List of last descendants of notable individuals

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Individuals of note may be those that "[are] likely known outside of their organization, or considered a founder or pioneer," [1] or those whose "importance can have a Wikipedia entry." [2] Last descendants are those last surviving individuals who are "born into or legally adopted into the direct line of an individual’s descent." [3] However, there might be instances of collateral descent, where an individual "descends from the same common ancestor as the decedent, but does not descend directly from the decedent." [4]

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List of last descendants of individuals of note

Notable individualLast family memberDiedRelationshipGenerationsNotesRef.
Chester A. Arthur Gavin Arthur 1972Paternal grandfather3Son of Chester Alan Arthur II, son of Chester A. Arthur. [5]
Johann Sebastian Bach Carolina Augusta Wilhelmine Bach1871Paternal great-grandfather4Daughter of Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, son of Christoph Friedrich Bach. She was Bach's last known direct descendant. [6]
Dido Elizabeth Belle Harold Davinier1975Paternal great-great-grandmother5Relations unknown, however, direct male descent.

Recent research has determined that there might be collatoral descendants through her mother and maybe her father living in Pensacola, Florida, where the couple might have kept a ten-year relationship.

[7] [8] [9]
Edmund Burke Richard Burke Jr. 1794Father2Predeceased his father and there is no evidence that he ever married or had children. [10]
Miguel de Cervantes Isabel de Saavedra  [ es ]1652Father2Last direct descendant. Illegitimate daughter of Miguel de Cervantes, she was recognized later on. Saavedra had a daughter, Isabel Sanz y Saavedra, however, she predeceased her mother in 1622.

The last two known collateral descendants, descended from Cervantes's brother, Rodrigo (1550–1600), are brothers Javier and Manuel de Parada Luca de Tena, the latter being the former marquiss of Peraleja  [ es ].

[11] [12] [13]
Millard Fillmore Millard Powers Fillmore 1889Father2Only son. Neither he nor his sister married or had children. [14]
Galileo Galilei Cosimo Galilei  [ it ]1672Paternal grandfather3Third son of Vincenzio Galilei, third child of Galileo Galilei.[ citation needed ]
Whitney Houston Bobbi Kristina Brown 2015Mother2Only child of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. [15]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Walther von Goethe 1885Paternal grandfather3Son of August von Goethe, son of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. [16]
James Joyce Stephen James Joyce 2020Paternal grandfather3Son of Giorgio Joyce (1905–1976), son of James Joyce. [17]
Franz Kafka Michael SteinerStill livingMaternal grand-uncle3Last collateral descendant. Son of Marianne Steiner (1913–2000), daughter of Valli Kafka, Franz Kafka's sister.

Others have claimed descent, nevertheless they are extended relations, as Steiner is Hermann Kafka's, Franz's father, only living descendant.

[18] [19] [20] [21]
Rudyard Kipling Elsie Bambridge 1976Father2His other children predeacesed Kipling and Bambridge died childless. [22] [23]
Vladimir Lenin Olga Ulyanova2011Uncle2Since Lenin died childless, he only had collateral descendants. Daughter of Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, Lenin's younger brother. [24] [25]
Abraham Lincoln Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith [lower-alpha 1] 1985Maternal great-grandfather4Last undisputed direct descendant. Son of Jessie Harlan Lincoln, daughter of Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln.
Martin Luther Martin Gottlob Luther1759Paternal great-great-great-grandfather6Last direct-male line descendant. Son of Johann Martin Luther II (1663–1756), son of Johann Martin Luther (1616–1669), son of Johann Ernst Luther (1560–1637), son of Paul Luther, son of Martin Luther. One estimate "has up to 5,000 descendants worldwide," all descended from Paul, or his sister, Margarethe Luther (1534–1570). [26] [27]
Thomas Robert Malthus Emily Malthus1885Father2None of her father's children had children of their own and Emily Malthus survived her whole family. [28]
Samuel Morse Leila Livingston Morse1977Paternal grandfather3Last direct-descendant. Daughter of William Goodrich Morse (1853–1933), son of Samuel Morse. [29]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Karl Thomas Mozart 1858Son2The second son and the eldest surviving child of Mozart and his wife Constanze. Neither he nor his younger brother Franz Xaver had children.
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez María de los Dolores Medina2014Great-great grandmother5Relations unknown. News reports stated that three years previous to her death, the Congress of the Union had certified her as Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez's "last direct descendant." She died on the 246th anniversary of her ancestor's birth. [30] [31] [32]
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker Rhea Leen Linder (formerly Bonnie Ray Parker)Still livingAunt2Daughter of, Hubert “Buster” Parker (1908-1964), Bonnie Parker's brother.

Buddy Barrow is a living nephew of Clyde Barrow, being Leon C. “L.C.” Barrow's (1913-1979) son.

[33] [34] [35]
Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot 1970Maternal grandfather3Son of Marie Louise "Zizi" Pasteur (1858–1934), daughter of Louis Pasteur. [36]
Giacomo Puccini Simonetta Puccini 2017Paternal grandfather3Only granddaughter, last undisputed descendant. Illegitimate daughter of Antonio Puccini (1886–1946), son of Giacomo Puccini. [37]
Alexander Pushkin Grigory Pushkin1997Paternal great-grandfather4Last direct male descendant. Son of Grigory Alexandrovich Pushkin (1868–1940), son of Gen. Alexander Alexandrovich Pushkin (1833–1914), son of Alexander Pushkin. [38]
Rembrandt Titia van Rijn1725Paternal grandfather3Only grandchild. Daughter of Titus van Rijn, son of Rembrandt.

Rembrandt has living collateral descendants through his eldest brother, Adriaen Harmenszn van Rijn (1597–1652).

[39] [40]
Ronald Reagan Patti and Ron Reagan Both Still livingFather2Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman, adopted Michael Reagan, who has 2 children. Maureen was their only biological child to reach adulthood. She adopted a daughter from Uganda but had no biological children. Patti and Ron Reagan are both in their 60s and have no children. Neither Ronald or Nancy Reagan have any collateral descendants.
Auguste Rodin Auguste-Eugène Beuret1934Father2Rodin's only child, however, not recognized by him. Rodin later married his longtime lover Rose Beuret (1844–1917) in the last year of both parents' lives. [41] [42]
Bertrand Russell John Russell, 7th Earl Russell Still livingPaternal grandfather3Son of Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell, son of Bertrand Russell.

Lady Felicity Anne Russell (1945–present) was adopted by John Russell, 4th Earl Russell, and has a daughter of her own, Rowan Bell.

[43]
Chief Seattle Kikisoblu 1896Father2Chief Seattle's first born. [44] [45]
Elizabeth Ann Seton Ferdinand Talbot Roscoe Jevons1967Maternal great-grandmother4Son of Isabel Jevons (née Seton) (1844–1929), daughter of Lt. William Seton III (1796–1868), son of Elizabeth Ann Seton. [46] [47]
William Shakespeare Elizabeth Barnard 1670Maternal grandfather3Daughter of Susanna Hall, daughter of William Shakespeare. Was the only grandchild Shakespeare ever knew. [48]
Mark Twain Nina Clemens Gabrilowitsch1966Maternal grandfather3Daughter of Clara Clemens, daughter of Mark Twain. [49]
Mary Wollstonecraft Percy Florence Shelley 1889Maternal grandmother3Son of Mary Shelley, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft.

See also

Notes

  1. His second wife, Annemarie Hoffman, had a son, Timothy Lincoln Hoffman, whilst married to him, which was the subject of a paternity lawsuit after their divorce, but as he had a vasectomy before his birth the case was dropped. It is unclear who the father is, though it could be his illegitimate son.

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