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Milka Bauković, Serbia’s Oldest Person, Celebrates 110th Birthday

Milka Bauković, a resident of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, and the nation’s oldest living resident, is celebrating her 110th birthday today, 5 February.

Bauković was born Milka Ercegovac in the village of Papići, Austria-Hungary (now Sisak-Moslavina County, Croatia), on 5 February 1915. Her father, Mile Ercegovac, and her mother, Inđija, raised her alongside her younger brother, Branko, who was five years her junior.

In 1940, on the brink of the Second World War, Milka married Dušan Bauković, a skilled hatter from Okučani. Their wedding took place at the church in Jasenovac. After Dušan’s untimely death on 8 May 1945—the final day of the war—his grave remains unlocated. Milka inherited his trade, continuing the legacy of his craft.

Together, Milka and Dušan had two children: a son, Nebojša, born in 1941, who tragically passed away from a heart attack in 1987; and a daughter, Dušanka Božić, born in 1945. Dušanka was born three months after her father’s death, never having had the chance to meet him.

In 1983, she married again, to Sava Radivojević. They got married in Belgrade, where they moved in 1990. She was widowed in 2003.

Bauković is only the third confirmed supercentenarian in Serbian history. The first two were Jelisaveta Veljković (1904–2016), the oldest person ever in Serbia, who was also born in what is now Croatia, and Tamara Krutikov (1912–2022), born in present-day Ukraine. Like Bauković, both Veljković and Krutikov spent their later years in Belgrade, where they also passed away.

Bauković has been the nation’s oldest known living resident since Krutikov’s passing in July 2022.

Happy 110th birthday to her! 🙂 Always good to see more SCs, especially validatable ones, from the former Yugoslavia!