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Sister André, a French nun and the world’s oldest known person, who lived through two world wars and the 1918 influenza pandemic and survived Covid-19, died on Tuesday in France. She was 118. A spokesman for a nursing home in the southern city of Toulon, where Sister André was residing, confirmed the death in an interview with French news ...
Apr 6, 2024 · At 111 years and 224 days old, John Alfred Tinniswood from England has officially claimed the title of world’s oldest living man. Guinness World Records made the announcement on Friday, two days ...
Apr 5, 2024 · The oldest living woman and oldest living person overall is Spain's Maria Branyas Morera, aged 117. Tinniswood gave a somewhat measured view on the state of the world. "The world, in its way, is ...
Feb 21, 2024 · In 1995, aged 120, Jeanne was recognized as the oldest person to have ever lived. She remained mentally sharp and her quick wit remained intact, as she demonstrated when asked by journalists what kind of future she expected – “A very short one,” she replied. Jeanne passed away on 4 August 1997, aged 122 years 164 days.
Juan Vicente Pérez Mora (27 May 1909 – 2 April 2024) was a Venezuelan supercentenarian who, until his death aged 114 years, 311 days, was the world's oldest verified living man following the death of Spain's Saturnino de la Fuente García on 18 January 2022. [1] He was the last surviving man verified to have been born in the first decade of ...
Dec 5, 2023 · The oldest man ever verified by Guinness World Records was a Japanese man named Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013), who lived to be 116 years old. And the oldest person ever, a woman named Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) from France, lived over half a decade longer than that, reaching the grand old age of 122.
Mar 4, 2015 · Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images. It's now past midnight in Japan, meaning that Misao Okawa, the world's oldest human being, has officially turned 117. She was born on March 5, 1898, and lives in ...
