World’s oldest man dies in US age 114 — official

LOS ANGELES–The world’s oldest man, Walter Breuning, whose first memories included the day US president William McKinley was shot in 1901, has died at age 114, an official at the retirement home where he lived said Friday.

“He did die yesterday afternoon” of natural causes at a hospital in Great Falls, in the US state of Montana, said Stacia Kirby, a spokeswoman for Rainbow Senior Living retirement home.

Breuning, born September 21, 1896, was the second oldest person in the world, just 26 days younger than American woman Besse Cooper, the world’s oldest living person, according to the Gerontology Research Group which tracks the world’s oldest centenarians.