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Maria Branyas Morera is the supercentenarian who, at the age of 117 years, 73 days, became the world’s oldest verified living person since the death of Lucile Randon (1904–2023).
Branyas died of natural causes in her sleep on 19 August 2024 at the age of 117 years and 168 days. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ] After her death, Tomiko Itooka became the world's oldest living person. Itooka was born in 1908 and as such Branyas was the last living person born in 1907, which she held the title for following the death of 116-year old ...
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.
Rubio became the oldest verified Spaniard ever on 6 June 2016, when she surpassed the age of María Antonia Castro who had died in 1996, aged 114 years, 220 days. [99] She went on to live to 116 years and 47 days. At the time of her death she was the third-oldest living person in the world, behind Nabi Tajima and Chiyo Miyako.
She died on 29 December 2024, at the age of 116 years and 220 days, at a nursing home in Ashiya. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Reports attributed her death to complications related to old age. [ 1 ] Following her death, 116-year-old Inah Canabarro Lucas of Brazil became the world's oldest living person and the last survivor born in 1908.
Maria Branyas, who was the world's oldest person, has died peacefully in a Spanish nursing home at the age of 117, according to her account on the X platform and a spokesperson at the home on Tuesday.
Inah Canabarro Lucas (born 8 June 1908) of Brazil is the world's oldest living person whose age has been validated. [2] João Marinho Neto (born 5 October 1912) of Brazil is the world's oldest living man whose age has been validated. [2]