Willem Kostering

Wilhelminus Hendrik (Willem) Kostering (22 November 1851 - 9 December 1960) was a Dutch centenarian who was the oldest living person in the Netherlands after the death of 110-year-old Christina Karnebeek-Backs, who was the oldest person in the world, on 7 October 1959 and the oldest living person in Europe after the death of 109-year-old Marie Olsen on 24 November 1959. He also may have been the oldest living man in the world at the time of his death.