World’s Oldest Person Dies in Japan

Jiroemon Kimura, the world's oldest person, and the oldest man to have
everlived, has died at the age of 116.
Kimura - who was born on 19 April 1897, when Queen Victoria was on the
British throne - died of natural causes early on Wednesday, Japanese
media said.
The Kyoto prefecture resident became the oldest man in recorded
history in late December 2012 at the age of 115 years and 253 days,
following the deathof Dina Manfredini, an Italian-Americanwho lived in
Iowa.
The longest-living person in history wasJeanne Calment, a French woman
who died in 1997 at the age of 122.
Kimura died in hospital in his hometown of Kyotango, local government
officials said. He had been receiving treatment for pneumonia
sincelate last month.
In a sign of Japan's extraordinary longevity, his successor as the
world's oldest person is compatriot Misao Okawa, a 115-year-old Osaka
woman who already holds the title of the world's oldest woman.