María Díaz Cortés

María Díaz Cortés
Born January 4, 1892?[1]
Sacromonte, Spain
Died January 15, 2009
(aged 117 years, 11 days)?
Sevilla, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Known for Claimant to the oldest person in the world title

María Díaz Cortés (4 January 1892? – 15 January 2009[2]) claimed to be the oldest living person. She was born in Spain, and went forty years without heating or hot water.[3] A Romani, she owned 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,[4] and her daughter was only 73 when she died.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Report on Maria Diaz Cortés' claimed 117th birthday (Spanish)
  2. ↑ Report on her death (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Forty years without heating and hot water - and 115
  4. ↑ "Verified" through her national identity card, according to this article in the Spanish newspaper El País (Spanish)
  5. ↑ The grandmother of El Vacie dies at 117