BREAKING NEWS
World's oldest person dies
Posted: 12/05/2012
The woman listed as the world’s oldest living person died in a nursing home at the age of 116.
Besse Cooper died peacefully after she had been ill recently with a stomach virus.
She was declared the world’s oldest person in January 2011.
The title of “world’s oldest person” no belongs to 115-year-old Dina Manfredini of Johnston, Iowa.
The oldest known person of all time was Jeanne Calment, a French woman who lived to be 122 years old and died in 1997.
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