Thursday, June 13, 2013

World s oldest ever man dies aged 116 years

The world's oldest person and the oldest man ever to have lived has died of natural causes aged 116 in Kyotango city Japan.

Jiroemon Kimura, who was born in 1897, died in hospital 12th June morning "from old age". Kimura, who hailed from Kyotango, was hospitalised in early May suffering from pneumonia. 

Kimura was recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living person in December 2012, after a woman from the United States died at the age of 115.

That month he also broke another record when he was verified as the oldest man ever to have lived, after reaching the age of 115 years and 253 days.

However, he was well off the all-time record set by French woman Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122, making her the longest living person in history.

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