Jeanne Calment, The oldest grandpa to ever live

Topping all the lists at an incredible 122 years and 165 days old is French supercentenarian and the longest living person in the world, Jeanne Calment of Arles, France. Calment was born on February 21, 1875 and spent her entire life in Arles where she even met artist Vincent van Gogh on his search to buy canvas from her uncle’s shop in 1888. Although, according to Calment, van Gogh was nothing special as he was “dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable.”

By 1896, the 21-year-old Calment married her double second cousin, Fernand Calment, whose wealth allowed her to live a life of leisure. Widowed by 1942 when Fernand died from food poisoning at the age of 73, Calment had already buried her only daughter and was left to raise her grandson who died in 1963 at 36 years old. Left with no heirs and a legacy larger than life, Calment lived on her own until the age of 110 and later became the oldest person to appear in a movie at 114 years old. On August 4, 1997, Calment passed away of natural causes leaving her title as the world’s oldest living person to the 116-year old Marie-Louise Meilleur.