User:DaBestMonEva/sandbox

I enjoy following anything to do with the oldest people in the world.

I am thinking of going through all the entries and categorizing them based on country since it is now getting a bit cluttered.

Originally got into it shortly before the death of Violet Brown, and then all through the time period when Nabi Tajima, Chiyo Miyako, and Lucile Randon were the oldest people. Currently, Maria Branyas of Spain has been the oldest living person for (17 January 2023 - present).

History of world's oldest people
15 September 2017 - Violet Brown dies, Nabi Tajima becomes oldest living person

23 February 2020 – Chitetsu Watanabe, the oldest man in the world, dies aged 112 years, 355 days and is succeeded as the oldest living man in the world by the United Kingdom's Robert Weighton at age 111 years, 331 days

30 June 2021 - Puerto Rico's Emilio Flores Márquez is confirmed as the world's oldest living man at age

12 August 2021 - Puerto Rico's Emilio Flores Márquez dies aged and is succeeded as the world's oldest living man by Spain's Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia at the age of

History of American supercentenarians
9 May 2018 - Oldest living American person Delphine Gibson dies, Lessie Brown becomes oldest living person in America

8 January 2019 - Lessie Brown dies at age 114 years, 108 days and Alelia Murphy becomes oldest undisputed person in the United States at age 113 years, 186 days NOTE: Maggie Kidd is a disputed claim

23 November 2019 - Alelia Murphy, the oldest living person in the United States, dies aged 114 years, 140 days and is succeeded as the oldest living person in the United States by Hester Ford at age 114 years, 101 days

17 April 2021 - America's oldest person Hestor Ford dies at the age of and is succeeded as America's oldest person by Thelma Sutcliffe at the age of

17 January 2022 - America's Thelma Sutcliffe dies aged and is succeeded as the oldest living person in the United States by Iowa's Bessie Hendricks at the age of (Note: Although Maria Brañas Morera was older than Hendricks, she was living in Spain)

History of British supercentenarians
11 May 2018 - Bessie Camm dies at age 113 + Olive Boar becomes oldest living British person

1 September 2018 - Olive Boar, the oldest living British person, dies at age 113 and Grace Catherine Jones becomes oldest living person in Britain at age 111 years, 350 days. She was validated by the GRG on 26 January 2019.

7 June 2019 - Grace Catherine Jones, the oldest living British person, dies at age 112 years, 264 days and is succeeded as the oldest living person in Britain by Gwen Payne at age 111 years, 306 days (NOTE: oldest British person was originally thought to be Hilda Clulow who was 111 years, 82 days at the time of Jones' death)

15 October 2019 – Gwen Payne dies at age 112 years, 71 days and is succeeded as the oldest living person in Britain by Hilda Clulow at age 111 years, 213 days

24 December 2019 – Hilda Clulow dies at age 111 years, 284 days and is succeeded as the oldest living person in Britain by Robert Weighton and Joan Eileen Hocquard, both at age 111 years, 269 days

28 May 2020 – Robert Weighton, the joint-oldest living person in Britain, dies at age 112 years, 60 days leaving Joan Eileen Hocquard as Britain's oldest living person and Puerto Rico's Emilio Flores Márquez as the oldest living man

24 October 2020 - Britain's Joan Eileen Hocquard dies aged and is succeeded as the oldest living person in Britain by Sarah Lillian Priest at age

6 June 2021 - Britain's Sarah Lillian Priest dies aged and is succeeded as the oldest living person in Britain by Gertrude Annie Kingston at the age of

28 July 2021 - Britain's Gertrude Annie Kingston dies aged and is succeeded by the oldest living person in Britain by Mary "Mollie" Walker, MBE at the age of

History of Canadian supercentenarians
5 June 2019 - Ellen Gibb, the oldest living person in Canada, dies aged 114 years, 40 days and is succeeded as the oldest living person in Canada by Sarah Patenaude Bruyère at age 112 years, 105 days

17 February 2020 - Sarah Patenaude Bruyère, the oldest living person in Canada, dies aged 112 years, 362 days and is succeeded as the oldest living person in Canada by Phyllis Ridgway at age 112 years, 344 days

4 June 2021 - Phyllis Ridgeway dies aged and is succeeded as Canada's oldest person by Cecile Klein at the age of

History of French supercentenarians
18 June 2019 – Maria Giuseppa Robucci, the oldest person in Europe, dies aged 116 years, 90 days and is succeeded as the oldest living person in Europe by France's Lucile Randon at age 115 years, 127 days

11 February 2021 - Lucile Randon becomes the 10th person in history to reach the age of 117 years old

History of German supercentenarians
12 October 2018 - Gustav Gerneth (unverified) becomes oldest German person ever? (excluding emigrants)

22 October 2019 - Gustav Gerneth, the oldest living man, dies aged 114 years, 7 days and is succeeded as Germany's oldest person by Mathilde Mange at age 113 years, 73 days and as the oldest living man in the world by Japan's Chitetsu Watanabe at age 112 years, 231 days

28 October 2019 – Mathilde Mange dies aged 113 years, 79 days and is succeeded as the oldest living person in Germany by Katharina Hagemeyer at age 111 years, 85 days

12 July 2020 - Germany's Katharina Hagemeyer dies aged 111 years, 343 days and is succeeded as the oldest living person in Germany by Adele Rodenstein at age

18 July 2020 - Germany's Adele Rodenstein dies aged and is succeeded as the oldest living person in Germany by Josefine Ollmann at age

History of Italian Supercentenarians
15 April 2017 - Emma Morano, the last known person born in the 1800s, born 29 November 1899, dies

6 July 2018 - Giuseppina Projetto dies at age 116, Maria Giuseppa Robucci becomes oldest living Italian person at 115 years, 108 days + Kane Tanaka becomes 2nd oldest verified living person

18 June 2019 – Maria Giuseppa Robucci, the oldest person in Europe, dies aged 116 years, 90 days and is succeeded as the oldest living person in Italy by Anna Benericetti at age 113 years, 88 days and the oldest living person in Europe by France's Lucile Randon at age 115 years, 127 days + Kane Tanaka becomes the last known living validated person to be born in 1903

11 December 2019 – Anna Benericetti dies aged 113 years, 264 days and is succeeded as the oldest living person in Italy by Valesca Tanganelli at age 112 years, 157 days

4 March 2020 – Italy's Valesca Tanganelli dies aged 112 years, 241 days and is succeeded as Italy's oldest living person by Erminia Bianchini at age 111 years, 317 days

23 June 2020 – Italy's Erminia Bianchini dies aged 112 years, 61 days and is succeeded as Italy's oldest living person by Maria Oliva at age 111 years, 68 days

27 August 2021 - Italy's Maria Oliva dies aged and is succeeded as Italy's oldest person by Ida Zoccarato at age

History of Japanese supercentenarians
21 April 2018 - Nabi Tajima, the last known person born in the 19th century, born 4 August 1900, dies + Chiyo Miyako becomes oldest living person in the world

2 May 2018 - Chiyo Miyako becomes the 9th person in history to reach age 117

22 July 2018 - Chiyo Miyako dies at the age of 117 years, 81 days + Kane Tanaka becomes the world's oldest living person.

20 January 2019 - Masazo Nonaka, the oldest living man, dies at age 113 years, 179 days and Gustav Gerneth becomes the oldest man in the world at 113 years, 97 days old

9 March 2019 - Kane Tanaka is officially confirmed as the world's oldest living person by Guinness World Records at 116 years, 28 days old

16 December 2019 – Kane Tanaka becomes the 10th oldest person ever at age 116 years, 348 days, surpassing Ecuador's Maria Capovilla

2 January 2020 – Kane Tanaka becomes the 9th person in history to reach age 117 years old

19 September 2020 – Kane Tanaka surpasses the final age of Nabi Tajima and becomes the oldest Japanese person ever

19 April 2022 - Kane Tanaka, the world's oldest person and last verified person born in 1903, dies aged and is succeeded as the world's oldest living person by France's Lucile Randon at the age of

History of Oceanian supercentenarians
21 September 2018 - Linda Wiggins becomes oldest living person in Oceania, age 109 years, 361 days, after the death of Margaret Vivian, aged 112 years, 208 days.

2 December 2018 - Linda Wiggins dies aged 110 years, 76 days and Mabel Jenkins becomes oldest person in Oceania at age 110 years, 71 days

History of African supercentenarians
11 May 2021 - Seychelles' Nancy Marie dies aged and is succeeded as Africa's oldest person by South Africa's Rosalie Wolpe at age ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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