These are the last remaoning people who were born in the 1800s.
Out of interest here are the people in the photo, from left-to-right top-to-bottom:
Jiroemon Kimura, M, Born 19 April 1897, Japanese
Misao Okawa, F, Born 5 March 1898, Japanese
Maria Redaelli-Granoli, F, Born 3 April 1899, Italian
Elsie Thompson, F, Born 5 April 1899, American
Jeralean Talley, F, Born 23 May 1899, American
Susannah Jones, F, Born 6 July 1899, American
Bernice Madigan, F, Born 24 July 1899, American
Soledad Mexia, F, Born 13 August 1899, American
Evelyn Kozak, F, Born 14 August 1899, American
Mitsue Nagasaki, F, Born 18 September 1899, Japanese
Emma Morano-Martinuzzi, F, Born 29 November 1899, Italian
Grace Jones, F, Born 7 December 1899, British
Some trivia:
The U.S. had forty five states when these people were born. They were children when the Ford Model T was introduced, teenagers when the Titanic sunk, in their 40s when World War II was raging, in their 50s when television was becoming widespread and in their 90s when cellphones and the internet were becoming widespread. All were over 100 on 9/11.
Grace Jones is one of the two last surviving subjects of Queen Victoria. Her 19-year old fiance was killed almost 100 years ago in World War I. She never married.
Susannah Jones was in her mid 50s when segregation ended in her native Alabama, and retired in the 1960s at the height of the civil rights movement.
Jiroemon Kimura farmed until the aged of 90. His wife died in 1978, he lives with his son's widow and his grandson's widow, and still has five surviving children. He has seen 4 emperors and 61 Prime Ministers during his life.
Two of Misao Okawa's three children are still living, both in their 90s.
