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Maria Branyas Morera (Catalan: [məˈɾiə ˈβɾaɲəs]; 4 March 1907 – 19 August 2024) was an American-Catalan supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 117 years, 168 days, was the world's oldest verified living person, following the death of Lucile Randon on 17 January 2023.
In the wake of Branyas's death, the oldest living person in the world is Japan's Tomiko Itooka, who was born on May 23, 1908 and is 116 years old, according to the U.S. Gerontology Research Group.
Branyas, who had lived through the 1918-1920 Spanish flu pandemic, gained fame in Spain in May 2020 after she became the oldest person to successfully recover from COVID-19 at the time.
After the death of Maria Branyas Morera, the world's oldest known living person is now a Japanese woman who is 116 years old. World's oldest person, a woman born in California, dies 'happy' at 117 ...
Following the death of 117-year-old American-born Spaniard Maria Branyas on August 19, 2024, she became the oldest American-born person and the third-oldest-living person in the world. Francis died on October 22, 2024, at the age of 115 years and 89 days. [14] Following her death, Naomi Whitehead of Greenville, Pennsylvania, became the oldest ...
Related: Woman Believed to Be the Oldest Person in the U.S. Dead at 115 In January 2023, the Guinness World Records confirmed Morera as the planet's oldest person living following the death of 118 ...
For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [10] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [9] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022 ...
The world’s oldest person, US-born Maria Branyas Morera, has died at the age of 117, her family announced on social media. World’s oldest person, Maria Branyas Morera, dies aged 117 Skip to ...