Oldest Living Person Ever Dies at 116

Jiroemon Kimura, the world's oldest person and oldest ever man, has died on Wednesday after suffering from pneumonia.

Kimura, who lived in Kyotango, west of Japan, died at the age of 116 only a few months after he was recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living person in Japan.

He became the world's oldest person on December 17, 2012, after the previous oldest person, a 115-year-old woman from Iowa died.

According to Guinness World Records, Kimura was born in 1897, the same year as aviator Amelia Earhart and the year Queen Victoria marked her Diamond Jubilee.

"I am always looking up towards the sky. That is how I am," Kimura once said in an interview, while trying to explain that he was not sure why he was able to live so long.
 
Currently, Misao Okawa of Osaka, another Japanese who turned 115 on March 5, holds the title for the world's oldest living person. She is also the world's oldest living woman.

Late Kimura is survived by seven children, 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, and 15 great-great-grandchildren.