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Centenarian Billionaires
Billionaire movie producer Sir Run Run Shaw, born in Ningbo, near Shanghai, China, as Shao Ren Leng, died in Hong Kong on 7 January 2014 at a reported age of 106. Sir Shaw’s birthday has always been clouded in mystery: based on an unverified reported month and year of birth of November 1907, this pioneer of the 20th-century Chinese film industry would have been at least 106 years 38 days at the time of his passing. During his career, Sir Shaw had credits on some 360 films, ranging from martial-arts classics to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner.
The oldest billionaire whose age can be verified is David Rockefeller Sr. (USA, b. 12 June 1915), who, according to Forbes, at the time of his death on 20 March 2017 aged 101 years 281 days had a net worth of $3.3 billion (£2.4 billion), making him the world’s longest-surviving verified billionaire. David Rockefeller Sr. was the last surviving grandson of oil baron John D. Rockefeller, often referred to as the first billionaire.
The second-oldest billionaire whose age can be verified is industrialist and philanthropist Walter Haefner (Switzerland, b. 13 September 1910; d. 19 June 2012), whose net worth was $4.3 billion (£2.7 billion) in March 2012 according to Forbes. Mr Haefner lived to be 101 years 280 days old, meaning that David Rockefeller took the record by just one day.
