Imich was affirmed the world's oldest living man in April by the Gerontology Research Group after the past record-holder, Arturo Licata, died days before his 112th birthday.
"Not like its the Nobel Prize," Imich told the New York Times then. "I never thought I'd be that old."
How could he have been able to he isn't that right? "I don't have the foggiest idea, I essentially didn't pass on prior," Imich kidded a month ago in a meeting with NBC. "I have no clue how this happened."
He did joke to the Times that not having kids may have helped, and also "great genes."
Anyway the supercentenarian's wellbeing had been in decrease as of late. His niece, Karen Bogen, told the Associated Press that when she went to Imich a day prior, he didn't remember her.
Imich was conceived on Feb. 4, 1903, in Poland, and experienced childhood in Czestochowa in southern Poland. He and his second wife, Wela, a painter and psychotherapist, moved to Waterbury, Conn., in 1951. Imich moved to New York in 1986 after Wela's demise.
In his late 20s, the Times reports, he "developed captivated with a Polish medium who was known as Matylda S., a specialist's widow picking up prestige for séances that supposedly rang the dead." He turned into a researcher of the mysterious, in the end altering a collection — "Staggering Tales of the Paranormal: Documented Accounts of Poltergeist, Levitations, Phantoms, and Other Phenomena" — that was distributed in 1995, when Imich was 92.
Sakari Momoi, a 111-year-old Japanese man conceived only one day after Imich, is presently accepted to be the world's oldest man, yet authorities first must confirm his age.
As per the Gerontology Research Group, there are 66 living ladies more seasoned than Momoi, including a Japanese woman, Misao Okawa, who is
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