{"id":"bir-narayan-chaudhary","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bir-narayan-chaudhary","language":"en","name":"Bir Narayan Chaudhary","name_en":"Bir Narayan Chaudhary","name_ne":"वीर नारायण चौधरी","description":"Nepalian supercentenarian, claimed oldest person ever","headline":"Nepalian supercentenarian, claimed oldest person ever","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Bir Narayan Majhi Chaudhari (Nepali: वीर नारायण चौधरी; 1856? – 20 April 1998) was a Nepali man who claimed to be the oldest person ever. He died at the self-professed age of 141. Bir was unable to substantiate his longevity claims with documentation, and since he did not have a birth certificate The Guinness Book of Records did not identify him as the oldest person in the world.","summary_more":["According to Bir he was born in 1856, the son of a landowner. A cattle rancher in the village of Khanar, near Kathmandu, Chaudhari was purportedly a leader of the first land survey team in the area, conducted in 1888. A smoker throughout his later life, Chaudhari rose to prominence in the mid-1990s when Nepalese television and press began reporting on his claimed advanced age. In 1997, he was honored by Nepal's king Birendra.","Chaudhari had a son and a daughter with his first wife, both of whom predeceased him, and a daughter with his second wife. At the time of his death, in 1998, he had four grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1857","date":"1857"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11854281#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11854281#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"20 April 1998","date":"1998-04-20"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11854281#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Khanar","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3415948","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/khanar"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11854281#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11854281#P27"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Narayan_Chaudhary","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A3_%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11854281"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Bir Narayan Chaudhary born?","a":"Bir Narayan Chaudhary was born on 1857 in Nepal."}],"related":[{"name":"Anushka Shrestha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/anushka-shrestha"},{"name":"Tilak Ram Tharu","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/tilak-ram-tharu"},{"name":"Ramsharan Darnal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ramsharan-darnal"},{"name":"Sony Rana","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/sony-rana"},{"name":"Basanti Kumal Chaudhari","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/basanti-kumal-chaudhari"},{"name":"Krishna Mohan Shrestha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/krishna-mohan-shrestha"},{"name":"Samita Bajracharya","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/samita-bajracharya"},{"name":"Shailesh Thapa Chhetri","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/shailesh-thapa-chhetri"},{"name":"शिवराज आचार्य कौण्डिन्न्यायन","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/da39a3ee5e6b"},{"name":"Bhanbhagta Gurung","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bhanbhagta-gurung"},{"name":"Dhirendra Premarshi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dhirendra-premarshi"},{"name":"Nilkantha Upreti","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/nilkantha-upreti"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":null,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Bir Narayan Chaudhary","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Narayan_Chaudhary","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): वीर नारायण चौधरी","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A3_%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q11854281","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11854281","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Bir Narayan Chaudhary, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0).","cite":"\"Bir Narayan Chaudhary\". DigiNepal. Last updated 1 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/bir-narayan-chaudhary. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-01T06:59:19Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/bir-narayan-chaudhary","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/bir-narayan-chaudhary","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/bir-narayan-chaudhary?lang=ne"}}