Denzo Ishizaki

Denzo Ishizaki
Denzo Ishizaki at the age of 100
Birth:	2 October 1886 Ibaraki, Japan
Death:	29 April 1999 Kansago, Ibaraki, Japan
Age:	112 years, 209 days
Country:	JPN
Validated

Denzo Ishizaki [Japanese: 石崎 伝蔵 Ishizaki Denzō] (20 October 1886 – 29 April 1999) was a Japanese supercentenarian who, for a short time, was Japan's oldest living person and the world's oldest living man.

Biography

Denzo Ishizaki was born in Japan on 20 October 1886 and lived in Ibaraki Prefecture as a teacher.

Ishizaki became the oldest man in Japan following the death of 112-year-old Gengan Tonaki in 1997, and became the world's oldest recognized man following the death of 113-year-old Walter Richardson on 25 December 1998.

On 15 January 1999, he passed the final age of Gengan Tonaki and became the oldest Japanese man ever, and following the death of 113-year-old Yasu Akino on 12 February 1999, he became Japan's oldest person.

Denzo Ishizaki died in Kansago, Ibaraki, Japan on 29 April 1999, at the age of 112 years, 191 days from multiple organ failure, as the ninth-oldest living person in the world.

As world's oldest man, he was succeeded in title by then 111-year-old Spaniard Antonio Urrea-Hernandez. He still ranks among the 30 oldest men ever.

He is currently the oldest validated man ever from Ibaraki Prefecture.

Gallery

Ishizaki (undated)

Ishizaki at the age of 105

Ishizaki at the age of 110

Ishizaki shortly before he turned 111

Ishizaki in February 1999 at the age of 112

References

• Denzo Ishizaki, 112 Photo Gallery, Gerontology Research Group
• Japan's oldest person dies at 112

World's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (V • T • E)

Sylvester Melvin • Joseph Saint-Amour • William Fullingim • John Mosley Turner • Friedrich Wedeking • Frederick Butterfield • Jean Teillet • Charlie Nelson • Charlie Phillips • Zachariah Blackistone • James Nash • Walter Wilcox • Gregory Pandazes • Joe Thomas • Herman Smith-Johannsen • Alphaeus Philemon Cole • John Evans • Henri Perignon • James Wiggins • Frederick Frazier • Josep Armengol-Jover • Christian Mortensen • Walter Richardson • Denzo Ishizaki • Antonio Urrea-Hernandez • John Painter • Antonio Todde • Yukichi Chuganji • Joan Riudavets Moll • Fred Hale • Emiliano Mercado del Toro • Tomoji Tanabe • Henry Allingham • Walter Breuning • Horacio Celi Mendoza • Jiroemon Kimura • Salustiano Sanchez • Arturo Licata • Alexander Imich • Sakari Momoi • Yasutaro Koide • Israel Kristal • Francisco Nunez Olivera • Masazo Nonaka • Tomas Pinales Figuereo • Emilio Flores Marquez • Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia • Juan Vicente Perez Mora • Shi Ping • John Tinniswood

Japan's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • T • E)

Tome Yoshida • Tokusaburo Hatsukade • Haru Komai • Ishi Hayashi • Yoshigiku Ito • Tome Horigome • Haruno Shimada • Mito Umeta • Niwa Kawamoto • Isa Nakayama • Man Ichikawa • Koume Kabira • Masutaro Sato • Matsu Yoshikuni • Koharu Kodaira • Oto Michii • Toka Miyata • Momu Okuma • Ine Tsugawa • Seki Takehara • Waka Shirahama • Tane Ikai • Sue Utagawa • Suekiku Miyanaga • Asa Takii • Tase Matsunaga • Yasu Akino • Denzo Ishizaki • Kayo Fujii • Mie Ishiguro • Matsuno Oikawa • Yukichi Chuganji • Mitoyo Kawate • Ura Koyama • Yone Minagawa • Shitsu Nakano • Tsuneyo Toyonaga • Kaku Yamanaka • Kama Chinen • Chiyono Hasegawa • Jiroemon Kimura • Misao Okawa • Harumi Nakamura • Nabi Tajima • Chiyo Miyako • Kane Tanaka • Fusa Tatsumi • Tomiko Itooka

Japan's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (V • E)

Shizuo Jinjiang • Kokuzo Iwate • Eisaku Takada • Hisaharu Arai • Chojiro Goto • Yozotaro Yoshikawa • Masutaro Sato • Takataro Hiragushi • Mataichi Ono • Shotaro Tanaka • Rinzo Shimizu • Koji Onishi • Inasaku Abe • Mokotaru Osada • Eiju Tsuru • Kiichi Fujiwara • Nisaburo Matsuyama • Shimetaro Hara • Gihei Oka • Gengan Tonaki • Denzo Ishizaki • Sadayoshi Tanabe • Yukichi Chuganji • Kameni Nakamura • Minsho Ozawa • Totaro Murakami • Kohachi Shigetaka • Nijiro Tokuda • Tomoji Tanabe • Jiroemon Kimura • Jokichi Ikarashi • Sakari Momoi • Yasutaro Koide • Masamitsu Yoshida • Masazo Nonaka • Chitetsu Watanabe • Issaku Tomoe • Shojiro Shirai • Motoi Fukunishi • Mikizo Ueda • Shigeru Nakamura • Gisaburo Sonobe • Tomisaburo Wakui • Anonymous • Kiyotaka Mizuno