Image copyright AFP Image caption Emma Morano was officially the last person born in the 1800s still living 
 
 The world's oldest person has died in Italy at the age of 117, reports say. 
 
 Emma Morano was born on 29 November 1899 in the Piedmont region of Italy. She was officially the last person born in the 1800s still living. 
 
 She had attributed her longevity to her genetics and a diet of three eggs a day, two of them raw. 
 
 Ms Morano was the oldest of eight siblings, all of whom she has outlived. She died at her home in the northern city of Verbania. 
 
 Her life not only spanned three centuries but also survived an abusive marriage, the loss of her only son, two World Wars and more than 90 Italian governments. 
 
 'Good genes and eggs' 
 
 Ms Morano had admitted that her longevity was partly down to genetics: her mother reached 91 and several sisters reached their centenary. 
 
 But it was also down to a rather unusual diet of three eggs - two raw - each day for more than 90 years. 
 
 Image copyright EPA Image caption Ms Morano looks at a picture depicting her when she was young 
 
 It was a regime she took up as a young woman, after the doctor diagnosed her with anaemia shortly after World War One. 
 
 She had cut down to just two eggs a day, and a few biscuits recently. 
 
 Her doctor of 27 years, Carlo Bava, had told AFP news agency that she rarely ate vegetables or fruit. 
 
 "When I met her, she ate three eggs per day, two raw in the morning and then an omelette at noon, and chicken at dinner." 
 
 'I didn't want to be dominated' 
 
 Ms Morano also credited her longevity to her decision, in 1938, to kick out her husband - a year after her baby boy died at just six months old. 
 
 The marriage had never been healthy, she said. She had been in love with a boy who was killed during World War One, and had no interest in marrying someone else. 
 
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption There were big celebrations for her 117th birthday last year 
 
 But, she told La Stampa newspaper in an interview when she was a spritely 112 that she was left with little choice. 
 
 "He told me: 'If you're lucky you marry me, or I'll kill you'. I was 26 years old. I got married." 
 
 Eventually, it became too much. Though they separated in 1938, they remained married until he died in 1978. Ms Morano, who worked until she was 75, chose never to marry again. 
 
 "I didn't want to be dominated by anyone," she told the New York Times. 
 
 She had only taken on a full-time carer a couple of years ago - but had not left her small two-room apartment for 20 years. 
 
 According to the US-based Gerontology Research Group (GRG), the world's oldest registered human is now Jamaican Violet Brown, who was born on 10 March 1900. 
 
 Another 117-year-old, Elizabeth Gathoni Koinange from Kenya, recalled her long life in a BBC World Service documentary told by her great granddaughter, Priscilla Ng'ethe. ||||| ROME (Reuters) - Emma Morano, who at 117 was believed to be the world’s oldest person and the last surviving child of the 19th century, died on Saturday, swearing to the end on her diet of two raw eggs a day. 
 
 Emma Morano, thought to be the world's oldest person and the last to be born in the 1800s, is seen during her 117th birthday in her house in Verbania, northern Italy November 29, 2016. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo 
 
 “She reached an incredible finish line,” said Silvia Marchionini, mayor of the town of Verbania in northern Italy where Morano lived on the shores of Lake Maggiore. 
 
 Morano, who lived 117 years and 137 days, was born on Nov. 29, 1899, four years before the Wright brothers first took to the air. Her life spanned three centuries, two World Wars and more than 90 Italian governments. 
 
 “My life wasn’t so nice,” she told Reuters last November on her 117th birthday. 
 
 “I worked in a factory until I was 65, then that was that,” she said as she sat in an armchair by her window, a white shawl over her shoulders. 
 
 In an interview with La Stampa newspaper five years ago she said her fiance had died in World War One and that she had then been forced to marry a man she did not love. 
 
 “‘Either you agree to marry me or I will kill you’,” Morano said, recalling his proposal. “I was 26. We got married.” 
 
 It was not a happy marriage. They had a son in 1937, but the baby died after just six months and the following year Morano kicked out her abusive husband. 
 
 “I separated from him in 1938. I think I was one of the first in Italy to do that.” 
 
 Morano outlived all her eight brothers and sisters, including one who died at 102. She thrived on an unorthodox, unbalanced diet. 
 
 “When I first knew her she used to eat three eggs a day. Two raw, and one fried. Today she has slowed down a bit, reducing the number to two some days because she says three can be too much,” her doctor, Carlo Bava, said last year. 
 
 “She has never eaten much fruit or vegetables. Her characteristic is that she always eats the same thing, every day, every week, every month and every year.” 
 
 Marchionini, the mayor of Verbania, told the Italian news agency AGI that her city has more than 20 people aged over 100.
– Emma Morano lived across three centuries, two world wars, and more than 90 Italian governments. And on Saturday, friends and family of Morano, believed to be the oldest woman alive, reported her death at home in Italy, Reuters reports. She was 117. According to the BBC, Morano was born on Nov. 29, 1899 and was believed to be the only person born in the 19th century still alive. Morano credited her long life to genetics—a number of her sisters lived to 100—and her diet. For more than 90 years—after being diagnosed with anemia—Morano had eaten three eggs per day. Her longtime doctor says Morano subsisted on two raw eggs in the morning, an omelette for lunch, and chicken for dinner—almost never consuming fruits or vegetables.