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Milka Baukovic
Milka Baukovic
Baukovic on her 107th birthday in 2022.
Birth: 5 February 1915
Papici, Sisak-Moslavina County, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia)
Age: 109 years, 276 days
Country: CroatiaCROSerbiaSRB
Centenarian

Milka Baukovic Radivojevic [Serbian: Милка Бауковић Радивојевић] (née Ercegovac; born 5 February 1915) is a Croatian-born Serbian centenarian who is currently the oldest living person in Serbia and the oldest known living woman in the Balkans, as well as the second-oldest living person in the Balkans, behind 111-year-old Ilie Ciocan of Romania.

Biography[]

Early life and family[]

Milka Baukovic Radivojevic was born as Milka Ercegovac in Papici, Sunja, Sisak-Moslavina County, Austria-Hungary (present-day Croatia) on 5 February 1915 to father Mile Ercegovac (17 December 1894 – 13 August 1981) and mother Indjija Ercegovac (née Ivcic; 15 May 1895 – 1 April 1981). She had only one brother Branko Ercegovac (1 February 1920 – 27 August 1991).

In 1940, she married her first husband, Dusan Baukovic in Jasenovac, Croatia, who died on the last day before the end of World War II on 8 May 1945, and his grave was never found. Together with her husband Dusan Baukovic (1909 – 1945), she had two children: son Nebojsa Baukovic (28 June 1941 – 21 August 1987) and daughter Dusanka Bozic (née Baukovic; 8 August 1945 – present). After the death of her first husband, who had previously been involved in the production of hats in Okucani, Brod-Posavina County, Croatia, she continued to practice the same trade until her retirement 35 years later.

In 1983, she married her second husband Savo Radivojevic (1912 – 2003) in Belgrade, Serbia, and they officially moved to Belgrade in 1990.

Milka's son Nebojsa Baukovic died in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina from a heart attack on 21 August 1987. His son (Milka's grandson) was a Dusan Baukovic, who was born in Gradiska, Bosnia and Herzegovina on 8 July 1966 and tragically died as a member of the Army of Republika Srpska on 26 June 1992. His mother (Milka's daughter-in-law) Biljana Baukovic (née Djordjic) died of grief for son on 1 July 2001.

Milka's second husband Savo Radivojevic died in Belgrade, Serbia on 24 March 2003 at the age of 90 years.

Later life and longevity[]

In February 2015, she celebrated her 100th birthday and became a centenarian.

On 3 April 2022, at the age of 107, she went to vote herself and exercised her right to vote. Then she said that she did not miss any elections and that she always went out to vote regularly.

She became the oldest known living person in Belgrade and Serbia, following the death of 110-year-old Tamara Krutikov on 6 July 2022.

On 17 December 2023, at the age of 108, she exercised her right to vote and voted in local and parliamentary elections as the oldest living citizen of the Republic of Serbia.

She became the oldest living Croatian-born person, following the death of 109-year-old Mara Gabelica of Croatia on 27 May 2024.

On 13 September 2024, following the death of 110-year-old Fikrije Loki of North Macedonia, she became the oldest known living woman in the Balkans.

Milka Baukovic currently lives with her daughter Dr. Dusanka Bozic in Belgrade, Serbia at the age of 109 years, 276 days.

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References[]

Serbia’s Oldest Living Person Titleholders (VE)

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

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