The following is a list of the oldest veterans of World War II. Those included on this list are above the age of 108.
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Living
| Rank | Name | Sex | Birth | Age as of 29 Nov 2021 | Country |
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| 1 | Mollie Walker [3] | F | 5 Feb 1909 | 112 years, 297 days |  UK
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| 2 | Marcel Meys [4] | M | 12 July 1909 | 112 years, 140 days |  FRA
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| 3 | Lawrence Brooks [5] | M | 12 Sept 1909 | 112 years, 78 days |  USA
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| 4 | Mikizo Ueda | M | 11 May 1910 | 111 years, 202 days |  JPN
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| 5 | Ezra Hill [6] | M | 19 Dec 1910 | 110 years, 345 days | USA
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| 6 | Jacqueline Bossard [7] | F | 20 Aug 1911 | 110 years, 101 days | FRA
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| 7 | Eileen Ash [8] | F | 30 Oct 1911 | 110 years, 30 days | UK
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| 8 | Reuben Sinclair [9] | M | 5 Dec 1911 | 109 years, 359 days |  CAN
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| 9 | Leon Kaleta [10] | M | 1 Feb 1912 | 109 years, 301 days |  POL
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| 10 | Raymond Monroy [11] | M | 11 May 1912 | 109 years, 202 days | USA
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| 11 | Andre Ludwig [12] | M | 6 June 1912 | 109 years, 176 days | FRA
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| 12 | Emile Guerin [13] | M | 17 Aug 1912 | 109 years, 104 days | FRA
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| 13 | Steve Ferri [14] | M | 2 Sept 1912 | 109 years, 88 days | USA
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| 14 | Fred Steinkirchner [15] | M | 5 Sept 1912 | 109 years, 85 days | USA
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| 15 | Simion Kenner [16] | M | 18 Sept 1912 | 109 years, 72 days |  UKR ISR
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| 16 | Rudy Thompson [17] | M | 28 Oct 1912 | 109 years, 32 days | USA
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| 17 | Frances Shutt [18] | F | 12 Nov 1912 | 109 years, 17 days | USA
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| 18 | Luke Dixon [19] | M | 26 Nov 1912 | 109 years, 3 days | USA
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| 19 | Klaudia Rahikainen | F | 13 Feb 1913 | 108 years, 289 days |  RUS FIN
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| 20 | Pierre Pineau [20] | M | 23 Feb 1913 | 108 years, 279 days | FRA
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| 21 | Moon Fun Chin [21] | M | 20 Mar 1913 | 108 years, 254 days |  CHNUSA
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| 22 | Georgi Iliev Georgiev [22] | M | 27 Mar 1913 | 108 years, 247 days |  BUL
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| 23 | Tom Peers [23] | M | 30 Apr 1913 | 108 years, 213 days | UK
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| 24 | Boris Pahor | M | 26 Aug 1913 | 108 years, 95 days |  ITA
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| 25 | Joe Dixon [24] | M | 1 Oct 1913 | 108 years, 59 days | UK
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| 26 | Otto Hubner [25] | M | 11 Oct 1913 | 108 years, 49 days |  GER
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| 27 | Michael O'Connor [26] | M | 13 Oct 1913 | 108 years, 47 days |  IRL
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| 28 | Henry Barba [27] | M | 19 Oct 1913 | 108 years, 41 days | USA
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| 29 | Felice Magliano [28] | M | 2 Nov 1913 | 108 years, 27 days | ITA
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Chronology
Mollie Walker is the current oldest veteran of World War II.
Marcel Meys is the current oldest male veteran of World War II.
Deceased
Verified / Under 110 Pending Unverified
| Rank | Name | Sex | Birth | Death | Age | Country |
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| Gabrielle des Robert | F | 4 June 1904 | 3 Dec 2018 | 114 years, 182 days | FRA
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| Gustav Gerneth | M | 15 Oct 1905 | 22 Oct 2019 | 114 years, 7 days | POLGER
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| Jozef Kowalski | M | 2 Feb 1900? | 7 Dec 2013 | 113 years, 308 days? | UKRPOL
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| Maximiano Jose dos Santos | M | 22 Feb 1893 | 25 Apr 2006 | 113 years, 62 days |  BRA
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| Richard Overton [1] | M | 11 May 1906 | 27 Dec 2018 | 112 years, 230 days | USA
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| Yoshikazu Yamashita | M | 10 Apr 1907 | 7 July 2019 | 112 years, 88 days | JPN
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| Kathryn Shelley [2] | F | 4 Sept 1909 | 12 Nov 2021 | 112 years, 69 days | USA
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| Emma Jefferies | F | 11 Aug 1899 | 20 Aug 2011 | 112 years, 9 days | USA
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| Emma Didlake | F | 13 Mar 1904 | 16 Aug 2015 | 111 years, 154 days | USA
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| Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski | M | 19 July 1894 | 6 Dec 2005 | 111 years, 140 days | UKR UK
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| Alf Smith | M | 29 Mar 1908 | 4 Aug 2019 | 111 years, 128 days | UK
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| Shelby Harris | M | 31 Mar 1901 | 25 July 2012 | 111 years, 116 days | USA
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| Julia Kabance | F | 10 Aug 1910 | 16 Nov 2021 | 111 years, 98 days | USA
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| Margaret Reed | F | 20 Apr 1910 | 8 July 2021 | 111 years, 79 days | UK
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| Kamado Tsuha | M | 10 June 1908 | 15 Aug 2019 | 111 years, 66 days | JPN
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| Mark Matthews | M | 7 Aug 1894? | 6 Sept 2005 | 111 years, 30 days? | USA
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| Leopold Vietoris | M | 4 June 1891 | 9 Apr 2002 | 110 years, 309 days |  AUT
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| Serge Koolish | M | 31 Mar 1906? | 29 Jan 2017 | 110 years, 304 days? | UKRUSA
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| Gerhart Schneider | M | 13 Mar 1908 | 18 Dec 2018 | 110 years, 280 days | POLGER
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| Gertrude Noone | F | 30 Dec 1898 | 10 Sept 2009 | 110 years, 254 days | USA
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| Rezso Gallai | M | 29 Jan 1904 | 25 Sept 2014 | 110 years, 239 days |  HUN
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| Yang Changwen | M | 23 Jan 1908 | 14 Sept 2018 | 110 years, 234 days | CHN
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| Niko Dragos | M | 27 Aug 1907 | 31 Mar 2018 | 110 years, 216 days |  SVN
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| Giovanni Quarisa | M | 24 Aug 1909 | 21 Mar 2020 | 110 years, 210 days | ITA
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| Ralph Hoare | M | 19 July 1908 | 29 Jan 2019 | 110 years, 194 days | UK
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| Frank Levingston | M | 13 Nov 1905 | 3 May 2016 | 110 years, 172 days | USA
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| Michel Chevallier | M | 3 July 1908 | 11 Nov 2018 | 110 years, 131 days | FRA
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| Ralph Tarrant | M | 7 Jul 1903 | 30 Oct 2013 | 110 years, 115 days | UK
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| Lynn Balmer | F | 12 Sept 1907 | 9 Dec 2017 | 110 years, 88 days | USA
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| John Campbell Ross | M | 11 Mar 1899 | 3 June 2009 | 110 years, 84 days |  AUS
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| Gordon Saunders | M | 12 July 1910 | 18 Sept 2020 | 110 years, 68 days | USA
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| Martin Eichel | M | 13 July 1907 | 18 Sept 2017 | 110 years, 67 days | GER
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| Paul Veit | M | 15 Jan 1903 | 21 Mar 2013 | 110 years, 65 days | GER
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| Claude Choules | M | 3 Mar 1901 | 5 May 2011 | 110 years, 63 days | UK AUS
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| Reg Dean | M | 4 Nov 1902 | 5 Jan 2013 | 110 years, 62 days | UK
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| Salvatore Cavallo | M | 16 May 1909 | 11 July 2019 | 110 years, 56 days | ITA
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| Luigi Tomasi | M | 17 Oct 1908 | 7 Dec 2018 | 110 years, 51 days | ITA
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| Ben Haymon | M | 8 Nov 1909 | 18 Dec 2019 | 110 years, 40 days | USA
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| Rizalina Alvarez Claravall [3] | F | c.7 May 1909 | 4 June 2019 | 110 years, c.28 days |  PHL
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| Teiichiro Iwakawa | M | 25 Feb 1909 | 21 Mar 2019 | 110 years, 24 days | JPN
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| Torinosuke Iida | M | 25 Dec 1909 | 17 Jan 2020 | 110 years, 23 days | JPN
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| Bill Sheetz | M | 17 May 1906 | 28 May 2016 | 110 years, 11 days | USA
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| Mzee Stanslaus Sajjabbi Kavuma | M | 15 Aug 1907? | 13 Aug 2017 | 109 years, 363 days? |  UGA
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| Walter Sturzebecher [4] | M | 25 July 1908 | 14 July 2018 | 109 years, 354 days | GER
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| Ronald Hermanns | M | 25 Sept 1911 | 30 Aug 2021 | 109 years, 339 days | CAN NZL
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| Robert Meier | M | 10 Mar 1897 | 29 Jan 2007 | 109 years, 325 days | GER
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| John Regan [5] | M | 15 Feb 1911 | 31 Dec 2020 | 109 years, 320 days | USA
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| Otello Pomponi | M | 4 Feb 1908 | 26 Dec 2017 | 109 years, 325 days | ITA
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| Robert Winterstein [6] | M | 6 Sep 1907 | 25 May 2017 | 109 years, 261 days | GER
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| Pat Corbin [7] | F | 17 Mar 1911 | 17 Nov 2020 | 109 years, 245 days |  JER UK
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| Tom Lumby [8] | M | 7 Nov 1911 | 19 June 2021 | 109 years, 225 days | CAN
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| Antoni Wojciechowski | M | 15 Nov 1906 | 19 May 2016 | 109 years, 186 days | POL
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| Franciszek Karwowski | M | 10 Oct 1895 | 12 Apr 2005 | 109 years, 184 days | POL
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| Robert Marchand | M | 26 Nov 1911 | 22 May 2021 | 109 years, 177 days | FRA
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| Curtis Tigard [9] | M | 13 Apr 1909 | 25 July 2018 | 109 years, 103 days | USA
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| Josip Krsul [10] | M | 10 Dec 1911 | 5 Mar 2021 | 109 years, 85 days |  CRO
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| Tom Morris [11] | M | 1 Aug 1910 | 20 Oct 2019 | 109 years, 80 days | USA
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| Sylvain Vallee [12] | M | 17 May 1912 | 25 July 2021 | 109 years, 69 days |  BEL
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| Wilhelmina Klimpke [13] | F | 11 Feb 1912 | 5 Apr 2021 | 109 years, 53 days | CAN
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| Salme Haltia [14] | F | 9 July 1912 | 31 July 2021 | 109 years, 22 days | FIN
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| Cliff Kayhart [15] | M | 14 Oct 1911 | 26 Oct 2020 | 109 years, 12 days | USA
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| Heinrich Homann [29] | M | 24 June 1911 | 24 June 2020 | 109 years, 0 days | GER
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| Ioan Lascau | M | 25 Feb 1912 | 15 Feb 2021 | 108 years, 356 days |  ROU
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| Dr. Josef Seefelder [16] | M | 19 Apr 1909 | 6 Apr 2018 | 108 years, 352 days | GER
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| Bennie Woolam [17] | M | 12 Jan 1912 | 14 Dec 2020 | 108 years, 337 days | USA
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| Dragoljub Galic | M | 12 Oct 1909 | 26 Aug 2018 | 108 years, 318 days |  BIH
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| James O. Bass | M | 12 July 1910 | 21 May 2019 | 108 years, 313 days | USA
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| Masao Matsumoto [18] | M | 9 July 1910 | 17 May 2019 | 108 years, 312 days | JPN
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| Lucy Coffey [19] | F | 14 May 1906 | 19 Mar 2015 | 108 years, 309 days | USA
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| Bernhard Prott | M | 16 Sept 1904 | 16 July 2013 | 108 years, 303 days | GER
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| Herbert Kreibich | M | 24 Mar 1910 | 7 Jan 2019 | 108 years, 289 days |  CZE SUI
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| James Brown [20] | M | 20 June 1911 | 2 Apr 2020 | 108 years, 287 days | USA
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| Ben Raymond | M | 23 July 1911 | 20 Apr 2020 | 108 years, 272 days | UK
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| Olive Oldfield [21] | F | 4 Dec 1906 | 17 Aug 2015 | 108 years, 256 days | NZL
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| Karl-Heinz Buschen [22] | M | 20 Nov 1909 | Aug 2018 | 108 years, 254 days+ | GER
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| Eugene Ruf [23] | M | 19 Apr 1909 | 29 Dec 2017 | 108 years, 254 days | USA
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| Odo Buratti [30] | M | 22 Feb 1911 | 14 Oct 2019 | 108 years, 234 days | ITA
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| L.B. McBride [31] | M | 6 May 1912 | 25 Dec 2020 | 108 years, 233 days | USA
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| Bill Mitchell [24] | M | 10 Apr 1913 | 8 Nov 2021 | 108 years, 212 days | NZL
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| Jozef Zurek | M | 31 Aug 1909 | 20 Mar 2018 | 108 years, 201 days | POL
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| Anthony Mancinelli | M | 2 Mar 1911 | 19 Sept 2019 | 108 years, 201 days | ITA USA
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| Waldemar Levy Cardoso | M | 4 Dec 1900 | 13 May 2008 | 108 years, 160 days | BRA
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| Luta Mae McGrath [25] | F | 21 Nov 1907 | 14 Apr 2016 | 108 years, 145 days | USA
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| Alyce Dixon [26] | F | 11 Sept 1907 | 27 Jan 2016 | 108 years, 138 days | USA
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| Siegfried Labus [27] | M | 19 Oct 1911 | 2 Mar 2020 | 108 years, 135 days | GER
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| Anne Robson [28] | F | 14 Sept 1911 | 20 Jan 2020 | 108 years, 128 days | UK
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| Georges Loinger [29] | M | 29 Aug 1910 | 28 Dec 2018 | 108 years, 121 days | FRA
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| Maurice Stael | M | 25 Sept 1911 | 24 Jan 2020 | 108 years, 121 days | BEL
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| John Boyd [32] | M | 26 Jan 1913 | 26 May 2021 | 108 years, 120 days | CAN
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| Bill Stone | M | 23 Sept 1900 | 10 Jan 2009 | 108 years, 109 days | UK
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| Paul Beckman [30] | M | 20 Aug 1912 | 1 Dec 2020 | 108 years, 103 days | USA
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| Augustin Rus [31] | M | 5 Apr 1910 | 2 June 2018 | 108 years, 58 days | ROU
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| Bill Mohr [32] | M | 22 Oct 1908 | 18 Dec 2016 | 108 years, 57 days | USA
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| Joe Daniels [33] | M | 19 Feb 1912 | 17 April 2020 | 108 years, 57 days | UK
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| Ragnar Lindholm | M | 24 July 1906 | 2 Sept 2014 | 108 years, 40 days | FIN
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| Erich Walde | M | 1 July 1905 | 5 Aug 2013 | 108 years, 35 days | GER
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| Roland Hoffmann | M | 30 Aug 1909 | 1 Oct 2017 | 108 years, 32 days | GER
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| Väinö Loisa | M | 26 July 1912 | 10 Aug 2020 | 108 years, 15 days | FIN
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| William Frankland | M | 19 Mar 1912 | 2 Apr 2020 | 108 years, 14 days | UK
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References
- ↑ Nation's oldest living veteran Richard Overton dies in Austin at age 112 FOX News, 27 December 2018
- ↑ Kathryn Shelley Obituary Tribute Archive
- ↑ Filipino World War II Veterans awarded with US Congressional Gold Medal Mintfo, 10 September 2019
- ↑ Death notification CHRISTOPHORUS
- ↑ John Franklin Regan Find A Grave
- ↑ Hier trifft der älteste Münchner die älteste Münchnerin
• Der älteste Münchner ist tot (†109) - der Sohn (66) erinnert sich - ↑ [1]
- ↑ Egan: Oldest man in Ottawa 'lives for now,' 109 years and counting Ottawa Citizen, 7 November 2020
- ↑ Curtis Tigard, member of city's founding family, dies Koin 6
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ Tom “Ike” Morris 109th Birthday
- ↑ Houyet: À 107 ans, Sylvain Vallée est le 4e Belge le plus âgé
- ↑ Wilhelmina Klimpke nee Hartenberg Obituary Nécrologie Canada, 8 April 2021
- ↑ Suomen vanhin lotta Salme Haltia on kuollut 109-vuotiaana Iltalehti
- ↑ Charles Kayhart Obituary Dignity Memorial
- ↑ In_zehn_Jahren_dürfen_Sie_wiederkommen 100
• Sieben Methusalems leben in Wesel 105 - ↑ TVHS Geriatrics celebrates WWII centenarians Tennessee Valley, 4 August 2020
- ↑ Japanese centenarian 'full of emotion' to see fifth era name of his lifetime The Japan Times, 24 April 2019
- ↑ Oldest American woman veteran dies at 108
- ↑ James Brown Obituary Oscar’s Mortuary, Inc.
- ↑ Northland woman's decent life ends at 108 NZ Herald, 19 August 2015
- ↑ Personal Correspondence
- ↑ Army veteran celebrates 108th birthday, shares his secret to a long, happy life FOX San Antonio, 20 April 2017
- ↑ Bill Mitchell, New Zealand's oldest WWII veteran, dies aged 108
- ↑ One of America’s oldest known female Veterans passes away at 108 years, old NJTODAY.NET, 21 May 2016
- ↑ Alyce Dixon, nation’s oldest female World War II veteran, dies at 108 The Washington Post
- ↑ Marlies und Siegfried sind seit über 80 Jahren ein Paar - Das sind ihre Tipps für eine lange und glückliche Ehe SWR, 26 December 2019
- ↑ World War Two veteran Anne Robson dies aged 108 BBC News, 23 January 2020
- ↑ Le résistant Georges Loinger est mort à l'âge de 108 ans France bleu
- ↑ Freedom Riders help local veteran celebrate 108th birthday Nebraska TV, 22 August 2020
- ↑ Cel mai bătrân om din Bistrița a murit. Augustin Rus s-a stins la 108 ani Libertatea, 3 June 2018
- ↑ 108-year-old WWII veteran pays special visit to DC memorial
• World War II vet Sgt. Bill Mohr of Montgomery County who met President Obama last month dies at 108 ABC 6, 21 December 2016 - ↑ War veteran celebrates 108th birthday at Seaton Midweek Herald, 20 February 2020
