--- title: Guinness World Records: Oldest Male Twins Turn 104 description: The world's oldest living male twins, who still live together in a nursing home in Belgium, celebrated their 104th birthdays canonical: https://time.com/4850378/pierre-paul-langerock-worlds-oldest-living-male-twins-birthday/ author: Aric Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-08T16:19:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:57:53.512Z og:title: The World's Oldest-Living Male Twins Just Turned 104 og:description: Happy birthday! og:url: https://time.com/4850378/pierre-paul-langerock-worlds-oldest-living-male-twins-birthday/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9633bdff48b6fdf8/6988d4fefb4eac4b95892d3d/worlds-oldest-twins.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The world's oldest living twin brothers, Paulus and Pieter Langerock from Belgium, 102, toast with a glass of red wine at the Ter Venne retirement home in Sint-Martens-Latem og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The World's Oldest-Living Male Twins Just Turned 104 twitter:description: Happy birthday! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9633bdff48b6fdf8/6988d4fefb4eac4b95892d3d/worlds-oldest-twins.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The World's Oldest-Living Male Twins Just Turned 104 by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Jul 8, 2017 4:19 PM UTC  The world's oldest living twin brothers, Paulus (L) and Pieter Langerock from Belgium, 102, toast with a glass of red wine at the Ter Venne retirement home in Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium, July 4, 2016. The world's oldest living twin brothers, Paulus (L) and Pieter Langerock from Belgium, 102, toast with a glass of red wine at the Ter Venne retirement home in Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium, July 4, 2016.Francois Lenoir—REUTERS by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Jul 8, 2017 4:19 PM UTC The world’s oldest-living male [twins](http://time.com/4839138/diddy-jay-z-twins-parenting-advice/) celebrated a milestone birthday Saturday. Pierre and Paul Langerock of [Belgium](http://time.com/4707414/belgium-airport-terror-attack/) — who currently hold the record for oldest living male twins, according to the [Guinness World Records](http://time.com/4483079/guinness-world-records-2017-weirdest/) — turned 104. The centenarian brothers have lived together most of their lives and both made a living as court magistrates, according to the Associated Press. They currently still share a room at a nursing room just outside of the Belgian city of Ghent. They both remained unmarried throughout their lives “because they always disapproved of each other’s potential partners,” the AP reported. The Langerock brothers revealed last year that they do have some regrets about not having children, or grandchildren, but said they’re happy to have each other as best friends, according to [Reuters](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/08/worlds-oldest-male-twins-belgium-103-pieter-paulus-langerock). The Langerocks have just under two years to go before they can clinch the world record for the oldest male twins. Glen and Dale Moyer, of the U.S., currently hold the record, who each were alive for at least 105 years before Glen passed away. The overall world record for oldest twins ever is held by sisters Kin Narita and Gin Kanie, of Japan, who each lived to be at least 107 before Kin’s death in 2000. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4850378/pierre-paul-langerock-worlds-oldest-living-male-twins-birthday/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4850378/pierre-paul-langerock-worlds-oldest-living-male-twins-birthday/"},"headline":"The World's Oldest-Living Male Twins Just Turned 104","datePublished":"2017-07-08T16:19:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:57:53.512Z","description":"The brothers still live together","url":"https://time.com/4850378/pierre-paul-langerock-worlds-oldest-living-male-twins-birthday/","keywords":["Living","guinness world records","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9633bdff48b6fdf8/6988d4fefb4eac4b95892d3d/worlds-oldest-twins.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Aric Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9633bdff48b6fdf8/6988d4fefb4eac4b95892d3d/worlds-oldest-twins.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The world's oldest living twin brothers, Paulus and Pieter Langerock from Belgium, 102, toast with a glass of red wine at the Ter Venne retirement home in Sint-Martens-Latem","caption":"The world's oldest living twin brothers, Paulus and Pieter Langerock from Belgium, 102, toast with a glass of red wine at the Ter Venne retirement home in Sint-Martens-Latem","creditText":"Francois Lenoir—REUTERS","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4850378/pierre-paul-langerock-worlds-oldest-living-male-twins-birthday/","name":"The World's Oldest-Living Male Twins Just Turned 104"}}]}] ```