla 116 l. 347 days (1889–2006)

The centenarian was born on September 14, 1889 in Ecuador, and subsequently became the oldest of the representatives South America. Maria was born into a wealthy military family. At the age of 99, Capovilla suddenly fell ill, and even the doctors did not expect her to recover. However, the centenarian overcame the illness, and after recovering she was able to walk on her own. All her life the woman was active and had no bad habits. By the time of his death on August 27, 2006, Capovilla’s 3 children were over 80 years old.

Mailer Maria Louise117 years 230 days (1880–1998)

The record holder's birthplace was Quebec, Canada (08/29/1880); at the age of 30 she moved to Ontario. Mailer argued that longevity is the result permanent job, which provided her with two marriages, as well as ten children. The long-liver did not hide the fact that she drank wine from time to time, and said goodbye to smoking at the age of 90! Maria Louise died on April 16, 1998.

Lucy Hannah 117 years 248 days (1875 -1993)

In addition to the fact that Hannah ranks third in the ranking of the oldest people on earth, she is also the oldest African-American woman. Born on July 16, 1875 in the American state. Alabama, Hannah became the mother of 8 children.

Sarah Knauss 119 years 97 days (1880-1999)

A native of America (09/24/1880), the centenarian became an eyewitness to 7 American wars, Great Depression, 2nd World War. Her daughters described her as an incredibly calm person - nothing could make Sarah angry. When Knauss was told that she was old woman America, she asked: “So what?” The centenarian died on December 30, 1999.

Zhanna Kalman 122 years and 164 days (1875–1997)

Born on February 21, 1875, she was a contemporary of the creation of the internal combustion engine, the first flight of the Wright brothers, and many other significant events in human history. Zhanna regularly practiced cycling and smoked until she was a hundred years old. She believed that the secret to longevity was extremely simple: “When problems cannot be solved, there is no need to worry.” Kalman passed away on August 4, 1997.

Note that all the people included in our rating had official confirmation of their age. We deliberately did not include people such as Shigechiyo Izumi, who is estimated to be 120 years old, or Shirali Muslimov, an Azerbaijani shepherd who is 168 years old, because there are no official documents confirming their ages.

Every person wants to live as long as possible. It is for this reason that people with longevity are admired. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Jeanne Louise Kelman, who passed away at the age of 122, was recognized as the oldest person in the world. Which birthday did you celebrate the most? an old man in Russia?

Nanu Shaova (nee Khamurzova)

By official information, the oldest resident of the Russian Federation lives in the Baksan region of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic. This year she celebrated its 127th anniversary e. Her whole life was spent in the village of Zayukovo, translated from the Kabardian-Circassian language meaning “dogwood valley.” Nanu tied the knot twice but is currently left alone. She lost her first husband during the war, and buried her second in 1892.

According to " Komsomolskaya Pravda", Shaova is included in the Russian Book of Records. The woman also has a certificate confirming this title.

Until recently, the oldest centenarian in the Russian Federation was unofficially considered to be the ethnic Kazakh woman Tanzilya Bisembeeva, who was born in the village. Islamgases of the Astrakhan province. In 2016, she celebrated her 120th anniversary.

Life of Nanu

A woman celebrates her birthday for several days, because exact date birth is unknown. If you believe Nanu’s words, she was born in the first half of summer, her mother told her about this. A document confirming the fact of the child’s birth was not issued to anyone at that time, so Nanu’s passport indicated only the year of birth – 1890.

Throughout her life, Nana needed health care only once, when she was bitten by a dog and needed an anti-tetanus serum. Nanu has been living without medication for 128 years and still says that nothing hurts her.

Nanu Tsukovna – born in 1890

50 years of hard work in the field, endless beds, hay and plow - all this was to her liking. At the same time, she raised 9 children, 5 of whom have already left our world. Nanu is happy with her life and is proud of her 14 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.

Grandmother Nanu’s family also has long-livers. Her husband lived 106 years, and her mother lived 116. Nanu Tsukovna continues to lead healthy image life and does not eat after 6 pm. He eats healthy national food, preferring ayran.

Long-livers of Russia

Magomed Labazanov received unofficial recognition in 2010 as the oldest resident Russian Federation. Documents confirming its age were burned in a fire at the very beginning of the twentieth century. According to Magomed, his birthday is May 1, 1890. He lived in the village of Serebryakovka in Dagestan, but the fame of the long-liver spread far beyond its borders. This man witnessed the end Russian Empire, then revolutions, survived two world wars and knows firsthand what it is Soviet Union and perestroika.

In his years, Labazanov maintained wellness and lasting memory, sharing many years of experience with everyone. His secret to longevity was a modest and healthy lifestyle: he did not smoke, did not drink alcohol, and prayed daily. Corn bread tortillas, dairy products and vegetables grown in the garden were Magomed’s main food. Having lived almost 124 years rich life, Magomed Labazanov died surrounded by his close relatives.

This unofficial Russian centenarian was born in the village of Aminevo, Kunashak district. A resident has died Southern Urals in 2011. At the time of her death she was 121 years old. The lack of documents about her birth and the exact date are typical moments of that long ago. Khabibamal Khametova herself celebrated her birthday on July 1st. Having worked half her life on a collective farm and then as a healer in her village, the woman was forced to raise seven children alone because her husband did not return from the war.

Khabibamal Khametova strictly followed the daily routine, not forgetting to move and breathe fresh air. She also ate healthy food, drank kefir and juices. The woman inherited longevity, since her mother and sister also lived long lives.

An incredible coincidence is that Pelageya Osipovna Zakurdaeva celebrates her birthday together with the great Russian poet A.S. Pushkin. She was born in 1886 in Altai, which is confirmed by relevant documents. The centenarian also became the oldest person on the planet in 2005.

Pelageya did not attend school as a child, so she cannot read or write. She worked as a milkmaid and did household chores, but this did not stop her from getting married 4 times. The first husband died in the war, the second appeared in the life of the centenarian already at the age of 50.

She didn’t have to give birth to her own children, and therefore Zakurdaeva raised her second husband’s three children for 30 years. She loved them like family. After her husband died, she moved to Tashkent and married for the third time. When her third husband died, the elderly Pelageya met her last fourth love - the German Karl, who died soon in a car accident.

Until the very last day Throughout her life, my grandmother was active and didn’t mind drinking a glass to get her in the mood. She died on March 13, 2005 from the flu, 2 months short of her 119th birthday.

Sarkhat was born during the time of Alexander II and spent her life in the village. Living to the age of 131, she began every day with prayer and never took medication. She was not lucky enough to become the mother of her children, but she raised an adopted son. The woman lived alone for almost half a century and managed the household with her own efforts. She loved to receive guests, and was quite kind and welcoming. Sarkhat Rashidova died in her sleep.

The Russian centenarian, originally from Yakutia, was born according to the old style on May 10, 1890 in a family of reindeer herders. She continued the family occupation and even earned the title “Mistress of the Anabar Tundra,” as she taught reindeer husbandry to all her fellow villagers and passed on her rich experience in this trade. Being married to the hunter Alexei Semennikov, she gave birth to two children who died in younger age. After this tragedy, Varvara adopted four children and became a grandmother to more than ten grandchildren. Until the age of 100, the woman smoked tobacco and did not deny herself a glass of wine on holidays. She ate foods familiar to the inhabitants of the north: fish, venison and pickles. Until her death, the woman moved independently and even worked.

A native of North Ossetia lived to be 122 years old. The secret of her longevity lies in snakebite, the scar from which remained on her body all her life. According to the woman, at the age of 10 she was bitten by a snake, the poison of which added years to her life. She was always busy and had a wonderful sense of humor. Even when she was retired, the woman managed the house and did not despair. Gosada worked until she was 97 years old, raising 11 children, four of whom were adopted. Tsallayeva died in 2008, already having 32 grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

In 2005, a resident of Vyborg received the title of the oldest Russian woman instead of the deceased Pelageya Zakurdaeva. Maria Petrovna Strelnikova was born during Alexandra III and lived for 115 long years. She worked officially for 81 years of them, while raising her own seven children. Her diet included fermented milk products and vegetables. She almost didn’t eat meat, but she really loved coffee, which she simply couldn’t do without. A woman died surrounded by her daughters.

In the most ancient book it is said that a person lives “...70 years, and when greater strength 80 years..." According to average statistics, this figure is much less, but what can be said about the unique exceptions to the rules? About those who live longer than others. About people who personal experience they know what life is like after a hundred years.

According to historical data, the longest living person in the world lived in China. His name was Li Qingyun. This man was born in 1677 and died at the beginning of the twentieth century (1933). In total, he lived 256 years, and, according to eyewitnesses, he looked 50 years younger. How did he manage to live so long? During his lifetime he was often asked such a question, and he paid attention first of all to proper nutrition And physical exercise.

It is known that he was so physically strong that at the age of 70 he became a teacher in the Chinese martial arts army. In addition to nutrition and exercise, he early childhood spent a lot of time collecting and studying medicinal herbs, from which he often made health-promoting infusions. Therefore in modern history of humanity, this is the most unique man who lived the longest.

Centenarians today

According to the UN decision, a person can be considered a centenarian if his age exceeds 90 years. All over the world you can find people who live the longest, but in some countries they are especially numerous. For example, in Japan there are about 50 thousand centenarians, and these are only those who survived the turn of the century. Of these, approximately 87% are women, average duration which in this country is about 86 years old.

Especially prominent figures entered the Guinness Book of Records. Now it includes Misao Okawa, a Japanese woman who is 115 years old. She is considered the most old woman in the world. Before her was Koto Okubo, who died earlier this year at the age of 115 years and 19 days.

As for long-living men, the oldest is now almost 116 years old. He is the oldest living person in the world. He lives in Kyoto (Japan) and his name is Jiroemon Kimura. He twice became a Guinness World Records holder and, born in 1897, achieved three centuries during his lifetime. During his lifetime, people invented the television, the car and the Internet. While he lives, there have been 6 monarchs in Britain, 20 presidents in the USA, 5 emperors in Japan, the Soviet Union collapsed, and with it the communist regime.

This amazing man was a postman for 40 years and a farmer until he was 90. He has a very big family: 7 children (he survived two of them), 14 grandchildren and granddaughters, 25 great-grandchildren and already 13 great-great-grandchildren. According to him, life expectancy depends on moderation in food. Therefore, he recommends never eating more than necessary, even if the dish is very tasty.

Centenarians in the past

Other most long-lived people who have already died are also worthy of attention. There are not many of them, so they will be listed below.
Long-lived women:

Jeanne Kalman lived 122 years and 164 days (02/21/1875-08/04/1997);
Knauss Sarah lived 119 years and 97 days (09/24/1880-12/30/1999);
Hana Lucy lived 117 years and 248 (07/16/1875-03/21/1993);
Maria Louise Mailer lived 117 years and 230 days (08/29/1880-04/16/1998);
Maria Esther de Capovilla lived 116 years and 347 days (09/14/1889-08/27/2006);
Ikai Tane lived 116 years and 175 days (01/18/1879-07/12/1995);
Elizabeth Bolden lived 116 years and 118 days (08/15/1890-12/11/2006);
Besie Cooper lived to be 116 years old and 100 years old (08/26/1896-12/4/2012).

Long-lived men: