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03/05/2022 10:41 pm
Tomás Pinales Figuereo (31 March 1906 - c.24 September 2020) was a supercentenarian from the Dominican Republic whose age is currently pending on LAS. His final age was likely 114 years, 177 days, which, incredibly, is the same exact final age of A. R. O. (1902-2017), the oldest documented woman from the Dominican Republic, meaning that the Dominican longevity record could be shared jointly between the two. He was born in Bajos de Haina, San Cristóbal Province, Dominican Republic, in what is now called Itabo, where the Dominican Oil Refinery is presently located.
Some of his relatives include Melanio Paredes, former Minister of Education, and Rolando Guante, sports columnist for El Nacional. He worked at the Río Haina sugar mill until the early 1950s, where he nearly lost the thumb of his right hand due to an accident at work. He smoked in his younger years, but quit in 1992 after suffering from lung disease. He had 10 children: Nicanor, Adelaida, Paulino, Daniel, Carmen, Ramona, Joaquín, Lidia, Miladys, and Altagracita, who were all alive at the time of his 111th birthday in 2017. At the time, he was estimated to have 33 grandchildren, 59 great-grandchildren, and 2 great-great-grandchildren.
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With his daughter, Adelaida:
A photo from his 111th birthday used to exist in this article, but it was unfortunately deleted.
Profile picture: Marita Camacho Quirós (1911-2025)
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09/02/2023 1:26 am
A photo from his 111th birthday used to exist in this article, but it was unfortunately deleted.
Any chance of contacting the authors of that article to see if they could repost that photo? Or at least to share it with you, if that's OK?
He looked very strong at age 105. I'm not surprised that he subsequently lived for almost another decade.
19/08/2025 10:42 pm
https://longeviquest.com/2025/08/tomas-pinales-figuereo-114-validated-as-former-worlds-oldest-man/
Tomás Pinales Figuereo, 114, Validated as Former World’s Oldest Man
Tomás Pinales Figuereo, a Dominican man who claimed to have been 114 at the time of his death in 2020, has been officially validated as the former World’s Oldest Living Man (2019–2020) and as the oldest known person in the nation’s history.
The Global Validation Commission unanimously voted in favor of his validation after reviewing the documentation. Although the validation was approved in June, the announcement was delayed due to unforeseen circumstances.
Biography
Tomás Pinales Figuereo was born in Bajos de Haina, a town in the San Cristóbal province of the Dominican Republic, on 31 March 1906. He was one of nine children and outlived all of his siblings. He married, went on to father ten children, and worked at a sugar mill until the early 1950s, when he nearly lost his right thumb in a workplace accident. Although he rarely drank alcohol, he smoked for many decades until developing a lung disease in 1992.
By his 111th birthday, he had 33 grandchildren, 59 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. All ten of his children were still living, and he resided with his daughter Ramona.
Pinales Figuereo passed away in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, on 24 September 2020, at the age of 114 years, 177 days.
Longevity Records
In January 2019, following the passing of Masazo Nonaka (Japan), he was a candidate for the title of World’s Oldest Living Man, although Gustav Gerneth (Germany) claimed to be older. When Gerneth died on 21 October 2019, Pinales Figuereo became the oldest known living man with age-supported documentation.
He held the title until his own passing in September 2020, when he was succeeded by Emilio Flores Márquez (Puerto Rico).
To this day, he remains the nation’s oldest documented person ever, and is still among the top 10 oldest documented men ever.
http://www.supercentenariditalia.it/persone-viventi-piu-longeve-in-italia.
Persone viventi più longeve in Italia – Supercentenari d'Italia (supercentenariditalia.it)
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20/08/2025 12:16 am
Absolutely wonderful news for his family and male longevity in general.
Congratulations to all of the researchers and validators involved.
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20/08/2025 1:42 pm
This page on LQ is going to need updating now with the validation of Tomas as well as Chitetsu Watanabe and Bob Weighton https://longeviquest.com/oldest-men-ever/
22/08/2025 5:41 pm
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