4. Marie – Louise Meilleur

This French-Canadian supercentenarian was born on August 29, 1880 and died on April 16, 1998, meaning that she lived for a total of 117 years, 230 days! She is recorded as being the 4th oldest person to have ever lived on earth. She has lived quite the life – even smoking tobacco till she was in her 90s! She had also been married twice and has a total of 10 children, two of whom she abandoned after the death of her first husband. She died due to a blood clot after an adventurous existence.