World’s oldest person, French nun Lucile Randon, dies at 118

Paris: The world's oldest person, French nun Lucile Randon, has died aged 118. Ms. Randon - who assumed the name Sister André when she took holy orders in 1944 - died in her sleep at her nursing home in Toulon, France. A spokesman from her nursing home, David Tavella, shared news of her death with reporters.

Born in 1904 in southern France, she lived through two world wars and also saw 27 French heads of state.

Despite being blind and reliant on a wheelchair, Sister André cared for



other elderly people - some of whom were much younger than herself.

She had been Europe's eldest for some time, but she entered the Guinness Book of Records last April as the world's oldest person following the death of Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman who lived until she was 119-years-old.

The record for oldest confirmed age reached by a human belongs to Jeanne Calment, also of southern France, who died in 1997 at the age of 122.