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Djurdja Stojkovic

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Djurdja Stojkovic
Djurdja Stojkovic
Djurdja Stojkovic (aged 96) in March 2019
Centenarian

Djurdja Stojkovic [Serbian: Ђурђа Стојковић] (née Markovic; born 20 October 1922; claims 1908 and 1913) is a Serbian centenarian known to the public as claiming to be the oldest living person in Serbia. She is also one of the oldest known people in Serbia who survived COVID-19 in December 2020 at the age of 98.

Biography[]

Stojkovic was born in the village of Babina Poljana near Trgoviste, Serbia on 20 October 1922 (claims 1908 or 1913). The public found out about her in March 2019, when she was shown in the show Kvadratura kruga on RTS. It was then said that she was born in 1908, later her son Miroslav claimed that she was born in 1913, but her identity card confirms that she was born in 1922.

On 4 December 2020, tested positive for COVID-19, but she later recovered at the age of 98, possibly making her one of the oldest known survivors of the disease in Serbia. Stojkovic gave birth to her first child at the age of 16 in 1939, and the youngest at the age of 47 in 1969, which makes her one of the oldest women who managed to give birth to a child at that age. In November 2021, it was confirmed that she is growing new dark hair.

Stojkovic currently lives with her son and daughter-in-law in a dilapidated house in the hamlet of the village of Radovnica near Trgoviste, Serbia at the age of 102 years, 238 days (claims 111 years, 238 days). Her health condition is very bad and she spends time in bed.

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