The oldest man in the world, 111-year-old New Yorker Alexander Imich, died on Sunday morning. Over the course of his life, he learned five languages, earned a PhD in zoology, wrote books on parapsychology, and survived working in a slave labor camp.
Imich was born Feb. 4, 1903, in Poland. Along with his wife, he fled the country after the Nazi invasion, and came to the United States in 1951. In an interview with NBC New York last month, he credited his health to eating chicken and fish, avoiding alcohol, and being athletic in his youth. He also had a sense of humor about his longevity, saying: "I don't know, I simply didn't die earlier. I have no idea how this happened."
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