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{{Notability|Biographies|date=October 2022}}⏎
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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}})
|death_place = [[New York City]], United States 
|occupation  = Civic activist and toymaker
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|nationality = German, American
|religion    = 
|parents     = 
|spouse      = Margaret Berner (m.1936–1987, her death)
|children    = 1
}}
'''Carl James Berner''' (January 27, 1902 – January 7, 2013<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 |work=Daily News |access-date=January 8, 2013}}</ref>) was a [[Germany|German]]-born [[Americans|American]] [[supercentenarian]], activist, and former toymaker, born in the capital of the [[Kingdom of Württemberg]], [[Stuttgart]], then part of the [[German Empire]], and at the time of his death at age 110 years, 346 days the second-oldest German-born man ever, behind Hermann Dörnemann (who later became surpassed by [[Gustav Gerneth]]).<ref name="junipercivic1">{{cite web|url=http://www.junipercivic.com/juniperberryarticle.asp?nid=763 |title=The Amazing Mr. Berner...At 107 He Makes Yet Another Comeback |publisher=JuniperCivic |access-date=September 7, 2012}}</ref><ref name="nytimes1">{{cite web|last=Tantongco |first=Jano |url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/at-108-still-pulsing-with-vigor/ |title=At 108, Still Pulsing With Vigor |work=The New York Times |date=March 19, 2010 |access-date=September 7, 2012}}</ref> 

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]] and [[Jiroemon Kimura]] being older.

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