Maria Giuseppa Robucci (20 March 1903 – 18 June 2019) was a validated Italian
supercentenarian
A supercentenarian (sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian) is a person who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Supercentenarians typically live a life free of major age-related diseases u ...
who was, prior to her death aged 116, the second-oldest living person in the world behind
Kane Tanaka
was a Japanese supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of , was the world's oldest verified living person following the death of Chiyo Miyako on 22 July 2018. She is the oldest verified Japanese person and the second-oldest verified ...
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Biography
Robucci was born in 1903 in
Poggio Imperiale
Poggio Imperiale is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Foggia in the Apulia region of southeast Italy.
Twin towns
* Vorë, Albania
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, province of Foggia, Apulia region, Italy. Her parents were Antonio and Maria Michela Robucci. On 3 December 1928, she married Nicola Nargiso. The couple had five children named Angelo, Concetta, Antonio, Giuseppe, and Filomena. Nicola died in 1982.
In 2003, her 100th birthday was featured in a television show called ”La vita in diretta” for the channel Rai Uno.
In 2014, Robucci broke her hip after a fall and underwent surgery. She credited her longevity to a good diet such as
olive oil
Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained from olives (the fruit of ''Olea europaea''; family Oleaceae), a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin, produced by pressing whole olives and extracting the oil. It is commonly used in cooking: f ...
and tomatoes, having faith in God, avoiding alcohol and having a positive mindset.
On 6 July 2018, she became the oldest person in Italy upon the death of 116-year-old
Giuseppina Projetto-Frau.
On 18 June 2019, she died aged 116 years, 90 days in Poggio Imperiale.
See also
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Emma Morano
Emma Martina Luigia Morano (29 November 1899 – 15 April 2017) was an Italian supercentenarian. She was the world's oldest living person from 13 May 2016 until her death on 15 April 2017, aged 117 years and 137 days. At the time of her death, ...
References
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1903 births
2019 deaths
Italian supercentenarians
Women supercentenarians