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Key facts
- Born
- Violet Mosse , ( 1900-03-10 ) 10 March 1900, Duanvale, Trelawny , British Jamaica
- Died
- ( 2017-09-15 ) 15 September 2017, (aged 117 years, 189 days), Montego Bay , Saint James Parish , Jamaica
- Resting place
- Duanvale Cemetery
- Other names
- Violete Brown, Violet Mosse-Brown, Violet Moss
- Known for
- Oldest living person (15 April 2017 – 15 September 2017) Oldest Jamaican ever
- Spouse
- Augustus Gaynor Brown (died 1978)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Violet
- Family name
- Brown
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- British Empire
- Place of birth
- Trelawny Parish
- Place of death
- Montego Bay
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Christianity
- Number of children
- 6
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- date of birth
- 1900-03-10
- birth name
- Violet Mosse
- name in native language
- Violet Brown
- date of death
- 2017-09-15
- cause of death
- heart failure
- subject has role
- oldest human
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Violet Brown (née Mosse; 10 March 1900 – 15 September 2017) was a Jamaican supercentenarian who was the oldest verified living person in the world for five months, following the death of Emma Morano on 15 April 2017 until her own death at the age of 117 years, 189 days on 15 September 2017. She was, along with Japanese woman Nabi Tajima, one of the last two living people known to have been born in the 19th century. She is the oldest verified Jamaican person in history.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Violet Brown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.