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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1032/
- Published: 2024-08-21T18:30:50.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-21T18:30:49.000Z
- Description: Maria Branyas was born in San Francisco on 4 March, 1907.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> Maria Branyas, an American-born Spaniard considered the world’s oldest person at 117 years old, has died, her family said.  
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> In a post on Branyas’ X account, her family wrote in Catalan on Tuesday: “Maria Branyas has left us. She has gone the way she wanted: in her sleep, at peace, and without pain.”  
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> The Gerontology Research Group, which validates details of people thought to be 110 or older, listed Branyas as the oldest known person in the world [after the death of French nun Lucile Randon last year.](https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300787345/worlds-oldest-known-person-a-french-nun-dead-at-age-118?ref=goodoil.news)  
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> The next oldest person listed by the Gerontology Research Group is now Japan’s Tomiko Itooka, who is 116 years old.  
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> Branyas was born in San Francisco on March 4, 1907\. After living for some years in New Orleans, where her father founded a magazine, her family returned to Spain when she was young.  
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> Branyas said that she had memories of crossing the Atlantic Ocean during[ World War I](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/108445553/a-legacy-of-suffering-from-world-war-i?ref=goodoil.news).  
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