On Tuesday, January 18, the world's oldest man died at his home in León, Spain, at the age of 112 and 341 days.
Saturnino de la Fuente García was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's longest-lived man last September, when he was 112 years and 211 days old.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Garcia was born on February 8, 1909, and married Antonina Barrio Gutiérrez in 1933 and had seven daughters.
He created his own shoe-making enterprise to make boots for the army and was spared from the Spanish Civil War of 1936.
According to a Guinness Book of World Records press release, Garcia said the secret to her longevity was: "Live quietly... Don't hurt anyone."
In addition to seven daughters, Garcia has 14 grandchildren, granddaughters and 22 great-grandchildren.
The world's oldest woman is 119 years old!
The oldest living woman in the world is Kane Tanaka, a Japanese who was born on January 2, 1903, just turned 119.
On January 5, Tanaka's friends and nursing home staff held a birthday party for her, and fukuoka local television filmed the whole process of the birthday party.
Grandma Tanaka, 119, has a good appetite. As you can see from the TV footage, Grandma smiled and praised after eating a few bites of birthday cake, saying that the cake was "delicious" and "I want some more".
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, on March 9, 2019, Kane Tanaka was confirmed as the longest-lived person, when her age was 116 years and 66 days.
When the Guinness staff presented Grandma Tanaka with an award, they gave her a box of chocolates. Grandma opened the chocolate and ate it immediately. Someone asked her how many pieces of chocolate she wanted to eat today, and she said 100 pieces.
Grandma Tanaka was born a premature baby, married Hideo Tanaka at the age of 19, and the two had four children and adopted a fifth child. Mr. and Mrs. Tanaka did not meet before the wedding, as were most Japanese couples at the time.
Grandma Tanaka has had several surgeries, including cataract surgery and colorectal cancer surgery, but she is currently in good health.
Grandma usually got up at 6 o'clock every morning and studied every afternoon, such as math.
Grandma Tanaka loves brains very much, and her favorite game is the board game Othello, often beating nursing home employees.
The longevity of Grandma Tanaka is often linked to Japan's aging, and according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the number of babies born in Japan in 2019 was less than 900,000, down 5.9% from the previous year, the smallest number since the Japanese government began collecting data in 1899.