Oldest people

Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living person, turned 118 on Jan. 2, according to local media.

Tanaka, born on Jan. 2, 1903, celebrated her 118th birthday at a care facility in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, where she lives, NHK News reported.

Japanese Chitetsu Watanabe was 112 years old. The man from Niigata Prefecture was officially named the oldest man on the planet on February 12, according to the British newspaper Mirror.

Watanabe would be 113 years old in just 11 days. He took the title of the oldest man from another Japanese, Masazo Nonaka, who died at the age of 113 at the end of January.

The world's oldest woman, Kane Tanaka, turned 117.

Kane Tanaka celebrate her birthday, January 2, at an elderly home in Fukuoka. Among her guests, besides friends and staff at home, was a television team.

A Japanese woman born in the final year of the 19th century and believed to have been the world's oldest person died on April 21, Kyodo news agency said. She was 117.

Masazo Nonaka from Japan was recognised today as the world's oldest man at the ripe old age of 112, as his family revealed his secret: sweets and hot baths. Nonaka, who was born on July 25, 1905 — just months before Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity — received a certificate from Guinness World Records at home on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido.

With the death of Emma Morano on Saturday, the title of ‘oldest living human’ has been passed on to the Jamaican born Violet Brown. At the ripe old age of 117, she sits atop the infographic below, showing the age and birthplace of the oldest living people on Earth. All women, the country of birth most represented is Japan; accounting for five of the ‘top ten’.

The world's oldest man, Yasutaro Koide, died on Jan. 19 at the age of 112 in central Japan, a local official said.

The eldest human in the world (with proof) Jeralean Talley passed away, in Michigan, 26 days after celebrating her 116th birthday, according to a family representative.

Talley was born on May 23, 1899 in Georgia and was the oldest person in the world with verified records, after Gertrude Weaver’s death in April.

Days after becoming the world's oldest person, American Gertrude Weaver has died at the age of 116, US media reported.
      
Weaver died Monday morning of complications from pneumonia, reports said.
      
Weaver passed away at the Silver Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center in the southern state of Arkansas, local TV station KATV reported.        

The world's oldest person Misao Okawa, a mother of three, grandmother of four and great-grandmother of six, turned 117 on March 5 in western Japan.
      
Okawa, one of only a handful of people born in the 19th century and still alive "is looking in good shape," an official at her Osaka nursing home told AFP.