This is a list of people reported to have fathered a child at or after 75 years of age. Most of these have not necessarily been verified.
Medical considerations 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. 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.
List of claims
Date Name Age Country Notes and citation(s) January 1951 101 yearsSmith's age was disputed. He claimed to have been born in 1849 or even March 16, 1848, but other records suggested he may have been 15 years younger. He supposedly also had twins in 1948, when he was 99. 1948 99 years October 5, 2012 96 yearsRaghav claimed to have become the world's oldest father at the age of 94 when his first child was born in 2010. He claimed to have broken his own record in 2012 by having a son at 96. 2010 94 years July 1992 92 years February 2017 92 years 1978 or 1979 91 or 92 years July 26, 2006 91 years Posthumous birth Ruth Iglesias, his fourth child and only daughter, was born 7 months after her father died and the day after what would have been his 91st birthday. He was also the father of Julio Iglesias and grandfather of Enrique Iglesias, both singers. July 1, 2020 89 years Ecclestone is the former head of Formula One motor racing. He previously had daughters in 1955, 1984, and 1988; his younger two daughters, Tamara and Petra respectively, are both socialites. His youngest child, Ace, is his only son. May 28, 2010 89 years October 1988 88 years Jimmie became the father of his fifth child, Roger, in the month of October 1988. Jimmie was 88 years old when his last child was born. March 10, 2024 Tzvi Kushelevsky 88 years December 23, 1921 Husein-beg Čengić-Zulfikarpašić 87 years Father of vice president of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Adil Zulfikarpašić, Čengić-Zulfikarpašić was the mayor of Foča for 25 years after the Austrian-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, a landowner, an intellectual, the son of Ali-beg Čengić and a grandson of Zulfikar Pasha Čengić. Husein died in 1936 aged 102 or 104 years when Adil was 15. 27 May 1886William Price 86 years 1884 84 years 1883 83 years 1933Mose Triplett 86 yearsFather of Irene Triplett, the last surviving recipient of an American Civil War pension. January 9, 1930 83 years January 31, 2002 Ernest Lehman 86 years August 6, 2025 Anatoly Kashpirovsky 85 years Russian psychotherapist. His third child, daughter Ellina, was born 5 days before his 86th birthday. July 23, 2016 Kostas Voutsas 85 years August 1, 2013 Edwin Edwards 85 years December 23, 1999 84 years 1999 or 2000Major McDonald84 years October 30, 2023Jack White 83 years Jack White was the artist name of Horst Nussbaum. He was a German music producer with worldwide hits such as "Gloria" and "Self Control" by Laura Branigan. 2017 83 years Matilda is the second child of actor Itzhak Fintzi, first with director Lisa Boeva. June 22, 2018 83 years June 15, 2023 83 years American actor and filmmaker. September 17, 2019 82 years His wife Erramatti herself holds the record of oldest mother to ever give birth to a child. September 16, 2021Alberto Cormillot 82 years April 28, 2016 81 years July 5, 1996 81 years April 2000 80 years December 16, 1885 80 years 80 years Gaia Young suddenly died in 2021 at the age of 25. June 30, 2026 80 years South African musician and songwriter. May 11, 2024 Horst-Dieter Esch 80 years August 20, 1904 80 years August 2014Endre Czeizel79 years May 9, 2023 79 years April 19? 2016 79 years 2019 79 years June 15, 1998 78 years April 1997 77 years 2010 78 years 2004 78 years Had twins. 2025 78 years June 12, 1999 Stanley Ho 77 years 1998 77 years June 27, 2008 77 years Had twins. November 23, 2009 77 years April 19, 2020 77 years Had twins after four IVF attempts. January 1931 77 yearsLyon's second son Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928. Lyon was the son of US President John Tyler. His last son, Henry Tyler, was born in January 1931 when he was 77, but the boy died at more than a week old. 1928 75 years 2010 76 years December 2009 76 years 2010 76 years 1870 75 years Father of Albert Fish.
See also Pregnancy over age 50 List of oldest mothers List of youngest parents List of people with the most children List of multiple births Genealogies of Genesis including multiple accounts of super-aged fathers
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