Grace Gatt, the oldest living person in Malta, is celebrating her 110th birthday today in Sliema. This morning, she was visited by the Nationalist Party leader Alex Borg.
Grace Gatt was born in Valletta, Port Region, Malta, on 30 January 1916. She spent her early years in a spacious home opposite the Manoel Theatre in Valletta, where she lived with her parents and her paternal grandparents. Her grandfather, Joseph Howard (1862–1925), became Malta’s first Prime Minister when she was five, and he passed away when she was nine.
In 1940, as World War II reached Malta, Grace married Alfred Gatt, whom she had met through friends at a carnival event. Owing to the dangers of wartime Valletta, the couple evacuated to Mosta and later settled in Sliema, where they raised their two sons, Edgar and John. Edgar was born in an air-raid shelter in 1942. She was widowed at 61.
On 23 December 2024, following the passing of 112-year-old Maria Farrugia, she became the oldest living person in Malta.
In January 2026, she celebrated her 110th birthday, becoming the second documented supercentenarian in Malta, after Maria Farrugia, and the third Maltese supercentenarian overall, following Farrugia and Theresa Ryan.
LongeviQuest extends warm congratulations to Grace Gatt on her 110th birthday.
