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Jamaica's Violet Brown dies at 117; Japanese woman now oldest

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http://www.grg.org/SC/WorldSCRankingsList.html

shows Nabi Tajima to be the only person still alive born in the 19th century. Wow.

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JJ

Amazing that on that list that 19 out of the 39 are Japanese.

Also, they say there are no known people alive today who were born in the 19th century (as the 19th century is considered to have ended on Dec 31, 1899).

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Warm weather all years around there?

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