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Key facts
- Born
- Emma Martina Luigia Morano , ( 1899-11-29 ) 29 November 1899, Civiasco , Italy
- Died
- ( 2017-04-15 ) 15 April 2017, (aged 117 years, 137 days) , Verbania , Italy
- Resting place
- Pallanza Cemetery, Verbania
- Known for
- Oldest living person (13 May 2016 – 15 April 2017) Oldest verified Italian person ever Last person living verified to have been born in the 1800s
- Spouse
- Giovanni Martinuzzi ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1926 ; died 1978 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Civiasco
- Place of death
- Verbania
- Occupation
- centenarian
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Native language
- Italian
- Image
- Emma Morano.jpg
- Residence
- Verbania
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- date of birth
- 1899-11-29
- birth name
- Emma Martina Luigia Morano
- name in native language
- Emma Morano
- Commons category
- Emma Morano
- date of death
- 2017-04-15
- subject has role
- oldest human
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Encyclopedic overview
Emma Martina Luigia Morano OMRI (29 November 1899 – 15 April 2017) was an Italian supercentenarian. She was the world's oldest living person from 13 May 2016 until her death on 15 April 2017, aged 117 years and 137 days. She was also the last living person verified to have been born in the 1800s. She remains the oldest Italian person ever to be documented and the fourth-oldest European ever.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Emma Morano” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.