A Japanese woman believed to have been the world's oldest person has died aged 119
A Japanese woman believed to have been the world's oldest person has died aged 119.
Kane Tanaka was born on 2 January 1903 - the year of the Wright Brothers' first controlled flight of their motor-driven airplane and when Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. In 2019, the Japanese supercentenarian was confirmed as the oldest living person when she was aged 116 years and 66 days, according to Guinness World Records.
The mother-of-five died of old age at a hospital in Fukuoka city, western Japan, on 19 April Japan's public broadcaster, NHK, said.It added that her favourite food items were chocolate and fizzy drinks, and she had reportedly hoped to stay healthy until she was 120 years old.Guinness World Records tweeted that it was sad to report her death and said Ms Tanaka was the"second oldest person ever recorded, behind only Jeanne Calment who lived to the age of 122".
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