Throwback Thursday: World's Oldest People

Hello, readers!

Today's Throwback Thursday post will be looking at the list of the hundred oldest people in history! (Those verified, of course, since Methuselah's birth certificate is hard to come by). The majority are American and Japanese, though the oldest in history was French.

Jeanne Calment
Sarah Knauss
Lucy Hannah
Marie-Louise Meilleur
Misao Okawa
María Capovilla
Gertrude Weaver
Susannah Mushatt Jones
Tane Ikai
Elizabeth Bolden
Besse Cooper
Emma Morano
Jiroemon Kimura
Jeralean Talley
Violet Brown
Maggie Barnes
Dina Manfredini
Christian Mortensen
Charlotte Hughes
Edna Parker
Nabi Tajima
Mary Ann Rhodes
Margaret Skeete
Bernice Madigan
Gertrude Baines
Emiliano Mercado del Toro
Bettie Wilson
Julie Winnefred Bertrand
Maria de Jesus
Susie Gibson
Augusta Holtz
Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper
Maude Farris-Luse
Marie Brémont
Koto Okubo
Antonia Gerena Rivera
Chiyono Hasegawa
Annie Jennings
Eva Morris
Kama Chinen
Maria Gomes Valentim
Mary Bidwell
Chiyo Miyako
Mary Josephine Ray
Goldie Steinberg
Kiyoko Ishiguro
Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes
Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan
Eugénie Blanchard
Venere Pizzinato-Papo
Neva Morris
Hide Ohira
Blanche Cobb
Ethel Lang
Mathew Beard
Yone Minagawa
María Antonia Castro
Carrie Lazenby
Ura Koyama
Myrtle Dorsey
Anna Eliza Williams
Walter Breuning
Eunice Sanborn
Grace Clawson
Tase Matsunaga
Yukichi Chuganji
Kame Nakamura
Lydie Vellard
Wilhelmina Kott
Adelina Domingues
Mitoyo Kawate
Charlotte Benkner
Camille Loiseau
Anne Primout
Ettie Mae Greene
Dominga Velasco
Irene Frank
Christina Cock
Toshie Yorimitsu
Eudoxie Baboul
Olivia Patricia Thomas
Matsuyo Kageyama
Ana María Vela Rubio
Anna Henderson
Emma Verona Johnston
Mamie Rearden
Bettie Chatmon
Odie Matthews
Chiyo Shiraishi
Asa Takii
Florence Knapp
Elena Slough
Lucy Jane Askew
Mary Anna Boone
María del Carmen López
Waka Shirahama
Delma Kollar
Joan Riudavets
Suekiku Miyanaga

My favorites from the list include Jeralean, Augusta, Eugénie, Venere, Lydie, Ettie Mae, Eudoxie, Odie, Delma, and Chiyo. Tell me yours in the comments!