List of last survivors of historical events
Appearance
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
Before 1701
Name | Death | Historical event | Date event ended |
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Aristodemus of Sparta | c. 479 BC (aged c. 49) | Last Spartan of the Battle of Thermopylae | August or September 480 BC |
John the Apostle | Around 100 | Last known witness to the crucifixion of Jesus, and last Apostle | April 3, 33 |
Romulus Augustulus | After 510 | Last Western Roman Emperor | 4 September 476 |
Sophia Palaiologina | 7 April 1503 | Last member of the Imperial Byzantine court. | 29 May 1453 |
Don Mancio Serra de Leguízamo[1][2] | September 18, 1589 (aged 78) | Last known conquistador who participated in the capture of Atahualpa. | November 16, 1532 |
Mary Allerton | November 28, 1699 (aged 83) | Last passenger of the Mayflower | November 11, 1620 |
John Alden | September 12, 1687 (aged 88) | Last living signer of the Mayflower Compact | November 11, 1620 |
Richard Bellingham | December 7, 1672 (aged 80) | Last signer of the Massachusetts Colonial Charter | March 4, 1629 |
1701–1800
Name | Death | Historical event | Date event ended |
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George Gregory[3] | February 13, 1804 | (aged 108–109)Last sailor who took part in George Anson's voyage around the world | 1744 |
Isaac Smith | July 2, 1831 | (aged 78–79)Last survivor of James Cook's first voyage | July 12, 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 |
Ephraim Bowen[4] | September 2, 1841 | (aged 88)Last individual involved in the Gaspée Affair | June 10, 1772 |
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 |
Ralph Farnham[8] | December 26, 1860 | (aged 104)Last known survivor of the Battle of Bunker Hill | June 17, 1775 |
John Hatley | December 12, 1832 | (aged 69–70)Last survivor of James Cook's second voyage | July 30, 1775 |
Charles Carroll | November 14, 1832 | (aged 95)Last signer of the United States 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 |
Andrew Jackson | June 8, 1845 | (aged 78)Last former President of the United States to have served in the American Revolution | April 25, 1781 |
Elijah Churchill | April 11, 1841 | (aged 85)Last recipient of the Badge of Military Merit | October 2, 1781 |
John Gray | March 29, 1868 | (aged 104)Last veteran of the Siege of Yorktown | October 19, 1781 |
John Jay | May 17, 1829 | (aged 83)Last signer of the Treaty of Paris | September 3, 1783 |
David Whitney[10] | March 24, 1867 | (aged 99)Last veteran of Shays' Rebellion | June 1787 |
James Madison | June 28, 1836 | (aged 85)Last signer of The United States Constitution | September 7, 1787 |
Barthélemy de Lesseps[11] | June 4, 1834 | (aged 68)Last survivor of the scientific expedition of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse | 1788 |
John Adams | March 5, 1829 | (aged 61)Last mutineer of HMS Bounty | April 28, 1789 |
Arthur Dardenne[12] | September 8, 1872 | (aged 95–96)Last surviving person to have taken part in the Storming of the Bastille | July 14, 1789 |
Augusta Hejnek | March 1, 1908 | (aged 108)Last known person born in the 1700s | December 31, 1799 |
Salome Sellers | January 9, 1909 | (aged 109)Last known person born in the 18th century | December 31, 1800 |
1801–1850
Name | Death | Historical event | Date event ended |
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Pedro Antonio Martinez Zia[13] | February 1, 1898 | (aged 108–109)Last veteran of the Battle of Trafalgar | October 21, 1805 |
Patrick Gass | April 2, 1870 | (aged 98)Last member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition | March 23, 1806 |
John Rice[14][15] | February 10, 1880 | (aged 90–91)Last veteran of the Battle of Lake Erie | September 10, 1813 |
James Madison | June 28, 1836 | (aged 85)Last former President of the United States to lead American troops in battle | August 24, 1814 |
James Buchanan | June 1, 1868 | (aged 77)Last former President of the United States to have served in the War of 1812 | September 14, 1814 |
Charles Booth[16] | March 2, 1896 | (aged 97)Last living rebel of the Pentrich rising | June 10, 1817 |
John W. Stainer[17] | March 3, 1907 | (aged 99)Last veteran of the Battle of Navarino | October 20, 1827 |
Philippe Demoulin[18] | February 14, 1912 | (aged 102)Last veteran of the Belgian Revolution | July 14, 1831 |
William Carroll Crawford[19] | September 3, 1895 | (aged 90)Last signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence | March 2, 1836 |
Alfonso Steele[20] | July 8, 1911 | (aged 94)Last survivor of the Battle of San Jacinto | April 21, 1836 |
William Physick Zuber[21][22] | September 22, 1913 | (aged 93)Last veteran of the Texas Revolution | April 25, 1836 |
Thomas Patrickson[23][24] | October 15, 1914 | (aged 85–86)Last participant of the Second voyage of HMS Beagle | October 2, 1836 |
Rebecca Tickaneesky Neugin[25] | July 15, 1932 | (aged 97–98)Last survivor of the Trail of Tears | 1837 |
Nelson Traux[26] | January 25, 1915 | (aged 96)Last survivor of the Battle of the Windmill | November 16, 1838 |
Milvern Harrell[27] | August 10, 1910 | (aged 86)Last survivor of the Dawson Massacre | September 17, 1842 |
François X. Matthieu | February 4, 1914 | (aged 95)Last participant at the Champoeg Meetings | May 2, 1843 |
Walter T. Avery[28] | June 10, 1904 | (aged 90)Last participant in the first official Baseball game | June 19, 1846 |
Margaret Isabella Breen McMahon[29] | March 25, 1935 | (aged 89)Last survivor of the Donner Party | April 29, 1847 |
Ulysses S. Grant | July 23, 1885 | (aged 63)Last former President of the United States to have served in the Mexican-American War | February 3, 1848 |
Charlotte L. Woodward Peirce[30] | March 15, 1924 | (aged 94)Last surviving participant in the Seneca Falls Convention and last signer of the Declaration of Sentiments | July 20, 1848 |
József Fischl[31] | March 1929 (aged 102) | Last Honvéd veteran of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 | 4 October 1849 |
1851–1900
Name | Death | Historical event | Date event ended |
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Thomas Kelly[32] | April 14, 1932 | (aged 83)Last survivor of the Birkenhead disaster | February 26, 1852 |
Edwin Hughes | April 18, 1927 | (aged 96)Last participant in the Charge of the Light Brigade | October 25, 1854 |
John Lishman Potter[33][34] | October 24, 1931 | (aged 97)Last veteran of the Eureka Rebellion | December 3, 1854 |
Horace F. Sisson[35] | March 10, 1942 | (aged 98)Last member of the Perry Expedition | January 11, 1855 |
Teodolfo Mertel | July 11, 1899 | (aged 93)Last non-priest cardinal | March 15, 1858 |
John Winchell Cullen[36][37] | December 14, 1939 | (aged 101)Last veteran of the Yakima War | September 23, 1858 |
George Chrystie[38][39] | June 14, 1939 | (aged 97)Last British Army veteran of the Indian Mutiny | July 8, 1859 |
Pressley Corbin Hyman[40][41] | June 20, 1912 | (aged 81)Last witness to the Broderick–Terry duel | September 13, 1859 |
Cudjoe Lewis | July 26, 1935 | (aged 95)Last passenger of the Clotilde | 1859 |
Owen Brown[42][43] | January 8, 1889 | (aged 64)Last abolitionist present at John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry | October 18, 1859 |
George Pilson[44] | April 22, 1916 | (aged 73–74)Last witness at Harpers Ferry | October 18, 1859 |
Hugo Josef Schiff[45] | September 8, 1915 | (aged 81)Last attendee of the Karlsruhe Congress | September 5, 1860 |
Giovanni Battista Egisto Sivelli[46][47] | November 1, 1934 | (aged 90)Last member of the Expedition of the Thousand | March 17, 1861 |
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 May 6, 1863 |
John Ambrose Driscoll[48][49] | 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[50] | April 7, 1950 | (aged 102)Last verified veteran of the Battle of Gettysburg | July 3, 1863 |
Otto Richard Gellette[51] | June 1, 1944 | (aged 98)Last soldier to participate in Pickett's Charge | July 3, 1863 |
Eli G. Biddle[52] | April 8, 1940 | (aged 93–94)Last member of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry that assaulted Fort Wagner | July 18, 1863 |
William Sickles | September 26, 1938 | (aged 93)Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the Civil War | March 31, 1865 |
Samuel J. Seymour[53] | 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[54] | Possibly 1942 (aged 90) | Last surviving witness to the death of John Wilkes Booth | April 26, 1865 |
Charles M. Eldridge[55] | September 8, 1941 | (aged 96)Last survivor of the Sultana disaster | April 27, 1865 |
William McKinley | September 14, 1901 | (aged 58)Last former President of the United States to have served in the Civil War | May 9, 1865 |
Agustín de Iturbide | March 3, 1925 | (aged 61)Last member of the Imperial Mexican Court | June 19, 1867 |
Charles Tupper | October 30, 1915 | (aged 94)Last Canadian father of Confederation | July 1, 1867 |
Samuel Speed[56][57] | November 8, 1938 (aged 95) | Last living British convict sent to Australia | January 10, 1868 |
Pedro Angleró[58] | October 16, 1931 | (aged 109–110)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 |
William F. Lukes | December 13, 1923 | (aged 76)Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the Korean Expedition | June 10, 1871 |
Reginald Courtenay Welch | June 4, 1939[59] | (aged 87)Last participant of the first English FA Cup Final | March 16, 1872 |
Charles Windolph | March 11, 1950 | (aged 97)Last U.S soldier from the Battle of the Little Bighorn | June 26, 1876 |
Dewey Beard | November 2, 1955 | (aged 96–97)Last Indian veteran of the Battle of the Little Bighorn | June 26, 1876 |
Tom Garrett | August 6, 1943 | (aged 85)Last player from first official cricket test match | March 19, 1877 |
Frank Bourne | May 8, 1945 | (aged 91)Last survivor of the defense of Rorke's Drift during the Anglo-Zulu War | January 23, 1879 |
Wyatt Earp | January 13, 1929 | (aged 80)Last survivor of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | October 26, 1881 |
Danny Ryan | December 31, 1966 | (aged 96)Last survivor of the Tipperary hurling team that won the first All-Ireland Championship | April 1, 1888 |
Frank Shomo[60] | March 20, 1997 | (aged 108)Last survivor of the Johnstown Flood | May 31, 1889 |
Louisa Yellow Shield Motley[61] | May 1, 1979 (aged 95) | Last survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre | December 29, 1890 |
Raymond Pimlott Kaighn[62] | August 16, 1962 | (aged 92)Last living participant of the first basketball game ever played. | December 21, 1891 |
Michael Shonsey[63] | August 5, 1954 | (aged 89)Last veteran of the Johnson County War | May 24, 1893 |
Arthur Sherman Phillips[64][65] | March 18, 1941 | (aged 75)Last participant in Lizzie Borden's murder trial | June 20, 1893 |
Nawi[66] | November, 1979 (aged 100+) | Last of the Dahomey Amazons and last veteran of the Second Franco-Dahomean War | January 15, 1894 |
Dimitrios Loundras[67] | February 15, 1971 | (aged 85)Last known living competitor at the 1896 Summer Olympics | April 15, 1896 |
Manu Ruma[68] | April, 1961 (aged 87) | Last veteran of the Dog Tax War | May 5, 1898 |
John Henry Turpin[69] | March 10, 1962 | (aged 85)Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Maine | February 15, 1898 |
John Davis | June 9, 1970 | (aged 91)Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the Spanish–American War | May 11, 1898 |
Ralph Waldo Taylor[70] | May 15, 1987 | (aged 105)Last survivor of the Battle of San Juan Hill | July 1, 1898 |
Bruno A. Forsterer | June 13, 1957 | (aged 87)Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the Second Samoan Civil War | April 1, 1899 |
Emma Morano | April 15, 2017[71] | (aged 117)Last verified living person born in the 1800s, last known survivor of the reign of king Umberto I | December 31, 1899 and July 29, 1900 |
William Seach | October 24, 1978 | (aged 101)Last living Medal of Honor recipient of the Boxer Rebellion | June 22, 1900 |
Maude Conic[72] | November 14, 2004 | (aged 105–106)Last survivor of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 | September 12, 1900 |
Lucien Démanet | March 16, 1979 | (aged 104)Last participant in the 1900 Summer Olympics | October 28, 1900 |
Nabi Tajima | Living (age 124) | Last living person born in the 19th century | December 31, 1900 |
1901–1915
Name | Death | Historical event | Date event ended |
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Violet Brown[73] | September 15, 2017 | (aged 117)Last known surviving subject of Queen Victoria[74] | January 22, 1901 |
Fleetwood Lindley[75] | February 1, 1963 | (aged 75)Last person to view Abraham Lincoln's remains | September 26, 1901 |
Laura Bullion | December 2, 1961 | (aged 85)Last member of the Wild Bunch gang | 1901 |
Léon Compère-Léandre | 1936 | Last survivor on shore of Saint-Pierre during the eruption of Mount Pelée | May 8, 1902 |
Irénise Moulonguet | May 28, 2013 | (aged 112)Last surviving witness of the eruption of Mount Pelée | May 8, 1902 |
Roscinda Nolasquez[76] | 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[77] | March 20, 1993 | (aged 92)Last survivor of the Frank Slide | April 29, 1903 |
Jennings Dunlap[78] | September 20, 1964 | (aged 84–85)Last survivor of the Wreck of the Old 97 | September 23, 1903 |
Freddy Parent | November 2, 1972 | (aged 96)Last living player of the 1903 World Series | October 13, 1903 |
Johnny Moore[79] | February 28, 1952 | (aged 66)Last living witness of the Wright Brothers' first heavier than air flight | December 17, 1903 |
Verde Clark Graff[80] | July 3, 1989 | (aged 97)Last survivor of the Iroquois Theatre fire | December 30, 1903 |
Michael Barne | May 31, 1961 | (aged 83)Last survivor of the Discovery Expedition | April 1, 1904 |
Alexander Bernard Heron[81] | 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[82] | October 25, 1987 | (aged 103–104)Last sailor that participated in the Potemkin Mutiny of 1905 | July 8, 1905 |
Ellen Adelaide Brandenborg | July 22, 2017 | (aged 111)Last known surviving subject of Christian IX of Denmark | January 29, 1906 |
Bill Del Monte[83][84] | January 11, 2016 | (aged 109)Last known survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake | April 18, 1906 |
Dorsie Williams Willis[85] | August 24, 1977 | (aged 91)Last living soldier accused in the Brownsville Affair | August 13, 1906 |
Brian Evans-Lombe[86] | January 31, 1994 | (aged 100)Last surviving member of the Brownsea Island Scout camp, the founding event of the Scout movement | August 8, 1907 |
Francesca Nato[87] | April 16, 2017[88] | (aged 110)Last known survivor of the 1908 Messina earthquake | December 28, 1908 |
John T. Kennedy | September 22, 1969 | (aged 84)Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the Philippine–American War | July 4, 1909 |
Philip Brocklehurst | January 28, 1975 | (aged 87)Last member of Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition | March 23, 1909 |
Rose Freedman[89] | February 15, 2001 | (aged 107)Last survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | March 25, 1911 |
Zhang Rentian[90][91] | April 29, 1995 | (aged 107)Last surviving Scholar of Imperial China. | February 12, 1912 |
Sid Daniels | May 25, 1983 | (aged 89)Last surviving crew member of the RMS Titanic | April 15, 1912 |
Millvina Dean | May 31, 2009 | (aged 97)Last and youngest survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic | April 15, 1912 |
Elma S. Damrell[92] | March 17, 2005 | (aged 95)Last survivor of the Italian Hall disaster | December 24, 1913 |
Mary Benich-McCleary[93][94] | June 28, 2007 | (aged 94)Last survivor of the Ludlow Massacre | April 20, 1914 |
George M. Lowry | September 25, 1981 | (aged 91)Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the United States occupation of Veracruz | April 21–22, 1914 |
Grace Hanagan (Martyn)[95] | 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 in the conspiracy to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand | June 28, 1914 |
Paul Kley[96][97] | 1992 (aged 99) | Last German veteran of the Siege of Tsingtao | 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 battles of Neuve Chapelle and Loos | December 24, 1914; March 13, 1915; and October 14, 1915 |
Audrey Warren Lawson-Johnston (née Pearl) | January 11, 2011 | (aged 95)Last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania | May 7, 1915 |
Carlo Orelli | January 22, 2005 | (aged 110)Last veteran of the First and Second Battles of the Isonzo | July 7, 1915; August 3, 1915 |
Marion Eichholz[98] | November 24, 2014 | (aged 102)Last survivor of the capsizing of the SS Eastland | July 24, 1915 |
Smedley Butler | June 21, 1940 | (aged 58)Last recipient to receive two Medals of Honor for two different actions | November 17, 1915 |
1916–1930
Name | Death | Historical event | Date event ended |
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Alec Campbell[99] | May 16, 2002 | (aged 103)Last veteran of the Gallipoli Campaign | January 9, 1916 |
Lilly Kempson[100] | January 22, 1996 | (aged 99)Last Irish participant in the Easter Rising | April 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 the Battle of Jutland | June 1, 1916 |
Roswell Winans | April 7, 1968 | (aged 80)Last survivng Medal of Honor recipient of the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic | July 3, 1916 |
Marcel Caux | August 22, 2004 | (aged 105)Last survivor of the Battle of Pozières | August 7, 1916 |
Claude-Marie Boucaud[101] | May 17, 2005 | (aged 109)Last survivor of the Battle of the Somme | November 18, 1916 |
George Perman[102] | May 24, 2000 | (aged 99)Last survivor of the sinking of the HMHS Britannic | November 21, 1916 |
René Marie-Martial Moreau[103] | October 26, 2005 | (aged 108)Last veteran of the Battle of Verdun | December 18, 1916 |
Mark Matthews | September 6, 2005 | (aged 111)Oldest and last surviving pre-World War II Buffalo Soldier and last veteran of the Pancho Villa Expedition | February 7, 1917; August 1918 |
Yakup Satar | April 2, 2008 | (aged 110)Last veteran of the Second Battle of Kut | February 23, 1917 |
Alfred Finnigan | May 11, 2005 | (aged 108)Last veteran of the Battle of Vimy Ridge | April 12, 1917 |
Louis de Cazenave[104] | January 20, 2008 | (aged 110)Last veteran of the Battle of Chemin des Dames | May 9 and October 9, 1917 |
Albert Marshall[105] | May 16, 2005 | (aged 108)Last veteran of the Battle of Arras and the Battle of Cambrai | May 16 and December 8, 1917 |
Richard W. Richards | May 8, 1985 | (aged 91)Last surviving member of the British Trans-Antarctic Expedition | May 29, 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 14, 1917; April 21, 1918 |
Alois Vocásek[106] | August 9, 2003 | (aged 107)Last Czechoslovakian veteran of World War I and of the Battle of Zborov | July 2, 1917 |
Peter Casserly | June 24, 2005 | (aged 107)Last member of the First Australian Imperial Force and veteran of the Battle of Amiens | September 1917; August 11, 1918 |
Harry Patch | July 25, 2009 | (aged 111)Last British Army veteran of World War I and last veteran of Passchendaele | November 10, 1917 |
Lazar Kaganovich | July 25, 1991 | (aged 97)Last Old Bolshevik who took part in the Russian October Revolution | November 8, 1917 |
Boris Gudz[107] | December 27, 2006 | (aged 104)Last survivor of the October Revolution and of the Russian Civil War | November 8, 1917; June 1923 |
Delfino Borroni | October 26, 2008 | (aged 110)Last veteran of the Battle of Caporetto | November 19, 1917 |
Antonio Todde | January 3, 2002 | (aged 112)Last veteran of the Battle of Mount Grappa | December 23, 1917 |
Edouard Izac | January 18, 1990 | (aged 98)Last World War I Medal of Honor recipient and World War I United States Navy recipient | May 21, 1918 |
Franz Künstler[108] | May 27, 2008 | (aged 107)Last veteran of the Battle of the Piave River | June 23, 1918 |
Albert Wagner | January 20, 2007 | (aged 107)Last veteran of the Battle of Belleau Wood and last U.S. Marine of World War I | June 26, 1918 |
Thomas A. Pope[109] | June 14, 1989 | (aged 94)Last United States Army World War I Medal of Honor recipient | July 4, 1918 |
Jean Grelaud | February 25, 2007 | (aged 108)Last veteran of the Second Battle of the Marne | August 6, 1918 |
Antonio Pierro | February 8, 2007 | (aged 110)Last veteran of the Battle of Saint-Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensive | September 19 and November 11, 1918 |
Eddie Rickenbacker | July 23, 1973 | (aged 82)Last Air Service, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and service's last surviving World War I recipient | September 25, 1918 |
John J. Kelly | November 20, 1957 | (aged 59)Last recipient to be awarded two Medals of Honor | October 3, 1918 |
Robert G. Robinson | October 5, 1974 | (aged 78)Last United States Marine Corps World War I recipient of the Medal of Honor | October 8, 1918 |
Gisbert-Wilhelm Groos[110] | 1997 (aged 102-103) | Last surviving member of Jasta 11 and possibly last surviving German flying ace of World War I. | October 29, 1918 |
James William Pearson | January 26, 1993 | (aged 97)Last American World War I flying ace, served with the Royal Air Force | November 1, 1918 |
Francesco Domenico Chiarello | June 27, 2008 | (aged 109)Last veteran of the Battle of Vittorio Veneto | November 3, 1918 |
Arthur Raymond Brooks | July 17, 1991 | (aged 95)Last Air Service, United States Army flying ace of World War I | November 11, 1918 |
Alexander P. de Seversky | August 24, 1974 | (aged 80)Last Russian Empire flying ace of World War I | November 11, 1918 |
Alfred Pugh[111] | January 7, 2004 | (aged 108)Last U.S combat wounded veteran of World War I | November 11, 1918 |
Florence Green | 5 February 2012 | (aged 110)Last participant of World War I and last member of the original WRAF | November 11, 1918 |
Harry Truman | December 26, 1972 | (aged 88)Last former President of the United States to have served during World War I | November 11, 1918 |
Harold Macmillan | December 29, 1986 | (aged 92)Last former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to have served during World War I | November 11, 1918 |
Charles De Gaulle | November 9, 1970 | (aged 79)Last former President of France to have served during World War I | November 11, 1918 |
Ludwig Erhard | May 5, 1977 | (aged 80)Last former Chancellor of Germany to have served during World War I | November 11, 1918 |
Gustav Heinemann | July 7, 1976 | (aged 76)Last former President of Germany to have served during World War I | November 11, 1918 |
Otto von Habsburg | July 4, 2011 | (aged 98)Last surviving member of the Imperial Habsburg Court | November 11, 1918 |
Cecil Arthur Lewis | January 27, 1997 | (aged 98)Last British flying ace of World War I | November 11, 1918 |
Juan Filloy[112] | 15 July 2000 | (aged 105)Last student who took part in the Argentine university reform of 1918 | October 12, 1918 |
Harold Gunnes[113] | March 11, 2003 | (aged 104)Last member of the Polar Bear Expedition | July 1919 |
Swede Risberg | October 13, 1975 | (aged 81)Last person involved in the Black Sox Scandal | October 9, 1919 |
Raul Fernandes[114][115] | January 6, 1968 | (aged 90)Last surviving signer of the Treaty of Versailles | June 28, 1919 |
Herman H. Hanneken | August 23, 1986 | (aged 93)Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the United States occupation of Haiti | October 31 - November 1, 1919 |
Waldemar Levy Cardoso | May 13, 2009 | (aged 108)Last veteran of the Tenente revolts | 1922; 1927 |
Olivia Hooker | Living (age 109) | Last survivor of the Tulsa race riot | June 1, 1921 |
Vasco Bruttomesso[116] | January 2, 2009 | (aged 105)Last surviving veteran of the March on Rome | October 29, 1922 |
Gene Bruce[117] | December 6, 2005 | (aged 98)Last surviving sailor of the Honda Point Disaster | September 8, 1923 |
Emil Klein[118] | February 22, 2010 | (aged 104)Last surviving member of Adolf Hitler's unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch | November 9, 1923 |
Dürrüşehvar Sultan | February 7, 2006 | (aged 92)Last survivor of the Imperial Ottoman court | March 3, 1924 |
Ivo Pavelić | February 22, 2011 | (aged 103)Last surviving participant in the 1924 Summer Olympics | July 27, 1924 |
Edgar Nollner[119] | January 15, 1999 | (aged 94)Last living musher of the 1925 serum run to Nome | February 1, 1925 |
Thomas J. Brewer[120] | August 16, 2003 | (aged 82–83)Last surviving participant in the Scopes Trial | July 21, 1925 |
Francisco Núñez Olivera | Living (age 119) | Last veteran of the Rif War | May 27, 1926 |
Louis de Broglie | March 19, 1987 | (aged 94)Last attendee of the Fifth Solvay Conference | October 29, 1927 |
Tsien Tsuen-hsuin | April 9, 2015 | (aged 105)Last participant of the Northern Expedition | June 8, 1928 |
Carla Marangoni | January 18, 2018 | (aged 102)Last surviving participant in the 1928 Summer Olympics | August 12, 1928 |
Janet Gaynor | September 14, 1984 | (aged 77)Last surviving winner in the 1st Academy Awards | May 16, 1929 |
Binod Bihari Chowdhury[121] | April 10, 2013 | (aged 102)Last revolutionary of the Chittagong armoury raid | April 18, 1930 |
Norman D. Vaughan | December 23, 2005 | (aged 100)Last survivor of Richard Byrd's 1928 expedition to Antarctica | June 18, 1930 |
Francisco Varallo[122] | September 30, 2010 | (aged 100)Last surviving player from the 1930 FIFA World Cup in Uruguay | July 30, 1930 |
Rachel Johnson[123] | April 7, 2016 | (aged 93)Last St. Kildan | August 29, 1930 |
Alfred Cook[124] | November 7, 1998 | (aged 91)Last known survivor of the R101 disaster | October 5, 1930 |
1931–1945
Name | Death | Historical event | Date event ended |
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Alf Howard[125] | July 4, 2010 | (aged 104)Last member of the BANZARE expedition to Antarctica | March 19, 1931 |
Clarence Norris[126] | January 27, 1989 | (aged 75–76)Last Scottsboro Boy | March 25, 1931 |
Simone Schaller | October 20, 2016 | (aged 104)Last participant in the 1932 Summer Olympics | August 14, 1932 |
Josef Felder | October 28, 2000 | (aged 100)Last individual to vote against the Nazi Enabling Act of 1933 | March 23, 1933 |
Moody E. Erwin[127] | October 20, 1989 | (aged 85)Last survivor of the USS Akron disaster | April 3, 1933 |
Donald L. Truesdell | September 23, 1993 | (aged 87)Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the United States occupation of Nicaragua | April 24, 1934 |
Edd L. Miller[128] | September 18, 2000 | (aged 87)Last witness to the shooting of Bonnie and Clyde | May 23, 1934 |
Thomas J. Conner[129] | April 14, 1997 | (aged 90–91)Last member of the FBI team that gunned down John Dillinger | July 22, 1934 |
Jerry Edgerton[130] | September 14, 2013 | (aged 99)Last survivor of the SS Morro Castle disaster | September 8, 1934 |
Werner Franz[131] | August 13, 2014 | (aged 92)Last crew member to survive the Hindenburg disaster | May 6, 1937 |
Werner Doehner[132] | Living (age 94–95) | Last passenger to survive the Hindenburg disaster | May 6, 1937 |
Walter Walsh | April 29, 2014 | (aged 106)Last member of the FBI teams that captured Arthur Barker and killed Al Brady | October 12, 1937 |
Fon Huffman | September 4, 2008 | (aged 95)Last survivor of the USS Panay incident | December 12, 1937 |
Jules Paivio | September 4, 2013 | (aged 97)Last member of the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion | September 21, 1938 |
Con Shiels[133] | January 3, 2013 | (aged 96)Last participant in the Jarrow March | October 31, 1938 |
Gunther Scholz | October 24, 2014 | (aged 102)Last member of the Condor Legion | March 1939 |
Delmer Berg | February 28, 2016 | (aged 100)Last surviving member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade | April 1, 1939 |
Stan Hilton | October 21, 2016 | (aged 97–98)Last surviving British Spanish Civil War veteran | April 1, 1939 |
Antoine Piñol[134] | September 7, 2016 | (aged 101)Last French Spanish Civil War veteran | April 1, 1939 |
Manuel Gallego-Nicasio | Living (age 101) | Last surviving "La quinta del biberón" fighter | 1939 |
Arthur Smith[135] | December 10, 2016 | (aged 93–94)Last survivor of the sinking of the HMS Royal Oak | October 14, 1939 |
Emilio Ochoa | June 27, 2007 | (aged 99)Last signer of the Constitution of Cuba | July 1, 1940 |
Daniel Nevolt[136] | Living | Last veteran of the Battle of Kufra | March 1, 1941 |
Ted Briggs | October 4, 2008 | (aged 85)Last survivor of the sinking of the HMS Hood | May 24, 1941 |
Bernhard Heuer[137] | Living[138] (age 102) | Last survivor of the sinking of the Bismarck | May 27, 1941 |
Donald "Nick" Clifford[139] | Living (age 102–103) | Last worker on the construction of Mount Rushmore | October 31, 1941 |
John William Finn | May 27, 2010 | (aged 100)Last Medal of Honor recipient from the attack on Pearl Harbor and last United States Navy recipient of World War II | December 7, 1941 |
Joseph Langdell[140] | February 4, 2015 | (aged 100)Last surviving commissioned officer of the USS Arizona | December 7, 1941 |
Lamar Crawford Sr[141] | December 22, 2011 | (aged 91)Last surviving United States Marine of USS Arizona Marine Corps detachment | December 7, 1941 |
Gerhard Klopfer | January 29, 1987 | (aged 81)Last individual to attend the Wannsee Conference | January 20, 1942 |
David Stoliar | May 1, 2014 | (aged 91)Last survivor of the Struma disaster | February 24, 1942 |
Bill Bower | January 10, 2011 | (aged 93)Last pilot of the Doolittle Raid in World War II | April 18, 1942 |
Richard E. Cole | Living (age 109) | Last participant of the Doolittle Raid in World War II | April 18, 1942 |
Rudolf Brazda | August 3, 2011 | (aged 98)Last concentration camp survivor deported by Nazi Germany on charges of homosexuality | August 8, 1942 |
Tuomas Gerdt | Living (age 102) | Last recipient of the Mannerheim Cross | September 8, 1942 |
Orrel Cecil[142] | November 4, 2010 | (aged 90)Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Juneau | November 13, 1942 |
Havala Laula[143] | Living (age 99) | Last known member of the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels during the Kokoda Track campaign | November 16, 1942 |
Bill Sparks | December 1, 2002 | (aged 80)Last member of the Cockleshell Heroes | December 12, 1942 |
Joachim Rønneberg | Living (age 105) | Last officer of Operation Gunnerside | February 16, 1943 |
Marek Edelman | October 2, 2009 | (aged 86–87)Last leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | May 16, 1943 |
Les Munro | August 4, 2015 | (aged 96)Last pilot of World War II Operation Chastise | May 17, 1943 |
Jay Zeamer Jr. | March 22, 2007 | (aged 88)Last surviving Army Air Force Medal of Honor recipient and service's last survivng World War II recipient | June 16, 1943 |
Samuel Willenberg | February 19, 2016 | (aged 93)Last participant in the revolt at the Treblinka extermination camp | August 2, 1943 |
John Cruickshank | Living (age 104) | Last Victoria Cross recipient for action in World War II | September 1, 1944 |
Frank Ellis Sublett[144] | September 27, 2006 | (aged 86)Last member of the Golden Thirteen | March 1944 |
Richard Sidney Albion Churchill[145] | Living (age 104)[146] | Last surviving prisoner who took part in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III | March 25, 1944 |
Clifford Brewer[147] | April 29, 2017 | (aged 104)Last surviving surgeon of the Normandy landings | June 6, 1944 |
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin | March 8, 2013 | (aged 90)Last participant of the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler | July 20, 1944 |
Bill Leibold[148] | Living (age 94-95) | Last Survivor of the sinking of the USS Tang | October 25, 1944 |
Charles W. Lindberg | June 24, 2007 | (aged 86)Last Marine in the Iwo Jima Flag Raisings | February 23, 1945 |
Hershel W. Williams | Living (age 100) | Last Medal of Honor recipient from the battle of Iwo Jima and last United States Marine Corps recipient of World War II | March 26, 1945 |
Noel Jacob Wiener[149] | 2015 (aged 99–100) | Last witness to the German Surrender ceremony | May 7, 1945 |
Rudolf Hess | August 17, 1987 | (aged 93)Last member of the cabinet of the Third Reich | May 7, 1945 |
Walter Scheel | August 24, 2016 | (aged 97)Last former German president to have served in World War II | May 8, 1945 |
Helmut Schmidt | November 10, 2015 | (aged 96)Last former Chancellor of Germany to have served in World War II | May 8, 1945 |
Theodore Van Kirk | July 28, 2014 | (aged 93)Last crew member of the Enola Gay | August 6, 1945 |
Russell Gackenbach[150][151] | Living (age 93) | Last crew member of Necessary Evil | August 9, 1945 |
Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape | February 12, 1981 | (aged 93)Last signer of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender | September 2, 1945 |
Claude Choules | May 5, 2011 | (aged 110)Last veteran of both World War I and World War II | September 2, 1945 |
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | Living (age 98) | Last former French President to have served in World War II | September 2, 1945 |
Giorgio Napolitano | Living (age 99) | Last former Italian President to have served in World War II | September 2, 1945 |
George H. W. Bush | Living (age 100) | Last former United States President to have served in World War II | September 2, 1945 |
Edward Heath | July 17, 2005 | (aged 89)Last former British Prime Minister to have served in World War II | September 2, 1945 |
Ninian Stephen | October 29, 2017 | (aged 94)Last former Governor-General of a Commonwealth Realm to have served in World War II | September 2, 1945 |
John Paul Stevens | Living (age 104) | Last former United States Supreme Court Justice to have served in World War II | September 2, 1945 |
Edward Shames | Living (age 102) | Last surviving officer of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion in World War II | November 30, 1945 |
Joe Medicine Crow | April 3, 2016 | (aged 102)Last war chief of the Crow Nation | 1945 |
1946–1960
Name | Death | Historical event | Date event ended |
---|---|---|---|
Kenneth Mayhew | Living (age 107) | Last recipient of the Military William Order for World War II | April 24, 1946 |
Benjamin Ferencz | Living (age 104) | Last prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials | October 1, 1946 |
Knut Haugland | December 25, 2009 | (aged 92)Last crew member on the Kon-Tiki expedition | April 28, 1947 |
Michael I | December 5, 2017 | (aged 96)Last surviving King of Romania | December 30, 1947 |
Brajraj Mahapatra | November 30, 2015 | (aged 94)Last royal to sign the merger agreement with the Indian state | 1947 |
Maharaja Tej Singh Prabhakar | February 15, 2009 | (aged 97)Last recipient of the Order of the Star of India | 1947 |
Mayurdwajsinhji Meghrajji III | August 1, 2010 | (aged 87)Last recipient of the Order of the Indian Empire | 1947 |
Gopal Godse[152] | November 26, 2005 | (aged 86)Last conspirator involved in the assassination of Gandhi | January 30, 1948 |
Tony Rolt | February 6, 2008 | (aged 89)Last driver in the 1950 British Grand Prix the first World Championship Grand Prix | May 13, 1950 |
Alcides Ghiggia | July 16, 2015 | (aged 88)Last player in the Uruguay v Brazil (1950 FIFA World Cup) | July 16, 1950 |
Andor Lilienthal | August 5, 2010 | (aged 99)Last of the original FIDE chess grandmasters | 1950 |
Bill Speakman | Living (age 97) | Last Korean War Victoria Cross recipient | November 4, 1951 |
George Lowe | March 20, 2013 | (aged 89)Last member of the 1953 British Everest Expedition | May 29, 1953 |
William Kelly Harrison, Jr. | May 29, 1987 | (aged 91)Last signer of the Korean Armistice Agreement | July 27, 1953 |
Paik Sun-yup | Living (age 103) | Last South Korean commander in the Korean War | July 27, 1953 |
Rafael Cancel Miranda | Living (age 94) | Last living perpetrator in the 1954 United States Capitol shooting incident | March 1, 1954 |
Zelma Henderson | May 20, 2008 | (aged 88)Last living plaintiff in the Brown v. Board of Education case | May 17, 1954 |
Horst Eckel | Living (age 92) | Last living player of the 1954 FIFA World Cup Final | July 4, 1954 |
Maurice Faure[153] | March 6, 2014 | (aged 92)Last signer of the Treaty of Rome | March 25, 1957 |
Bill Hastie[154] | Living (age 104) | Last survivor of the Knox Mine Disaster | January 22, 1959 |
Kurt Diemberger | Living (age 92) | Last living person who has made the first ascents on two mountains over 8,000 metres | May 25, 1960 |
1961–2000
Name | Death | Historical event | Date event ended |
---|---|---|---|
Antonio Imbert Barrera | May 31, 2016 | (aged 95)Last participant in the assassination of Rafael Trujillo | May 30, 1961 |
John Glenn | December 8, 2016 | (aged 95)Last astronaut from Project Mercury | May 16, 1963 |
Franz König | March 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 (age 92) | Last passenger of the Kennedy presidential limousine during JFK'S assassination | November 22, 1963 |
Gerald Ford | December 26, 2006 | (aged 93)Last member of the committee of the Warren Commission | November 29, 1963 |
James Ramsden | Living (age 100) | Last living former Secretary of State for War | April 1, 1964 |
Alexey Leonov | Living (age 90) | Last member of the Voskhod programme | March 19, 1965 |
Stylianos Pattakos | October 8, 2016 | (aged 103)Last leader of the 1967 Greek coup d'état and subsequent military junta | April 21, 1967 |
John Lewis | Living (age 84) | Last member of the Big Six | April 4, 1968 |
Walter Cunningham | Living (age 92) | Last crew member of Apollo 7 | October 22, 1968 |
Thomas P. Stafford | Living (age 94) | Last crew member of Apollo 10 | May 26, 1969 |
Keith Payne | Living (age 91) | Last Vietnam War Victoria Cross recipient and last Australian to be awarded original medal | September 19, 1969 |
Alan Bean | Living (age 92) | Last crew member of Apollo 12 | November 24, 1969 |
Edgar Mitchell | February 4, 2016 | (aged 85)Last crew member of Apollo 14 | February 9, 1971 |
Harrison Schmitt | Living (age 89) | Last crew member of Apollo 17 | December 19, 1972 |
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu | September 29, 2001 | (aged 78)Last former President of South Vietnam | April 30, 1975 |
Khamtai Siphandon | Living (age 100) | Last Pathet Lao leader in the Vietnam War | April 30, 1975 |
Juan Valdez [155] | Living (age c. 79) | Last American service member to leave Saigon | April 30, 1975 |
Yao Wenyuan[156] | December 23, 2005 | (aged 74)Last member of China's Gang of Four | October 6, 1976 |
Larry Newman | December 20, 2010 | (aged 63)Last crew member of the Double Eagle II | August 17, 1978 |
Joseph Ratzinger | Living (age 97) | Last cardinal created by Pope Paul VI and last participant in the conclaves that elected Popes John Paul I and Saint John Paul II | August 26, 1978 and October 16, 1978 |
Luz Isabel Cuevas | May 6, 2014[157] | (aged 91)Last witness to the assassination of El Salvadorian bishop Óscar Romero | March 24, 1980 |
Robert Crippen | Living (age 87) | Last crew member of STS-1 | April 14, 1981 |
Stanisław Kania | Living (age 97) | Last living leader of the Polish United Workers' Party | October 18, 1981 |
Egon Krenz | Living (age 87) | Last living Chairman of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) | April 5, 1990 |
Dmitri Yazov | Living (age 99) | Last living Marshal of the Soviet Union | April 28, 1990 |
Helmut Kohl | June 16, 2017 | (aged 87)Last Chancellor of West Germany | October 3, 1990 |
Stanislav Hurenko | April 14, 2013 | (aged 76)Last First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR | September 1, 1991 |
Mikhail Gorbachev | Living (age 93) | The last serving and last living former president of the Soviet Union | December 25, 1991 |
Václav Havel | December 18, 2011 | (aged 75)Last former President of Czechoslovakia | December 31, 1992 |
Cornelius Botha | February 6, 2014 | (aged 81)Last administrator of the Natal Province | April 27, 1994 |
F. W. de Klerk | Living (age 88) | Last leader of the apartheid government of South Africa, last State President, and most recent head of state from the white minority | May 10, 1994 |
See also
- 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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