Maria Branyas
Former world's oldest verified living person (1907-2024) · United States · Religious Figures · Died at 117
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The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?She outlasted every other verified human being on the planet - not through ambition but through simple, relentless endurance across 117 years.
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About this person
Born in San Francisco on 4 March 1907, Maria Branyas Morera lived through two world wars, a pandemic, and the entire span of the twentieth century before claiming a title no one seeks: oldest person alive. She became the world's verified eldest on 17 January 2023, after the death of France's Lucile Randon. For nineteen months she held that lonely summit, a Catalan supercentenarian who had begun life in America and ended it as the last witness to 1907. She died on 19 August 2024, at 117 years and 168 days.
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