Quito, Ecuador: Maria Esther de Capovilla, the oldest person in the world according to Guinness World Records, has died at 116 years of age, her granddaughter said. Capovilla died on Sunday in a hospital in the coastal city of Guayaquil two days after coming down with pneumonia, her granddaughter Catherine Capovilla said. Her funeral was planned for yesterday. Born on September 14, 1889 the same year as Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler Capovilla was married in 1917 and widowed in 1949.