Gerontology Research Group
Table D - Progressive List of World's Oldest Person (WOP) Titleholders
(After eventual authentication, not as published initially.)
Revision #3: As of October 15, 2013
Age in Format:  Official Country at the time (State/Prefecture/Province/Territory/Region)
Rank Total Days Name (generally known as) Born Died Years Days R S Highest Rank Birthplace Place of death Validated By Validated By2 Application Date Acceptance Date Photo?
1 40311 Gert Adrians-Boomgaard Sept. 21, 1788 Feb. 3, 1899 110 135 W M 1 Netherlands Netherlands Guinness Book Gert Jan Kuiper N/A N/A Y
2 40496 Margaret Ann Neve May 18, 1792 Apr. 4, 1903 110 321 W F 1 United Kingdom (England) United Kingdom (England) Guinness Book N/A N/A
3 40680 Louisa Thiers Oct. 2, 1814 Feb. 17, 1926 111 138 W F 1 USA (New York) USA (Wisconsin) Guinness Book N/A N/A
4 41487 Delina Filkins May 4, 1815 Dec. 4, 1928 113 214 W F 1 USA (New York) USA (New York) Guinness Book N/A N/A Y
*** 44066 Shigechiyo Izumi June 29, 1865 Feb. 21, 1986 120 237 O M Japan Japan N/A N/A Y
5 41556 Fannie Thomas Apr. 14, 1867 Jan. 22, 1981 113 283 W F 1 USA (Illinois) USA (California) Guinness Book N/A N/A
6 41860 Mathew Beard July 9, 1870 Feb. 16, 1985 114 222 B M 1 USA (Virginia) USA (Florida) United States (SSA) Kestenbaum study N/A July 1, 2003
7 42082 Augusta Holtz Aug. 3, 1871 Oct. 21, 1986 115 79 W F 1 Germany USA (Missouri) Stefan Jamin et al Apr. 26, 2012 Sept. 17, 2012
8 44724 Jeanne Calment Feb. 21, 1875 Aug. 4, 1997 122 164 W F 1 France (Bouches-du-Rhône Dpt) France (Bouches-du-Rhône Dpt) Guinness Book Jean-Marie Robine N/A N/A Y
*** Retracted by Guinness World Records (GWR) in 2011. The GWR 2011 book stated: "The birth certificate submitted as evidence might actually belong to his older brother, 
who died at a young age; if the family used Izumi as a 'necronym'—that is, gave him his dead brother's name, as the new research suggests—this means his final age was 105 years old, not 120."
For historical versions of Table D, please see below:
#1 (Sept. 15, 2010):
https://grg.org/Archives/D1.htm
#2 (Nov. 4, 2010):
https://grg.org/Archives/D2.htm