Dina Manfredini - World's oldest living woman - World's oldest person ever

Dina Manfredini - World's oldest living woman - World's oldest person ever

According to Guinness World Records, Iowa woman Dina Manfredini, 115, is now the world's oldest living person after the death of a Georgia woman at 116 on Tuesday.

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Born before Amelia Earhart, Iowa woman Dina Manfredini has lived in three different centuries on her way to achieving a milestone for longevity.

According to Guinness World Records, Manfredini, of Des Moines, is now the oldest living person in the world at 115 years and 245 days. She assumed that status after the death of Georgia woman Besse Cooper Tuesday at the age of 116.

Manfredini is also the only verified Italian person to reach 115 years old in documented history, according to Robert Young, the senior consultant of gerontology for Guinness World Records. She is just 15 days older than the second-oldest person in the world, Japanese record holder Jiroemon Kimura. She also is about a week away from being named the world’s oldest immigrant, a record set by Danish-born American Christian Mortensen, according to Guinness. (Mortensen died in 1998 at the age of 115 years, 252 days.)

Manfredini was born on April 4, 1897, and grew up in Pievepelago, Italy, before moving to Iowa in 1920 with her late husband, Riccardo. After her husband was injured at work, she helped support the family by working at a food processing factory and at a Des Moines ordnance plant that produced ammunition in World War II. She also cleaned houses on the side, which she continued to do until she was 90 years old, after raising her four children.

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Roger Allsopp - World's Oldest Person to Swim The English Channel

Roger Allsopp - World's Oldest Person to Swim The English Channel set Guinness World Record

At an age when many of his contemporaries are contentedly inactive, a 70-year-old grandfather of three has become the world's oldest person ever to swim the English Channel.

As The Guardian is reporting, retired breast cancer surgeon Roger Allsopp claimed the new Guinness World Record in the early hours of Wednesday morning, after swimming 21 nautical miles from Dover, England to northern France in 17 hours and 51 minutes.

At 70 years and four months old, Allsopp just narrowly beat the previous world record set by Matt Damon's uncle George Brunstad, who swam England's most famous waterway at 70 years, four days old in August 2004. And it wasn't his first time, either -- a 2006 swim previously snagged Allsopp the title of the oldest Briton to cross the channel, the Daily Record reports.

"I do feel an immense sense of achievement and relief that I have been successful," Allsopp was quoted by the AFP as saying. "This has been an incredible personal challenge for me. That a man of my grand age can achieve such a physical and mental challenge proves that you can live younger if you keep active in mind and body."

The Yorkshire Post reports that Allsopp's efforts helped raise £750,000 (or roughly $1.2 million) for cancer research equipment at the University of Southampton.

''To swim the English Channel is a great challenge and to do it at the mature age of 70 years is astounding," Anna Orford, Official Guinness World Records Adjudicator, told The Telegraph. "We are very pleased to congratulate Roger on this achievement and in doing so setting a new Guinness World Record.''

Though he's already been praised by Orford and others worldwide, Allsopp -- whose first craving after arriving on dry land was a glass of lemonade -- said reprising the achievement is unlikely and he is now looking forward to plenty of rest. "My body has told me not to do anything like this again," he told the UK Press Association.

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Maria Gomes Valentim - World's oldest person dies in Brazil

Maria Gomes Valentim - World's oldest person dies in Brazil, just short of age 115

A Brazilian woman listed by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person died Tuesday, just weeks shy of her 115th birthday. The title now reverts to a woman in the United States.

Maria Gomes Valentim died of multiple organ failure, said Helerson Lima, a spokesman for the nursing home where she lived. Valentim would have turned 115 on July 9.

Guinness said Tuesday on its website that Valentim, "the first Brazilian super-centenarian to hold the title," died at the age of 114 years, 347 days.

On May 18, Guinness determined that Valentim was 48 days older than the person previously considered the world's oldest human, Besse Cooper from Monroe, Georgia.

"With Maria's passing, the title of Oldest Living Person reverts back to American Besse Cooper, age 114 years 299 days," Guinness said.

The Georgia woman's son, Sid Cooper, said Tuesday that his mother is doing well at her Monroe retirement community.

"She's gained some weight, she's eating real good," Sid Cooper said.

"Her memory is still really good," he added. "She remembers things from a long time ago and recognizes people."

Guinness verified that Valentim was born on July 9, 1896, in the city of Carangola in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais. She lived there all her life.

Last month, Guinness said on its website that Valentim, who was known as "Grandma Quita," attributed her longevity to a healthy diet: eating a roll of bread every morning with coffee, fruit and the occasional milk with linseed.

Valentim's family told reporters that she had a stubborn streak and always made a habit of minding her own business. They also said that her father lived to be 100.

"She says she has lived long because she has always taken care of her own life — and not meddled in the lives of others," granddaughter Jane Ribeiro Moraes, 63, told a local newspaper in May.

Valentim married her husband, Joao, in 1913. He died in 1946.

Valentim is survived by four grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and five great-great grandchildren. Her only son died at age 75 in the early 1990s.

Valentim was scheduled to be buried Tuesday afternoon at the Carangola cemetery.

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Jiroemon Kimura - World's newest oldest man set Guinness World Record 2011

Jiroemon Kimura - World's newest oldest man set Guinness World Record 2011

The new oldest living man is turning 114 years old today. Jiroemon Kimura from Kyoto, Japan has been named by the Guinness World Records organization as the new ‘Oldest Living Man’. The previous record holder was Walter Breuning from the US, who passed away on April 14, 2011 at the age of 114.

Kimura was born on April 19, 1897 and is the third oldest person living in Japan. The other two are women; Chiyono Hasegawa was born on November 20, 1896 and Shige Hirooka was born on January 16, 1897.

Kimura also is the only known man to be alive that was born before 1900. He is also on the Guinness World Records list for the top 10 list of oldest people; he ranks sixth.

Kimura said that he attributes his longevity to eating meals that are small in portion size. He also said that he likes to read the newspaper, but he uses a magnifying glass in order to read it.

The US has not lost out to having a record of longevity. The Guinness World Records for the ‘Oldest Living Person’ goes to Besse Berry Brown who was born on August 26, 1896 and is from the US.

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Walter Breuning - World’s oldest living man Guinness World Record 2011

Walter Breuning has blown the candles out on his birthday cake 113 times, and today, he’ll make it 114. Breuning, a Montana resident, is the world’s oldest living man, and will celebrate his 114th birthday tonight.

The invite only birthday party will include two members from the Guinness Book of World Records, who will present Breuning with a copy of the latest edition of the famous book.

    “What Walter has achieved by reaching the age of 114 is no small feat,” said Robert Young, Senior Consultant for Gerontology, Guinness World Records. “Walter officially became the Oldest Man in the World on July 18, 2009, and the fact that he has held this record for over a year is amazing. The 2011 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records is the first edition that recognizes Walter’s accomplishment, and I’m so pleased to personally present him with a copy today.”

According to Market Watch, The Guinness Book of World Records has celebrated 72 women who have reached the age of 114. Breuning is only the 6th male to reach 114.

Eugenie Blanchard of the French island of Saint Barthelemy is the world’s oldest person, beating Breuning by just 6 months.

Breuning was born in 1896, and in his 114 years of earth he has gathered this bit of wisdom.

    “Be good to everybody, be kind to everybody, and help other people,” Breuning said. “The more you do for other people, the better you are going to help yourself. Every day is a good day and make it that way.”

Happy Birthday Walter Breuning.

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World's oldest living man with good health set Guinness World Record - Walter Breuning

Guinness Records' oldest living man still enjoys good health after 113 years

Guinness World Records calls Walter Breuning the world's oldest living man.

A resident of the Rainbow Retirement Community in Great Falls, Mont., for 30 years, Breuning swears by a simple regimen: exercise, eat (but only two meals per day, plus one baby aspirin), work, repeat.

World's oldest living man with good health Mr.Walter Breuning photo

Of course, at 113, Breuning doesn't work much these days. He performs light, upper-body calisthenics for 10 minutes each morning, listens to radio news (his deteriorating eyesight prevents him from reading), entertains a continuous stream of visitors and retires by 8 p.m. Despite some wear and tear, Breuning, who uses a walker, has a clean bill of health.

"The way I feel, I'll be here a long time yet," he says.

Walter Breuning maintains an unequivocally rosy outlook on life. While many adults dread old age, Breuning thinks people ages 19 to 25 are the most troubled; after that, each year marks an improvement.

He began his 50-year career with the Great Northern Railway as a teenager, in 1913. He enlisted for military service during World War I but was never called for duty. By the time World War II flared, he was too old to serve. His wife of 35 years died in 1957.

Last year, researchers from Boston University visited Breuning, extracting blood for a study on genetic markers of long life. Breuning told them they weren't going to find anything revelatory.

His own prescription for healthy aging is following a daily routine. And death doesn't require a second thought.

"You're born to die," he says. "Everybody should know that. There's nothing to be afraid of."

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Oldest person in the world set World Record - Georgian

A Georgian woman, who will turn 130 this summer, is making a claim to be the oldest person in the world.

Antisa Khvichava has her birth documents, dating back to July 8 1880, as proof.

Georgian authorities have reportedly forwarded her name to the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest person in the world.

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If the birth documents are genuine, she will take away the title from a 114-year-old woman in Japan.

Khvichava spends her time playing backgammon and drinking vodka.

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