Juan Vicente Pérez

Juan Vicente Pérez Mora (27 May 1909 – 2 April 2024) was a Venezuelan supercentenarian who, until his death aged 114 years, 311 days, was the world's oldest verified living man following the death of Spain's Saturnino de la Fuente García on 18 January 2022. He was the last surviving man verified to have been born in the first decade of the 20th century, and is the fourth-oldest verified man ever, after Jiroemon Kimura, Christian Mortensen and Emiliano Mercado del Toro.

Juan Vicente Pérez
Pérez on his 113th birthday in 2022
Born
Juan Vicente Pérez Mora

(1909-05-27)27 May 1909
El Cobre, Táchira, Venezuela
Died (aged 114 years, 311 days)
San Jose de Bolívar, Táchira, Venezuela
NationalityVenezuelan
Occupations
  • Farmer
  • sheriff
  • construction worker
Known for
  • World's oldest living man
    (18 January 2022 –
    2 April 2024)
  • Oldest Venezuelan ever
Spouse
Ediofina del Rosario García
(m. 1938; died 1997)
Children11

At the time of his death, he was the second-oldest living Latin American, behind Inah Canabarro Lucas, and the fourth-oldest verified living person in the world, behind Maria Branyas, Tomiko Itooka and Canabarro Lucas.

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