Jeanne Calment. When she died in 1997 in France, she was 122 years old.
She was born in France a year before Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone and 14 years before Alexandre Gustave Eiffel built his tower. She met Vincent van Gogh when she was 13.
Public health researcher and her biographer Jean-Marie Robine said, her secret was that “she was someone who, constitutionally and biologically speaking, was immune to stress.''
The rest of the top five longest living humans recorded ever:
May be their age at the time of death is not old enough. Let’s take a walk to the wild side to look for longer living people.
- Zahhak (ضحّاک) lived for 1,000 years.
- Methuselah (מְתוּשֶׁלַח) lived for 996 years.
- Adam (אָדָם, آدَم) lived for 930 years according to bible, or 960 years according to hadith.
- Jamshid (جمشید) lived for 700 years.
- Bhishma (भीष्म) lived for 370 years.
- Zuo Ci (左慈) lived for 300 years.
- Nestor of Gerenia (Νέστωρ Γερήνιος) lived for 300 years.
As for general people, here is a map of life expectancy:
The Japanese are the longest living people, with 84 years life expectancy., followed by Switzerland with 83.5 years. Singapore, Australia and Spain come next with 83 years life expectancy. With 80 years of life expectancy the US comes 31st on the list, and my country Bangladesh comes 102nd with 72 years.
