Chikao Beppu, left, and Frances Berry Street, right, are two supercentenarians born on 28 March 1897. There is a slight issue with Street's birth month, as the 1900 census puts her birth month as "April" 1897, though March is the generally accepted birth month. The SSDI and other documents appear to prove the March birth month.
Beppu and Street hold the unofficial record for the longest time that two people born on the same day have lived - if the March birth month for Street is taken, that is. Even so, issues still remain with the exact day - Street may have been born as early as 23 March. The record surpasses the present validated total by one day, being with Toyo Endo of Japan and Camille Loiseau of France. Both were born on 13 February 1892, and Endo defined the record, passing away on 3 January 2005, aged 112 years, 325 days. Loiseau went on to live until 12 August 2006, dying at the age of 114 years, 180 days.
Chikao Beppu passed away in Kagoshima, Japan, on 17 February 2010, aged 112 years, 326 days. She was (and still remains) the 35th oldest Japanese ever.
Frances Street was unvalidated for quite some time, and information was hard to find over the Internet owing to the incidence of "Frances Street" being the name of an actual location. At one point until early 2010, she was the oldest living unverified supercentenarian under the age of 113. Her claimed birthdate, then, was still 28 March 1897.
Information appeared in 2010 that stated that Street was believed to have been only 101 years old, and her claim was discounted.
In the autumn of 2010, new revelations surfaced that Street may indeed have been 113 after all. By then, Street had passed away, on 24 August 2010, at the age of 113 years, 149 days. At one point she probably was the eighth-oldest living person in the world and the oldest living African-American, just three days in front of verified "equivalent" Mississippi Winn of Louisiana.
Family information previously missing was provided in Street's online obituaries, and was used in census matches to determine that Street may indeed have been 113 when she died.
Street, who lived at Grace Nursing Home in her last days, was born in Greenville County, South Carolina, and moved to Ashville, North Carolina, where she lived for most of her life. She worked as a practical nurse in life, and left two nieces, a nephew, and many other descendants upon her death.
She was buried on 28 August 2010 and is listed as a pending case on the GRG database.