List of Portuguese supercentenarians
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This is an incomplete list of Portuguese supercentenarians (people who have attained the age of at least 110 years 0 days), ordered by date of birth.
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[edit] Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes
Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes (October 24, 1890 – July 25, 2005) was, at age 114, the second longest-lived person to be documented in Portugal. She was born and lived in Grijó, near Vila Nova de Gaia, which is very close to the city of Porto.[citation needed]
She remembered the day when the last king of Portugal, D. Manuel II, visited the nearby town of Espinho, on November 23, 1908.[citation needed]
Maia-Lopes was nearly deaf and blind in her later years, and was confined to bed after a 2002 domestic accident with boiling water that burned her feet.[citation needed] She had a total of eight daughters, seven grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren. Her husband died in 1942. One of her great-granddaughters married a grandson of Portugal's oldest man, Augusto Moreira de Oliveira.[citation needed]
Maia-Lopes died on July 25, 2005 at the age of 114 years, 274 days, which places her as one of the 30 longest lived people ever. At the time of her death, Maia-Lopes was the second oldest person in Europe, behind then documented oldest recognized person in the world, Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper. She was also recognized as the fourth oldest person in the world behind van Andel-Schipper, Elizabeth Bolden, and Bettie Wilson, both from the United States. Maia-Lopes would later be relegated to fifth oldest in the world at the time of her death with the recognition of Maria Capovilla of Ecuador.
[edit] Augusto Moreira de Oliveira
Augusto Moreira de Oliveira (born October 6, 1896) is, at age 111, a Portuguese supercentenarian, the fifth-oldest man in the world, the second-oldest one in Europe and the oldest in Portugal. In 2006, he turned 110 years old, thus reaching supercentenarian status. As of November 2007, he already ranks in the top 20 of the oldest European men ever and is one of the 30 oldest verified living people in the world.
[edit] Maria de Jesus
Maria de Jesus dos Santos (born September 10, 1893) is a Portuguese supercentenarian, and, since the August 13, 2007 death of Japanese woman and oldest person Yone Minagawa, the second-oldest person in the world. She has been the oldest verified living person in Portugal since the death of fellow 114-year-old Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes on July 25, 2005, and the oldest in Europe since the death of another 114-year-old, Frenchwoman Camille Loiseau, on August 12, 2006.[1]
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