Sarah DeRemer Clark Knauss was considered the "world's oldest person" by Guinness World Records from April 16, 1998 until her death at age 119. Aged 117, Sarah set the record for the oldest "new" titleholder (which corresponds to the highest "valley" on a graph of the oldest living persons over time). She died a mere 33 hours before the year 2000, the last verified living person born before 1885. Sarah DeRemer Clark was born in a small United States coal mining town, … Wikipedia
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