María Díaz Cortés

María Díaz Cortés
Born	January 4, 1892(1892-01-04)?[1] Sacromonte, Spain
Died	January 15, 2009(2009-01-15) (aged &10000000000000117000000117 years, &1000000000000001100000011 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 passing (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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Name	Diaz Cortes, Maria
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Date of birth	4 January 1892
Place of birth	Sacromonte, Spain
Date of death	15 January 2009
Place of death	Sevilla, Spain