List of last survivors of historical events
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The following is a list of last survivors of notable historical and cultural events, excluding wars, which are covered in separate lists that can be found in the See also section.
Deceased Living
Contents
Before 1701[edit]
Name | Death | Historical event | Date event ended |
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Aristodemus of Sparta | c. 479 BC (aged c. 49) | Last Spartan soldier present at the Battle of Thermopylae | August or September 480 BC |
Ankhmakis | c. 185 BC | Last Native Egyptian Pharaoh | c. 185 BC |
John the Apostle | c. 100 (aged 93–94) | Last Apostle and the last known witness to the Crucifixion (Unconfirmed) | 3 April 33 |
Romulus Augustulus | 507 (As late as) | Last Western Roman Emperor | 4 September 476 |
Wehha of East Anglia | 571 (As early as) | Last native Saxon invader in the British Isles | 493-560s |
Swietopelk II, Duke of Pomerania | 11 January 1266 (aged c. 66-76) | Last participant of the Gąsawa massacre | 24 November 1227 |
Sophia Palaiologina | 7 April 1503 (aged c. 54-63) | Last member of the Imperial Byzantine court | 29 May 1453 |
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury | 27 May 1541 (aged 67) | Last Plantagenet | 22 August 1485 |
Don Mancio Serra de Leguízamo[1][2] | 18 September 1589 (aged 78) | Last known conquistador who participated in the capture of Atahualpa | 16 November 1532 |
Mary Allerton | 28 November 1699 (aged 83) | Last passenger of the Mayflower | 11 November 1620 |
John Alden | 12 September 1687 (aged 88) | Last signer of the Mayflower Compact | 11 November 1620 |
Richard Bellingham | 7 December 1672 (aged 80) | Last signer of the Massachusetts Colonial Charter | 4 March 1629 |
1701–1800[edit]
Name | Death | Historical event | Date event ended |
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John Fortescue[3][4] | 9 May 1808 (aged 87) | Last sailor who took part in George Anson's voyage around the world | 15 June 1744 |
Isaac Smith | 2 July 1831 | (aged 78–79)Last participant of James Cook's first voyage | 12 July 1771 |
George Robert Twelves Hewes | 5 November 1840 | (aged 98)Last survivor of the Boston Massacre and last participant of the Boston Tea party | 5 March 1770; 16 December 1773 |
Ephraim Bowen[5][6] | 2 September 1841 | (aged 88)Last individual involved in the Gaspée Affair | 10 June 1772 |
Amos Baker[7] | 16 July 1850 | (aged 94)Last Concord veteran of the Battle of Lexington and Concord | 19 April 1775 |
Jonathan Harrington[8][9] | 26 March 1854 | (aged 95)Last Lexington veteran of the Battle of Lexington and Concord | 19 April 1775 |
John Hatley | 12 December 1832 | (aged 69–70)Last participant of James Cook's second voyage | 30 July 1775 |
Charles Carroll | 14 November 1832 | (aged 95)Last signer of the United States Declaration of Independence | 4 July 1776 |
William Henry Harrison | 4 April 1841 | (aged 68)Last President of the United States to be born a British subject | 4 July 1776 |
Samuel Downing[10][11] | 18 February 1867 | (aged 102)Last veteran of the Battles of Saratoga | 7 October 1777 |
Andrew Jackson | 8 June 1845 | (aged 78)Last President of the United States to have served in the American Revolution | 25 April 1781 |
Elijah Churchill | 11 April 1841 | (aged 85)Last recipient of the Badge of Military Merit | 2 October 1781 |
John Gray | 29 March 1868 | (aged 104)Last veteran of the Siege of Yorktown | 19 October 1781 |
John Jay | 17 May 1829 | (aged 83)Last signer of the Treaty of Paris | 3 September 1783 |
David Whitney[12] | 24 March 1867 | (aged 99)Last veteran of Shays' Rebellion | June 1787 |
James Madison | 28 June 1836 | (aged 85)Last signer of The United States Constitution | 17 September 1787 |
Elizabeth Thackery | 7 August 1856 (aged 89) | Last survivor of the First Fleet | 20 January 1788 |
Barthélemy de Lesseps[13] | 4 June 1834 | (aged 68)Last partipant of the scientific expedition led by Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse | 1788 |
John Adams | 5 March 1829 | (aged 61)Last mutineer of HMS Bounty | 28 April 1789 |
Arthur Dardenne[14] | 8 September 1872 | (aged 95–96)Last participant of the Storming of the Bastille | 14 July 1789 |
Ludovico Manin | 24 October 1802 | (aged 77)Last Doge of Venice | 12 May 1797 |
Augusta Hejnek | 1 March 1908 | (aged 108)Last known person born in the 1700s | 31 December 1799 |
Salome Sellers | 9 January 1909 | (aged 109)Last known person born in the 18th century | 31 December 1800 |
1801–1850[edit]
Name | Death | Historical event | Date event ended |
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Pedro Antonio Martinez Zia[15][16] | 1 February 1898 | (aged 108–109)Last veteran of the Battle of Trafalgar | 21 October 1805 |
Francis II | 2 March 1835 | (aged 67)Last Holy Roman Emperor | 6 August 1806 |
Patrick Gass | 2 April 1870 | (aged 98)Last member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition | 23 September 1806 |
John Rice[17] | 10 February 1880 | (aged 90–91)Last veteran of the Battle of Lake Erie | 10 September 1813 |
James Madison | 28 June 1836 | (aged 85)Last President of the United States to lead American troops in battle | 24 August 1814 |
James Buchanan | 1 June 1868 | (aged 77)Last former President of the United States to have served in the War of 1812 | 14 September 1814 |
André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin | 11 August 1865 | (aged 82)Last delegate to the Congress of Vienna | June 1815 |
Charles Booth[18] | 2 March 1896 | (aged 97)Last rebel of the Pentrich rising | 10 June 1817 |
John W. Stainer[19] | 3 March 1907 | (aged 99)Last veteran of the Battle of Navarino | 20 October 1827 |
Benedetto Barberini | 10 April 1863 | (aged 74)Last cardinal created by Pope Leo XII and last participant in the conclaves that elected Popes Pius VIII and Gregory XVI | 31 March 1829; 2 February 1831 |
Cesare Nembrini Pironi Gonzaga | 5 December 1837 | (aged 69)Last cardinal created by Pope Pius VIII | 30 November 1830 |
Jean-Philippe Lavallé[20] | 19 February 1913 | (aged 104)Last Belgian veteran of the Belgian Revolution | 21 July 1831 |
William Carroll Crawford[21] | 3 September 1895 | (aged 90)Last signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence | 2 March 1836 |
Alijo Perez Jr. | 21 October 1918 | (aged 83)Last Texian survivor of the Battle of the Alamo | 6 March 1836 |
Alfonso Steele[22] | 8 July 1911 | (aged 94)Last survivor of the Battle of San Jacinto | 21 April 1836 |
William Physick Zuber[23][24] | 22 September 1913 | (aged 93)Last veteran of the Texas Revolution | 21 April 1836 |
Thomas Patrickson[25] | 15 October 1914 | (aged 85–86)Last participant of the Second voyage of HMS Beagle | 2 October 1836 |
Rebecca Tickaneesky Neugin[26] | 15 July 1932 | (aged 97–98)Last survivor of the Trail of Tears | 1839 |
Nelson Traux[27][28] | 25 January 1915 | (aged 96)Last veteran of the Battle of the Windmill | 16 November 1838 |
Milvern Harrell[29][30] | 10 August 1910 | (aged 86)Last Texian survivor of the Dawson Massacre | 17 September 1842 |
François X. Matthieu | 4 February 1914 | (aged 95)Last participant at the Champoeg Meetings | 2 May 1843 |
Friedrich Schwarzenberg | 27 March 1885 | (aged 75)Last cardinal created by Pope Gregory XVI and last participant in the conclave that elected Pope Pius IX | 16 June 1846 |
Walter T. Avery[31] | 10 June 1904 | (aged 90)Last participant of the first official baseball game | 19 June 1846 |
Margaret Isabella Breen McMahon[32] | 25 March 1935 | (aged 89)Last survivor of the Donner Party | 29 April 1847 |
James Stephens Brown[33][34] | 25 March 1902 | (aged 73)Last witness to the discovery of Gold at Sutter's Mill | 28 January 1848 |
Ulysses S. Grant | 23 July 1885 | (aged 63)Last former President of the United States to have served in the Mexican–American War | 3 February 1848 |
Charlotte L. Woodward Peirce[35][36] | 15 March 1924 | (aged 94)Last participant in the Seneca Falls Convention and last signer of the Declaration of Sentiments | 20 July 1848 |
József Fischl[37] | March 1929 (aged 102) | Last Honvéd veteran of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 | 4 October 1849 |
1851–1900[edit]
Name | Death | Historical event | Date event ended |
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Thomas Kelly[38] | 14 April 1932 | (aged 83)Last survivor of the Birkenhead disaster | 26 February 1852 |
Edwin Hughes | 18 April 1927 | (aged 96)Last participant in the Charge of the Light Brigade | 25 October 1854 |
William Edward Atherdon[39] | 19 May 1934 | (aged 98)Last veteran of the Eureka Rebellion | 3 December 1854 |
Horace F. Sisson[40] | 10 March 1942 | (aged 98)Last member of the Perry Expedition | 11 January 1855 |
Teodolfo Mertel | 11 July 1899 | (aged 93)Last non-priest cardinal | 15 March 1858 |
John Winchell Cullen[41][42] | 14 December 1939 | (aged 101)Last veteran of the Yakima War | 23 September 1858 |
George Chrystie[43][44] | 14 June 1939 | (aged 97)Last British Army veteran of the Indian Mutiny | 8 July 1859 |
Pressley Corbin Hyman[45][46] | 20 June 1912 | (aged 81)Last witness to the Broderick–Terry duel | 13 September 1859 |
Owen Brown[47][48] | 8 January 1889 | (aged 64)Last abolitionist present at John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry | 18 October 1859 |
George Pilson[49] | 22 April 1916 | (aged 73–74)Last witness at Harpers Ferry | 18 October 1859 |
Cudjoe Lewis | 26 July 1935 | (aged 95)Last passenger of the Clotilde | 9 July 1860 |
Giovanni Battista Egisto Sivelli[50] | 1 November 1934 | (aged 90)Last participant of the Expedition of the Thousand | 17 March 1861 |
James Hard | 12 March 1953 | (aged 109)Last veteran of the First Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Antietam and Battle of Chancellorsville | 21 July 1861; 17 September 1862; and 6 May 1863 |
John Ambrose Driscoll[51] | 13 June 1921 | (aged 82)Last crew member of the USS Monitor during its engagement with the CSS Virginia (aka USS Merrimack) | 9 March 1862 |
John Reed Porter | 15 October 1923 | (aged 84)Last raider of the Great Locomotive Chase and the last Medal of Honor recipient of that raid | 12 April 1862 |
James Marion Lurvey[52] | 7 April 1950 | (aged 102)Last verified veteran of the Battle of Gettysburg | 3 July 1863 |
Otto Richard Gellette[53] | 1 June 1944 | (aged 98)Last known soldier who participated in Pickett's Charge | 3 July 1863 |
Eli G. Biddle[54][55] | 8 April 1940 | (aged 93–94)Last member of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry that assaulted Fort Wagner | 18 July 1863 |
William Sickles | 26 September 1938 | (aged 93)Last Medal of Honor recipient of the American Civil War | 31 March 1865 |
Samuel J. Seymour[56] | 12 April 1956 | (aged 96)Last witness present at Ford's Theater during the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln | 14 April 1865 |
John Henry Coghill[57] | Possibly 1942 (aged 90) | Last witness to the death of John Wilkes Booth | 26 April 1865 |
Charles M. Eldridge[58] | 8 September 1941 | (aged 96)Last survivor of the Sultana disaster | 27 April 1865 |
William McKinley | 14 September 1901 | (aged 58)Last former President of the United States to have served in the American Civil War | 9 May 1865 |
John Henninger Reagan | 6 March 1905 | (aged 86)Last cabinet member of the Confederate States of America | 10 May 1865 |
Agustín de Iturbide y Green | 3 March 1925 | (aged 61)Last member of the Imperial Court of the Second Mexican Empire | 19 June 1867 |
Charles Tupper | 30 October 1915 | (aged 94)Last Canadian father of Confederation | 1 July 1867 |
Samuel Speed[59][60] | 8 November 1938 (aged 95) | Last British convict sent to Australia | 10 January 1868 |
Pedro Angleró[61] | 16 October 1931 | (aged 109–110)Last participant of El Grito de Lares | 23 September 1868 |
Matthew Jackson | 4 February 1947 (aged 88)[62] | Last participant involved in the escape of John Boyle O'Reilly | 2 March 1869 |
George H. Large | 15 August 1939 | (aged 88)Last participant of the first American football game | 6 November 1869 |
William F. Lukes | 13 December 1923 | (aged 76)Last Medal of Honor recipient of the Korean Expedition | 10 June 1871 |
Reginald Courtenay Welch | 4 June 1939[63] | (aged 87)Last participant of the first English FA Cup Final | 16 March 1872 |
James Wilson | 6 November 1921 (aged 85) | Last Fenian prisoner who escaped the British penal colony of Western Australia on the Catalpa | 19 April 1876 |
Herbert Swire[64][65] | 21 December 1934 (aged 84) | Last member of the Challenger expedition | 24 May 1876 |
Charles Windolph | 11 March 1950 | (aged 97)Last United States veteran of the Battle of the Little Bighorn | 26 June 1876 |
Dewey Beard | 2 November 1955 | (aged 96–97)Last Indian veteran of the Battle of the Little Bighorn | 26 June 1876 |
James Robert Cummins | 9 July 1929 | (aged 82)Last member of the James-Younger Gang | 7 September 1876 |
Tom Garrett | 6 August 1943 | (aged 85)Last player from the first official cricket test match | 19 March 1877 |
Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano | 7 December 1913 | (aged 85)Last cardinal created by Pope Pius IX and last participant in the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIII | 20 February 1878 |
Frank Bourne | 8 May 1945 | (aged 91)Last defender of Rorke's Drift during the Anglo-Zulu War | 23 January 1879 |
Wyatt Earp | 13 January 1929 | (aged 80)Last participant of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 26 October 1881 |
Pete Spence | 1914 (aged 61-62) | Last member of the Cochise County Cowboys | 1882 |
Alphonse Chodron de Courcel | 17 August 1919 | (aged 84)Last participant of the Berlin Conference | 26 February 1885 |
Danny Ryan | 31 December 1966 | (aged 96)Last member of the Tipperary hurling team that won the first All-Ireland Championship | 1 April 1888 |
Frank Shomo[66] | 20 March 1997 | (aged 108)Last survivor of the Johnstown Flood | 31 May 1889 |
Louisa Motley (née Yellow Shield)[67] | 1 May 1979 (aged 95) | Last survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre | 29 December 1890 |
Dr. Ernest Gotthold Hildner[68][69] | 1 July 1968 | (aged 94)Last participant of the first basketball game ever played | 21 December 1891 |
Michael Shonsey[70] | 5 August 1954 | (aged 89)Last veteran of the Johnson County War | 24 May 1893 |
Nawi[71][72] | November 1979 (aged 103-104) | Last of the Dahomey Amazons that fought against the French in 1892 | 15 January 1894 |
Dimitrios Loundras[73] | 15 February 1970 | (aged 84)Last known competitor at the 1896 Summer Olympics | 15 April 1896 |
Manu Ruma[74] | April 1961 (aged 87) | Last veteran of the Dog Tax War | 5 May 1898 |
George Fox[75] | 27 December 1964 | (aged 86)Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Maine | 15 February 1898 |
John Davis | 9 June 1970 | (aged 91)Last Medal of Honor recipient of the Spanish–American War | 11 May 1898 |
Ralph Waldo Taylor[76] | 15 May 1987 | (aged 105)Last veteran of the Battle of San Juan Hill | 1 July 1898 |
Jesse Langdon[77][78] | 29 June 1975 | (aged 94)Last member of the Rough Riders | 15 September 1898 |
Bruno A. Forsterer | 13 June 1957 | (aged 87)Last Medal of Honor recipient of the Second Samoan Civil War | 1 April 1899 |
Jan Van Mirlo[79][80] | 3 June 1964 (aged 87) | Last member of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition | 5 November 1899 |
Emma Morano | 15 April 2017[81] | (aged 117)Last verified person born in the 1800s and last subject of King Umberto I | 31 December 1899; 29 July 1900 |
William Seach | 24 October 1978 | (aged 101)Last Medal of Honor recipient of the Boxer Rebellion | 22 June 1900 |
Maude Conic[82] | 14 November 2004 | (aged 105–106)Last survivor of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 | 12 September 1900 |
Lucien Démanet | 16 March 1979 | (aged 104)Last participant in the 1900 Summer Olympics | 28 October 1900 |
Nabi Tajima | 21 April 2018 (aged 117) | Last verified person born in the 19th century | 31 December 1900 |
1901–1915[edit]
Name | Death | Historical event | Date event ended |
---|---|---|---|
Violet Brown[83] | 15 September 2017 | (aged 117)Last known subject of Queen Victoria[84] | 22 January 1901 |
Laura Bullion | 2 December 1961 | (aged 85)Last member of the Wild Bunch gang | 1901 |
Léon Compère-Léandre | 1936 (aged 62) | Last known survivor on the shore of Saint-Pierre during the eruption of Mount Pelée | 8 May 1902 |
Irénise Moulonguet[85] | 28 May 2013 | (aged 112)Last witness to the eruption of Mount Pelée | |
Roscinda Nolasquez[86] | 4 February 1987 | (aged 94)Last speaker of Cupeño and last survivor of the removal of the Cupeño to Pala, California, the last of the Federal Indian Removals | 13 May 1903 |
Gladys Verquin (née Ennis)[87] | 20 March 1993 | (aged 91)Last survivor of the Frank Slide | 29 April 1903 |
Lev Skrbenský z Hříště | 24 December 1938 | (aged 75)Last cardinal created by Pope Leo XIII and last participant in the conclave that elected Pope Pius X | 4 August 1903 |
Jennings J. Dunlap[88] | 20 September 1964 | (aged 84–85)Last survivor of the Wreck of the Old 97 | 27 September 1903 |
Freddy Parent | 2 November 1972 | (aged 96)Last player of the 1903 World Series | 13 October 1903 |
Johnny Moore[89][90] | 28 February 1952 | (aged 66)Last witness of the Wright Brothers' first heavier than air flight | 17 December 1903 |
Verde Clark Graff[91] | 3 July 1989 | (aged 97)Last survivor of the Iroquois Theatre fire | 30 December 1903 |
Adella Wotherspoon | 26 January 2004 | (aged 100)Last and youngest survivor of the General Slocum Disaster | 15 June 1904 |
Michael Barne | 31 May 1961 | (aged 83)Last participant of the Discovery Expedition | 10 September 1904 |
John Dellert | 3 February 1985 | (aged 100)Last participant in the 1904 Summer Olympics | 23 November 1904 |
Ivan Beshoff[92] | 25 October 1987 | (aged 103–104)Last sailor that participated in the Potemkin Mutiny of 1905 | 8 July 1905 |
Ellen Adelaide Brandenborg | 22 July 2017 | (aged 111)Last known subject of Christian IX of Denmark | 29 January 1906 |
Bill Del Monte[93] | 11 January 2016 | (aged 109)Last known survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake | 18 April 1906 |
Vahram Papazyan | 6 March 1986 | (aged 93)Last participant in the 1906 Intercalated Games | 2 May 1906 |
Dorsie Williams Willis[94] | 24 August 1977 | (aged 91)Last soldier accused in the Brownsville Affair | 13 August 1906 |
Brian Evans-Lombe[95] | 31 January 1994 | (aged 100)Last participant of the Brownsea Island Scout camp, the founding event of the Scout movement | 8 August 1907 |
Willem Winkelman | 1 July 1990 | (aged 102)Last participant in the 1908 Summer Olympics | 31 October 1908 |
Francesca Nato[96] | 16 April 2017[97] | (aged 110)Last known survivor of the 1908 Messina earthquake | 28 December 1908 |
John T. Kennedy | 22 September 1969 | (aged 84)Last Medal of Honor recipient of the Philippine–American War | 4 July 1909 |
Philip Brocklehurst | 28 January 1975 | (aged 87)Last member of Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition | 23 March 1909 |
Mary Jo Estep | 19 December 1992 | (aged 82–83)Last survivor of the Battle of Kelley Creek | 25 February 1911 |
Rose Freedman[98] | 15 February 2001 | (aged 107)Last survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | 25 March 1911 |
Zhang Rentian[99][100] | 29 April 1995 | (aged 107)Last Scholar of Imperial China | 12 February 1912 |
Sid Daniels | 25 May 1983 | (aged 89)Last crew member of the RMS Titanic | 15 April 1912 |
Millvina Dean | 31 May 2009 | (aged 97)Last and youngest survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic | |
Jalmari Kivenheimo | 29 October 1994 | (aged 105)Last participant in the 1912 Summer Olympics | 22 July 1912 |
Elma S. Damrell[101] | 17 March 2005 | (aged 95)Last survivor of the Italian Hall disaster | 24 December 1913 |
Ermenia Daley (née Padilla)[102] | Living (age 105) | Last survivor of the Ludlow Massacre | 20 April 1914 |
George M. Lowry | 25 September 1981 | (aged 91)Last Medal of Honor recipient of the United States occupation of Veracruz | 22 April 1914 |
Grace Hanagan (Martyn)[103][104] | 15 May 1995 | (aged 87)Last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland | 29 May 1914 |
Vaso Čubrilović | 11 June 1990 | (aged 93)Last participant in the conspiracy to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand | 28 June 1914 |
Alexander Bernard Heron[105] | 24 January 2000 | (aged 105)Last worker involved in the construction of the Panama Canal | 15 August 1914 |
Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte | 16 February 1948 | (aged 96)Last cardinal created by Pope Pius X and last participant in the conclave that elected Pope Benedict XV | 3 September 1914 |
Paul Kley[106][107][108] | 11 May 1992 | (aged 97)Last German veteran of the Siege of Tsingtao | 7 November 1914 |
Alfred Anderson | 21 November 2005 | (aged 109)Last soldier who could remember the Christmas truce of 1914 and last veteran of the battles of Neuve Chapelle and Loos | 24 December 1914; 13 March 1915; and 14 October 1915 |
Audrey Warren Lawson-Johnston (née Pearl)[109][110] | 11 January 2011 | (aged 95)Last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania | 7 May 1915 |
Carlo Orelli | 22 January 2005 | (aged 110)Last veteran of the First and Second Battles of the Isonzo | 7 July 1915; 3 August 1915 |
Marion Eichholz[111] | 24 November 2014 | (aged 102)Last survivor of the capsizing of the SS Eastland | 24 July 1915 |
Smedley Butler | 21 June 1940 | (aged 58)Last recipient to receive two Medals of Honor for two different actions | 17 November 1915 |
1916–1930[edit]
Name | Death | Historical event | Date event ended |
---|---|---|---|
Percy Goring | 27 July 2001 (aged 106) | Last British veteran of the Gallipoli Campaign | 9 January 1916 |
Alec Campbell[112] | 16 May 2002 | (aged 103)Last Australian veteran of the Gallipoli Campaign | 9 January 1916 |
Lilly Kempson[113] | 22 January 1996 | (aged 99)Last Irish participant in the Easter Rising | 30 April 1916 |
Henry Allingham | 18 July 2009 | (aged 113)Oldest member of any of the British Armed Forces, last member of the RNAS, last founding member of the Royal Air Force, and last veteran of the Battle of Jutland | 1 June 1916 |
Roswell Winans | 7 April 1968 | (aged 80)Last Medal of Honor recipient of the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic | 3 July 1916 |
Marcel Caux | 22 August 2004 | (aged 105)Last veteran of the Battle of Pozières | 7 August 1916 |
Claude-Marie Boucaud[114] | 17 May 2005 | (aged 109)Last veteran of the Battle of the Somme | 18 November 1916 |
George Perman[115] | 24 May 2000 | (aged 99)Last survivor of the sinking of the HMHS Britannic | 21 November 1916 |
René Marie-Martial Moreau[116] | 26 October 2005 | (aged 108)Last veteran of the Battle of Verdun | 18 December 1916 |
Mark Matthews | 6 September 2005 | (aged 111)Last veteran of the Pancho Villa Expedition | 7 February 1917 |
Yakup Satar | 2 April 2008 | (aged 110)Last veteran of the Second Battle of Kut | 23 February 1917 |
Alfred Finnigan | 11 May 2005 | (aged 108)Last veteran of the Battle of Vimy Ridge | 12 April 1917 |
Louis de Cazenave[117] | 20 January 2008 | (aged 110)Last veteran of the Battle of Chemin des Dames | 9 May 1917 |
Albert Marshall[118] | 16 May 2005 | (aged 108)Last veteran of the Battle of Arras and the Battle of Cambrai | 16 May and 8 December 1917 |
Richard W. Richards | 8 May 1985 | (aged 91)Last member of the British Trans-Antarctic Expedition | 29 May 1917 |
Edward Smout | 22 June 2004 | (aged 106)Last veteran of the Battle of Messines and last witness to the death of the Red Baron | 14 June 1917; 21 April 1918 |
Alois Vocásek[119] | 9 August 2003 | (aged 107)Last Czechoslovakian veteran of World War I and of the Battle of Zborov | 2 July 1917 |
Puyi | 17 October 1967 | (aged 61)Last Emperor of China | 12 July 1917 |
Peter Casserly | 24 June 2005 | (aged 107)Last member of the First Australian Imperial Force and last veteran of the Battle of Amiens | September 1917; 11 August 1918 |
Lúcia Santos | 13 February 2005 | (aged 97)Last of the three children who claimed to have spoken to Our Lady of Fátima | 13 October 1917 |
Lazar Kaganovich | 25 July 1991 | (aged 97)Last Old Bolshevik who took part in the Russian October Revolution | 8 November 1917 |
Boris Gudz[120] | 27 December 2006 | (aged 104)Last participant of the October Revolution | 8 November 1917; 16 June 1923 |
Harry Patch | 25 July 2009 | (aged 111)Last British Army veteran of World War I and last veteran of the Battle of Passchendaele | 10 November 1917 |
Delfino Borroni | 26 October 2008 | (aged 110)Last veteran of the Battle of Caporetto | 19 November 1917 |
Antonio Todde | 3 January 2002 | (aged 112)Last veteran of the Battle of Mount Grappa | 23 December 1917 |
Aarne Arvonen[121] | 1 January 2009 | (aged 111)Last veteran of the Finnish Civil War | 15 May 1918 |
Edouard Izac | 18 January 1990 | (aged 98)Last World War I Medal of Honor recipient and World War I United States Navy recipient | 21 May 1918 |
Franz Künstler[122] | 27 May 2008 | (aged 107)Last veteran of the Battle of the Piave River | 23 June 1918 |
Albert Wagner | 20 January 2007 | (aged 107)Last veteran of the Battle of Belleau Wood and last U.S. Marine of World War I | 26 June 1918 |
Thomas A. Pope[123] | 14 June 1989 | (aged 94)Last United States Army World War I Medal of Honor recipient | 4 July 1918 |
Jean Grelaud | 25 February 2007 | (aged 108)Last veteran of the Second Battle of the Marne | 6 August 1918 |
Antonio Pierro | 8 February 2007 | (aged 110)Last veteran of the Battle of Saint-Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensive | 15 September and 11 November 1918 |
Eddie Rickenbacker | 23 July 1973 | (aged 82)Last Air Service, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and service's last World War I recipient | 25 September 1918 |
John J. Kelly | 20 November 1957 | (aged 59)Last recipient to be awarded two Medals of Honor | 3 October 1918 |
Robert G. Robinson | 5 October 1974 | (aged 78)Last United States Marine Corps World War I recipient of the Medal of Honor | 8 October 1918 |
Juan Filloy[124] | 15 July 2000 | (aged 105)Last student who took part in the Argentine university reform of 1918 | 12 October 1918 |
Wilhelm Gisbert Groos[125] | 1997 (aged 102-103) | Last member of Jasta 11 and possibly last German flying ace of World War I | 29 October 1918 |
James William Pearson | 26 January 1993 | (aged 97)Last American World War I flying ace, served with the Royal Air Force | 1 November 1918 |
Francesco Domenico Chiarello | 27 June 2008 | (aged 109)Last veteran of the Battle of Vittorio Veneto | 3 November 1918 |
Arthur Raymond Brooks | 17 July 1991 | (aged 95)Last Air Service, United States Army flying ace of World War I | 11 November 1918 |
Alexander P. de Seversky | 24 August 1974 | (aged 80)Last Russian Empire flying ace of World War I | 11 November 1918 |
Alfred Pugh[126] | 7 January 2004 | (aged 108)Last United States combat veteran wounded in World War I | 11 November 1918 |
Frank Buckles[127] | 27 February 2011 | (aged 110)Last United States participant of World War I | 11 November 1918 |
Florence Green | 5 February 2012 | (aged 110)Last participant of World War I and last member of the original WRAF | 11 November 1918 |
Harry Truman | 26 December 1972 | (aged 88)Last former President of the United States to have served during World War I | 11 November 1918 |
Harold Macmillan | 29 December 1986 | (aged 92)Last former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to have served during World War I | 11 November 1918 |
John McEwen | 20 November 1980 | (aged 80)Last former Prime Minister of Australia to have served during World War I | 11 November 1918 |
Charles De Gaulle | 9 November 1970 | (aged 79)Last former President of France to have served during World War I | 11 November 1918 |
Ludwig Erhard | 5 May 1977 | (aged 80)Last former Chancellor of Germany to have served during World War I | 11 November 1918 |
Gustav Heinemann | 7 July 1976 | (aged 76)Last former President of Germany to have served during World War I | 11 November 1918 |
Otto von Habsburg | 4 July 2011 | (aged 98)Last member of the Imperial Habsburg Court | 11 November 1918 |
Cecil Arthur Lewis | 27 January 1997 | (aged 98)Last British flying ace of World War I | 11 November 1918 |
Raul Fernandes[128][129] | 6 January 1968 | (aged 90)Last signer of the Treaty of Versailles | 28 June 1919 |
Harold Gunnes[130] | 11 March 2003 | (aged 104)Last member of the Polar Bear Expedition | 5 August 1919 |
Swede Risberg | 13 October 1975 | (aged 81)Last person involved in the Black Sox Scandal | 9 October 1919 |
Herman H. Hanneken | 23 August 1986 | (aged 93)Last Medal of Honor recipient of the United States occupation of Haiti | 1 November 1919 |
Aileen Riggin | 17 October 2002 | (aged 96)Last participant in the 1920 Summer Olympics | 12 September 1920 |
Olivia Hooker | 21 November 2018 | (aged 103)Last survivor of the Tulsa race riot | 1 June 1921 |
Michael von Faulhaber | 12 June 1952 | (aged 83)Last cardinal created by Pope Benedict XV and last participant in the conclave that elected Pope Pius XI | 6 February 1922 |
Waldemar Levy Cardoso | 13 May 2009 | (aged 108)Last veteran of the Tenente revolts | July 1922; February 1927 |
Vasco Bruttomesso[131] | 2 January 2009 | (aged 105)Last participant of the March on Rome | 29 October 1922 |
Gene Bruce[132] | 6 December 2005 | (aged 98)Last survivor of the Honda Point Disaster | 8 September 1923 |
Emil Klein[133] | 22 February 2010 | (aged 104)Last participant of Adolf Hitler's unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch | 9 November 1923 |
Cecil Smith | 9 November 1997 | (aged 89)Last participant in the 1924 Winter Olympics | 5 February 1924 |
Dürrüşehvar Sultan | 7 February 2006 | (aged 92)Last member of the Imperial Ottoman Court | 3 March 1924 |
Ivo Pavelić | 22 February 2011 | (aged 103)Last participant in the 1924 Summer Olympics | 27 July 1924 |
Edgar Nollner[134][135] | 15 January 1999 | (aged 94)Last musher of the 1925 serum run to Nome | 2 February 1925 |
Thomas J. Brewer[136] | 16 August 2003 | (aged 82–83)Last participant in the Scopes Trial | 21 July 1925 |
Francisco Núñez Olivera | 29 January 2018 | (aged 113)Last veteran of the Rif War | 27 May 1926 |
Louis de Broglie | 19 March 1987 | (aged 94)Last attendee of the Fifth Solvay Conference | 29 October 1927 |
Hans Kleppen | 12 April 2009 | (aged 102)Last participant in the 1928 and 1932 Winter Olympics | 19 February 1928; 15 February 1932 |
Carla Marangoni | 18 January 2018 | (aged 102)Last participant in the 1928 Summer Olympics | 12 August 1928 |
Janet Gaynor | 14 September 1984 | (aged 77)Last award winner of the 1st Academy Awards | 16 May 1929 |
Mary Pickford | 29 May 1979 | (aged 87)Last award winner of the 2nd Academy Awards | 3 April 1930 |
Binod Bihari Chowdhury[137] | 10 April 2013 | (aged 102)Last revolutionary of the Chittagong armoury raid | 18 April 1930 |
Norman D. Vaughan | 23 December 2005 | (aged 100)Last member of Richard Byrd's 1928 expedition to Antarctica | 18 June 1930 |
Francisco Varallo[138] | 30 August 2010 | (aged 100)Last player from the 1930 FIFA World Cup in Uruguay | 30 July 1930 |
Rachel Johnson[139] | 7 April 2016 | (aged 93)Last St. Kildan | 29 August 1930 |
Alfred Cook[140] | 7 November 1998 | (aged 91)Last known survivor of the R101 disaster | 5 October 1930 |
Norma Shearer | 12 June 1983 | (aged 80)Last award winner of the 3rd Academy Awards | 5 November 1930 |
1931–1945[edit]
Name | Death | Historical event | Date event ended |
---|---|---|---|
Alf Howard[141][142] | 4 July 2010 | (aged 104)Last member of the BANZARE expedition to Antarctica | 19 March 1931 |
Clarence Norris[143] | 27 January 1989 | (aged 75–76)Last Scottsboro Boy | 25 March 1931 |
Floyd Crosby | 30 September 1985 | (aged 85)Last award winner of the 4th Academy Awards | 10 November 1931 |
Albert H. Wolff | 21 March 1998 | (aged 95)Last member of the Untouchables | 1931 |
Simone Schaller | 20 October 2016 | (aged 104)Last participant in the 1932 Summer Olympics | 14 August 1932 |
Josef Felder | 28 October 2000 | (aged 100)Last Reichstag member to vote against the Nazi Enabling Act of 1933 | 23 March 1933 |
Moody E. Erwin[144] | 20 October 1989 | (aged 85)Last survivor of the USS Akron disaster | 3 April 1933 |
Donald L. Truesdell | 23 September 1993 | (aged 87)Last Medal of Honor recipient of the United States occupation of Nicaragua | 24 April 1934 |
Edd L. Miller[145] | 18 September 2000 | (aged 87)Last witness to the shooting of Bonnie and Clyde | 23 May 1934 |
Thomas J. Conner[146] | 14 April 1997 | (aged 90–91)Last member of the FBI team that killed John Dillinger | 22 July 1934 |
Jerry Edgerton[147] | 14 September 2013 | (aged 99)Last survivor of the SS Morro Castle disaster | 8 September 1934 |
Lü Zhengcao | 13 October 2009 | (aged 105)Last witness of the Xi'an Incident | 26 December 1936 |
Werner Franz[148] | 13 August 2014 | (aged 92)Last crew member to survive the Hindenburg disaster | 6 May 1937 |
Werner Doehner[149] | Living (age 90) | Last passenger to survive the Hindenburg disaster | 6 May 1937 |
Walter Walsh | 29 April 2014 | (aged 106)Last member of the FBI teams that captured Arthur Barker and killed Al Brady | 12 October 1937 |
Fon Huffman | 4 September 2008 | (aged 95)Last survivor of the USS Panay incident | 12 December 1937 |
Jules Paivio | 4 September 2013 | (aged 97)Last member of the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion | 21 September 1938 |
Con Shiels[150] | 3 January 2013 | (aged 96)Last participant in the Jarrow March | 31 October 1938 |
Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira | 2 August 1977 | (aged 88)Last cardinal created by Pope Pius XI and last participant in the conclave that elected Pope Pius XII | 2 March 1939 |
Gunther Scholz | 24 October 2014 | (aged 102)Last member of the Condor Legion | March 1939 |
Moon Mullen | 28 February 2013 | (aged 96)Last member of the 1938–39 Oregon Webfoots men's basketball team, the first winner of the NCAA March Madness | 27 March 1939 |
Delmer Berg | 28 February 2016 | (aged 100)Last member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade | 1 April 1939 |
Geoffrey Servante | Living (age 99) | Last British Spanish Civil War veteran | 1 April 1939 |
José/Joseph Almudéver | Living (age 98) | Last French Spanish Civil War veteran | 1 April 1939 |
José Álvarez Limia | Living (age 99) | Last Nationalist forces veteran of the Spanish Civil War | 1 April 1939 |
Jerry Maren | 24 May 2018 | (aged 98)Last adult Munchkin of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and last surviving cast member with a speaking or singing role. | 25 August 1939 |
Ruth Duccini | 16 January 2014 | (aged 95)Last female adult Munchkin of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz | 25 August 1939 |
Robert R. Johnson[151] | Living (age 98) | Last survivor of Byrd's Third Antarctic Expedition, 1939's United States Antarctic Service Expedition | 11 September 1939 |
Kazimierz Świtalski | 28 December 1962 | (aged 76)Last living former prime minister of Second Polish Republic | 20 September 1939 |
Arthur Smith[152] | 10 December 2016 | (aged 93–94)Last survivor of the sinking of the HMS Royal Oak | 14 October 1939 |
Emilio Ochoa | 27 June 2007 | (aged 99)Last signer of the 1940 Constitution of Cuba | 1 July 1940 |
Daniel Paul Nevot[153][154] | Living (age 98) | Last veteran of the Battle of Kufra | 1 March 1941 |
Ted Briggs | 4 October 2008 | (aged 85)Last survivor of the sinking of the HMS Hood | 24 May 1941 |
Bernhard Heuer[155] | 8 March 2018 | (aged 95)Last survivor of the sinking of the Bismarck | 27 May 1941 |
Donald "Nick" Clifford[156] | Living (age 97) | Last worker who participated in the construction of Mount Rushmore | 31 October 1941 |
John William Finn | 27 May 2010 | (aged 100)Last Medal of Honor recipient from the attack on Pearl Harbor and last United States Navy recipient of World War II | 7 December 1941 |
Joseph Langdell[157] | 4 February 2015 | (aged 100)Last commissioned officer of the USS Arizona | 7 December 1941 |
Lamar Crawford Sr.[158] | 22 December 2011 | (aged 91)Last United States Marine of USS Arizona Marine Corps detachment | 7 December 1941 |
Julie Gibson | Living (age 105) | "Last surviving actress to have appeared with The Three Stooges", per the "Sunday Post"[159] | 1942 |
Gerhard Klopfer | 29 January 1987 | (aged 81)Last attendant of the Wannsee Conference | 20 January 1942 |
David Stoliar | 1 May 2014 | (aged 91)Last survivor of the Struma disaster | 24 February 1942 |
Bill Bower | 10 January 2011 | (aged 93)Last pilot of the Doolittle Raid in World War II | 18 April 1942 |
Richard E. Cole[160] | Living (age 103) | Last participant of the Doolittle Raid in World War II | 18 April 1942 |
Frank Losonsky | Living (age 98) | Last member of the Flying Tigers | 4 July 1942 |
Rudolf Brazda | 3 August 2011 | (aged 98)Last concentration camp survivor deported by Nazi Germany on charges of homosexuality | 8 August 1942 |
Tuomas Gerdt | Living (age 96) | Last recipient of the Mannerheim Cross | 8 September 1942 |
Orrel Glenn Cecil[161] | 4 November 2010 | (aged 90)Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Juneau | 13 November 1942 |
Havala Laula[162] | 24 December 2017 | (aged 92)Last known member of the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels during the Kokoda Track campaign | 16 November 1942 |
Bill Sparks | 1 December 2002 | (aged 80)Last member of the Cockleshell Heroes | 12 December 1942 |
Joachim Rønneberg | 21 October 2018 | (aged 99)Last officer of Operation Gunnerside | 16 February 1943 |
Traute Lafrenz[163] | Living (age 99) | Last member of the White Rose | 18 February 1943 |
Marek Edelman | 2 October 2009 | (aged 86–87)Last leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | 16 May 1943 |
Aliza Melamed Vitis-Shomron[164] | Living (age 90-91) | Last participant of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | 16 May 1943 |
Les Munro | 4 August 2015 | (aged 96)Last pilot of Operation Chastise in World War II | 17 May 1943 |
Johnny Johnson[165] | Living (age 97) | Last participant of Operation Chastise in World War II | 17 May 1943 |
Jay Zeamer Jr. | 22 March 2007 | (aged 88)Last Army Air Force Medal of Honor recipient and service's last surviving World War II recipient | 16 June 1943 |
Samuel Willenberg | 19 February 2016 | (aged 93)Last participant in the revolt at the Treblinka extermination camp | 2 August 1943 |
Gerard Zinser[166] | 21 August 2001 | (aged 83)Last crewman of Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 | 2 August 1943 |
Frank Ellis Sublett[167] | 27 September 2006 | (aged 86)Last member of the Golden Thirteen | March 1944 |
Richard Sidney Albion Churchill[168] | Living (age 99)[169] | Last prisoner who took part in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III | 25 March 1944 |
Clifford Brewer[170] | 29 April 2017 | (aged 104)Last surgeon who participated in the Normandy landings | 6 June 1944 |
David Wood | 12 March 2009 | (aged 86)Last officer of Operation Deadstick during the Normandy landings | 6 June 1944 |
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin | 8 March 2013 | (aged 90)Last participant of the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler | 20 July 1944 |
Miep Gies | 11 January 2010 | (aged 100)Last member of the group which hid Anne Frank in the Secret Annex | 4 August 1944 |
John Cruickshank | Living (age 98) | Last Victoria Cross recipient for action in World War II | 1 September 1944 |
Bill Leibold[171] | Living (age 94-95) | Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Tang | 25 October 1944 |
Charles W. Lindberg | 24 June 2007 | (aged 86)Last Marine in the Iwo Jima Flag Raisings | 23 February 1945 |
Hershel W. Williams | Living (age 95) | Last Medal of Honor recipient from the battle of Iwo Jima and last United States Marine Corps recipient of World War II | 26 March 1945 |
Günther Schwägermann | Living (age 103) | Last survivor of Hitler’s Bunker | 1 May 1945 |
Noel Jacob Wiener[172] | 2015 (aged 99–100) | Last witness to the German Surrender ceremony | 7 May 1945 |
Rudolf Hess | 17 August 1987 | (aged 93)Last cabinet member of the Third Reich | 8 May 1945 |
Walter Scheel | 24 August 2016 | (aged 97)Last former German president to have served in World War II | 8 May 1945 |
Helmut Schmidt | 10 November 2015 | (aged 96)Last former Chancellor of Germany to have served in World War II | 8 May 1945 |
Harold Stassen | 4 March 2001 | (aged 93)Last signer of the United Nations Charter | 26 June 1945 |
Theodore Van Kirk | 28 July 2014 | (aged 93)Last crew member of the Enola Gay | 6 August 1945 |
Russell Gackenbach[173][174] | Living (age 93) | Last crew member of Necessary Evil | 9 August 1945 |
Chester Nez | 4 June 2014 | (aged 93)Last original Navajo code talker | 2 September 1945 |
Robert Kenneth Kaufman[175] | Living (age 99) | Last living American officer at the Surrender of Japan on board the USS Missouri | 2 September 1945 |
Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape | 12 February 1981 | (aged 93)Last signer of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender | 2 September 1945 |
Claude Choules | 5 May 2011 | (aged 110)Last veteran of both World War I and World War II | 2 September 1945 |
Yasuhiro Nakasone | Living (age 100) | Last former Japanese Prime Minister to have served in World War II | 2 September 1945 |
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | Living (age 93) | Last former French President to have served in World War II | 2 September 1945 |
Giorgio Napolitano | Living (age 93) | Last former Italian President to have served in World War II | 2 September 1945 |
George H. W. Bush | 30 November 2018 | (aged 94)Last former United States President to have served in World War II overseas | 2 September 1945 |
Jimmy Carter | Living (age 94) | Last former United States President to have served in World War II stateside (received World War II Victory Medal) and last former president born before World War II. | 2 September 1945 |
Edward Heath | 17 July 2005 | (aged 89)Last former British Prime Minister to have served in World War II | 2 September 1945 |
Gough Whitlam | 21 October 2014 | (aged 98)Last former Australian Prime Minister to have served in World War II | 2 September 1945 |
Ninian Stephen | 29 October 2017 | (aged 94)Last former Governor-General of a Commonwealth Realm to have served in World War II | 2 September 1945 |
John Paul Stevens | Living (age 98) | Last former United States Supreme Court Justice to have served in World War II | 2 September 1945 |
Edward Shames | Living (age 96) | Last officer of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion in World War II | 30 November 1945 |
Joe Medicine Crow | 3 April 2016 | (aged 102)Last war chief of the Crow Nation | 1945 |
1946–1960[edit]
Name | Death | Historical event | Date event ended |
---|---|---|---|
Kenneth Mayhew | Living (age 102) | Last recipient of the Military William Order for World War II | 24 April 1946 |
Umberto II | 18 March 1983 | (aged 78)Last King of Italy | 12 June 1946 |
Benjamin Ferencz | Living (age 98) | Last prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials | 1 October 1946 |
Knut Haugland | 25 December 2009 | (aged 92)Last crew member on the Kon-Tiki expedition | 7 August 1947 |
Ring Lardner Jr. | 31 October 2000 | (aged 85)Last member of the Hollywood Ten | 25 November 1947 |
Clarence Beavers | 4 December 2017 | (aged 96)Last member of the Triple Nickles | 15 December 1947 |
Michael I | 5 December 2017 | (aged 96)Last King of Romania | 30 December 1947 |
Brajraj Mahapatra | 30 November 2015 | (aged 94)Last royal to sign the merger agreement with the Indian state | 1947 |
Maharaja Tej Singh Prabhakar | 15 February 2009 | (aged 97)Last recipient of the Order of the Star of India | 1947 |
Mayurdwajsinhji Meghrajji III | 1 August 2010 | (aged 87)Last recipient of the Order of the Indian Empire | 1947 |
Gopal Godse[176] | 26 November 2005 | (aged 86)Last conspirator involved in the assassination of Gandhi | 30 January 1948 |
Arieh Handler | 20 May 2011 | (aged 95)Last witness to the signing of the Israeli Declaration of Independence | 14 May 1948 |
Frank Mundy | 15 May 2009 | (aged 90)Last Driver of the 1949 NASCAR Series | October 16 1949 |
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | 27 August 1979 | (aged 79)Last Governor-General of India | 26 January 1950 |
Tony Rolt | 6 February 2008 | (aged 89)Last driver in the 1950 British Grand Prix, the first World Championship Grand Prix | 13 May 1950 |
Alcides Ghiggia | 16 July 2015 | (aged 88)Last player in the Uruguay v Brazil (1950 FIFA World Cup) | 16 July 1950 |
Andor Lilienthal | 5 August 2010 | (aged 99)Last of the original FIDE chess grandmasters | 1950 |
Bill Speakman | 20 June 2018 | (aged 90)Last Korean War Victoria Cross recipient | 4 November 1951 |
Andrew Fitzgerald[177] | 15 November 2018 | (aged 86)Last Coast Guard rescuer involved in the S.S. Pendleton rescue | 18 February 1952 |
George Lowe | 20 March 2013 | (aged 89)Last member of the 1953 British Everest Expedition | 29 May 1953 |
William Kelly Harrison, Jr. | 29 May 1987 | (aged 91)Last signer of the Korean Armistice Agreement | 27 July 1953 |
Paik Sun-yup | Living (age 98) | Last South Korean commander in the Korean War | 27 July 1953 |
Rafael Cancel Miranda | Living (age 88) | Last perpetrator in the 1954 United States Capitol shooting incident | 1 March 1954 |
Kenneth A. Roberts | 9 May 1989 | (aged 76)Last wounded congressman in the 1954 United States Capitol shooting incident | 1 March 1954 |
Zelma Henderson | 20 May 2008 | (aged 88)Last living plaintiff in the Brown v. Board of Education case | 17 May 1954 |
Horst Eckel | Living (age 87) | Last player of the 1954 FIFA World Cup Final | 4 July 1954 |
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington[178] | 9 July 2018 | (aged 99)Last member of the Churchill, Eden and Macmillan ministry | 7 April 1955 |
Jerry Lee Lewis | Living (age 83) | Last member of the Million Dollar Quartet | 4 December 1956 |
Maurice Faure[179] | 6 March 2014 | (aged 92)Last signer of the Treaty of Rome | 25 March 1957 |
Paul-Émile Léger | 13 November 1991 | (aged 87)Last cardinal created by Pope Pius XII and last participant in the conclave that elected Pope John XXIII | 28 October 1958 |
Bill Hastie[180] | Living (age 99) | Last survivor of the Knox Mine Disaster | 22 January 1959 |
Kurt Diemberger | Living (age 86) | Last living person who has made the first ascents on two mountains over 8,000 metres | 25 May 1960 |
1961–2000s[edit]
Name | Death | Historical event | Date event ended |
---|---|---|---|
Antonio Imbert Barrera | 31 May 2016 | (aged 95)Last participant in the assassination of Rafael Trujillo | 30 May 1961 |
John Glenn | 8 December 2016 | (aged 95)Last astronaut from Project Mercury | 16 May 1963 |
Franz König | 13 March 2004 | (aged 98)Last cardinal created by Pope John XXIII and last participant in the conclave that elected Pope Paul VI | 21 June 1963 |
John Lewis | Living (age 78) | Last member of the Big Six and last speaker at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom | 28 August 1963 |
Clint Hill | Living (age 87) | Last passenger of John F. Kennedy's presidential limousine after Kennedy was shot | 22 November 1963 |
James Ramsden | Living (age 95) | Last former Secretary of State for War | 1 April 1964 |
Gerald Ford | 26 December 2006 | (aged 93)Last member of the Warren Commission | 24 September 1964 and 9 August 1974 |
Alexey Leonov | Living (age 84) | Last member of the Voskhod programme | 19 March 1965 |
Stylianos Pattakos | 8 October 2016 | (aged 103)Last leader of the 1967 Greek coup d'état and subsequent military junta | 21 April 1967 |
Walter Cunningham | Living (age 86) | Last crew member of Apollo 7 | 22 October 1968 |
Joe Engle | Living (age 86) | Last X-15 pilot | 24 October 1968 |
James P. Fleming | Living (age 75) | Last U.S. Air Force Medal of Honor recipient of the Vietnam War | 26 November 1968 |
Thomas P. Stafford | Living (age 88) | Last crew member of Apollo 10 | 26 May 1969 |
Keith Payne | Living (age 85) | Last Vietnam War Victoria Cross recipient and last Australian to be awarded original medal | 19 September 1969 |
Alan Bean | 26 May 2018 | (aged 86)Last crew member of Apollo 12 | 24 November 1969 |
James Cross | Living (age 97) | Last kidnapping victim of the Front de libération du Québec during the October Crisis. | 5 October 1970 |
Jacques Rose | Living (age 72) | Last perperator of the October Crisis. | 5 October 1970 to 28 December 1970 |
Edgar Mitchell | 4 February 2016 | (aged 85)Last crew member of Apollo 14 | 9 February 1971 |
William Gopallawa | 31 January 1981 | (aged 84)Last Governor-General of Ceylon | 22 May 1972 |
Harrison Schmitt | Living (age 83) | Last crew member of Apollo 17 | 19 December 1972 |
Constantine II | Living (age 78) | Last King of Greece | 1 June 1973 |
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu | 29 September 2001 | (aged 78)Last former President of South Vietnam | 30 April 1975 |
Khamtai Siphandon | Living (age 95) | Last Pathet Lao leader in the Vietnam War | 30 April 1975 |
Tôn Đức Thắng | 30 March 1980 | (aged 91)Last President of North Vietnam | 2 July 1976 |
Yao Wenyuan[181] | 23 December 2005 | (aged 74)Last member of China's Gang of Four | 6 October 1976 |
Larry Newman | 20 December 2010 | (aged 63)Last crew member of the Double Eagle II | 17 August 1978 |
Pope Benedict XVI | Living (age 91) | Last cardinal created by Pope Paul VI and last participant in the conclaves that elected Popes John Paul I and John Paul II | 26 August and 16 October 1978 |
Luz Isabel Cuevas | 6 May 2014[182] | (aged 91)Last witness to the assassination of El Salvadorian bishop Óscar Romero | 24 March 1980 |
Robert Crippen | Living (age 81) | Last crew member of STS-1, first operational flight of the Space Shuttle program | 14 April 1981 |
Jack R. Lousma | Living (age 82) | Last crew member of STS-3 | 30 March 1982 |
Ken Mattingly | Living (age 82) | Last crew member of STS-4 | 4 July 1982 |
Stanisław Kania | Living (age 91) | Last leader of the Polish United Workers' Party | 29 January 1990 |
Aleksandar Lilov | 20 July 2013 (aged 79) | Last Chairman of the Bulgarian Communist Party | 3 April 1990 |
Egon Krenz | Living (age 81) | Last Chairman of the State Council of East Germany | 5 April 1990 |
Dmitri Yazov | Living (age 94) | Last Marshal of the Soviet Union | 28 April 1990 |
Helmut Kohl | 16 June 2017 | (aged 87)Last Chancellor of West Germany | 3 October 1990 |
Stanislav Hurenko | 14 April 2013 | (aged 76)Last First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR | 1 September 1991 |
Mikhail Gorbachev | Living (age 87) | Last Head of State of the Soviet Union | 25 December 1991 |
Václav Havel | 18 December 2011 | (aged 75)Last former President of Czechoslovakia | 31 December 1992 |
Cornelius Botha | 6 February 2014 | (aged 81)Last administrator of the Natal Province | 27 April 1994 |
F. W. de Klerk | Living (age 82) | Last leader of the apartheid government of South Africa and last State President | 10 May 1994 |
See also[edit]
- List of last surviving veterans of military insurgencies and wars
- Last European veterans by war
- Last surviving United States war veterans
- List of last known speakers of languages
- List of last living war veterans
- List of last surviving Canadian war veterans
- List of last surviving World War I veterans by country
- List of surviving veterans of the Spanish Civil War
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