Jeanne Calment

1920 advertisement for the Thor electric washing machine.

01Biko was transported naked, shackled, and comatose in the back of a Land Rover for 900 kilometres from Port Elizabeth to Pretoria.
02The district surgeon who examined Biko before the drive certified him fit for transport; that surgeon, Ivor Lang, was never criminally charged.
03Biko died at 30 years old, 26 days after his arrest; his death triggered an international arms embargo against South Africa.

At 13, Jeanne Calment sold colored pencils to Vincent van Gogh in her father's shop. She died 122 years later — the oldest verified human — having outlived him by a full century.