I am just curious...?

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How old was the oldest person to ever live?

Duh, I knew Jesus is, but I ment human on Earth.

Answer 1

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Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper
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Henny van Andel-Schipper on her 113th birthday, June 29, 2003Hendrikje "Henny" van Andel-Schipper [hɛndrikjɛ fan andɛl ʃxipɛr] (Kloosterveen, June 29, 1890 - Hoogeveen, August 30, 2005) was the oldest person ever in the Netherlands (breaking the record of Catharina van Dam on Sept 26 2003), and from May 29, 2004 was the oldest recognized person in the world until her death on August 30, 2005 (although her case was later superseded by Maria Capovilla). She lived in Hoogeveen. She became the oldest living person in the Netherlands on February 16, 2001, at the age of 110.

Van Andel-Schipper was born as Hendrikje Schipper in 1890 in Smilde, a small village in Drenthe. She was born prematurely and there were doubts that she would survive. However, thanks to the continuous care of her grandmother during her first four weeks, she recovered. At the age of five on her first day of school, she was sick again and was removed from the school on advice of a local doctor. Her father, who was head of the local school, taught her to read and write.

Van Andel-Schipper lived with her parents until she was 47 years old. At the age of 46, she met her husband Dick van Andel, who worked in Amsterdam. She left her parents' home at the age of 47 and married Dick van Andel, a tax inspector, at the age of 49 in 1939. Since then, she had been named van Andel-Schipper. She had a love of theatre from a young age, but after her mother objected she decided not to pursue a career in acting and became a needlework teacher instead.

During World War II, she and her husband moved to Hoogeveen where she had to sell jewellery to help pay for food during the German occupation. Her husband died from cancer in 1959.

Van Andel-Schipper underwent a mastectomy in 1995 after being diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 100 [1].

She continued to live on her own before moving into a retirement home at the age of 105.

She became the oldest recognized woman in Europe on the death of Maria Teresa Fumarola Ligorio in May 2003, and the oldest recognized person in Europe on the death of Joan Riudavets in March 2004. The death of Charlotte Benkner in early May 2004 left her second-oldest recognized in the world behind Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, whose death later that month left her apparently the world's oldest at 113 years 335 days. It was the first time since the 1980s that no one had been recognized as over 114. However, during the next year, "Aunt Hennie" outlived several prior "world's oldest" titleholders, including Mitoyo Kawate, Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, Eva Morris, Marie Bremont, and Maud Farris-Luse.

For her 115th birthday in 2005, she received a visit from the daughter-in-law of the Queen of the Netherlands and a delegation from the Ajax football club. The last time the Ajax team visited her she complained that the other residents of her nursing home were "hicks who don't understand football". She had been a fan of the football club Ajax Amsterdam since she attended a match more than 80 years ago.

She died peacefully in her sleep on August 30, 2005, two months after her 115th birthday. Van Andel-Schipper remained mentally alert up until her death, but suffered from increasing frailty. Several days prior to her death she told the director of her nursing home, Johan Beijering, that "It's been nice, but the man upstairs says it's time to go".

According to Beijering she felt grateful for her long life but being the oldest person in the world for over a year was long enough.

Contents [hide]
1 Cause of death
2 Status as "World's Oldest Person"
3 Wisdom
4 External links



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Cause of death
She had agreed to leave her body to science when she was 82. An autopsy at the University of Groningen revealed that she died of undetected gastric cancer, the tumor in her stomach being the size of a small fist (see [2]). The tumour was malignant and would likely have killed a far younger person. It has been suggested that her willingness to die at the end was a side symptom of the cancer. With her death, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden was the oldest known living person.

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Status as "World's Oldest Person"
On December 9, 2005, Guinness World Records recognized the claim of Maria Capovilla of Ecuador to be the world's oldest person, supplanting Hendrikje from the revised title. Hendrikje was thought to be the oldest from May 2004 to Aug 2005.

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Wisdom
Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper had stated that the secret to longevity is a serving of herring every day and drinking orange juice. She later jokingly added "breathing". On another occasion she gave the following advice: "Don't smoke and don't drink too much alcohol. Just a small advocaat with cream on Sundays and feast-days. And you must remain active".

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External links
Expatica news story
See her birth written in the archives of her birthtown.
Tribute page from her hometown government
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrikje_van_Andel-Schipper"
Categories: 1890 births | 2005 deaths | Breast cancer patients | Cancer deaths | Dutch people | Supercentenarians

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Answer 2

Oldest Woman Ever
The oldest fully authenticated age to which any human has ever lived is 122 years and 164 days, by Jeanne-Louise Calment. She was born in France on February 21, 1875, and died at a nursing home in Arles, southern France on August 4, 1997. President Jacques Chirac once said Jean Calment was a little bit like a grandmother to everyone in France. She was 14 when the Eiffel Tower was completed in 1889. She led an extremely active life, taking up fencing at 85 years old, and was still riding a bicycle at 100. She portrayed herself at the age of 114 in the film Vincent And Me, to become the oldest actress in film.

Oldest Man - Living
Emiliano Mercado Del Toro (Puerto Rico), born in Cabo Rojo on August 21, 1891, became the oldest fully authenticated man residing in the world on 17 January 2005 at the age of 113 years 149 days.
Currently living in Isabela, Puerto Rico, he is also the oldest living veteran, having been called up in 1918 by the US Army. A non-combat veteran, he was two months into training when World War I ended on 11 November 1918.

Oldest Woman - Living
Maria Esther de Capovilla (Ecuador), became the oldest living woman on the December 8, 2005 at the age of 116 years 85 days. She was born on the September 14, 1889.

Answer 3

Actually I'm sorry to say that the information you were given MAY be incorrect, right now they are trying to figure out if a lady just celebrated her 120th birthday as best as can tell from her recollections and her families she was born in 1886. They do seem to be having some problems because at that time birth records were not kept, the lady is QUITE addament on her birth year and they say they think its QUITE possible. When the investigation is complete we may have a new record breaker!!! Isn't that amazing?

Answer 4

Jeanne Louise Calment-122 years 164 days

Answer 5

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Answer 6

125

Answer 7

Surely over 100 years old.

Answer 8

i think it was like 110 or 115 years old

Answer 9

Jesus. He had no beginning and no end so He is eternity old.

Answer 10

I really don't know sweetie(smile) good questions let me know!

Answer 11

look it up on the internet