Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper
Dutch supercentenarian
Died when: 115 years 62 days (1382 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper ([ˈɦɛndrɪkjə vɑn ˈɑndəl ˈsxɪpər]; 29 June 1890 – 30 August 2005) was a Dutch supercentenarian, who lived to the age of 115 years, 62 days.
She is the oldest person ever from the Netherlands, breaking the previous record of Catharina van Dam on 26 September 2003, and from 29 May 2004 was thought to be the oldest verified person in the world.
She became the oldest living person in the Netherlands on 16 February 2001, at the age of 110 years and 232 days.
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License