This is a list of supercentenarians born in 1897. As of 19 April 2024, 90 of them have been validated by the GRG.
7 people are pending as of March 2015, which means that there is sufficient evidence to support the claims, but the validation process has not yet been completed.
Cohort extinction took place on 12 June 2013 when Jiroemon Kimura of Japan passed away at the age of 116 years, 54 days.
List
Validated Pending Unvalidated
| Rank | Name | Sex | Birth | Death | Age | Country |
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| 1 | Jiroemon Kimura | M | 19 Apr 1897 | 12 June 2013 | 116 years, 54 days |  JPN
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| 2 | Dina Manfredini | F | 4 Apr 1897 | 17 Dec 2012 | 115 years, 257 days |  ITA  USA
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| 3 | Koto Okubo | F | 24 Dec 1897 | 12 Jan 2013 | 115 years, 19 days | JPN
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| 4 | Delma Kollar | F | 31 Oct 1897 | 24 Jan 2012 | 114 years, 85 days | USA
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| 5 | Shige Hirooka | F | 16 Jan 1897 | 29 Mar 2011 | 114 years, 72 days | JPN
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| 6 | Mississippi Winn | F | 31 Mar 1897 | 14 Jan 2011 | 113 years, 289 days | USA
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| 7 | Ella Schuler | F | 5 Sept 1897 | 7 May 2011 | 113 years, 244 days | USA
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| 8 | Frances Street | F | 28 Mar 1897 | 24 Aug 2010 | 113 years, 149 days | USA
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| 9 | Komiya Miyazaki | F | 20 Aug 1897 | 4 Jan 2011 | 113 years, 137 days | JPN
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| Hu Jiazhi | F | 25 Feb 1897 | 23 Mar 2010 | 113 years, 26 days |  CHN
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| 10 | Rosa Rein | F | 24 Mar 1897 | 14 Feb 2010 | 112 years, 327 days |  POL SUI
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| 11 | Chikao Beppu | F | 28 Mar 1897 | 17 Feb 2010 | 112 years, 326 days | JPN
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| 12 | Florence Poe | F | 24 Aug 1897 | 21 Mar 2010 | 112 years, 209 days | USA
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| 13 | Hattie Lafayette | F | 30 Mar 1897 | 10 Sept 2009 | 112 years, 164 days | USA
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| 14 | Annie Butler | F | 4 June 1897 | 28 Sept 2009 | 112 years, 116 days |  UK
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| 15 | Beatrice Cooper | F | 3 Feb 1897 | 4 May 2009 | 112 years, 90 days | USA
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| 16 | Gozei Higa | F | 10 Oct 1897 | 10 Dec 2009 | 112 years, 61 days | JPN
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| 17 | Mary Gentry | F | 4 Sept 1897 | 6 Oct 2009 | 112 years, 32 days | USA
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| 18 | Grietje Jansen-Anker | F | 12 Sept 1897 | 13 Oct 2009 | 112 years, 31 days |  NED
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| 19 | Olympe Pidancet | F | 24 Jan 1897 | 19 Feb 2009 | 112 years, 26 days |  FRA
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| 20 | Lake Dickson | F | 19 Jan 1897 | 30 Jan 2009 | 112 years, 11 days | USA
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| 21 | Tsuji Takano | F | 7 June 1897 | 17 June 2009 | 112 years, 10 days | JPN
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| 22 | Ruth Lincoln | F | 30 Sept 1897 | 17 Sept 2009 | 111 years, 352 days | USA
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| 23 | Ethel Johnson | F | 28 Sept 1897 | 29 July 2009 | 111 years, 304 days | USA
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| 24 | Myrtle Jones | F | 18 Apr 1897 | 12 Jan 2009 | 111 years, 269 days |  AUS
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| 25 | Maria-Elisa Moro | F | 11 Feb 1897 | 2 Nov 2008 | 111 years, 265 days | ITA
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| 26 | Maria Pogonowska | F | 30 Oct 1897 | 15 July 2009 | 111 years, 258 days | POL ISR
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| 27 | Carolina Peretti | F | 21 Oct 1897 | 15 June 2009 | 111 years, 237 days | ITA
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| 28 | Pearl Hampton | F | 14 Oct 1897 | 15 May 2009 | 111 years, 213 days | USA
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| 29 | Kiyoshi Igarashi | M | 2 Aug 1897 | 23 Feb 2009 | 111 years, 205 days | JPN
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| 30 | Noemi Anderson | F | 28 Sept 1897 | 20 Apr 2009 | 111 years, 204 days | USA
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| 31 | Viola Koch | F | 24 May 1897 | 11 Nov 2008 | 111 years, 171 days | USA
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| 32 | Frieda Borchert | F | 5 Jan 1897 | 22 June 2008 | 111 years, 169 days | POL GER
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| 33 | Aarne Arvonen | M | 4 Aug 1897 | 1 Jan 2009 | 111 years, 150 days |  FIN
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| 34 | Tsuru Tokashiki | F | 24 June 1897 | 16 Nov 2008 | 111 years, 145 days | JPN
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| Ludwika Kosztyla | F | 3 Aug 1897 | 1 Dec 2008 | 111 years, 120 days | POL
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| 35 | Dolors Subirana | F | 18 July 1897 | 9 Nov 2008 | 111 years, 114 days |  ESP
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| 36 | Kiku Nishimura | F | 2 May 1897 | 22 Aug 2008 | 111 years, 112 days | JPN
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| 37 | Bessie Roffey | F | 2 Mar 1897 | 17 June 2008 | 111 years, 107 days | UK  CAN
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| 38 | Daniel Guzman-Garcia | M | 6 Feb 1897 | 21 May 2008 | 111 years, 105 days |  COL
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| 39 | Sote Toshima | F | 26 Jan 1897 | 22 Apr 2008 | 111 years, 87 days | JPN
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| 40 | Nellie Jones | F | 30 Jan 1897 | 9 Apr 2008 | 111 years, 70 days | USA
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| 41 | Tatsuno Ioda | F | 2 Jan 1897 | 4 Mar 2008 | 111 years, 62 days | JPN
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| 42 | Haya Kurogi | F | 10 Jan 1897 | 2 Feb 2008 | 111 years, 23 days | JPN
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| Amanda Jones | F | 16 Dec 1897 | 18 Dec 2008 | 111 years, 2 days | USA
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| 43 | Cora Gentry | F | 14 Apr 1897 | 11 Apr 2008 | 110 years, 363 days | USA
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| Beulah Elchert | F | 22 July 1897 | 1 July 2008 | 110 years, 345 days | USA
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| 44 | Kaya Kataoka | F | 1 Apr 1897 | 27 Feb 2008 | 110 years, 332 days | JPN
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| Masatake Kinoshita | M | 20 Aug 1897 | 17 July 2008 | 110 years, 332 days | JPN
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| 46 | Claudia Ketcham | F | 1 Dec 1897 | 20 Oct 2008 | 110 years, 324 days | USA
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| Gabrielle Rambaud [1] | F | 14 Mar 1897 | 31 Jan 2008 | 110 years, 323 days | F-ALG, FRAFRA
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| 47 | Chrissie Martenstein | F | 9 June 1897 | 18 Apr 2008 | 110 years, 314 days | USA
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| 48 | Maria Campagna | F | 1 Aug 1897 | 2 May 2008 | 110 years, 275 days | ITA
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| Luan Riming | F | 12 Sept 1897 | 12 June 2008 | 110 years, 274 days | CHN
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| 49 | Frieda Tessmer | F | 5 Aug 1897 | 28 Mar 2008 | 110 years, 236 days | GER
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| 50 | Julia Fournier-Cuadros | F | 9 Nov 1897 | 30 June 2008 | 110 years, 234 days | ESP
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| 51 | Mary Brown | F | 5 Sept 1897 | 24 Apr 2008 | 110 years, 232 days | USA
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| 52 | Stella Cooley | F | 6 Nov 1897 | 23 June 2008 | 110 years, 230 days | USA
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| 53 | Marelle-Jeanne Colas | F | 28 July 1897 | 11 Mar 2008 | 110 years, 227 days | FRA
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| Francisca Guerrero [2] | F | 21 June 1897 | 16 Jan 2008 | 110 years, 209 days |  MEXUSA
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| Marjorie MacGown | F | 17 Sept 1897 | 11 Apr 2008 | 110 years, 207 days | UK
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| 54 | Aime Avignon | M | 2 Feb 1897 | 23 Aug 2007 | 110 years, 202 days | FRA
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| 55 | Hatsuyo Otsuchi | F | 3 Mar 1897 | 10 Sept 2007 | 110 years, 191 days | JPN
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| 56 | Julia Tharnish | F | 6 June 1897 | 13 Dec 2007 | 110 years, 190 days | USA
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| 57 | Alice Sanders | F | 12 May 1897 | 7 Nov 2007 | 110 years, 179 days |  PORUSA
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| 58 | Anna Monti | F | 19 Oct 1897 | 6 Apr 2008 | 110 years, 170 days | ITA
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| Moto Oka | F | 20 Sept 1897 | 7 Mar 2008 | 110 years, 169 days | JPN
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| 59 | Mary Schiazza | F | 20 Mar 1897 | 29 Aug 2007 | 110 years, 162 days | ITA USA
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| 60 | Shozo Otani | M | 5 Mar 1897 | 13 Aug 2007 | 110 years, 161 days | JPN
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| 61 | Gertrude Shindel | F | 29 July 1897 | 29 Dec 2007 | 110 years, 153 days | USA
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| Hilda Bonniwell | F | 12 May 1897 | 11 Oct 2007 | 110 years, 152 days | UK
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| 62 | Marie Rouch | F | 29 May 1897 | 27 Oct 2007 | 110 years, 151 days | FRA
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| 63 | Eleanor Thatcher | F | 19 Sept 1897 | 13 Feb 2008 | 110 years, 147 days | UK
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| 64 | Louise Bontemps | F | 13 June 1897 | 6 Nov 2007 | 110 years, 146 days | FRA
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| 65 | Kayo Miyazaki | F | 17 Sept 1897 | 8 Feb 2008 | 110 years, 144 days | JPN
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| 66 | Helene Heidbreder | F | 19 May 1897 | 8 Oct 2007 | 110 years, 142 days | GER
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| 67 | Dorothy Hodgson | F | 23 July 1897 | 7 Dec 2007 | 110 years, 137 days | UK CAN
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| 68 | Florence Johnson | F | 18 July 1897 | 16 Nov 2007 | 110 years, 121 days | USA
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| Ethel Hamling | F | 8 Nov 1897 | 26 Feb 2008 | 110 years, 110 days | UK
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| 69 | Kristine Brown | F | 8 Sept 1897 | 19 Dec 2007 | 110 years, 102 days | USA
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| 70 | Louis de Cazenave | M | 16 Oct 1897 | 20 Jan 2008 | 110 years, 96 days | FRA
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| Lazare Ponticelli | M | 7 Dec 1897 | 12 Mar 2008 | 110 years, 96 days | ITA FRA
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| 72 | Harvey Hite | M | 15 Nov 1897 | 16 Feb 2008 | 110 years, 93 days | USA
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| 73 | Lillie Taylor | F | 5 Aug 1897 | 29 Oct 2007 | 110 years, 85 days | USA
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| 74 | Fusa Sugita | F | 23 Feb 1897 | 18 May 2007 | 110 years, 84 days | JPN
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| Adele D'Amico | F | 10 June 1897 | 2 Sept 2007 | 110 years, 84 days | ITA
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| 76 | Shizu Shizuno | F | 25 Jan 1897 | 13 Apr 2007 | 110 years, 78 days | JPN
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| 77 | Matsue Mitsuki | F | 10 Feb 1897 | 24 Apr 2007 | 110 years, 73 days | JPN
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| 78 | Suwa Kondou | F | 15 Nov 1897 | 22 Jan 2008 | 110 years, 68 days | JPN
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| 79 | Marie Grosclaude | F | 15 Oct 1897 | 20 Dec 2007 | 110 years, 66 days | FRA
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| 80 | Aurora Lomban-Ares | F | 26 Apr 1897 | 25 June 2007 | 110 years, 60 days | ESP
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| 81 | Lois Jones | F | 7 Feb 1897 | 7 Apr 2007 | 110 years, 59 days | USA
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| 82 | Benjamin Anglin | M | 27 May 1897 | 15 July 2007 | 110 years, 49 days | USA
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| Leonora Quartararo | F | 27 Sept 1897 | 15 Nov 2007 | 110 years, 49 days | ITA
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| 84 | Reuel Millar | M | 1 Mar 1897 | 15 Apr 2007 | 110 years, 45 days | USA
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| Irene Nadeau | F | 25 Apr 1897 | 9 June 2007 | 110 years, 45 days | CANUSA
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| 86 | Gertrude Lewis | F | 19 Dec 1897 | 30 Jan 2008 | 110 years, 42 days | USA
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| Marianna Smolarczyk | F | 16 Feb 1897 | 30 Mar 2007 | 110 years, 42 days | POL
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| Jannetta Conway | F | 6 Nov 1897 | 14 Dec 2007 | 110 years, 38 days | USA
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| Julie Atalie [3] | F | 29 May 1897 | 19 June 2007 | 110 years, 21 days |  GLP,FRA
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| Margery Hunt | F | 17 Dec 1897 | 26 Dec 2007 | 110 years, 9 days | UK
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| 87 | Jeanne Bonnard-Rochet | F | 29 Nov 1897 | 29 Nov 2007 | 110 years, 0 days | FRA
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Incomplete Claims
Validated Unvalidated
| Name | Sex | Birth | Death | Age | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toshi Horiya | F | 8 Nov 1897 | c.3/4 Feb 2011 | 113 years, 87/88 days | JPN
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| Tome Yoshida | F | 2 June 1897 | Feb 2010 | 112 years, 244-271 days | JPN
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| Mineno Yamamoto | F | 8 Apr 1897 | May/11 Sept 2009 | 112 years, 23-156 days | JPN
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| Anonymous (Osaka) | F | 25 June? 1897 | Sept 2009 | 112 years, 68-98 days | JPN
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| Kume Yamaguchi | F | 19 Sept 1897 | Jan 2009 | 111 years, 104-134 days | JPN
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| Tsuda Akie | F | 29 Nov 1897 | 29 Nov/31 Dec 2008 | 111 years, 0-32 days | JPN
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| Anonymous (Osaka) | F | 1897 | 2008 | 111 years, 0 days+ | JPN
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| Natsuyo Abe | F | 25 July 1897 | July/Dec 2008? | 110 years, 342 days+ | JPN
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| Hagino Asai | F | 31 Dec 1897 | Nov 2008 | 110 years, 306-335 days | JPN
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| Kikue Yanouchi | F | 15 Dec 1897 | Jan/Mar 2008 | 110 years, 17-107 days | JPN
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| Anonymous (Tokyo) | F | 1897 | July 2007 | 110 years, 0-211 days | JPN
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| Ana Felisa David Garcia [4] | F | 15 Feb 1897 | fl.15 Feb 2007 | 110 years, 0+ days | COL
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References
- GRG World Supercentenarian Rankings List
- GRG Pending Cases List As of 15 March 2015
- Table A - Verified Supercentenarians (Listed Chronologically By Birth Date) GRG, As of 1 January 2015
- ↑ Tableau de validation des supercentenaires français décédés
- ↑ Francisca Guerrero, Obituary The Monitor, 18 January 2008
- ↑ Tableau de validation des supercentenaires français décédés
- ↑ Anita, dichosa con 110 El Colombiano, February 2007
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