List of centenarians

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Here is a list of well-known centenarians (people who lived to be or are living at 100 years or more of age), with the still living ones bolded and italicized. This list is divided into sub-lists, according to how the centenarian (mostly) became well-known.

[edit] Activists/non-profit leaders/philanthropists

Albert Jean Amateau (1889-1996), Turkish-born American rabbi and social activist
Melchora Aquino (1812-1919), "Mother of the Filipino Revolution"
Arnold Orville Beckman (1900-2004), American philanthropist who invented the pH meter
George Field (1904-2006), former director of the Freedom House
Alice Hamilton (1869-1970), American toxicologist
Shizue Kato (1897-2001), Japanese feminist and politician
Paul Moyer Limbert (1897-1998), American former YMCA Secretary General
Enolia McMillan (1904-2006), American former NAACP president
Margaret Murie (1902-2003), American conservationist
Scott Nearing (1883-1983), American conservationist
Sanzo Nosaka (1892-1993), Japanese politician
Frederick J. Schlink (1891-1995), American co-founder of Consumers Research
Floyd Schmoe (1895-2001), American peace activist and naturalist
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897-2000), Austrian architect and political activist
Thomas Wyatt Turner (1877-1978), American rights activist, biologist and educator
Edgar Wayburn (1906-present), American environmentalist
Irvin F. Westheimer (1879-1980), American businessman, banker and philanthropist
Hazel Wolf (1898-2000), American environment activist and civil-rights campaigner

[edit] Actors/filmmakers/entertainers

George Abbott (1887-1995)
Rosa Albach-Retty (1874-1980)
Nikolay Annenkov (1899-1999)
Etta Moten Barnett (1901-2004)
Bruce Bennett (1906-2007)
Margaret Booth (1898-2002)
Osmond Borradaile (1898-1999), Canadian cameraman
Renate Brausewetter (1905-2006)
George Burns (1896-1996)
Dorothy Dickson (1893-1995)
Mary Ellis (1897-2003)
Carl Esmond (1902-2004), German-American actor, possibly born in 1904, 1905 or 1908
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (1891-1992), English actress
Erwin Geschonneck (1906-present), German actor
Marie Glory (1905-present), French actress
Liane Haid (1895-2000), Austrian actress
Kathleen Harrison (1892-1995)
Johannes Heesters (1903-present), Dutch-German actor
Bob Hope (1903-2003)
John Kenley (1906-present), American Broadway Director and Producer
Barbara Kent (1906-present), Canadian born actress
Charles Lane (1905-present)
Francis Lederer (1899-2000)
Madeleine Milhaud (1902-present), French actress, widow of Darius Milhaud
Igor Moiseyev (1906-present), Russian choreographer
Audrey Munson (1891-1996)
Myron Natwick (1890-1990), American animator
Ivan Novikoff (1899-2002), ballet teacher
Risto Orko (1899-2001), Finnish film producer and director
Irving Rapper (1898-1999), film director
Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003), German filmmaker
Hal Roach (1892-1992)
Frederica Sagor Maas (1900-present)
Ivy Sawyer (1898-1999), American singer, actress and dancer
Tonio Selwart (1896-2002), actor and stage performer
Athene Seyler (1889-1990)
Dorothy Stickney (1896-1998), American actress
Frank M. Thomas (1889-1989), American supporting actor
Doris Eaton Travis (1904-present)
Ninette de Valois (1898-2001)
Señor Wences (1896-1999)
Estelle Winwood (1883-1984)
Miguel Zacarías (1905-2006), Mexican director
Adolph Zukor (1873-1976)

[edit] Artists

Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902-2002), Mexican photographer
Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006), American photographer
Alphaeus Philemon Cole (1876-1988), American painter and supercentenarian
Sylvia Daoust (1902-2004), Canadian sculptor
Boris Efimov (1900-present), Russian cartoonist
Kathleen Hale (1898-2000), British illustrator
Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1831-1932) German-American painter
Seibo Kitamura (1884-1987), Japanese sculptor
Ulrich Leman (1885-1988), German painter
Tamás Lossonczy (1904-present), Hungarian painter
Grandma Moses (1860-1961), American folk artist
Kazuo Ohno (1906-present), Japanese dancer
Don Potter (1902-2004), British sculptor and potter
Mirko Rački (1879-1982), Croatian painter
Andrée Ruellan (1905-2006), American painter
Viktor Schreckengost (1906-present), American artist and industrial designer
Bernarda Bryson Shahn (1903-2004), American painter, lithographer and widow of renowned artist Ben Shahn
Koloman Sokol (1902-2003), Slovakian painter and graphic artist
Seema Aissen Weatherwax (1905-2006), Ukrainian-American photographer
Beatrice Wood (1893-1998), American artist and ceramist
Eva Zeisel (1906-present), Hungarian industrial designer

[edit] Authors/poets/journalists

Alicia Moreau de Justo (1885-1986) Argentine writer
Francisco Ayala (1906-present), Spanish novelist
Ba Jin (1904-2005), Chinese author
Georgina Battiscombe, (1905-2006), British biographer
Pierre Béarn (1902-2004), French poet
Lotte Betke (1905-present), German writer and actress
H.J. Blackham (1903-present), British humanist author and philosopher
Arthur Judson Brown (1856-1963), American clergyman, missionary and prolific author
Fulgence Charpentier (1897-2001), Canadian journalist and columnist
Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897-1999), Bengali Indian writer
Ève Curie (1904-present), daughter of Maria Curie and American author of biography of her mother
Geoffrey Dearmer (1893-1996), British poet
The Delany Sisters (1889-1999; 1891-1995), American authors and civil rights pioneers
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998), American eminent conservationist and writer
Richard Eberhart (1904-2005), Pulitzer-Prize winning poet
Julius Eisenstein (1854-1956), Russian-American writer and historian
Dorothy Frooks (1896-1997), American author, publisher, military figure and actress
Edward K. Gaylord (1873-1974), American newspaper publisher and philanthropist
Itche Goldberg (1904-2006), Yiddish writer, scholar and political activist
Momoko Ishii (1907-), Japanese author
Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh (1892-1997), Iranian writer
Ernst Jünger (1895-1998), German writer (In Stahlgewittern)
Joseph Nathan Kane (1899-2002), American author
Amal Kiran (1904-present), Indian author and poet
Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006), American Poet Laureate
Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999), Scottish writer
Mozume Takakazu (1879-1985), Japanese writer and philologist
Niwa Fumio (1904-2005), Japanese novelist
Lillian Rogers Parks (1897-1997), American co-author of White House memoirs
Fernando Pessa (1902-2002), Portuguese journalist and radio broadcaster
Edith Ballinger Price (1897-1997), American author of children's books
Carl Rakosi (1903-2004), American poet (Objectivist)
George Seldes (1890-1995), American journalist and writer
Edna Staebler (1906-2006), Canadian writer
Robert St. John (1902-2003), American author and journalist
Dragutin Tadijanović (1905-present), Croatian poet and writer
Ellen Tarry (1906-present), American author of children's book
Walter Trohan (1903-2003), Chicago Tribune bureau chief and reporter
Edward Upward (1903-present), English writer
Edward Wagenknecht (1900-2004), American writer and historian
Arthur Walworth (1903-2005), American writer and biographer of Woodrow Wilson
Curt Weibull (1886-1991), Swedish historian and author
Phyllis A. Whitney (1903-present), American mystery writer

[edit] Businessmen

Edward Bernays (1891-1995)
Andrew George Burry (1873-1975)
Godfrey Lowell Cabot (1861-1962), Cabot Corporation
Maxwell Cummings (1898-2001), Canadian real estate builder and philanthropist
A.G. Gaston (1892-1996), Afro-American businessman
Albert Hamilton Gordon (1901-present), Kidder, Peabody & Co.
Cecil Howard Green (1900-2003), Texas Instruments co-founder
Hans List (1896-1996), Austrian businessman
Isaac Charles Johnson (1811-1911), British cement manufacturer
Joseph Moses Juran (1904-present), industrial engineer, management theorist
Garnet Hercules Mackley (1883-1986), Head of New Zealand Railways
Ronald Mansbridge (1905-2006)
Arthur Marshall (1903-2007), aviator and Marshall Aerospace founder
R. Samuel McLaughlin (1871-1972)
Walter L. Morgan (1898-1998), Wellington Fund founder
Roy Neuberger (1903-present)
Mohan Singh Oberoi (1898-2002)
Frits Philips (1905-2005)
Günter Reimann (1904-2005), economist
James Stillman Rockefeller (1902-2004), founder of the First National City Bank of New York (see also under Sportspeople)
Morris Schwartz (1901-2004), Russian-American photographer, inventor and businessman, founded Kalart Company
Hermann von Siemens (1885-1986)
Sir Thomas Sopwith (1888-1989), aircraft pioneer
W. Clement Stone (1902-2002), insurance leader
Sir James Swinburne (1858-1958)
Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr. (1906-2007), Former president and chairman of Walgreen Drug Company
Jack Weil (1901-present), founder and CEO of Rockmount Ranch Wear
Frank H. Wheaton Sr. (1881-1983) chaired Wheaton Industries until his death
Abdul Majid Zabuli (1896-1998)

[edit] Educators/school administrators/social scientists/linguists

Henry Angus (1891-1991), Canadian educator, lawyer and administrator
John Haden Badley (1865-1967) educator, founder of the Bedales School
Giuliano Bonfante (1904-2005), linguistics expert
Thomas D. Clark (1903-2005), American historian
Anna J. Cooper (1858-1964), educator, civil rights advocate
Aaron Director (1901-2004)
Murray Barnson Emeneau (1904-2005), linguist
John Morton-Finney (1889-1998)
Emily Howland (1827-1929)
Karolina Lanckorońska (1898-2002), Polish art historian and writer
Harold Lawton (1899-2005)
Seymour Lubetzky (1898-2003), librarian
Norman Walker Porteous (1898-2003), Dean at University of Edinburgh
Laura Woolsey Lord Scales (1879-1990), Dean at Smith College
Sadayoshi Tanabe (1888-2000), Japanese bibliographer

[edit] Explorers

Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969)
Ardito Desio (1897-2001)
Helge Ingstad (1899-2001)
Freya Stark (1893-1993)
Norman Vaughan (1905-2005) Arctic explorer
Jean-Frédéric Waldeck (1766-1875)

[edit] Jurists/practitioners of law

Sampson Salter Blowers (1742-1842)
William A. Bootle (1902-2005)
Melville Henry Cane (1879-1980), American lawyer and poet
Arnold Wilson Cowen (1905-present), American lawyer and judge
Alfred Denning, Baron Denning (1899-1999), Master of the Rolls
Harold Raymond Medina (1888-1990)
L. Welch Pogue (1899-2003)
Hartley Shawcross (1902-2003)
Samuel Williston (1861-1963)
Joseph William Woodrough (1873-1977)

[edit] Military commanders

Aaron Bank (1902-2004), "Father of Special Forces"
Waldemar Levy Cardoso (1900-present), the only living Brazilian field marshal
Sir Philip Christison (1893-1993), British general
Aaron S. Daggett (1837-1938), Last surviving Union General of the Civil War
Henry Fancourt (1900-2004), Royal Navy officer, pioneering Naval Aviator
Sir George Higginson (1826-1927), British general
John L. Hines (1868-1968), General, Chief of Staff, US Army
Stanislaw Maczek (1892-1994) Polish general
Masaichi Niimi (1887-1993), Japanese general
Sir Henry Oliver (1865-1965), Admiral of the Fleet, Royal Navy
Dorothy C. Stratton (1899-2006), director of the SPARS
James Alward Van Fleet (1892-1992), US general
Sir Provo Wallis (1791-1892), Admiral of the Fleet, Royal Navy
Xue Yue - (1896-1998), Chinese general

[edit] Musicians/composers/music patrons

Frances Adaskin (1900-2001), Canadian pianist
Robert Alexander Anderson (1894-1995), American composer
Irving Berlin (1888-1989), American composer
Henri Busser (1872-1973), French composer
Irving Caesar (1895-1996), American composer
Hughes Cuénod (1902-present), Swiss tenor
Jimmie Davis (1899-2000), American singer-songwriter and governor of Louisiana
Annette Richardson Dinwoodey (1906-2007), American LDS vocalist
Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García (1805-1906), Spanish music and singing teacher
Sindo Garay (1867-1968), Cuban musician
Peggy Gilbert (1905-2007), American jazz saxophonist
Sidonie Goossens (1899-2004), American harpist from a famous musical family
Roy Henderson (1899-2000), English baritone
Alice Sommer Herz (1903-present), Czech pianist
Mieczysław Horszowski (1892-1993), Polish pianist
Bill Johnson (1872-1972), American jazz musician
Maurice Journeau (1898-1999), French composer
Allauddin Khan (1862–1972), Indian classical sarod player
Mykola Kolessa (1903–2006), Ukrainian composer
Paul Le Flem (1881-1984) French composer
Conrad Leonard (1898-2003), British pianist and composer
Sir Robert Mayer (1879-1985), German born British philanthropist
Marcel Mule (1901-2001), French classical saxophonist
Leo Ornstein (1893-2002), American pianist and composer
Uncle Charlie Osborne (1890-1992), Appalachian mountain music legend
Elsa Respighi (1894-1996), Italian composer and singer, wife of Ottorino Respighi
Olga Rudge (1895-1996), American violinist and mistress of Ezra Pound
Joseph Salemi (1902-2003), American jazz trombonist
Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995), Russian-American composer and conductor
Jenő Takács (1902-2005), Austrian-Hungarian composer and pianist
Tillit Sidney Teddlie (1885-1987), American hymn composer

[edit] Philosophers/theologians

Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), German philosopher
Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000), pioneer of process theology
Mordecai Kaplan (1881-1983)
Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890-1991)
Alfred Vaucher (1887-1993), French theologian, church historian
Paul Weiss (1901-2002)

[edit] Politicians/government servants

Hastings Banda (1896-1997), president of Malawi
Mahmud Celal Bayar (1884-1986), President of Turkey
Nripen Chakraborty (1904-2004), Indian politician, former Chief-minister of Tripura
Roswell Keyes Colcord (1839-1939)
Cornelius Cole (1822-1924), longest-lived US senator
Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (1721-1824)
Georges-Casimir Dessaulles (1827-1930), Canadian senator
Willem Drees (1886-1988), prime minister of the Netherlands
Eleanor Lansing Dulles (1895-1996), U.S. diplomat
Jules Ellenberger (1871-1973), British colonial administrator
Josef Felder (1900-2000)
Hamilton Fish III (1888-1991), US Congressman
Henry Richard Gibson (1837-1938), US Congressman
Marinus van der Goes van Naters (1900-2005), Dutch politician
John Netherland Heiskell (1872-1972), 2nd US senator to reach 100 years
Naruhiko Higashikuni (1887-1990)
Christopher Hornsrud (1859-1960), Prime Minister of Norway
Wacław Jędrzejewicz (1893-1993), Polish diplomat and politician
Konstantinos Kallias (1901-2004), Greek politician
George F. Kennan (1904-2005), Cold War policy architect
Alfred M. Landon (1887-1987), governor of Kansas and presidential nominee
Haakon Lie (1905-present), former secretary of Norwegian Labour Party
Enolia McMillan (1904-2006), former president of NAACP
Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (1784-1885)
Sir William Mulock (1844-1944), Canadian politician and cabinet member
Muhammad al-Muqri (c. 1844 - 1957)
Mumeo Oku (1895-1997), Japanese feminist activist and a member of The House of Councillors
George Alexander Parks (1883-1984), territorial governor of Alaska.
Antoine Pinay (1891-1994), French prime minister
Edward Raczynski (1891-1993), Polish diplomat and President in exile
Richard G. Reid (1879-1980), premier of Alberta
Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876-1977)
Susanna M. Salter (1860-1961), Mayor of Argonia, Kansas, first woman mayor in the United States
Murray Seasongood (1878-1983), mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio
Ramón Serrano Súñer (1901-2003), Spanish politician
Emanuel Shinwell (1884-1986)
Soong May-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek) (1898-2003)
John Ward Studebaker (1887-1989)
Maurice H. Thatcher (1870-1973), US Congressman
Strom Thurmond (1902-2003), US Senator. Served in the Senate until age 100 years, 29 days.
David Wark (1804-1905), Canadian Senator
Dr. Cornelius Wiebe (1893-1999), Former Manitoba MLA and longtime Family physician
Zhang Qun (1889-1990), Chinese politician
Zhang Xueliang (Chang Hsüeh-liang) (1901-2001), Chinese General, but placed in politician section due to his role in Xi'an Incident.
Xenophon Zolotas (1904-2004), former Prime Minister of Greece

[edit] Relative of someone well-known

Brooke Astor (1902-present), wife of Vincent Astor and American philanthropist
Jean Faircloth (1898-2000), wife of Douglas MacArthur
Jolie Gabor (1896-1997), mother of the Gabor sisters
Mabel Grosvenor (1905-2006), granddaughter of Alexander Graham Bell
Rose Kennedy (1890-1995), mother of John F. Kennedy
Martin Konigsberg (1900-2001), father of Woody Allen
Rush H. Limbaugh, Sr. (1892-1996), grandfather of Rush Limbaugh
Isabel Meighen (1883-1985), wife of Canadian Prime Minister Arthur Meighen
Madge Mickelson (1903-2006), wife of George T. Mickelson and mother of George S. Mickelson, both governors of South Dakota [1]
Richard Mudd (1901-2002), grandson of Samuel Mudd
Pauline Pauling (1901-2003), sister of Linus Pauling.

[edit] Religious leaders/clergymen

Laban Ainsworth (1757-1858), American clergyman and pastor
Ananda Maitreya (1896-1998)
Saint Anthony (251-356)
Corrado Cardinal Bafile (1903-2005)
Carey W. Barber (1905-), member of Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses
Henry Boehm (1775-1875)
Edward Howard (1877-1983), archbishop
Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri (1900?-2006), Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist
William McElwee Miller (1892-1993), missionary and author
Francesco Minerva (1904-2004), Archbishop emeritus of Lecce, Italy
Ruby Muhammad (1897-), named 'Mother of the Nation of Islam' by Louis Farrakhan in 1986
Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji (1828?-1963)
Eldred G. Smith (1907-), Patriarch Emeritus to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Tillit Sidney Teddlie (1885-1987), American hymnalist and pastor
Nicholas Kao Se Tseien (1897-), oldest Catholic priest and oldest person to have a cataract operation
Marian Tumler (1887-1987), Austrian theologian, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
Daniel Waldo (1762-1864)
Herbert Welch (1862-1969), Methodist Bishop and President of Ohio Wesleyan University
Elazar Shach (1898-2001), Leading Haredi rabbi in Israel.
Sri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati (1893-1993), Hindu monk, Supreme Pontiff of Kanchi Mutt from 1907 to 1993.

[edit] Royalty and nobility

Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901-2004)
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900-2002)
Elsa Countess Bernadotte (1893-1996), granddaughter of King Oscar II of Sweden
Judith, Countess of Listowel (1903-2003)

[edit] Scientists/mathematicians

Charles Greeley Abbot (1872-1973), American astronomer and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Horace Alexander (1889-1989), British biologist
Doris Allen (1901-2002), American psychologist
Rudolf Arnheim (1904-present), German psychologist of visual perception
Henry Beachell (1906-2006), American developer of "miracle rice"
Julia Bell (1879-1979) English human geneticist
Harry Benjamin (1885-1986), German sexologist
Boris Yakovych Bukreyev (1859-1962), Russian mathematician
Su Buqing (1902-2003), Chinese mathematician
Henri Cartan (1904-present), French mathematician
Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889), French chemist
Harriette Chick (1875-1977), British biologist
Sir Samuel Rickard Christophers (1873-1978), British protozoologist
Thomas H. Clark (1893-1996), Canadian geologist
William David Coolidge (1873-1975), American engineer and developer of the Coolidge tube for production of x-rays
Ray Crist (1900-2005), American chemist who retired from his teaching post in 2004
Philip D'Arcy Hart (1900-2006), British epidemiologist
Leila Denmark (1898-present), American pediatrician who discovered the pertussis vaccine
Henri Fabre (1882-1984), French aviation pioneer and inventor of the seaplane
Gordon S. Fahrni (1887-1995), Canadian physician and expert on goitre
Raymond Firth (1901-2002), New Zealand anthropologist
Erich Häßler (1899-2005), German pediatrician
Michael Heidelberger (1888-1991), American immunologist
Rudolf Hell (1901-2002), German inventor
Arthur R. von Hippel (1898-2003), German-American physicist and co-developer of the radar
Dorrit Hoffleit (1907-present), American research astronomer
Albert Hofmann (1906-present), Swiss discoverer of LSD
Edward Augustus Holyoke (1728-1829), American physician
Friedrich Hund (1896-1997) German physicist ("Hund's rules" )
Ancel Keys (1904-2004), American biologist
Paul E. Klopsteg (1889-1991), American physicist
Jerome F. Lederer (1902-2004), American engineer
Inge Lehmann (1888-1993), Danish seismologist
Emma Lehmer (1906-present), Russian-American mathematician
Ernst Mayr (1904-2005), German-American biologist
Margaret Alice Murray (1863-1963), British anthropologist
Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899-1999), Russian mathematician
Franco Rasetti (1901-2001), Italian physician
Henry Nicholas Ridley, (1855-1956), British biologist
Paul Rohmer, (1876-1977), French pediatrician and biologist
Waldo Semon (1898-1999), American chemist
Bei Shizhang (1903-present), Chinese biologist and educator
Nilakantha Somayaji (1444-1544), Indian mathematician
Dirk Jan Struik (1894-2000), Dutch mathematician
Leopold Vietoris (1891-2002), Austrian mathematician
Arvo Ylppö (1887-1992), Finnish paediatrician
Zheng Ji (1900-present), Chinese professor at the Nanjing University and pioneer of nutriology and biochemistry

[edit] Sportspeople

Constance M. K. Applebee (1873-1981), American field hockey player
Abe Coleman, (1905-2007), Polish-American wrestler
Ray Cunningham (1905-2005), former American MLB St. Louis Cardinals third baseman (1931-1932)
D. B. Deodhar (1892-1993), Indian cricket player and Sanskritist
Jacques Gerschwiler (1898-2000), Swiss figure skater
Howdy Groskloss (1906-2006), American MLB player
Chet Hoff (1891-1998), oldest American MLB player ever
Ulrich Inderbinen (1900-2004), Swiss mountain guide
Feroze Khan (1904-2005), Pakistani field hockey olympian
Hans Kleppen (1907-present), Norwegian ski jumper olympian
Keizo Miura (1904-2006), Japanese skier and ski instructor
Emilio Navarro (1905-present), Puerto Rican baseball player
Hal Haig Prieste (1896-2001), Armenian-American high diver, 3rd in 1920 Summer Olympics
Philip Rabinowitz, (1904-present), South African sprinter, fastest centenarian over 100 metres
Ted Radcliffe (aka "Double Duty Radcliffe") (1902-2005), American MLB player
James Stillman Rockefeller (1902-2004), American rower, Olympic gold medal winner (see also under Businessmen)
Silas Simmons (1895 or 1898-2006), Afro-American semi-professional and professional baseball player
Herman Smith-Johannsen (1875-1987), Norwegian-Canadian cross-country skier
Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965), American football player
Rollie Stiles, (1906-present), American MLB player
Leon Štukelj (1898-1999), Slovenian gymnast, won six Olympic medails
Rhys Thomas (1904-2004), Welsh rugby union player

[edit] Miscellaneous

Indra Devi (1899-2002), Indian yoga teacher
Milt Dunnell (1905-present), Canadian sportswriter
Leopold Engleitner (1905-present), Austrian lecturer and oldest survivor of the Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrück concentration camps
Gregorio Fuentes (1897-2002), Cuban fisherman and friend of Ernest Hemingway
Ida May Fuller (1874-1975), first American citizen to receive a social security check
Dan Keating (1902-present), member of the Irish Republican Army
Eleanor Lambert (1903-2003), American fashion pioneer
John M. Miller (1905-present), American aviator
Goethe Link (1879-1980), American surgeon, aviation pioneer and amateur astronomer
Irene Wells Pennington (1898-2003), American multimillionaire oil widow
Connie Douglas Reeves (1901-2003), American cowgirl
Saadi (1184-1283/1291), medieval Persian Sufi poet
Catherine Uhlmyer (1893-2002), American last survivor to remember, and Adella Wotherspoon (1903-2004), American last survivor of the General Slocum fire disaster of 1904
Kabir (1398-1518), medieval Indian Sufi mystic

[edit] Known for attaining high age

Anne Samson (February 27, 1891 - November 29, 2004 at age 113), Canadian oldest-ever nun documented
Daphne Brann (August 4, 1890 - March 10, 2001 at age 110), American oldest-ever minister (Assembly of God)
Jeanne Calment (February 21, 1875 - August 4, 1997 at age 122), French person with the longest confirmed lifespan ever

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