Spanish supercentenarian recognized in 2021-2022 as the world’s oldest living man by the Guinness World Records. He was also the second-oldest living person in Spain, after Maria Branyas Morera, who was born in the United States.
He was the youngest of six siblings of Salustiano and Josefa de la Fuente Garcia. He lived in the same province of Spain for his entire life.
In 1927, he became one of the founding members of the Puente Castro Football Club, in which he played as a center-forward.
De la Fuente Garcia married Antonina Barrio on 29 April 1933. They had eight children including seven daughters and a son. He worked as a shoemaker in Puente Castro before moving to León. When he celebrated his 110th birthday in February 2019, six of his children were still alive, along with 14 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.
On 23 December 1937, De la Fuente Garcia survived a plane crash into his home.
In April 2019 at the age of 110, he voted in the Spanish general election.
De la Fuente Garcia became the oldest living man in Spain after the death of Jesus Mosteo Perez on 28 August 2019. On 27 June 2020, he became the oldest known living man in Europe after the death of 111-year-old Dumitru Comanescu of Romania. He became the oldest living Spanish-born person following the death of Vicenta Prieto Santos on 2 December 2020.
On 12 August 2021, after the death of 113-year-old Emilio Flores Marquez, Saturnino became the ‘Oldest Living Man in the World’ titleholder.
He died on 18 January 2022 at the age of 112 years, 341 days.
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