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'''Jeanne Calment''' (February 21, 1875 - August 4, 1997) is the current holder of the Guinness title "World's Oldest Person"<ref>http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-5000/oldest-person/</ref>, who was (according to Guinness) aged 122 years when she died in 1997.
'''Jeanne Calment''' (February 21, 1875 - August 4, 1997) is the current holder of the Guinness title "World's Oldest Person"<ref>http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-5000/oldest-person/</ref>, who was (according to Guinness) aged 122 years when she died in 1997.
==Life==
==Life==
In 1990, when she was 114, she appeared in the movie ''Vincent et Moi'' making her the oldest person to appear in a movie.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081721/</ref><ref>http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-1/oldest-actress/</ref>
In 1990, when she was 114, she appeared in the movie ''Vincent et Moi'' making her the oldest person to appear in a movie.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081721/</ref><ref>http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-1/oldest-actress/</ref>
==Controversy Over Lifespan==
While a birth date associated with Calment has been authenticated based on official records<ref>http://www.demogr.mpg.de/books/odense/6/09.htm</ref>, which serves as the basis for the Guinness record, there is some dispute as to her actual age at death. According to the research of Russian gerontologist Valery Novoselov and mathematician Nikolay Zak in 2018, Jeanne actually died in 1934 (at the not so remarkable age of 56), whereupon her daughter Yvonne (who allegedly died in 1934 at the young age of 36) assumed Jeanne's identity and lived to be 99.
If Calment died in 1934 and not 1997, then Kane Tanaka, who lived from 1903-2022, would be the record-holder at age 119. Statistically, it would be unexpected for one to live another 3 years longer than the outer parameter of what has been confirmed.
==References==
==References==