Emma Morano

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Emma Morano as a baby (1900)

Emma Martina Luigia Morano-Martinuzzi (born November 29, 1899 in Civiasco , Vercelli province ; † April 15, 2017 in Pallanza , Verbano-Cusio-Ossola province ) was an Italian supercentenarian . As of May 2016, she was the oldest living person in the world and the last living person known to have been born before 1900.

Life

Morano was born in November 1899 in the northern Italian village of Civiasco in Piedmont as the eldest of eight children of Giovanni Morano and Matilde Bresciani.

After her father went blind at the beginning of the First World War, she began to work at the age of 14. Since her actual fiancé did not return from the war, Morano married someone else in 1926 and had a child who, however, died shortly after the birth. In 1938 she left her abusive husband and since then has lived alone in an apartment in Pallanza, a district of the town of Verbania on Lake Maggiore . In the last years of her life she was hard of hearing and no longer saw well, but could walk even shorter distances and was also mentally up to date. Her family doctor said she was in good shape and wasn't taking any medicine. On her 116th birthday, she serenaded her guests.

Morano attributed her longevity to her habit of eating two raw eggs every day since she was 20, when a doctor recommended the eggs as a cure for her anemia . Since the death of the American Susannah Mushatt Jones on May 12, 2016, Morano-Martinuzzi, who was 116 years and 165 days old on that day, was officially considered the oldest living person, according to the Guinness Book of May 16, 2016 Records was confirmed. At the time of her death on April 15, 2017, she belonged to a group of 15 people over the 116th year of life and only six people over the 117th year of life.

Other members of her family were also long-lived. So her mother, an aunt and some of her siblings were around 90 years old. Her sister Angela Morano died in 2011 at the age of 102.

Morano died on April 15, 2017 at the age of 117 at her home in Pallanza. After her death, the Jamaican Violet Brown (1900–2017) became the oldest living person in the world.

Media reception

  • Piemonte, la più angiana del mondo ( Rai , May 13th 2016)

Awards

See also

Web links

Commons : Emma Morano  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The last person who was born in the 19th century is dead. In: Focus Online . Hubert Burda Media , April 15, 2017, accessed April 15, 2017 .
  2. ^ I miei 112 anni di storia d'Italia
  3. ↑ a b Antonio Calanni, Michael Balsamo: Becoming ancient with raw eggs, meat and bacon . In: The world . July 2, 2015, accessed April 15, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Nick Squires: The secret to longevity is eating two raw eggs a day, says newly-crowned oldest person in the world. In: The Daily Telegraph . May 13, 2016. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
  5. ↑ The oldest person in the world. American died at the age of 116. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 13, 2016. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
  6. ↑ Kevin Lynch: Guinness World Records announces Emma Martina Luigia Morano as world's oldest living person. In: Guinness Book of Records . May 16, 2016. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
  7. ↑ Piemonte, la più anziana del mondo. TV documentary about Emma Morano from May 13, 2016. In: RAI . Retrieved April 15, 2017 ( mp4 video, 0:30 minutes, 4.5 MB, Italian).
  8. ^ Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana: Morano Sig.ra Emma. In: Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana. Retrieved April 15, 2017 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Morano, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morano-Martinuzzi, Emma Martina Luigia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION oldest living person (2016 to 2017), Italian age record holder
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Civiasco , Vercelli Province , Italy
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 2017
Place of death Pallanza , Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province , Italy