| Claudia Baccarini | |
 Baccarini on her 112th birthday in 2022 | |
| Birth: | 13 October 1910 Faenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
| Death: | 24 December 2024 Faenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
| Age: | 114 years, 72 days |
| Country: |  ITA
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| Validated | |
Claudia Baccarini-Baldi (13 October 1910 – 24 December 2024) was an Italian supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). At the time of her death, she was the oldest known living person in Italy.
Biography[]
Claudia Baccarini was born in Faenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy on 13 October 1910. Her father served in the cavalry in World War I.
At the age of 33 she married Pietro Baldi, an agricultural entrepreneur who was also mayor of Faenza from 1951 to 1956. From the marriage, ten children were born between 1935 and 1953, which gave Mrs. Baccarini over fifty grandchildren and great-grandchildren, today divided between Italy, the United States and the East. In 1998 her husband died.
In her old age, Mrs. Baccarini dedicated herself a lot to caring for her family and to volunteer activities in her city. She was very religious, and until a few years before her death she attended mass every day.
In October 2020, she celebrated her 110th birthday and became a supercentenarian.
In 2023, the flood in Emilia-Romagna damaged the first floor of the house where she lived. She had never seen anything like it.
In recent times she has dedicated herself a lot to manual activities, such as crochet embroidery. She loved reading and puzzles, knew how to play the piano and listened to music by Mozart or Beethoven.
She died peacefully on Christmas night, 24 December 2024, also the date of the opening of the Holy Door for the Jubilee.
Longevity Records[]
On 11 September 2020, with the death of Anselma Artusi, she became the oldest living person in Emilia-Romagna.
Baccarini's age was verified by Alfredo Nocera, GRG Correspondent for Italy, and validated by the GRG on 6 June 2023.
She became the oldest known living person in Italy following the death of 113-year-old Domenica Ercolani on 17 November 2023.
On 5 July 2024, she surpassed the final age of Anna Benericetti (1906–2019) to become the oldest person ever to live in the Emilia-Romagna region however, the oldest person born in that region, remains Dina Manfredini (1897-2012), who died in the USA.
On 13 October 2024 she has celebrated her 114th birtday, becoming the first person in Italy to do so since 20 March 2017, Maria Giuseppa Robucci's 114th birthday.
Since the death of 114-year-old Charlotte Kretschmann of Germany on 27 August 2024, she entered in the the top ten oldest validated living people in the world, and following the death of 115-year-old Elizabeth Francis on 22 October 2024, she became the eighth-oldest validated living person in the world. Baccarini was the joint eighth-oldest living person in the world along with Izabel Rosa Pereira, a woman from Brazil.
She was the third oldest living person in Europe and the sixth oldest person ever to die in Italy.
Claudia Baccarini died in Faenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy on 24 December 2024 at the age of 114 years, 72 days. After her death, Lucia Laura Sangenito, just 40 days younger, became the oldest living person in Italy.
Gallery[]
References[]
- GRG World Supercentenarians Ranking List Gerontology Research Group
- 109th birthday Facebook Post, 25 October 2019
- 110 anni per nonna Claudia: è la più anziana in Emilia-Romagna RavennaToday, 13 October 2020
- 110th birthday Facebook Post, 13 October 2020
- Nonna Claudia compie 111 anni: è lei la donna più anziana dell'Emilia-Romagna RavennaToday, 13 October 2021
- 112th birthday Facebook Post, 13 October 2022
- Claudia Baccarini turns 113. She is second longest-lived in Italy Italy 24 News, 14 October 2023
- Claudia Baccarini, 113 anni, la donna più anziana d’Italia YouTube, 19 February 2024
- Farewell to Claudia Baccarini, the longest-lived woman in Italy, who died at 114 Unionesarda, 27 December 2024