Original listings of longest-living state leaders
Gallery
Oldest ever:
Turkey
Celål Bayar
served 1937–1939, 1950–19602nd-Oldest ever:
Cambodia
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhumserved 19624th-oldest ever:
Japan
Prince Naruhikko Higashikuni
served: 1972–1976
List
as of 01-01-2000
No. | Name | State | Position | Birth | Death | Age |
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1 | Celâl Bayar | Türkiye | Prime Minister (1937–1939) President (1950–1960) |
1883 | 1986 | 103 years, 98 days |
2 | Antoine Pinay | France | President of the Council of Ministers (1952–1953) | 1891 | 1994 | 102 years, 343 days |
3 | Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni | Japan | Prime Minister (1945) | 1887 | 1990 | 102 years, 48 days |
4 | Willem Drees | Netherlands | Prime Minister (1948–1958) | 1886 | 1988 | 101 years, 314 days |
5 | Zhang Qun | Taiwan | Premier (1947–1948) | 1889 | 1990 | 101 years, 219 days |
6 | Christopher Hornsrud | Norway | Prime Minister (1928) | 1859 | 1960 | 101 years, 27 days |
7 | Gulzarilal Nanda | India | Acting Prime Minister (1964; 1966) | 1898 | 1998 | 99 years, 195 days |
8 | Clifford Campbell | Jamaica | Governor-General (1962–1973) | 1892 | 1991 | 99 years, 92 days |
9 | Morarji Desai | India | Prime Minister (1977–1979) | 1896 | 1995 | 99 years, 41 days |
7–10 | Hastings Banda | Malawi | Prime Minister (1964–1966) State President (1966–1994) President of the Congress Party (1966–1993) |
1898 | 1997 | 98 years, 325 days to 99 years, 324 days |
11 | Joseph Paul-Boncour | France | Prime Minister (1932–1933) | 1873 | 1972 | 98 years, 237 days |
12 | Isidro Ayora | Ecuador | President (1926–1931) | 1879 | 1978 | 98 years, 203 days |
13 | Émile Reuter | –Luxembourg | Prime Minister (1918–1925) | 1874 | 1973 | 98 years, 196 days |
14 | 25px Ukraine | Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1919) | 1879 | 1977 | 98 years, 122 days | |
15 | Hungary | Acting Governor-President (1849) | 1818 | 1916 | 98 years, 112 days | |
16 | Venceslau Brás | Brazil | President (1914–1918) | 1868 | 1966 | 98 years, 78 days |
17 | Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám | 25px Hungary | Prime Minister (1919) | 1875 | 1973 | 98 years, 15 days |
18 | Wellington Koo | China | Acting Premier (1924) Acting President (1926–1927) |
1888 | 1985 | 97 years, 289 days |
19 | Baron Ignaz von Plener | –Austria-Hungary | Minister-President (1870) | 1810 | 1908 | 97 years, 272 days |
20 | Domhnall Ua Buachalla | Irish Free State | Governor-General (1932–1936) | 1866 | 1963 | 97 years, 267 days |
21 | He Yingqin | Taiwan | Premier (1949) | 1890 | 1987 | 97 years, 202 days |
22 | Alfredo Solf y Muro | 25px Peru | Prime Minister (1939–1944) | 1872 | 1969 | 97 years, 152 days |
23 | Ion Gheorghe Maurer | Romania | President of the Presidium (1958–1961) (Acting) Presidents of the State Council (1965) Prime Minister (1961–1974) |
1902 | Alive | 97 years, 100 days |
24 | Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte | Vatican City | Acting Sovereign (1939) | 1851 | 1948 | 96 years, 312 days |
25 | Camille Huysmans | Belgium | Prime Minister (1946–1947) | 1871 | 1968 | 96 years, 275 days |
26 | Federico Páez | Ecuador | President (1935–1937) | 1877 | 1974 | 96 years, 250 days |
27 | Vyacheslav Molotov | –Soviet Union | Premier (1930–1941 | 1890 | 1986 | 96 years, 244 days |
22–28 | Konstantinos Kollias | Greece | Prime Minister (1967) | 1901 | 1998 | 96 years, 194 days to 97 years, 193 days |
29 | Michail Stasinopoulos | Greece | President (1974–1975) | 1903 | alive | Error: Second date should be year, month, day |
30 | Habib Bourguiba | 25px Tunisia | Prime Minister (1956–1957) President (1957–1987) |
1903 | alive | Error: Second date should be year, month, day |
31 | Alejandro Deustua | 25px–Peru | Prime Minister (1902) | 1849 | 1945 | 96 years, 137 days |
32 | Pedro Lascuráin | Mexico | President (1913) | 1856 | 1952 | 96 years, 74 days |
33 | Federico Chaves | 25px Paraguay | President (1949–1954) | 1882 | 1978 | 96 years, 68 days |
34 | Fumio Gotō | Japan | Acting Prime Minister (1936) | 1884 | 1980 | 96 years, 67 days |
35 | João Lins Cansanção | Brazil | Prime Minister (1878–1880) | 1810 | 1906 | 96 years, 37 days |
36 | Tomás Romero Pereira | Paraguay | Provisional President (1954) | 1886 | 1982 | 95 years, 312 days |
37 | Xenophon Zolotas | Greece | Prime Minister (1989–1990) | 1904 | alive | 95 years, 250 days |
38 | Juan José Estrada | Nicaragua | President (1910–1911) | 1872 | 1967 | 95 years, 191 days |
39 | Tahar Ben Ammar | Tunisia | Prime Minister (1956) | 1889 | 1985 | 95 years, 166 days |
40 | Philippe Pétain | France | Prime Prime Minister (1940)
Chief of State (1940-1944) |
1856 | 1951 | 95 years, 90 days |
32–41 | Hassan al-Hakim | Syria | Prime Minister (1941-1942, 1951) | 1886 | 1982 | 95 years, 89 days to 96 years, 88 days |
42 | Nguyễn Văn Tâm | South Vietnam | Prime Minister (1952–1954) | 1895 | 1990 | 95 years, 48 days |
43 | Max Petitpierre | Switzerland | Federal Council Minister (1944-1961)
President (1950, 1955, 1960) |
1899 | 1994 | 95 years, 27 days |
44 | Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido | Venezuela | Interim President (1892) | 1854 | 1949 | 94 years, 362 days |
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero | 25px Peru | President (1945–1948) | 1894 | 1989 | ||
46 | Saeb Salam | Lebanon | Prime Minister (1952–1953, 1960-1961, 1970-1973) | 1905 | alive | 94 years, 349 days |
47 | Emilio Aguinaldo | 25px Philippines | President (1899 – 1901) | 1869 | 1964 | 94 years, 321 days |
48 | Constantin Ion Parhon | / Romania | President (1948-1952) | 1874 | 1969 | 94 years, 298 days |
49 | Emiliano Chamorro Vargas | Nicaragua | President (1917-1921) | 1871 | 1966 | 94 years, 291 days |
50 | Pote Sarasin | Thailand | Prime Minister (1957) | 1905 | alive | 94 years, 282 days |
51 | Emilio Bello Codesido | Chile | President (1925) | 1868 | 1963 | 94 years, 233 days |
52 | Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol | Guatemala | President (1865) | 1802 | 1897 | 94 years, 207 days |
53 | Wijeyananda Dahayanake | Sri Lanka | Prime Minister (1959–1960) | 1902 | 1997 | 94 years, 194 days |
54 | Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas | Greece | Prime Minister (1965) | 1893 | 1987 | 94 years, 182 days |
55 | Charles de Freycinet | France | Prime Minister (1879–1880, 1882, 1886, 1890–1892) | 1828 | 1923 | 94 years, 181 days |
56 | Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum | Cambodia | Acting Prime Minister (1962) | 1905 | alive | 94 years, 122 days |
57 | Charles Tupper | Canada | Prime Minister (1896) | 1821 | 1915 | 94 years, 120 days |
58 | C. Rajagopalachari | India | Governor-General (1946–1950) | 1878 | 1972 | 94 years, 15 days |
59 | Carlos Mancheno Cajas | Ecuador | President (1947) | 1902 | 1996 | 94 years, 2 days |
60 | Mackenzie Bowell |  !Canada | Prime Minister (1894–1896) | 1823 | 1917 | 93 years, 348 days |
61 | José Bordas Valdez | Dominican Republic | President (1913-1914) | 1874 | 1968 | 93 years, 341 days |
62 | Phạm Văn Đồng | &bsp;North Vietnam/State of Vietnam | Prime Minister (1955–1987) | 1906 | alive | 93 years, 306 days |
63 | Tiburcio Carías Andino | Honduras | President (1932–1949) | 1876 | 1969 | 93 years, 283 days |
64 | Paolo Boselli | Italy | Prime Minister (1916-1917, 1925-1926) | 1838 | 1932 | 93 years, 276 days |
65 | Edelmiro Julián Farrell | Argentina | President (1944–1946) | 1887 | 1980 | 93 years, 252 days |
66 | François Denys Légitime | Haiti | President (1888-1889) | 1841 | 1935 | 93 years, 251 days |
67 | Vincenzo Vannutelli | Holy See | Acting Sovereign (1922) | 1836 | 1930 | 93 years, 216 days |
68 | Sir Alexander Bustamante | Jamaica | Prime Minister (1962-1967) | 1884 | 1977 | 93 years, 163 days |
69 | Sandro Pertini | Italy | President (1978-1985) | 1896 | 1990 | 93 years, 152 days |
70 | Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt | New Zealand | Governor-General (1967-1972) | 1900 | 1994 | 93 years, 144 days |
71 | Pope Leo XIII | Holy See | Pope (1878-1903) | 1810 | 1903 | 93 years, 140 days |
72 | Joaquín Balaguer | Dominican Republic | President (1960–1962; 1966–1978; 1986–1996) | 1906 | alive | 93 years, 122 days |
73 | Luis Alberto Sánchez | Peru | Prime Minister (1989) | 1900 | 1994 | 93 years, 117 days |
74 | Nikola Hristić | Serbia | Prime Minister (1867–1868, 1883–1884, 1888–1889, 1894–1895) | 1818 | 1911 | 93 years, 108 days |
75 | William McKell | Australia | Governor-General (1947–1953) | 1891 | 1985 | 93 years, 107 days |
76 | 'Léopold Sédar Senghor: | Senegal | President (1960 - 1980) | 1906 | alive | 93 years, 84 days |
77 | Hugo Ballivián | nbsp;Bolivia | President (1951–1952) | 1901 | 1993 | 93 years, 38 days |
78 | Lizardo Garcia | Ecuador | President (1905-1906) | 1844 | 1937 | 93 years, 33 days |
79 | Bernardino Machado | Portugal | Prime Minister (1914, 1921) President (1915-1917, 1925-1926) |
1851 | 1944 | 93 years, 32 days |
80 | Félix Gouin | France | Prime Minister (1946) President (1946) |
1884 | 1977 | 93 years, 21 days |
81 | Maurice Couve de Murville | France | Prime Minister (1968-1969) | 1907 | 1999 | 92 years, 334 days |
Pierre Pflimlin | France | Prime Minister (1958) | 1907.06.05–2000.06.27 93 years, 143 days | |||
Yun Posun | South Korea | President (1960–1962) | 1897 | 1990 | 92 years, 326 days | |
Harold Macmillan later Earl of Stockton |
United Kingdom | Prime Minister (1957–1963) | 1894 | 1986 | 92 years, 322 days | |
Éamon de Valera | Ireland | Taoiseach (1937–1948, 1951–1954, 1957–1959) President (1959–1973) |
1883 | 1974 | 92 years, 319 days | |
Georges Theunis | Belgium | Prime Minister (1921-1925, 1934-1935) | 1873 | 1966 | 92 years. 310 days |
Living State Leaders as of January 1, 2000
- Ion Gheorghe Maurer b. 1902 age: 97 years, 100 days
- Michail Stasinopoulos b. 1903 age: 96 years, 158 days
- Habib Bourguiba b. 1903 age: 97 years, 151 days
- Xenophon Zolotas b. 1904 age: 95 years, 250 days
- Saeb Salam b. 1905 age: 94 years, 349 days
- Pote Sarasin b. 1905 age: 94 years, 282 days
- Chau Sen Cocasal Chhum b. 1905 age: 94 years, 122 days
- Phạm Văn Đồng b. 1906 age: 93 years, 306 days
- Joaquin Balaguer b. 1906 age: 93 years, 122 days
- Léopold Sédar Senghor b. 1906 age: 93 years, 84 days
- Pierre Pflimlin b. 1907 age: 92 years, 330 days
- Sanya Dharmasakti b. 1907 age: 92 years, 271 days
- Martii Miettunen b. 1907 age: 95 years, 259 days
- Paul Magloire b. 1907 age: 92 years, 166 days
- Víctor Paz Estenssoro b. 1907 age: 92 years, 122 days
- Héctor Trujillo b. 1908 age: 91 years, 122 days
- Hassan Ibn Yahya: b. 1908 age: 91 years, 202 days
- Garfield Todd b. 1908 age: 91 years, 172 days
- Herbert Duffus b. 1908 age: 91 years, 124 days
- Giovanni Leone b. 1908 age: 91 years, 59 days
- Aden Adde b. 1908 age: { b.{age in years and days|1908-12-09|2000-01-01}}
- Hans Schaffner b. 1908 age: 91 years, 16 days
- Anthony Mamo b. 1909 age: 90 years, 357 days
- Maarouf al-Dawalibi b. 1909 age: 90 years, 278 days
- Spyros Markizinis b. 1909 age: 90 years, 254 days
- Juliana of the Netherlands b. 1909 age: 90 years, 246 days
- Juan Bosch b. 1909 age: 90 years, 185 days