Oldest man in Belgium dies aged 108

Oscar Coulembier, the oldest man in Belgium, has died aged 108, reports Anthony Croes-Lacroix of the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). Aimé Wille is now the country’s  oldest man at 105 years old, writes Het Nieuwsblad.

"He was sick the past few days and so his big birthday party (at the end of the year) had to be cancelled. Last year he was still doing really well," said Jan Durnez, the mayor of Ypres where Coulembier lived in a nursing home.

Coulembier was born in 1905 in Saint-Hubert. According to GRG, he was the oldest man in Belgium since March 21, 2012, and even the oldest in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands since January 6, 2013.

Wille, the 105-year-old who replaces Coulembier as the country’s oldest man, was born on March 1, 1909, and currently resides in a nursing home in Lochristi, East Flanders.