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In her childhood she did gymnastics, and, as she remarked later, "got everything she wanted from her parents". [1] [7] Kretschmann also said in an interview that she wanted to do what her older brother "was allowed to do" (namely sports). She thus ran 800 metres as a "discipline" which earned her a gold pin from the sports authorities.
[1] Tomiko Itooka (born 23 May 1908) of Japan is the world's oldest living person whose age has been validated. [2] João Marinho Neto (born 5 October 1912) of Brazil is the world's oldest living man whose age has been validated. [2]
Tomiko Itooka (Japanese: 糸岡 富子, romanized: Itooka Tomiko, born 23 May 1908) is a Japanese supercentenarian who, at the age of 116 years, 217 days, has been the world's oldest verified living person since the death of Maria Branyas of Spain on 19 August 2024.
Emma Martina Luigia Morano OMRI [1] (29 November 1899 – 15 April 2017) was an Italian supercentenarian. She was the world's oldest living person from 13 May 2016 until her death on 15 April 2017, aged 117 years and 137 days. Until her death, she was also the last living person verified to have been born in the 1800s. [2]
The oldest man verified by modern standards, and the only man with undisputed evidence to have lived to be over 115, is Japanese man Jiroemon Kimura (19 April 1897 – 12 June 2013), aged 116 years and 54 days. The oldest verified living person is Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, born 23 May 1908, aged 116 years, 210 days.
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Whereas Li Ching-Yuen himself claimed to have been born in 1736, Wu Chung-Chieh, a professor of the Chengdu University, asserted that Li was born in 1677: according to a 1930 New York Times article, Wu discovered Imperial Chinese government records from 1827 congratulating Li on his 150th birthday, and further documents later congratulating him ...
When Sonny's life was hanging in the balance at just one year old, his family was hoping for a miracle. Shortly after he was born, he was diagnosed with biliary atresia, a condition that impacts ...