The world's oldest person, Susannah Mushatt Jones has dies in York at age of 116. She has been ill for last 10 day and died at a senior home, Robert Young, a senior consultant for the Gerontology Research Group said.
Young said that Jones was actually 116 years, 311 days old. She was born in 1899 in a small farm town near Montgomery, Alabama and attended a special school for young black girls.
Jones nominated as the Guinness World Records' official oldest person when 117-year-old Misao Okawa died in Tokyo last year.
116-year-old Emma Morano, of Italy, just a few months younger than Jones, is now the unofficial world's oldest person, Young said.
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