Talk:Mathew Beard/@comment-30591055-20180730195530

The first person to reach age 114+ might have been Venezuelan-French woman Marie Laure du Serre-Telmon who died on 8 Jan 1977, four days after her 117th birthday, not Beard. However, Beard was the first man to reach age 114+. Besides that, Beard perhaps was neither the oldest man ever or the oldest living man, that might have been Shigechiyo Izumi.