A supercentenarian, sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian, is a person who is 110 years or older. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Supercentenarians typically live a life free of significant age-related diseases until shortly before the maximum human lifespan is reached.
This is a list of tables of the oldest people in the world in ordinal ranks. To avoid including false or unconfirmed claims of old age, names here are restricted to those people whose ages have been validated by an international body dealing in longevity research, such as the Gerontology Research Group or Guinness World Records, and others who have otherwise been reliably sourced.
Bom Fim is a neighborhood in the city of Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. It was created by the law number 2022 from December 7, 1959.
Events in the year 1908 in Brazil.
Lucile Randon, also known as Sister André, was a French supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 118 years, 340 days, was the world's oldest verified living person following the death of Kane Tanaka on 19 April 2022. She is the fourth-oldest verified person ever, as well as the oldest confirmed survivor of the COVID-19 pandemic, having tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 a month before her 117th birthday.
The killing of João Alberto Freitas refers to the beating and killing by asphyxiation of João Alberto Silveira Freitas, at the hands of security guards at a Carrefour store, located in the Passo d'Areia neighborhood, in the northern part of the city of Porto Alegre, in Rio Grande do Sul, on the night of November 19, 2020. The murder started a series of anti-racism protests in several Brazilian cities.
Maria Branyas Morera was an American-Catalan supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 117 years, 168 days, was the world's oldest verified living person, following the death of Lucile Randon on 17 January 2023.
Juan Vicente Pérez Mora was a Venezuelan supercentenarian who, until his death aged 114 years, 311 days, was the world's oldest verified living man following the death of Spain's Saturnino de la Fuente García on 18 January 2022. He is the fourth-oldest verified man ever, after Jiroemon Kimura, Christian Mortensen and Emiliano Mercado del Toro.
Tomiko Itooka is a Japanese supercentenarian who, at the age of 116 years, 210 days, has been the world's oldest verified living person since the death of Maria Branyas of Spain on 19 August 2024. Itooka became Japan's oldest living person after Fusa Tatsumi died on 12 December 2023.
João Marinho Neto is a Brazilian supercentenarian who, at the age of 112 years, 73 days, has been the world's oldest verified living man since the death of John Tinniswood of the United Kingdom on 25 November 2024.
