List of supercentenarians born in 1889

This is a list of supercentenarians born in 1889. As of 2 December 2025, 110 of them have been validated by the GRG.

Cohort extinction took place on 27 August 2006 when Maria Capovilla of Ecuador died at the age of 116 years, 347 days.

List

      Validated       Pending       Unvalidated

Rank	Name	Sex	Birth	Death	Age	Country
1	Maria Capovilla	F	14 Sep 1889	27 Aug 2006	116 years, 347 days	ECU
2	Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan	F	1 Sep 1889	29 May 2004	114 years, 271 days	PRI,USA
3	Yukichi Chuganji	M	23 Mar 1889	28 Sep 2003	114 years, 189 days	JPN
4	Mitoyo Kawate	F	15 May 1889	13 Nov 2003	114 years, 182 days	JPN
5	Charlotte Benkner	F	16 Nov 1889	14 May 2004	114 years, 180 days	GERUSA
6	Elena Slough	F	4 July 1889	5 Oct 2003	114 years, 93 days	USA
7	Joan Riudavets	M	15 Dec 1889	5 Mar 2004	114 years, 81 days	ESP
8	Mae Harrington	F	20 Jan 1889	29 Dec 2002	113 years, 343 days	USA
9	Mary Christian	F	12 June 1889	20 Apr 2003	113 years, 312 days	USA
10	Mary Parr	F	1 Feb 1889	29 Oct 2002	113 years, 270 days	USA
11	John McMorran	M	19 June 1889	24 Feb 2003	113 years, 250 days	USA
12	Teresa Fumarola	F	2 Dec 1889	14 May 2003	113 years, 163 days	ITA
13	Hazel Luther	F	11 Dec 1889	31 Jan 2003	113 years, 51 days	USA
14	Ito Konno Kinase	F	31 Dec 1889	24 Jan 2003	113 years, 24 days	JPNUSA
15	Maria Laqua	F	12 Feb 1889	9 Feb 2002	112 years, 362 days	GER
16	Antonio Todde	M	22 Jan 1889	3 Jan 2002	112 years, 346 days	ITA
17	Matsuno Oikawa	F	20 Feb 1889	3 Jan 2002	112 years, 317 days	JPN
18	Rosalia Hasenkampf	F	14 Oct 1889	10 July 2002	112 years, 269 days	RUSGER
	Maria Barros de Castro	F	14 Apr 1889	27 Dec 2001	112 years, 257 days	BRA
19	Anna Balsiger	F	11 Feb 1889	14 Sep 2001	112 years, 215 days	USA
20	Nellie Bradley	F	12 Sep 1889	11 Mar 2002	112 years, 180 days	UK
21	Maria Esperanza Onieva	F	1 Sep 1889	15 Feb 2002	112 years, 167 days	ESP
22	Martha Williams	F	12 Sep 1889	24 Feb 2002	112 years, 165 days	USA
23	Nellie Cross	F	28 Oct 1889	3 Apr 2002	112 years, 157 days	USA
24	Elsa Moberg	F	30 June 1889	27 Nov 2001	112 years, 150 days	SWE
25	Marie-Laure Nadon	F	12 Apr 1889	18 Aug 2001	112 years, 128 days	CAN
26	Emma Yager	F	12 Nov 1889	16 Mar 2002	112 years, 124 days	USA
27	Mabel Anderson	F	6 Aug 1889	6 Nov 2001	112 years, 92 days	USA
28	Melvina Richardson	F	11 Jan 1889	31 Mar 2001	112 years, 79 days	USA
29	Mamie Smith	F	1 Mar 1889	25 Apr 2001	112 years, 55 days	CAN
30	Meta Berndt	F	9 Nov 1889	28 Dec 2001	112 years, 49 days	POLGER
31	Jessie Penn	F	18 May 1889	30 June 2001	112 years, 43 days	USA
	Geneva McNicholl	F	10 Dec 1889	22 Jan 2002	112 years, 43 days	USA
33	Emma Bowen	F	2 Mar 1889	29 Mar 2001	112 years, 27 days	USA
34	Blanche Grosdidier	F	3 Oct 1889	10 Oct 2001	112 years, 7 days	FRA
35	Clothilde Roy	F	23 Oct 1889	13 Oct 2001	111 years, 355 days	FRA
36	Abbie Stewart	F	13 Oct 1889	28 Sep 2001	111 years, 350 days	USA
37	Marie Combeleran	F	8 June 1889	23 May 2001	111 years, 349 days	FRA
38	Gertrude Wilson	F	6 Feb 1889	19 Jan 2001	111 years, 348 days	USA
	Han Way Chin	M	3 Aug 1889	2 July 2001	111 years, 333 days	CHNUSA
39	Cora Meek	F	15 Sep 1889	1 July 2001	111 years, 289 days	USA
40	Marta Herminia Canevaro	F	29 July 1889	13 Apr 2001	111 years, 258 days	CHL
41	Arthur Carter	M	5 Oct 1889	11 June 2001	111 years, 249 days	USA
42	Edna Wilke	F	3 Sep 1889	29 Apr 2001	111 years, 238 days	USA
43	Emilia Hernandez de Ramos	F	9 June 1889	26 Jan 2001	111 years, 231 days	PRI,USA
44	Alice Sheppard	F	8 Aug 1889	24 Feb 2001	111 years, 200 days	USA
45	Carmen Romero	F	16 July 1889	17 Jan 2001	111 years, 185 days	MEXUSA
46	Mollie Lollis	F	3 Dec 1889	12 May 2001	111 years, 160 days	USA
47	Benjamin Holcomb	M	3 July 1889	2 Dec 2000	111 years, 152 days	USA
48	Edith Archer	F	25 Nov 1889	11 Apr 2001	111 years, 137 days	USA
49	Gozei Taba	F	12 Sep 1889	6 Jan 2001	111 years, 116 days	JPN
50	Jane Redpath	F	7 Mar 1889	16 June 2000	111 years, 101 days	UK
51	Karen Jespersen	F	5 May 1889	4 Aug 2000	111 years, 91 days	DEN
52	Cecile Ann Cox	F	30 Aug 1889	25 Nov 2000	111 years, 87 days	USA
53	Martha Brady	F	11 Nov 1889	31 Jan 2001	111 years, 81 days
54	Harriet Trudgen	F	22 May 1889	2 Aug 2000	111 years, 72 days	UK USA
55	Martha Brady	F	28 Nov 1889	31 Jan 2001	111 years, 64 days	USA
56	Margaret Ives	F	28 Jan 1889	27 Mar 2000	111 years, 59 days	UK CAN
57	Lenna Currie	F	30 Mar 1889	23 May 2000	111 years, 54 days	USA
58	Edward Bernard	M	22 June 1889	11 Aug 2000	111 years, 50 days	USA
59	Alma Bruss	F	17 Sep 1889	4 Nov 2000	111 years, 48 days	USA
60	Luella Sanford	F	18 May 1889	15 June 2000	111 years, 28 days	CAN
61	Adelaide Rocca	F	4 May 1889	24 May 2000	111 years, 20 days	ITAUSA
62	Martha Pellow	F	18 May 1889	2 June 2000	111 years, 15 days	USA
63	Ludwika Ryniec	F	1 Oct 1889	14 Oct 2000	111 years, 13 days	POLUSA
64	Aki Ichikawa	F	10 Aug 1889	14 Aug 2000	111 years, 4 days	JPN
65	Yaeno Koga	F	4 Nov 1889	27 Oct 2000	110 years, 358 days	JPN
66	Mabel Bauman	F	22 July 1889	8 July 2000	110 years, 352 days	USA
67	Elisabeth Seube	F	8 Apr 1889	6 Mar 2000	110 years, 333 days	FRA
68	Anna Sauvaget	F	12 Jan 1889	27 Nov 1999	110 years, 319 days	FRA
69	Frank Ahmann	M	10 May 1889	22 Mar 2000	110 years, 317 days	USA
70	Anna Rust	F	11 Oct 1889	15 Aug 2000	110 years, 309 days	USA
71	Marie-Isabelle Tuffal	F	14 Jan 1889	12 Nov 1999	110 years, 302 days	FRA
72	Erna Henningsen	F	24 May 1889	27 Feb 2000	110 years, 279 days	GER
73	Nancy Ray	F	11 Sep 1889	6 June 2000	110 years, 269 days	USA
74	Mary Waskom	F	15 Nov 1889	8 Aug 2000	110 years, 267 days	USA
75	Agnes Sultan	F	15 Dec 1889	4 Sep 2000	110 years, 264 days	SWEUSA
76	Vera Zeilman	F	27 Dec 1889	9 Sep 2000	110 years, 257 days	USA
77	Clara McKenzie	F	14 Jan 1889	18 Sep 1999	110 years, 247 days	CAN
78	Muriel Cushing	F	7 Jan 1889	7 Sep 1999	110 years, 243 days	USA
79	Dora Dixon	F	5 May 1889	17 Dec 1999	110 years, 226 days	USA
80	Marie-Francoise Hemery	F	25 July 1889	6 Mar 2000	110 years, 225 days	FRA
81	Lola Bates	F	31 Dec 1889	20 July 2000	110 years, 202 days	USA
82	Elizabeth Middler	F	12 Oct 1889	19 Apr 2000	110 years, 190 days	UK CAN
83	Chiake Nakamura	M	31 Dec 1889	7 July 2000	110 years, 189 days	JPN
84	Fuyu Miwa	F	12 Jan 1889	16 July 1999	110 years, 185 days	JPNUSA
85	Euretta Thornton	F	6 Jan 1889	4 July 1999	110 years, 179 days	CAN
86	Marie-Rose Theriault	F	8 Sep 1889	29 Feb 2000	110 years, 174 days	CAN
87	Lora Blair	F	9 July 1889	28 Dec 1999	110 years, 172 days	USA
88	Mary Lamb	F	5 Nov 1889	14 Apr 2000	110 years, 161 days	USA
89	Almira Laskie	F	2 June 1889	2 Nov 1999	110 years, 153 days	USA
90	Kamado Koja	F	17 Nov 1889	3 Apr 2000	110 years, 138 days	JPN
91	Lillian Moore	F	17 Aug 1889	19 Dec 1999	110 years, 124 days	USA
92	Anna Boulet	F	28 June 1889	19 Oct 1999	110 years, 113 days	FRA
93	Marion Tapley	F	18 Aug 1889	3 Dec 1999	110 years, 107 days	USA
	Lida Walton	F	15 Nov 1889	1 Mar 2000	110 years, 107 days	USA
95	Flo Fuss	F	5 Jan 1889	7 Apr 1999	110 years, 92 days	AUS
96	Maria Bazzani	F	20 Feb 1889	21 May 1999	110 years, 90 days	ITA
97	Therlow Noble	M	27 May 1889	22 Aug 1999	110 years, 87 days	USA
98	Karen Svisdal	F	16 Dec 1889	23 Feb 2000	110 years, 69 days	NOR
99	Olga Johnson	F	31 Aug 1889	31 Oct 1999	110 years, 61 days	SWEUSA
100	Wilhelm Schorner	M	3 Feb 1889	29 Mar 1999	110 years, 54 days	GER
	Concetta Ramundo	F	8 Dec 1889	31 Jan 2000	110 years, 54 days	ITA
102	Mariana Alves de Farias	F	26 Mar 1889	30 Apr 1999	110 years, 35 days	BRA
103	Marie de Ruyver	F	10 Feb 1889	14 Mar 1999	110 years, 32 days	BEL
104	Amy Pearce	F	22 May 1889	20 June 1999	110 years, 29 days	UK
105	Lena Rittenhouse	F	10 Mar 1889	30 Mar 1999	110 years, 20 days	USA
106	Elisabeth Reimer	F	18 Feb 1889	4 Mar 1999	110 years, 14 days	RUSCAN
107	Natalina Simoncini	F	25 Dec 1889	7 Jan 2000	110 years, 13 days	ITA
108	Rita Donn	F	11 Jan 1889	17 Jan 1999	110 years, 6 days	UK
109	Pauline Theissen	F	10 Jan 1889	13 Jan 1999	110 years, 3 days	USA

Incomplete Claims

      Validated       Pending       Unvalidated

Name	Sex	Birth	Death	Age	Country
Anonymous (Okinawa)	F	1889	Apr 1999	110 years, 0-119 days	JPN

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References

• GRG World Supercentenarian Rankings List
• GRG Pending Cases List As of March 2015