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|Mary Starke Harper<ref>{{cite web|url=http://opac.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=5212|title=Last Surviving Health Care Member Associated with Controversial "Tuskegee Syphilis Study" will Speak at the Yale School of Nursing|accessdate=2011-10-02}}</ref> |
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The following is a list of persons who were the last survivor of a notable historical event.
Deceased Living
Pre 1700
Name | Death | Historical event | Date of event |
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Aristodemus of Sparta | c. 479 BC (c. 49) | Last Spartan of the Battle of Thermopylae | August or September 480 BC |
John the Apostle | c. 100 AD (c. 94) | Last Disciple and witness to the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ | c. 33 AD |
Don Mancio Sierra de Leguízamo[1][2] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last original conquistador who participated in the Spanish conquest of Peru | 1528 to 1532 |
Maria Do Carmo Geronimo | June 15, 2000 (aged 129?) | Last surviving Brazilian slave | 1532 to 1888 |
Mary Allerton | November 28, 1699 (aged 83) | Last passenger of the Mayflower | September 6 to November 11, 1620 |
John Alden | September 12, 1687 (aged 88) | Last living signer of the Mayflower Compact | November 11, 1620 |
Frederick Fraske | June 18, 1973 | (aged 101)Last veteran of the American Indian Wars | 1622 to 1923 |
Richard Bellingham | December 7, 1672 (aged 80) | Last signer of the Massachusetts Colonial Charter | 1629 |
1700–1800
Name | Death | Historical event | Date of event |
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George Gregory[3] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last sailor who took part in George Anson's voyage around the world | 1740 to 1744 |
Isaac Smith | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last survivor of James Cook's first voyage | 1768 to 1771 |
George Robert Twelves Hewes | November 5, 1840 | (aged 98)Last survivor of the Boston Tea party and Boston Massacre | March 5, 1770 and December 16, 1773 |
John Hatley | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last survivor of James Cook's second voyage | 1772 to 1775 |
Ephraim Bowen[4] | September 2, 1841 | (aged 88)Last individual involved in the Gaspée Affair | June 9 to 10, 1772 |
Paine Wingate | March 7, 1838 | (aged 98)Last delegate of the Continental Congress and last member of the First U.S Senate | 1774 to 1789 |
Levi Preston[5][6] | January 5, 1850 | (aged 93)Last Concord veteran of the Battle of Lexington and Concord | April 19, 1775 |
Jonathan Harrington[7] | March 26, 1854 | (aged 95)Last Lexington veteran of the Battle of Lexington and Concord | April 19, 1775 |
Daniel F. Bakeman | April 5, 1869 | (aged 109)Last veteran of the American Revolutionary War | April 19, 1775, to September 3, 1783 |
Ralph Farnham[8] | December 26, 1860 | (aged 104)Last known survivor of the Battle of Bunker Hill | June 17, 1775 |
Charles Carroll | November 14, 1832 | (aged 95)Last signer of the Declaration of Independence | July 4, 1776 |
Alexander Milliner[9] | March 15, 1865 | (aged 95)Last veteran of the Battle of Brandywine and Battles of Saratoga | September 11, September 19 and October 7, 1777 |
John Gray | March 29, 1868 | (aged 104)Last veteran of the Battle of Yorktown (1781) | September 28 to October 19, 1781 |
Zalmuna Chapin[10] | May 20, 1854 | (aged 90)Last veteran of Shays' Rebellion | August 1786 to June 1787 |
Nicolas Savin[11] | November 29, 1894 | (aged 126)Last veteran of the French Revolution and the French Revolutionary Wars | 1789 to 1799, 1792 to 1802 |
John Adams | March 5, 1829 | (aged 61)Last mutineer of the HMS Bounty | April 28, 1789 |
Arthur Dardenne[12] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last surviving person to have taken part in the Storming of the Bastille | July 14, 1789 |
1800–1850
Name | Death | Historical event | Date of event |
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Vincent Markiewicz[13][14] | 1903 | Last veteran of the Napoleonic Wars | 1803 to 1815 |
Patrick Gass | April 2, 1870 | (aged 98)Last member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition | May 14, 1804, to March 23, 1806 |
Pedro Antonio Martinez Zia[15] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last veteran of the Battle of Trafalgar | October 21, 1805 |
Carl Gustav Polviander[16] | September 28, 1876 | (aged 88)Last veteran of the Finnish War | February 21, 1808, to September 17, 1809 |
Hiram Cronk | May 13, 1905 | (aged 105)Last veteran of the War of 1812 | June 18, 1812, to February 18, 1815 |
Emmanuel Gaminara[17] | December 21, 1892 | (aged 98)Last veteran of the French invasion and retreat from Russia | June 24 to December 14, 1812 |
John Rice[18][19] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last veteran of the Battle of Lake Erie | September 10, 1813 |
Elizabeth Watkins[20] | May 10, 1904 | (aged 94)Last surviving witness of the Battle of Waterloo | June 18, 1815 |
George Weightman[21] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last living rebel of the Pentrich rising | June 9 to 10, 1817 |
Jacob C. Marsh[22] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last veteran of the Seminole Wars | 1818 to 1858 |
Erasmus Ommanney | December 21, 1904 | (aged 90)Last veteran of the Battle of Navarino | October 20, 1827 |
Rebecca Tickaneesky Neugin[23] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last survivor of the Trail of Tears | 1830 to 1837 |
Philippe Demoulin[24] | February 14, 1912 | (aged 102)Last veteran of the Belgian Revolution | August 25, 1830 to July 14, 1831 |
Thomas Patrickson[25][26] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last participant of the Second voyage of HMS Beagle | December 27, 1831 to October 2, 1836 |
Henry L. Riggs[27] | March 11, 1911 | (aged 99)Last veteran of the Black Hawk War | May to August, 1832 |
William Physick Zuber[28][29] | September 22, 1913 | (aged 93)Last veteran of the Texas Revolution | October 2, 1835, to April 25, 1836 |
Alijo Perez Jr[30] | October 21, 1918 | (aged 83)Last witness at the Battle of the Alamo | February 23 to March 6, 1836 |
William Carroll Crawford[31] | September 3, 1895 | (aged 90)Last signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence | March 2, 1836 |
Alfonso Steele[32] | July 8, 1911 | (aged 94)Last survivor of the Battle of San Jacinto | April 21, 1836 |
Nelson Traux[33] | January 25, 1915 | (aged 96)Last survivor of the Battle of the Windmill | November 12 to 16, 1838 |
François X. Matthieu | February 4, 1914 | (aged 95)Last participant at the Champoeg Meetings | 1841 to 1843 |
William Brydon | March 20, 1873 | (aged 61)Last survivor of the long retreat from Kabul to Jalalabad | January 6 to 13, 1842 |
Milvern Harrell[34] | August 10, 1910 | (aged 86)Last survivor of the Dawson Massacre | September 17, 1842 |
Eliza Moore | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last proven American to be born into slavery in the United States | 1843 |
John Tyler, Jr. | January 26, 1896 | (aged 76)Last survivor of the USS Princeton Disaster of 1844 | February 22, 1844 |
Isabella Breen McMahon[35] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last survivor of the Donner Party | April 1846 to June 1847 |
Owen Thomas Edgar | September 3, 1929 | (aged 98)Last American veteran of the Mexican-American War | April 25, 1846, to February 2, 1848 |
Walter T. Avery[36] | June 10, 1904 | (aged 90)Last participant in the first official Baseball game | June 19, 1846 |
Charlotte Woodward Pierce[37] | 1921 | Last surviving participant in the Seneca Falls Convention and last signer of the Declaration of Sentiments | July 19 to 20, 1848 |
1850–1900
Name | Death | Historical event | Date of event |
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Thomas Kelly[38] | April 14, 1932 | (aged 83)Last survivor of the Birkenhead disaster | February 26, 1852 |
Arthur Sinclair[39] | November 17, 1925 | (aged 88)Last member of the Perry Expedition | 1853–1854 |
Yves Prigent[40] | 1938 | Last veteran of the Crimean War | October 1853 to February 1856 |
Edwin Hughes | April 18, 1927 | (aged 96)Last participant in the Charge of the Light Brigade | October 25, 1854 |
John Lishman Potter[41][42] | October 24, 1931 | (aged 97)Last veteran of the Eureka Rebellion | December 3, 1854 |
William Morfitt[43] | July 18, 1923 | (aged 85)Last veteran of the Yakima War | 1855 to 1858 |
Ernest Smith | August 3, 2005 | (aged 91)Last Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross | 1856 to 1993 |
Robert Collinson d'Esterre Spottiswoode[44][45] | March 21, 1936 | (aged 94)Last veteran of the Indian Mutiny | May 10, 1857, to 1859 |
Teodolfo Mertel | July 11, 1899 | (aged 93)Last non-priest cardinal | March 15, 1858 |
Charles McKay[46] | December 1, 1918 | (aged 90)Last veteran of the Pig War | June 15 to October 1859 |
Cudjoe Lewis | July 26, 1935 | (aged 95)Last passenger of the Clotilde | 1859 |
Owen Brown[47] | January 8, 1889 | (aged 64)Last abolitionist present at John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry | October 16 to 18, 1859 |
George Pilson[48] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last witness at Harpers Ferry | October 16 to 18, 1859 |
L.G Simmons[49] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last witness to the Broderick-Terry duel | September 13, 1859 |
Giovanni Battista Egisto Sivelli | November 1, 1934 | (aged 90)Last member of the Expedition of the Thousand | 1860 to 1861 |
William Campbell[50] | June 10, 1934 | (aged 93)Last rider of The Pony Express | April 3, 1860, to October 1861 |
Hugo Josef Schiff[51] | September 8, 1915 | (aged 81)Last attendee of the Karlsruhe Congress | September 3 to 5, 1860 |
Roger Atkinson Pryor | March 14, 1919 | (aged 90)Last veteran of the Battle of Fort Sumter | April 12 to 13, 1861 |
Albert Woolson | August 2, 1956 | (aged 109)Last Union Army veteran of the American Civil War | April 12, 1861, to April 9, 1865 |
James Hard | March 12, 1953 | (aged 109)Last veteran of the First Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Antietam and Battle of Chancellorsville | July 21, 1861, September 17, 1862 and April 30 to May 6, 1863 |
John Ambrose Driscoll[52][53] | June 13, 1921 | (aged 82)Last crew member of the USS Monitor during its engagement with the CSS Virginia (aka USS Merrimack) | March 9, 1862 |
James Marion Lurvey[54] | April 7, 1950 | (aged 102)Last verified veteran of the Battle of Gettysburg | July 1 to 3, 1863 |
Frank W. Nelson[55] | November 9, 1936 | (aged 92)Last soldier to participate in Pickett's Charge | July 3, 1863 |
Eli G. Biddle[56] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last member of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry that assaulted Fort Wagner | July 18, 1863 |
Thomas Stewart Armistead[57] | November 16, 1922 | (aged 80)Last soldier of the Immortal 600 | 1864 |
George Wilsman[58] | August 16, 1940 | (aged 97)Last prisoner of the Andersonville Prison Camp | 1864 |
Ruth Dyk[59] | November 18, 2000 | (aged 99)Last Suffragette | 1865 to 1920 |
Pleasant Crump | December 31, 1951 | (aged 104)Last Confederate veteran of the Civil War and last witness of General Lee's surrender | April 9, 1865 |
Samuel J. Seymour[60] | April 12, 1956 | (aged 96)Last witness present at Ford's Theater during the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln | April 14, 1865 |
John Henry Coghill[61] | Unknown | Last surviving witness to the capture and death of John Wilkes Booth | April 26, 1865 |
Pleasant M. Keeble[62] | March 4, 1931 | (aged 93)Last survivor of the SS Sultana disaster | April 27, 1865 |
James Robert Cummins | July 9, 1929 | (aged 82)Last member of the infamous James-Younger Gang | 1866 to 1876 |
Pedro Angleró[63] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last participant of El Grito de Lares | September 23, 1868 |
George H. Large | August 15, 1939 | (aged 88)Last participant of the first American football game | November 6, 1869 |
Jennie Lawver Clinton[64] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last survivor of the Modoc War | November 29, 1872, to June 1, 1873 |
Oku Yasukata | July 19, 1930 | (aged 83)Last veteran of the Taiwan Expedition of 1874 | May 1874 |
Phillip Fred Sullivan[65] | October 2, 1941 | (aged 85)Last driver of the Cheyenne-Deadwood stagecoach lines | 1876 to 1887 |
Charles Windolph | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last U.S soldier from the Battle of the Little Bighorn | June 25 to 26, 1876 |
Dewey Beard | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last Indian veteran of the Battle of the Little Bighorn | June 25 to 26, 1876 |
Nene Hatun | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last veteran of the 1877 Russo-Turkish War | April 24, 1877, to March 3, 1878 |
Josiah Redwolf[66] | March 23, 1971 | (aged 98)Last survivor of the Nez Perce War | June to October, 1877 |
Hugh Theodore Pinhey[67] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last veteran of the Second Anglo-Afghan War | September 1878 to 1880 |
Charles Wallace Warden[68] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last veteran of the Anglo-Zulu War | January 11 to July 4, 1879 |
Dougald McPhail | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last survivor of the battle of Battle of Isandhlwana | January 22, 1879 |
Frank Bourne | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last survivor of the defense of Rorke's Drift during the Anglo-Zulu War | January 22 to 23, 1879 |
George Frederick Ives | April 12, 1993 | (aged 111)Last veteran of the Boer Wars | 1880 to 1902 |
Wyatt Earp | January 13, 1929 | (aged 80)Last gunslinger to take part in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | October 26, 1881 |
Dudley de Chair[69] | August 17, 1958 | (aged 93)Last veteran of the Anglo-Egyptian War | 1882 |
John Blevins[70] | May 23, 1929 | (aged 61)Last veteran of the Pleasant Valley War | 1882 to 1892 |
Frank Shomo[71] | March 20, 1997 | (aged 108)Last survivor of the Johnstown Flood | May 31, 1889 |
Hugh McGinnis[72] | March 22, 1965 | (aged 94)Last U.S veteran and survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre | December 29, 1890 |
Raymond Pimlott Kaighn[73] | August 16, 1962 | (aged 92)Last living participant of the first basketball game ever played. | December 21, 1891 |
Michael Shonsey[74] | August 5, 1954 | (aged 89)Last veteran of the Johnson County War | 1892 |
Nawi[75] | November, 1979 (aged 100+) | Last of the Dahomey Amazons and last veteran of the Second Franco-Dahomean War | July 4, 1892 to January 15, 1894. |
Arthur Sherman Phillips[76][77] | March 18, 1941 | (aged 75)Last participant in Lizzie Borden's murder trial | June 3 to 20, 1893 |
Dimitrios Loundras[78] | February 15, 1970 | (aged 84)Last known living competitor at the 1896 Summer Olympics | April 6 to 15, 1896 |
Jesse Langdon[79] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last member of the Rough Riders | 1898 |
Manu Ruma[80] | December, 1961 (aged 87) | Last veteran of the Dog Tax War | 1898 |
John Henry Turpin[81] | March 10, 1962 | (aged 85)Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Maine | February 15, 1898 |
Jones Morgan | August 29, 1993 | (aged 110)Last surviving veteran of the Spanish-American War | April 25 to August 12, 1898 |
Aurelio Diaz Campillo[82] | June 13, 1989 | (aged 110)Last Spanish veteran of the Spanish-American War | April 25 to August 12, 1898 |
Ralph Waldo Taylor[83] | May 15, 1987 | (aged 105)Last survivor of the Battle of San Juan Hill | July 1, 1898 |
Nathan E. Cook[84] | September 10, 1992 | (aged 106)Last veteran of the Philippine-American War and Boxer Rebellion | June 2, 1899, to July 4, 1902, and October 1899 to September 7, 1901 |
1900–1915
Name | Death | Historical event | Date of event |
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Lucien Démanet | March 16, 1979 | (aged 104)Last participant in the 1900 Summer Olympics | May 14 to October 28, 1900 |
Maude Conic[85] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last survivor of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 | August 27 to September 12, 1900 |
Laura Bullion | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last member of the Wild Bunch gang | 1901 |
Fleetwood Lindley[86] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last person to view Abraham Lincoln's remains | September 26, 1901 |
Michael Barne | May 31, 1961 | (aged 83)Last survivor of the Discovery Expedition | 1901 to 1904 |
Léon Compère-Léandre | 1936 | Last survivor on shore during the eruption of Mount Pelée | May 8, 1902 |
Irénise Moulonguet | May 28, 2013 | (aged 112)Last survivor of the eruption of Mount Pelée | May 8, 1902 |
George D. Grundy, Jr. | May 19, 1998 | (aged 99)Last member of the Early Birds of Aviation | 1903 to December 17, 1916 |
Roscinda Nolasquez[87] | February 4, 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. | May 13, 1903 |
Gladys Ennis[88] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last survivor of the Frank Slide | April 29, 1903 |
Jennings Dunlap[89] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last survivor of the Wreck of the Old 97 | September 23, 1903 |
Johnny Thomas Moore[90] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last witness of the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk | December 17, 1903 |
Mamoru Eto[91] | February 16, 1992 | (aged 109)Last surviving veteran of the Russo-Japanese War | February 8, 1904, to September 5, 1905 |
Alexander Bernard Heron[92] | January 24, 2000 | (aged 105)Last worker involved in the construction of the Panama Canal | May 4, 1904 |
Adella Wotherspoon | January 26, 2004 | (aged 100)Last and youngest survivor of the General Slocum Disaster | June 15, 1904 |
Ivan Beshoff[93] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last sailor of the Potemkin Mutiny of 1905 | June 23 to July 8, 1905 |
Burke Everett Bodwell[94] | March 24, 1968 | (aged 86)Last survivor of the explosion of the USS Bennington | July 21, 1905 |
Ruth Newman and Bill Del Monte[95] | Living | Last known survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake | April 18, 1906 |
Dorsie Williams Willis[96] | August 24, 1975 | (aged 89)Last living soldier accused in the Brownsville Affair | August 13, 1906 |
Philip Brocklehurst | January 28, 1975 | (aged 87)Last member of Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition | 1907 to 1909 |
Brian Evans-Lombe[97] | January 31, 1994 | (aged 100)Last surviving member of the Brownsea Island Scout camp, the founding event of the Scout movement | August 1 to 8, 1907 |
Nathan Gery[98] | July 5, 1987 | (aged 101)Last surviving sailor of the Great White Fleet | December 16, 1907, to February 22, 1909 |
Yehudit Horowitz[99] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last living member of the Hashomer | April 1909 |
Teodore Garcia[100] | April 24, 1999 | (aged 110)Last of the Federales to serve in the Mexican Revolution | 1910 to 1914 |
Rose Freedman[101] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | March 25, 1911 |
Lily Strugnell | October 25, 2013 | (aged 109)Last living person to have seen RMS Titanic | April 10, 1912 |
Sid Daniels | May 25, 1983 | (aged 89)Last surviving crew member of the RMS Titanic | April 10 to 15, 1912 |
Millvina Dean | May 31, 2009 | (aged 97)Last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic | April 14, 1912 |
William Young | July 24, 2007 | (aged 107)Last member of the Royal Flying Corps and last Scottish veteran of WWI | May 13, 1912, to April 1, 1918, August 1, 1914 to November 11, 1918 |
Bhagat Singh Bilga[102] | May 22, 2009 | (aged 102)Last member of the Ghadar Party | 1913 to 1919 |
Jack Davis | July 20, 2003 | (aged 108)Last member of Kitchener's Army | 1914 |
Mary Benich-McCleary[103][104] | June 28, 2007 | (aged 94)Last survivor of the Ludlow Massacre | April 20, 1914 |
Grace Hanagan (Martyn)[105] | May 15, 1995 | (aged 87)Last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland | May 29, 1914 |
Vaso Čubrilović | June 11, 1990 | (aged 93)Last participant involved in the conspiracy to murder Archduke Franz Ferdinand | June 28, 1914 |
John Campbell Ross | June 3, 2009 | (aged 110)Last Australian veteran of World War I | July 28, 1914, to November 11, 1918 |
Henry Botterell | January 3, 2003 | (aged 106)Last pilot to participate in World War I | July 28, 1914, to November 11, 1918 |
John Babcock | February 18, 2010 | (aged 109)Last veteran of the Canadian military to have served in World War I | July 28, 1914, to November 11, 1918 |
Frank Buckles | February 27, 2011 | (aged 110)Last American veteran of World War I | July 28, 1914, to November 11, 1918 |
Mikhail Krichevsky | December 26, 2008 | (aged 111)Last veteran to fight for the Russian Army during World War I | July 28, 1914, to November 11, 1918 |
David Ireland[106] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last veteran to suffer from shell shock during WWI | July 28, 1914, to November 11, 1918 |
Pierre Picault | November 20, 2008 | (aged 109)Last French veteran of WWI and last artilleryman of the war | August 3, 1914, to November 11, 1918 |
Albert Edward Dye[107] | September 7, 2004 | (aged 107)Last surviving veteran of the African theatre of World War I | August 3, 1914, to November 14, 1918 |
Richard W. Richards | May 8, 1985 | (aged 91)Last surviving member of the British Trans-Antarctic Expedition | August 8, 1914, to May 29, 1917 |
Peter Casserly | June 24, 2005 | (aged 107)Last member of the First Australian Imperial Force and veteran of the Battle of Amiens | August 15, 1914, to September 1917 and August 8 to 11, 1918 |
Paul Kley[108] | 1992 | Last German veteran of the Siege of Tsingtao | October 31 to November 7, 1914 |
Alfred Anderson | November 21, 2005 | (aged 109)Last soldier who could remember the Christmas Truce of 1914 and last veteran of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle and Battle of Loos | December 24, 1914, March 10 to 13, 1915 and September 25 to October 14, 1915 |
1915–1930
Name | Death | Historical event | Date of event |
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René Riffaud[109] | January 16, 2007 | (aged 108)Last soldier to be gassed during WWI | 1915 to 1918 |
Alec Campbell[110] | May 16, 2002 | (aged 103)Last veteran of the Gallipoli campaign | April 25, 1915, to January 9, 1916 |
Audrey Lawson-Johnston | January 11, 2011 | (aged 95)Last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania | May 7, 1915 |
Erich Kästner | January 1, 2008 | (aged 107)Last veteran who served under the German Empire in World War I | May 23, 1915, to November 4, 1918 |
Emiliano Mercado del Toro | January 24, 2007 | (aged 115)Last Puerto Rican veteran of WWI and oldest veteran of any conflict | May 23, 1915, to November 4, 1918 |
Delfino Borroni | October 26, 2008 | (aged 110)Last Italian veteran and of the Alpine Front and Battle of Caporetto in World War I | May 23, 1915, to November 4, 1918, October 24 to November 1917 |
Joseph DiPofi[111] | December 4, 2004 | (aged 106)Last veteran of the United States occupation of Haiti | July 28, 1915 to August 1, 1934 |
Bertie Felstead | July 22, 2001 | (aged 106)Last soldier present at the Christmas Truce | December 24, 1915 |
René Marie-Martial Moreau[112] | October 26, 2005 | (aged 108)Last veteran of The Battle of Verdun | February 21 to December 18, 1916 |
Mark Matthews | September 6, 2005 | (aged 111)Oldest and last surviving pre-WWII Buffalo Soldier and last veteran of the Pancho Villa Expedition | March 14, 1916, to February 7, 1917, August 1918 |
Lilly Kempson[113] | January 22, 1996 | (aged 99)Last participant in the Easter Rising | April 24 to 30, 1916 |
Henry Allingham | July 18, 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 Jutland | May 31 to June 1, 1916 |
Marcel Caux | August 22, 2004 | (aged 105)Last survivor of the Battle of Pozières | July 23 to August 7, 1916 |
Albert Marshall | May 16, 2005 | (aged 108)Last veteran of the The Battle of the Somme and Battle of Cambrai | July 1 to November 18, 1916 and November 20 to December 8, 1917 |
George Perman[114] | May 24, 2000 | (aged 99)Last survivor of the sinking of the HMHS Britannic | November 21, 1916 |
Mae Keane[115] | Living (age 118) | Last Radium Girl | 1917 to 1926 |
Yakup Satar | April 2, 2008 | (aged 110)Last Turkish veteran of WWI | February 23, 1917 |
Charles Reaper[116] | March 5, 2003 | (aged 103)Last veteran of the Battle of Vimy Ridge | April 9 to 12, 1917 |
Arthur Barraclough[117] | August 30, 2004 | (aged 106)Last veteran of the Battle of Arras | April 9 to May 16, 1917 |
Louis de Cazenave[118] | January 20, 2008 | (aged 110)Last veteran of the Battle of Chemin des Dames | April 16 to May 9 and October 9, 1917 |
Lúcia Santos | February 13, 2005 | (aged 97)Last of the three children who claimed to have spoken to Our Lady of Fátima. | May 13 to October 13, 1917 |
Edward Smout | June 22, 2004 | (aged 106)Last witness to the death of the Red Baron and veteran of the Battle of Messines | June 7 to 14, 1917, and April 21, 1918 |
Albert Dacosta Riches[119] | October 1, 2000 | (aged 102)Last member of the Royal Tank Regiment during WWI | June 28, 1917, to November 11, 1918 |
Harry Patch | July 25, 2009 | (aged 111)Last British Army veteran of WWI and last veteran of Passchendaele | July to November 1917 |
Alois Vocásek[120] | August 9, 2003 | (aged 107)Last Czechoslovakian veteran of WWI and of the Battle of Zborov | July 1 to 2, 1917 |
Boris Gudz[121] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last survivor of the October Revolution and of the Russian Civil War | November 7 to 8, 1917, November 9, 1917, to June 1923 |
Antonio Todde | January 3, 2002 | (aged 112)Last veteran of the Battle of Mount Grappa | November 11 to December 23, 1917 |
Florence Green | 5 February 2012 | (aged 110)Last participant of World War I and last member of the original WRAF | 1918 |
Albert Wagner | January 20, 2007 | (aged 107)Last veteran of the Battle of Belleau Wood | June 1 to 26, 1918 |
Domenico De Cristofaro[122] | September 21, 2006 | (aged 106)Last veteran of the Battle of the Piave River | June 15 to 23, 1918 |
Thomas A. Pope[123] | June 14, 1989 | (aged 94)Last US Army WWI Medal of Honor winner | July 4, 1918 |
Jean Grelaud | February 25, 2007 | (aged 108)Last veteran of the Second Battle of the Marne | July 15 to August 6, 1918 |
Warren Hileman[124] | January 30, 2005 | (aged 103)Last member of the American Expeditionary Force Siberia | November 1918 to April 1920 |
Francesco Domenico Chiarello | June 27, 2008 | (aged 109)Last veteran of the Battle of Vittorio Veneto | October 24 to November 3, 1918 |
Harold Gunnes[125] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last member of the Polar Bear Expedition | September 4, 1918, to July 1919 |
Antonio Pierro | February 8, 2007 | (aged 110)Last veteran of the Battle of Saint-Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensive | September 12 to 19, 1918 September 26 to November 11, 1918 |
Swede Risberg | October 13, 1975 | (aged 81)Last person involved in the Black Sox Scandal | October 1919 |
Wilhelm Meisel | June 3, 2009 | (aged 105)Last veteran of the Silesian Uprisings | 1919 to 1921 |
Margalo Gillmore | June 30, 1986 | (aged 89)Last living member of the Algonquin Round Table | 1919 to 1929 |
Dan Keating | October 2, 2007 | (aged 105)Last veteran of the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War | January 21, 1919, to July 11, 1921 and June 28, 1922 to May 24, 1923 |
Józef Kowalski | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last veteran of the Polish-Soviet War | February 1919 to March 1921 |
Shingara Singh[126] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last witness of the Amritsar Massacre | April 13, 1919 |
Veysel Turan | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last veteran of the Greco-Turkish War | May 1919 to October 1922 |
Mustafa Şekip Birgöl | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last veteran of the Turkish War of Independence | May 19, 1919, to October 11, 1922 |
Claude Choules | May 5, 2011 | (aged 110)Last combatant of World War I and last witness to the scuttling of the German Fleet in Scapa Flow | June 21, 1919 |
Raul Fernandes[127][128] | January 6, 1968 | (aged 90)Last surviving signer of the Treaty of Versailles | June 28, 1919 |
Waldemar Levy Cardoso | May 13, 2009 | (aged 108)Last veteran of the Tenente revolts | 1922 and 1924 to 1927 |
Ertuğrul Osman | September 23, 2009 | (aged 97)Last royal member of the Ottoman Empire | 1922 |
Vasco Bruttomesso[129] | January 2, 2009 | (aged 105)Last surviving veteran of the March on Rome | October 22 to 29, 1922 |
John Lust[130] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last "Sky Sailor" of the U.S Navy's Rigid Airship program | 1923 to 1931 |
Robie Morton[131] | June 21, 2010 | (aged 94)Last surviving witness of the Rosewood massacre | January 1923 |
Gene Bruce[132] | December 6, 2005 | (aged 98)Last surviving sailor of the Honda Point Disaster | September 8, 1923 |
Emil Klein[133] | February 22, 2010 | (aged 104)Last living member of Adolf Hitler's unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch | November 8 to 9, 1923 |
Edgar Nollner[134] | January 15, 1999 | (aged 94)Last living musher of the 1925 serum run to Nome | January 7 to February 1, 1925 |
Louis de Broglie | March 19, 1987 | (aged 94)Last attendee of the Fifth Solvay Conference | October 1927 |
Norman D. Vaughan | Error: Need valid death date (first date): year, month, day | Last survivor of Richard Byrd's 1928 expedition to Antarctica | 1928 to June 18, 1930 |
Albert H. Wolff[135] | March 21, 1998 | (aged 95)Last member of the Untouchables | 1929 to 1931 |
Alf Howard[136] | July 4, 2010 | (aged 104)Last member of the BANZARE expedition to Antarctica | 1929 to 1931 |
1930–1945
Name | Death | Historical event | Date of event |
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Deborah Mitford[137] | Living (age 104) | Last of the six Mitford sisters | 1930s |
Binod Bihari Chowdhury[138] | April 10, 2013 | (aged 102)Last revolutionary of the Chittagong armoury raid | April 18, 1930 |
James Cameron | June 11, 2006 | (aged 92)Last individual to survive a lynching attempt | August 7, 1930 |
Rachel Johnson[139] | Living (age 91) | Last St. Kildan | August 29, 1930 |
Clarence Norris[140] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last Scottsboro Boy | March 25, 1931 |
Doris Eaton Travis | May 11, 2010 | (aged 106)Last surviving member of the Ziegfeld Girls | 1907-1931 |
Mary Starke Harper[141] | July 27, 2006 | (aged 86)Last health care member associated with the Tuskegee Syphilis Study | 1932 to 1972 |
Jennings Randolph | May 8, 1998 | (aged 96)Last U.S. Congressman to serve during Franklin D. Roosevelt's first 100 days | March 4, 1933 |
Josef Felder | October 28, 2000 | (aged 100)Last individual to vote against the Nazi Enabling Act of 1933 | March 23, 1933 |
Moody E. Erwin[142] | October 20, 1989 | (aged 85)Last survivor of the USS Akron disaster | April 3, 1933 |
Edd L. Miller[143] | September 18, 2000 | (aged 87)Last witness to the shooting of Bonnie and Clyde | May 23, 1934 |
Thomas J. Conner[144] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last member of the FBI team that gunned down John Dillinger | July 22, 1934 |
Antonio García Barón | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last member of the Durruti Column of the Spanish Civil War | July 17, 1936, to April 1, 1939 |
Cornelius Whalen[145] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last participant in the Jarrow March | October 5 to 31, 1938 |
Lü Zhengcao | October 13, 2009 | (aged 105)Last witness of the Xi'an Incident | December 1936 |
Werner Franz[146] | Living (age 102) | Last crew member of the LZ 129 Hindenburg | March, 1936, to May 6, 1937 |
Walter Walsh | Living (age 117) | Last member of the FBI teams that captured Arthur Barker and killed Al Brady | October 12, 1937 |
Yang Genkui[147] | Living (age 103) | Last soldier of the 800 Heroes | October 26 to November 1, 1937 |
Fon Huffman | September 4, 2008 | (aged 95)Last survivor of the USS Panay incident | December 12, 1937 |
Jerry Maren | Living (age 104) | Last surviving Munchkin from The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) | August 25, 1939 |
Ernest Millington | May 9, 2009 | (aged 93)Last member of Parliament during WWII | September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 |
Chester Nez[148] | Living (age 103) | Last World War II Navajo Code Talker | September 1, 1939, to September 2, 1945 |
Jim Kennedy[149] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last World War II deep sea diver | September 1, 1939, to September 2, 1945 |
Emilio Ochoa | June 27, 2007 | (aged 99)Last signer of the Constitution of Cuba | 1940 |
John Cruickshank | Living (age 104) | Last Victoria Cross for action in World War II | 1940 |
Jānis Pīnups[150] | June 16, 2007 | (aged 82)Last known member of the Forest Brothers | 1940 to 1941, 1944 to 1956 |
Eddie Joost[151] | April 12, 2011 | (aged 94)Last member of the 1940 World Series winning team | October 2 to 8, 1940 |
Donald "Nick" Clifford[152] | Living (age 102–103) | Last worker on the Construction of Mount Rushmore | 1927-1941 |
Daniel Nevolt[153] | Living | Last veteran of the Battle of Kufra | January 13 to March 1, 1941 |
Ted Briggs | October 4, 2008 | (aged 85)Last survivor of the sinking of the HMS Hood | May 24, 1941 |
John William Finn | May 27, 2010 | (aged 100)Last Medal of Honor recipient from the attack on Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 |
Simon Srebnik[154] | August 16, 2006 | (aged 76)Last living prisoner of the Chełmno extermination camp | December 8, 1941, to March 1943, June 1944 to January 18, 1945 |
Ed Walker | October 28, 2011 | (aged 94)Last member of Castner's Cutthroats | 1942 to 1945 |
Gerard Zinser[155] | August 21, 2001 | (aged 83)Last surviving member of JFK's PT-109 crew | 1942 to August 2, 1943 |
Gerhard Klopfer | January 29, 1987 | (aged 81)Last individual to attend the Wannsee Conference | January 20, 1942 |
David Stoliar | Living (age 101) | Last survivor of the Struma disaster | February 24, 1942 |
Rudolf Reder | 1968 | Last survivor of the Bełżec extermination camp | March 17, 1942, to June 1943 |
Bill Bower | January 10, 2011 | (aged 93)Last pilot of the Doolittle Raid in World War II | April 18, 1942 |
Miep Gies | January 11, 2010 | (aged 100)Last member of the "Secret Annex" that hid Anne Frank during WWII | July 6, 1942, to August 4, 1944 |
Rudolf Brazda | August 3, 2011 | (aged 98)Last concentration camp survivor deported by Nazi Germany on charges of homosexuality | August 8, 1942 |
Orrel Cecil[156] | November 4, 2010 | (aged 90)Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Juneau | November 13, 1942 |
Bill Sparks | December 1, 2002 | (aged 80)Last member of the Cockleshell Heroes | December 7 to 12, 1942 |
Hans Münch[157] | 2001 | Last Auschwitz SS physician | 1943 to 1945 |
Marek Edelman | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | April 19, 1943, to May 16, 1943 |
Les Munro | Living (age 105) | Last pilot of Operation Chastise during WWII | May 16 to 17, 1943 |
Fritz Darges | October 25, 2009 | (aged 96)Last member of Hitler's inner circle | 1944 |
Frank Ellis Sublett[158] | September 27, 2006 | (aged 86)Last member of the Golden Thirteen | March 1944 |
David Wood | March 12, 2009 | (aged 86)Last officer of the Pegasus Bridge raid on D-Day | June 6, 1944 |
Ray Nance[159] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last survivor of the Bedford Boys | June 6, 1944 |
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin | March 8, 2013 | (aged 90)Last participant of the plot to assassinate Hitler | July 20, 1944 |
1945–1960
Name | Death | Historical event | Date of event |
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Charles W. Lindberg | June 24, 2007 | (aged 86)Last Marine in the Iwo Jima Flag Raisings | February 23, 1945 |
Rochus Misch | September 5, 2013 | (aged 96)Last of the occupants of the 'Führerbunker' in the Final Days of the War in Europe | April 1945 |
Albert Meserlin | March 29, 2009 | (aged 88)Last witness of the German Surrender | May 8, 1945 |
Harold Stassen[160] | March 4, 2001 | (aged 93)Last signer of the United Nations Charter | June 26, 1945 |
Theodore Van Kirk | Living (age 103) | Last crew member of the Enola Gay | August 6, 1945 |
Benjamin Ferencz | Living (age 104) | Last prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials | November 20, 1945, to October 1, 1946 |
Ranbir Singh[161] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last member of India’s Constituent Assembly | December 9, 1946 |
Knut Haugland | December 25, 2009 | (aged 92)Last crew member on the Kon-Tiki expedition | April 28, 1947 |
Ring Lardner, Jr.[162] | October 31, 2000 | (aged 85)Last member of The Hollywood Ten | November 25, 1947 |
Gopal Godse[163] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last conspirator involved in the assassination of Gandhi | January 30, 1948 |
Arieh Handler | May 20, 2011 | (aged 95)Last witness to the signing of the Israeli Declaration of Independence | May 14, 1948 |
Tawfik Toubi | March 11, 2011 | (aged 88)Last surviving member of the first Knesset | 1949-1951 |
James Gruber | February 27, 2011 | (aged 82)Last surviving member of the Mattachine Society | 1950-1961 |
Zelma Henderson | May 20, 2008 | (aged 88)Last participant in the Brown v. Board of Education case | December 9, 1952, to May 17, 1954 |
George Lowe | March 20, 2013 | (aged 89)Last member of the 1953 British Everest Expedition | May 29, 1953 |
Maurice Faure[164] | Living (age 102) | Last signer of the Treaty of Rome | March 25, 1957 |
Peter Cope | April 4, 2005 | (aged 83)Last test pilot of the Avro Arrow Program | March 25, 1958, to 1959 |
Post 1960
Name | Death | Historical event | Date of event |
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John Glenn | Living (age 103) | Last member of Project Mercury | 1959-1963 |
Franz König | April 13, 2004 | (aged 98)Last cardinal created by Pope John XXIII and last participant in the conclave that elected Pope Paul VI | June 21, 1963 |
Clint Hill | Living | Last passenger of the presidential limousine which arrived at Parkland | November 22, 1963 |
Gerald Ford | December 26, 2006 | (aged 93)Last member of the committee of the Warren Commission | November 29, 1963 |
Yao Wenyuan[165] | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last member of China's Gang of Four | 1966 to 1976 |
Larry Newman | December 20, 2010 | (aged 63)Last crew member of the Double Eagle II | August 12 to 17, 1978 |
Stanislav Hurenko | April 14, 2013 | (aged 76)Last First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR | September 1, 1991 |
Cornelius Botha | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last administrator of the Natal Province | April 27, 1994 |
Luz Isabel Cuevas[166] | Living | Last witness to the assassination of El Salvadorian bishop Óscar Romero | March 24, 1980 |
Nur-Pashi Kulayev | Living (age 43) | Last surviving culprit of the Beslan school hostage crisis | September 1, 2004 |
Alexander Sizov[167][168] | Living | Last survivor of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster | September 7, 2011 |
No date applicable
Name | Death | Historical event |
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Truganini | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last "full blood" Tasmanian Aborigine |
Ishi | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last member of the Yahi |
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia | November 24, 1960 | (aged 78)Last immediate family member of Tsar Nicholas II |
Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach[169] | May 8, 1986 | (aged 48)Last heir to the Krupp fortune |
Calvin Pearl Titus | May 27, 1966 | (aged 86)Last American military flag bearer |
Jean Kennedy Smith | Living (age 96) | Last child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy |
Tevfik Esenç | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last person able to speak the Ubykh language |
Marie Smith Jones | January 21, 2008 | (aged 89)Last speaker of the Eyak language |
Boa Sr. | Error: Need valid birth date (second date): year, month, day | Last member of the Bo people |
See also
- Last surviving United States war veterans
- List of last living war veterans
- List of last surviving World War I veterans by country
- List of last surviving Canadian war veterans
- List of surviving veterans of the Spanish Civil War
- Last European veterans by war
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