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Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies

posted by chromas on Monday April 23 2018, @07:00PM   
from the tennessine dept.

takyon writes:

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.

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• Re:Not really.... (Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Tuesday April 24 2018, @08:26PM

  by Osamabobama (5842) on Tuesday April 24 2018, @08:26PM (#671309)

  Therefore the 19th century of CE existence actually ended between 1895 and 1899.

  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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