Jeanne Calment
The oldest person certified was Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who died at the age of 122 years and 164 days in 1997.
His incomparable longevity has been the subject of numerous studies, both before and after his death.
Jeanne enjoyed good health for most of her life and even took up fencing as a hobby at the age of 85.
The world’s oldest man was Japanese Jiroemon Kimura, who died at the age of 116 years and 54 days in 2013.
Calment also claimed to have met the artist Vincent van Gogh, to whom he sold canvases in his father’s shop as a teenager.
“He was ugly as sin, had a vile temper and smelled of alcohol,” she said.
He continued smoking until he was 117 and used to rub olive oil on his skin.
Jiroemon Kimura
Japanese Jiroemon Kimura, officially the oldest man who ever lived, died at age 116 in 2013.
On his 115th birthday, Kimura attributed his longevity to getting out into the sunlight.
‘I’m always looking up at the sky. That’s who I am,’ he said.
Kimura ate a three-meal-a-day diet of rice, pumpkins, and sweet potatoes.
The world’s oldest man was Japanese Jiroemon Kimura, who died at the age of 116 years and 54 days in 2013.
He reportedly did not smoke and only ate until he was 80 percent full.
According to a city official, his motto in life was “eat light and live long.”
When he was born in 1897, Japan was reaching the end of its feudal period, which saw the last days of the samurai warrior class and the birth of a modern imperialist state.
When Japan entered the First World War on the side of the British in 1915, he was already 18 years old, and when he allied himself with Germany in 1940, at the beginning of the Second World War, he was already 43.
When the United States dropped the bomb on Hiroshima he was 48 years old, but he returned to work as a mailman at the end of the war and lived another 68 years.
Kane Tanaka
When Japanese Kane Tanaka died at age 119 in 2022, she was the oldest person in the world.
She was born on January 2, 1903 in the southwestern region of Fukuoka, Japan, the same year the Wright brothers first flew and Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
When Japanese Kane Tanaka died at age 119 in 2022, she was the oldest person in the world.
In her youth, Ms. Tanaka ran several businesses, including a noodle shop and a rice cake shop.
A century ago, she married Hideo Tanaka in 1922, had four children and adopted a fifth.
He had planned to use a wheelchair to participate in the torch relay at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, but the pandemic prevented him from doing so.
On her 119th birthday, January 2, 2022, Ms. Tanaka’s relatives said she expected to live to be 120 years old.
In her youth, Ms. Tanaka ran several businesses, including a noodle shop and a rice cake shop.
Sara Knauss
American Sarah Knauss died on December 30, 1999, just two days before the new Millennium.
The former seamstress, a lover of chocolate, chips, popcorn and cashews, left a 96-year-old daughter when she died.
American Sarah Knauss died on December 30, 1999, just two days before the new Millennium. The former seamstress, a lover of chocolate, chips, popcorn and cashews, left a 96-year-old daughter when she died.
Born September 24, 1880, she died peacefully in her sleep in a nursing home in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Although he was frail in his later years, he still got up most mornings to have breakfast in the dining room of his residence and also visited the hairdresser once a week.
Mrs. Knauss’s great-great-grandson, who was three years old at the time, was present at her 119th birthday.