FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013 file photo, Japan's Misao Okawa, then 114, poses with the Guinness World Records certificate, unseen, of the world's oldest woman at a nursing home in Osaka, western Japan. According to Kyodo report, Guinness World Records Japan announced Wednesday, June 12, 2013 that Okawa, 115, became the world's oldest person following the death of Jiroemon Kimura who was recognized as the world's oldest living person in 2012. Kimura died of natural causes on early Wednesday at the age of 116. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, File)
June 11, 2013 - 9:54 PM
TOKYO - Japan's Jiroemon Kimura, who had been recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living person, the oldest living man and the oldest man ever, died Wednesday of natural causes. He was 116.
Kimura, of Kyotango, Japan, was born April 19, 1897.
According to Guinness, Kimura was the first man in history to have lived to 116 years old. Kimura became the oldest man ever on Dec. 28, 2012, at the age of 115 years, 253 days, breaking the record set by Christian Mortensen, a Danish immigrant to the United States, whose life spanned from 1882-1998.
The title of oldest living person is now another Japanese, Misao Okawa, of Osaka. She is also the world's oldest living woman.
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