María Díaz Cortés
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| Born | January 4, 1892 ? |
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| Residence | Spain |
| Known for | Claimant to the oldest recognized person in the world title |
María Díaz Cortés (born January 4, 1892?) claims to be the oldest person in the world. She was born in Spain, and went forty years without heating or hot water.[1] A gipsy, she owns a valid Spanish identity card with such a birth date, but it was not issued before 1975 and is not a copy of an earlier one, and her daughter is only 72.[2]
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- ^ Forty years without heating and hot water - and 115
- ^ "Verified" through her national identity card, according to this article in the Spanish newspaper El País
