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This is a list of the 100 longest lived state leaders, all born after 1800. Those alive are in bold italics. The list on wikipedia is here.

No. Name State Position Birth Death Age
Muhammad al-Muqri Morocco Grand Vizier (1912-1956) February 1851 9 September 1957 106 years, 201 days to 106 years, 228 days
1 Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum Cambodia Prime Minister (1962) 9 September 1905 22 January 2009 103 years, 135 days
2 Celal Bayar Turkey Prime Minister (1937 - 1939)

President (1950 - 1960)

16 May 1883 22 August 1986 103 years, 98 days
3 Antoine Pinay France Prime Minister (1952 - 1953) 30 December 1891 13 December 1994 102 years, 348 days
4 Kazi Lhendup Dorjee Sikkim Chief Minister (1974 - 1975) 11 October 1904 28 July 2007 102 years, 290 days
5 Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni Japan Prime Minister (1945) 3 December 1887 20 January 1990 102 years, 48 days
6 Willem Drees Netherlands Prime Minister (1948 - 1958) 5 July 1886 14 May 1988 101 years, 314 days
7 Zhang Qun China Premier (1947 - 1948) 9 May 1889 14 December 1990 101 years, 219 days
8 Anton Vratusa Slovenia UN Commissioner to S.W. Africa (1966 - 1967)
Yugoslavian Ambassador to the U.N. (1967 - 1969)
President of Executive Council (1978 - 1980)
21 February 1915 30 July 2017 102 years, 159 days
9 Piet de Jong Netherlands Prime Minister (1967 - 1971) 3 April 1915 27 July 2016 101 years, 115 days
10 Bernardino Gonzalez Ruiz Panama President (1963) 11 January 1911 15 March 2012 101 years, 64 days
11 Christopher Hornsrud Norway Prime Minister (1928) 15 November 1859 12 December 1960 101 years, 28 days
12 Hassan al-Hakim Syria Prime Minister (1941 - 1942; 1951) 1886 1988 101 years, 1 day to 102 years, 364 days
13 Telmo Vargas Ecuador Head of State (1966) 9 October 1912 9 August 2013 100 years, 304 days
14 Xenophon Zolotas Greece Prime Minister (1989 - 1990) 26 March 1904 10 June 2004 100 years, 76 days
15 Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein Somalia Interim President (1969) 1912 12 June 2012 100 years, 0 days to 100 years, 163 days
16 Hastings Banda Malawi Prime Minister (1964 - 1966)

President (1966 - 1994)

March/April 1898 25 November 1997 99 years, 270 days to 99 years, 297 days
17 Do Muoi Vietnam Prime Minister (1988 - 1991)

Communist General Secretary (1991 - 1997)

2 February 1917 Alive 0 days
18 Babiker Awadalla Sudan Prime Minister (1969) 2 March 1917 Alive 0 days
19 Johan Ferrier Suriname President (1975 - 1980) 12 May 1910 4 January 2010 99 years, 237 days
20 Gulzarilal Nanda India Prime Minister (1964; 1966) 4 July 1898 15 January 1998 99 years, 195 days
21 Anthony Mamo Malta President (1974 - 1976) 9 January 1909 1 May 2008 99 years, 113 days
22 Michail Stasionpoulos Greece President (1974 - 1975) 27 July 1903 31 October 2002 99 years, 96 days
23 Morarji Desai India Prime Minister (1977 - 1979) 29 February 1896 10 April 1995 99 years, 40 days
24 Abdul Salam Sabrah North Yemen Acting Prime Minister (1969; 1971) 1912 2012 99 years, 33 days to 100 years, 32 days
25 Vo Chi Cong Vietnam Chairman of the Council of State (1987 - 1992) 7 August 1912 8 September 2011 99 years, 32 days
26 Aden Abdullah Osman Daar Somalia President (1960 - 1967) 1908 8 June 2007 99 years, 17 days to 99 years, 158 days
27 Abdel Halim Muhammad Sudan Committee of Sovereignty Member (1964 - 1965) 10 April 1910 16 April 2009 99 years, 6 days
28 Censu Tabone Malta President (1989 - 1994) 30 March 1913 14 March 2012 98 years, 350 days
29 Emlie Reuter Luxembourg Prime Minister (1918 - 1925) 2 August 1874 14 February 1973 98 years, 257 days
30 Pierre Harmel Belgium Prime Minister (1965 - 1966) 16 March 1911 15 November 2009 98 years, 244 days
31 Joseph Paul-Boncour France Prime Minister (1932 - 1933) 4 August 1873 28 March 1972 98 years, 237 days
32 Isidro Ayora Ecuador President (1926 - 1931) 2 September 1879 22 March 1978 98 years, 201 days
33 Mamadou Dia Senegal Prime Minister (1960 - 1962) 18 July 1910 25 January 2009 98 years, 191 days
34 Yasuhiro Nakasone Japan Prime Minister (1982 - 1987) 27 May 1918 Alive 0 days
35 Nouhak Phoumsavanth Laos President (1992 - 1998) 9 April 1910 9 September 2008 98 years, 153 days
36 Borys Mykolaivych Martos Ukraine Chairman of Council of Ministers (1919) 20 May 1879 19 October 1977 98 years, 152 days
37 Emile Derlin Zinsou Dahomey President (1968 - 1969) 23 March 1918 28 July 2016 98 years, 127 days
38 Artur Gorgei Hungary Acting Governor- President (1849) 30 January 1818 21 May 1916 98 years, 107 days
39 Gough Whitlam Australia Prime Minister (1972 - 1975) 11 July 1916 21 October 2014 98 years, 101 days
40 Venceslau Bras Brazil President (1914 - 1918) 26 February 1868 15 May 1966 98 years, 79 days
41 Ramaswamy Venkataraman India President (1987 - 1992) 4 December 1910 27 January 2009 98 years, 54 days
42 Dezso Pattantyus-Abraham Hungary Prime Minister (1919) 10 July 1875 25 July 1973 98 years, 15 days
43 Gabriel Paris Gordillo Colombia President (1957 - 1958) 8 March 1910 21 March 2008 98 years, 13 days
44 Konstantinos Mitsotakis Greece Prime Minister (1990 - 1993) 18 October 1918 Alive 0 days
45 Emile Flach Monaco Minister of State (1911 - 1917) 1860 1959 98 years, 1 day to 98 years, 364 days
46 Kenan Evren Turkey National Security Council President (1980 - 1982)

President (1982 - 1989)

17 July 1917 9 May 2015 97 years, 296 days
47 Wellington Koo China Acting Premier (1924)

Acting President (1926 - 1927)

29 January 1888 14 November 1985 97 years, 289 days
48 Baron Ignaz von Plener Cisleithania (Austria-Hungary) Minister-President (1870) 21 May 1810 17 February 1908 97 years, 272 days
49 Federico Paez Ecuador Acting President (1935 - 1937) 6 June 1876 1974 97 years, 209 days to 98 years, 208 days
50 Ramon Jose Velasquez Venezuela Interim President (1993 - 1994) 28 November 1916 24 June 2014 97 years, 208 days
51 He Yingqin China Premier (1949) 2 April 1890 21 October 1987 97 years, 202 days
52 Mohammed Karim Lamrani Morocco Prime Minister (1971 - 1972; 1983 - 1986; 1992 - 1994) 1 May 1919 Alive 0 days
53 Alfredo Solf y Muro Peru Prime Minister (1939 - 1944) 15 March 1872 14 August 1969 97 years, 152 days
54 Patricio Aylwin Chile President (1990 - 1994) 26 November 1918 19 April 2016 97 years, 145 days
55 Armando Villanueva Peru Prime Minister (1988 - 1989) 25 November 1915 14 April 2013 97 years, 140 days
56 Ion Gheorghe Maurer Romania Assembly Presidium Chairman (1958 - 1961)

Acting State Council President (1965)

Prime Minister (1961 - 1974)

23 September 1902 8 February 2000 97 years, 138 days
57 Martial Celestin Haiti Prime Minister (1988) 4 October 1913 4 February 2011 97 years, 123 days
58 Walter Scheel West Germany Acting Chancellor (1974)

President (1974 - 1979)

8 July 1919 Alive 0 days
59 Hau Pei-tsun Taiwan Premier (1990 - 1993) 13 July 1919 Alive 0 days
60 Gheorghe Apostol Romania Communist General Secretary (1954 - 1955) 16 May 1913 21 August 2010 97 years, 97 days
61 Nguyen Van Tam South Vietnam Prime Minister (1952 - 1953) 1893 23 November 1990 97 years, 0 days to 97 years, 325 days
62 Konstantinos Kollias Greece Prime Minister (1967) 1901 13 July 1998 97 years, 0 days to 97 years, 193 days
63 Helmut Schmidt West Germany Chancellor (1974 - 1982) 23 December 1918 10 November 2015 96 years, 322 days
64 Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte Vatican City Acting Sovereign (1939) 10 April 1851 16 February 1948 96 years, 312 days
65 Khertek Anchimaa-Toka Tuva Chair of Presidium (1940 - 1944) 1 January 1912 4 November 2008 96 years, 308 days
66 Javier Perez de Cuellar Peru Prime Minister (2000 - 2001) 19 January 1920 Alive 0 days
67 Camille Huysmans Belgium Prime Minister (1946 - 1947) 26 May 1871 23 February 1968 96 years, 273 days
68 Yitzhak Shamir Israel Prime Minister (1983 - 1984; 1986 - 1992) 22 October 1915 30 June 2012 96 years, 252 days
69 Habib Bourguiba Tunisia Prime Minister (1956 - 1957)

President (1957 - 1987)

3 August 1903 6 April 2000 96 years, 246 days
70 Vyacheslav Molotov Soviet Union Premier (1930 - 1941) 9 March 1890 8 November 1986 96 years, 244 days
71 Josip Manolic Croatia Prime Minister (1990 - 1991) 22 March 1920 Alive 0 days
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73 Cesareo Octavio Deustua Escarza Peru Prime Minister (1902) 22 March 1849 6 August 1945 96 years, 137 days
74 Pedro Lascurain Mexico Acting President (1913) 8 May 1856 21 July 1952 96 years, 74 days
75 Federico Chavez Paraguay President (1949 - 1954) 15 February 1882 24 April 1978 96 years, 68 days
76 Ebrahim Hakimi Iran Prime Minister (1945; 1945 - 1946; 1947 - 1948) 15 August 1863 19 October 1959 96 years, 65 days
77 Prem Tinsulanonda Thailand Prime Minister (1980 - 1988)

Regent (2016 - Present)

26 August 1920 Alive 0 days
78 Fumio Goto Japan Acting Prime Minister (1936) 7 March 1884 1 May 1980 96 years, 55 days
79 Mario Echandi Jimenez Costa Rica President (1958 - 1962) 17 June 1915 30 July 2011 96 years, 42 days
80 Joao Lins Cansancao, Viscount of Sinimbu Brazil Prime Minister (1878 - 1880) 20 November 1810 27 December 1906 96 years, 37 days
81 Tun Tin Burma Prime Minister (1988) 2 October 1920 Alive 0 days
82 Dom Mintoff Malta Prime Minister (1955 - 1958; 1971 - 1984) 6 August 1916 20 August 2012 96 years, 14 days
83 Hans Schaffner Switzerland Federal Council Member (1961 - 1969)

President (1966)

16 December 1908 26 November 2004 95 years, 346 days
84 Le Duc Anh Vietnam President (1992 - 1997) 1 December 1920 Alive 0 days
85 Joaquin Balaguer Dominican Republic President (1960 - 1962; 1966 - 1978; 1986 - 1996) 1 September 1906 14 July 2002 95 years, 316 days
86 Tomas Romero Pereira Paraguay Provisional President (1954) 4 October 1886 12 August 1982 95 years, 312 days
87 Pedro Richter Prada Peru Prime Minister (1979 - 1980) 4 January 1921 Alive 0 days
88 Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg Luxembourg Grand Duke (1964 - 2000) 5 January 1921 Alive 0 days
89 Mohsen Sadr Iran Prime Minister (1945) 1866 19 October 1962 95 years, 292 days to 96 years 291 days
90 Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Italy Prime Minister (1993 - 1994)

President (1999 - 2006)

9 December 1920 16 September 2016 95 years, 282 days
91 Fred Degazon Dominica President (1979 - 1980) 4 January 1913 4 October 2008 95 years, 274 days
92 Juan Jose Estrada Nicaragua President (1910 - 1911) 1 January 1872 11 July 1967 95 years, 191 days
93 Pote Sarasin Thailand Prime Minister (1957) 25 March 1905 28 September 2000 95 years, 187 days
94 Antonio Imbert Barrera Dominican Republic President (1965) 3 December 1920 31 May 2016 95 years, 182 days
95 Tahar Ben Anmar Tunisia Prime Minister (1956) 25 November 1889 10 May 1985 95 years, 166 days
96 Roberto M. Levingston Argentina President (1970 - 1971/ 19 January 1920 17 June 2015 95 years, 149 days
97 Nelson Mandela South Africa President (1994 - 1999) 18 July 1918 5 December 2013 95 years, 140 days
98 Paal Berg Norway Acting Head of State (1945) 18 January 1873 24 May 1968 95 years, 126 days
99 Ahmed Ben Bella Algeria President (1963 - 1965) 25 December 1916 11 April 2012 95 years, 108 days
100 Philippe Petain France Prime Minister (1940)

Chief of State (1940 - 1944)

24 April 1856 23 July 1951 95 years, 90 days
101 Leopold Sedar Senghor Senegal President (1960 - 1980) 9 October 1906 20 December 2001 95 years, 72 days
102 Petar Stambolic Yugoslavia Prime Minister (1963 - 1967)

President (1982 - 1983)

12 July 1912 21 September 2007 95 years, 71 days
103 Anibal Portillo El Salvador Civic-Military Directory Member (1961 - 1962) 20 December 1914 15 February 2010 95 years, 57 days
104 Pak Song-chol North Korea Premier (1976 - 1977) 2 September 1913 28 October 2008 95 years, 56 days
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