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3 unusual facts about supercentenarian


Connie Haines

Her mother Mildred JaMais (February 15, 1899 – January 7, 2010) survived her daughter by about sixteen months, and died shortly before her 111th birthday.

Supercentenarian

Norwegian Church records, the accuracy of which is subject to dispute, also show what appear to be several supercentenarians who lived in the south-central part of present-day Norway during the 16th and 17th centuries, including Johannes Torpe (1549–1664), and Knud Erlandson Etun (1659–1770), both residents of Valdres, Oppland, Norway.

Scholars such as French demographer Jean-Marie Robine, however, consider Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, also of the Netherlands, who turned 110 in 1898, to be the first verifiable case, as the alleged evidence for Peters has apparently been lost.


Alphaeus Philemon Cole

Although not recognized at the time, Cole is now recognized as the oldest living man for more than a year, between January 5, 1987 to his death, succeeding another notable supercentenarian, 111-year-old Norwegian skier Herman Smith-Johannsen.

Capovilla

María Capovilla (1889–2006), Ecuadorian supercentenarian, once the world's oldest living person

Itawamba County, Mississippi

Delphia Spencer Hankins, an American supercentenarian, was born in Itawamba County.

James Alexander Daugherty

Daugherty's niece is the famous pediatrician and supercentenarian Leila Denmark.

Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski

Jerzy Kazimierz Pajączkowski-Dydyński (Lwów, Austro-Hungary, (now the Ukraine), July 19, 1894 - Boarbank Hall, Grange-over-Sands, England, December 6, 2005) was Polish veteran of World War I and UK's oldest man at the time of his death at the age of 111 and one of the last surviving veterans of the First World War living in the UK.

Johnston, Iowa

Dina Manfredini, Italian-American supercentenarian and the oldest person in the world from 4–17 December 2012 (born 4 April 1897)

McCoubrey

James McCoubrey (1901–2013), Canadian-born American supercentenarian

Swetland

Gladys Swetland (1892–2005), American supercentenarian, the oldest living person in the northern part of the United States when she died

Thomas Parr

Old Tom Parr (1483(reputedly)–1635), English supercentenarian who claimed to have lived for 152 years


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