This is a list of persons reported to have become father of a child at or after 75 years of age. These claims have not necessarily been verified.
According to a 1969 study, there is a decrease in sperm concentration as men age. The study reported that 90% of seminiferous tubules in men in their 20s and 30s contained spermatids, whereas men in their 40s and 50s had spermatids in 50% of their seminiferous tubules. In the study, only 10% of seminiferous tubules from men aged > 80 years contained spermatids.[1][2] In a random international sample of 11,548 men confirmed to be biological fathers by DNA paternity testing, the oldest father was found to be 66 years old at the birth of his child; the ratio of DNA-confirmed versus DNA-rejected paternity tests around that age is in agreement with the notion of general male infertility greater than age 65-66.[3][4]
Date | Father | Age | Mother | Age | Country | Notes and citation(s) | Age difference in years between parents |
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January 1951 | James E. Smith | 101 years | Anna, his wife | 38 | United States | Smith's age was disputed. He claimed to have been born in 1849[5] or even March 16, 1848,[6] but other records suggested he may have been 15 years younger.[7][5] They supposedly also had twins in 1948, when he was 99.[5] | 63 |
October 5, 2012 | Ramjit Raghav | 96 years | Shakuntala Devi, his wife | 52 | India | Raghav became the world's oldest father at the age of 94 when his first child was born in 2010.[8] He broke his own record in 2012 when, at the age of 96, he had another son.[9] | 44 |
1930s | (Name unknown) | 94 years | (name unknown) | - | United States | "Records of the American Medical association of Chicago show a 94-year old man fathered a child in the 1930s"[6] | |
February 14, 2019 | (Name unknown) | 93 years | (Name unknown), his wife | 42 | Italy | [10] | 51 |
July 1992 | Les Colley | 92 years | Patty, his wife | 38 | Australia | [11][12] | 54 |
February 2017 | Mahmoud Adam | 92 years | (Name unknown), his wife | 42 | Palestine | [13] | 50 |
1978 or 1979 | Zvonimir Rogoz | 91 or 92 years | Akata (or Agata) Kopčić | 35 or 36 | Croatia | [14] | 56 |
July 26, 2006 | Julio Iglesias Sr. | 90 years | Ronna Keith, his wife | 42 | Spain | Posthumous birth[15] | 48 |
July 1, 2020 | Bernie Ecclestone | 89 years | Fabiana Flosi, his third wife | 44 | United Kingdom | Ecclestone is the former head of Formula One motor racing; he previously had daughters in 1955, 1984, and 1988. His youngest child, Ace, is his first son.[16] | 45 |
May 28, 2010 | Armais Nazarov | 89 years | Yevgenia, his wife | 34 | Russia | [17] | 55 |
March 10, 2024 | Tzvi Kushelevsky | 88 years | Rachel Danieli, his second wife | 56 | Israel | [18][19] | 32 |
2017 | (Name unknown) | 88 years | (Name unknown) | 36 | Austria | [20] | 52 |
1933 | Mose Triplett | 86 years | Elida Hall, his second wife | United States | Brother of Irene Triplett, the last surviving recipient of an American Civil War pension[21] | c. 50 | |
153 BCE | Masinissa | 86 years | Not mentioned | Numidia | As recorded by Livy, Pliny, Polybius and Plutarch. The son is Methimannus. | Unknown/uncertain | |
January 31, 2002 | Ernest Lehman | 86 years | Laurie Sherman, his second wife | 35 | United States | [22] | 51 |
July 23, 2016 | Kostas Voutsas | 85 years | Aliki Katsavou, his fourth wife | 45 | Greece | [23] | 40 |
August 1, 2013 | Edwin Edwards | 85 years | Trina Grimes Scott, his third wife | 34 | United States | [24] | 51 |
December 23, 1999 | Saul Bellow | 84 years | Janis Freedman, his wife | 41 | United States | [25] | 43 |
October 30, 2023 | Jack White | 83 years | Rafaella, his wife | 38 | Germany | Jack White is the artist name of Horst Nussbaum. He is a German music producer with worldwide hits such as Gloria and Self Control by Laura Branigan.[26] | 45 |
2017 | Itzhak Fintzi | 83 years | Lisa Boeva, his wife | 38 | Bulgaria | Matilda is the second child of actor Itzhak Fintzi, first with director Lisa Boeva.[27] | 46 |
June 22, 2018 | Horst Paulmann | 83 years | Katherine Bischof, his secretary | 43 | Chile | [28] | 40 |
June 15, 2023 | Al Pacino | 83 years | Noor Alfallah, his girlfriend | 29 | United States | [29] | 53 |
August 10, 1982 | John Hayes | 82 years | Denise Ramsden | 30 | United Kingdom | 52 | |
September 17, 2019 | Sitarama Rajarao | 82 years | Erramatti Mangamma, his wife | 73 | India | His wife Erramatti herself holds the record of oldest mother to ever give birth to a child.[30] | 9 |
April 28, 2016 | Pehr G. Gyllenhammar | 81 years | Lee Welton Croll, his wife | 42 | Sweden | [31] | 39 |
July 5, 1996 | Anthony Quinn | 81 years | Katherine Benvin, his secretary | 32 | United States | [32] | 49 |
April 2000 | James Doohan | 80 years | Wende Braunberger, his third wife | 42 | United States | [33][34] | 38 |
1996 | Michael Young | 80 years | Dorit Uhlemann, his wife | 37 | United Kingdom | [35][36] | 43 |
August 20, 1904 | Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet | 80 years | Marguerite Miles, his second wife | 36 | United Kingdom | [37] | 44 |
May 9, 2023 | Robert De Niro | 79 years | Tiffany Chen, his girlfriend | 45 | United States | [38] | 34 |
April 19? 2016 | Mohinder Singh Gill | 79 years | Daljinder Kaur Gill, his wife | 72 | India | [39] | 7 |
2019 | Emmanuil Vitorgan | 79 years | Irina Mlodik, his wife | 57 | Russia | [40] | 22 |
June 15, 1998 | Tony Randall | 78 years | Heather Harlan, his wife | 28 | United States | [41] The couple also had a child in April 1997, when he was 77.[42] | 50 |
2010 | Albert Corscaden | 78 years | Jade, his wife | 37 | Ireland | [43] | 41 |
2004 | Mark Taimanov | 78 years | Nadezhda Bakhtina, his wife | Russia | Had twins. Chess grandmaster and concert pianist.[44] | Unknown | |
August 21, 1893 | Ernest Boulanger | 77 years | Raissa Mychetsky (Mychetskaya), his wife | 36 | France | Composer and conductor. His daughter Lili, who also became a composer, was born on that date. He turned 72 when Lili's sister, Nadia, who also became a conductor, was also born. | 41 |
May 22, 1970 | Andres Segovia | 77 years | Emilia Magdalena Corral Sancho, his wife | Spain | Carlos Andres Segovia was born on this date (sources differ on mother Emilia's age) | ||
June 12, 1999 | Stanley Ho | 77 years | Angela Leong, his girlfriend | 38 | Macau | [45][46] | 39 |
1998 | Luiz Da Costa Silva | 77 years | Maria, Ozelita, Francisca | Brazil | [47] | Unknown | |
June 27, 2008 | Charan Singh Panwar | 77 years | Omkari Panwar, his wife | 70 | India | Had twins.[48] | 7 |
November 23, 2009 | Ning Jianyou | 77 years | Xiao Wen, his wife | 40 | China | [49] | 37 |
April 19, 2020 | Noah Adenuga | 77 years | Margaret Adenuga, his wife | 68 | Nigeria | Had twins after four IVF attempts.[50] | 9 |
Mubarak Al-Sabah | 76 years | Kuwait | |||||
2010 | Barry Stephenson | 76 years | Yaqueline, his wife | 36 | United Kingdom | [51] | 40 |
December 2009 | Dennis Ealam | 76 years | Cora Ealam, his wife | 42 | United Kingdom | [52] | 34 |
2010 | Vidas Antonovas | 76 years | Rima Antonoviene, his wife | 36 | Lithuania | [53] | 40 |
1928 | Lyon Tyler | 75 years | Sue Ruffin, his wife | 46 | United States | Lyon's second son Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928. Lyon was the son of US President John Tyler.[54] | 29 |
Ицко Финци има и син – известния актьор Самуел Финци, роден от брака с първата му съпруга – пианистката Гина Табакова.
Lyon also had a very young second wife, and was 75 years old when Harrison Tyler was born in 1928.