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Montevideo, September 21st 2024 - 10:44 UTC

Tag: Guinness World Records

  • Wednesday, April 3rd 2024 - 19:02 UTC

    Oldest man on earth dies aged 114

    Juan Vicente had 11 children, 41 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and 12 great-great-grandchildren

    Venezuelan national Juan Vicente Pérez Mora passed away Tuesday due to respiratory complications at the age of 114 in San José de Bolívar, Francisco de Miranda municipality, in the state of Táchira. He was certified by the Guinness World Record on Feb. 4, 2022, as the oldest man on earth. He had been born in El Cobre, Táchira State, on May 27, 1909.

  • Friday, May 27th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

    Oldest man in the world turns 113

    Juan Vicente's greatest wish is to live longer, it was reported.

    Venezuelan resident Juan Vicente Perez Mora is turning 113 years old Friday. The Spain-born man is officially the world's longest-living man, according to the Guinness organization.

  • Sunday, October 3rd 2021 - 16:35 UTC

    New candidate for longest ever living person dies in Eritrea aged 127

    Other relatives believed was in fact 137 years old and baptized at the age of 10 because there was no clergyman in the city before.

    Eritrean citizen Natabay Tinsiew has died last week at the age of 127, making him eligible for a berth within the Guinness Book of Records as the world's longest-living person, his family hoped.

  • Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 - 08:11 UTC

    Chris, the Australian Merino sheep with a 41.1kg fleece has died

    
Chris the merino sheep made global headlines after being found wandering alone outside Australia's capital Canberra with masses of wool sagging from its frame

    An Australian sheep that entered the Guinness World Records after being found with an enormously overgrown fleece has died, it was announced. Chris the merino sheep made global headlines after being found wandering alone outside Australia's capital Canberra with masses of wool sagging from its frame in 2015.