This website highlights living people in their 90's (nonagenarians) and 100's (centenarians) who were noted in some field during their lifetimes, i.e., the arts, sports, science, politics, business, etc., and then grew old.  While some of the 755 names may be familiar to you – Walter Cronkite or Kirk Douglas, for instance – most probably won't be.  Please take a moment to look through the pages and discover some of the lesser known, but equally interesting entries such as Leila Denmark (1898), Kazuo Ohno (1906), and Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914).

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According to the Guinness Book of Records, the world’s oldest person lives in El Salvador. The old lady is called Cruz Hernandes, she celebrated her 128th birthday in May this year. According to a local register, the old lady was born in 1878. She has 13 children, 60 grandchildren, 80 great-grandchildren, and 25 great-great-grandchildren.

Meanwhile, in Russia …
Hilariously as it may seem, the world’s oldest person lives in Russia. Nikolai Savchenko, a resident of the Siberian city of Irkutsk, is about to turn 365. Mr. Savchenko apparently fell victim to the Russian passport system. He was issued a new passport several years ago. His new passport had an astonishing year of birth of the bearer: 1641. In other words, Mr. Savchenko was contemporary with the Russian czar Alexei Mikhailovich, the father of the Russian Emperor Peter I. But nobody seemed to pay any attention to rather strange year of birth indicated in Mr. Savchenko’s passport. He used it regularly when receiving his pension, paying utilities or buying railroad tickets for the next two years until the misprint finally came to light.

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Edna Parker, right, plays with her great, great grandson, Kole Scott Parker, middle, while he is held by his father, Jerad Parker, during a celebration in Shelbyville, Ind., Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007. Parker, who is 114-years-old, became the world's oldest person Monday when a Japanese woman four months older than she died. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

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Country	Age	Sex	Name	Born	Died
France	122 years 164 days	F	Jeanne Calment	21 February 1875	4 August 1997
Japan	120? years 237 days	M	Shigechiyo Izumi	29 June 1865?	21 February 1986
United States	119 years 97 days	F	Sarah Knauss	24 September 1880	30 December 1999
Canada	117 years 230 days	F	Marie-Louise Meilleur	29 August 1880	16 April 1998
Ecuador	116 years 347 days	F	María Capovilla	14 September 1889	27 August 2006
United Kingdom	115 years 228 days	F	Charlotte Hughes	1 August 1877	17 March 1993
Romania	115? years 157 days	F	Anitica Butariu	17 June 1882?	21 November 1997
Puerto Rico	115 years 156 days	M	Emiliano Mercado del Toro	21 August 1891	24 January 2007
Netherlands	115 years 62 days	F	Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper	29 June 1890	30 August 2005
Portugal	114 years 274 days	F	Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes	24 October 1890	25 July 2005
Australia	114 years 148 days	F	Christina Cock	25 December 1887	22 May 2002
Spain	114 years 81 days	M	Joan Riudavets	15 December 1889	5 March 2004
Italy	114 years 4 days	F	Virginia Dighero-Zolezzi	24 December 1891	28 December 2005
New Zealand	113 years 109 days	F	Florence Finch	22 December 1893	10 April 2007
Germany	112 years 362 days	F	Maria Laqua	12 February 1889	9 February 2002
Finland	112 years 259 days	F	Lempi Maria Rothovius	2 October 1887	17 June 2000
Belgium	112 years 186 days	F	Joanna DeRoover	3 June 1890	6 December 2002
Austria	112 years 178 days	F	Maria Mika	23 May 1882	17 November 1994
Sweden	112 years 143 days	F	Elsa Moberg	30 June 1889	20 November 2001
Norway	112 years 61 days	F	Maren Bolette Torp	21 December 1876	20 February 1989
Ireland	111 years 327 days	F	Katherine Plunket	22 November 1820	14 October 1932
South Africa	111 years 151 days	F	Johanna Booyson	17 January 1857	16 June 1968
Denmark	111 years 114 days	F	Anne Matthiesen	26 November 1884	19 March 1996
Uruguay	111 years 107 days	F	Manolita Pina	24 February 1883	11 June 1994
Switzerland	111 years 87 days	F	Emma Duvoisin	5 July 1886	30 September 1997

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