| Maria Diaz Cortes | |
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| Birth: | 4 January 1892? Sacromonte, Andalusia, Spain |
| Death: | 15 January 2009 Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain |
| Age: | 117 years, 11 days? |
| Country: |  ESP
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| Longevity claimant | |
Maria Diaz Cortes [Spanish: María Díaz Cortés] (4 January 1892? – 15 January 2009) was a Spanish longevity claimant who claimed to be the world’s oldest living person at the time of her death.
Biography[]
Maria Diaz Cortes claimed to have been born in Sacromonte, Andalusia, Spain on 4 January 1892. She went forty years without heating or hot water. A Romani, she owned a valid Spanish identity card with such a birth date, but it was not issued before 1975 and is not a copy of an earlier one, and her daughter was only 73 when she died.
Cortes died in Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain on 15 January 2009 at the claimed age of 117 years, 11 days.[1][2]