Italy’s Emma Morano, the world’s oldest person, dies at 117
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An Italian doctor says Emma Morano, at 117 the world’s oldest person, has died in her home in northern Italy.
Dr. Carlo Bava told the Associated Press by telephone that Morano’s caretaker called to say the woman had died Saturday afternoon while sitting in an armchair in her home in Verbania, a town on Lake Maggiore.
Bava said he had last paid his nearly daily call on Morano on Friday. “She thanked me and held my hand” as usual, he said.
Morano, born Nov. 29, 1899, was believed to have been the last surviving person in the world who was born in the 1800s.
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