| 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 | ||||||||||||||||