Talk:List of supercentenarians born in 1887/@comment-24970987-20160328222500

One of the benefits of having "year of birth" lists sorted by age is that readers get a better understanding of how mortality rates work at extreme ages. If there are x amount of 110-year old supercentenarians born in a year, then around half are expected to pass away before their next birthday. At around 113, the mortality rate accelerates to above 50%.

On the other hand, placing the earliest-born supercentenarian from a year doesn't really tell us anything gerontologically interesting. It's just coincidental which month a person was born in and doesn't reflect how long a person actually lived.

As for year of death articles being sorted chronologically, that's basically because we get to observe how the WOP title (and the top 10) changes throughout the year.