Jiroemon Kimura [Japanese: 木村次郎右衛門] (né Kinjiro Miyake [Japanese: 三宅 金治郎]) was a Japanese supercentenarian. At the age of 116 years, 54 days, he lived to be the oldest validated man ever, having surpassed Christian Mortensen‘s prior record of 115 years, 252 days. Kimura was recognized as the oldest living person for the last six months of his life after the death of Dina Manfredini on 17 December 2012 and became the oldest man in recorded history 11 days later. He became the last known man born in the 1800s after the death of Walter Breuning on 14 April 2011, inheriting the title of world’s oldest man at the age of 113 years, 360 days, making him the oldest man to receive this record. He was the eighth person in recorded history to reach the age of 116. He was also the first man to reach the age of 116 and remains the only man to do so. He was among the very last living people to have been born in the 1800s.