| Slava Ivancevic | |
| Longevity claimant |
Slava Ivancevic [Serbian: Слава Иванчевић] (10 July 1894? or 1908 — 24 September 2013) was a Bosnian-Serbian longevity claimant, claimed to have been aged 119 years, 106 days at her death, which if true could have made her the world's oldest living person and second-oldest person ever after Jeanne Calment.
Those claiming that she was born in 1894 did not send sufficient documentation to the Guinness World Records to prove her age before she died. There were also claimed that she was not born in 1894, but in 1908.
Biography
Ivancevic claimed she was born in Bihac, Austria-Hungary (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina) on 10 July 1894. However, her former neighbour stated that she was born in Lika, Austria-Hungary (present-day Croatia) in 1908 or 1909. After Bosnian War she and her family moved to the urban Belgrade neighborhood of Karaburma. Serbia first heard of her in 2011. She had one son and one daughter. Her son died in 2011, and she then lived with her daughter and granddaughter.
Ivancevic had said that brandies and mints are the reasons why she has lived so long.
She died in hospital in Belgrade, Serbia on 24 September 2013 at the claimed age of 119 years, 106 days.
References
- Slava Ivančević iz Beograda sa 117 godina najstarija na svetu 021, 2 November 2011
- Je li beogradska baka Slava (117) najstarija osoba na svijetu? Tvrdi da je tajna dugog života u čašici rakije i mentol bombonima! Jutarnji, 3 November 2011
- Umrla najstarija Srpkinja Slava Ivančević (119)! Telegraf.rs, 26 September 2013