Virginia Dighero-Zolezzi

Virginia Dighero-Zolezzi (24 December 1891 – 28 December 2005) was an Italian supercentenarian. On 14 September 2005, she became the longest-lived person of Italian descent ever, having surpassed Amalia Ruggieri Barone, who was an emigrant to the United States.

At the time of her death, she was the oldest ever documented person from Italy at the age of 114 years, 4 days - a title she held for more than five years, until being supassed by Venere Pizzinato on 28 November 2010. She was also the 7th-oldest living person in the world, at time of death, and the oldest verified living person in Europe.

Dighero-Zolezzi died of ischemia on 28 December 2005.

Trivia

 * She was born 6 years before Koto Okubo.