Nearly a week after the death of the oldest person in the world, a nonprofit documenting the world’s oldest people has welcomed the world’s newest title-holder. At 116, Inah Canabarro Lucas is ...

Dec. 29, 2024 – World’s oldest living person. Lucas is also the second oldest nun in documented history, coming only after ...

Gibson is also nearing the Guinness World Records’ title for world’s oldest living person. Ethel Caterham, 115, claimed the ...

Miyako became the world's oldest person in April 2015, on the death of 117-year-old Nabi Tajima, who was born in 1900. Though Guinness is yet to confirm Miyako's successor, the next verified ...

The now-wheelchair-bound nun was crowned the world's oldest living person after Tomiko Itooka died in Japan at age 116 on Dec. 26, 2024. WORLD'S OLDEST MAN, DEAD AT 112, ATE THIS MEAL EVERY FRIDAY ...

As of Feb. 28, Branyas Morera is 116 years and 361 days old and officially became the world’s oldest living person in January 2023. Branyas Morera was born on March 4, 1907, ...

SAO PAULO — Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian nun and teacher who was the world’s oldest person, died on Wednesday just weeks short of turning 117, her religious congregation said.

Aug. 19, 2024 – World’s second-oldest living person. Dec. 29, 2024 – World’s oldest living person. This story has been updated to resolve an inaccuracy. Featured Weekly Ad.

Sister Inah Canabarro, a soccer-loving nun from Brazil, is believed to have become the world’s oldest living person at nearly 117 following the recent death of a woman from Japan.

The title of oldest person ever recorded also belongs to a French woman. Born on February 21, 1875, Jeanne Louise Calment’s life spanned 122 years and 164 days, according to the Guinness World ...

As the oldest person in the world, Gertrude Weaver was making the best of her time in the limelight. When I called the 116-year-old Arkansas resident two days into her reign on a Friday in early ...