The oldest famous person

When Betty White died, someone pointed out that Henry Kissinger is now the oldest famous person. Before Betty White, I think it was Beverly Cleary. Who was the oldest famous person before that? I don’t know, but we should be able to put together a string of them, going back in time to the dawn of history.

Someone with good programming chops could take a first crack at this by scraping Wikipedia, I guess.

Yes, I understand that “famous person” is not precisely defined, lots of people outside the U.S. have never heard of various people, etc. I get it. It’s still an interesting question to me, for some reason.

P.S. I was gonna put this one on 6-month delay, but who knows how long the famous socialite / war criminal (as Spy called him) will stay alive? So safest to just get it out there right away.

P.P.S. When I say “famous,” I mean famous famous, not just someone who happened to live to 100 and had an interesting enough life to get a NYT obituary.