Maria Diaz Cortes

Maria Diaz Cortes (Spanish: María Díaz Cortés) (4 January 1892? – 15 January 2009) was a Spanish supercentenarian who claimed to be the oldest living person. She was born in Spain, and went forty years without heating or hot water. A Romani, she owned a valid Spanish identity card with such a birth date, but it was not issued before 1975 and is not a copy of an earlier one, and her daughter was only 73 when she died.undefinedCortes died on 15 January 2009 at the claimed age of 117 years, 11 days.