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World’s oldest person, Maria Branyas Morera, dies aged 117
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Supercentenarian who died in her sleep had lived through two world wars and Spain’s civil war
The world’s oldest known person, Spain’s Maria Branyas Morera, who was born in the US in 1907 and lived through two pandemics and two world wars, has died at the age of 117, her family said.
“Maria Branyas has left us. She died as she wished: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain,” her family wrote on her account on X on Tuesday. “We will always remember her for her advice and her kindness.”
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