Video: Japanese man is world's oldest person Born on April 19 in 1897, he would have been six when the Wright brothers flew the first plane ever, already 64-years-old when Yuri Gagarin first flew into space and 93 years old when the World Wide Web came to being. I don't know exactly... maybe it's all thanks to the sun above me. I am always looking up towards the sky, that is how I am," he added when asked how he thinks he survived so long. 'Thank you very much. You are very kind man': I've been learning to speak in English," he told reporters, showing off his newly acquired English phrase earlier this year. Mr Kimura has five children, 14 grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren and 13 great great grandchildren, the youngest being 11-month-old great great grandson Shoichi Okada.