# Happy Birthday Violet Brown! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-violet-brown/782114 "2017-03-13T20:43:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-violet-brown/782114/1 "2017-03-13T20:43:58Z")
Violet Brown of Jamaica, celebrated a milestone birthday on March 10, 2017. She turned 117 and is presently the world’s second oldest living person. Violet is also the last surviving subject of Queen Victoria. While her age may not be a record in its own right, she shares an age record with her son, Harold Fairweather. Harold, born April 20, 1920 holds the world’s record for oldest person to have a living parent. > **[Violet Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Brown)** > > Violet Brown (née Mosse; 10 March 1900 – 15 September 2017) was a Jamaican supercentenarian who was the oldest verified living person in the world for five months, following the death of Emma Morano on 15 April 2017 until her own death at the age of 117 years, 189 days on 15 September 2017. She was, along with Nabi Tajima of Japan, one of the last two living people known to have been born in the nineteenth century. > Brown was born as Violet Mosse on 10 March 1900, and was one of four children ... [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ad1BXLOPQEw/maxresdefault.jpg "Happy 117th Birthday, Violet Brown!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad1BXLOPQEw)