Tomas Pinales Figuereo

Tomas Pinales Figuereo
Pinales Figuereo at the age of 110
Birth:	31 March 1906 Bajos de Haina, San Cristobal Province, Dominican Republic
Death:	24 September 2020 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Age:	114 years, 177 days
Country:	DOM
Validated

Tomas Pinales Figuereo [Spanish: Tomás] (31 March 1906 – 24 September 2020) was a Dominican Republic supercentenarian who was the world's oldest living man at the time of his death, as well as the oldest person ever from the Dominican Republic. His age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Biography

Tomas Pinales Figuereo was born in Bajos de Haina, San Cristobal Province, Dominican Republic on 31 March 1906.

He worked at the Rio Haina sugar mill until the early 1950s, where he nearly lost the thumb of his right hand due to an accident at work. He smoked in his younger years, but quit in 1992 after suffering from lung disease.

He had 10 children: Nicanor, Adelaida, Paulino, Daniel, Carmen, Ramona, Joaquín, Lidia, Miladys, and Altagracita, who were all alive at the time of his 111th birthday in 2017. At the time, he was estimated to have 33 grandchildren, 59 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.

He became the oldest known living person in Dominican Republic, following the death of 112-year-old Efrain Nunez Nunez on 22 May 2017.

Following the death of 113-year-old Masazo Nonaka on 20 January 2019, Pinales Figuereo became the World's Oldest Living Man.

He was a relative of Melanio Paredes (1951–), former Minister of Education, and Rolando Guante, sports columnist for El Nacional.

Pinales Figuereo died in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on 24 September 2020 at the age of 114 years, 177 days. He was the oldest person ever from Dominican Republic, and the eighth-oldest man ever, behind Jiroemon Kimura, Christian Mortensen, Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Juan Vicente Perez Mora, Horacio Celi Mendoza, Walter Breuning and Yukichi Chuganji. He was also the last surviving man born in 1906 and before 1908.

Gallery

Aged 100

On his 102nd birthday in 2008

Aged 102

Aged 105

Aged 106

Aged 107

Aged 109

Aged 110

Aged 110, with his daughter Adelaida

References

• 2022 validations Gerontology Research Group
• Tomás Pinales celebra 106 años El Nacional, 2 April 2012
• Cumple 112 años hombre que nació gobierno de Cáceres El Nacional, 9 April 2017

Dominican Republic's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E)

Efrain Nunez Nunez • Tomas Pinales Figuereo • Confesora Pena • Lilian Gonzalez de Andujar • A. R. M. • Francisco Reynoso • F. M. C.

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