List of longest-lived State leaders (born before 1900
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This article lists the 100 Longest-known living or deceased heads of state or heads of government of sovereign states (often a president or prime minister), born prior to 1900, and whose ages are documented in reliable sources.
Gallery
Oldest:
Turkey
Celål Bayar
served 1937–1939, 1950–19603rd-oldest:
Ecuador
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni
served: 1972–1976
List
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 | Prime Minister (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) | 1889 | 1990 | 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 |
10 | Joseph Paul-Boncour | France | Prime Minister (1932–1933) | 1873 | 1972 | 98 years, 237 days |
11 | Isidro Ayora | Ecuador | President (1926–1931) | 1879 | 1978 | 98 years, 203 days |
12 | Émile Reuter | Luxembourg | Prime Minister (1918–1925) | 1874 | 1973 | 98 years, 199 days |
13 | Borys Martos | Ukraine | Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1919) | 1879 | 1977 | 98 years, 123 days |
14 | Artúr Görgei | Hungary | Acting Governor-President (1849) | 1818 | 1916 | 98 years, 112 days |
15 | Venceslau Brás | Brazil | President (1914–1918) | 1868 | 1966 | 98 years, 78 days |
16 | Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám | Hungary | Prime Minister (1919) | 1875 | 1973 | 98 years, 15 days |
17 | Wellington Koo | China | Acting Premier (1924) Acting President (1926–1927) |
1888 | 1985 | 97 years, 289 days |
18 | Baron Ignaz von Plener | Cisleithania ( Austria-Hungary) |
Minister-President (1870) | 1810 | 1908 | 97 years, 272 days |
19 | Domhnall Ua Buachalla | Irish Free State | Governor-General (1932–1936) | 1866 | 1963 | 97 years, 266 days |
20 | He Yingqin | Taiwan | Premier (1949) | 1890 | 1987 | 97 years, 202 days |
21 | Alfredo Solf y Muro | Peru | Prime Minister (1939–1944) | 1872 | 1969 | 97 years, 152 days |
22 | Camille Huysmans | Belgium | Prime Minister (1946–1947) | 1871 | 1968 | 96 years, 277 days |
23 | Federico Páez | Ecuador | President (1935–1937) | 1877 | 1974 | 96 years, 250 days |
24 | Vyacheslav Molotov | Soviet Union | Premier (1930–1941 | 1890 | 1986 | 96 years, 244 days |
25 | Alejandro Deustua | Peru | Prime Minister (1902) | 1849 | 1945 | 96 years, 137 days |
26 | Pedro Lascuráin | Mexico | President (1913) | 1856 | 1952 | 96 years, 74 days |
27 | Federico Chaves | Paraguay | President (1949–1954) | 1882 | 1978 | 96 years, 68 days |
28 | Fumio Gotō | Paraguay | Acting Prime Minister (1936) | 1884 | 1980 | 96 years, 67 days |
29 | João Lins Cansanção | Brazil | Prime Minister (1878–1880) | 1810 | 1906 | 96 years, 37 days |
30 | Tomás Romero Pereira | Paraguay | Provisional President (1954) | 1886 | 1982 | 95 years, 312 days |
31 | Juan José Estrada | Nicaragua | President (1910–1911) | 1872 | 1967 | 95 years, 191 days |
32 | Tahar Ben Ammar | Tunisia | Prime Minister (1956) | 1889 | 19/85 | 95 years, 166 days |
33 | Paal Berg | Norway | Acting Head of State (1945) | 1873 | 1968 | 95 years, 126 days |
34 | Philippe Pétain | France | Prime Prime Minister (1940) Chief of State (1940-1944) |
1856 | 1951 | 95 years, 90 days |
35 | Hassan al-Hakim | Syria | Prime Minister (1941-1942, 1951) | 1886 | 1982 | 95 years, 89 days to 96 years, 88 days |
36 | Nguyễn Văn Tâm | South Vietnam | Prime Minister (1952–1954) | 1895 | 1990 | 95 years, 48 days |
37 | Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido | Venezuela | Interim President (1892) | 1854 | 1949 | 94 years, 362 days |
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero | Peru | President (1945–1948) | 1894 | 1989 | ||
39 | Emilio Aguinaldo | Philippines | President (1899 – 1901) | 1869 | 1964 | 94 years, 321 days |
40 | Constantin Ion Parhon | Romania | President (1948-1952) | 1874 | 1969 | 94 years, 298 days |
41 | Emilio Bello Codesido | Chile | President (1925) | 1868 | 1863 | 94 years, 233 days |
42 | Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol | Guatemala | President (1865) | 1802 | 1897 | 94 years, 207 days |
43 | Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas | Greece | Prime Minister (1965) | 1893 | 1987 | 94 years, 182 days |
44 | Charles de Freycinet | France | Prime Minister (1879–1880, 1882, 1886, 1890–1892) | 1828 | 1923 | 94 years, 181 days |
45 | Charles Tupper | Canada | Prime Minister (1896) | 1821 | 1915 | 94 years, 120 days |
46 | C. Rajagopalachari | India | Governor-General (1946–1950) | 1878 | 1972 | 94 years, 15 days |
47 | Sir Mackenzie Bowell | Canada | Prime Minister (1894–1896) | 1823 | 1917 | 93 years, 348 days |
48 | José Bordas Valdez | Dominican Republic | President (1913-1914) | 1874 | 1968 | 93 years, 341 days |
49 | Tiburcio Carías Andino | Honduras | President (1932–1949) | 1876 | 1969 | 93 years, 283 days |
50 | Paolo Boselli | Italy | Prime Minister (1916-1917, 1925-1926) | 1838 | 1932 | 93 years, 276 days |
51 | François Denys Légitime | Haiti | President (1888-1889) | 1841 | 1935 | 93 years, 251 days |
52 | Alexander Bustamante | Jamaica | Prime Minister (1962-1967) | 1884 | 1977 | 93 years, 163 days |
53 | Sandro Pertini | Italy | President (1978-1985) | 1896 | 1990 | 93 years, 152 days |
54 | Pope Leo XIII | Holy See | Pope (1978-1903) | 1810 | 1903 | 93 years, 140 days |
55 | Nikola Hristić | Serbia | Prime Minister (1867–1868, 1883–1884, 1888–1889, 1894–1895) | 1818 | 1911 | 93 years, 108 days |
56 | William McKell | Australia | Governor-General (1947–1953) | 1891 | 1985 | 93 years, 107 days |
57 | Idris I | Libya | King (1951–1969) | 1890 | 1983 | 93 years, 73 7.days |
58 | Lizardo Garcia | Ecuador | President (1905-1906) | 1844 | 1937 | 93 years, 33 days |
59 | Bernardino Machado | Serbia | Prime Minister (1914, 1921)
President (1915-1917, 1925-1926) |
1851 | 1944 | 93 years, 32 days |
60 | Félix Gouin | France | Prime Minister (1946)
President (1946) |
1884 | 1977 | 93 years, 21 days |
61 | Yun Posun | South Korea | President (1960–1962) | 1897 | 1990 | 92 years, 326 days |
62 | Harold Macmillan | United Kingdom | Prime Minister (1957–1963) | 1894 | 1986 | 92 years, 322 days |
63 | Éamon de Valera | Ireland | Taoiseach (1937–1948, 1951–1954, 1957–1959) President (1959–1973)|1883 |
1974 | 92 years, 319 days | |
64 | Georges Theunis | Belgium | Prime Minister (1921-1925, 1934-1935) | 1873 | 1966 | 92 years, 310 days |
65 | Américo Tomás | Portugal | President (1958–1974) | 1894 | 1897 | 92 years, 303 days |
66 | Kiyoura Keigo | Japan | Prime Minister (1922-1924) | 1850 | 1942 | 92 years, 223 days or 92 years, 264 days |
67 | Vittorio Emanuele Orlando | Italy | Prime Minister (1917-1919) | 1860 | 1952 | 92 years, 196 days |
68 | Frank Forde | Australia | Prime Minister (1945) | 1890 | 1983 | 92 years, 194 days |
69 | Isaac Isaacs | Australia | Governor-General (1931–1936) | 1855 | 1948 | 92 years, 189 days |
70 | Mohammad Sa'ed | Iran | Prime Minister (1944, 1948-1950) | 1881 | 1973 | 92 years, 187 days |
71 | Cesare Merzagora | Italy | Acting President (1964) | 1898 | 1991 | 92 years, 173 days |
72 | Ho Chong | South Korea | Prime Minister (1960) | 1896 | 1988 | 92 years, 163 days |
73 | Gustaf V | Sweden | King (1907-1950) | 1858 | 1950 | 92 years, 135 days |
74 | Khaled Chehab | Lebanon | Prime Minister (1938, 1952-1953) | 1886 | 1978 | 92 years, 62 days |
75 | Ferruccio Parri | Italy | Prime Minister (1945) | 1890 | 1981 | 91 years, 323 days |
76 | Alberto Rey de Castro y Romaña | Peru | Prime Minister (1934) | 1869 | 1961 | 91 years, 321 days |
77 | HRH The Prince Arthur | Canada | Governor-General (1911–1916) | 1850 | 1942 | 91 years, 260 days |
78 | Hjalmar Hammarskjöld | Sweden | Prime Minister (1714-1914) | 1852 | 1963 | 91 years, 250 days |
79 | Eliodoro Villazón | Bolivia | President (1909-1913) | 1838 | 1939 | 91 years, 233 days |
80 | Stoyan Danev | Bulgaria | Prime Minister (1902-1903, 1913) | 1848 | 1949 | 91 years, 183 days |
81 | Lajos Kossuth | Hungary | Prime Minister (1849) | 1802 | 1894 | 91 years, 182 days |
83 | Louis St. Laurent | Canada | Prime Minister (1948-1957) | 1882 | 1973 | 91 years, 174 days |
84 | Alfredo Baquerizo | Ecuador+ | Acting President (1912, 1931-1932) President (1916-1920) |
1859 | 1951 | 91 years, 173 days |
85 | Mehdi Frashëri | Albania | Prime Minister (1935-1938) | 1872 | 1963 | 91 years, 86 days |
86 | Giovanni Gronchi | Italy | President (1955-1962) | 1887 | 1978 | 91 years, 37 days |
87 | Eurico Gaspar Dutra | Brazil | President (1946–1951) | 1883 | 1974 | 91 years, 24 days |
88 | Bartolomé Blanche | Chile | Provisional President (1932) | 1879 | 1970 | 91 years, 4 days |
89 | Emile Loubet | France | President (1899-1906) | 1839 | 1929 | 90 years, 355 days |
90 | Saionji Kinmochi | Japan | Prime Minister (1908, 1911-1912) | 1849 | 1940 | 90 years, 353 days |
91 | Gustaf VI Adolf | Sweden | King (1950-1973) | 1892 | 1973 | 90 years, 308 days |
92 | Tetsu Katayama | Japan | Prime Minister (1947-1948) | 1887 | 1978 | 90 years, 306 days |
93 | Mohsen Sadr | Iran | Prime Minister (1945) | 1871 | 1963 | 90 years, 292 days to 91 years, 291 days |
94 | Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe | New Zealand | Governor-General (1930–1935) | 1867 | 1958 | 90 years, 285 days |
95 | Sa`id Mufti | Jordan | Prime Minister (1950, 1955, 1956) | 1890 | 1989 | 90 years, 272 days |
96 | Nobusuke Kishi | Japan | Prime Minister (1957–1960) | 1896 | 1987 | 90 years, 267 days |
97 | Pandeli Evangjeli | Albania | Prime Minister (1921, 1930-1935) | 1859 | 1949 | 90 years, 251 days |
98 | Enrico Celio | Switzerland | President (1943, 1958) | 1889 | 1980 | 90 years, 249 days |
99 | Gonzalo Güell | Cuba | Prime Minister (1958-1959) | 1895 | 1985 | 90 years, 198 days |
100 | Alfred Georges Naccache | Lebanon | Prime Minister (1941- 1941)
President (1941-1943) |
1888 | 1978 | 90 years, 146 days |
Addendum
Uncertain DOB
Name | State | Position | Birth | Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
See also
- Current Lists of longest-living cardinals and state leaders
- List of oldest living state leaders
- Lists of state leaders by age
- List of centenarians (politicians and civil servants)
- Records of heads of state
- List of longest-living cardinals
- Hypothetical List of longest-living state leaders
- Longest-lived state leaders by country
- List of Former longest living state leaders
- Comparison of Monarchs (list)
- Kage (Naruto)
- Lists of Philippine Officials by age
- Hypothetical List of longest-living state leaders (31 December 2027)
- List of longest-living state leaders
- Philippine Congress Membership if the Philippines followed The US Congress allocations