2008 validations
List of supercentenarians validated in 2008 by the Gerontology Research Group.
| Name | Birthdate | Deathdate | Years | Days | Country of birth | Country of death | Source of validation | Application date | Acceptance date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lillie B. Taylor | Aug. 5, 1897 | Oct. 29, 2007 | 110 | 85 | USA (Texas) | USA (Texas) | Robert Young/Filipe Prista Lucas | Nov. 5, 2007 | Jan. 2, 2008 |
| Dorothy Hodgson | July 23, 1897 | Dec. 7, 2007 | 110 | 137 | UK (England) | Canada (British Columbia) | Robert Young | Dec. 4, 2007 | Jan. 3, 2008 |
| Marie Rouch | May 29, 1897 | Oct. 27, 2007 | 110 | 151 | France | France | Laurent Toussaint | Nov. 14, 2007 | Jan. 4, 2008 |
| Alice Sanders | May 12, 1897 | Nov. 7, 2007 | 110 | 179 | Portugal (Azores) | USA (California) | Filipe Prista Lucas | Nov. 18, 2007 | Jan. 5, 2008 |
| Beatrice Farve | Apr. 30, 1895 | Jan. 19, 2009 | 113 | 264 | USA (Georgia) | USA (Georgia) | Filipe Prista Lucas/Robert Young/Thomas Breining | Nov. 2, 2007 | Jan. 6, 2008 |
| Kristine Brown | Sept. 8, 1897 | Dec. 19, 2007 | 110 | 102 | USA (Missouri) | USA (Oklahoma) | Filipe Prista Lucas/Robert Young/Thomas Breining | Sept. 10, 2007 | Jan. 12, 2008 |
| Julia Lyng | Dec. 22, 1878 | Feb. 26, 1990 | 111 | 66 | Norway | USA (Minnesota) | Celvin Ruisdael | Nov. 19, 2007 | Jan. 13, 2008 |
| Harvey Hite | Nov. 15, 1897 | Feb. 16, 2008 | 110 | 93 | USA (Indiana) | USA (Indiana) | Robert Young/Filipe Prista Lucas/Thomas Breining | Nov. 23, 2007 | Jan. 16, 2008 |
| Tsuji Takano | June 7, 1897 | June 17, 2009 | 112 | 10 | Japan | Japan (Niigata) | Japan (MHLW)/Hamish Todd/Ken Matsuoka | Dec. 17, 2007 | Jan. 18, 2008 |
| Masatake Kinoshita | Aug. 20, 1897 | July 17, 2008 | 110 | 332 | Japan | Japan (Okayama) | Japan (MHLW)/Hamish Todd/Ken Matsuoka | Dec. 17, 2007 | Jan. 19, 2008 |
| Viola Koch | May 24, 1897 | Nov. 11, 2008 | 111 | 171 | USA (California) | USA (California) | Filipe Prista Lucas/L. Stephen Coles | June 7, 2007 | Jan. 20, 2008 |
| Louis de Cazenave | Oct. 16, 1897 | Jan. 20, 2008 | 110 | 96 | France | France | Robert Young | Oct. 16, 2007 | Jan. 20, 2008 |
| Chikao Beppu | Mar. 28, 1897 | Feb. 17, 2010 | 112 | 326 | Japan | Japan (Kagoshima) | Japan (MHLW)/Hamish Todd/Ken Matsuoka/Stefan Gelow | Dec. 29, 2007 | Jan. 22, 2008 |
| Lazare Ponticelli | Dec. 7, 1897 | Mar. 12, 2008 | 110 | 96 | Italy | France | Giovanni Alunni | Dec. 10, 2007 | Jan. 23, 2008 |
| Nellie Jones | Jan. 30, 1897 | Apr. 9, 2008 | 111 | 70 | USA (Mississippi) | USA (Michigan) | Filipe Prista Lucas/Robert Young | Jan. 30, 2007 | Jan. 25, 2008 |
| Chrissie Martenstein | June 9, 1897 | Apr. 18, 2008 | 110 | 314 | USA (California) | USA (California) | Filipe Prista Lucas | Dec. 11, 2007 | Jan. 28, 2008 |
| Annie Butler | June 4, 1897 | Sept. 28, 2009 | 112 | 116 | UK (England) | UK (England) | Robert Young/Chris Jeales | Sept. 14, 2007 | Jan. 29, 2008 |
| Wally Baker | Jan. 9, 1898 | Apr. 8, 2009 | 111 | 89 | USA (Delaware) | USA (Delaware) | Filipe Prista Lucas/Stan Primmer | Jan. 9, 2008 | Feb. 7, 2008 |
| Ethel Fee | Feb. 21, 1888 | Jan. 15, 1999 | 110 | 328 | USA (Massachusetts) | USA (Massachusetts) | Filipe Prista Lucas | Jan. 9, 2008 | Feb. 11, 2008 |
| Katharina Braun | Sept. 23, 1867 | Feb. 5, 1979 | 111 | 135 | Germany | West Germany | Stefan Jamin | Jan. 14, 2008 | Feb. 12, 2008 |
| Suwa Kondou | Nov. 15, 1897 | Jan. 22, 2008 | 110 | 68 | Japan | Japan (Gifu) | Japan (MHLW)/Stefan Gelow | Jan. 23, 2008 | Feb. 15, 2008 |
| Tsuru Tokashiki | June 24, 1897 | Nov. 16, 2008 | 111 | 145 | Japan | Japan (Okinawa) | Japan (MHLW)/Hamish Todd/D. Craig Willcox | Jan. 24, 2008 | Feb. 16, 2008 |
| Leila Denmark, M.D. | Feb. 1, 1898 | Apr. 1, 2012 | 114 | 60 | USA (Georgia) | USA (Georgia) | Robert Young/Filipe Prista Lucas | Feb. 2, 2008 | Feb. 18, 2008 |
| B. Ethel Darby | Jan. 6, 1898 | Feb. 25, 2008 | 110 | 50 | UK (England) | UK (England) | Robert Young/Dave Madden | Jan. 16, 2008 | Feb. 23, 2008 |
| Cora Boggs Gentry | Apr. 14, 1897 | Apr. 11, 2008 | 110 | 363 | USA (Alabama) | USA (Alabama) | Filipe Prista Lucas/Robert Young/Emile Alt | Sept. 13, 2007 | Feb. 24, 2008 |
| Martha Wiley | Aug. 28, 1894 | Oct. 16, 2006 | 112 | 49 | USA (Georgia) | USA (Texas) | Filipe Prista Lucas/Robert Young | Feb. 1, 2008 | Feb. 25, 2008 |
| Kayo Miyazaki | Sept. 17, 1897 | Feb. 8, 2008 | 110 | 144 | Japan | Japan (Shizuoka) | Japan (MHLW)/Stefan Gelow | Feb. 9, 2008 | Feb. 27, 2008 |
| Charlessa Wiggins | Feb. 9, 1898 | Mar. 29, 2008 | 110 | 49 | USA (Minnesota) | USA (Illinois) | Robert Young/Filipe Prista Lucas/Felix Kommnick | Feb. 9, 2008 | Mar. 1, 2008 |
| Gertrude Lewis | Dec. 19, 1897 | Jan. 30, 2008 | 110 | 42 | USA (Massachusetts) | USA (Massachusetts) | Filipe Prista Lucas/Robert Young | Feb. 10, 2008 | Mar. 2, 2008 |
| Stella Cooley | Nov. 6, 1897 | June 23, 2008 | 110 | 230 | USA (Pennsylvania) | USA (Ohio) | Filipe Prista Lucas/Robert Young | Feb. 12, 2008 | Mar. 13, 2008 |
| Lucia Rangone-Casalegno | Jan. 15, 1898 | Apr. 5, 2008 | 110 | 81 | Italy | Italy | Giovanni Alunni | Feb. 26, 2008 | Mar. 21, 2008 |
| Daniel Guzman-Garcia | Feb. 6, 1897 | May 21, 2008 | 111 | 105 | Colombia | Colombia | Robert Young/Miguel Quesada | Feb. 15, 2007 | Mar. 22, 2008 |
| Blanche Chevrier | Feb. 20, 1898 | Mar. 20, 2008 | 110 | 29 | USA (Maine) | USA (Maine) | Filipe Prista Lucas | Feb. 20, 2008 | Mar. 24, 2008 |
| Kiku Nishimura | May 2, 1897 | Aug. 22, 2008 | 111 | 112 | Japan | Japan (Kagoshima) | Japan (MHLW)/Stefan Gelow | Feb. 28, 2008 | Mar. 26, 2008 |
| Daisey Bailey | Mar. 30, 1896 | Mar. 7, 2010 | 113 | 342 | USA (Tennessee) | USA (Michigan) | Robert Young/Filipe Prista Lucas | Jan. 16, 2008 | Mar. 31, 2008 |
| Shozo Otani | Mar. 5, 1897 | Aug. 13, 2007 | 110 | 161 | Japan | Japan (Niigata) | Japan (MHLW)/Hamish Todd/Stefan Gelow | Mar. 1, 2008 | Apr. 1, 2008 |
| Antonia Plaat-Kolenbrander | Jan. 6, 1898 | Mar. 9, 2008 | 110 | 63 | Netherlands | Netherlands | Gert Jan Kuiper | Mar. 16, 2008 | Apr. 2, 2008 |
| Kaya Kataoka | Apr. 1, 1897 | Feb. 27, 2008 | 110 | 332 | Japan | Japan (Hyogo) | Japan (MHLW)/Ken Matsuoka/Stefan Gelow | Mar. 2, 2008 | Apr. 7, 2008 |
| Eleanor Thatcher | Sept. 19, 1897 | Feb. 13, 2008 | 110 | 147 | UK (England) | UK (England) | Jan Hadanma/Melissa Page | Feb. 25, 2008 | Apr. 13, 2008 |
| Epsie Wilson | Feb. 25, 1898 | Feb. 7, 2009 | 110 | 348 | USA (North Carolina) | USA (Virginia) | Filipe Prista Lucas/Robert Young | Feb. 26, 2008 | Apr. 14, 2008 |
| Angela Sottili-Feroldi | Feb. 21, 1898 | Apr. 11, 2008 | 110 | 50 | Italy | Italy | Giovanni Alunni | Mar. 14, 2008 | Apr. 16, 2008 |
| Maria-Elisa Moro-Lucchini | Feb. 11, 1897 | Nov. 2, 2008 | 111 | 265 | Italy | Italy | Giovanni Alunni | Mar. 15, 2008 | Apr. 17, 2008 |
| Jeanne Bonnard-Rochet | Nov. 29, 1897 | Nov. 29, 2007 | 110 | 0 | France | France | Laurent Toussaint | Mar. 12, 2008 | Apr. 19, 2008 |
| Miriam Carpelan | July 8, 1882 | June 22, 1996 | 113 | 350 | UK (England) | USA (California) | Filipe Prista Lucas/Robert Young | Mar. 13, 2008 | Apr. 20, 2008 |
| Gerda Morton | Jan. 11, 1890 | Jan. 29, 2000 | 110 | 18 | Sweden | USA (Wisconsin) | Celvin Ruisdael/Robert Young | Mar. 14, 2008 | Apr. 21, 2008 |
| Willemina Everdina Hol | Feb. 3, 1898 | June 5, 2008 | 110 | 123 | Netherlands | Netherlands | Gert Jan Kuiper | Mar. 16, 2008 | Apr. 22, 2008 |
| Hulda Carlsson | Feb. 2, 1898 | Apr. 22, 2008 | 110 | 80 | Sweden | Sweden | Celvin Ruisdael | Apr. 3, 2008 | Apr. 23, 2008 |
| Antonia Pampaluna-Marconi | Feb. 15, 1898 | July 4, 2008 | 110 | 140 | Italy | Italy | Giovanni Alunni | Mar. 15, 2008 | Apr. 24, 2008 |
| Catharina Peters-Keultjes | Mar. 14, 1898 | Mar. 20, 2009 | 111 | 6 | Netherlands | Netherlands | Gert Jan Kuiper | Mar. 16, 2008 | Apr. 26, 2008 |
| Ruth Emblow | Feb. 6, 1898 | Mar. 16, 2008 | 110 | 39 | USA (New York) | USA (New York) | Filipe Prista Lucas | Mar. 18, 2008 | May 4, 2008 |
| Aurora Lombán-Ares | Apr. 26, 1897 | June 25, 2007 | 110 | 60 | Spain | Spain | Miguel Quesada | Mar. 23, 2008 | May 9, 2008 |
| Maria-Lucia Ugual-Pistrelli | Apr. 3, 1898 | May 3, 2008 | 110 | 30 | Italy | Italy | Giovanni Alunni | Apr. 8, 2008 | May 12, 2008 |
| Jorja Hernando-Celorrio | Apr. 22, 1894 | Apr. 26, 2004 | 110 | 4 | Spain | Spain | Miguel Quesada | Apr. 9, 2008 | May 13, 2008 |
| Matsue Mitsuki | Feb. 10, 1897 | Apr. 24, 2007 | 110 | 73 | Japan | Japan (Kyoto) | Japan (MHLW)/Ken Matsuoka/Stefan Gelow | Apr. 17, 2008 | May 27, 2008 |
| Nyleptha Roberts | Mar. 12, 1898 | May 5, 2010 | 112 | 54 | USA (Tennessee) | USA (Tennessee) | Filipe Prista Lucas | Mar. 15, 2008 | May 30, 2008 |
| Sumi Fujiki | Sept. 10, 1892 | Aug. 27, 2004 | 111 | 352 | Japan | Japan (Hyogo) | Japan (MHLW)/Stefan Gelow/Tom Li | Apr. 19, 2008 | June 2, 2008 |
| Maria de la O Soria-Berbel | Apr. 9, 1898 | Dec. 23, 2009 | 111 | 258 | Spain | Spain | Miguel Quesada | May 7, 2008 | June 7, 2008 |
| Elsa Everly | Apr. 11, 1898 | Jan. 23, 2009 | 110 | 287 | USA (Ohio) | USA (Ohio) | Filipe Prista Lucas | Apr. 12, 2008 | June 13, 2008 |
| Harry Patch | June 17, 1898 | July 25, 2009 | 111 | 38 | UK (England) | UK (England) | Guinness World Records | June 17, 2008 | June 19, 2008 |
| Betty Rutherford | May 4, 1898 | Dec. 11, 2008 | 110 | 221 | USA (Missouri) | USA (Arkansas) | Robert Young/Filipe Prista Lucas | May 6, 2008 | June 20, 2008 |
| Paula Baumgärtner | Aug. 16, 1881 | Feb. 24, 1993 | 111 | 192 | Germany | Germany | Thomas Breining/Stefan Jamin | June 2, 2008 | July 8, 2008 |
| Delpha Johnson | May 21, 1898 | July 22, 2008 | 110 | 62 | USA (Missouri) | USA (Missouri) | Filipe Prista Lucas | June 4, 2008 | July 15, 2008 |
| Kinu Onishi | Dec. 15, 1893 | Mar. 8, 2004 | 110 | 84 | Japan | Japan (Shiga) | Japan (MHLW)/Stefan Gelow | June 13, 2008 | July 17, 2008 |
| Emilia Revello-Ferro | June 1, 1898 | Apr. 24, 2009 | 110 | 327 | Italy | Italy | Giovanni Alunni | June 17, 2008 | July 22, 2008 |
| Sue Morino | Mar. 18, 1898 | June 20, 2008 | 110 | 94 | Japan | Japan (Hyogo) | Japan (MHLW)/Stefan Gelow | June 21, 2008 | July 25, 2008 |
| Emilie Lavoie | Apr. 10, 1898 | Apr. 2, 2009 | 110 | 357 | Canada (New Brunswick) | Canada (New Brunswick) | Filipe Prista Lucas/Louis Epstein | June 25, 2008 | Aug. 5, 2008 |
| Mary Sloan | June 11, 1898 | Aug. 12, 2008 | 110 | 62 | Canada (Ontario) | Canada (Ontario) | Filipe Prista Lucas/Louis Epstein | June 26, 2008 | Aug. 7, 2008 |
| Judith Pinard | July 3, 1898 | June 13, 2009 | 110 | 345 | Canada (Quebec) | Canada (Quebec) | Filipe Prista Lucas/Bertrand Desjardins | July 17, 2008 | Aug. 14, 2008 |
| Shitsuko Araki | Mar. 24, 1898 | June 3, 2009 | 111 | 71 | Japan | Japan (Okayama) | Japan (MHLW)/Stefan Gelow | July 19, 2008 | Aug. 15, 2008 |
| Pinkie Galbreath | Mar. 19, 1898 | June 16, 2009 | 111 | 89 | USA (Iowa) | USA (Iowa) | Filipe Prista Lucas/Robert Young/Bart Versieck | Apr. 27, 2008 | Aug. 29, 2008 |
| Eunice Bowman | Aug. 23, 1898 | July 16, 2010 | 111 | 327 | UK (England) | UK (England) | Andrew Holmes/Melissa Page/Filipe Prista Lucas | Aug. 23, 2008 | Sept. 9, 2008 |
| Alexina Calvert | Aug. 13, 1898 | Sept. 19, 2008 | 110 | 37 | UK (Scotland) | UK (Scotland) | Melissa Page | Aug. 31, 2008 | Sept. 15, 2008 |
| Kama Chinen | May 10, 1895 | May 2, 2010 | 114 | 357 | Japan (Okinawa) | Japan (Okinawa) | Japan (MHLW)/Hamish Todd | July 10, 2008 | Sept. 20, 2008 |
| Mary Schumacher | Aug. 29, 1898 | Oct. 29, 2009 | 111 | 61 | USA (North Dakota) | USA (North Dakota) | Filipe Prista Lucas | Sept. 4, 2008 | Sept. 23, 2008 |
| Myrtle Jones | Apr. 18, 1897 | Jan. 12, 2009 | 111 | 269 | Australia (Victoria) | Australia (South Australia) | John McCormack | Sept. 5, 2008 | Sept. 27, 2008 |
| Onie Ponder | Sept. 3, 1898 | Dec. 31, 2010 | 112 | 119 | USA (Florida) | USA (Florida) | Ralph Edwards/L. Stephen Coles | Sept. 3, 2008 | Oct. 1, 2008 |
| Maria-Eufemia Domenici-Cordano | Aug. 12, 1898 | Mar. 16, 2009 | 110 | 216 | Italy | Italy | Giovanni Alunni | Sept. 6, 2008 | Oct. 5, 2008 |
| Delfino Borroni | Aug. 23, 1898 | Oct. 26, 2008 | 110 | 64 | Italy | Italy | Giovanni Alunni | Sept. 6, 2008 | Oct. 6, 2008 |
| Abeline Spiehs | Sept. 4, 1898 | Nov. 24, 2008 | 110 | 81 | USA (Nebraska) | USA (Nebraska) | E. A. Kral | Sept. 5, 2008 | Oct. 7, 2008 |
| Shika Shimada | July 7, 1898 | July 20, 2010 | 112 | 13 | Japan | Japan (Nagasaki) | Japan (MHLW)/Stefan Gelow | Sept. 10, 2008 | Oct. 14, 2008 |
| Margaret Fitzgerald | Sept. 16, 1896 | Oct. 20, 2009 | 113 | 34 | Canada (New Brunswick) | Canada (New Brunswick) | Filipe Prista Lucas/Louis Epstein | June 27, 2008 | Oct. 15, 2008 |
| Takashi Hattori | Mar. 12, 1898 | Jan. 12, 2009 | 110 | 306 | Japan | Japan (Saitama) | Japan (MHLW)/Tom Li | Sept. 12, 2008 | Oct. 17, 2008 |
| Yoshi Kobayashi | Sept. 2, 1898 | July 4, 2009 | 110 | 305 | Japan | Japan (Saitama) | Japan (MHLW)/Tom Li | Sept. 13, 2008 | Oct. 20, 2008 |
| Koto Uemura | Mar. 1, 1898 | Jan. 21, 2010 | 111 | 326 | Japan | Japan (Miyazaki) | Japan (MHLW)/Stefan Gelow | Sept. 15, 2008 | Oct. 21, 2008 |
| Aki Onozaki | Apr. 1, 1898 | Feb. 18, 2010 | 111 | 323 | Japan | Japan (Tochigi) | Japan (MHLW)/Stefan Gelow | Sept. 19, 2008 | Oct. 28, 2008 |
| Doreen Washington | May 24, 1898 | Feb. 4, 2009 | 110 | 256 | Australia (Queensland) | Australia (New South Wales) | John McCormack | Sept. 18, 2008 | Oct. 29, 2008 |
| Louisa Shephard | Sept. 14, 1898 | Jan. 19, 2010 | 111 | 127 | UK (wales) | UK (wales) | Andrew Holmes/Melissa Page | Sept. 16, 2008 | Nov. 17, 2008 |
| Annie Turnbull | Sept. 21, 1898 | Sept. 3, 2010 | 111 | 347 | UK (Scotland) | UK (Scotland) | Melissa Page | Sept. 29, 2008 | Nov. 22, 2008 |
| Mary Higley | Aug. 10, 1898 | Dec. 25, 2008 | 110 | 137 | USA (Rhode Island) | USA (Pennsylvania) | Filipe Prista Lucas | Oct. 15, 2008 | Nov. 27, 2008 |
| Irma Schmidt | Oct. 7, 1898 | July 25, 2011 | 112 | 291 | USA (Indiana) | USA (Connecticut) | Filipe Prista Lucas | Oct. 8, 2008 | Dec. 2, 2008 |
| D. Ruth Kelly | Sept. 20, 1898 | Oct. 28, 2009 | 111 | 38 | USA (Illinois) | USA (Iowa) | Filipe Prista Lucas/Stefan Gelow | Oct. 3, 2008 | Dec. 17, 2008 |
| Andresa Guerrero-Ortiz | Nov. 30, 1898 | Aug. 5, 2010 | 111 | 248 | Spain | Spain | Miguel Quesada | Nov. 30, 2008 | Dec. 20, 2008 |
| Margaret Guill | Apr. 7, 1896 | Apr. 28, 2007 | 111 | 21 | USA (Pennsylvania) | USA (Florida) | Filipe Prista Lucas/Robert Young | May 23, 2007 | Dec. 22, 2008 |
| J. Reeta Jones | Oct. 17, 1898 | Dec. 1, 2010 | 112 | 45 | USA (Tennessee) | USA (Tennessee) | Stan Primmer/Filipe Prista Lucas/Robert Young | Dec. 2, 2008 | Dec. 25, 2008 |
| Rose McCloskey | Oct. 25, 1898 | Jan. 14, 2009 | 110 | 81 | USA (Pennsylvania) | USA (Pennsylvania) | Filipe Prista Lucas/Louis Epstein | Dec. 13, 2008 | Dec. 31, 2008 |