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City of
Rank Name Birth Death Age birth death
1 Christian Mortensen 16 August 1882 25 April 1998 115 years, 252 days DenmarkDEN San Rafael
2 George Francis 6 June 1896 27 December 2008 112 years, 204 days Lousiana Sacramento
3 George Johnson 1 May 1894 30 August 2006 112 years, 121 days Pennsylvania Richmond
4 James McCoubrey 13 September 1901 5 July 2013 111 years, 295 days CanadaCAN Newfoundland Walnut Creek
5 Laurence Thompson 23 January 1887 24 October 1998 111 years, 274 days Hawaii Rancho Bernardo
6 Henry Tseng 12 July 1907 27 February 2019 111 years, 230 days JapanJPN Los Angeles
7 Earl Brush 17 July 1893 10 January 2005 111 years, 177 days Iowa San Leandro
8 Henry Hartmann 14 July 1894 10 November 2005 111 years, 119 days Illinois San Diego
9 Clarence Matthews 1 May 1906 22 July 2017 111 years, 82 days Oakland Indian Wells
10 Irving Piken 20 December 1908 27 February 2020 111 years, 69 days New York Laguna Woods
11 Giles Cropsey 4 September 1911 14 September 2022 111 years, 10 days Oakland Oakland
12 Charles Shebanek 9 September 1883 27 August 1994 110 years, 352 days Iowa Fairfield
13 Gregory Pandazes 15 January 1873 22 December 1983 110 years, 341 days GreeceGRE Los Angeles
14 Llewellyn Shelton 1 March 1904 15 December 2014 110 years, 289 days San Francisco San Rafael
15 Walter Wilcox 1 November 1872 11 August 1983 110 years, 283 days Pennsylvania Anaheim
16 Giovanni Battista Buffo 9 December 1867 14 August 1978 110 years, 248 days ItalyITA San Mateo
17 Gerald Gilman 30 April 1893 1 January 2004 110 years, 246 days Ohio Los Angeles
18 Raymond Monroy 11 May 1912 7 January 2023 110 years, 241 days Arizona St. Helena
19 Rudy Thompson 28 October 1912 c.15 June 2023 110 years, c.230 days Oregon Alta Sierra
20 Otis Randall 28 June 1913 24 December 2023 110 years, 179 days Texas Los Angeles
21 Morrie Markoff 11 January 1914 3 June 2024 110 years, 144 days New York Los Angeles
22 Joseph Hepworth 28 September 1867 12 December 1977 110 years, 80 days United KingdomUK San Diego
23 Alfredo Fregosi 11 September 1913 19 November 2023 110 years, 69 days San Francisco San Mateo
24 Moon Fun Chin 13 April 1913 9 May 2023 110 years, 26 days ChinaCHN Millbrae
25 William Del Monte 22 January 1906 11 January 1906 109 years, 354 days San Francisco Marin County
26 Antonio Nieto 16 February 1890 5 January 2000 109 years, 323 days SpainESP Hayward
27 Orville Nightingale 25 October 1904 31 August 2014 109 years, 310 days Missouri Hayward
28 Sidney Amber 29 January 1886 17 November 1995 109 years, 295 days San Francisco San Francisco
29 Bob Henry 29 December 1907 16 October 2017 109 years, 292 days Ohio San Bernardino
30 John Tromanhauser 16 May 1860 26 February 1970 109 years, 286 days CanadaCAN Ontario Pleasant Hill
31 Bakhtawar Singh Brar 19 Nov 1913 3 July 2023 109 years, 226 days IndiaIND Bakersfield
32 Richard Lewis 18 March 1884 29 October 1993 109 years, 225 days Arkansas
33 Fred Fletcher 13 September 1892 19 April 2002 109 years, 218 days Mississippi Sacramento
34 John Curran 11 November 1915 Living 109 years, 222 days Unknown Palm Desert
35 Charles “Charley” Walpert 12 August 1882 14 February 1992 109 years, 186 days Missouri Los Angeles
36 Orville Vanderlip 19 September 1909 23 December 2018 109 years, 95 days North Dakota Auburn
37 Giles Watkins 31 January 1881 14 April 1990 109 years, 73 days Louisiana Unknown
38 Art Janssen 23 October 1909 14 December 2018 109 years, 52 days Santa Rosa Windsor
39 John Chaney 12 October 1859 1 December 1968 109 years, 50 days Illinois Alameda
40 Ervin Wendt 6 May 1916 Living 109 years, 46 days Iowa Mission Hills
41 Mamoru Eto 3 February 1883 16 February 1992 109 years, 13 days JapanJPN Los Angeles
42 Austin Peterson 10 July 1906 11 June 2015 108 years, 336 days Palo Alto Riverside
43 Henry Van Stelton 18 July 1909 7 June 2018 108 years, 324 days NetherlandsNED La Habra
44 Wesley Sorn 25 March 1910 26 December 2018 108 years, 276 days Minnesota Riverside
45 Ben Taylor 7 September 1878 1 June 1987 108 years, 267 days Indiana Watsonville
46 Joe Harris 26 June 1916 17 March 2025 108 years 264 days Unknown Compton
47 William Hinderliter 20 December 1865 22 August 1974 108 years, 245 days Illinois Culver City
48 Carl Lovotti 11 November 1894 25 June 2003 108 years, 226 days Unknown San Francisco
49 Homer Skillion 12 March 1902 4 October 2010 108 years, 206 days Missouri Escondido
50 Eluterio Diaz Porras 8 April 1894 21 October 2002 108 years, 196 days Texas Bakersfield

Men who were born in California who moved[]

City of
Rank Name Birth Death Age birth death
1 John Beechly 28 September 1909 24 December 2017 108 years, 87 days Viaslia Texas
2 William Slater 25 December 1889 17 August 1996 106 years, 236 days Napa Kansas
3 John Randolph Guilliams 18 August 1859 8 August 1965 105 years, 355 days San Francisco Oregon
4 James Duncan 17 June 1898 5 November 2003 105 years, 141 days Alameda Washintgon
5 Otto Morgensen 20 April 1905 5 August 2010 105 years, 107 days Paso Robles Ohio



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