Updating this list 8.5 years later for @dean1991.
The eight oldest names on it are gone.
Katsumi Tezuka would be 109 years old today if he was still living. It's widely accepted that he must've died in obscurity. A year from today he'll be dead enough for Wiki standards, unless he magically springs up on the Japanese supercentenarian list!
Furuhate is another one who fell into obscurity. Could very well be dead?
Dos Santos, currently at 116 years and 304 days, is close to being the oldest ever third oldest living person too.
The record is currently held by Sarah Knauss (116 years and 314 days).
Nearly three months after they keep standing.
-Tanaka is more than one year older than Marie-Louise Meilleur,5th oldest ever verified.
-Randon has surpassed Violet Brown's age and has become 6th oldest ever verified.
-Dos Santos has managed to be just two months away from her 117th birthday.
Delina Filkins became the oldest verified person ever after surpassing Louisa Thier's age in 1926. She held this title for 54 years (that's a record too) until Fannie Thomas in 1980 surpassed this age.
Jeanne Calment has held the same title for 31 years since surpassing Augusta Holtz's age in 1990.
Today, Delina Filkins is only the... 237th oldest verified person ever and all the living validated female supercentenarians are older.
I really wonder if something like that will also happen someday with Calment.
Antonia da Santa Cruz has surpassed Jiroemon Kimura's age (116 years and 54 days), so now there is no man in the top 20 oldest validated persons ever. Back in 2013 when Kimura died, he was 8th oldest ever and now he is 21st.