MADRID (Reuters) - Maria Branyas, who was the world's oldest person, has died peacefully in a Spanish nursing home at the age of 117, according to her account on the X platform and a spokesperson at the home on Tuesday. "Maria Branyas has left us. She has died as she wanted...
Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died.
Speaking to ABC News, Harrison described Francis as "a person who loved people." Elizabeth Francis died on Oct. 22, 2024 at the age of 115 in Houston, Texas.KTRK "She loved the Lord. Her faith was extremely strong," Harrison said. "She was always, you know, jolly, you know, ...
In 2013, the Uygur woman topped the list of China's oldest living people issued by the China Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, formerly known as the Gerontological Society of China. "She died peacefully at my home," said Qurban Nur, Alimihan Seyiti's grandson, who tended the lady ...
Women typically enjoy longevity in Japan, but the country is facing a worsening demographic crisis as its expanding elderly population leads to soaring medical and welfare costs, with a shrinking labor force to pay for it. As of September,...
The oldest man in the world has died just weeks before his 115th birthday, Guinness World Records said on Wednesday. Juan Vicente Pérez Mora held the title of the oldest living man for just a few short years. Guinness awarded him the distinction on Feb 4, 2022, when he...
TOKYO (AP) — Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka
There have been records of surgery going back to ancient Egypt, India and the Bronze Age in China. For centuries in Britain, physicians didn't carry out operations: barbers, who knew how to wield a blade, were asked to use their skills on the rest of the human body. The barbers later...
Emma Morano, who was born in 1899 and died in 2017 at the age of 117 was thought to have been the last person alive to have lived in three different centuries. The Italian apparently put her long life down to leaving her husband in 1938 and the consumption of two raw eggs and some ...
1908 to a large family in southern Brazil, according to LongeviQuest researchers. But her nephew said her birth was registered two weeks late and she was actually born on May 27. Her great-grandfather was a famed Brazilian general who took up arms during the turbulent period following Brazil...