BBC Radio Shropshire’s Mark Elliott explores the man, the myth, that was ‘Old’ Tom Parr. We use cookies to give you the best ...

The record for the oldest verified person belongs to Jeanne Calment, who lived to be 122 years and 164 days old ...

The record for the oldest verified person belongs to Jeanne Calment from France. She lived from 1875 to 1997, reaching the ...

A WOMAN believed to be the oldest in the world has reportedly died at an incredible 122 years of age. Lin Shemu, from the ...

Lin Shemu, the oldest woman in the world, has died aged 122 after passing away peacefully in her sleep at her home having ...

what’s the absolute oldest I could live to? The oldest person ever recorded, Jeanne Calment, died aged 122. But statisticians from Tilburg and Rotterdam’s Erasmus universities, who looked at ...

To the disappointment of everyone but schoolchildren’s supposedly finished homework, dogs have a pretty limited time on this ...

A WOMAN believed to be the oldest in the world has reportedly died at an incredible 122 years of age. Lin Shemu, from the Fujian province in China, died in her sleep on January 1. Her documents ...

She now ranks as the 20th oldest documented person to have ever lived, a list topped by Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122, according to LongeviQuest. In 2022 ...

The oldest man ever recorded, Jiroemon Kimura from Japan ... Jeanne Calment, supposedly the oldest woman who ever lived, smoked for about 100 years. She burned many of her personal papers when ...

She became the oldest person last year after the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas, according to the Gerontology Research Group. Supercentenarian Maria Branyas Morera lived a remarkably long ...