| Hryhoriy Nestor | |
|---|---|
| Born | 15 March 1891? [1] or 1 July 1911? [2]Monastyr, Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Died | 14 December 2007 (aged 116 years, 274 days)? Staryi Yarychiv, Ukraine |
| Residence | Kamianka-Buzka, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine |
| Known for | Allegedly being one of the world's oldest people ever |
Hryhoriy Nestor (Ukrainian : Григорій Дмитрович Нестор; also Grigory Nestor) (15 March 1891? or 1 July 1911 – 14 December 2007) claimed to be the oldest man in the world. At the time of his death, he would have been 116 years old, if his age were verified, an age that only one man, Jiroemon Kimura, has verifiably reached. [3] [4] [5]
Ukrainian is an East Slavic language. It is the official state language of Ukraine, one of the three official languages in the unrecognized state of Transnistria, the other two being Romanian and Russian. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic script.
This is a list of tables of the oldest people in the world in ordinal ranks. To avoid including false or unconfirmed claims of extreme old age, names here are restricted to those people whose ages have been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity research, such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) or Guinness World Records (GWR), and others who have otherwise been reliably sourced.
Jiroemon Kimura was a Japanese supercentenarian. He became the oldest verified male in history on 28 December 2012, at the age of 115 years and 253 days when he surpassed the age of Christian Mortensen who died in 1998, and also became the first and so far the only man who indisputably reached 116 years of age, being 116 years, 54 days old at the time of his death from natural causes on 12 June 2013, in a hospital in his hometown of Kyōtango, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. He was the last verified living man born in the 19th century.
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Nestor claimed to have been born on 15 March 1891 in Western Ukraine, [1] [6] and at his death resided in Stariy Yarychiv in the Kamianka-Buzka region of Lviv Oblast.
Kamianka-Buzka is a city in Lviv Oblast, of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Kamianka-Buzka (district). The city was previously known as Kamianka Strumilova, and was a district city in Galicia. From 1918 to 1939 it was part of Poland, and called Kamionka Strumiłowa, was the capital of a county of the Tarnopol Voivodeship. Population: 10,779 (2016 est.).
Lviv Oblast is an oblast (province) in western Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Lviv. Population: 2,534,174 (2016 est.).
He never married, and claimed that this was one of the secrets of his longevity. [1] He never fell ill, never took medicines and although he said that one of his lifelong passions was drinking vodka, he never drank alcohol in large amounts.
The word "longevity" is sometimes used as a synonym for "life expectancy" in demography. However, the term longevity is sometimes meant to refer only to especially long-lived members of a population, whereas life expectancy is always defined statistically as the average number of years remaining at a given age. For example, a population's life expectancy at birth is the same as the average age at death for all people born in the same year. Longevity is best thought of as a term for general audiences meaning 'typical length of life' and specific statistical definitions should be clarified when necessary.
At the time, Nestor's relatives were in the process of applying to Guinness World Records for the title of the world's oldest person and oldest man.[ citation needed ] Many claims in the past have been applied, but were not accepted for lack of evidence (if sent to them at all).[ citation needed ] Nestor reportedly had original old passports from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and the Soviet Union, major powers who occupied Western Ukraine since 1891;[ citation needed ] however, he never provided copies to Guinness, the Gerontology Research Group or even Ukrainian scientists.[ citation needed ] Note the passport shown in videos was issued by authorities after 1991, and so does not serve as proof of birth.
Guinness World Records, known from its inception from 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The brainchild of Sir Hugh Beaver, the book was co-founded by brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter in Fleet Street, London in August 1954.
Longevity claims are unsubstantiated cases of asserted human longevity. Those asserting lifespans of 110 years or more are referred to as supercentenarians. Many have either no official verification or are backed only by partial evidence. Cases where longevity has been fully verified, according to modern standards of longevity research, are reflected in an established list of supercentenarians based on the work of organizations such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) or Guinness World Records. This article lists living claims greater than that of the oldest person whose age has been independently verified, Kane Tanaka at 116 years, 88 days, and deceased claims greater than that of the oldest person ever whose age has been verified, namely Jeanne Calment who died at the age of 122 years, 164 days. The upper limit for both lists is 130 years.
