Antonio Todde

Antonio Todde (January 22, 1889 - January 3, 2002) was the oldest living man in the world from the death of John Painter on March 1, 2000 till his own death.

Biography
born to a poor shepherd family in the medieval center of Tiana, Todde was the third of 12 children.He had a long-lived family, his father lived till the age of 90, his mother till 98 and his sister was still alive at the age of 97 at the time of his death. In 1920, he married Maria Antonia, then aged 25, and they had four daughters and a son. She died in 1990, aged 95. He left Sardinia only to fight in the First World War, where he was injured in the shoulder by a grenade.He died on January 3, 2002 as the oldest living man in the world and the oldest Italian person ever.