Adelina Domingues

Adelina Domingues
Domingues aged of 114, in March 2002.
Birth:	19 February 1888 Brava, Cape Verde
Death:	21 August 2002 Spring Valley, California, USA
Age:	114 years, 183 days
Country:	CPVUSA
Validated

Adelina Evangelina Domingues (née Engargiola; 19 February 1888 – 21 August 2002) was a validated Cape Verdean-American supercentenarian who was once the oldest living person at the time of her death.

Biography

Adelina Domingues was born in Brava, Cape Verde (then a Portuguese colony) as the daughter of Francisco and Matilda Coehlo Engargiola. She married Jose Manuel Domingues in 1906 and moved to the US in 1907.

The couple settled in Massachusetts and had three children. She was widowed in 1950 and later moved to California. She moved into a nursing home in Spring Valley, San Diego, California in 1996.

She was posthumously recognized as the Guinness World Records' "world's oldest person" titleholder following the retraction of support for the Kamato Hongo claim from Japan.

Adelina Domingues died in Spring Valley, California, USA on 21 August 2002, at the age of 114 years, 183 days. She is currently the oldest validated person ever born in Cape Verde, as well as the only validated supercentenarian to have been born there.

Gallery

Domingues in an undated photo

Domingues in an undated photo

Domingues in an undated photo.

Domingues aged 114, in March 2002.

Domingues aged 114, in March 2002.

Obituary of August 2002.

References

• Adelina Domingues, 114 Photo Gallery, Gerontology Research Group
• Dictionary of African Christian Biography: Adelina Domingues (1888–2002)
• Adelina Domingues, 114; Oldest Person in the U.S. Los Angeles Times, 24 August 2002

World's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E)

Nancy Merriman • Betsy Baker • Jennie Howell • Mathias Hansen Saether • Catherine Waller • Christina Karnebeek-Backs • Marie Olsen • Mary Kelly • Elizabeth Kensley • William Fullingim • Hannah Smith • John Mosley Turner • Johanna Booysen • Marie Bernatkova • Haruno Shimada • Ada Roe • Josefa Salas Mateo • Alice Stevenson • Elizabeth Watkins • Mito Umeta • Niwa Kawamoto • Sophia DeMuth • Marie-Virginie Duhem • Fannie Thomas • Augustine Tessier • Nellie Spencer • Emma Wilson • Augusta Holtz • Mary McKinney • Anna Eliza Williams • Florence Knapp • Easter Wiggins • Jeanne Calment • Marie-Louise Meilleur • Sarah Knauss • Ella Miller • Marie Bremont • Maud Farris-Luse • Grace Clawson • Adelina Domingues • Mae Harrington • Yukichi Chuganji • Mitoyo Kawate • Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan • Maria Capovilla • Elizabeth Bolden • Emiliano Mercado del Toro • Emma Tillman • Yone Minagawa • Edna Parker • Maria de Jesus • Gertrude Baines • Kama Chinen • Eugenie Blanchard • Maria Gomes Valentim • Besse Cooper • Dina Manfredini • Jiroemon Kimura • Misao Okawa • Gertrude Weaver • Jeralean Talley • Susannah Mushatt Jones • Emma Morano • Violet Brown • Nabi Tajima • Chiyo Miyako • Kane Tanaka • Lucile Randon • Maria Branyas Morera

World's Oldest Living Woman Titleholders (V • E)

Nancy Merriman • Betsy Baker • Jennie Howell • Catherine Waller • Christina Karnebeek-Backs • Marie Olsen • Mary Kelly • Elizabeth Kensley • Auguste Pahl • Hannah Smith • Yoshigiku Ito • Johanna Booysen • Marie Bernatkova • Haruno Shimada • Ada Roe • Josefa Salas Mateo • Alice Stevenson • Elizabeth Watkins • Mito Umeta • Niwa Kawamoto • Sophia DeMuth • Marie-Virginie Duhem • Fannie Thomas • Augustine Tessier • Nellie Spencer • Emma Wilson • Augusta Holtz • Mary McKinney • Anna Eliza Williams • Florence Knapp • Easter Wiggins • Jeanne Calment • Marie-Louise Meilleur • Sarah Knauss • Ella Miller • Marie Bremont • Maud Farris-Luse • Grace Clawson • Adelina Domingues • Mae Harrington • Mitoyo Kawate • Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan • Maria Capovilla • Elizabeth Bolden • Julie Winnefred Bertrand • Emma Tillman • Yone Minagawa • Edna Parker • Maria de Jesus • Gertrude Baines • Kama Chinen • Eugenie Blanchard • Maria Gomes Valentim • Besse Cooper • Dina Manfredini • Koto Okubo • Misao Okawa • Gertrude Weaver • Jeralean Talley • Susannah Mushatt Jones • Emma Morano • Violet Brown • Nabi Tajima • Chiyo Miyako • Kane Tanaka • Lucile Randon • Maria Branyas Morera

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Lucy Woodman • Nancy Merriman • Betsy Baker • Jennie Howell • Catherine Waller • Robert Early • Nettie Minick • Mary Kelly • James King • Narcissa Rickman • Kitty Harvey • Ettie Crist • Ginevra Donovan • Mary Bittlebrun • Ellen Cooke • Alice Coles • Eliza Underwood • Nellie Spencer • Emma Wilson • Augusta Holtz • Mary McKinney • Florence Knapp • Easter Wiggins • Delphia Welford • Margaret Skeete • Wilhelmina Kott • Georgia Ella Jordan • Sarah Knauss • Ella Miller • Maude Farris-Luse • Grace Clawson • Adelina Domingues • Mae Harrington • Mary Christian • Elena Slough • Charlotte Benkner • Emma Verona Johnston • Elizabeth Bolden • Emma Tillman • Corinne Dixon Taylor • Edna Parker • Gertrude Baines • Mary Josephine Ray • Neva Morris • Eunice Sanborn • Besse Cooper • Dina Manfredini • Gertrude Weaver • Jeralean Talley • Susannah Mushatt Jones • Goldie Michelson • Adele Dunlap • Delphine Gibson • Ophelia Burks • Lessie Brown • Alelia Murphy • Hester Ford • Thelma Sutcliffe • Bessie Hendricks • Edie Ceccarelli • Elizabeth Francis

California's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E)

Fannie Thomas • Mary Phil Cota • Walter Wilcox • Gregory Pandazes • Mary McKinney • Bertha Blair • Unknown • Zoe Hiehle • Katherine Jones • Amy Harris • Miriam Carpelan • Christian Mortensen • Frances Johns • Clara Huhn • Adelina Domingues • Mary Christian • Emma Taylor • Elma Corning • Margaret Russell • Marion Higgins • Gertrude Baines • Soledad Mexia • Opal Thompson • Dominga Velasco • Florence Boggs • Clarence Matthews • Minnie Whicker • Lucy Mirigian • Mila Mangold • Edie Ceccarelli • Ilse Meingast