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She was the world's oldest living person from 13 May 2016 until her death on 15 April 2017, aged 117 years and 137 days. Until her death, she was also the last living person verified to have been born in the 1800s. [2] She remains the oldest Italian person ever to be documented [3] and the fourth-oldest European ever. [4]
Salome Sellers – (1800–1909) last surviving person from the 18th century Nabi Tajima (1900–2018), the last known surviving person born in the 19th century. Colm de Bhailís (1796–1906), Irish poet who also lived from the 18th to 20th centuries.
Susannah Mushatt Jones (July 6, 1899 – May 12, 2016) [1] was an American supercentenarian who was, aged 116 years and 311 days, the world's oldest living person and the last living American born in the 19th century. [2]
As of Thursday, Emma Morano is the only person on Earth who was born in the 1800s. She credits her longevity to her very bizarre diet.
This is a list of the oldest living people who have been verified to be alive as of the dates of the cited supporting sources. It was estimated in 2015 that between 150 and 600 living people had reached the age of 110. [1]
Birth certificate of Jeanne Calment. Calment was born on 21 February 1875 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence. [1] Some of her close family members also had an above-average lifespan as her older brother, François (1865–1962), lived to the age of 97, her father, Nicolas (1837–1931), who was a shipbuilder, 93, and her mother, Marguerite Gilles (1838–1924), who was from a family of ...
The last living former slave in Fairmont, Fairmont County, West Virginia. [21] Matilda McCrear: 1857: January 1940: The last known survivor of the Clotilda in 1859–1860, the last trans-Atlantic slave ship to arrive in America from Africa. [22] Redoshi: 1848: 1937: The next to last known survivor of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to arrive ...
In an exclusive excerpt from ‘Postmortem: What Survives The John Wayne Gacy Murders,’ Courtney Lund O’Neil details her mother’s friendship with Robert Piest, Gacy’s final victim