Nabi Tajima

Nabi Tajima 4 August 1900 – 21 April 2018) was a Japanese supercentenarian who was the last living person certified to have been born in the nineteenth century and the world's oldest living person from 15 September 2017, until her own death. She remains the oldest recorded Japanese and Asian person in history and the world's third oldest person ever to be validated by modern standards, behind Jeanne Calment and Sarah Knauss.

Biography
Tajima was born in Araki, an area which was then Wan Village, in the westernmost part of Kikaijima Island. From February 2002 until her death, she resided in a nursing home named "Kikaien" in Kikai, Kagoshima. Her husband, Tominishi Tajima died in 1991 at the age of 95 according to some sources, or possibly 1992 or 1993 according to others. She had nine children (seven sons and two daughters). In September 2017 she was reported as having around 160 descendants, including great-great-great-grandchildren.

Death
Tajima died on 21 April 2018 in Kikai, Kagoshima Prefecture at the age of 117 years, 260 days. After Tajima's death, Chiyo Miyako in Yokohama, Japan, became the world's oldest living person.