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Jeanne Louise Calment (French: [ʒan lwiz kalmɑ̃] ⓘ; 21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) was a French supercentenarian and, with a documented lifespan of 122 years and 164 days, the oldest person ever whose age has been verified. [1]
Jan 2, 2019 · Jeanne Louise Calment was 122 years and 164 days old when she died in 1997. Her outsized lifespan instantly put the socialite from Arles, France, into the history books as the...
Feb 21, 2024 · Jeanne, born in Arles, France, on 21 February 1875 (14 years before the Eiffel Tower was built), lived on to become the oldest person ever verified, reaching the age of 122 years 164 days when she passed away on 4 August 1997.
ARLES, France (CNN) -- Jeanne Calment, believed to be the world's oldest person, died Monday at age 122, according to her retirement home. No precise cause of death was given...
Aug 5, 1997 · Jeanne Calment, born a year before Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone and 14 years before Alexandre Gustave Eiffel built his tower, died today in a nursing home in Arles. At...
Feb 10, 2020 · Jeanne Calment, however, was an accidental icon, her celebrity the result of a form of passivity. For a hundred and twenty-two years, five months, and fourteen days, Calment managed not to...
Feb 21, 2023 · Jeanne Calment, a French woman, achieved an incredible feat of living to age 122, thus earning the honor of being the world’s oldest person on record. But before her passing, Calment met and...
The greatest fully authenticated age to which any human has ever lived is 122 years 164 days by Jeanne Louise Calment (France). Born on 21 February 1875 to Nicolas (1837 - 1931) and Marguerite (neé Gilles 1838 - 1924), Jeanne died at a nursing home in Arles, southern France on 4 August 1997.
Aug 5, 1997 · Jeanne Calment, who took up fencing lessons at 85 and credited an occasional glass of port wine and a diet rich in olive oil for making her the world’s oldest person, died Monday at 122. Though...
Aug 5, 1997 · The daughter of a shipowner, Jeanne Calment received a typical 19th century bourgeois education, including secondary schooling, painting and the piano, which she later taught. Her...