<span style="color: #222222;">The world's oldest person, French nun Lucile Randon, has died aged 118. Ms. Randon – who assumed the name Sister André when she took holy orders in 1944 – died in her sleep at her nursing home in Toulon, France. A spokesman from her nursing home, David Tavella, shared news of her death with reporters.<br />”<br />”Born in 1904 in southern France, she lived through two world wars and also saw 27 French heads of state.<br />”<br />”Despite being blind and reliant on a wheelchair, Sister André cared for other elderly people – some of whom were much younger than herself.<br />”<br />”She had been Europe's eldest for some time, but she entered the Guinness Book of Records last April as the world's oldest person following the death of Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman who lived until she was 119-years-old.<br />”<br />”The record for oldest confirmed age reached by a human belongs to Jeanne Calment, also of southern France, who died in 1997 at the age of 122.</span><br />