Big Mongo <bigmongo1963@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/asia/worlds-oldest-dies-scli-intl/index.html
>
> World's oldest person, Kane Tanaka, dies in Japan aged 119
>
> (CNN)Kane Tanaka, the world's oldest person, has died in Japan aged 119, according to a statement released by the country's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
>
> Tanaka, who was born on January 2, 1903, died on April 19, the ministry said.
>
> Guinness World Records said they were saddened to hear of Tanaka's passing, and
> said the news of her death had been confirmed by senior gerontology consultant
> Robert Young, who also helped confirm her record as the oldest person alive back
> in 2019.

My relationship with Robert has been fraught...he has followed a strategy
of supplanting my recordkeeping wherever he can,I have collected the
Guinness Books since before he was born,not sure which of us was
corresponding with them first,but I initiated the tables the Gerontology
Research Group site reproduced before gradually replacing them with his.
He refuses to share documentation with me for largely political reasons
so many people he certifies do not reach my lists.
> Tweeting about her death, Guinness World Records said: "She became the oldest living person in January 2019 at the age of 116 years and 28 days.
>
> "She is also the second oldest person ever recorded,

By ten days...

RANKED TAGGED BY PEAK AGE RANK
Current rank is followed by age rank at death,which is
also chronological order of reaching age at death
Dates are formatted YYYY.M.DD with month given by one
character 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,O,N,D and final +
indicating living persons

Rank/Peak Name Years Days Born Died
1/1 Jeanne Louise Calment 122 164 1875.2.21 1997.8.4
2/2 Kane (Ota) Tanaka 119 107 1903.1.2 2022.4.19
3/2 Sarah DeRemer
(Clark) Knauss 119 97 1880.9.24 1999.D.30
4/3 Nabi Tajima 117 260 1900.8.4 2018.4.21
5/2 Marie Louise Febronie
(Chasse) Meilleur 117 230 1880.8.29 1998.4.16
6/4 Violet Henrietta
(Moss) Brown 117 189 1900.3.10 2017.9.15
7/4 Emma Martina Luigia
(Morano) Martinuzzi 117 137 1899.N.29 2017.4.15
8/7 Chiyo Miyako 117 81 1901.5.2 2018.7.22
9/4 Misawo Okawa 117 27 1898.3.5 2015.4.1
10/4 Maria Esther (Heredia
Lecaro) Capovilla 116 347 1889.9.14 2006.8.27
11/6 Gertrude (Gaines)
Weaver 116 c. 345 1898.4.? 2015.4.6
[Month in census report,family celebrated birthday July 4]
12/6 Susannah (Mushatt)
Jones 116 311 1899.7.6 2016.5.12
[Authenticated by New England Centenarian Study from census data]
13/2 Tane Ikai 116 175 1879.1.18 1995.7.12
14/6 Elizabeth (Jones)
Bolden 116 118 1890.8.15 2006.D.11
15/7 Besse Berry (Brown)
Cooper 116 100 1896.8.26 2012.D.4
16/16 Maria Giuseppa
(Robucci) Nargiso 116 90 1903.3.20 2019.6.18
17/8 Jiroemon Kimura 116 54 1897.4.19 2013.6.12
18/16 Ana Maria Vela Rubio 116 47 1901.O.29 2017.D.15
19/5 Kamato Hongo 116 45 1887.9.16 2003.O.31
[Records inconsistent on birth year,possibly younger]
20/18 Giuseppina (Projetto)
Frau 116 37 1902.5.30 2018.7.6
21/21 Shigeo Nakachi 115 345 1905.2.1 2021.1.11
22/5 Maggie Pauline
(Hinnant) Barnes 115 319 1882.3.6 1998.1.19
23/10 Dina (Guerri)
Manfredini 115 257 1897.4.4 2012.D.17
24/23 Shimoe Akiyama 115 255 1903.5.19 2019.1.29
25/6 Christian Mortensen 115 252 1882.8.16 1998.4.25
26/2 Charlotte Marion
(Milburn) Hughes 115 228 1877.8.1 1993.3.17
27/10 Edna Ruth (Scott)
Parker 115 220 1893.4.20 2008.N.26
28/7 Mary Ann (Dormer)
Rhodes 115 203 1882.8.12 1998.3.3
29/20 Harumi Nakamura 115 196 1900.3.15 2015.9.27
30/3 Margaret (Seward)
Skeete 115 192 1878.O.27 1994.5.7
31/21 Bernice (Emerson)
Madigan 115 163 1899.7.24 2015.1.3
[authentication by New England Centenarian Study]
32/14 Gertrude Baines 115 158 1894.4.6 2009.9.11
33/8 Anitica Butariu 115 157 1882.6.17 1997.N.21
34/13 Emiliano Mercado
Del Toro 115 156 1891.8.21 2007.1.24
35/14 Bettie Antry
Rutherford) Wilson 115 153 1890.9.13 2006.2.13
36/35 Shin Matsushita 115 150 1904.3.30 2019.8.27
37/15 Julie Winnefred
Bertrand 115 124 1891.9.16 2007.1.18
38/17 Maria (de Jesus) dos
Santos 115 114 1893.9.10 2009.1.2
39/33 Marie Josephine Clarice
Gaudette 115 110 1902.3.25 2017.7.13
40/15 Susie Elizabeth (Potts)
Gibson 115 108 1890.O.31 2006.2.16
41/1 Augusta Louise (Hoppe)
Holtz 115 79 1871.8.3 1986.O.21
42/13 Hendrikje (Schipper)
Van Andel 115 62 1890.6.29 2005.8.30
43/12 Maud (Davis) Farris
Luse 115 56 1887.1.21 2002.3.18
[there is reportedly an 1888 birth record saying February 21 1887]
44/44 Mina Kitagawa 115 46 1905.N.3 2020.D.19
45/12 Marie Marthe Augustine
(Mesange) Lemaitre
Bremont 115 42 1886.4.25 2001.6.6
46/46 Yoshi Otsunari 115 40 1906.D.17 2022.1.26
47/28 Koto Okubo 115 19 1897.D.24 2013.1.12
48/26 Chiyono Hasegawa 115 12 1896.N.20 2011.D.2
49/12 Annie (Thomas) Jennings 115 8 1884.N.12 1999.N.20
50/13 Eva (Sharpe) Morris 114 360 1885.N.8 2000.N.2
51/27 Kama Chinen 114 357 1895.5.10 2010.5.2
52/8 Mary Electa Bidwell 114 352 1881.5.9 1996.4.25
53/29 Maria Gomes Valentim 114 347 1896.7.9 2011.6.21
54/17 Ella (Allison) Gantt 114 332 1886.N.30 2001.O.28
[SSA says maiden name Alexander and born two years later,
six months before a brother]
55/30 Josephine Mary
(Arsenault) Ray 114 294 1895.5.17 2010.3.7
56/45 Kiyoko Ishiguro 114 276 1901.3.4 2015.D.5
57/23 Maria (do Couto Maia)
Lopes 114 274 1890.O.24 2005.7.25
58/19 Ramona Trinidad
(Iglesias y Jordan de)
Soler 114 271 1889.9.1 2004.5.29
59/51 Yukie Hino 114 271 1902.4.17 2017.1.13
60/33 Anne Eugenie Blanchard 114 261 1896.2.16 2010.N.4
61/37 Venere Ires (Pizzinato)
Papo 114 251 1896.N.23 2011.8.2
62/31 Neva (Freed) Morris 114 246 1895.8.3 2010.4.6
63/7 Hide Ohira 114 236 1880.9.15 1995.5.9
64/1 Mathew Beard 114 222 1870.7.9 1985.2.16
[SSA study age is not clearly supported in available records]
65/29 Yone Minagawa 114 221 1893.1.4 2007.8.13
66/10 Carrie Lou (Jenkins)
Lazenby 114 218 1882.2.9 1996.9.14
[some records indicate birth in May]
67/26 Ura Koyama 114 218 1890.8.30 2005.4.5
68/18 Myrtle (Burkmier)
Dorsey 114 216 1885.N.22 2000.6.25
[authentication by New England Centenarian Study]
69/69 Yoshi Baba 114 215 1907.6.3 2022.1.4
70/64 Iso Nakamura 114 214 1903.4.23 2017.N.23
71/3 Anna Eliza (Davies)
Williams 114 208 1873.6.2 1987.D.27
72/44 Walter Breuning 114 205 1896.9.21 2011.4.14
73/70 Haruno Yamashita 114 196+ 1905.2.19 2019.9.4+
[apparently died that month]
74/43 Eunice Allen (Lyons)
Orchin Garrett
Sanborn 114 195 1896.7.20 2011.1.31
[some records inconsistent on name]
75/24 Grace McCalmont
(Taylor) Clawson 114 194 1887.N.15 2002.5.28
76/63 Mitsue Toyoda 114 192 1902.2.15 2016.8.25
77/17 Tase Matsunaga 114 191 1884.5.11 1998.N.18
78/75 Kame Ganeko 114 191 1905.4.10 2019.O.18
79/26 Yukichi Chuganji 114 189 1889.3.23 2003.9.28
80/55 Kame Nakamura 114 188 1898.3.8 2012.9.12
81/5 Noemie Lydia "Lydie"
(Hudebine) Vellard 114 183 1875.3.18 1989.9.17
82/9 Wilhelmina (Geringer)
Kott 114 183 1880.3.7 1994.9.6
[some records say born 1879,used by Guinness but dropped 2013 edition]
83/28 Adelina (Engargiola)
Domingues 114 183 1888.2.19 2002.8.21
84/30 Mitoyo Kawate 114 182 1889.5.15 2003.N.13
85/33 Charlotte (Enterlein)
Benkner 114 180 1889.N.16 2004.5.14
86/42 Camille Blanche
(Loiseau) Chadal 114 180 1892.2.13 2006.8.12
87/38 Angele "Anne" (Dupont)
Primout 114 172 1890.O.5 2005.3.26
88/7 Ettie Mae (Thomas)
Greene 114 171 1877.9.8 1992.2.26
[Age as in Guinness,but birth record reportedly says September 19]
89/86 Geertje Kuijntjes 114 158 1905.7.19 2019.D.23
90/74 Toshie Yorimitsu 114 151 1901.9.30 2016.2.28
91/15 Frances Irene Frank 114 150 1881.O.1 1996.2.28
92/91 Fusa Tatsumi 114 149+ 1907.4.25 2021.9.21+
93/30 Christina (Clay) Cock 114 148 1887.D.25 2002.5.22
94/53 Olive Patricia
(Trevellyan) Thomas 114 140 1895.6.29 2009.N.16
95/86 Tae Ito 114 125 1903.7.11 2017.N.13
96/93 Hama Yasukawa 114 124 1907.1.19 2021.5.23
97/38 Emma Verona (Calhoun)
Johnston 114 117 1890.8.6 2004.D.1
98/9 Odie (Sears) Matthews 114 107 1878.D.28 1993.4.14
99/54 Chiyo Shiraishi 114 105 1895.8.6 2009.N.19
100/22 Asa Takii 114 94 1884.4.28 1998.7.31
101/4 Florence Knapp 114 93 1873.O.10 1988.1.11
102/22 Lucy Jane Askew 114 92 1883.9.8 1997.D.9
103/31 Mary Anna (Lush) Boone 114 92 1887.2.10 2001.5.13
104/39 Elena (Rodenbaugh)
Proctor Slough 114 89 1889.7.8 2003.O.5
105/9 Waka Shirahama 114 85 1878.3.23 1992.6.16
106/73 Delma Dorothie (Lowman)
Kollar 114 85 1897.O.31 2012.1.24
[some early records say born 1898]
107/88 Matsuyo Kageyama 114 83+ 1901.O.10 2016.1.?
[apparently deceased by February 2016]
108/98 Honorine Jeanne Marie
(Cadoret) Rondello 114 83 1903.7.28 2017.O.19
109/45 Joan Riudavets 114 81 1889.D.15 2004.3.5
110/100 Ila Arminda (Stargel)
Sewell Jones 114 81 1903.8.21 2017.N.10
111/106 Osugi Sogou 114 80+ 1905.8.13 2019.N.1+
[apparently died that month]
112/25 Suekiku Miyanaga 114 74 1884.4.7 1998.6.20
113/72 Shige Hirooka 114 72 1897.1.16 2011.3.29
114/66 Maggie May (Thornton)
Renfro 114 69 1895.N.14 2010.1.22
115/57 Emma Fanchon (Faust)
Tillman 114 67 1892.N.22 2007.1.28
116/80 Leila Alice (Daughtry)
Denmark 114 61 1898.2.1 2012.4.2
117/98 Adele (Henderson)
Dunlap 114 55 1902.D.12 2017.2.5
118/114 Anne (Later)Brasz 114 48 1906.7.16 2020.9.2
119/69 Florence Emily (Davies)
Baldwin 114 38 1896.3.31 2010.5.8
120/35 Amy Isabel (Matthews)
Hulmes 114 22 1887.O.5 2001.O.27
121/109 Tomoe Iwata 114 19 1904.3.25 2018.4.13
122/55 Grace (Menges) Thaxton 114 18 1891.6.18 2005.7.6
[Possibly born June 19th,according to family]
123/112 Tane Yonekura 114 17 1904.5.2 2018.5.19
124/30 Minnie Bell
(Smith) Ward 114 13 1885.N.19 1999.D.2
[authentication by New England Centenarian Study]
125/119 Kura Bingo 114 11 1905.O.20 2019.O.31
126/64 Arbella (Perkins) Ewing 114 9 1894.3.13 2008.3.22
127/66 Catherine Helen
(Dahlheimer) Hagel 114 8 1894.N.28 2008.D.6
128/115 Yoshiyo Bessho 114 7 1904.4.1 2018.4.8
129/89 Marie-Therese (Jegat)
Bardet 114 6 1898.6.2 2012.6.8
130/59 Virginia (Dighero)
Zolezzi 114 4 1891.D.24 2005.D.28
131/131 Kahoru Furuya 114 + 1908.2.18 2022.2.18+
132/80 Ida Louise (Gordon)
Stewart 113 364 1896.N.13 2010.N.12
133/94 Maria (Redaelli)
Granoli 113 364 1899.4.3 2013.4.2
134/55 Fred Harold Hale 113 354 1890.D.1 2004.N.19
135/96 Hatsue Ono 113 352 1898.O.31 2012.O.17
136/28 Yasu Akino 113 348 1885.3.1 1999.2.12
137/67 Bertha (Vanosdol) Fry 113 348 1893.D.1 2007.N.14
138/43 Mary Agnes "Mae"
(Maxwell) Harrington 113 343 1889.1.20 2002.D.29
139/79 Daisey (Flowers) Bailey 113 342 1896.3.30 2010.3.7
140/37 Agatha (Wright)
Mitchell 113 336 1887.3.26 2001.2.25
141/116 Goldie (Corash)
Michaelson 113 335 1902.8.8 2016.7.8
142/142 Nahi Yonamine 113 335 1908.3.9 2022.2.7
143/129 Olive Evelyn (Macro)
Boar 113 334 1904,9.29 2018.8.28
144/125 Yisrael Kristal 113 330 1903.9.15 2017.8.11
145/36 Clara (Herling) Huhn 113 327 1887.1.28 2000.D.20
146/68 Corinne (Dixon) Taylor 113 318 1893.4.2 2007.2.14
147/47 Mary Dorothy
(Perry) Christian 113 312 1889.6.12 2003.4.20
148/34 Luce Euphrasie Maced 113 299 1886.5.2 2000.2.25
149/143 Sayo Taminato 113 297 1906.O.15 2020.8.7
150/142 Kimi Asanuma 113 292 1905.N.3 2019.8.22
151/13 Rosa Ann (Dossett)
Comfort 113 290 1879.1.21 1992.N.6
152/102 Marcelle (Narbonne) Roy 113 282 1898.3.25 2012.1.1
153/77 Tsuneyo Toyonaga 113 277 1894.5.21 2008.2.22
154/63 Anne Adele Samson 113 276 1891.2.27 2004.N.29
155/30 Johnson Parks 113 275 1884.O.15 1998.7.17
156/47 Beatrice Flora
(McPherson) Mears 113 274 1888.3.4 2001.D.3
157/87 Tomoji Tanabe 113 274 1895.9.18 2009.6.19
158/1 Fannie Leona Thomas 113 273 1867.4.24 1981.1.22
[by some reports ten days older]
159/115 Mitsue Nagasaki 113 272 1899.9.18 2013.6.17
160/50 Mary L. Parr 113 270 1889.2.1 2002.O.29
[by some reports three days older]
161/84 Beatrice (Scarlett)
Farve 113 264 1895.4.30 2009.1.19
162/30 Amalia (Ruggieri)
Barone 113 263 1884.O.6 1998.6.26
163/136 Shizue Nagata 113 262 1903.7.25 2017.4.13
164/83 Marie-Clementine
Judithe (Veyrac)
Solignac 113 261 1894.9.7 2008.5.25
165/15 Zora (Gray) Wriggle 113 256 1880.2.24 1993.N.7
166/143 Hatsuno Goto 113 256 1903.9.1 2017.5.15
167/56 John Ingram McMorran 113 250 1889.6.19 2003.2.24
[authenticated by New England Centenarian Study]
168/147 Tsurue Amou 113 250 1904.3.1 2017.N.6
169/113 Maria Isabel
(Rodriguez) Diaz 113 249 1898.2.22 2011.O.29
170/4 Mary Elizabeth
(Wallace) McKinney 113 248 1873.5.30 1987.2.2
171/165 Katsue Kurimoto 113 247 1907.3.20 2020.N.22
172/110 Ella (Winkelmann)
Schuler 113 244 1897.9.5 2011.5.7
173/2 Anna Maude (Fahey)
Murphy 113 242 1867.4.25 1980.D.22
174/79 Marguerite Gladys
Swetland 113 240 1892.4.18 2005.D.14
175/157 Hisa Arai 113 236 1904.9.10 2018.5.4
176/84 Shitsu Nakano 113 230 1894.1.1 2007.8.19
177/47 Mary Randall 113 225 1887.4.1 2000.N.12
178/166 Misao Uemura 113 c. 225 1905.N.7 2019.6.?
179/1 Delina (Ecker) Filkins 113 214 1815.5.4 1928.D.4
180/31 Maria del Carmen
Figueiro Freiria
(de Rodriguez) 113 209 1883.O.28 1997.5.25
181/18 Lillian Ross 113 208 1879.8.24 1993.3.20
182/2 Martha Mary (Young)
Kelly 113 206 1851.6.7 1964.D.30
183/101 Manuela (Fernandez
Fojaco) Menendez 113 202 1895.6.18 2009.1.6
184/169 Tsukimi Kishi 113 200 1905.8.31 2019.3.19
185/85 Lucy Victoria (D'Souza)
d'Abreu 113 197 1892.5.24 2005.D.7
186/51 Nelle Margaret (Helton)
Hunt 113 195 1887.7.28 2001.2.8
[authenticated by New England Centenarian Study;SSA skeptical]
187/91 Helen Caroline Stetter 113 195 1893.N.18 2007.6.1
188/58 Germaine (Germain) Haye 113 190 1888.O.10 2002.4.18
189/24 Mary (Redeske) Curley 113 189 1880.N.21 1994.5.29
[SSA says two years younger but this age is consistently
supported by documents]
190/53 Carrie C. (Smith)
Hardrick 113 189 1887.N.6 2001.5.14
191/95 Marie-Simone Capony 113 185 1894.3.14 2007.9.15
192/7 Mamie Eva (Walter)
Keith 113 182 1873.3.22 1986.9.20
[by some reports born March 27th]

> behind only Jeanne Calment who lived to the age of 122."
>
> Tanaka's family said in a tweet earlier this month that she had been frequently sick recently and "in and out of hospital."
>
> Born in 1903, Tanaka married a rice shop owner at the age of 19, and worked in the family store until she was 103.
>
> She twice survived cancer and lived through a multitude of historical events, surviving two world wars and the 1918 Spanish flu -- as well as the Covid-19 pandemic.
>
> CNN previously reported on Tanaka during her preparation to participate in the Olympic torch relay ahead of the postponed Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics.
>
> The plan had been that she would take the flame as it passed through Shime, in her home prefecture of Fukuoka, but ultimately she did not participate, because of concerns about Covid-19.
>
> Tanaka had been living in a nursing home in Fukuoka. Her family said she kept her mind and body engaged by doing math and remaining curious.
>
> Tanaka's great-granddaughter Junko Tanaka set up a Twitter account in January 2020 to celebrate the supercentenarian's life.
>
> She tweeted photos of her great-grandmother enjoying treats such as cake and soda pop, and shared her achievements and the exchanges she had with her relatives.
>
> CNN previously reported Junko as saying of her grandmother: "I might be biased

Her grandmother or her great-grandmother?

> because I'm related to her but I think it's kind of amazing -- I wanted to share
> that with the world and for people to feel inspired and to feel her joy."
>
> In 2020, one in every 1,565 people in Japan was over 100 years old -- more than 88% of them women. Government figures released in July 2020 showed that women have a life expectancy of 87.45 years compared with 81.4 for men.
>
> Announcing Tanaka's death on its website on Monday, Guinness World Records said "the titles of oldest person living and oldest person living (female) are currently being investigated" and that further details would be announced in due course.
>
> Blake Essig, Junko Ogura and Sana Noor Haq also contributed

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