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."
Branyas, who lived through the 1918 flu, the first and second world wars and Spain's civil war, got COVID-19 in 2020, just weeks after her 113th birthday. She was quarantined at home quarantine but made a full recovery. She spent the last 20 years of her life in a Spanish nursing home.
The oldest living person now is Japan's Tomiko Itooka, who was born on 23 May 1908 and is 116, according to the US Gerontology Research Group.
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