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Oldest living person title disputed after Calment death
After Jeanne Calment's death in Arles, competing claims arise. Pensacola nursing home touts its oldest patient for an Aug 15 party while Guinness downgrades Agusta Watts for lack of adequate proof, leaving San Rafael frail elder Christian Mortensen as a leading claimant with documented Danish birth in 1882. He will turn 115 on Aug 16 and remains active at Alderlyn Retirement Community.
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Jeanne Calment
Arles
France
Pensacola
Fla
Guinness Book of Records
Agusta Watts
Christian Mortensen
Mortensen
Watts
University of California, Berkeley
John Wilmoth
Denmark
United States
New York
Ellis Island
Wilmoth
Aldersly
Calment