List of longest-living state leaders
This article lists the 100 oldest known living or deceased heads of state or heads of government of sovereign states, born no earlier than 1800, and whose ages are documented in reliable sources. Those currently living are in bold on gold. The longest-lived state leader with known exact dates of birth and death was Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum, who lived to. Ek Yi Oun, fellow Cambodian prime minister, lived between 102 years, 1 day, and 103 years, 364 days.
List
Name | State | Position | Birth | Death | Age | |
1 | Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum | Cambodia | Prime Minister | 1905 | 2009 | 103 years, 143 days |
2 | Celâl Bayar | Prime Minister President | 1883 | 1986 | 103 years, 98 days | |
3 | Antoine Pinay | Prime Minister | 1891 | 1994 | 102 years, 348 days | |
4 | André Prunet-Foch | French Viguier | 1914 | 2017 | 102 years, 211 days | |
5 | Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni | Prime Minister | 1887 | 1990 | 102 years, 48 days | |
Ek Yi Oun | Cambodia | Prime Minister | 1910 | 2013 | 102 years, 1 day to 103 years, 364 days | |
7 | Babiker Awadalla | Sudan | Prime Minister | 1917 | 2019 | 101 years, 321 days |
8 | Willem Drees | Prime Minister | 1886 | 1988 | 101 years, 314 days | |
9 | Đỗ Mười | Chairman of the Council of Ministers General Secretary of the Communist Party | 1917 | 2018 | 101 years, 241 days | |
10 | Zhang Qun | Premier | 1889 | 1990 | 101 years, 219 days | |
11 | Yasuhiro Nakasone | Prime Minister | 1918 | 2019 | 101 years, 186 days | |
12 | Piet de Jong | Prime Minister | 1915 | 2016 | 101 years, 115 days | |
13 | Hyun Soong-jong | Prime Minister | 1919 | 2020 | ||
14 | Bernardino González Ruiz | President | 1911 | 2012 | 101 years, 64 days | |
15 | Christopher Hornsrud | Prime Minister | 1859 | 1960 | 101 years, 27 days | |
16 | Telmo Vargas | Head of State | 1912 | 2013 | 100 years, 304 days | |
17 | Hau Pei-tsun | Premier | 1919 | 2020 | 100 years, 235 days | |
18 | Xenophon Zolotas | Prime Minister | 1904 | 2004 | 100 years, 45 days | |
18 | Javier Pérez de Cuéllar | Prime Minister | 1920 | 2020 | 100 years, 45 days | |
20 | Abdul Salam Sabrah | Acting Prime Minister | 1912 | 2012 | 100 years, 32 days | |
Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein | Somalia | Interim president | 1912 | 2012 | 100 years, 0 to 163 days | |
22 | Hastings Banda | Prime Minister President | 1898 | 1997 | 99 years, 283 days | |
23 | Johan Ferrier | President | 1910 | 2010 | 99 years, 237 days | |
24 | Tun Tin | Prime Minister | 1920 | 2020 | 99 years, 212 days | |
25 | Gulzarilal Nanda | Acting Prime Minister | 1898 | 1998 | 99 years, 195 days | |
26 | Mustafa Ben Halim | ' | Prime Minister | 1921 | Alive | ' |
27 | Mohammed Karim Lamrani | Prime Minister | 1919 | 2018 | 99 years, 142 days | |
28 | Sir Anthony Mamo | Governor-General President | 1909 | 2008 | 99 years, 113 days | |
29 | Michail Stasinopoulos | President | 1903 | 2002 | 99 years, 96 days | |
30 | Sir Clifford Campbell | Governor-General | 1892 | 1991 | 99 years, 92 days | |
31 | Morarji Desai | Prime Minister | 1896 | 1995 | 99 years, 41 days | |
32 | Võ Chí Công | Chairman of the Council of State | 1912 | 2011 | 99 years, 32 days | |
33 | Abdel Halim Muhammad | Sudan | Committee of Sovereignty Member | 1910 | 2009 | 99 years, 6 days |
34 | Ċensu Tabone | President | 1913 | 2012 | 98 years, 350 days | |
35 | Francisco Morales Bermúdez | ' | Prime Minister President | 1921 | Alive | ' |
36 | Prem Tinsulanonda | Prime Minister Regent | 1920 | 2019 | 98 years, 273 days | |
37 | Pierre Harmel | Prime Minister | 1911 | 2009 | 98 years, 244 days | |
38 | Sir Howard Cooke | Governor-General | 1915 | 2014 | 98 years, 240 days | |
39 | Joseph Paul-Boncour | Prime Minister | 1873 | 1972 | 98 years, 237 days | |
40 | Konstantinos Mitsotakis | Prime Minister | 1918 | 2017 | 98 years, 223 days | |
41 | Isidro Ayora | President | 1879 | 1978 | 98 years, 203 days | |
42 | Luis Echeverría | ' | President | 1922 | Alive | ' |
43 | Émile Reuter | Prime Minister | 1874 | 1973 | 98 years, 196 days | |
44 | Mamadou Dia | Prime Minister | 1910 | 2009 | 98 years, 191 days | |
45 | Aden Abdullah Osman Daar | Somalia | President | 1908 | 2007 | 98 years, 181 days |
46 | Nouhak Phoumsavanh | President | 1910 | 2008 | 98 years, 153 days | |
47 | Lê Đức Anh | President | 1920 | 2019 | 98 years, 142 days | |
48 | Émile Derlin Zinsou | President | 1918 | 2016 | 98 years, 127 days | |
49 | Borys Martos | Chairman of the Council of Ministers | 1879 | 1977 | 98 years, 122 days | |
50 | Artúr Görgei | Hungary | Acting Governor-President | 1818 | 1916 | 98 years, 112 days |
51 | Jean | Grand Duke | 1921 | 2019 | 98 years, 108 days | |
52 | Gough Whitlam | Prime Minister | 1916 | 2014 | 98 years, 102 days | |
53 | Venceslau Brás | Brazil | President | 1868 | 1966 | 98 years, 78 days |
54 | French Viguier | 1916 | 2015 | 98 years, 56 days | ||
55 | Ramaswamy Venkataraman | President | 1910 | 2009 | 98 years, 54 days | |
56 | Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám | Hungary | Prime Minister | 1875 | 1973 | 98 years, 15 days |
57 | Gabriel París Gordillo | President | 1910 | 2008 | 98 years, 13 days | |
58 | Miloš Jakeš | Czechoslovak Socialist Republic | General Secretary of the Communist Party | 1922 | 2020 | 97 years, 332 days |
59 | Kenan Evren | National Security Council President President | 1917 | 2015 | 97 years, 296 days | |
60 | Wellington Koo | Acting Premier Acting President | 1888 | 1985 | 97 years, 289 days | |
61 | Baron Ignaz von Plener | Cisleithania | Minister-President | 1810 | 1908 | 97 years, 272 days |
62 | Domhnall Ua Buachalla | Governor-General | 1866 | 1963 | 97 years, 267 days | |
63 | Abdelmalek Benhabyles | Chair of the Constitutional Council | 1921 | 2018 | 97 years, 245 days | |
64 | Ramón José Velásquez | Interim president | 1916 | 2014 | 97 years, 208 days | |
65 | Francesc Badia Batalla | ' | Episcopal Veguer | 1923 | Alive | ' |
66 | He Yingqin | Premier | 1890 | 1987 | 97 years, 202 days | |
67 | Lee Teng-hui | President | 1923 | 2020 | 97 years, 197 days | |
68 | Liam Cosgrave | Taoiseach | 1920 | 2017 | 97 years, 174 days | |
69 | Alfredo Solf y Muro | Prime Minister | 1872 | 1969 | 97 years, 152 days | |
70 | Patricio Aylwin | President | 1918 | 2016 | 97 years, 145 days | |
71 | Armando Villanueva | Prime Minister | 1915 | 2013 | 97 years, 140 days | |
72 | Ion Gheorghe Maurer | President of the Presidium Acting President of the State Council Prime Minister | 1902 | 2000 | 97 years, 138 days | |
73 | Martial Célestin | Prime Minister | 1913 | 2011 | 97 years, 123 days | |
74 | Gheorghe Apostol | First Secretary of the Workers' Party | 1913 | 2010 | 97 years, 97 days | |
75 | Walter Scheel | Acting Chancellor President | 1919 | 2016 | 97 years, 47 days | |
76 | Helmut Schmidt | Chancellor | 1918 | 2015 | 96 years, 322 days | |
77 | Cardinal Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte | Acting Sovereign | 1851 | 1948 | 96 years, 312 days | |
78 | Khertek Anchimaa-Toka | Chair of the Presidium | 1912 | 2008 | 96 years, 308 days | |
79 | Camille Huysmans | Prime Minister | 1871 | 1968 | 96 years, 275 days | |
80 | Yitzhak Shamir | Prime Minister | 1915 | 2012 | 96 years, 252 days | |
81 | Federico Páez | Acting President | 1877 | 1974 | 96 years, 250 days | |
82 | Habib Bourguiba | Prime Minister President | 1903 | 2000 | 96 years, 247 days | |
83 | Vyacheslav Molotov | Premier | 1890 | 1986 | 96 years, 244 days | |
Konstantinos Kollias | Prime Minister | 1901 | 1998 | 96 years, 194 days to 97 years, 193 days | ||
85 | Pedro Richter Prada | Prime Minister | 1921 | 2017 | 96 years, 191 days | |
86 | Khamtai Siphandon | ' | Prime Minister Chairman of the People's Revolutionary Party President | 1924 | Alive | ' |
87 | Tomiichi Murayama | ' | Prime Minister | 1924 | Alive | ' |
88 | Cesáreo Octavio Deustua Escarza | Prime Minister | 1849 | 1945 | 96 years, 137 days | |
89 | Kenneth Kaunda | ' | President | 1924 | Alive | ' |
90 | Abderrahmane Youssoufi | Prime Minister | 1924 | 2020 | 96 years, 82 days | |
91 | Pedro Lascuráin | Acting President | 1856 | 1952 | 96 years, 74 days | |
92 | Federico Chávez | President | 1882 | 1978 | 96 years, 68 days | |
93 | Fumio Gotō | Acting Prime Minister | 1884 | 1980 | 96 years, 67 days | |
94 | Mario Echandi Jiménez | President | 1915 | 2011 | 96 years, 43 days | |
95 | Michael I | King | 1921 | 2017 | 96 years, 41 days | |
96 | João Lins Cansanção, Viscount of Sinimbu | Prime Minister | 1810 | 1906 | 96 years, 37 days | |
97 | Dom Mintoff | Prime Minister | 1916 | 2012 | 96 years, 14 days | |
98 | Hans Schaffner | Federal Council Member President | 1908 | 2004 | 95 years, 346 days | |
99 | Joaquín Balaguer | President | 1906 | 2002 | 95 years, 316 days | |
100 | Tomás Romero Pereira | Provisional President | 1886 | 1982 | 95 years, 312 days |