Editing Longevity (section)

==Long-lived individuals==
[[File:Caçarelhos46.jpg|thumb|Elderly couple in [[Portugal]]]]
The [[Gerontology Research Group]] validates current longevity records by modern standards, and maintains a [[list of supercentenarians]]; many other unvalidated [[longevity claims]] exist. Record-holding individuals include:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/keeping-track-oldest-people-world-180951976/ |title=Keeping Track of the Oldest People in the World |vauthors=Nuwer R |author-link=Rachel Nuwer |website=Smithsonian |language=en |access-date=2019-01-13 |archive-date=2018-09-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180904052534/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/keeping-track-oldest-people-world-180951976/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Gavrilova NS, Gavrilov LA, Krut'ko VN | title = Mortality Trajectories at Exceptionally High Ages: A Study of Supercentenarians | journal = Living to 100 Monograph | volume = 2017 | issue = 1B | date = January 2017 | pmid = 29170764 | pmc = 5696798 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Thatcher AR  |chapter=The growth of high ages in England and Wales, 1635-2106|date=2010|pages=191–201|publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |isbn=9783642115196 |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-11520-2_11|title=Supercentenarians|series=Demographic Research Monographs}}</ref>

* [[Eilif Philipsen]] (21 July 1682 – 20 June 1785, 102 years, 333 days): first person to reach the age of 100 (on 21 July 1782) and whose age could be validated.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alleged Danish Centenarians before 1800 |url=https://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/books/monograph2/alleged.htm |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=www.demogr.mpg.de |archive-date=2023-10-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031102457/https://www.demogr.mpg.de/Papers/Books/Monograph2/alleged.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=book |url=https://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/books/monograph2/book.htm |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=www.demogr.mpg.de |archive-date=2024-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240427154104/https://www.demogr.mpg.de/Papers/Books/Monograph2/book.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Geert Adriaans Boomgaard]] (1788–1899, 110 years, 135 days): first person to reach the age of 110 (on September 21, 1898) and whose age could be validated.
*[[Margaret Ann Neve]], (18 May 1792 – 4 April 1903, 110 years, 346 days) the first validated female supercentenarian (on 18 May 1902).
*[[Jeanne Calment]] (1875–1997, 122 years, 164 days): the oldest person in history whose age has been verified by modern documentation.{{NoteTag|'''Disputed'''. In 2018 it was alleged that Calment actually died in 1934, and her daughter Yvonne then usurped her mother's identity. See [[Jeanne Calment#Scepticism regarding age|here]] for details.<ref name=Milova>{{cite web |url=https://www.leafscience.org/valery-novoselov-investigating-jeanne-calments-longevity-record/ |title=Valery Novoselov: Investigating Jeanne Calment's Longevity Record |vauthors=Milova E |publisher=Life Extension Advocacy Foundation |date=4 November 2018 |access-date=5 December 2018 |archive-date=9 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200209001150/https://www.leafscience.org/valery-novoselov-investigating-jeanne-calments-longevity-record/ |url-status=live }}</ref>}} This defines the modern human [[maximum life span|life span]], which is set by the oldest documented individual who ever lived.
*[[Sarah Knauss]] (1880–1999, 119 years, 97 days): the third oldest documented person in modern times and the oldest American.
*[[Jiroemon Kimura]] (1897–2013, 116 years, 54 days): the oldest man in history whose age has been verified by modern documentation.
*[[Kane Tanaka]] (1903–2022, 119 years, 107 days): the second oldest documented person in modern times and the oldest Japanese.