Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman believed to have been the world’s oldest person, has died aged 119.
Tanaka died of old age at a hospital in southwestern Fukuoka city on April 19.
She was born in the Fukuoka region on January 2, 1903 — the same year the Wright brothers flew for the first time and Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
She was confirmed as the world’s oldest living person by Guinness World Records in 2019.
With Tanaka’s death, Lucile Randon, a French nun better known as Sister Andre, becomes the world’s oldest known person.
Randon was born in southern France on February 11, 1904, and recently celebrated her 118th birthday with her favourite port-and-chocolate cocktail.
Source: www.aljazeera.com
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