'World's Oldest Living Man' titleholders | Gerontology Research Group

World’s oldest living man titleholders (since 1951) according to Guinness World Records (GWR) and the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Titleholder since	Titleholder until	Duration	Name	Age when oldest	Birthdate	Deathdate	Country of death
Unknown	1951-03-27	Unknown	James Smith	N/A–108	1842-07-10	1951-03-27	United States
1951-03-27	1953-03-12	1 yr, 350 days	James Hard	107–109	1843-07-15	1953-03-12	United States
1953-03-12	1953-10-10	212 days	Karl Glöckner	107	1845-12-29	1953-10-10	Germany
1953-10-10	1954-09-17	342 days	Wayland Newell	107–108	1846-09-15	1954-09-17	United States
1954-09-17	1954-09-23	6 days	Anders Johansson	106	1848-03-24	1954-09-23	Sweden
1954-09-23	1954-12-03	71 days	Euclid Story	106	1848-07-30	1954-12-03	United States
1954-12-03	1955-03-14	101 days	Daniel Cummings	106	1848-09-25	1955-03-14	United States
1955-03-14	1957-01-07	1 yr, 299 days	Mathias Hansen Saether	106–108	1848-10-21	1957-01-07	Norway
1957-01-07	1960-10-09	3 yrs, 276 days	Robert Early	107–111	1849-10-08	1960-10-09	United States
1960-10-09	1960-12-09	61 days	Willem Kostering	108–109	1851-11-22	1960-12-09	Netherlands
1960-12-09	1962-03-12	1 yr, 93 days	Sylvester Melvin	109–110	1851-11-29	1962-03-12	United States
1962-03-12	1962-03-16	4 days	Joseph Saint-Amour	110	1852-02-26	1962-03-16	Canada
1962-03-16	1962-11-22	251 days	William Smith	108	1854-02-28	1962-11-22	United States
1962-11-22	1967-06-05	4 yrs, 195 days	James King	108–112	1854-11-15	1967-06-05	United States
1967-06-05	1968-03-21	290 days	John Mosley Turner	110–111	1856-06-15	1968-03-21	United Kingdom
1968-03-21	1968-11-24	248 days	Eli Lindsay	110	1858-02-28	1968-11-24	Canada
1968-11-24	1868-12-26	32 days	John Chaney	109	1859-10-12	1968-12-26	United States
1868-12-26	1969-04-22	117 days	William Lamb	109	1859-11-24	1969-04-22	United States
1969-04-22	1970-01-04	257 days	John Johnson	108-109	1860-05-27	1970-01-04	United States
1970-01-04	1971-12-02	1 yr, 332 days	Theophilus May	108-110	1861-01-05	1971-12-02	United States
1971-12-02	1973-05-05	1 yr, 154 days	Friedrich Wedeking	109–110	1862-10-10	1973-05-05	Germany
1973-05-05	1974-10-18	1 yr, 166 days	Isaac Edwards	109–110	1863-12-06	1974-10-18	United States
1974-10-18	1977-01-07	2 yrs, 81 days	James Holt	108–111	1865-12-25	1977-01-07	United States
1977-01-07	1977-03-17	69 days	Jean Teillet	110	1866-11-06	1977-03-17	France
1977-03-17	1978-08-20	1 yr, 156 days	Charlie Nelson	109–110	1867-09-21	1978-08-20	United States
1978-08-20	1980-09-05	2 yrs, 16 days	Charlie Phillips	109–111	1869-05-05	1980-09-05	United States
1980-09-05	1982-04-10	1 yr, 217 days	Zachariah Blackistone	109–111	1871-02-16	1982-04-10	United States
1982-04-10	1983-03-04	328 days	James Nash	109–110	1872-07-31	1983-03-04	United States
1983-03-04	1983-08-11	160 days	Walter Wilcox	110	1872-11-01	1983-08-11	United States
1983-08-11	1983-12-22	133 days	Gregory Pandazes	110	1873-01-15	1983-12-22	United States
1983-12-22	1984-06-25	186 days	Benjamin Garner	110	1873-08-10	1984-06-25	United States
1984-06-25	1984-12-15	173 days	Randolph Davis	110–111	1873-10-15	1984-12-15	United States
1984-12-15	1986-12-14	1 yr, 364 days	Joe Thomas	109–111	1875-05-01	1986-12-14	United States
1986-12-14	1987-01-05	22 days	Herman Smith-Johannsen	111	1875-06-15	1987-01-05	Norway
1987-01-05	1988-11-25	1 yr, 325 days	Alphaeus Philemon Cole	110–112	1876-07-12	1988-11-25	United States
1988-11-25	1990-06-10	1 yr, 197 days	John Evans	111–112	1877-08-19	1990-06-10	United Kingdom
1990-06-10	1990-06-18	8 days	Henri Pérignon	110	1879-10-14	1990-06-18	France
1990-06-18	1990-12-24	189 days	Robert Freeman	110–111	1879-12-22	1990-12-24	United States
1990-12-24	1993-06-14	2 yrs, 172 days	Frederick Frazier	110–113	1880-01-27	1993-06-14	United States
1993-06-14	1994-01-20	220 days	Josep Armengol Jover	111–112	1881-07-23	1994-01-20	Spain
1994-01-20	1994-08-18	210 days	Park Fountain Heard	111-112	1882-05-18	1994-08-18	United States
1994-08-18	1998-04-25	3 yrs, 250 days	Christian Mortensen	112–115	1882-08-16	1998-04-25	United States
1998-04-25	1998-12-27	246 days	Donald Butler	112–113	1885-08-21	1998-12-27	United States
1998-12-27	1999-04-29	123 days	Denzō Ishizaki	112	1886-10-02	1999-04-29	Japan
1999-04-29	1999-11-15	200 days	Antonio Urrea Hernández	111	1888-02-16	1999-11-15	Spain
1999-11-15	2001-03-01	1 yr, 106 days	John Painter	111–112	1888-09-20	2001-03-01	United States
2001-03-01	2002-01-03	308 days	Antonio Todde	112	1889-01-22	2002-01-03	Italy
2002-01-03	2003-09-28	1 yr, 268 days	Yukichi Chuganji	112–114	1889-03-23	2003-09-28	Japan
2003-09-28	2004-03-05	159 days	Joan Riudavets Moll	113–114	1889-12-15	2004-03-05	Spain
2004-03-05	2004-11-19	259 days	Fred Hale	113	1890-12-01	2004-11-19	United States
2004-11-19	2007-01-24	2 yrs, 66 days	Emiliano Mercado del Toro	113–115	1891-08-21	2007-01-24	Puerto Rico
2007-01-24	2009-06-19	2 yrs, 146 days	Tomoji Tanabe	111–113	1895-09-18	2009-06-19	Japan
2009-06-19	2009-07-18	29 days	Henry Allingham	113	1896-06-06	2009-07-18	United Kingdom
2009-07-18	2011-04-14	1 yr, 270 days	Walter Breuning	112–114	1896-09-21	2011-04-14	United States
2011-04-14	2011-09-25	164 days	Horacio Celi Mendoza	114	1897-01-03	2011-09-25	Peru
2011-09-25	2013-06-12	1 yr, 260 days	Jiroemon Kimura	114–116	1897-04-19	2013-06-12	Japan
2013-06-12	2013-09-13	94 days	Salustiano Sánchez Blázquez	112	1901-06-08	2013-09-13	United States
2013-09-13	2014-03-26	194 days	Ernest Peronneau	111–112	1902-03-07	2014-03-26	United States
2014-03-26	2014-04-24	29 days	Arturo Licata	111	1902-05-02	2014-04-24	Italy
2014-04-24	2014-06-08	45 days	Dr. Alexander Imich	111	1903-02-04	2014-06-08	United States
2014-06-08	2015-07-05	1 yr, 27 days	Sakari Momoi	111–112	1903-02-05	2015-07-05	Japan
2015-07-05	2016-01-19	198 days	Yasutaro Koide	112	1903-03-13	2016-01-19	Japan
2016-01-19	2017-08-11	1 yr, 204 days	Israel Kristal	112–113	1903-09-15	2017-08-11	Israel
2017-08-11	2018-01-29	171 days	Francisco Núñez Olivera	112–113	1904-12-13	2018-01-29	Spain
2018-01-29	2019-01-20	356 days	Masazo Nonaka	112–113	1905-07-25	2019-01-20	Japan
2019-01-21	2020-09-24	1 yr, 248 days	Tomás Pinales Figuereo	113–114	1906-03-31	2020-09-24	Dominican Republic
2020-09-24	2021-08-12	322 days	Emilio Flores Márquez	112–113	1908-08-08	2021-08-12	Puerto Rico
2021-08-12	2022-01-18	159 days	Saturnino de la Fuente García	112	1909-02-11	2022-01-18	Spain
2022-01-18	2024-04-02	2 yrs, 75 days	Juan Vicente Pérez Mora	112–114	1909-05-27	2024-04-02	Venezuela
2024-04-02	2024-06-29	88 days	Shi Ping	112	1911-11-01	2024-06-29	China
2024-06-29	2024-11-25	149 days	John Tinniswood	111–112	1912-08-26	2024-11-25	United Kingdom
2024-11-25	Present	(*)	João Marinho Neto	112*	1912-10-05	Living	Living in Brazil