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Apr 19, 1897 Kyōtango, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan Died on 12 Jun 2013 (aged 116)
Japanese supercentenarian, verified oldest living man in history
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About Jiroemon Kimura
- Jiroemon Kimura (?? ?????, Kimura Jiroemon, 19 April 1897 – 12 June 2013) was a Japanese supercentenarian.
- He became the oldest verified male in history on 28 December 2012, at the age of 115 years and 253 days when he surpassed the age of Christian Mortensen who died in 1998, and also became the first and so far the only man who indisputably reached 116 years of age, being 116 years, 54 days old at the time of his death from natural causes on 12 June 2013, in a hospital in his hometown of Kyotango, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
- He was the last verified living man born in the 19th century, and the last living person born in 1897.Kimura became the oldest living man in Japan upon the death of Tomoji Tanabe on 19 June 2009, the world's oldest living man upon the death of Walter Breuning on 15 April 2011, the oldest living person in Japan upon the death of Chiyono Hasegawa on 2 December 2011, and the world's oldest living person upon the death of Dina Manfredini (who was only 15 days older) on 17 December 2012, until his own death.
- After Breuning's death, Kimura was also the last living man born before 1900.
- Breuning and Kimura were also the only two verified men born before 1900 who were living in the second decade of the 21st century (2011–2020).
