Oldest man dies, The world’s oldest person and the oldest man ever to have lived has died of natural causes aged 116, officials in Japan said Wednesday.Jiroemon Kimura, who was born in 1897, died in hospital early Wednesday morning “from old age”, an official in Kyoto’s Kyotango city said in a statement. Kimura, who was from Kyotango, was hospitalised in early May suffering from pneumonia.
A few days ago doctors noted that his condition was worsening, Kimura was recognised by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest living person in December 2012, after a woman from the US 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.
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