Two of World’s Oldest People Die on Same Day

AOL Weird News – Sunday was a sad day for supercentenarians: Two of the 10 oldest people in the world died within a 24-hour span.

“March 7, 2010, will go down in history as the first time two top-10 supercentenarians died on the same day,” said Robert Young, of the Gerontology Research Group. “This is a very elite group, the very top of the population pyramid.”

Mary Josephine Ray, certified by the research group as the oldest person living in the U.S. and the second oldest in the world, died early Sunday at a nursing home in Westmoreland, N.H. She was 114 years and 294 days old.

Hours later, Daisey Bailey, the oldest living black person in the world and the fifth-oldest person in the world, died at 10:03 p.m. in Detroit, Young said. Born March 30, 1896, in Tennessee, she was 113 years and 342 days old, Young said. The gerontology group certified her age using two Censuses, but her family believes she was born on the same day one year earlier, he added.

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Perspect the fact that both of these awesome people were born in the 1890′s. Then put into perspective everything that they have seen in their life. There is not a century in the history of the world that saw as much happen as the 1900′s. The Car. The Computer. The Television. Everything happened in the 1900′s. When Daisey was 30 years old, in 1926, do you think she ever imagined a black president? I love this country and these two ladies saw it all.