World's oldest person, Kane Tanaka, dies in Japan aged 119

Kane Tanaka, the oldest living individual in Japan, who had previously been certified as the world’s oldest person died at the age of 119, local officials said on Monday, AFP reported. Kane Tanaka was born on January 2, 1903, in the southwestern Fukuoka region of Japan, the same year the Wright brothers flew for the first time and Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.