Spaniard Saturnino de la Fuente, described by Guinness World Records last September as the world’s oldest living person, died on Tuesday at the age of 112, according to a Spanish news report.
The state-owned Spanish news agency EFE said that de la Fuente died in a house in the northwestern Spanish city of Leon. De la Fuente was born in the Puente Castro neighborhood of Lyon on February 11, 1909. EFE added he was a cobbler and started working in a shoe factory at the age of 13, reports Al-Rai daily.
De la Fuente survived the Spanish flu outbreak in 1918, and had 8 children from his wife, Antonina, and then had 14 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren, according to the EFE report.
The agency also indicated that he is scheduled to be buried today, Wednesday, in a local cemetery.