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World's 'oldest person' dies at 132
Tuesday October 09, 2012 06:20:34 AM,
IANS
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London: A Georgian
woman who claimed to be 132-years-old - making her the world's
oldest human being ever - has died, The Independent reported
Monday.
Antisa Khvichava claimed to have been born July 8, 1880, and had a
Soviet-era passport and documentation to that effect, but her age
was contested and never officially proven.
She lived in Sachino village in northwest Georgia with her
42-year-old grandson and claimed to have retired from her job as a
tea and corn picker in 1965, when she was 85.
Khvichava claimed to be just 10-years younger than Russia's first
communist leader Vladimir Lenin and to have been born a year
before the death of celebrated Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
She said she had 12 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and four
great-great-grandchildren and reportedly attributed her longevity
and good health to drinking a small amount of local brandy every
day, according to the newspaper.
Her original birth certificate is said to have been lost during
the years of revolutions and civil wars that ravaged Georgia
following the fall of the USSR.
But local officials, friends, neighbours and descendants have all
back up the claim she was 132 when she died, the daily said.
The oldest living person at the moment is 116-year-old Besse
Cooper from the state of Georgia in the US. Her birth can be
officially proven to have been in August 1896.
The oldest ever verified person was French woman Jeanne Calment,
born in February 1875, who lived to 122 years and 164 days before
dying in August 1997.
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