| Horacio Celi Mendoza | |
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| Birth: | 3 January 1897 Piura, Peru |
| Death: | 25 September 2011 Campo Polo, Piura, Peru |
| Age: | 114 years, 265 days |
| Country: |  PER
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| Validated | |
Horacio Celi Mendoza (3 January 1897 – 25 September 2011) was a Peruvian supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). He is the oldest person ever in Peru and the fifth-oldest known man ever, behind Jiroemon Kimura, Christian Mortensen, Emiliano Mercado del Toro and Juan Vicente Perez Mora.
Biography
Horacio Celi Mendoza was born in Piura, Peru on 3 January 1897. When he was in his 20s, he married Zulema García, with whom he had 12 children; 9 outlived him: Luz Cristina, Miguel, Olinda, Rómulo, Gabriela, Juan, Horacio, Juana and Isabel. At the time of his death, his oldest living son, Miguel, was aged 84.
Following the death of 114-year-old Walter Breuning on 14 April 2011, Celi Mendoza became a candidate for the title of World's Oldest Living Man, although his family were unable to afford to pay the fee to submit his application to Guinness.
According to his physician, Dr. Araceli Guzmán, he maintained impressive lucidity for his age, and remembered the past with clarity and precision. He also lacked most health problems associated with age: he was not hypertensive, his blood pressure was perfect, and he never had diabetes. However, his vision was failing in his later years due to cataracts, and had difficulty walking.
Horacio Celi Mendoza died in Campo Polo, Piura, Peru on 25 September 2011 at the age of 114 years, 265 days.
Horacio Celi Mendoza was posthumously validated by the GRG in 2024 and given the Retroactive date of 27 December 2019.
Longevity Records
On 3 January 2011, he celebrated his 114th birthday becoming the 6th man in the history to reach this age (after Christian Mortensen in 1996, Yukichi Chuganji and Joan Riudavets-Moll in 2003, Emiliano Mercado del Toro in 2005 and Walter Breuning in 2010) and he became the first man to reach this age without holding the title of the world's oldest living man because Breuning (104 days older) was still alive at this time.
On 14 April 2011, following the desth of 114-year-old Walter Breuning of the USA, Celi Mendoza became the oldest living man in the world. Celi Mendoza was aged 114 years, 101 days at the time, this was the oldest age at which a man had ever gained the title at this time, until Jiroemon Kimura of Japan got the title at the age of 114 years, 159 days, after Celi Mendoza's death.
On 21 June 2011, he became the oldest living person in South America after the death of Maria Gomes Valentim from Brazil dead 18 days before her 115th birthday.
On 28 July 2011, he surpassed the age of Walter Breuning to become the 3rd oldest man ever recorded.
On 2 August 2011, he became the 3rd oldest living person in the world after the death of Venere Pizzinato-Papo from Italy also aged of 114.
He died on 25 September 2011 at the age of 114 years and 265 days. At the time of his death he was the oldest living man in the world, the oldest living person in South America and the third oldest living person in the world (behind Besse Cooper of USA aged of 115, and Chiyono Hasegawa from Japan also aged of 114, but 44 days older than him). Celi Mendoza is the first validated supercentenarian of Peru, and he remains the oldest Peruvian ever. He was also the 3rd-oldest man ever (behind Christian Mortensen and Emiliano Mercado del Toro both died at 115). He's now the 5th-oldest man ever, and he was also the oldest South American man ever, until Juan Vicente Perez Mora from Venezuela surpassed his age on 17 February 2024.
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References
- 2019 Validations Gerontology Research Group
- Murió el hombre más longevo del mundo Lamula, 27 September 2011