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{{Infobox person
| name = Sahan Dosova
| image =
| image_size =
| caption =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 27 March 1879 (purported)
| birth_place = [[Aul]], [[Karaganda]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Russian Empire]]
| death_date = {{death date|2009|5|9|df=yes}}<br/>(aged {{age in years and days|1879|3|27|2009|5|9}})
| death_place = [[Aul]], [[Karaganda]], [[Kazakhstan]]
| death_cause = Broken hip following a fall
| other_names = Sakhan Dosova
| known_for = Allegedly being one of the world's [[longevity claims|oldest people]]}}

'''Sahan Dosova''', or '''Sakhan Dosova''' ({{lang-kz|''Сaxaн Дocoвa''}}; 27 March 1879 – 9 May 2009) was a [[Kazakhstan]]i woman reputed by some to have been the oldest woman who ever lived.<ref name="BBC">{{cite web |last= Demytrie |first= Rayhan |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7979599.stm |title= Kazakhstan's famous '130-year-old' |publisher= ''[[BBC]]'' |accessdate= 2009-04-10 |date= 9 April 2009}}</ref><ref name="[[Daily Mail]]">{{cite web |last= Stewart |first= Will |url= http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1164503/Is-woman-really-old-LIGHT-BULB-Oldest-person-world-set-celebrate-130th-birthday.html |title= Is this woman really as old as the LIGHT BULB? 'Oldest person in the world' set to celebrate her 130th birthday |publisher= Daily Mail|
date= 2009-03-25 |accessdate= 2009-04-10}}</ref>

==Longevity claim==
If her claimed date of birth (27 March 1879) is correct, Sahan would have been {{age in years and days|1879|3|27|2009|5|9}} old at the time of her death on 9 May 2009. This is eight years longer than [[Jeanne Calment]], a [[French people|French woman]] who died in 1997 with the longest confirmed lifespan in history, aged 122 years, 164 days.

===Doubts===
Dosova's case was first uncovered during a [[census]] in [[Kazakhstan]]. However, there are doubts about the claims made on her behalf because she did not have a birth certificate and it was common for people at the time to make up their own date of birth.<ref name="BBC"/>

Another point of contention is that at the time of her alleged 130th birthday her only living daughter was 76 years old, meaning that Dosova would have been 54 years old when she gave birth.<ref name="BBC"/>

==Death==
Dosova died on 9 May 2009, allegedly aged 130 years, about a month after she slipped and fell on the bathroom floor of a flat gifted to her on account of her old age. "She broke her hip in the fall and never recovered," one of Sahan's neighbors said. {{Citation needed|date=November 2011}}

==Personal life==
In an interview in March 2009, Sahan had said: "I don't have any special secret. I've never taken pills and if I was ill, I used granny's remedies to cure me. I have never eaten sweets. I don't like them." She confessed that she loved [[qurut|kurt]], a local delicacy made from salted dried cottage cheese and ground wheat.

According to her eldest granddaughter, Dosova grew up as an orphan during her infant and childhood years. The twice married Dosova was widowed at the [[Battle of Stalingrad]] during the [[World War II|Second World War]]. Only three of her children remain alive as of
2011. {{Citation needed|date=November 2011}}

==See also==
*[[Longevity claims]]
*[[Longevity traditions]]
*[[Supercentenarian]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dosova, Sahan}}
[[Category:Year of birth uncertain]]
[[Category:1879 births]]
[[Category:2009 deaths]]
[[Category:Longevity claims]]
[[Category:People from Karaganda]]
[[Category:Kazakhstani centenarians]]

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