Anita Tiburni

	Anita Tiburni
	; Anita Tiburni on her 109th birthday in 2009.
Birth:	3 May 1900; Poggibonsi, Tuscany, Italy
Death:	27 December 2011; Poggibonsi, Tuscany, Italy
Age:	111 years, 238 days
Country:	ITA
	Validated

Anita Tiburni (3 May 1900 – 27 December 2011) was an Italian supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). At the time of her death, she was the fifth-oldest living person in Italy, after Stella Nardari-Vecchiato, Maria Redaelli, Emma Morano, and Maria Gravigi.

Biography[]

Anita Tiburni was born in Poggibonsi, Tuscany, Italy on 3 May 1900. As a young woman, she worked as a newsagent, then as a worker in a cork factory in Poggibonsi.

Tiburni never married nor had children, and always lived with her sister Beatrice in Poggibonsi. She opened a haberdashery with her sister, which was destroyed during World War II bombings in December 1943. In 1992, thirteen years after the death of her sister in 1979, she moved in the nursing home Dina Gandini in Poggibonsi.

Tiburni's age was verified by Paolo Scarabaggio, and validated by the GRG on 25 July 2010.

Anita Tiburni died in Poggibonsi, Tuscany, Italy on 27 December 2011, at the age of 111 years, 238 days.

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Table A Gerontology Research Group
Anita Tiburni Supercentenari d'Italia
Compie 109 anni la donna più anziana della Toscana Il Cittadino Online, 19 May 2009
Buon compleanno Anna, la più anziana della Toscana La Nazione, 19 May 2009
Centodieci candeline per Anita E la nonna della Toscana La Nazione, 6 May 2010
Ha 111 anni la toscana più longeva. Il segreto: «Non mi sono mai sposata» Corriere Fiorentino, 5 May 2011
Anita Tiburni compie oggi 111 anni, gli auguri del presidente Rossi Toscana Notizie, 6 May 2011
Poggibonsi saluta Anita Tiburni Siena News, 27 December 2011