Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian, last person verified born in the 19th century (b. 1899)
Emma Martina Luigia Morano (29 November 1899 – 15 April 2017) was an Italian supercentenarian who, before her death at the age of 117 years and 137 days, was the world's oldest living person whose age had been verified, and the last living person to have been verified as being born in the 1800s. She is the oldest Italian person ever and the third-oldest European person ever behind Frenchwomen Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) and Lucile Randon (b. 1904).