World's oldest person, last survivor of 19th century, dies in Japan at 117
The century of Lincoln, Darwin and Van Gogh has quietly passed into history with the death of the world's oldest known person and last survivor of the 19th century.
Nabi Tajima, 117, died in a hospital Saturday in Kikai, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan's Kyodo News reported. Tajima had been mostly bedridden at a nursing home in recent years. She was hospitalized about a month ago, family members told the news service.
Also at The Washington Post.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @05:58AM (2 children)
I read you or first link, but that's not how we measure dates today.
The first century started in 1 CE (An arbitrary year). One hundred years makes a century. Therefore the first century spanned from 1CE to 100 CE. The second century, then, started in 101 CE.
This puts 1899 and 1900 in the 19th century.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday April 24 2018, @05:36PM (1 child)
Which sidesteps the issue and does not address the fact that we know that arbitrary year 1 CE actually occurred 1 to 4 years earlier than it was attributed to. Or, put another way, there was actually been 2019-2023 or so years between your arbitrary 1 CE and now.
(Wikipedia on "Common Era") Or here [religioustolerance.org].
Therefore the 1st Century of CE existence actually spanned from either 4 or 1 BCE through 95 through 99 CE. Therefore the 19th century of CE existence actually ended between 1895 and 1899. I was right, sorry. Or, while we can say that a person was the oldest living person, we actually have no definitive idea which AD or CE century a person really belongs to unless a definitive answer solves the Dionysius Exiguus puzzle objectively. If you are a math geek, whom nobody likes. Time is relative anyway. I declare I am 1,000 years old today by the subjective approximation of my own thought cycles. Let the feast begin!
However, your answer did get me to look up the interesting fact that apparently the last year 1899 birth outlived all people born in 1900 - the list picks up in 1901.
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(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Tuesday April 24 2018, @08:26PM
All of this assumes we are using constant duration centuries. It would be easier to say that the first century CE was between 100 and 105 years long, and the rest were as expected.
(I expect the current century to last 100 years, for what it's worth.)
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