Original listings of longest-living cardinals and state leaders
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This is an original listing for the longest-living state leaders and cardinals. As of 30 Nov 2008
Longest-living state leaders
Gallery
Oldest ever:
Turkey
Celål Bayar
served 1937–1939, 1950–19602nd-Oldest ever:
Cambodia
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhumserved 196218th-oldest ever:
Sudan
Abdel Halim Muhammad
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 | President of the Council of Ministers (1952–1953) | 1891 | 1994 | 102 years, 343 days |
3 | Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum | Cambodia | Acting Prime Minister (1962) | 1905 | alive | 102 years, 122 days |
4 | Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni | Japan | Prime Minister (1945) | 1887 | 1990 | 102 years, 48 days |
5 | Willem Drees | Netherlands | Prime Minister (1948–1958) | 1886 | 1988 | 101 years, 314 days |
6 | Zhang Qun | Taiwan | Premier (1947–1948) | 1889 | 1990 | 101 years, 219 days |
7 | Christopher Hornsrud | Norway | Prime Minister (1928) | 1859 | 1960 | 101 years, 27 days |
8 | Xenophon Zolotas | Greece | Prime Minister (1989–1990) | 1904 | 2004 | 100 years, 45 days |
9 | Gulzarilal Nanda | India | Acting Prime Minister (1964; 1966) | 1898 | 1998 | 99 years, 195 days |
10 | Michail Stasinopoulos | Greece | President (1974–1975) | 1903 | 2002 | 99 years, 96 days |
11 | Clifford Campbell | Jamaica | Governor-General (1962–1973) | 1892 | 1991 | 99 years, 92 days |
12 | Morarji Desai | India | Prime Minister (1977–1979) | 1896 | 1995 | 99 years, 41 days |
13 | Anthony Mamo | Malta | Prime Minister (1971–1974) President (1974–1976) |
1909 | alive | 98 years, 357 days |
9–13 | 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 |
15 | Joseph Paul-Boncour | France | Prime Minister (1932–1933) | 1873 | 1972 | 98 years, 237 days |
16 | Johan Ferrier | Suriname | President (1975–1980) | 1910 | alive | 97 years, 234 days |
17 | Isidro Ayora | Ecuador | President (1926–1931) | 1879 | 1978 | 98 years, 203 days |
18 | Émile Reuter | Luxembourg | Prime Minister (1918–1925) | 1874 | 1973 | 98 years, 196 days |
19 | Aden Adde | Somalia | President (1960–1967) | 1908 | 2007 | 98 years, 181 days |
20 | Ukraine | Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1919) | 1879 | 1977 | 98 years, 122 days | |
21 | Hungary | Acting Governor-President (1849) | 1818 | 1916 | 98 years, 112 days | |
22 | Venceslau Brás | Brazil | President (1914–1918) | 1868 | 1966 | 98 years, 78 days |
23 | Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám | Hungary | Prime Minister (1919) | 1875 | 1973 | 98 years, 15 days |
24 | Gabriel París Gordillo | Colombia | President (1957–1958) | 1910 | alive | 97 years, 299 days |
25 | Wellington Koo | China | Acting Premier (1924) Acting President (1926–1927) |
1888 | 1985 | 97 years, 289 days |
26 | Baron Ignaz von Plener | Cislethania ( Austria-Hungary) |
Minister-President (1870) | 1810 | 1908 | 97 years, 272 days |
27 | Domhnall Ua Buachalla | Irish Free State | Governor-General (1932–1936) | 1866 | 1963 | 97 years, 267 days |
27 | Abdel Halim Muhamad | Sudan | President (1975–1980) | 1910 | alive | 97 years, 267 days |
28 | Nouhak Phoumsavanh | Laos | President (1992–1998) | 1910 | alive | 97 years, 266 days |
29 | He Yingqin | Taiwan | Premier (1949) | 1890 | 1987 | 97 years, 202 days |
30 | Alfredo Solf y Muro | Peru | Prime Minister (1939–1944) | 1872 | 1969 | 97 years, 152 days |
31 | Mamadou Dia | Senegal | President (1960–1962) | 1910 | alive | 97 years, 167 days |
32 | Ion Gheorghe Maurer | / Romania | President of the Presidium (1958–1961) (Acting) President of the State Council (1965) Prime Minister (1961–1974) |
1902 | 2000 | 97 years, 138 days |
34 | Ramaswamy Venkataraman | India | President (1987–1992) | 1910 | Alive | 97 years, 28 days |
24–35 | Ek Yi Oun | Cambodia | Prime Minister (1958) | 1910 | alive | 97 years, 1 day to 98 years, 0 days |
36 | Bernardino González Ruiz | Panama | Acting President (1963) | 1911 | Alive | 96 years, 355 days |
37 | Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte | Vatican City | Acting Sovereign (1939) | 1851 | 1948 | 96 years, 312 days |
38 | Pierre Harmel | Belgium | Prime Minister (1965–1966) | 1911 | Alive | 96 years, 291 days |
39 | Camille Huysmans | Belgium | Prime Minister (1946–1947) | 1871 | 1968 | 96 years, 275 days |
40 | Federico Páez | Ecuador | President (1935–1937) | 1877 | 1974 | 96 years, 250 days |
41 | Habib Bourguiba | Tunisia | Prime Minister (1956–1957) President (1957–1987) |
1903 | 2000 | 96 years, 247 days |
42 | Vyacheslav Molotov | Soviet Union | Premier (1930–1941 | 1890 | 1986 | 96 years, 244 days |
36–43 | Konstantinos Kollias | Greece | Prime Minister (1967) | 1901 | 1998 | 96 years, 194 days to 97 years, 193 days |
44 | Alejandro Deustua |  :Peru | Prime Minister (1902) | 1849 | 1945 | 96 years, 137 days |
45 | Pedro Lascuráin | Mexico | President (1913) | 1856 | 1952 | 96 years, 74 days |
46 | Federico Chaves | Paraguay | President (1949–1954) | 1882 | 1978 | 96 years, 68 days |
47 | Fumio Gotō | Japan | Acting Prime Minister (1936) | 1884 | 1980 | 96 years, 67 days |
48 | João Lins Cansanção | Brazil | Prime Minister (1878–1880) | 1810 | 1906 | 96 years, 37 days |
49 | Abdul Salam Sabrah | Yemen | Acting Prime Minister (1969; 1971) | 1912 | Alive | 96 years, 0 days |
Khertek Anchimaa-Toka | Tuvan People's Republic | Chairperson of the Presidium (1940–1944) | ||||
51 | Hans Schaffner | Switzerland | President (1966) | 1908 | 2004 | 95 years, 346 days |
52 | Joaquín Balaguer | Dominican Republic | President (1960–1962; 1966–1978; 1986–1996) | 1906 | 2002 | 95 years, 316 days |
53 | Tomás Romero Pereira | Paraguay | Provisional President (1954) | 1886 | 1982 | 95 years, 312 days |
54 | Juan José Estrada | Nicaragua | President (1910–1911) | 1872 | 1967 | 95 years, 191 days |
55 | Pote Sarasin | Thailand | Prime Minister (1957) | 1905 | 2000 | 95 years, 187 days |
56 | Tahar Ben Ammar | Tunisia | Prime Minister (1956) | 1889 | 1985 | 95 years, 166 days |
57 | Võ Chí Công | Vietnam | Chairman of the Council of State (1987–1992) | 1912 | Alive | 95 years, 147 days |
58 | Philippe Pétain | France | Prime Prime Minister (1940)
Chief of State (1940-1944) |
1856 | 1951 | 95 years, 90 days |
47–59 | Hassan al-Hakim | Syria | Prime Minister (1941-1942, 1951) | 1886 | 1982 | 95 years, 89 days to 96 years, 88 days |
60 | Léopold Sédar Senghor | Senegal | President (1960 - 1980) | 1906 | 2001 | 95 years, 72 days |
61 | Petar Stambolić | Yugoslavia | Prime Minister (1963 - 1967) President (1982-1983) |
1912 | 2007 | 95 years, 71 days |
62 | Nguyễn Văn Tâm | South Vietnam | Prime Minister (1952–1954) | 1895 | 1990 | 95 years, 48 days |
63 | Max Petitpierre | Switzerland | Federal Council Minister (1944-1961)
President (1950, 1955, 1960) |
1899 | 1994 | 95 years, 27 days |
64 | Saeb Salam | Lebanon | Prime Minister (1952–1953, 1960-1961, 1970-1973) | 1905 | 2000 | 95 years, 4 days |
49–65 | Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein | Somalia | Interim president (1969) | 1912 | Alive | 95 years, 1 day to 96 years, 0 days |
66 | Hassan ibn Yahya | Kingdom of Yemen | Prime Minister (1948–1955) | 1908 | 2003 | 95 years, 0 days |
67 | 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 | ||
67 | Fred Degazon | Dominica | President (1979–1980) | 1913 | alive | 94 years, 362 days |
70 | Juliana | Netherlands | Queen (1948–1980) | 1909 | 2004 | 94 years, 325 days |
71 | Emilio Aguinaldo | Philippines | President (1899 – 1901) | 1869 | 1964 | 94 years, 321 days |
72 | Constantin Ion Parhon | Romania | President (1948-1952) | 1874 | 1969 | 94 years, 298 days |
73 | Maaraouf Dawalibi | Syria | Prime Minister (1951, 1961-1962) | 1909 | 2004 | 94 years, 292 days |
74 | Emiliano Chamorro Vargas | Nicaragua | President (1917-1921) | 1871 | 1966 | 94 years, 291 days |
75 | Martti Miettunen | Finland | Prime Minister (1961–1962, 1975–1977) | 1907 | 2002 | 94 years, 277 days |
75 | Ċensu Tabone | Malta | President (1989–1994) | 1913 | Alive | 94 years, 277 days |
77 | Sanya Dharmasakti | Thailand | Prime Minister (1973–1975) | 1907 | 2002 | 94 years, 276 days |
78 | Emilio Bello Codesido | Chile | President (1925) | 1868 | 1863 | 94 years, 233 days |
79 | Gheorghe Apostol | Romania | First Secretary of the Worker's Party (1954–1955) | 1913 | Alive | 94 years, 230 days |
80 | Pierre Graber | Switzerland | President (1975) | 1908 | 2003 | 94 years, 225 days |
81 | Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol | Guatemala | President (1865) | 1802 | 1897 | 94 years, 207 days |
82 | Héctor Trujillo | Ecuador | President (1952–1960) | 1908 | 2002 | 94 years, 196 days |
83 | Wijeyananda Dahayanake | Sri Lanka | Prime Minister (1959–1960) | 1902 | 1997 | 94 years, 194 days |
84 | Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas | Greece | Prime Minister (1965) | 1893 | 1987 | 94 years, 182 days |
85 | Charles de Freycinet | France | Prime Minister (1879–1880, 1882, 1886, 1890–1892) | 1828 | 1923 | 94 years, 181 days |
86 | Malietoa Tanumafili II | Samoa | O le Ao O le Malo (1989–1993) | 1913 | 2007 | 94 years, 127 days |
87 | Charles Tupper | Canada | Prime Minister (1896) | 1821 | 1915 | 94 years, 120 days |
88 | Garfield Todd | South Rhodesia | Prime Minister (1953 – 1958) | 1908 | 2002 | 94 years, 92 days |
89 | Martial Célestin | Haiti | Prime Minister (1988) | 1913 | Alive | 94 years, 89 days |
90 | Phạm Văn Đồng | North Vietnam / State of Vietnam | Prime Minister (1955–1987) | 1906 | 2000 | 94 years, 59 days |
91 | Sir Herbert Duffus | Jamaica | Acting Governor-General (1973) | 1908 | 2002 | 94 years, 56 days |
92 | Mikhail Solometsev | :Soviet Union' | Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1983–1988) | 1913 | alive | 94 years, 55 days |
93 | C. Rajagopalachari | India | Governor-General (1946–1950) | 1878 | 1972 | 94 years, 15 days |
94 | Alfonso López Michelsen | Colombia | President (1972–1976) | 1913 | 2007 | 94 years, 11 days |
95 | Carlos Mancheno Cajas | Ecuador | President (1947) | 1902 | 1996 | 94 years, 2 days |
96 | Paul Magloire | Haiti | President (1950–1956) | 1907 | 2001 | 93 years, 358 days |
97 | Mackenzie Bowell | Canada | Prime Minister (1894–1896) | 1823 | 1917 | 93 years, 348 days |
98 | José Bordas Valdez | Dominican Republic | Provisional President (1913-1914) | 1874 | 1968 | 93 years, 341 days |
99 | Tiburcio Carias Andino | Dominican Republic | President (1924, 1932-1949) | 1876 | 1969 | 93 years, 283 days |
100 | Alfredo Stroessener | –Dominican Republic | President (1954-1989) | 1912 | 2006 | 93 years, 276 days |
Longest-living cardinals
Gallery
Oldest ever:
Portugal
Jorge da Costa2nd-Oldest:
Italy
Corrado Bafile3rd-Oldest ever:
Papal States
Ligi Ciacchi8th-oldest ever:
Germany
Paul Agustin Mayer
List
Cardinal | Country | Born | Died | Age | |
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1 | Corrado Bafile | Italy | 1903 | 2005 | 101 years, 214 days |
2 | Ignatius Kung Pin-mei | China | 1901 | 2000 | 98 years, 223 days |
Franz König | Austria | 1905 | 2004 | ||
4 | Paolo Dezza, S.J. | Italy | 1901 | 1999 | 98 years, 4 days |
5 | Alfons Maria Stickler | Austria | 1910 | 2007 | 97 years, 111 days |
6 | Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli, O.F.M. | Italy | 1896 | 1993 | 96 years, 363 days |
7 | Johannes Willebrands | Netherlands | 1909 | 2008 | 96 years, 331 days |
8 | Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte | Italy | 1851 | 1948 | 96 years, 312 days |
9 | José da Costa Nunes | Portugal | 1880 | 1976 | 96 years, 259 days |
10 | Paul Augustin Mayer | Germany | 1915 | alive | 96 years, 223 days |
11 | Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J. | Zambia (born in Poland) |
1911 | 2007 | 96 years, 180 days |
12 | Mikel Koliqi | Albania | 1902 | 1997 | 94 years, 121 days |
13 | Francesco Morano | Italy | 1872 | 1968 | 96 years, 34 days |
14 | Pietro Parente | Italy | 1891 | 1986 | 95 years, 316 days |
15 | Henri de Lubac S.J. | France | 1896 | 1991 | 95 years, 196 days |
16 | Alberto Di Jorio | Italy | 1884 | 1979 | 95 years, 49 days |
17 | Corrado Ursi | Italy | 1908 | 2003 | 95 years, 34 days |
18 | Julijans Vaivods | Latvia | 1895 | 1990 | 94 years, 279 days |
19 | Carlos María de la Torre | Ecuador | 1873 | 1968 | 94 years, 259 days |
20 | Louis-Albert Vachon | Canada | 1912 | 2006 | 94 years, 237 days |
21 | Egano Righi-Lambertini | Italy | 1906 | 2000 | 94 years, 225 days |
22 | Giuseppe Sensi | Italy | 1907 | 2001 | 94 years, 60 days |
23 | John Carberry | United States | 1904 | 1998 | 93 years, 321 days |
24 | Paolo Bertoli | Italy | 1908 | 2001 | 93 years, 280 days |
25 | Opilio Rossi | United States | 1910 | 2004 | 93 years, 271 days |
26 | Vincenzo Vannutelli | Italy | 1836 | 1930 | 93 years, 216 days |
27 | Teodolfo Mertel | Papal States | 1806 | 1899 | 93 years, 152 days |
28 | Kazimierz Świątek | Belarus | 1914 | alive | 93 years, 72 days |
29 | František Tomášek | Czechoslovakia | 1899 | 1992 | 93 years, 35 days |
30 | Alfredo Scherer | Brazil | 1903 | 1996 | 93 years, 33 days |
31 | James Francis McIntyre | United States | 1886 | 1979 | 93 years, 21 days |
32 | Giuseppe Pizzardo | Italy | 1877 | 1970 | 93 years, 19 days |
33 | Antonio Innocenti | Italy | 1915 | 2008 | 93 years, 14 days |
34 | Carlo Confalonieri | Italy | 1893 | 1986 | 93 years, 7 days |
35 | Alessandro Verde | Italy | 1865 | 1958 | 93 years, 2 days |
36 | Juan Carlos Aramburu | Argentina | 1912 | 2004 | 92 years, 281 days |
37 | Paolo Giobbe | Italy | 1880 | 1972 | 92 years, 217 days |
38 | Josyf Slipyj | Ukraine | 1892 | 1984 | 92 years, 203 days |
Léon-Étienne Duval | ;Algeria | 1903 | 1996 | ||
40 | Joseph Asajirō Satowaki | Japan | 1904 | 1996 | 92 years, 189 days |
41 | Ersilio Tonini | Italy | 1914' | alive | 92 years, 165 days |
42 | José María Caro Rodríguez | Chile | 1866 | 1958 | 92 years, 164 days |
43 | Maurice Feltin | France | 1883 | 1975 | 92 years, 135 days |
44 | Giuseppe Casoria | Italy | 1908 | 2001 | 92 years, 130 days |
45 | Augusto da Silva | Brazil | 1876 | 1958 | 92 years, 128 days |
46 | Gabriel-Marie Garrone | France | 1901 | 1994 | 92 years, 95 days |
47 | Carlos Carmelo Vascocellos Motta | Brazil | 1890 | 1982 | 92 years, 62 days |
48 | Jean Margéot | Mauritius | 1916 | alive | 91 years, 332 days |
49 | Josef Frings | Germany | 1887 | 1978 | 91 years, 314 days |
50 | Leo Jozef Suenens | Belgium | 1904 | 1996 | 91 years, 295 days |
51 | Enrique Pla y Deniel | Spain | 1876 | 1968 | 91 years, 199 days |
52 | Raúl Silva Henríquez | Chile | 1907 | 1999 | 91 years, 194 days |
53 | Fiorenzo Angelini | Italy | 1916 | alive | 91 years, 153 days |
54 | Pietro Pavan | Italy | 1903 | 1994 | 91 years, 118 days |
55 | François-Marie de Rovérié de Cabrières | France | 1830 | 1921 | 91 years, 113 days |
56 | Benedetto Aloisi Masella | Italy | 1879 | 1970 | 91 years, 93 days |
57 | Yves Congar, O.P. | France | 1904 | 1995 | 91 years, 70 days |
58 | Gerald Emmett Carter | Canada | 1912 | 2003 | 91 years, 28 days |
59 | Patrick Aloysius O’Boyle | United States | 1896 | 1987 | 91 years, 23 days |
60 | Pablo Muñoz Vega, S.J. | Ecuador | 1903 | 1994 | 91 years, 11 days |
61 | Giuseppe Caprio | Italy | 1914 | 2005 | 90 years, 334 days |
62 | Luigi Di Canossa | Italy | 1809 | 1900 | 90 years, 326 days |
63 | Amleto Giovanni Cicognani | Italy | 1883 | 1973 | 90 years, 296 days |
64 | Anton Josef Gruscha | Austria | 1820 | 1911 | 90 years, 275 days |
65 | Antonio Caggiano | Brazil | 1889 | 1979 | 90 years, 266 days |
66 | Giovanni Mercati | Italy | 1865 | 1957 | 90 years, 249 days |
67 | Silvio Oddi | Italy | 1910 | 2001 | 90 years, 227 days |
68 | Aurelio Sabattani | Italy | 1912 | 2003 | 90 years, 183 days |
69 | José Clemente Maurer, C.Ss.R. | Bolivia | 1900 | 1990 | 90 years, 106 days |
70 | Michelangelo Celesia, O.S.B. Cas. | Italy | 1814 | 1904 | 90 years, 92 days |
70 | Cahal Daly | United Kingdom ( Northern Ireland) |
1917 | alive | 90 years, 92 days |
72 | Miguel Darío Miranda y Gómez | Mexico | 1895 | 1986 | 90 years, 86 days |
73 | Juan Francisco Fresno | Chile | 1914 | 2004 | 90 years, 80 days |
75 | Luigi Poggi | Italy | 1917 | alive | 90 years, 37 days |
75 | Alexandru Todea | Romania | 1912 | 2002 | 89 years, 351 days |
76 | Paul Gouyon | France | 1910 | 2000 | 89 years, 338 days |
77 | Ángel Suquía Goicoechea | Spain | 1916 | 2006 | 89 years, 284 days |
78 | François Marty | France | 1904 | 1994 | 89 years, 274 days |
79 | Paolo Marella | Italy | 1895 | 1984 | 89 years, 264 days |
80 | Elia Dalla Costa | Italy | 1872 | 1959 | 89 years, 222 days |
Édouard Gagnon P.S.S. | Canada | 1918 | 2007 | ||
82 | Maximos IV Sayegh | Syria | 1878 | 1967 | 89 years, 209 days |
83 | William Theodore Heard | United Kingdom ( Scotland) |
1884 | 1973 | 89 years, 204 days |
84 | John Henry Newman C.O. | United Kingdom ( England) |
1801 | 1890 | 89 years, 171 days |
85 | Giovanni Colombo | Italy | 1903 | 1992 | 89 years, 166 days |
86 | Fernando Cento | Italy | 1883 | 1973 | 89 years, 156 days |
87 | Avery Dulles S.J. | United States' | 1918 | alive | 89 years, 130 days |
88 | Giovanni Canestri | Italy | 1918 | alive | 89 years, 93 days |
89 | Giovanni Cheli |  Italy | 1918 | alive | 89 years, 89 days |
90 | Achille Liénart | France | 1884 | 1973 | 89 years, 8 days |
91 | Alfredo Ottaviani | Italy | 1890 | 1979 | 88 years, 339 days |
92 | François-Marie-Benjamin Richard | France | 1819 | 1908 | 88 years, 333 days |
93 | Maurilio Fossati O.Ss.G.C.N. | France | 1876 | 1965 | 88 years, 310 days |
94 | Alfonso Capecelatro CO | Italy | 1824 | 1912 | 88 years, 283 days |
95 | Alois Grillmeier | Germany | 1910 | 1998 | 88 years, 255 days |
96 | Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira | Portugal | 1888 | 1977 | 88 years, 246 days |
97 | Paul-Joseph Phạm Ðình Tụng | Vietnam | 1919 | alive | 88 years, 200 days |
98 | Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada | Mexico | 1919 | alive | 88 years, 186 days |
99 | Carlo Grano | Italy | 1887 | 1978 | 88 years, 171 days |
100 | Franz Ehrle S.J. | Austria | 1845 | 1934 | 88 years, 165 days |