“He was 99, I didn’t think he’d be around that much longer,” Ramírez recalls. She is now 85, and her long-term guest, Celino Villaneuva Jaramillo, is 121 – very probably the world’s oldest man. Born in 1896 – a year after George VI, and four years before the current Guinness-listed oldest person, Nabi Tajima – Jaramillo lost his birth certificate in the same house fire that made him destitute 20 years ago. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Celino Jaramillo, born 1896, Chile Photograph: Piotr KozakJaramillo was born in the town of Río Bueno, around 30 miles south of the regional capital of Valdivia. For his 115th birthday in 2011, the billionaire president, Sebastián Piñera, personally flew down to Valdivia accompanied by the minister of social development, Joaquin Lavin, their plane loaded with generous gifts for Chile’s oldest citizen.

Source: The Guardian November 06, 2017 04:52 UTC