List of last survivors of historical events
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] | September 18, 1589 (aged 76–77) | Last original conquistador who participated in the Spanish conquest of Peru | 1528 to 1532 |
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] | February 13, 1804 (aged 108–109) | Last sailor who took part in George Anson's voyage around the world | 1740 to 1744 |
Isaac Smith | July 2, 1831 (aged 78–79) | 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 | December 12, 1832 (aged 69–70) | 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 |
John Armstrong, Jr. | April 1, 1843 (aged 84) | Last delegate of the Continental Congress | 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 |
Barthélemy de Lesseps[10] | June 4, 1834 (aged 68) | Last individual involved in the Scientific expedition of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse | 1 August 1785 to 1788 |
David Whitney[11] | March 24, 1867 (aged 99) | Last veteran of Shays' Rebellion | August 1786 to June 1787 |
Nicolas Savin[12] | 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[13] | September 8, 1872 (aged 95–96) | 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[14][15] | 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[16] | February 1, 1898 (aged 108–109) | Last veteran of the Battle of Trafalgar | October 21, 1805 |
Carl Gustav Polviander[17] | 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[18] | December 21, 1892 (aged 98) | Last veteran of the French invasion and retreat from Russia | June 24 to December 14, 1812 |
John Rice[19][20] | February 10, 1880 (aged 90–91) | Last veteran of the Battle of Lake Erie | September 10, 1813 |
Elizabeth Watkins[21] | May 10, 1904 (aged 94) | Last surviving witness of the Battle of Waterloo | June 18, 1815 |
Charles Booth[22] | March 2, 1896 (aged 97) | Last living rebel of the Pentrich rising | June 9 to 10, 1817 |
Jacob C. Marsh[23] | February 11, 1917 (aged 98–99) | 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[24] | July 15, 1932 (aged 97–98) | Last survivor of the Trail of Tears | 1830 to 1837 |
Philippe Demoulin[25] | February 14, 1912 (aged 102) | Last veteran of the Belgian Revolution | August 25, 1830 to July 14, 1831 |
Thomas Patrickson[26][27] | October 15, 1914 (aged 85–86) | Last participant of the Second voyage of HMS Beagle | December 27, 1831 to October 2, 1836 |
Henry L. Riggs[28] | March 11, 1911 (aged 99) | Last veteran of the Black Hawk War | May to August, 1832 |
William Physick Zuber[29][30] | September 22, 1913 (aged 93) | Last veteran of the Texas Revolution | October 2, 1835, to April 25, 1836 |
Alijo Perez Jr[31] | October 21, 1918 (aged 83) | Last witness at the Battle of the Alamo | February 23 to March 6, 1836 |
William Carroll Crawford[32] | September 3, 1895 (aged 90) | Last signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence | March 2, 1836 |
Alfonso Steele[33] | July 8, 1911 (aged 94) | Last survivor of the Battle of San Jacinto | April 21, 1836 |
Nelson Traux[34] | 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[35] | August 10, 1910 (aged 86) | Last survivor of the Dawson Massacre | September 17, 1842 |
Eliza Moore | January 21, 1948 (aged 104–105) | 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[36] | March 25, 1935 (aged 89) | 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[37] | June 10, 1904 (aged 90) | Last participant in the first official Baseball game | June 19, 1846 |
József Fischl[38] | March 1929 (aged 102) | Last Honvéd veteran of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 | 15 March 1848 to 4 October 1849 |
Charlotte Woodward Pierce[39] | 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[40] | April 14, 1932 (aged 83) | Last survivor of the Birkenhead disaster | February 26, 1852 |
Horace F. Sisson [41] | March 10, 1942 (aged 98) | Last member of the Perry Expedition | 1853–1854 |
Charles Longden[42][43] | December 15, 1938 (aged 104–105) | 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[44][45] | October 24, 1931 (aged 97) | Last veteran of the Eureka Rebellion | December 3, 1854 |
William Morfitt[46] | 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 British Victoria Cross | 1856 to 1993 |
Robert Collinson d'Esterre Spottiswoode[47][48] | 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[49] | 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[50] | January 8, 1889 (aged 64) | Last abolitionist present at John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry | October 16 to 18, 1859 |
George Pilson[51] | April 22, 1916 (aged 73–74) | Last witness at Harpers Ferry | October 16 to 18, 1859 |
L.G Simmons[52] | March 4, 1910 (aged 76–77) | 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[53] | June 10, 1934 (aged 93) | Last rider of The Pony Express | April 3, 1860, to October 1861 |
Hugo Josef Schiff[54] | 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 |
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[55][56] | 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[57] | April 7, 1950 (aged 102) | Last verified veteran of the Battle of Gettysburg | July 1 to 3, 1863 |
Frank W. Nelson[58] | November 9, 1936 (aged 92) | Last soldier to participate in Pickett's Charge | July 3, 1863 |
Eli G. Biddle[59] | April 8, 1940 (aged 93–94) | Last member of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry that assaulted Fort Wagner | July 18, 1863 |
Thomas Stewart Armistead[60] | November 16, 1922 (aged 80) | Last soldier of the Immortal 600 | 1864 |
George Wilsman[61] | August 16, 1940 (aged 97) | Last prisoner of the Andersonville Prison Camp | 1864 |
Sir Charles Tupper, Bt. | October 30, 1915 (aged 94) | Last living member of Canada's original Fathers of Confederation | 1864–1866 |
Ruth Dyk[62] | 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 12, 1861 to April 9, 1865 |
Albert Woolson | August 2, 1956 (aged 109) | Last Union Army veteran of the American Civil War | April 12, 1861 to April 9, 1865 |
Maudie Hopkins | July 17, 2008 (aged 93) | Last certified widow of an American Civil War veteran | April 12, 1861 to April 9, 1865 |
Samuel J. Seymour[63] | 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[64] | Unknown | Last surviving witness to the capture and death of John Wilkes Booth | April 26, 1865 |
Orlando M. Cole[65] | August 29, 1932 (aged 89) | Last survivor of the 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[66] | 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 |
Reginald Courtenay Welch | June 4, 1939 (aged 87)[67] | Last participant of the first English FA Cup Final | March 16, 1872 |
Jennie Lawver Clinton[68] | September 6, 1950 (aged 108–109) | 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[69] | October 2, 1941 (aged 85) | Last driver of the Cheyenne-Deadwood stagecoach lines | 1876 to 1887 |
Charles Windolph | March 11, 1950 (aged 97) | Last U.S soldier from the Battle of the Little Bighorn | June 25 to 26, 1876 |
Dewey Beard | November 2, 1955 (aged 96–97) | Last Indian veteran of the Battle of the Little Bighorn | June 25 to 26, 1876 |
Nene Hatun | May 22, 1955 (aged 97–98) | Last veteran of the 1877 Russo-Turkish War | April 24, 1877, to March 3, 1878 |
Josiah Redwolf[70] | March 23, 1971 (aged 98) | Last survivor of the Nez Perce War | June to October, 1877 |
Hugh Theodore Pinhey[71] | February 6, 1953 (aged 95–96) | Last veteran of the Second Anglo-Afghan War | September 1878 to 1880 |
Charles Wallace Warden[72] | March 8, 1953 (aged 96–97) | Last veteran of the Anglo-Zulu War | January 11 to July 4, 1879 |
Dougald McPhail | May 4, 1941 (aged 101) | Last survivor of the battle of Battle of Isandhlwana | January 22, 1879 |
Frank Bourne | May 8, 1945 (aged 91) | 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[73] | August 17, 1958 (aged 93) | Last veteran of the Anglo-Egyptian War | 1882 |
John Blevins[74] | May 23, 1929 (aged 61) | Last veteran of the Pleasant Valley War | 1882 to 1892 |
Frank Shomo[75] | March 20, 1997 (aged 108) | Last survivor of the Johnstown Flood | May 31, 1889 |
Hugh McGinnis[76] | March 22, 1965 (aged 94) | Last U.S veteran and survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre | December 29, 1890 |
Raymond Pimlott Kaighn[77] | August 16, 1962 (aged 92) | Last living participant of the first basketball game ever played. | December 21, 1891 |
Michael Shonsey[78] | August 5, 1954 (aged 89) | Last veteran of the Johnson County War | 1892 |
Nawi[79] | 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[80][81] | March 18, 1941 (aged 75) | Last participant in Lizzie Borden's murder trial | June 3 to 20, 1893 |
Dimitrios Loundras[82] | February 15, 1970 (aged 84) | Last known living competitor at the 1896 Summer Olympics | April 6 to 15, 1896 |
Jesse Langdon[83] | June 29, 1975 (aged 93–94) | Last member of the Rough Riders | 1898 |
Manu Ruma[84] | December, 1961 (aged 87) | Last veteran of the Dog Tax War | 1898 |
John Henry Turpin[85] | 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[86] | June 13, 1989 (aged 110) | Last Spanish veteran of the Spanish–American War | April 25 to August 12, 1898 |
Ralph Waldo Taylor[87] | May 15, 1987 (aged 105) | Last survivor of the Battle of San Juan Hill | July 1, 1898 |
Nathan E. Cook[88] | 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[89] | November 14, 2004 (aged 105–106) | Last survivor of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 | August 27 to September 12, 1900 |
Laura Bullion | December 2, 1961 (aged 85) | Last member of the Wild Bunch gang | 1901 |
Fleetwood Lindley[90] | February 1, 1963 (aged 75–76) | 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[91] | 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[92] | March 20, 1993 (aged 92) | Last survivor of the Frank Slide | April 29, 1903 |
Jennings Dunlap[93] | September 20, 1964 (aged 84–85) | Last survivor of the Wreck of the Old 97 | September 23, 1903 |
Johnny Thomas Moore[94] | February 25, 1952 (aged 65–66) | Last witness of the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk | December 17, 1903 |
Elsie Corby[95] | February 14, 1988 (aged 96–97) | Last survivor of the Iroquois Theatre fire | December 30, 1903 |
Mamoru Eto[96] | February 16, 1992 (aged 109) | Last surviving veteran of the Russo-Japanese War | February 8, 1904, to September 5, 1905 |
Alexander Bernard Heron[97] | 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[98] | October 25, 1987 (aged 104–105) | Last sailor of the Potemkin Mutiny of 1905 | June 23 to July 8, 1905 |
Burke Everett Bodwell[99] | March 24, 1968 (aged 86) | Last survivor of the explosion of the USS Bennington | July 21, 1905 |
Ruth Newman and Bill Del Monte | Living (age 113[100] and 109[101]) | Last known survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake | April 18, 1906 |
Dorsie Williams Willis[102] | 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[103] | 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[104] | July 5, 1987 (aged 101) | Last surviving sailor of the Great White Fleet | December 16, 1907, to February 22, 1909 |
Xuantong Emperor | October 17, 1967 (aged 61) | Last Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the last imperial dynasty of China | December 2, 1908, to February 12, 1912, July 1, 1917, to July 12, 1917 |
Yehudit Horowitz[105] | October 20, 1992 (aged 95–96) | Last living member of the Hashomer | April 1909 |
Teodore Garcia[106] | April 24, 1999 (aged 110) | Last of the Federales to serve in the Mexican Revolution | 1910 to 1914 |
Rose Freedman[107] | February 15, 2001 (aged 107–108) | Last survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | March 25, 1911 |
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 |
Elma S. Damrell[108] | March 17, 2005 (aged 95) | Last survivor of the Italian Hall disaster | December 24, 1913 |
Jack Davis | July 20, 2003 (aged 108) | Last member of Kitchener's Army | 1914 |
Mary Benich-McCleary[109][110] | June 28, 2007 (aged 94) | Last survivor of the Ludlow Massacre | April 20, 1914 |
Grace Hanagan (Martyn)[111] | 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[112] | June 28, 2001 (aged 102–103) | 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[113] | 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[114] | 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[115] | January 16, 2007 (aged 108) | Last soldier to be gassed during WWI | 1915 to 1918 |
Alec Campbell[116] | May 16, 2002 (aged 103) | Last veteran of the Gallipoli campaign | April 25, 1915, to January 9, 1916 |
Audrey Warren Lawson-Johnston (née Pearl) | 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 |
Marion Eichholz[117] | November 24, 2014 (aged 102) | Last survivor of the capsizing of the SS Eastland | July 24, 1915 |
Joseph DiPofi[118] | 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[119] | 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[120] | 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[121] | May 24, 2000 (aged 99) | Last survivor of the sinking of the HMHS Britannic | November 21, 1916 |
Mae Keane[122] | March 1, 2014 (aged 107) | Last surviving Radium Girl | 1917 to 1926 |
Yakup Satar | April 2, 2008 (aged 110) | Last Turkish veteran of WWI | February 23, 1917 |
Charles Reaper[123] | March 5, 2003 (aged 103) | Last veteran of the Battle of Vimy Ridge | April 9 to 12, 1917 |
Arthur Barraclough[124] | August 30, 2004 (aged 106) | Last veteran of the Battle of Arras | April 9 to May 16, 1917 |
Louis de Cazenave[125] | 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 |
Lazar Kaganovich | July 25, 1991 (aged 97) | Last Old Bolshevik who took part in the Russian October Revolution. | November 7 to 8, 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[126] | 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[127] | August 9, 2003 (aged 107) | Last Czechoslovakian veteran of WWI and of the Battle of Zborov | July 1 to 2, 1917 |
Boris Gudz[128] | December 27, 2006 (aged 103–104) | 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 |
Aarne Arvonen | January 1, 2009 (aged 111) | Last surviving veteran of the Finnish Civil War (Red Guards) | January 27 to May 15, 1918 |
Lauri Nurminen | February 20, 2009 (aged 102) | Last surviving veteran of the Finnish Civil War (White Guards) | January 27 to May 15, 1918 |
Albert Wagner | January 20, 2007 (aged 107) | Last veteran of the Battle of Belleau Wood | June 1 to 26, 1918 |
Domenico De Cristofaro[129] | September 21, 2006 (aged 106) | Last veteran of the Battle of the Piave River | June 15 to 23, 1918 |
Thomas A. Pope[130] | 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[131] | 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[132] | March 11, 2003 (aged 103–104) | 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 |
Alexander Imich | June 8, 2014 (aged 111) | Last veteran of the Polish-Ukrainian War | 1 November 1918 to 17 July 1919 |
Swede Risberg | October 13, 1975 (aged 81) | Last person involved in the Black Sox Scandal | October 1919 |
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 | December 7, 2013 (aged 112–113) | Last veteran of the Polish-Soviet War | February 1919 to March 1921 |
Shingara Singh[133] | June 29, 2009 (aged 112–113) | Last witness of the Amritsar Massacre | April 13, 1919 |
Veysel Turan | March 25, 2007 (aged 105–106) | Last veteran of the Greco-Turkish War | May 1919 to October 1922 |
Mustafa Şekip Birgöl | November 11, 2008 (aged 104–105) | 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[134][135] | 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[136] | January 2, 2009 (aged 105) | Last surviving veteran of the March on Rome | October 22 to 29, 1922 |
John Lust[137] | December 29, 2006 (aged 93–94) | Last "Sky Sailor" of the U.S Navy's rigid airship program | 1923 to 1931 |
Robie Morton[138] | June 21, 2010 (aged 94) | Last surviving witness of the Rosewood massacre | January 1923 |
Gene Bruce[139] | December 6, 2005 (aged 98) | Last surviving sailor of the Honda Point Disaster | September 8, 1923 |
Emil Klein[140] | February 22, 2010 (aged 104) | Last surviving member of Adolf Hitler's unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch | November 8 to 9, 1923 |
Edgar Nollner[141] | January 15, 1999 (aged 94) | Last living musher of the 1925 serum run to Nome | January 7 to February 1, 1925 |
Thomas J. Brewer[142] | August 16, 2003 (aged 82–83) | Last surviving participant in the Scopes Trial | July 10 to 21, 1925 |
Louis de Broglie | March 19, 1987 (aged 94) | Last attendee of the Fifth Solvay Conference | October 1927 |
Norman D. Vaughan | December 23, 2005 (aged 100) | Last survivor of Richard Byrd's 1928 expedition to Antarctica | 1928 to June 18, 1930 |
Albert H. Wolff[143] | March 21, 1998 (aged 95) | Last member of the Untouchables | 1929 to 1931 |
Alf Howard[144] | 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 |
---|---|---|---|
Deborah Mitford[145] | September 24, 2014 (aged 94) | Last of the six Mitford sisters | 1930s |
Binod Bihari Chowdhury[146] | April 10, 2013 (aged 102) | Last revolutionary of the Chittagong armoury raid | April 18, 1930 |
Francisco Varallo[147] | September 30, 2010 (aged 100) | Last surviving player from the 1930 FIFA World Cup in Uruguay | July, 1930 |
James Cameron | June 11, 2006 (aged 92) | Last individual to survive a lynching attempt | August 7, 1930 |
Rachel Johnson[148] | Living (age 91) | Last St. Kildan | August 29, 1930 |
Clarence Norris[149] | January 27, 1989 (aged 75–76) | 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[150] | July 27, 2006 (aged 86) | Last health care member associated with the Tuskegee Syphilis Study | 1932 to 1972 |
Moody E. Erwin[151] | October 20, 1989 (aged 85) | Last survivor of the USS Akron disaster | April 3, 1933 |
Edd L. Miller[152] | September 18, 2000 (aged 87) | Last witness to the shooting of Bonnie and Clyde | May 23, 1934 |
Thomas J. Conner[153] | April 14, 1997 (aged 90–91) | Last member of the FBI team that gunned down John Dillinger | July 22, 1934 |
George Sossenko | March 14, 2013 (aged 94) | Last veteran of the Durruti Column of the Spanish Civil War | July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939 |
Bob Doyle | January 22, 2009 (aged 92) | Last member of the Connolly Column and last Irish veteran of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War | July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939 |
Jules Paivio [154] | September 4, 2013 (aged 97) | Last member of the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion and last Canadian veteran of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War | July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939 |
Adolphe Low [155] | November 11, 2012 (aged 96–97) | Last German veteran of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War | July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939 |
Günther Scholz[156] | October 24, 2014 (aged 102) | Last member of the Legion Condor during the Spanish Civil War | July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939 |
Cornelius Whalen[157] | September 14, 2003 (aged 92–93) | 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[158] | August 13, 2014 (aged 92) | Last crew member 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 |
Yang Genkui[159] | Living (age 94) | 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 95) | Last surviving Munchkin from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz | 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[160] | June 4, 2014 (aged 93) | Last original Navajo Code Talker during WWII | September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 |
Charles Chibitty | July 7, 2005 (aged 83) | Last World War II Comanche Code Talker | 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 94) | Last Victoria Cross for action in World War II | 1944 |
Reinhard Hardegen | Living (age 102) | Last surviving World War II German U-Boat Captain | 1940 to 1945 |
Jānis Pīnups[161] | June 16, 2007 (aged 82) | Last known member of the Forest Brothers | 1940 to 1941, 1944 to 1956 |
Eddie Joost[162] | April 12, 2011 (aged 94) | Last member of the 1940 World Series winning team | October 2 to 8, 1940 |
Donald "Nick" Clifford[163] | Living (age 94) | Last worker on the Construction of Mount Rushmore | 1927-1941 |
Daniel Nevolt[164] | 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[165] | 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[166] | 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 | 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 |
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[167] | 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[168] | 2001 | Last Auschwitz SS physician | 1943 to 1945 |
Harry Ettlinger[169] | Living (age 88) | Last Monuments Man | 1943 to 1946 |
Marek Edelman | October 2, 2009 (aged 86–87) | Last leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | April 19, 1943, to May 16, 1943 |
Les Munro | Living (age 96) | 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[170] | 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 |
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 |
---|---|---|---|
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[171] | March 4, 2001 (aged 93) | Last signer of the United Nations Charter | June 26, 1945 |
Theodore Van Kirk | July 28, 2014 (aged 93) | Last crew member of the Enola Gay | August 6, 1945 |
Benjamin Ferencz | Living (age 95) | Last prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials | November 20, 1945, to October 1, 1946 |
Ranbir Singh[172] | February 1, 2009 (aged 93–94) | 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.[173] | October 31, 2000 (aged 85) | Last member of The Hollywood Ten | November 25, 1947 |
Gopal Godse[174] | November 26, 2005 (aged 85–86) | 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 |
David Greenglass | July 1, 2014 (aged 92) | Last Rosenberg Co-Conspirator | June 19, 1953 |
Maurice Faure[175] | March 6, 2014 (aged 92) | Last signer of the Treaty of Rome | March 25, 1957 |
Jenő Buzánszky | January 11, 2015 (aged 89) | Last member of the Golden Team, the most famous Hungarian football team of all time. | 1950s |
Maria Franziska von Trapp | February 18, 2014 (aged 99) | Last member of the original Trapp Family Singers (from The Sound of Music) | 1935-1957 |
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 |
---|---|---|---|
John Glenn | Living (age 93) | 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 (age 83) | 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 |
Carmine G. DeSapio | July 27, 2004 (aged 95) | Last surviving "Boss" of Tammany Hall | May 12, 1789 to 1967 |
Yao Wenyuan[176] | December 22, 2005 (aged 73–74) | 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 |
Luz Isabel Cuevas | May 6, 2014 (aged 91)[177] | Last witness to the assassination of El Salvadorian bishop Óscar Romero | March 24, 1980 |
Egon Krenz | Living (age 78) | Last Chairman of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic | September 12, 1960 - April 5, 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 84) | Last Leader of the Soviet Union | March 11, 1985 - December 25, 1991 |
Stanisław Kania | Living (age 88) | Last living leader of the Polish United Workers' Party | September 6, 1980 - October 18, 1981 |
Cornelius Botha | February 6, 2014 (aged 81) | Last administrator of the Natal Province | April 27, 1994 |
No date applicable
Name | Death | Historical event |
---|---|---|
Ludovico Manin | October 24, 1802 (aged 77) | Last Doge of the Republic of Venice |
Francis II | March 2, 1835 (aged 67) | Last Holy Roman Emperor |
Marie Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême | October 19, 1851 (aged 72) | Last surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI |
Truganini | May 8, 1876 (aged 63–64) | Last "full blood" Tasmanian Aborigine |
Ishi | March 25, 1916 (aged 55–56) | 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[178] | 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 87) | Last child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy |
Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg | May 5, 2012 (aged 95) | Last great-grand child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert |
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | August 27, 1979 (aged 79) | Last surviving Viceroy of India |
Diane Disney Miller | November 19, 2013 (aged 79) | Last child of Walt Disney and Lillian Bounds Disney |
Tevfik Esenç | October 7, 1992 (aged 87–88) | Last person able to speak the Ubykh language |
Marie Smith Jones | January 21, 2008 (aged 89) | Last speaker of the Eyak language |
Boa Sr. | January 26, 2010 (aged 84–85) | Last member of the Bo people |
See also
- 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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