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Birth certificate of Jeanne Calment. Calment was born on 21 February 1875 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence. [1] Some of her close family members also had an above-average lifespan as her older brother, François (1865–1962), lived to the age of 97, her father, Nicolas (1837–1931), who was a shipbuilder, 93, and her mother, Marguerite Gilles (1838–1924), who was from a family of ...
The oldest person verified by modern standards, and the only person with evidence to have lived to be at least 120 years of age, is French woman Jeanne Calment (21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997), aged 122 years and 164 days.
The 100 oldest women have, on average, lived several years longer than the 100 oldest men. 100 verified oldest women The list includes supercentenarians validated by organisations specialising in extreme age verification such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG), [ 5 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] with, in some cases, press coverage as a supplementary source.
As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 161 French supercentenarians. [2] France was home to the oldest human being ever whose longevity is well documented, Jeanne Calment, who lived in Arles for her entire life of 122 years and 164 days. [3]
Inside her 20-by-12-foot (6.1 by 3.7 m) acrylic glass room, away from all cues to the normal 24-hour daily cycle, her biological clock drifted away from its regular rhythm to following first a 28-hour day, [5] and later on a 48-hour one. [3] She started staying awake for up to more than twenty hours and sleeping up to ten hours at a time.
Over nearly 25 years, women who had the greatest adherence to the Mediterranean diet had a 23% lower risk of death than women who followed it the least, a new study finds.
Marie Marthe Augustine Lemaitre Brémont (née Mesange; 25 April 1886 – 6 June 2001) [1] was a French supercentenarian and the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 until her death at age 115 years 42 days. [2]
She lived in England for 25 years of marriage, but when her husband died in 1849, she returned to Guernsey. [7] They had no children. [citation needed] The census for 1871 shows Margaret A. Neve (78) and her sister Elizabeth Harvey (73) living at 'Chaumière', Rouge Huis, St Peter Port, Guernsey. [8]