"On his last day, he was surrounded by music and love", the family tells Guinness World Records.
John Tinniswood himself did not know what made his long life possible. He said he lived moderately and treated himself to fish and chips every Friday.
I can't think of any special secrets I have. I was quite active when I was young, I walked a lot. If that had anything to do with it, I don't know, he said earlier this year according to The Guardian.
Tinniswood became the world's oldest living man at the age of 111, when 114-year-old Juan Vicente Pérez from Venezuela passed away.
The oldest man who has lived, as far as is known, was Japanese Jiroemon Kimura, who became 116 years old. The world's current oldest living woman is also from Japan, 116-year-old Tomiko Itooka.
