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Rank Name Birth Death Age birth death
1 Nels Berger 20 October 1885 22 September 1996 110 years 338 days NorwayNOR Williston
2 Ingemund Peterson 6 June 1894 21 August 2004 110 years, 76 days NorwayNOR New Rockford
3 August Berg 14 October 1890 17 August 1999 108 years 307 days Washington Grand Forks
4 Fred Quam 28 September 1916 24 February 2025 108 years 149 days Fargo Fargo
5 Ray Curtis 11 February 1917 Living 108 years, 153 days Minot Minot
6 Arthur Rice 13 April 1907 21 April 2015 108 years, 8 days Esmond Devils Lake
7 Melvin Thompson 11 September 1903 10 May 2011 107 years 241 days Minnesota Beulah
8 Levor Garnaas 1 July 1870 6 January 1978 107 Years 189 Days NorwayNOR Sheyenne
9 Jacob Endresen 4 March 1867 26 June 1974 107 Years 114 Days NorwayNOR New Town
10 Andrew Striefel 7 August 1902 8 September 2009 107 years 32 days UkraineUKR Harvey
11 Daniel Zaharee 15 May 1880 21 September 1986 106 Years 220 Days UkraineUKR Minot
12 John  Megivern 30 March 1888 8 August 1994 106 Years 131 Days Pennsylvania Grand Forks
13 Peter Schollander 8 November 1855 16 March 1962 106 Years 128 Days SwedenSWE Jamestown
14 Peder Pederson 12 August 1877 16 August 1983 106 Years 96 Days NorwayNOR Fargo
15 Christ Stormoe 2 October 1893 16 December 1999 106 Years 75 Days NorwayNOR Hatton
16 Frank Wysocki 13 January 1899 12 February 2005 106 years 30 days Warsaw Grafton
17 Lester Shapland 24 December 1891 27 November 1997 105 Years 307 Days Nebraska Hettinger
18 Louis Buresh 1 October 1900 11 April 2006 105 years 192 days UkraineUKR Bismarck
19 Oray Austin 12 January 1908 1 May 2013 105 years 109 days Strasburg Hettinger
20 Erik Rossing 14 May 1892 9 August 1997 105 Years 87 Days Minnesota Velva
21 Olaf Aune 12 January 1909 6 April 2014 105 years 84 days NorwayNOR New Rockford
22 Chris Behle 24 October 1907 10 January 2013 105 years 78 days Hankinson Hankinson
23 Karl Riedel 11 November 1893 28 December 1998 105 Years 47 Days RussiaRUS New Salem
24 Edward Moldenhauer 6 February 1903 22 February 2008 105 years 16 Days Tacoma Township Minot

Men who were born in North Dakota who moved[]

City of
Rank Name Birth Death Age birth death
1 Orville Vanderlip 19 September 1909 23 December 2018 109 years, 95 days Saint Thomas California
2 Harry Camp 20 September 1910 22 April 2019 108 years, 214 days Fort Totten Minnesota
3 George Nygaard 12 January 1910 1 May 2018 108 years, 109 days Benson County NorwayNOR
4 Olander Nesting 8 January 1900 26 November 2007 107 years, 322 days Fargo CanadaCAN
5 Jacob “Jake” Yanke 2 October 1889 26 January 1997 107 Years 116 Days Fessenden California
6 Earl Doheny 30 April 1900 28 March 2007 106 years 332 days Fargo Illinois
7 Paul Peterson 6 January 1904 3 December 2010 106 years 331 days Milner Minnesota
8 Jacob “Jake” Schilling 8 September 1901 1 April 2008 106 years 206 days Wishek South Dakota
9 Richard Lemmerick 12 June 1898 23 September 2004 106 years 103 days Unknown CanadaCAN
10 Ralph Sather 30 April 1911 5 June 2017 106 years 36 days Unknown California
11 Jacob “Jake” Daum 4 January 1898 12 November 2003 105 years 312 days Grand Forks Kansas
12 S C. "Spike" Ehlers 31 December 1906 7 July 2012 105 years 189 days Rolla Wisconsin
13 Alfred Rock 17 February 1907 23 June 2012 105 years 127 days Unknwon California
14 Theodore Aadland 30 July 1908 25 November 2013 105 years 118 days Horace CanadaCAN
15 Ray Emerson 15 January 1912 19 January 2017 105 years 4 days Ward County CanadaCAN



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