World's oldest person dies at 116
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Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden, recognized as the world's oldest person, died Monday in a nursing home, the home's administrator said. She was 116. Bolden was born Aug. 15, 1890, according to the Gerontology Research Group, a Los Angeles organization that tracks the ages of the world's oldest people.
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Togo President Gnassingbe Eyadema,  Africa's longest serving ruler, died on Saturday after 38 years  in power and the army named his son as his successor.
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Africa's longest serving ruler, Togo's President Gnassingbe Eyadema, has died, the government says.
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Queen Elizabeth II and her family bade farewell to Princess Alice, who died a week earlier at 102, believed to be the greatest age ever reached by a member of the British royal family.
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The longest serving astronaut in history, John W. Young, announced his retirement on Tuesday. Mr. Young, who has spent 42 years at the National Aeronautics and Space
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Tonga's King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, one of the world's longest reigning monarchs, dies in a New Zealand hospital.
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A 55-year-old Sumatran orangutan, believed to be the world's oldest, has died, a Miami zoo spokesman said.
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The world's oldest man, who gave up  driving at 108 because "slow drivers annoyed him", dies at 113.
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Fred Hale Sr., believed to have been the oldest man on Earth, has died less than a month before his 114th birthday at a DeWitt, NY, nursing home.
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A spoonful of bee pollen and another of honey every day, a short walk and a bit of gardening. Those were the secrets behind the long life of Fred Hale, the world&#39;s oldest man, who has died in New York state just short of his 114th birthday.
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An 111-year-old Japanese just named the world&#39;s oldest man said he owed his longevity to steering clear of alcohol.
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Edmund Hillary, the modest New Zealand beekeeper who shot to global fame as the first person to climb Mount Everest, died Friday aged 88.
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An 111-year-old Japanese just named the world's oldest man said he owed his longevity to steering clear of alcohol.
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A 67-year-old Romanian woman who last week became the oldest known person to give birth has said she had two abortions in her early twenties, a newspaper reported here.
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New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who along with Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first to conquer Mount Everest, has died. He was 88.
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A 66-year-old Romanian woman has become the world's oldest recorded mother, giving birth to a baby girl yesterday in Bucharest.
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(Dewitt -WABC, November 20, 2004 ) - A man documented as the world&#39;s oldest man has passed away, 12 days shy of his 114th birthday.