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Mustafa Dzafic
Mustafa Dzafic
Mustafa Džafić (aged 103) in August 2021.
Birth: 5 June 1918
Donja Ljubija, Prijedor, Austria-Hungary (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Death: 10 September 2023
Donja Ljubija, Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Age: 105 years, 97 days
Country: Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIH
Centenarian

Mustafa Dzafic [Bosnian: Mustafa Džafić, Bosnian Cyrillic: Мустафа Џафић] (5 June 1918 – 10 September 2023) was a Bosnian centenarian who was the oldest known living man in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time of his death.

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Mustafa Džafić was born in the village of Donja Ljubija, Prijedor, Austria-Hungary (now Bosnia and Herzegovina), on 5 June 1918. He started working when he was only 14 years old, transporting stone with his first neighbor on a horse-drawn cart. Later, he worked in the mine for 24 years, and for ten years he paid, and finally he got a pension.

At the age of 100, he was still engaged in agriculture, raising cattle and chopping wood. In August 2021, at the age of 103, he received the Covid-19 vaccine.

On 12 November 2022, following the death of 105-year-old Mijo Martinović, he became the oldest known living man in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Mustafa Džafić died in the village of Donja Ljubija, Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 10 September 2023, at the age of 105 years, 97 days. Following his death, then 103-year-old Đorđo Ostović became the oldest known living man in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (VE)

Sava BjelicaOsman AlajbegovicJovan JovanovicDragoljub Galic • Halil SarajlicMujo DedicHasan CoricIvan SkaramucaMijo MartinovicMustafa DzaficDjordjo OstovicMilovan Grbic