[wideawake]

Wikipedia's list currently has only 4 people alive who were born in the 1880s, all women.

If there were anyone alive who was born in the 1880s - even in 1889 - she would be at least 123 years old.

The all-time record for longevity is 122, so I think you've made a mistake here.

[Verginius Rufus]

Yes. it was a typo—I thought I had written “1800s.”

[Verginius Rufus]

My previous comment was in error-I looked at the wrong Wikipedia list which had the oldest person by country, but there are multiple people in America still alive who were born before 1900--3 women in the US besides the oldest one (Jeralean Talley). Plus there is a woman in Italy born in 1899 who is still alive.

There are 10 women alive who were born in the year 1900. The Wikipedia list omits Jozef Kowalski as if they are unsure if his supposed date of birth (Feb. 2, 1900) is correct. Without him, the 30 oldest living people are all women.

The Japanese man who just died is supposedly the longest-living man whose lifespan is considered verified. Obviously they are leaving out a lot of men in the Bible whose reported lifespans were longer than 115 years. There was an American some time ago who was supposedly 136 years old (allegedly kidnapped into slavery in Liberia in the 1850s and brought to the US) but it was generally accepted later, I think, that he was nowhere near as old as he claimed to be.

[Verginius Rufus]

I had a great-aunt who was born in 1889—on the very day that Jefferson Davis died, in fact. She died in 1976 shortly after her 87th birthday. I had a great-aunt by marriage who was born in 1888 and died in 1990, 3 days before her 102nd birthday.