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Magda Janssens
Magda Janssens
Janssens on her 111th birthday in 2023
Birth: 16 March 1912
Deurne, Antwerp, Belgium
Death: 18 September 2023
Zandhoven, Antwerp, Belgium
Age: 111 years, 186 days
Country: BelgiumBEL
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Magdalena Delphina (Magda) Janssens (16 March 1912 – 18 September 2023) was a Belgian 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 Belgium.

Biography[]

Magda Janssens was born in Deurne, Antwerp, Belgium on 16 March 1912. She had at least three siblings.

She married on 24 October 1936, but her husband died six months later on 23 April 1937.

She married on 1 October 1938. The couple had four children. Her husband died on 19 May 2001 at the age of 96.

Her sister Laura (born May 1915) died at the age of 103.

She lived in Wilrijk for a long time before moving to Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Troost when she was 90. At the age of 90, she underwent a surgery to have a pacemaker implanted.

In January 2021 at the age of 108, she received the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, making her one of the oldest people to receive it.

In 2021, at the age of 109, she contracted COVID-19 during the coronavirus pandemic. However, she had successfully recovered, making her one of the oldest known survivors of the disease.

In March 2022, she celebrated her 110th birthday and became a supercentenarian. As of March 2022, she has two children Andre (aged 87), and Francine Ceulemans (aged 76), three grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.

Magda Janssens died at Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Troost nursing home in Zandhoven, Antwerp, Belgium on 18 September 2023 at the age of 111 years, 186 days. At the time of her death she was the oldest known living person in Belgium, the oldest known living person in the Benelux, and the last known living person in Belgium born before 1914.

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Belgium's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (VE)

Charlotte Cardinal • Marie RollandAnna VersluysSophie Lacompte • Maria Vleminckx • Marie Gomain • Norbertine Fourdin • Marie Vandermoesen • Isabelle Tack • Maria Vandewinckel • Maria Gorsen • Marie Delfairiere • Ignace Demol • Herlindis Goeminne • Theresia Van Den Broucke • Maximilienne Pierquain • Sidonie Hayez • Caroline Fievet • Francisca Cloet • Marie-Louise Van Hoorebeeck • Hendrik Bulterijs • Barbara SimoensTheresia De Petter • Adele Vandenbosch • Marie Salmon • Constant De Lichte • Helene Lebon • Marie PurnodeEugenie TecqmenneCatherine Baert • Marie Lambotte • Fanny Thonus • Marie-Louise Vandenbroucke • Denise Durel • Maria Devos • Marguerite Dewal • Sophie Leys • Maria Wintgens • Eugenie Boulanger • Emiel Carbon • Kamiel Steyaert • Flore Carpentier • Maria Serneels • Frans Meeus • Mathilde Hellemans • Edmond Van Cauteren • Arthuria Dascotte • Pieter HinnisdaelsClement De Vos • Rosalie Beetens • Marie Lambert • Leonia Bruyndonckx • Mathilde Pirlet • Octavie LipsL. V.Maria Van Sprengel • Ermenie Acoe • Elisabeth Demanet • Jules-Leo Neijrinck • Maria Irma Casteur • Catharina Ververs • Marie De Ruyver • Joanna Deroover • Anne-Marie Vandermersch • Louis Marion • Victoire Ricaille • Maria Verkeyn • Maria Annaert • Irma Van de Voorde • Marcelle Droogmans • Romanie Pollet • Bernardina Van Dommelen • Gabrielle Demets • Adrienne LedentGermaine Degueldre • Fanny Godin • Anna De Guchtenaere • Alicia Corveleyn • Fernande De Raeve • Madeleine DullierElisabeth De ProostMarietta BouverneJulia Van HoolMarcelle LevazMagda JanssensFernande CourtoyDenise Waelbers

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