... to be the oldest living person on earth died at the age of 117.
Varvara Semennikova, who lived in a small village in northwest Yakutia, Russia, was the oldest woman in Russia and claimed to be the oldest person in the world since August 2007.
She was born in 1890 and would have marked her 118 birthday in May, 2008. The date of her birth was found in register book in the Church of the Savior. However, her age was ... |