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World’s oldest known person, French nun Lucile Randon, dies at 118

Lucile Randon
Lucile Randon prays in a wheelchair on 10 February 2021. Photograph: Nicolas Tucat/AFP/Getty Images

The world’s oldest known person, French nun Lucile Randon, has died aged 118, a spokesperson has said.

Randon, known as Sister André, was born in southern France on 11 February 1904, when the first world war was still a decade away.

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