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A 112-year-old self-taught musician, coal miner and gin rummy aficionado from western New York (Grand Island) is the world’s oldest man, according to Guinness World Records Ltd.
Salustiano Sanchez-Blazquez became the world’s oldest man when Jiroemon Kimura died June 12 at age 116.
The world’s oldest person is a woman, 115-year-old Misao Okawa of Japan.
Guinness World Records used census reports, immigration papers, marriage records and news reports to confirm the record.
Robert Young, senior gerontology consultant with Guinness World Records, said 90 percent of all supercentenarians are female and Salustiano is currently the only male born in 1901 with proof of birth.
Born June 8, 1901, in village of El Tejado de Bejar, Spain, he was known for his talent on the dulzania, a double-reed wind instrument that he taught himself and played at weddings and village celebrations. At 17, he moved with his older brother Pedro and a group of friends to Cuba, where they worked in the cane fields.
In 1920, he came to the United States through Ellis Island and worked in the coal mines of Lynch, Ky. Ultimately, he moved to the Niagara Falls area of New York, where he still lives, working in construction and in the industrial furnaces. He married his wife, Pearl, in 1934.
In a statement provided by Guinness World Records, Salustiano
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