Maria Gomes Valentim, born July 1896, is crowned the world's oldest person

by **OneDeadSlime** Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:14 am

Eunice Sanborn, with an undisputed birth date of July 20, 1896, passed away yesterday. This is extremely saddening for me and I thought it deserved a mention.
[She herself claims to have been born a year earlier; but I won't go into this now, no need to.]
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jG8tcxR__oKfqkkx2MrOq3i4QynQ?docId=CNG.63915f25e77f1eaeb3bcab7050055096.4b1

On a brighter note! Besse Cooper of Georgia, just 37 days younger than Sanborn, is now recognized as the title holder. I think she can go very far!
http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-home-to-worlds-822817.html
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Maria Gomes Valentim, born July 1896, is crowned the world's oldest person Besse-cooper-turns-114-dt12_w580_h385

Here's the list of the oldest verified people in the world according to the most trusted source, the Gerontology Research Group.
http://www.grg.org/Adams/E.HTM
Around 40 people still around from the 1800s!

by **Shadow** Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:23 am

Wasn't a bad age for a human i guess. She certainly lived a full life. Goodluck to the new title holder Smile

by **sjhorm** Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:27 am

Wow, the new title holder doesn't look anywhere near 115 years old.
More like 80.
I don't know if I'd want to live that long, because you'd be so frail and dependent all the time. But ah well.

by **Arkanay** Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:06 am

More than a century old...

That's a really outstanding acomplishment.

by **OneDeadSlime** Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:22 am

sjhorm wrote:Wow, the new title holder doesn't look anywhere near 115 years old.
More like 80.

I know, Mrs. Cooper is an amazing woman.

And Arkanay, the record is 122.5 years!

by **TyrannoFan** Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:25 am

Wow, that's really old!

It's sad. But at least she died achieving a record.

by **Drew980** Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:13 am

Wonder what it will be like when the last person that was born in the 1800's goes.. mabeh its another 2012 sign! o:

by **LordRemington** Wed Feb 02, 2011 7:22 am

Amazing that a human can live that long. Crazy to think there are people still from the 19th century out there.

by **Arkanay** Thu Apr 21, 2011 4:50 am

Looks like NotIrishPirate is closing in on this record. Old chum is soon to turn one century old, it seems. Pirate

by **LoD** Thu Apr 21, 2011 5:02 am

The world's youngest person was born one second ago. Smile

by **Vektrix** Thu Apr 21, 2011 5:17 am

LoD wrote:The world's youngest person was born one second ago.

No they weren't, they were born one second ago Smile

Wowsers, well done her, good luck to the new holder etc.

by **OneDeadSlime** Thu Apr 21, 2011 5:43 am

Arkanay wrote:Looks like NotIrishPirate is closing in on this record. Old chum is soon to turn one century old, it seems.

Still 14 years younger than this guy (probably the first time I see a japanese video on youtube btw, usually they're all on yoko? however it's called)

by **OneDeadSlime** Thu May 19, 2011 12:33 am

A woman from Brazil, named Maria Gomes Valentim, has had her age validated by researchers. She was born July 9, 1896, eclipsing the previous title holder, Besse Cooper (info about her on the first post), who now is only the oldest American. In fact, she has been the oldest known person since November of 2010, when Eunice Sanborn took up the title, who was 11 days younger. Lately she has been reported as being a bit frail.
http://community.guinnessworldrecords.com/_New-Oldest-Living-Person/blog/3633054/7691.html
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by **LordRemington** Fri May 20, 2011 1:23 am

OneDeadSlime wrote:A woman from Brazil, named Maria Gomes Valentim, has had her age validated by researchers. She was born July 9, 1896.

Lately she has been reported as being a bit frail.

At 115 years old, I'd be highly surprised if she wasn't frail Razz

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