Jeanne -Cooling
The certified oldest person ever was the French wife Jeanne -Kalm, who died in 1997 on 122 and 164 days.
Her unparalleled lifespan has been the subject of countless studies, both before and after her death.
Jeanne enjoyed good health most of her life and even started screens as a hobby at the age of 85.
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The oldest man in the world was once Jiroema -Kimura, from Japan, who died for 116 years, 54 days in 2013
Mrs. Calent also claimed that he had met the artist Vincent van Gogh, to whom she had sold painting in her father's shop as a teenager in her father.
“He was ugly as sin, had a mean mood and smoke for drinks,” she said.
She continued to smoke until she was 117 and used to rub olive oil into her skin.
Jiroemon Kimura
The Japanese man Jiroemon Kimura, officially the oldest man ever lived, died in 2013 at the age of 116.
On his 115th birthday, Mr. Kimura attributed his lifespan to ending up in the sunlight.
“I always look at heaven. That's how I am, “he said.
Kimura ate a three-meal diet of rice, pumpkins and sweet potatoes per day.
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The oldest man in the world was once Jiroema -Kimura, from Japan, who died for 116 years, 54 days in 2013
He reportedly did not smoke and said he ate only until he felt 80 percent full.
According to a city official, his motto in life was 'eating light and long life'.
When he was born in 1897, Japan came at the end of his feudal period that saw the last days of the Samurai -Rijgerklasse and the birth of a modern imperialist state.
When Japan entered WWI on the British side in 1915, he was already 18 years old, and when it connected to Germany at the start of the Second World War in 1940, he already pushed 43.
When the US dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, he was 48, but he resumed work as a postman at the end of the war and went to live for another 68 years.
Kane Tanaka
When the Japanese woman Kane Tanaka died at the age of 119 in 2022, she was the world's oldest person.
She was born on January 2, 1903 in the southwestern region of Fukuoka in Japan in the same year that the Wright Brothers flew for the first time and Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
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When the Japanese woman Kane Tanaka died at the age of 119 in 2022, she was the world's oldest person
In her younger years, Mrs. Tanaka ran various companies, including a noodle shop and a rice cake shop.
A century ago she married Hideo Tanaka in 1922, gave birth to four children and adopted a fifth.
She was planning to use a wheelchair to participate in the torch relay for the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, but the pandemic prevented her from doing this.
On her 119th birthday on January 2, 2022, Mrs. Tanaka's relatives said she hoped to live to 120.
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In her younger years, Mrs. Tanaka ran various companies, including a noodle shop and a rice cake shop
Sarah Knauss
The American wife Sarah Knauss died on December 30, 1999, only two days short of the new millennium.
The former seamstress, who loved chocolate, chips, popcorn and cashew nuts, left a 96 -year -old daughter when she died.
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The American wife Sarah Knauss died on December 30, 1999, only two days short of the new millennium. The former seamstress, who kept
Born on September 24, 1880, she died peacefully in her sleep in a nursing home in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Although she was weak in her later years, she continued to get up most mornings to have breakfast in the dining room of her care home and also visited the hairdresser once a week.
On her 119th birthday, the great -grandson of Mrs. Knauss, then three years old, was present.