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Pedro Zorrilla Caballero
Pedro Zorrilla Caballero
Birth: 24 April 1886
Ciales, Puerto Rico
Death: 2 September 1997
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Age: 111 years, 131 days
Country: Puerto RicoPRI,United StatesUSA
Validated

Pedro Zorrilla Caballero (24 April 1886 – 2 September 1997) was a Puerto Rican supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) in 2022. At the time of his death, he was the fourth-oldest known living man in the world, after Christian Mortensen, Donald Butler, and Walter Richardson. (Johnson Parks age is disputed)

Biography[]

Pedro Zorrilla Caballero was born in Ciales, Puerto Rico on 24 April 1886. His father, Pedro Zorrilla de San Martin Alonso, was born in Spain, and his mother, Enriqueta Caballero Y Menendez De Zorrilla, was born in Puerto Rico.

He married Catalina Sanchez (born 1890) in 1916, and had at least six children.

He became the oldest known living man in Puerto Rico upon the death of 108-year-old Isabelo Martinez on 17 September 1993.

Zorrilla Caballero died in San Juan, Puerto Rico on 2 September 1997 at the age of 111 years, 131 days.

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Puerto Rico's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (VE)

Jose del Carmen Matos SantiagoPetronila Ramos GonzalesPedro Zorrilla CaballeroMaria Echeandia CumpianoEmilia Hernandez de RamosRamona Trinidad Iglesias-JordanEmiliano Mercado del ToroFrancisco Haddock NavarroMatilde Monclova LebronZoila GarayMaria Nieves Rivera CruzAmparo Cora de SantiagoSecundina Rivera CumbaEmilio Flores MarquezJuan EscribanoRosa Castrodad MelendezBienvenido Diaz GuilfuAna Luisa GarciaAna Helvetia Barros Schira


Puerto Rico's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (VE)

Isabelo MartinezPedro Zorrilla CaballeroEmiliano Mercado del ToroFrancisco Haddock NavarroEsteban Ruiz DelfiValentin Rivera LopezEmilio NavarroRegino Hernandez PerezFidel Feliciano MendezEmilio Flores MarquezJuan EscribanoMonico Rivera GautierBienvenido Diaz GuilfuSilverio Perez RosadoAndres Irizarry TrocheManuel Martinez Milan