Italian supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Italy who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age., the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 151 Italian supercentenarians, the majority of whom were women. The oldest Italian ever is Emma Morano, who was also the last living person born before the year 1900.[1] As of, the oldest living person in Italy is Claudia Baccarini born on 13 October 1910 in Emilia-Romagna, aged .
Rank | Name | Sex | data-sort-type=date | Birth date | data-sort-type=date | Death date | Age | Birthplace | Place of death or residence | |
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1 | data-sort-value="Morano" | Emma Morano | align=center | F | 29 November 1899 | 15 April 2017 | Piedmont | Piedmont | ||
2 | data-sort-value="Robucci" | Maria Giuseppa Robucci | align=center | F | 20 March 1903 | 18 June 2019[2] | Apulia | Apulia | ||
3 | data-sort-value="Projetto" | Giuseppina Projetto | align=center | F | 30 May 1902 | 6 July 2018 | Sardinia | Tuscany | ||
4 | data-sort-value="Manfredini" | align=center | F | 4 April 1897 | 17 December 2012[3] | nowrap | Emilia-Romagna | United States | ||
5 | data-sort-value="Gaudette" | Marie-Josephine Gaudette | align=center | F | 25 March 1902 | 13 July 2017 | United States | Lazio | ||
6 | data-sort-value="Pizzinato" | Venere Ires Pizzinato | align=center | F | 23 November 1896 | 2 August 2011[4] | Trentino-Alto Adige | Veneto | ||
7 | data-sort-value="Dighero" | Virginia Dighero | align=center | F | 24 December 1891 | 28 December 2005[5] | Liguria | Liguria | ||
8 | data-sort-value="Redaelli" | Maria Redaelli | align=center | F | 3 April 1899 | 2 April 2013[6] | Lombardy | Lombardy | ||
bgcolor=F9F9F9 | 9 | data-sort-value="Baccarini" | align=center | F | 13 October 1910 | Living | Emilia-Romagna | Emilia-Romagna | ||
bgcolor=F9F9F9 | 10 | data-sort-value="Sangenito" | Lucia Laura Sangenito | align=center | F | 22 November 1910 | Living | Campania | ||
11 | data-sort-value="Benericetti" | [7] | align=center | F | 22 March 1906 | 11 December 2019[8] | Emilia-Romagna | Emilia-Romagna | ||
12 | data-sort-value="Barone" | Amalia Barone | align=center | F | 6 October 1884 | 26 June 1998 | Campania | United States | ||
13 | data-sort-value="Cammalleri" | Diega Cammalleri | align=center | F | 23 October 1905 | 15 June 2019 | Sicily | Sicily | ||
14 | data-sort-value="Gravigi" | Maria Gravigi | align=center | F | 3 March 1900 | 15 August 2013[9] | Friuli-Venezia Giulia | Friuli-Venezia Giulia | ||
15 | data-sort-value="Fumarola" | Maria Teresa Fumarola | align=center | F | 2 December 1889 | 14 May 2003[10] | Apulia | Apulia | ||
16 | data-sort-value="Ercolani" | Domenica Ercolani | align=center | F | 3 July 1910 | 17 November 2023[11] | Marche | Marche | ||
17 | data-sort-value="Lauria" | Lucia Lauria | align=center | F | 4 March 1896 | 28 June 2009[12] | Basilicata | Basilicata | ||
18 | data-sort-value="Ciuffoletti" | Irene Ciuffoletti | align=center | F | 19 January 1903 | 7 May 2016[13] | Basilicata | United States | ||
19 | data-sort-value="Genovese" | Mariannina Genovese | align=center | F | 15 October 1905 | 1 January 2019 | Sicily | Sicily | ||
20 | data-sort-value="Nardari" | Stella Nardari | align=center | F | 23 December 1898 | 23 February 2012 | Veneto | Veneto | ||
21 | data-sort-value="Frabboni" | Ida Frabboni | align=center | F | 4 October 1896 | 2 November 2009 | Emilia-Romagna | Emilia-Romagna | ||
data-sort-value="Amedei" | Guerina Amedei[14] | align=center | F | 31 January 1906 | 1 March 2019 | Emilia-Romagna | Emilia-Romagna | |||
23 | data-sort-value="Sani" | Giulia Sani | align=center | F | nowrap | 15 September 1893 | 4 September 2006 | Tuscany | Tuscany | |
24 | data-sort-value="Bianchi" | Renata Bianchi | align=center | F | 16 October 1906 | 4 October 2019 | Emilia-Romagna | Emilia-Romagna | ||
25 | data-sort-value="Todde" | Antonio Todde | align=center | M | 22 January 1889 | 3 January 2002 | Sardinia | Sardinia | ||
26 | data-sort-value="Capizzi" | Marietta Capizzi | align=center | F | 30 January 1901 | 10 November 2013 | Sicily | United States | ||
27 | data-sort-value="Muraro" | Maria Muraro | align=center | F | 29 March 1892 | 2 January 2005 | Veneto | Veneto | ||
28 | data-sort-value="Bandini" | Rosa Bandini | align=center | F | 11 September 1901 | 12 June 2014 | Emilia-Romagna | Emilia-Romagna | ||
29 | data-sort-value="De Vita" | Rosa De Vita[15] | align=center | F | 8 February 1911 | 11 October 2023[16] | Campania | Campania | ||
30 | data-sort-value="Zucchetti" | Emilia Zucchetti | align=center | F | 28 August 1903 | 26 April 2016 | Veneto | Lombardy | ||
31 | data-sort-value="Tanganelli" | Valesca Tanganelli[17] | align=center | F | 7 July 1907 | 4 March 2020 | Tuscany | Tuscany | ||
32 | data-sort-value="Zoccarato" | Ida Zoccarato[18] | align=center | F | 24 May 1909 | 16 January 2022[19] | Veneto | Veneto | ||
bgcolor=F9F9F9 | 33 | data-sort-value="Fioriglio" | Francesca Fioriglio[20] | align=center | F | 11 January 1912 | Living | Sicily | Sicily | |
34 | data-sort-value="Venturotti" | Delio Venturotti[21] | align=center | M | 25 October 1909 | 1 June 2022 | Veneto | Brazil | ||
35 | data-sort-value="Rosati" | Anna Maria Rosati | align=center | F | 4 May 1905 | 27 November 2017 | Lombardy | Lombardy | ||
36 | data-sort-value="Chiacchiari" | L(o)uisa Chiacchiari[22] | align=center | F | 10 December 1886 | 29 June 1999[23] | Molise | United States | ||
37 | data-sort-value="Grotta" | Lina Grotta | align=center | F | 22 November 1896 | 27 May 2009 | Tuscany | Tuscany | ||
38 | data-sort-value="Velardi" | Carmela Velardi | align=center | F | 22 October 1906 | 21 April 2019[24] | Sicily | Sicily | ||
39 | data-sort-value"Abate" | Catherine Abate[25] | align=center | F | 15 November 1909 | 7 May 2022[26] | Basilicata | United States | ||
40 | data-sort-value="Frau, Giovanni" | Giovanni Frau | align=center | M | 29 December 1890 | 19 June 2003 | Sardinia | Sardinia | ||
41 | data-sort-value="Naccarato" | Serafina Naccarato | align=center | F | 10 October 1893 | 29 March 2006 | Calabria | Marche | ||
42 | data-sort-value="Dotta" | Lorenza Dotta | align=center | F | 7 August 1894 | 11 January 2007 | Piedmont | Piedmont | ||
43 | data-sort-value="Colucci" | Vincenza Colucci | align=center | F | 24 January 1903 | 26 June 2015 | Abruzzo | United States | ||
44 | data-sort-value="Oliva" | Maria Oliva[27] | align=center | F | 16 April 1909 | 27 August 2021[28] | Sicily | Sicily | ||
45 | data-sort-value="Sommovigo" | Ines Sommovigo[29] | align=center | F | 6 November 1911 | 16 March 2024[30] | Liguria | Liguria | ||
bgcolor=F9F9F9 | 46 | data-sort-value="Ricci" | Maria Carmela Ricci[31] | align=center | F | 16 April 1912 | Living | Campania | Piedmont | |
47 | data-sort-value="Pesce" | Rosa Pesce | align=center | F | 12 September 1902 | 9 January 2015 | Piedmont | Piedmont | ||
48 | data-sort-value="Addari" | Amelia Addari[32] | align=center | F | 25 March 1912 | 20 July 2024 | Sardinia | Sardinia | ||
49 | data-sort-value="Gennari" | Santa Gennari | align=center | F | 23 February 1899 | 18 June 2011 | Marche | Marche | ||
50 | data-sort-value="Salerno" | Giuseppa Salerno[33] | align=center | F | 17 June 1911 | 26 September 2023 | Campania | Campania | ||
bgcolor=F9F9F9 | 51 | data-sort-value="Paloscia" | Cristina Paloscia[34] | align=center | F | 15 May 1912 | Living | Abruzzo | Tuscany | |
52 | data-sort-value="Caleca" | Rosaria "Rose" Caleca | align=center | F | 5 February 1895 | 6 May 2007 | Sicily | United States | ||
53 | data-sort-value="Bianchini" | Erminia Bianchini[35] | align=center | F | 23 April 1908 | 23 June 2020[36] | Piedmont | Piedmont | ||
54 | data-sort-value="Merosi" | Chelidonia Merosi | align=center | F | 11 October 1883 | 10 December 1995 | Lazio | Lazio | ||
55 | data-sort-value="Mallozzi" | Maria Mallozzi | align=center | F | 25 September 1887 | 26 October 1999 | Lazio | Canada | ||
56 | data-sort-value="Case" | Angela Case | align=center | F | 21 July 1899 | 17 August 2011 | Veneto | Veneto | ||
57 | data-sort-value="Concari" | Elia Concari | align=center | F | 14 July 1905 | 2 August 2017[37] | Abruzzo | Lombardy | ||
58 | data-sort-value="Tiraboschi" | [38] [39] | align=center | F | 19 April 1910 | 7 May 2022[40] | Lombardy | Lombardy | ||
59 | data-sort-value="Ilari" | Irma Ilari[41] | align=center | F | 22 September 1907 | 17 September 2019[42] | Tuscany | Tuscany | ||
60 | data-sort-value="Licata" | Arturo Licata | align=center | M | 2 May 1902 | 24 April 2014 | Sicily | Sicily | ||
61 | data-sort-value="Crescini" | Maria Crescini | align=center | F | 20 January 1904 | 17 December 2015 | Lombardy | Lombardy | ||
62 | data-sort-value="Carossio" | Margherita Carossio[43] | align=center | F | 10 August 1905 | 30 June 2017 | Piedmont | Argentina | ||
63 | data-sort-value="Pisano" | Frances Pisano[44] | align=center | F | 2 April 1910 | 18 February 2022 | Calabria | United States | ||
64 | data-sort-value="Venzo" | Margherita Venzo | align=center | F | 21 February 1903 | 8 January 2015 | Veneto | Veneto | ||
65 | data-sort-value="Zaccaria" | Maria Zaccaria[45] | align=center | F | 24 November 1905 | 2 October 2017 | Sicily | France | ||
66 | data-sort-value="Piroddi" | Valerio Piroddi[46] | align=center | M | 13 November 1905 | nowrap | 18 September 2017 | Sardinia | Sardinia | |
67 | data-sort-value="Negri" | Maria Negri | align=center | F | 12 March 1895 | 13 January 2007 | Veneto | Veneto | ||
bgcolor=F9F9F9 | 68 | data-sort-value="Natella" | Anna Natella[47] | align=center | F | 21 November 1912 | Living | Basilicata | United States | |
69 | data-sort-value="Moro" | Maria-Elisa Moro | align=center | F | 11 February 1897 | 2 November 2008 | Veneto | Lazio | ||
70 | data-sort-value="Lotta" | Rita Lotta[48] | align=center | F | 17 November 1912 | 1 August 2024[49] | Apulia | Apulia | ||
71 | data-sort-value="De Geronimi" | Lilla De Geronimi | align=center | F | 2 December 1892 | 14 August 2004 | Liguria | Liguria | ||
72 | data-sort-value="Ciuffreda" | Maria Ciuffreda | align=center | F | 21 June 1899 | 28 February 2011 | Apulia | Apulia | ||
73 | data-sort-value="Granello" | Maria Granello | F | 11 December 1904 | 11 August 2016 | Veneto | Veneto | |||
74 | data-sort-value="Soliman" | Lucia Soliman[50] | align=center | F | 17 April 1911 | 15 December 2022[51] | Veneto | Veneto | ||
75 | data-sort-value="Tiburni" | Anita Tiburni | align=center | F | 3 May 1900 | 27 December 2011 | Tuscany | Tuscany | ||
76 | data-sort-value="Peretti" | Carolina Peretti | align=center | F | 21 October 1897 | 15 June 2009 | Aosta Valley | Piedmont | ||
77 | data-sort-value="Zuccala" | Maria Antonia Zuccalà[52] | align=center | F | 15 March 1905 | 15 October 2016 | Calabria | Calabria | ||
78 | data-sort-value="Donati" | Gesuina Donati | align=center | F | 9 June 1893 | 1 January 2005 | Lazio | Lazio | ||
79 | data-sort-value="DiFelice" | Anna DiFelice | align=center | F | 10 March 1892 | 30 September 2003 | Abruzzo | United States | ||
80 | data-sort-value="Comandè" | Giuseppa Comandè[53] | align=center | F | 23 December 1910 | 8 July 2022[54] | Sicily | Sicily | ||
81 | data-sort-value="Frau, Rosa" | Rosa Frau | align=center | F | 12 August 1901 | 14 February 2013 | Sardinia | Sardinia | ||
82 | data-sort-value="Mattivi" | Maria Mattivi | F | 29 November 1904 | 29 May 2016 | Trentino-Alto Adige | Trentino-Alto Adige | |||
83 | data-sort-value="Villani" | Carmela Villani[55] | align=center | F | 1 May 1909 | 25 October 2020 | Apulia | Apulia | ||
84 | data-sort-value="Gentilini" | Maria Gentilini | align=center | F | 12 May 1894 | 4 November 2005 | Emilia-Romagna | Emilia-Romagna | ||
85 | data-sort-value="Pizzocri" | Ernesta Pizzocri | align=center | F | 20 August 1901 | 6 February 2013 | Lombardy | Lombardy | ||
86 | data-sort-value="Ettori" | Nora Ettori[56] | align=center | F | 5 April 1907 | 22 August 2018 | Brazil | Lombardy | ||
87 | data-sort-value="Giannini" | Tripolino Giannini[57] | align=center | M | 20 August 1912 | 31 December 2023[58] | Tuscany | Tuscany | ||
88 | data-sort-value="Benatti" | Alba Benatti-Togni | align=center | F | 21 March 1902 | 31 July 2013 | Lombardy | France | ||
89 | data-sort-value="Marongiu" | Filomena Marongiu | align=center | F | 23 October 1904 | 23 February 2016 | Sardinia | Sardinia | ||
bgcolor=F9F9F9 | 90 | data-sort-value="Novara" | Maria Novara[59] | align=center | F | 4 May 1913 | Living | Sicily | Sicily | |
91 | data-sort-value="Raimondi" | Elvira Raimondi | align=center | F | 13 February 1890 | 25 May 2001 | Emilia-Romagna | Emilia-Romagna | ||
92 | data-sort-value="Pavoncelli" | Luigina Pavoncelli[60] [61] | align=center | F | 22 May 1908 | 19 August 2019[62] | Veneto | Veneto | ||
93 | data-sort-value="Federici" | Maria Federici[63] | align=center | F | 4 April 1908 | 29 June 2019[64] | Abruzzo | Tuscany[65] | ||
94 | data-sort-value="Zappettini" | Linda Zappettini | align=center | F | 26 February 1892 | 20 May 2003 | Liguria | Liguria | ||
data-sort-value="Mileo" | Carmela Mileo | align=center | F | 27 November 1899 | 18 February 2011 | Calabria | Calabria | |||
96 | data-sort-value="Cresci" | Natalina Erminia Cresci | align=center | F | 25 December 1890 | 13 March 2002 | Liguria | United States | ||
data-sort-value="Seghizzi" | Cecilia Seghizzi[66] | align=center | F | 5 September 1908 | 22 November 2019[67] | Friuli-Venezia Giulia | Friuli-Venezia Giulia | |||
98 | data-sort-value="Frigerio" | Angela Maria Frigerio[68] | align=center | F | 10 April 1905 | 25 June 2016 | Piedmont | Piedmont | ||
bgcolor=F9F9F9 | 99 | data-sort-value="Lerchenthal" | Maria Gabriella Lerchenthal[69] | align=center | F | 8 June 1913 | Living | Germany | Lazio | |
100 | data-sort-value="Rogges" | Angela Rogges | align=center | F | 19 November 1900 | 23 January 2012 | Apulia | Apulia | ||
data-sort-value="Fossati" | Maria Teresa Fossati[70] | align=center | F | 9 September 1905 | 13 November 2016 | Piedmont | Liguria |
Antonio Todde (22 January 1889 – 3 January 2002) was an Italian supercentenarian who, at the time of his death just a few days shy of his 113th birthday, was the oldest man in the world.[71] Todde was born in the village of Tiana, in the province of Nuoro, Sardinia,[72] an area noted for its centenarian density.[73] Born to a poor shepherd family in the medieval center of Tiana, Todde was the third of 12 children. In 1920, at age 31, he married Maria Antonia, then aged 25, and they had four daughters and a son. She died in 1990, aged 95.[74] He left Sardinia only to fight in the First World War, where he was injured in the shoulder by a grenade.[75] He died at age 112 years and 346 days on 3 January 2002.
Venere Ires Pizzinato (married Papo; 23 November 1896 – 2 August 2011)[76] was an Italian supercentenarian who lived for 114 years and 252 days. At the time of her death she was the oldest person ever from Italy.[77]
She was born in Ala, Trentino, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, on 23 November 1896. In 1902, the family moved to Verona, where they had relatives. In 1903, they moved back to Trentino, where Pizzinato attended a boarding school in Trento. World War I forced her to take refuge in Bazzano, Bologna. After the war, she moved to Milan, where she took Italian citizenship and met her future husband Isidoro Papo. During the outbreak of the Second World War, in 1939, the couple moved to Nice, France, to escape the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. They married in France, and after the war they moved back to Milan. Upon retirement in 1964, they finally settled in Verona. Mr. Papo died in 1981. Pizzinato remained in Verona for the rest of her life, spending her final years in a retirement home.[78] [79] [80]
On 23 November 2010, marking her 114th birthday, Pizzinato was visited by Italy's president, Giorgio Napolitano, who wrote her a congratulatory letter.[81]
Marie-Josephine Clarice Gaudette (25 March 1902 – 13 July 2017) was the oldest living Italian from the death of Emma Morano on 15 April 2017 until her own death three months later. Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, to French Canadian immigrants, she was also the oldest living person born in the United States from May 2016 to July 2017.[82]
A nun known as Mother Cecilia, she lived in Canada and France before settling in Rome.[83] She lived at the Convento di Gesù e Maria from 1958 until her death,[84] and was considered "the world's oldest nun".[85] Gaudette died on 13 July 2017, aged 115 years and 110 days, as the 5th-oldest living person in the world.[86]
Giuseppina Projetto (married Frau; 30 May 1902 – 6 July 2018)[87] was, at age 116 years and 37 days, the oldest living person in Italy from the death of Marie Josephine Gaudette on 13 July 2017, and the world's second-oldest verified living person upon the death of Nabi Tajima on 21 April 2018, until her own death on 6 July 2018.[88] She was the last surviving validated person born in 1902.
She was born in La Maddalena, but was of Sicilian origin. Her maternal grandfather had moved from Sicily with the expedition of Giuseppe Garibaldi. In 1946, she married Giuseppe Frau, a widower with three children. At the time of her death, Projetto lived in Tuscany with her daughter-in-law and grandchildren.[89] [90]
Delio Venturotti (25 October 1909 – 1 June 2022) was the oldest living Italian-born person and the second oldest man in the world at the time of his death.
He was born in Calto, Veneto, Italy. He left Italy at the age of three with his parents and two sisters, after his father had been informed of the potential for a large war in Europe. The family arrived in Rio de Janeiro and took another ship to Espírito Santo, where Venturotti worked on plantations. He would later go on to work as a driver, and, starting in the 1940s, in a fabric store. He married Dulcina Gama (born 1921) on 15 March 1946 and had four children. The couple later moved to São Paulo, and 29 years later to Florianópolis. In December 2021, at the age of 112, Venturotti donated to the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in the Campania region of Italy.[91] He became the oldest Italian-born person upon the death of Ida Zoccarato on 16 January 2022. When he died in June 2022,[92] aged 112 years and 219 days, he was the second oldest man in the world after Juan Vicente Pérez; his death left Pérez as the last verified man born in the 1900s decade.[93]