List of Belgian supercentenarians

Belgian supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Belgium who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. The Gerontology Research Group (GRG) has validated the longevity claims of 20 Belgian supercentenarians, including 18 residents and 2 emigrants. ^{[1] [2]}

The oldest known Belgian person was Joanna Deroover, who died in 2002 aged 112 years 186 days. ^[3] The oldest Belgian man ever was Jan Machiel Reyskens, who lived 111 years and 241 days from 1878 to 1990. ^[3]

Oldest Belgian people ever

The list including known and validated supercentenarians who died before 2015 was compiled by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). ^[3] Later cases were sourced either from more recent GRG data, ^[2] from administrative reports or from press coverage, as indicated in the table.
  Deceased  Living

Rank	Name [a]	Sex	Birth date	Death date	Age	Birthplace	Place of death or residence
01	Joanna Deroover	F	3 June 1890	6 December 2002	112 years, 186 days	Flemish Brabant	Flemish Brabant
02	Fanny Godin	F	27 May 1902	7 September 2014	112 years, 103 days	Liège [4]	Flemish Brabant [4]
03	Alicia Van den Berghe-Corveleyn [2] [5]	F	8 January 1905	31 January 2017	112 years, 23 days	West Flanders	West Flanders
04	Yvonne Francier [6]	F	28 February 1913	Living	112 years, 7 days	Antwerp	France
05	Julia Van Hool [7]	F	7 May 1909	29 April 2021	111 years, 357 days	Antwerp	Antwerp
06	Elisabeth De Proost [8]	F	5 February 1908	25 January 2020	111 years, 354 days	Brussels	Brussels
07	Adele Rodenstein [9]	F	3 September 1908	18 July 2020	111 years, 319 days	Liège [b]	Germany
08	Maria Richard	F	28 November 1900	11 October 2012	111 years, 318 days	Luxembourg	France
09	Jan Machiel Reyskens	M	11 May 1878	7 January 1990	111 years, 241 days	Limburg	Netherlands
10	Marcelle Levaz [10]	F	18 March 1911	13 November 2022 [11]	111 years, 240 days	Liège	Liège
11	Germaine Degueldre	F	26 September 1900	11 May 2012	111 years, 228 days	Hainaut	Hainaut
12	Marietta Joanna Bouverne [8] [12]	F	25 December 1908	3 August 2020	111 years, 222 days	East Flanders	East Flanders
13	Adrienne Ledent	F	13 December 1899	23 June 2011	111 years, 192 days	Luxembourg	Luxembourg
14	Magda Janssens [13]	F	16 March 1912	18 September 2023 [14]	111 years, 186 days	Antwerp	Antwerp
15	Jan Goossenaerts	M	30 October 1900	21 March 2012	111 years, 143 days	Antwerp	Antwerp
16	Anne de Clerque-Wissocq de Sousberghe (a.k.a. Sœur Romain) [15] [16]	F	7 November 1904	12 February 2016	111 years, 97 days	Brussels	England, UK
17	Mariette Barszczewicz [17] [18]	F	8 January 1909	4 April 2020 [18]	111 years, 87 days	Liège [18]	Canada
18	Maria van Sprengel	F	30 January 1882	22 April 1993	111 years, 82 days	Antwerp	Antwerp
19	R.T. [ citation needed ]	F	18 January 1910	21 February 2021	111 years, 34 days	Hainaut	Brussels
20	Bernardina van Dommelen	F	15 March 1899	16 April 2010	111 years, 32 days	Antwerp	Antwerp
21	Fernande Everaert-De Raeve [19]	F	3 December 1906	6 December 2017 [20]	111 years, 3 days	East Flanders	East Flanders
22	Anna De Guchtenaere [21]	F	10 April 1904	6 April 2015	110 years, 361 days	East Flanders	East Flanders
23	Madeleine Dullier [22]	F	30 April 1907	20 April 2018	110 years, 355 days	Hainaut	Hainaut
24	Aimée Rensonnet	F	18 January 1900	15 December 2010	110 years, 331 days	Brussels	Hainaut
25	Romanie Pollet	F	21 December 1898	17 October 2009	110 years, 300 days	West Flanders	Brussels
26	Anne-Marie Vandermersch	F	14 December 1892	8 October 2003	110 years, 298 days	Namur	Brussels
27	Bertha Noe [23]	F	22 March 1911	27 November 2021	110 years, 250 days	Flemish Brabant	Flemish Brabant
28	Gabriëlle Demets	F	26 August 1899	1 May 2010	110 years, 248 days	West Flanders	West Flanders
29	Lazarie Maes, aka Zuster Genoveva [24]	F	24 July 1910	25 March 2021 [25]	110 years, 244 days	West Flanders	West Flanders
30	Maria Pierson-Ledent	F	20 June 1899	6 January 2010	110 years, 200 days	Luxembourg	Namur
31	Maria Irma Casteur-Vanderhaegen	F	26 June 1887	11 November 1997	110 years, 138 days	East Flanders	East Flanders
32	Martha Wolf [26]	F	1 September 1904	18 December 2014	110 years, 108 days	Liège [b]	Germany
33	Maria de Jaeger	F	15 January 1901	30 April 2011	110 years, 105 days	East Flanders	East Flanders
34	Catherina Ververs	F	27 October 1888	24 January 1999	110 years, 89 days	Flemish Brabant	Flemish Brabant
35	Louis Marion	M	10 October 1893	28 December 2003	110 years, 79 days	Namur	Namur
36	Marie-Jeanne Pirenne-Lempereur [4] [27]	F	8 April 1904	18 May 2014	110 years, 40 days	Liège	Liège
37	Marie de Ruyver	F	10 February 1889	14 March 1999	110 years, 32 days	East Flanders	East Flanders
38	Felicitas Van Oudenhove [28]	F	6 December 1908	1 January 2019	110 years, 26 days	East Flanders	East Flanders

Notes

1. All entries are sourced to GRG "table B" as of 1 January 2015, unless otherwise noted. ^[3]
2. Rodenstein and Wolf were born in what is today the Eupen-Malmedy region, this area was at the time of their births part of the German Empire.

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