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Oldest People From Around the World

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Tomoji Tanabe, the world's oldest man, died in his sleep at his home in southern Japan on June 19, 2009. He was 113. Tanabe, who was born Sept. 18, 1895, had eight children � five sons and three daughters. The former city land surveyor also had 25 grandchildren, 53 great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren, according to a statement from the Miyakonojo city. He was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest man when he was 111 years old.
April 6, 2009: Gertrude Baines turned 115 Monday in Los Angeles. She is the world's oldest woman according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Baines became the world's oldest living person when a 115-year-old woman, Maria de Jesus, died in Portugal in January.
September 10, 2006: Maria de Jesus blows out the candles on her birthday cake as she celebrates her 113th birthday in the village of Corujo, near Tomar in central Portugal. De Jesus died in northwest Portugal at the age of 115, officials said Friday. She was previously listed by the Guinness Book of World Records and the Gerontology Research Group as the world's oldest person.
February 14, 2008: Miriam Amash poses for a picture in her house in the Israeli Arab village of Jisr ez-Zarqa, near the northern city of Haifa. Amash's ID says she was born in 1888 but it does not include a month or date of birth, a sign the Israeli authorities were never given an official birth certificate. Amash's ID suggests she is one of the oldest women alive.
February 14, 2008: Miriam Amash exercises outside her house in the Israeli Arab village of Jisr ez-Zarqa, near the northern city of Haifa.
A file photo shows Mitoyo Kawate, 114, of the city of Hiroshima. She died in the southwestern city of Kagoshima aged 116.
December 9, 2005: Ecuadorean woman Maria Esther Capovilla poses for a photo opportunity in Guayaquil, Ecuador. At the time, she was 116 years old. She died in 2006.
April 12, 2008: Edna Parker turned 115 on Sunday, April 20, 2008. The former Indiana schoolteacher who was certified as the world's oldest person, died seven months later at a nursing home in Shelbyville, Ind.
March 25, 2008: Rosa Rein, born on March 24, 1897, celebrates her 111th birthday at a home for the elderly in Lugano Paradiso. Rein is the oldest woman in Switzerland. She just celebrated her 112th birthday this past March.
May 23, 2007: Sunsari Maya Thapa, 110, one of the oldest Bhutanese refugee women, rests inside Timai refugee camp.
October 2, 2003: Joan Riudavets Moll laughs in his home in the village of Es Migjorn Gran, on the Balearic Island of Menorca. Moll was born on December 15, 1889. His wife was also born in the same year, although she died aged 90. Moll passed away in March 2004 at the age of 114.