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{{Infobox person
|name        = Carl Berner
|caption     = Berner in 2004
|birth_name  = Carl James Berner
|birth_date  = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1902|1|27}}
|birth_place = [[Stuttgart]], [[Kingdom of Württemberg|Württemberg]], Germany
|death_date  = {{death date|mf=yes|2013|1|7}}<br/>(aged {{Age in years and days|1902|1|27|2013|1|7}})
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Berner emigrated to [[New York City]] in 1929 at age 27. He was married to Margaret Berner from 1936 until her death in 1987, and had the daughter Emily Berner. Berner died of natural causes at his home in [[Middle Village, Queens|Middle Village]], [[Queens]], [[New York]], on January 7, 2013, just twenty days before his 111th birthday
,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/carl-berner-queens-civic-leader-dies-110-article-1.1235859 |title=Carl Berner, Queens supercentenarian and civic leader, dies at 110 |publisher=Daily News |access-date=January 8, 2013}}</ref>, and was at the time of his death the third-oldest living Americanman as well as the fourth-oldest living North American man behind Barbadian [[James Sisnett]], Spanish-born [[Salustiano Sanchez]] (also living in [[New York]], who, however, was still not verified) and Canadian-born [[James McCoubrey]], and the seventh-oldest living man in the world, with even the Japanesemen [[Jokichi Ikarashi]] (who was just one day older), [[Makaru Nakanishi]] (who was 6 weeks older than Ikarashi) and [[Jiroemon Kimura]] being older.

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