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Jovo Latinovic
Jovo Latinovic
Birth: 19 August 1901
Kolunic, Bosanski Petrovac, Austria-Hungary (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Death: 15 April 2011
Belgrade, Serbia
Age: 109 years, 239 days
Country: Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSerbiaSRB
Centenarian

Jovo Latinovic [Serbian: Јово Латиновић] (19 August 1901 – 15 April 2011) was a Bosnian-born Serbian centenarian who was the oldest known living man and person in Serbia at the time of his death. He is also the oldest known man who ever lived in Serbia.

Biography[]

Jovo Latinovic was born in the village of Kolunic near Bosanski Petrovac, Austria-Hungary (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina) on 19 August 1901. He was born as the second of eight children in a family to father Ignjatije and mother Simeuna Latinovic. As a boy, he lost his father, so he became the breadwinner of the family very early. At the age of 14, he went to work in Srem. He graduated from high school in Sremski Karlovci and Šibenik. In 1923, he was appointed as a minister and nurse in the seminary in Sremski Karlovci. in 1930, he got a job as a telegraph operator in Sombor, and in 1932, he went to Subotica as a railway employee. In June 1933, in Sremski Karlovci, he married Zagorka Miljković, with whom he had daughters Miroslava and Olga. Until the World War II he lived in the village of Šebešić near Subotica, and in 1939 he moved to the surroundings of Belgrade. He retired in 1956 or 1957 after working on the railways in Serbia. After retirement, he returns to his native Kolunić. He was engaged in beekeeping, gardening and fruit growing. He moved to Belgrade in 1995, where he lived with his daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter. He was known by the nicknames Vovo and "Dovo".

His obituary mentions that he was born in 1901, but a 2007 report mentions that he turned 104 on 19 August 2006. However, on the monument he erected during his lifetime, it is written that the year of his birth was 1901, and his closest ones also testify to that.

He became the oldest known living man in Serbia, following the death of 107-year-old Rade Grujicic on 4 December 2007. Following the death of 109-year-old Kostadinka Momirovic on 8 July 2009, he became the oldest known living person in Serbia.

Latinovic died in Belgrade, Serbia on 15 April 2011 at the age of 109 years, 239 days, making him the oldest known man to die in Serbia, although not the oldest known ethnic Serb (Jovan Jovanovic was older). Following his death, then-106-year-old Jelisaveta Veljkovic became the oldest known living person in Serbia.

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Serbia’s Oldest Living Person Titleholders (VE)

Rade GrujicicKostadinka Momirovic • Jovo LatinovicJelisaveta Veljkovic • Mara RadenkovicDarinka Jandric • Nadezda PavlovicTamara KrutikovMilka Baukovic

Serbia’s Oldest Living Man Titleholders (VE)

Rade GrujicicJovo LatinovicIlija TrifunovicMilivoje MatejicBranko Kurjacki • Vitomir BozicStepan Dobricanovic • Radivoje StevanovicSimo IvosevicZivan PopovicZivorad Markovic

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