High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Breuning (September 21, 1896 – April 14, 2011) was an American supercentenarian. He was the last known surviving man who was born in 1896. Breuning is the oldest undisputed American-born man on record. He was the last verified American man born in the 19th Century. At the time of his death, Breuning was the third oldest undisputed man ever, and one of the 50 undisputed oldest people ever. He remains one of only six verified and undisputed men to have reached age 114.