Christian Mortensen
Aside from being the oldest living man at the time of his death, to this day, he remains the oldest living Nordic-born person. Christian died at age 115 years, 253 days in April 1998. He was also the oldest immigrant in America until Dina Manfredini outlived him by a couple of days. He was born in Skaarup, Denmark in 1882 and he moved to the USA in 1903.
He was said to be married for a short while and he never had any children. He was also reportedly known as a feisty man till his final years; In fact, he was angered to find out that he couldn’t get the title of the oldest person because of Marie Meilleur and Sarah Knauss. He lived his final years at Alderley Retirement Community in San Rafael where he had arrived by tricycle in 1978.