The world's oldest person has passed away. Maria Branyas Morera, born in the USA, has passed away in Spain after more than 117 years on earth.
"Maria Branyas has left us. She died as she had wished: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain", writes her family on social media.
Guinness World Records issued a certificate to Maria Branyas Morera as the world's oldest living person in January last year. At that time, the world's then oldest person, Lucile Randon from France, had passed away at the age of 118.
The world's currently oldest living person is – as far as is known – Japanese Tomiko Itooka. She was born in May 1908 and thus turned 116 this spring.
