What is Shigechiyo Izumi?
Shigechiyo Izumi (? - 21 February 1986) was a [[Japan|Japanese]] [[Centenarian]] who was recognised as the [[oldest living person]] in the world after the death of Niwa Kawamoto on 16 November 1976. Izumi's claimed birthdate of 29 June 1865 was accepted by [[Guinness World Records]], which recognised him as the oldest verified man ever, but in the 2012 edition of the Guinness World Records book, he was not mentioned and was replaced with [[Christian Mortensen]]. After a brief hospitalization, he died of [[pneumonia]] at 9:15PM (Japanese UTC) on 21 February 1986 at the age 120, although some claim his [[birth certificate]] belonged to a deceased brother. And his family might have used ''Shigechiyo'' as a necronym. Obituaries were found of a centenarian with the exact same name but born in '''1880''' instead of 1865. The oldest undisputed case of male longevity is [[Jiroemon Kimura]], also from Japan, who died on June 12 2013 aged 116 years and 54 days. == Related pages == * [[Jeanne Calment]] * [[Oldest people]] [[Category:People from Kagoshima Prefecture]] [[Category:1986 deaths]]