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Dora Jacobs, a South African woman who claimed to have been born in 1880 and would have been 122 years old, died Sunday, officials said. Jacobs, who gave her birthday as May 6, 1880, was rejected by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s oldest living person because she failed to produce three separate documents confirming her birth date.