Posted on 06/12/2013 6:32:24 AM PDT by Perdogg
Japan's Jiroemon Kimura, who was born in 1897, died in hospital early Wednesday morning, Kyodo News cited the local government as saying.
Mr Kimura, from Kyotango in Kyoto Prefecture, was recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living person in December 2012 when a woman from the United States died at the age of 115.
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If there were anyone alive who was born in the 1880s - even in 1889 - she would be at least 123 years old.
The all-time record for longevity is 122, so I think you've made a mistake here.
Another poorly-written title. Ah hell, this is as good as it gets—it will only be worse in the future.
Yes. it was a typo—I thought I had written “1800s.”
There are 10 women alive who were born in the year 1900. The Wikipedia list omits Jozef Kowalski as if they are unsure if his supposed date of birth (Feb. 2, 1900) is correct. Without him, the 30 oldest living people are all women.
The Japanese man who just died is supposedly the longest-living man whose lifespan is considered verified. Obviously they are leaving out a lot of men in the Bible whose reported lifespans were longer than 115 years. There was an American some time ago who was supposedly 136 years old (allegedly kidnapped into slavery in Liberia in the 1850s and brought to the US) but it was generally accepted later, I think, that he was nowhere near as old as he claimed to be.
I had a great-aunt who was born in 1889—on the very day that Jefferson Davis died, in fact. She died in 1976 shortly after her 87th birthday. I had a great-aunt by marriage who was born in 1888 and died in 1990, 3 days before her 102nd birthday.
1897... that’s the year my grandfather was born. A World War 1 vet, fought in the Ottoman Empire. He died in 1976 when I was a toddler. There’s a great photo of him holding me in one arm and holding a cigarette in the other...
I had a great grand aunt in Hot Springs, Arkansas. She was born around 1879 and lived until 1983, though I never got to meet her. Probably a good chance she ran into a young Bubba Clinton on the streets when she was pushing 80...
Oddly enough we never bothered to actually declare war on the Ottoman Empire. Now we don’t bother to ever declare it.
RIP to the old man. I don’t know what he looked like as a young man but in recent pictures he looks indistinguishable from a white guy.
9 people left born before 1900 eh? Wow.
It must suck for the extremely old to see their children and possibly grandchildren predecease them. Wikipedia says 5 of 7 of this man’s kids still live and 13 of 14 grandkids, so he was fortunate.
Plenty of them exercise regularly.
The oldest (verified) woman ever (French Lady) smoked but only 2 cigarettes a day at most.
None that I’ve heard of were nuts for health food though some of these Asian people eat mostly rice.
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