1896 - 2012
Besse Berry Cooper (née Brown; August 26, 1896 – December 4, 2012) was an American supercentenarian who was the world's oldest living person from June 21, 2011, until her death in 2012. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Besse Cooper has received more than 209,872 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Besse Cooper is the 7,651st most popular politician (up from 8,640th in 2019), the 2,674th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,195th in 2019) and the 167th most popular American Politician.
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Among politicians, Besse Cooper ranks 7,651 out of 15,577. Before her are Agum II, Margaret of Navarre, Hortensia Bussi, Mile Budak, Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, and Charles II, Duke of Brunswick. After her are Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, Sara Nazarbayeva, Željko Komšić, Vasily of Kostroma, Hassan Al-Turabi, and Giustiniano Participazio.
1700 BC - 1600 BC
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 7,645
1134 - 1182
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 7,646
1914 - 2009
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 7,647
1889 - 1945
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 7,648
1743 - 1787
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 7,649
1804 - 1873
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 7,650
1896 - 2012
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 7,651
1910 - 1975
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 7,652
1941 - Present
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 7,653
1964 - Present
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 7,654
1241 - 1276
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 7,655
1932 - 2016
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 7,656
800 - 829
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 7,657
Among people born in 1896, Besse Cooper ranks 96. Before her are Aspasia Manos, Jorge Alessandri, Wilhelm Ackermann, Mir Jafar Baghirov, Ivan Yefimovich Petrov, and D. R. Bendre. After her are Rudolf Schmundt, Ira Gershwin, Richard Thorpe, Fayzulla Khodzhayev, Pierre Jeanneret, and Zygmunt Berling. Among people deceased in 2012, Besse Cooper ranks 107. Before her are Dorothea Tanning, Ulric Neisser, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Kaneto Shindo, Andy Williams, and Angelo Dundee. After her are Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Miljan Miljanić, Maurice Sendak, Marcos Alonso, Anita Björk, and Estanislau Basora.
1896 - 1972
HPI: 55.50
Rank: 90
1896 - 1986
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 91
1896 - 1962
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 92
1896 - 1956
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 93
1896 - 1958
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 94
1896 - 1981
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 95
1896 - 2012
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 96
1896 - 1944
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 97
1896 - 1983
HPI: 54.88
Rank: 98
1896 - 1991
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 99
1896 - 1938
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 100
1896 - 1967
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 101
1896 - 1980
HPI: 54.22
Rank: 102
1910 - 2012
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 101
1928 - 2012
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 102
1913 - 2012
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 103
1912 - 2012
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 104
1927 - 2012
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 105
1921 - 2012
HPI: 55.05
Rank: 106
1896 - 2012
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 107
1935 - 2012
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 108
1930 - 2012
HPI: 54.81
Rank: 109
1928 - 2012
HPI: 54.80
Rank: 110
1933 - 2012
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 111
1923 - 2012
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 112
1926 - 2012
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 113
Among people born in United States, Besse Cooper ranks 2,674 out of 18,182. Before her are Joseph E. Johnston (1807), Tito Puente (1923), Philip Abelson (1913), Jeff Daniels (1955), Ben Bernanke (1953), and James M. Cain (1892). After her are Randy Rhoads (1956), Frank Miller (1957), Julie Newmar (1933), Cicely Tyson (1924), Mangas Coloradas (1792), and Carolyn Jones (1930).
1807 - 1891
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 2,668
1923 - 2000
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 2,669
1913 - 2004
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 2,670
1955 - Present
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 2,671
1953 - Present
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 2,672
1892 - 1977
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 2,673
1896 - 2012
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 2,674
1956 - 1982
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 2,675
1957 - Present
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 2,676
1933 - Present
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 2,677
1924 - 2021
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 2,678
1792 - 1863
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 2,679
1930 - 1983
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 2,680
Among politicians born in United States, Besse Cooper ranks 167. Before her are Charles W. Fairbanks (1852), Gall (1840), Jerome Powell (1953), Lew Wallace (1827), John Connally (1917), and John C. Calhoun (1782). After her are Mangas Coloradas (1792), Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891), Ronald Lauder (1944), Mike Pompeo (1963), Henry Wilson (1812), and Thomas R. Marshall (1854).
1852 - 1918
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 161
1840 - 1894
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 162
1953 - Present
HPI: 55.02
Rank: 163
1827 - 1905
HPI: 55.02
Rank: 164
1917 - 1993
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 165
1782 - 1850
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 166
1896 - 2012
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 167
1792 - 1863
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 168
1891 - 1967
HPI: 54.86
Rank: 169
1944 - Present
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 170
1963 - Present
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 171
1812 - 1875
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 172
1854 - 1925
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 173