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Jeralean Talley

1899 - 2015

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Jeralean Talley (née Kurtz; May 23, 1899 – June 17, 2015) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jeralean Talley is the 2,022nd most popular religious figure (up from 2,127th in 2019), the 4,164th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,407th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Jeralean Talley ranks 2,022 out of 3,187. Before her are Cuthbert, Taisen Deshimaru, Anatolius of Laodicea, Bernward of Hildesheim, Josef Beran, and Eugenios Voulgaris. After her are Baba Sali, Richard of Chichester, Saint Pothinus, Melchior Grodziecki, Pietro Ottoboni, and Photius II of Constantinople.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Jeralean Talley ranks 140. Before her are Lonnie Johnson, Aleksander Zawadzki, Carlos Chávez, Anni Albers, Rufino Tamayo, and Susannah Mushatt Jones. After her are S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Qu Qiubai, Alexander Tcherepnin, Aleksander Klumberg, Robert Casadesus, and Semyon Krivoshein. Among people deceased in 2015, Jeralean Talley ranks 158. Before her are Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Mile Mrkšić, Ján Chryzostom Korec, Eileen Essell, Judith Malina, and Elena Obraztsova. After her are Nicholas Liverpool, Giovanni Canestri, Wim Ruska, Nek Chand, Erik De Vlaeminck, and Percy Sledge.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jeralean Talley ranks 4,164 out of 20,380. Before her are Letitia Christian Tyler (1790), Dan Blocker (1928), Lucretia Mott (1793), Patty Duke (1946), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961), and Eric Betzig (1960). After her are Link Wray (1929), Jerry Siegel (1914), Juliette Lewis (1973), Gloria Grahame (1923), Henry Armstrong (1912), and Samuel Jones (1880).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Jeralean Talley ranks 41. Before her are James Gibbons (1834), William Wakefield Baum (1926), Marie Laveau (1801), Raymond Franz (1922), James Michael Harvey (1949), and Fulton J. Sheen (1895). After her are Angelo Dundee (1921), Ellen Church (1904), Charles Fox Parham (1873), William J. Seymour (1870), Dwight L. Moody (1837), and Bill W. (1895).

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