World's oldest person dies in New York aged 116
The world's oldest person, Susannah Mushatt Jones, aged 116, passed away in New York on Thursday night, said a Gerontology Research Group consultant. Jones, who had been ill for ten days, was born in Alabama, US in 1899. Guinness World Records recognised her as the oldest person alive after 117-year-old Misao Okawa died in Tokyo in April 2015.