who is the oldest person living
Last June, Okama was given the title of world's oldest living person after 116-year-old Jiroemon Kimura, also from Japan, died. To date, the oldest person known to have ever lived was Jeanne Calment of France. She died at age 122, Guinness World Records reports. Okawa was born in 1898 in Tenma, Osaka. In 1919, she married her husband and they had three children. When her husband passed away in June 1931, Okawa moved back to Osaka.