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Rank Name Birth Death Age birth death
1 Herbert Engel 18 February 1907 17 February 2018 110 years, 364 days RussiaRUS Berrien Springs
2 Ethan Shelton 10 July 1903 19 March 2014 110 years, 252 days Alabama Saint Joseph
3 Henry Taylor 28 September 1907 15 April 2018 110 years, 199 days Indiana Grand Rapids
4 Rodolphe Buxcel 5 September 1908 26 February 2019 110 years, 174 days UkraineUKR Bridgman
5 Henry Gandolfi 14 August 1906 23 August 2016 110 years, 9 days FranceFRA Farmington Hills
6 Edward Bird 14 June 1907 22 January 2017 109 years, 222 days Pontiac Detroit
7 Arshi Bazaj 20 May 1906 26 December 2015 109 years, 220 days AlbaniaALB Detroit
8 Rolla Zuck 20 September 1905 13 February 2015 109 years, 146 days Missouri Pontiac
9 Thomas Porter 25 January 1900 11 April 2009 109 years, 76 days Louisiana Flint
10 John Brandes 25 January 1898 17 February 2007 109 years, 23 days Carleton Monroe
11 Ervin Yoas 25 March 1914 25 March 2023 109 years, 0 days Newport Pinkney
12 Antonio Molisani 4 March 1885 13 January 1994 108 years, 315 days ItalyITA Warren
13 Roy Glass 28 November 1905 25 July 2014 108 years, 270 days CanadaCAN Highland
14 Paul Lovell 11 November 1909 30 April 2018 108 years, 170 days Pentwater Grand Rapids
15 Herman Halperin 10 March 1896 17 August 2004 108 years, 161 days UkraineUKR Southfield
16 George Brander 28 September 1881 3 February 1990 108 years, 128 days NetherlandsNED Grand Rapids
17 Claude Pyatt 23 April 1889 21 August 1997 108 years, 120 days United KingdomUK Rochester
18 Frank Andersen 13 April 1889 1 July 1997 108 years, 79 days New York Saginaw
19 Pasquale Pacitti 13 September 1893 26 November 2001 108 years, 74 days ItalyITA Farmington Hills
20 Luman Culp 30 October 1898 11 January 2007 108 years, 73 days Indiana Ann Arbor
21 Robert Dietrich 17 December 1906 25 January 2015 108 years, 39 days GermanyGER Frankenmuth
22 Domenico Tulini 8 January 1881 6 February 1989 108 years, 29 days ItalyITA Flushing
23 John Hricik 12 June 1889 2 June 1997 107 years, 355 days SlovakiaSVK Detroit
24 Arnold Bellhorn 12 July 1904 5 June 2012 107 years, 329 days Mt Clemens Croswell
25 Howard Bryant 25 December 1906 3 October 2014 107 years 282 days Eureka Ovid
26 Milton Ross 9 September 1907 3 June 2015 107 years, 267 days Unknown Southfield
27 Domenico Prestininzi 12 September 1862 2 May 1970 107 years, 232 days ItalyITA Detroit
28 Walter Horn 11 December 1908 6 June 2016 107 years, 178 days Three Rivers Three Rivers
29 Thomas Bell 21 August 1907 10 January 2015 107 years 142 days Virginia Port Huron
30 George Rupp 13 November 1862 14 March 1970 107 years, 121 days Frankenmuth Frankenmuth
31 Wilhelm “William” Teuber 18 April 1902 6 July 2009 107 years, 79 days GermanyGER Flint
32 William Chinn 13 April 1865 21 June 1972 107 years, 69 days FranceFRA Comstock
33 Elmer Johnson 9 July 1867 28 June 1974 106 years, 354 days Iowa Fremont
34 Francis Cronin 2 April 1906 14 February 2013 106 years 318 days Ohio Richmond
35 Albert Arens 15 August 1891 13 April 1998 106 years, 241 days Fillmore Holland
36 Albert Gawel 10 April 1881 26 November 1987 106 years, 230 days PolandPOL Hamtramck
37 Edward Chapman 28 April 1899 15 November 2005 106 years, 201 days Calumet Kingsford
38 Anthony “Tony” Kline 10 July 1889 3 January 1996 106 years, 177 days Alpine Township Grand Rapids
39 Paul Lanterman 20 August 1893 10 February 2000 106 years, 174 days Illinois Saint Johns
40 Kustav Oidermann 9 Dec 1884 23 Apr 1991 106 years, 135 days EstoniaEST Taylor
41 Harry Thompson 12 January 1907 29 March 2013 106 years 76 days Ohio Marshall
42 Anthony Bobish 1 February 1909 12 March 2015 106 years 39 days Dollar Bay Gaylord
43 Benny Bentley 7 February 1908 6 March 2014 106 years 27 days Richmond Richmond
44 Edward Cook 14 June 1883 9 July 1989 106 years, 25 days Mecosta Big Rapids
45 James Carr 25 April 1894 28 April 2000 106 years, 3 days Kalamazoo Township Sister Lakes
46 William Rice 27 December 1859 29 December 1965 106 years, 2 days Berrien Springs Berrien Springs
47 Charles Stanton 3 April 1882 3 April 1988 106 years, 0 days Millbrook Six Lakes
48 Haroutun "Harry" Mullian 6 April 1895 6 April 2001 106 years, 0 days TurkeyTUR Grand Rapids
49 Roland Schaadt 30 July 1905 29 July 2011 105 years, 364 days Ohio Harrisville
50 George Smail 9 March 1890 5 March 1996 105 years, 362 days Okemos Meridian
51 Joseph Corsi 24 January 1890 7 January 1996 105 years, 343 days ItalyITA Iron Mountain

Men who were born in Michigan who moved[]

City of
Rank Name Birth Death Age birth death
1 John McMorran 19 June 1889 24 February 2003 113 years, 250 days Goodland Township Florida
2 Alton Gilbert 11 June 1878 21 January 1989 110 years, 224 days Manistee Washington
3 George Alt 9 January 1886 12 March 1993 107 years, 62 days Iron River South Dakota
4 John Heffernan 5 April 1887 15 March 1994 106 years, 344 days Detroit Florida
5 John Mitchell 1 July 1881 7 June 1988 106 years, 342 days Ludington Oregon
5 Nathan Cook 10 October 1885 10 September 1992 106 years, 342 days Hersey Arizona
7 Grover Behrens 20 July 1886 6 December 1992 106 years, 139 days Riga Ohio
8 Frank Roach 10 November 1893 25 March 2000 106 years, 135 days Kalamazoo Ohio
9 Roy Palmer 5 March 1883 27 May 1989 106 years, 83 days Saint Clair Florida
10 Benjamin Mayville 25 June 1881 17 July 1987 106 years, 22 days Coldwater Indiana
11 Emerson Lindsay 2 July 1904 21 February 2010 105 years, 234 days Sherman Township Florida
12 Clenard McLaughlin 7 July 1879 6 November 1984 105 years, 122 days Mecosta County Virginia



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