List of supercentenarians born in 1897

This is a list of supercentenarians born in 1897. As of 4 January 2025, 110 of them have been validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) and the Guinness World Records (GWR).

0 people are pending as of December 2024, which means that there is sufficient evidence to support the claims, but the validation process has not yet been completed.

Cohort extinction took place on 12 June 2013 when Jiroemon Kimura of Japan died at the age of 116 years, 54 days.

List

Validated Pending Unvalidated

Rank	Name	Sex	Birth	Death	Age	Country
1	Jiroemon Kimura	M	19 Apr 1897	12 June 2013	116 years, 54 days	JPN
2	Dina Manfredini	F	4 Apr 1897	17 Dec 2012	115 years, 257 days	ITA USA
3	Koto Okubo	F	24 Dec 1897	12 Jan 2013	115 years, 19 days	JPN
4	Horacio Celi Mendoza ^[1]	M	23 Jan 1897	25 Sept 2011	114 years, 265 days	PER
5	Delma Kollar	F	31 Oct 1897	24 Jan 2012	114 years, 85 days	USA
6	Shige Hirooka	F	16 Jan 1897	29 Mar 2011	114 years, 72 days	JPN
7	Margarita Arriagada Cancino ^[1]	F	17 Dec 1897	16 Dec 2011	113 years, 364 days	CHL
8	Mississippi Winn	F	31 Mar 1897	14 Jan 2011	113 years, 289 days	USA
9	Ella Schuler	F	5 Sept 1897	7 May 2011	113 years, 244 days	USA
10	Frances Street	F	28 Mar 1897	24 Aug 2010	113 years, 149 days	USA
11	Mauro Ambriz Tapia ^[1]	M	21 Nov 1897	18 Apr 2011	113 years, 148 days	MEX
12	Toshi Horiya	F	8 Nov 1897	4 Feb 2011	113 years, 88 days	JPN
13	Komiya Miyazaki	F	20 Aug 1897	4 Jan 2011	113 years, 137 days	JPN
	Hu Jiazhi	F	25 Feb 1897	23 Mar 2010	113 years, 26 days	CHN
14	Benilda Ospino Altamar	F	28 Dec 1897	28 Dec 2010	113 years, 0 days	COL
15	Rosa Rein	F	24 Mar 1897	14 Feb 2010	112 years, 327 days	POL SUI
16	Chikao Beppu	F	28 Mar 1897	17 Feb 2010	112 years, 326 days	JPN
17	Tome Yoshida	F	2 June 1897	8 Feb 2010	112 years, 251 days	JPN
18	Florence Poe	F	24 Aug 1897	21 Mar 2010	112 years, 209 days	USA
19	Hattie Lafayette	F	30 Mar 1897	10 Sept 2009	112 years, 164 days	USA
20	Annie Butler	F	4 June 1897	28 Sept 2009	112 years, 116 days	UK
21	Beatrice Cooper	F	3 Feb 1897	4 May 2009	112 years, 90 days	USA
22	Gozei Higa	F	10 Oct 1897	10 Dec 2009	112 years, 61 days	JPN
	Cheng Pui Ling^[2]	F	4 June 1897	16 July 2009	112 years, 42 days	Macau MAC
23	Dolores Pasquini Boscardin	F	27 Oct 1897	30 Nov 2009	112 years, 34 days	BRA
24	Mary Gentry	F	4 Sept 1897	6 Oct 2009	112 years, 32 days	USA
25	Grietje Jansen-Anker	F	12 Sept 1897	13 Oct 2009	112 years, 31 days	NED
26	Olympe Pidancet	F	24 Jan 1897	19 Feb 2009	112 years, 26 days	FRA
27	Lake Dickson	F	19 Jan 1897	30 Jan 2009	112 years, 11 days	USA
28	Tsuji Takano	F	7 June 1897	17 June 2009	112 years, 10 days	JPN
29	Ruth Lincoln	F	30 Sept 1897	17 Sept 2009	111 years, 352 days	USA
30	Ethel Johnson	F	28 Sept 1897	29 July 2009	111 years, 304 days	USA
31	Myrtle Jones	F	18 Apr 1897	12 Jan 2009	111 years, 269 days	AUS
32	Maria Elisabetta Moro	F	11 Feb 1897	2 Nov 2008	111 years, 265 days	ITA
33	Maria Pogonowska	F	30 Oct 1897	15 July 2009	111 years, 258 days	POL ISR
34	Carolina Peretti	F	21 Oct 1897	15 June 2009	111 years, 237 days	ITA
35	Pearl Hampton	F	14 Oct 1897	15 May 2009	111 years, 213 days	USA
36	Kiyoshi Igarashi	M	2 Aug 1897	23 Feb 2009	111 years, 205 days	JPN
37	Noemi Anderson	F	28 Sept 1897	20 Apr 2009	111 years, 204 days	USA
38	Viola Koch	F	24 May 1897	11 Nov 2008	111 years, 171 days	USA
39	Frieda Borchert	F	5 Jan 1897	22 June 2008	111 years, 169 days	GER
40	Aarne Arvonen	M	4 Aug 1897	1 Jan 2009	111 years, 150 days	FIN
41	Tsuru Tokashiki	F	24 June 1897	16 Nov 2008	111 years, 145 days	JPN
42	Ludwika Kosztyla	F	3 Aug 1897	1 Dec 2008	111 years, 120 days	POL
43	Dolors Subirana	F	18 July 1897	9 Nov 2008	111 years, 114 days	ESP
44	Kiku Nishimura	F	2 May 1897	22 Aug 2008	111 years, 112 days	JPN
45	Bessie Roffey	F	2 Mar 1897	17 June 2008	111 years, 107 days	UK CAN
46	Daniel Guzman-Garcia	M	6 Feb 1897	21 May 2008	111 years, 105 days	COL
47	Sote Toshima	F	26 Jan 1897	22 Apr 2008	111 years, 87 days	JPN
48	Nellie Jones	F	30 Jan 1897	9 Apr 2008	111 years, 70 days	USA
49	Tatsuno Ioda	F	2 Jan 1897	4 Mar 2008	111 years, 62 days	JPN
50	Haya Kurogi	F	10 Jan 1897	2 Feb 2008	111 years, 23 days	JPN
51	Amanda Jones	F	16 Dec 1897	18 Dec 2008	111 years, 2 days	USA
52	Cora Gentry	F	14 Apr 1897	11 Apr 2008	110 years, 363 days	USA
53	Beulah Elchert	F	22 July 1897	1 July 2008	110 years, 345 days	USA
54	Kaya Kataoka	F	1 Apr 1897	27 Feb 2008	110 years, 332 days	JPN
54	Masatake Kinoshita	M	20 Aug 1897	17 July 2008	110 years, 332 days	JPN
56	Claudia Ketcham	F	1 Dec 1897	20 Oct 2008	110 years, 324 days	USA
57	Gabrielle Rambaud ^[3]	F	14 Mar 1897	31 Jan 2008	110 years, 323 days	F-ALG, FRA FRA
58	Chrissie Martenstein	F	9 June 1897	18 Apr 2008	110 years, 314 days	USA
59	Ana Felisa David Garcia	F	15 Feb 1897	29 Nov 2007	110 years, 287 days	COL
60	Maria Campagna	F	1 Aug 1897	2 May 2008	110 years, 275 days	ITA
	Luan Riming	F	12 Sept 1897	12 June 2008	110 years, 274 days	CHN
61	Frieda Tessmer	F	5 Aug 1897	28 Mar 2008	110 years, 236 days	GER
62	Julia Fournier-Cuadros	F	9 Nov 1897	30 June 2008	110 years, 234 days	ESP
63	Mary Brown	F	5 Sept 1897	24 Apr 2008	110 years, 232 days	UK
64	Stella Cooley	F	6 Nov 1897	23 June 2008	110 years, 230 days	USA
65	Marelle-Jeanne Colas	F	28 July 1897	11 Mar 2008	110 years, 227 days	FRA
66	Francisca Guerrero ^[4]	F	21 June 1897	16 Jan 2008	110 years, 209 days	MEX USA
67	Marjorie MacGown	F	17 Sept 1897	11 Apr 2008	110 years, 207 days	UK
68	Aime Avignon	M	2 Feb 1897	23 Aug 2007	110 years, 202 days	FRA
69	Hatsuyo Otsuchi	F	3 Mar 1897	10 Sept 2007	110 years, 191 days	JPN
70	Julia Tharnish	F	6 June 1897	13 Dec 2007	110 years, 190 days	USA
71	Alice Sanders	F	12 May 1897	7 Nov 2007	110 years, 179 days	POR USA
72	Anna Monti	F	19 Oct 1897	6 Apr 2008	110 years, 170 days	ITA
73	Moto Oka	F	20 Sept 1897	7 Mar 2008	110 years, 169 days	JPN
74	Mary Schiazza	F	20 Mar 1897	29 Aug 2007	110 years, 162 days	ITA USA
75	Shozo Otani	M	5 Mar 1897	13 Aug 2007	110 years, 161 days	JPN
76	Gertrude Shindel	F	29 July 1897	29 Dec 2007	110 years, 153 days	USA
77	Hilda Bonniwell	F	12 May 1897	11 Oct 2007	110 years, 152 days	UK
78	Marie Rouch	F	29 May 1897	27 Oct 2007	110 years, 151 days	FRA
79	Eleanor Thatcher	F	19 Sept 1897	13 Feb 2008	110 years, 147 days	UK
80	Louise Bontemps	F	13 June 1897	6 Nov 2007	110 years, 146 days	FRA
81	Kayo Miyazaki	F	17 Sept 1897	8 Feb 2008	110 years, 144 days	JPN
82	Helene Heidbreder	F	19 May 1897	8 Oct 2007	110 years, 142 days	GER
83	Dorothy Hodgson	F	23 July 1897	7 Dec 2007	110 years, 137 days	UK CAN
84	Florence Johnson	F	18 July 1897	16 Nov 2007	110 years, 121 days	USA
85	Ethel Hamling	F	8 Nov 1897	26 Feb 2008	110 years, 110 days	UK
86	Kristine Brown	F	8 Sept 1897	19 Dec 2007	110 years, 102 days	USA
87	Louis de Cazenave	M	16 Oct 1897	20 Jan 2008	110 years, 96 days	FRA
87	Lazare Ponticelli	M	7 Dec 1897	12 Mar 2008	110 years, 96 days	ITA FRA
89	Harvey Hite	M	15 Nov 1897	16 Feb 2008	110 years, 93 days	USA
90	Lillie Taylor	F	5 Aug 1897	29 Oct 2007	110 years, 85 days	USA
91	Fusa Sugita	F	23 Feb 1897	18 May 2007	110 years, 84 days	JPN
91	Adele D'Amico	F	10 June 1897	2 Sept 2007	110 years, 84 days	ITA
93	Shizu Shizuno	F	25 Jan 1897	13 Apr 2007	110 years, 78 days	JPN
94	Matsue Mitsuki	F	10 Feb 1897	24 Apr 2007	110 years, 73 days	JPN
95	Suwa Kondou	F	15 Nov 1897	22 Jan 2008	110 years, 68 days	JPN
96	Marie Grosclaude	F	15 Oct 1897	20 Dec 2007	110 years, 66 days	FRA
97	Aurora Lomban-Ares	F	26 Apr 1897	25 June 2007	110 years, 60 days	ESP
98	Lois Jones	F	7 Feb 1897	7 Apr 2007	110 years, 59 days	USA
99	Benjamin Anglin	M	27 May 1897	15 July 2007	110 years, 49 days	USA
99	Leonora Quartararo	F	27 Sept 1897	15 Nov 2007	110 years, 49 days	ITA
101	Reuel Millar	M	1 Mar 1897	15 Apr 2007	110 years, 45 days	USA
101	Irene Nadeau	F	25 Apr 1897	9 June 2007	110 years, 45 days	CAN USA
103	Gertrude Lewis	F	19 Dec 1897	30 Jan 2008	110 years, 42 days	USA
104	Marianna Smolarczyk	F	16 Feb 1897	30 Mar 2007	110 years, 42 days	POL
105	Jannetta Conway	F	6 Nov 1897	14 Dec 2007	110 years, 38 days	USA
106	Julie Atalie ^[5]	F	29 May 1897	19 June 2007	110 years, 21 days	GLP,FRA
107	Margery Hunt	F	17 Dec 1897	26 Dec 2007	110 years, 9 days	UK
108	Jeanne Bonnard-Rochet	F	29 Nov 1897	29 Nov 2007	110 years, 0 days	FRA

Incomplete Claims

Validated Unvalidated

Name	Sex	Birth	Death	Age	Country
Ahmed Muhamed Dore	M	1897	fl. 29 Oct 2009	112 years, 0-302 days	SOM
Mineno Yamamoto	F	8 Apr 1897	May 2009	112 years, 24-56 days	JPN
Anonymous (Osaka)	F	25 June? 1897	Sept 2009	112 years, 68-98 days	JPN
Kume Yamaguchi	F	19 Sept 1897	Jan 2009	111 years, 104-134 days	JPN
Tsuda Akie	F	29 Nov 1897	29 Nov/31 Dec 2008	111 years, 0-32 days	JPN
Anonymous (Osaka)	F	1897	2008	111 years, 0 days+	JPN
Natsuyo Abe	F	25 July 1897	Nov 2007	110 years, 100 days+	JPN
Hagino Asai	F	31 Dec 1897	Nov 2008	110 years, 306-335 days	JPN
Kikue Yanouchi	F	15 Dec 1897	Jan/Mar 2008	110 years, 17-107 days	JPN
Anonymous (Tokyo)	F	1897	July 2007	110 years, 0-211 days	JPN

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References

GRG World Supercentenarian Rankings List
GRG Pending Cases List As of 15 March 2015
Table A - Verified Supercentenarians (Listed Chronologically By Birth Date) GRG, As of 1 January 2015

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Las personas más longevas Supercentenarios.net
↑ 鄭佩玲
↑ Tableau de validation des supercentenaires français décédés
↑ Francisca Guerrero, Obituary The Monitor, 18 January 2008
↑ Tableau de validation des supercentenaires français décédés

[Supercentenarios.net-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Las personas más longevas Supercentenarios.net

[zh.wikipedia.org-2] 鄭佩玲

[3] Tableau de validation des supercentenaires français décédés

[4] Francisca Guerrero, Obituary The Monitor, 18 January 2008

[5] Tableau de validation des supercentenaires français décédés

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