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Worlds Oldest Living Dragon Free FREE WORLDS OLDEST LIVING DRAGON PDF Kate McMullan,Bill Basso | 109 pages | 21 Aug 2014 | Penguin Putnam Inc | 9780448441122 | English | New York, NY, United States List of the oldest living people - Wikipedia 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 agenames 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 Worlds Oldest Living Dragonand others who have otherwise been reliably sourced. According to this criterion, the longest human lifespan is that of Jeanne Calment of France —who lived to age years, days. She supposedly met Vincent van Gogh when she was 12 or Subsequent investigation found documentation for Calment's age, beyond any reasonable question, in the records of her native city, ArlesFrance. Other researchers have dismissed this hypothesis on the basis of extensive prior research into Calment's life. The longest human lifespan which is undisputed is that of Sarah Knauss of the United States Worlds Oldest Living Dragonwho lived to age years, 97 days. As women live longer than men on averagecombined records for both sexes are predominated by women. The longest lifespan for a man is that of Jiroemon Kimura of Japan —who lived to age years, 54 days. Since the death of year-old Chiyo Miyako of Japan on 22 Julyyear-old Kane Tanakaalso of Japan, born 2 Januaryis the oldest living Worlds Oldest Living Dragon in the world whose age has been validated. Systematic verification of longevity has only been practiced in recent decades and only in certain parts of the world. All ten oldest verified people ever are women. This table lists the sequence of the world's oldest known living person from to present, according to GRG research. This table Worlds Oldest Living Dragon the sequence of the world's oldest known living men from to present. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the oldest verified people of all time. For the oldest Worlds Oldest Living Dragon living people, see List of the oldest living people. For the main article, see Supercentenarian. For modern, or complete, unvalidated supercentenarian claims, see Longevity claims. For historical, incomplete unvalidated supercentenarian claims, Worlds Oldest Living Dragon Longevity myths. Wikimedia list article. Main article: List of the verified oldest people. Main article: List of the oldest living people. Main article: List of the oldest people by country. The New York Times. Retrieved 2 March Worlds Oldest Living Dragon Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark. Health News Digest. Life Extension Advocacy Foundation. Retrieved 5 December Retrieved 3 January Gerontology Research Group. Los Angeles Times. Guinness World Records. Retrieved Worlds Oldest Living Dragon June BBC News. Retrieved 26 October LA Times. Retrieved 29 October Volksstimme in German. Retrieved 20 January France Inter. Retrieved 12 February Retrieved 19 May Retrieved 2 July Retrieved 16 April Retrieved 31 July Retrieved 26 February El Diario de Caracas in Spanish. Retrieved 5 June Retrieved 14 October Retrieved 26 September Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Revision Retrieved 8 Worlds Oldest Living Dragon Retrieved 26 July Revision 8. Retrieved 31 March The Guardian. Worlds Oldest Living Dragon age Senescence aging-associated diseases degenerative diseases negligible senescence Gerontology cognitive epidemiology Centenarian supercentenarian Life expectancy Maximum life span Biomarkers of aging FOXO3 "longevity gene" Longevity myths. 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