Manuela Fernández-Fojaco

Manuela Fernández Fojaco (18 June 1895 – 6 January 2009) was the fifth-oldest living person, the oldest person in Europe and the oldest living person in Spain at the time of her death, at the age of 113 years, 202 days. She died just 7 days short of equalling the age of María del Carmen Figueiroa Freiria de Salgueiro, who was the oldest Spanish woman ever. Manuela Fernández Fojaco was born in Llamas, in the municipality of Aller, Asturias. She was approximately one year and two months younger than the oldest living person at the time of her death, American woman Gertrude Baines, and approximately nine years younger than all-time world recordholder French woman Jeanne Calment was at the time of her death. Fernández was the last European born in 1895. Fernández Fojaco is also the third oldest person ever from Spain. On 2 January 2009, she became the oldest living European after the death of 115-year old Portuguese woman Maria de Jesus. Her reign lasted for 4 days until her death on 6 January 2009. After her death, 112-year-old Lucia Lauria Vigna from Italy became Europe's oldest person (although Eugénie Blanchard was from Guadeloupe, which is part of the European Union).