Emiliano Mercado del Toro

Emiliano Mercado del Toro was a Puerto Rican supercentenarian and military veteran who was, at age 115, the world's oldest person following the death of 116-year-old Elizabeth Bolden on December 11, 2006, until his own death on January 24, 2007. He had already been the world's oldest man from November 19, 2004, upon the death of Fred H. Hale, Sr.At the time of his death in January 2007, aged 115 years and 156 days, Mercado was the second oldest fully validated male ever, behind Danish-American Christian Mortensen's record of 115 years 252 days. Japanese man, Shigechiyo Izumi, was still believed to be older at the time of Mercado's death, but his record was withdrawn by Guinness World Records in 2010.

21 August 1891

Born on the same birth day (21 August): Aleix Vidal • Anne Hobbs • Carl Gegenbaur • Christian Vázquez • Diego Klattenhoff • Dominik Kubalík • Emilio Salgari • Ivan Stang • J. D. Martinez • Jasmin Wöhr • Jerry DaVanon • Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra • Kacey Musgraves • Leandro Bacuna • Martin Andanar • Matteo Gentili • Nigel Pearson • Nikolay Bogolyubov • Robert Miles (rugby league) • Sergey Brin • Wilt Chamberlain

Born in the same month (August 1891): Acharya Chatursen Shastri • Adolf Busch • Arthur Bliss • Benno Schotz • C. E. M. Joad • David Shimoni • Edgar Zilsel • Henry Bachtold • Jacques Lipchitz • John McDermott (golfer) • Karl Kobelt • Marquis James • Minna Craucher • Roy Agnew • Stancho Belkovski • Viktor Zhirmunsky • William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim