Nabi Tajima

Nabi Tajima [Japanese: 田島ナビ] was a Japanese supercentenarian who was the oldest validated person in the world at the time of her death, and remains the fifth-oldest validated person ever recorded after Jeanne Calment, Kane Tanaka, Sarah Knauss and Lucile Randon. She became the oldest person in Japan following the death of an anonymous woman of Tokyo on 27 September 2015, and the oldest person in the world following the death of Violet Brown on 15 September 2017. Tajima was the last known surviving validated person born in the year 1900, as well as the last known surviving validated person born in the 19th century.