María Díaz Cortés

María Díaz Cortés
Born (1892-01-04)January 4, 1892?[1]
Sacromonte, Spain
Died January 15, 2009(2009-01-15)
(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


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