Jeralean Talley

Jeralean Talley was an American supercentenarian who was, aged 116 years, 25 days, the world's verified oldest living person. She was previously thought to be the oldest living American, from the death of Elsie Thompson on March 21, 2013, until Gertrude Weaver was verified to be older in July 2014. Upon Weaver's death on April 6, 2015, Talley was recognised as the oldest living person in the world. Talley received letters from U.S. President Barack Obama on her 114th and 116th birthdays acknowledging her status.

23 May 1899

Born on the same birth day (23 May): Celestine Sibley • Daniel DiNardo • Daniele Massaro • Elias Ashmole • Emmanuel Boateng (footballer, born 1996) • Ingeborg Hallstein • Linden Ashby • Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia • Rómulo Díaz de la Vega • ʻAbdu'l-Bahá

Born in the same month (May 1899): Aleksandr Deyneka • Alfred Horace Gerrard • Arthur Q. Bryan • Charlotte Auerbach • Earle Combs • Friedrich Hayek • Henri Michaux • Irving Thalberg • Jacques Heim • Jean Étienne Valluy • Johannes Türn • John Marshall Harlan II • Kazi Nazrul Islam • Pierre Victor Auger