Madame Jeanne Calment is the longest living human in history. She was 122 years, 164 days old before she died in 1997. Many have wondered what Jeanne’s secret was, that allowed her to live such a long ...

The world’s most long-lived person, Jeanne Calment, is said to died at 122 years old and 164 days in 1997 — but researchers believe otherwise. Russian mathematician Nikolai Zak has challenged the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune. For years, Jeanne Calment has reigned as the oldest documented person to ...

Jeanne Calment died in 1997 in the southern French town in which she was born, and her death drew a flurry of attention. At 122, an age that had been certified by the Guinness World Records as well as ...

FILE PHOTO: The World's oldest woman, Jeanne Calment, 120 years old, is kissed by two young girls during a special ceremony in a retirement home in Arles, Southern France, February 21, 1995.

WASHINGTON - When she turned 120 years old in 1995, plucky Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment was asked what type of future she expected. "A very short one," she replied. But Calment lived two more years, ...

This editorial is from the Chicago Tribune: For years, Jeanne Calment has reigned as the oldest documented person to have lived. She supposedly died in 1997 at age 122. But now Russian mathematician ...

Jeanne Calment, a French woman, achieved an incredible feat of living to age 122, thus earning the honor of being the world's oldest person on record. But before her passing, Calment met and discussed ...

One year before General George Custer was killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn -- the same year that two American colleges for the first time played one another in a game that we would recognize ...

Jeanne Calment died in 1997 in the southern French town in which she was born, and her death drew a flurry of attention. At 122, an age that had been certified by the Guinness World Records as well as ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Two French scientists who validated Jeanne Calment's status as the oldest person ever to have lived, have dismissed claims by Russian researchers who say that she didn't really ...