The world’s oldest person, Tomiko Itooka, died the night of Dec. 29. She died from natural causes and lived to be 116 years and 220 days old.

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world's oldest living person, has died. She was 116. According to Guinness World Records, she became the oldest living person in August 2024 after the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas Morera.

Itooka was born on May 23, 1908, in the commercial hub of Osaka — four months before the Ford Model T automobile was launched in the United States.

The world's oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after Tomiko Itooka.