Ask any genealogist. I’ve seen lots of cemetery indexes listing people who died in the 1600’s in the colonies who were in their 70’s or 80’s. At first I thought it was a little odd because “everybody knows” people died young back then.
Yeah, heh... one of my ancestors passed the century mark before she passed over 250 years ago. In the Middle Ages a young man from northern Africa wound up meeting the Pope of that time, converting to Christianity, and (having been born a few years from the end of the previous one) lived to be over 100 years old and saw the entire century. :’)