Gertrude Weaver (née Gaines; July 4, 1898 – April 6, 2015) was an American supercentenarian. She was born in Lafayette County, Arkansas, near the border with Texas. She became the oldest living person in the United States upon the death of Dina Manfredini on December 17, 2012. She became the oldest living person in the world on March 31, 2015 (US Central Time) following the death of Misao Okawa in Osaka, Japan early on April 1, 2015 (GMT +9); she remained so until her own death five days later. At the time of her death she was the seventh-oldest person ever verified and the third oldest person ever verified from the United States, after Sarah Knauss and Lucy Hannah.
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4 July 1898 Arkansas, US
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Died |
6 April 2015 (aged 116)
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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