January 2024 passed with a death of 1909.

While it wasn't as bad as previous Januarys, there was a meltdown among supercentenarian men.

We also had 3 deaths from 1910 and 3 deaths from 1911 (also between deaths from 1912 and 1913)

Starting in February we had another loss in 1909 (rest in peace Pearl Berg)

I'm also worried about what might happen to 1910 this year.

In January we lost some people (either men or women) who were older in some countries, continents and important events:
4/ Jan Susana Gutierrez Godoy, oldest person in Mexico
7/ Jan Andre Ludwig, oldest man in France, oldest survivor of the Second World War and oldest man in Europe
7/ Jan Juozas Merecka, oldest person in Lithuania
11/ Jan Efrain Antonio Rios Garcia, oldest person in Colombia
12 Jan Zivan Popovic, oldest man in Serbia
12/ Jan Luis Torras Martinez, oldest man in Spain
17/Jan Kitty Jeffery, oldest person in Ireland
20/ Jan Juan Gabriel Hernandez Matamoros, oldest man in Costa Rica
24/ Jan Francis Zouein, oldest man in the USA, and oldest man born in Lebanon, although there are doubts about his date of birth
26/ Jan Catherina van der Linden, oldest person living in Australia, oldest person born in the Netherlands and oldest person living in Oceania
30/ Jan Mabel Mah, oldest person in Canada
30/ Jan Tsuneji Oyama, successor to Andre Ludwig as oldest survivor of World War II
Does anyone have any other highlights like this?

For January we can add the anonymous woman from Leiden, who could be the oldest living in the Netherlands and the oldest born in Morocco, but there is no confirmation of her date of birth or date of death

In February we lost:

2/Feb Batuli Lamichhane, Claimed oldest person born and living Nepal, though unrecognized

3/Feb Juana Cordero, oldest person born in Puerto Rico, died in the USA

17/Feb Karlheinz Stauber, oldest men born and living Germany

22/Feb Edie Ceccarelli, Oldest person living in American continent,and in USA

23/Feb Marie Guerne, Oldest person born and living in Switzerland

27/Feb Vidar Eide, Oldest person born and living in Norway

29/Feb, Bridget Tierney, Longest living person born in Ireland

If anyone has any other highlights, you can add them.

I think other people that weren't the oldest people in their countries should be added, like Berg and Matsubara were in the top ten, and also Seki Yoshida was 114 too

Without a doubt these are important losses too, Berg was also the oldest known Jewish person, thank you very much for the comment @MrCatlord

For February we can add:

7 Feb Rupert Springer, oldest man in Barbados, however as the oldest person is in limbo, he could be the oldest person in the country

20 Feb Kasum Kasumovich Kubatov, oldest man in Russia

In March we lost:

2 Mar Gunnar Stolt, oldest Man in Finland

5 Mar Eudocia Barria Barrientos,oldest person in Chile

fl 7 Mar Gladys Delores Hodge,oldest person in Antigua and Barbuda

8 Mar Alfreda Screaigh,Oldest person born in Austrália

11 Mar Marina van der Es-Siewers, Oldest person in Netherlands

17 Mar Tranquilina Urrutia Roque, Oldest person in Mexico

18 Mar Francisca Mangonez Martinez, Oldest person in Colombia

31 Mar Michele Cicora, Oldest man in Italy

We had more deaths in March, any highlights besides these?

I actually made this list to list deaths older than 114 (maybe older than 113).

To have a standard on this list and compare with other years.

Clearly, if we think about deaths at ages 110, 111, and 112, every year would be bad, so I wanted to set a standard.

But it is also interesting to see the oldest people in each country who died during the month, the man or the person

Well, now we're going to have to do a sad update...

Juan Vicente Pérez Mora, dean of Venezuela, died today...

Yes, for the month of April, this month in 2 days the oldest man in the world and in Venezuela and the oldest person in Estonia were gone

In March we also lost:

6 March Jeffrey Joseph,Oldest person living in French Guiana and possibly oldest man born in Saint Lucia

29 March Anonymous of Bolívar Department, oldest woman in Colombia

31 March,Gisabur Sonobe,oldest men in Japan

April:

1 April,Ottilie-Armilde Tinnuri oldest person in Estonia

2 April,Juan Vicente Perez Mora, oldest person in Venezuela and men in World

3 April,Elisabeth Wallhauser,Oldest person born in the Czech Republic

4 April,Karen Rigmor Moritz,Oldest person in Denmark

18 April,Helen Doan,oldest person in Canada

21 April,Albertus Van Raemdonck,oldest men in Belgium

25 April,Silverio Perez Rosado,Oldest men in Porto Rico

26 April,Vita Italia Di Liberto,oldest person born in Tunisia

Feel free to complete the list if you have more names to include.

Not the oldest people in their countries but still of some importance:

Kikue Taira - younger sister of oldest pair of siblings ever

Lillian Moran - oldest person to survive COVID-19 twice