A historical event can be defined as any occurrence from the past regardless of significance, with the term "history" an umbrella term relating to past events and any associated memories, discoveries, collections, organizations, presentations, and/or interpretations of them. This differs from a historic event which is often less inclusive, and stands out as having made a significant impact on history itself. [1]
The following is a list of notable people documented as the last living individuals to have witnessed, survived or participated in significant historical events or who were the last living members of a historic group that directly contributed to such an event (e.g. Manhattan Project scientists). Excluded from this list are last living survivors of wars, speakers of languages, and others who are already recorded on pages representing more narrow categories.
Background shading indicates the individual is still living
Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended |
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Anas ibn Malik | 712 (aged c. 103) | Last surviving companion of Muhammad | 8 June 632 |
William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury | 3 June 1397 (aged 68) | Last Founder Knight of the Order of the Garter | 1348 |
Henry Bolingbroke | 20 March 1413 (aged 45) | Last of the Lords Appellant | 1388 |
Sancho de Tovar | c. 1547 (aged 75–82) | Last known witness to the Discovery of Brazil | 22 April 1500 |
Bastiano de' Rossi | 1627 (aged 70–71) | Last founder of the Accademia della Crusca | October 1582 |
Francesco Stelluti [2] | November 1652 (aged 75) | Last founder of the Accademia dei Lincei | 17 August 1603 |
Mary Allerton | 28 November 1699 (aged 83) | Last passenger of the Mayflower | 11 November 1620 |
John Alden | 12 September 1687 (aged 88) | Last signer of the Mayflower Compact | |
Peregrine White | 20 July 1704 (aged 83) | Last participant at the First Thanksgiving | 11 November 1621 |
Last surviving Pilgrim Father | 30 November 1621 | ||
Richard Bellingham | 7 December 1672 (aged 80) | Last signer of the Massachusetts Colonial Charter | 4 March 1629 |
Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles | 17 February 1680 (aged 81) | Last of the Five Members | 4 January 1642 |
William Hubbard | 24 September 1704 (aged 82–83) | Last member of Harvard's inaugural graduating class | 3 October 1642 [3] [a] |
Gaspar de Bracamonte, 3rd Count of Peñaranda | 14 December 1676 (aged ~81) | Last known diplomat at the Peace of Westphalia | 24 October 1648 |
Edmund Ludlow | c.1692 (aged ~75) | Last regicide of Charles I of England | 30 January 1649 |
Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton | 4 February 1696 (aged 82) | Last member of the Committee of Both Kingdoms | 7 February 1649 |
Johann Michael Fehr [4] | 15 November 1688 (aged 78) | Last founder of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina | 1 January 1652 |
Sir Christopher Wren | 8 March 1723 (aged 90) | Last founder of the Royal Society | 28 November 1660 |
George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon | 7 December 1716 (aged 73) | Last Founder Knight of the Order of the Thistle | 1687 |
Charles François Dolu [5] [6] | 6 January 1740 (aged 88–89) | Last surviving member of the Embassy of Loubère-Céberet | 1688 |
Jonathan Trelawny | 19 July 1721 (aged 71) | Last of the Seven Bishops | 30 June 1688 |
Edward Russell | 26 November 1727 (aged 70) | Last of the Immortal Seven | June 1688 |
Samuel Sewall | 1 January 1730 (aged 77) | Last court official in the Salem Witch Trials | May 1693 |
Thomas Aikenhead [7] | 8 January 1697 (aged 20) | Last Briton executed for blasphemy | 8 January 1697 |
Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended |
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John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland | 26 January 1782 (aged 85) | Last Founder Knight of the Order of the Bath | 17 June 1725 |
John Fortescue [8] [9] | 9 May 1808 (aged 87) | Last sailor who took part in George Anson's voyage around the world | 15 June 1744 |
George Robert Twelves Hewes | 5 November 1840 (aged 98) | Last survivor of the Boston Massacre | 5 March 1770 |
Last participant of the Boston Tea party | 16 December 1773 | ||
Isaac Smith | 2 July 1831 (aged 78–79) | Last participant of James Cook's first voyage | 12 July 1771 |
Ephraim Bowen [10] [11] | 2 September 1841 (aged 88) | Last individual involved in the Gaspée Affair | 10 June 1772 |
John Jay | 17 May 1829 (aged 83) | Last signer of the Continental Association | 20 October 1774 |
Last signer of the Treaty of Paris | 3 September 1783 | ||
Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet [12] | 8 April 1820 (aged 82) | Last royal governor of any of the British Thirteen Colonies (New Hampshire) | 13 June 1775 |
John Hatley | 12 December 1832 (aged 69–70) | Last participant of James Cook's second voyage | 30 July 1775 |
Charles Carroll | 14 November 1832 (aged 95) | Last signer of the United States Declaration of Independence | 4 July 1776 |
David Cobb | 17 April 1830 (aged 81) | Last charter member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | |
William Ellery | 15 February 1820 (aged 92) | Last signer of the Articles of Confederation | 1 March 1781 |
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley | 26 September 1842 (aged 82) | Last Founder Knight of the Order of St. Patrick | 11 March 1783 |
James Madison | 28 June 1836 (aged 85) | Last signer of The United States Constitution | 17 September 1787 |
Barthélemy de Lesseps [13] | 4 June 1834 (aged 68) | Last participant of the scientific expedition led by Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse | 1788 |
Elizabeth Thackery | 7 August 1856 (aged 88–89) | Last survivor of the First Fleet | 20 January 1788 |
John Armstrong Jr. | 1 April 1843 (aged 84) | Last delegate to the Continental Congress | 2 March 1789 |
John Adams | 5 March 1829 (aged 61) | Last mutineer of HMS Bounty | 28 April 1789 |
Padre Manuel Rodrigues da Costa [14] | 19 January 1844 (aged 89) | Last member of the Inconfidência Mineira | 15 June 1789 |
Arthur Dardenne [15] | 8 September 1872 (aged 95–96) | Last participant of the Storming of the Bastille | 14 July 1789 |
Paine Wingate | 7 March 1838 (aged 98) | Last member of the first United States Congress | 3 March 1791 |
Antoine Claire Thibaudeau | 8 March 1854 (aged 88) | Last member of the National Convention during the French Revolution to vote in the trial of Louis XVI | 15 January 1793 |
Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended |
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Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès | 20 June 1836 (aged 88) | Last member of the French Consulate | 18 May 1804 |
Samuel Miller [16] | 7 January 1850 (aged 80) | Last founder of the New-York Historical Society | 20 November 1804 |
Patrick Gass | 2 April 1870 (aged 98) | Last member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition | 23 September 1806 |
Henry Goulburn | 12 January 1856 (aged 71) | Last signer of the Treaty of Ghent | 24 December 1814 |
André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin | 8 November 1865 (aged 82) [b] | Last delegate to the Congress of Vienna | 9 June 1815 |
Seth Weeks | 12 September 1887 (aged 84) | Last survivor of the sinking of the whaleship Essex | 20 November 1820 |
Dmitry Zavalishin | 17 February 1892 (aged 87) | Last member of the Decembrist movement | 14 December 1825 |
David Whitmer | 25 January 1888 (aged 83) | Last of the Three Witnesses | 28 June 1829 |
John Whitmer | 11 June 1878 (aged 75) | Last of the Eight Witnesses | 2 July 1829 |
Ramón Castilla y Marquesado | 30 May 1867 (aged 69) | Last of the Libertadores | 29 September 1833 |
Laureano Tacuavé Martínez | c. 1850 (aged c. 41) | Last charrúa exhibited to the public as a circus attraction | 11 November 1833 |
William Carroll Crawford [17] | 3 September 1895 (aged 90) | Last signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence | 2 March 1836 |
Alijo Perez Jr. | 19 October 1918 (aged 83) | Last civilian Survivor of the Battle of the Alamo | 6 March 1836 |
Jean-Paul, comte de Schramm | 25 February 1884 (aged 94) | Last of the 660 persons whose names are inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe | 29 July 1836 |
Thomas Patrickson [18] | 15 October 1914 (aged 85–86) | Last participant of the Second voyage of HMS Beagle | 2 October 1836 |
Rebecca Tickaneesky Neugin [19] [20] | 15 July 1932 (aged 97–98) | Last Cherokee survivor of the Trail of Tears | 1839 |
Milvern Harrell [21] [22] | 10 August 1910 (aged 86) | Last Texian survivor of the Dawson Massacre | 17 September 1842 |
François X. Matthieu | 4 February 1914 (aged 95) | Last participant at the Champoeg Meetings | 2 May 1843 |
Joseph Dalton Hooker [23] | 10 December 1911 (aged 94) | Last participant of the Ross expedition | 4 September 1843 |
Walter T. Avery [24] | 10 June 1904 (aged 90) | Last participant of the first official baseball game | 19 June 1846 |
Margaret Isabella Breen McMahon [25] | 25 March 1935 (aged 89) | Last survivor of the Donner Party | 29 April 1847 |
James Stephens Brown [26] [27] | 25 March 1902 (aged 73) | Last witness to the discovery of Gold at Sutter's Mill | 28 January 1848 |
Charlotte L. Woodward Peirce [28] [29] | 15 March 1924 (aged 94) | Last participant in the Seneca Falls Convention | 20 July 1848 |
Last signer of the Declaration of Sentiments |
Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended |
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Thomas Kelly [30] | 14 April 1932 (aged 83) | Last survivor of the Birkenhead disaster | 26 February 1852 |
William Edward Atherden [31] | 14 May 1934 (aged 96) | Last participant in the Eureka Rebellion | 3 December 1854 |
Charles Curnow Phillips [32] | 15 May 1937 (aged 92) | Last witness of the Eureka Rebellion | |
Teodolfo Mertel | 11 July 1899 (aged 93) | Last non-priest cardinal | 15 March 1858 |
Pressley Corbin Hyman [33] [34] | 20 June 1912 (aged 81) | Last witness to the Broderick–Terry duel | 13 September 1859 |
Owen Brown [35] [36] | 8 January 1889 (aged 64) | Last abolitionist present at John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry | 18 October 1859 |
George Pilson [37] | 22 April 1916 (aged 73–74) | Last witness at Harpers Ferry | |
Lyman Epps, Jr. | 21 November 1942 (aged 102) | Last witness of the funeral and burial of John Brown | 8 December 1859 |
Matilda McCrear | January 1940 (aged c. 83) | Last human cargo of the slave ship Clotilda | 9 July 1860 |
Georg Hermann Quincke [38] | 13 January 1924 (aged 89) | Last known attendee of the Karlsruhe Congress | 5 September 1860 |
Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell | 10 January 1917 (aged 86) | Last signer of the Constitution of the Confederate States | 11 March 1861 |
Francis Humphreys Storer [39] | 30 July 1914 (aged 82) | Last member of the Committee of Twenty that signed the Charter of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 10 April 1861 |
John Surratt [40] | 21 April 1916 (aged 72) | Last participant in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln | 14 April 1865 |
Samuel J. Seymour [41] | 12 April 1956 (aged 96) | Last witness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln | |
John Henry Coghill [42] | 5 March 1943 (aged 90) | Last witness to the death of John Wilkes Booth | 26 April 1865 |
Charles M. Eldridge [43] | 8 September 1941 (aged 96) | Last survivor of the Sultana disaster | 27 April 1865 |
John Henninger Reagan | 6 March 1905 (aged 86) | Last cabinet member of the Confederate States of America | 10 May 1865 |
Peter Mills | 22 September 1972 (aged 110) | Last known surviving American who was born into legal slavery | 18 December 1865 |
Samuel Speed [44] [45] [46] | 8 November 1938 (aged 95) | Last surviving British convict sent to Australia | 4 July 1866 |
Kirino Toshiaki | 24 September 1877 (aged 38) | Last of the Four Hitokiri of the Bakumatsu | 1867 |
William Fairfield Warren [47] | 7 December 1929 (aged 96) | Last charter member of the New England Conservatory of Music | 18 February 1867 |
Last charter member of Wellesley College | 17 March 1870 | ||
Last charter member of Boston University | 1873 | ||
Agustín de Iturbide y Green | 3 March 1925 (aged 61) | Last member of the Imperial Court of the Second Mexican Empire | 19 June 1867 |
Charles Tupper | 30 October 1915 (aged 94) | Last Canadian Father of Confederation | 1 July 1867 |
Mary Field Garner [48] [49] | 20 July 1943 (aged 107) | Last known Mormon Pioneer and acquaintance of Joseph Smith | 1868 |
Andreas Kieber | 19 April 1939 (aged 94) [50] | Last surviving member of the Liechtenstein military | 12 February 1868 |
Cornelius Cole | 3 November 1924 (aged 102) | Last United States Senator who participated in the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson | 26 May 1868 |
Matthew Jackson | 4 February 1947 (aged 88) [51] | Last participant involved in the escape of John Boyle O'Reilly | 2 March 1869 |
Hitomi Katsutarō | 31 December 1922 (aged 79) | Last cabinet member of the Republic of Ezo | 27 June 1869 |
George H. Large | 15 August 1939 (aged 88) | Last participant of the first American football game | 6 November 1869 |
Rufino José Cuervo [52] | 17 July 1911 (aged 66) | Last founder of the Colombian Academy of Language | 10 May 1871 |
Reginald Courtenay Welch | 4 June 1939 (aged 87) [53] | Last participant of the first English FA Cup Final | 16 March 1872 |
Sophia Jex-Blake | 7 January 1912 (aged 71) | Last of the Edinburgh Seven | 27 June 1873 |
Charles Edward Munroe [54] | 7 December 1938 (aged 89) | Last charter member of the American Chemical Society | 6 April 1876 |
James Wilson | 6 November 1921 (aged 85) | Last Fenian prisoner who escaped the British penal colony of Western Australia on the Catalpa | 19 April 1876 |
Herbert Swire [55] [56] | 21 December 1934 (aged 84) | Last member of the Challenger expedition | 24 May 1876 |
Mary Ann Mitchell (née Stammers) | 27 July 1958 (aged 84) | Last survivor of the sinking of the SS Georgette | 1 December 1876 |
Tom Garrett | 6 August 1943 (aged 85) | Last player from the first official cricket test match | 19 March 1877 |
Ann Eliza Young | 7 December 1917 (aged 73) | Last wife of Brigham Young | 29 August 1877 |
Francis Rawle [57] | 26 January 1930 (aged 83) | Last founder of the American Bar Association | 21 August 1878 |
Nikolai Morozov | 30 July 1946 (aged 92) | Last person involved in the Assassination of Alexander II | 13 March 1881 |
James Robert Cummins | 9 July 1929 (aged 82) | Last member of the James-Younger Gang | 7 September 1881 |
Wyatt Earp | 13 January 1929 (aged 80) | Last participant of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 26 October 1881 |
Pete Spence | 1914 (aged 61–62) | Last member of the Cochise County Cowboys | 1882 |
Daniel Frohman [58] | 26 December 1940 (aged 89) | Last founder of the Actors Fund of America | 8 June 1882 |
Clothilde Gobbi [59] | 7 November 1960 (aged 104) | Last performer at the Metropolitan Opera's opening night | 22 October 1883 |
Orlando Oscar Stealey [60] | 29 December 1928 (aged 86) | Last founder of the Gridiron Club | 24 January 1885 |
Alphonse Chodron de Courcel | 17 August 1919 (aged 84) | Last participant of the Berlin Conference | 26 February 1885 |
José Vianna da Motta [61] | 1 June 1948 (aged 80) | Last pupil of Franz Liszt | 31 July 1886 |
Samuel Fielden | 7 February 1922 (aged 74) | Last person originally convicted as part of the Haymarket affair | 11 August 1886 |
James Stockley [62] | 5 March 1954 (aged 91) | Last policeman to work on the Jack the Ripper case | 1888 |
Robert Muldrow | 28 July 1950 (aged 86) | Last founder of the National Geographic Society | 13 January 1888 |
Danny Ryan | 31 December 1966 (aged 96) | Last member of the Tipperary hurling team that won the first All-Ireland Championship | 1 April 1888 |
Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau | 18 September 1896 (aged 76) | Last of the 72 people whose names are inscribed on the Eiffel Tower | 31 March 1889 |
Frank Shomo [63] | 20 March 1997 (aged 108) | Last survivor of the Johnstown Flood | 31 May 1889 |
Louisa Motley (née Yellow Shield) [64] | 1 May 1979 (aged 95) | Last survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre | 29 December 1890 |
Borges de Medeiros | 25 April 1961 (aged 97) | Last known signatory of the Brazilian Constitution of 1891 | 24 February 1891 |
Eli B. Felsenthal [65] | 1 December 1937 (aged 79) | Last charter member of the University of Chicago | 1 July 1891 |
Ernest Gotthold Hildner [66] [67] | 1 July 1968 (aged 94) | Last participant of the first basketball game ever played | 21 December 1891 |
Julia Dent Cantacuzène Spiransky-Grant [68] [69] | 4 October 1975 (aged 99) | Last of Ward McAllister's named Four Hundred | 16 February 1892 |
Henry Churchill King | 27 February 1934 (aged 75) | Last member of the Committee of Ten | 30 December 1892 |
Bridget Sullivan [70] | 25 March 1948 (aged 81) | Last witness at the trial of Lizzie Borden | 20 June 1893 |
Alfred Hennen Morris [71] | 9 July 1959 (aged 95) | Last founder of the Jockey Club | 9 February 1894 |
Adolph W. Sommerfield [72] | 20 June 1957 (aged 90) | Last founder of the National Association of Manufacturers | 25 January 1895 |
Dimitrios Loundras [73] | 15 February 1970 (aged 84) | Last known competitor at the 1896 Summer Olympics | 15 April 1896 |
George H. Warren [74] | 8 November 1933 (aged 81) | Last charter member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants | 12 January 1897 |
Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo | 4 November 1963 (aged 91) | Last founder of the Brazilian Academy of Letters | 20 July 1897 |
George Fox [75] | 27 December 1964 (aged 86) | Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Maine | 15 February 1898 |
Alexander Vannovskiy | 16 September 1967 (aged 93) | Last participant of the 1st Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party | 15 March 1898 |
Juan Hernández López [76] | 17 May 1944 (aged 85) | Last Spanish-appointed member of Puerto Rico's Autonomic Cabinet | 22 July 1898 |
Manuel Macías y Casado | 7 November 1937 (aged 93) | Last surviving Spanish governor of Puerto Rico | 18 October 1898 |
Wenceslao Ramírez de Villa-Urrutia | 10 April 1933 (aged 83) | Last signer of the 1898 Treaty of Paris | 10 December 1898 |
Jules Cambon | 19 September 1935 (aged 90) | Last delegate to the 1898 Treaty of Paris | |
Jacob Gould Schurman | 12 August 1942 (aged 88) | Last member of the Schurman Commission | 29 January 1899 |
Jan Van Mirlo [77] [78] | 3 June 1964 (aged 87) | Last member of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition | 5 November 1899 |
Bernard Moses | 3 March 1930 (aged 83) | Last (original) member of the Taft Commission | 16 March 1900 |
Maude Conic [79] | 14 November 2004 (aged 105–106) | Last survivor of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 | 12 September 1900 |
Yau Lit | 12 December 1936 (aged 71–72) | Last of the Four Bandits | Late 19th-century |
Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended |
---|---|---|---|
James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn [80] | 3 January 1913 (aged 74) | Last Groom of the Stool | 22 January 1901 |
James Sant | 12 July 1916 (aged 96) | Last Principal Painter in Ordinary | |
Laura Bullion | 2 December 1961 (aged 85) | Last member of the Wild Bunch gang | 2 April 1901 |
George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry | 13 March 1930 (aged 91) | Last surviving Master of the Buckhounds | 2 July 1901 |
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen | 10 February 1923 (aged 77) | Last laureate of the first Nobel Prize ceremony | 10 December 1901 |
Colin L. Begg [81] | 15 January 1941 (aged 67–68) | Last founder of the American Urological Association | 22 February 1902 [82] |
Léon Compère-Léandre | 1936 (aged 62) | Last known survivor on the shore of Saint-Pierre during the eruption of Mount Pelée | 8 May 1902 |
Irénise Moulonguet [83] | 28 May 2013 (aged 112) | Last witness to the eruption of Mount Pelée | |
Sir Edward Seymour | 2 March 1929 (aged 88) | Last of the original recipients of the Order of Merit | 26 June 1902 |
Gladys Verquin (née Ennis) [84] | 20 March 1993 (aged 91) | Last survivor of the Frank Slide | 29 April 1903 |
Roscinda Nolasquez [85] | 4 February 1987 (aged 94) | Last speaker of Cupeño and last survivor of the removal of the Cupeño to Pala, California, the final of the Federal Indian Removals | 13 May 1903 |
Jean Dargassies | 7 August 1965 (aged 93) | Last known participant of the 1903 Tour de France | 19 July 1903 |
Gleb Krzhizhanovsky | 31 March 1959 (aged 87) | Last member of the 1st Central Committee of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party | 23 August 1903 |
Jennings J. Dunlap [86] | 22 September 1964 (aged 84–85) | Last survivor of the Wreck of the Old 97 | 27 September 1903 |
Freddy Parent | 2 November 1972 (aged 96) | Last known player of the 1903 World Series [87] | 13 October 1903 |
Johnny Moore [88] [89] | 28 February 1952 (aged 66) | Last witness of the Wright Brothers' first heavier than air flight | 17 December 1903 |
Verde Clark Graff [90] | 3 July 1989 (aged 97) | Last survivor of the Iroquois Theatre fire | 30 December 1903 |
Adella Wotherspoon | 26 January 2004 (aged 100) | Last and youngest survivor of the General Slocum disaster | 15 June 1904 |
Michael Barne | 31 May 1961 (aged 83) | Last participant of the Discovery Expedition | 10 September 1904 |
William Luttgen [91] | 27 August 1965 (aged 87) | Last participant of the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup | 8 October 1904 |
James Rudolph Garfield | 24 March 1950 (aged 84) | Last member of the Keep Commission | 1905 |
Guy Vaughn | 21 November 1966 (aged 82) | Last participant of the 1905 Morris Park 5, the first AAA National Motor Car Championship | 10 June 1905 |
Last participant of the 1905 AAA National Motor Car Championship, the forerunner of the IndyCar Series | 29 September 1905 | ||
William Del Monte [92] | 11 January 2016 (aged 109) | Last known survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake | 18 April 1906 |
Alessandro Cagno | 23 December 1971 (aged 88) | Last participant in the 1906 Targa Florio | 6 May 1906 |
Last participant in the 1906 French Grand Prix, the first Grand Prix motor race | 27 June 1906 | ||
Last known participant in the 1907 Kaiserpreis, the forerunner of the German Grand Prix | 14 June 1907 | ||
Dorsie Williams Willis [93] | 24 August 1977 (aged 91) | Last soldier accused in the Brownsville Affair | 13 August 1906 |
Using Daeng Rangka | 1927 (aged 81–82) | Last Makassan trepanger to visit Australia | 1907 (End of Makassan contact with Australia) |
Mangnellai Daeng Maro [94] | 1978 (aged 80–81) | Last known Makassan traveler to make contact with Australia | |
Louis Maurer [95] | 19 July 1932 (aged 100) | Last Currier and Ives staff member | 1907 |
Brian Evans-Lombe [96] | 31 January 1994 (aged 100) | Last participant of the Brownsea Island Scout camp, the founding event of the Scout movement | 8 August 1907 |
Ralph Mulford | 23 October 1973 (aged 88) | Last known participant in the 1908 American Grand Prize, the forerunner of the United States Grand Prix | 26 November 1908 |
Last participant in the 1911 Indianapolis 500 | 30 May 1911 | ||
Francesca Nato [97] | 16 April 2017 (aged 110) [98] | Last known survivor of the 1908 Messina earthquake | 28 December 1908 |
Philip Brocklehurst | 28 January 1975 (aged 87) | Last member of Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition | 23 March 1909 |
Donald Baxter MacMillan [99] | 7 September 1970 (aged 95) | Last member of Robert Peary's final expedition towards the North Pole | 6 April 1909 |
Joseph Collins [100] | 11 June 1950 (aged 84) | Last founder of the Neurological Institute of New York | December 1909 [101] |
Mary Jo Estep | 19 December 1992 (aged 82–83) | Last survivor of the Battle of Kelley Creek | 25 February 1911 |
Rose Freedman [102] | 15 February 2001 (aged 107) | Last survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | 25 March 1911 |
Ishi | 25 March 1916 (aged 55) | Last known member of the Native American Yahi people, the last uncontacted peoples of the United States | 29 August 1911 |
Georges Hostelet | 4 November 1960 (aged 85) | Last attendee of the First Solvay Conference | 3 November 1911 |
Sid Daniels | 25 May 1983 (aged 89) | Last crew member of the RMS Titanic | 15 April 1912 |
Millvina Dean | 31 May 2009 (aged 97) | Last and youngest survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic | |
Dhimitër Beratti | 8 September 1970 (aged 83) | Last signer of the Albanian Declaration of Independence | 28 November 1912 |
Alessandro Moreschi | 21 April 1922 (aged 63) | Last castrato | 1913 |
Courtney Letts | 7 April 1995 (aged 95) | Last of the Big Four (debutantes) | 1914 |
Ermenia Daley (née Padilla) [103] | 14 March 2019 (aged 105) | Last survivor of the Ludlow Massacre | 20 April 1914 |
Grace Hanagan (Martyn) [104] [105] | 15 May 1995 (aged 87) | Last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland | 29 May 1914 |
Vaso Čubrilović | 11 June 1990 (aged 93) | Last participant in the conspiracy to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand | 28 June 1914 |
Alexander Bernard Heron [106] | 24 January 2000 (aged 105) | Last worker involved in the construction of the Panama Canal | 15 August 1914 |
James Van Fleet [107] | 23 September 1992 (aged 100) | Last surviving member of The class the stars fell on to have reached the rank of general | 3 May 1915 |
Audrey Warren Lawson-Johnston (née Pearl) [108] [109] | 11 January 2011 (aged 95) | Last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania | 7 May 1915 |
Peter Stoddart [110] | 4 July 1988 (aged 91–92) | Last known survivor of the Quintinshill rail disaster | 22 May 1915 |
Marion Eichholz [111] | 24 November 2014 (aged 102) | Last survivor of the capsizing of the SS Eastland | 24 July 1915 |
Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended |
---|---|---|---|
George Perman [112] | 24 May 2000 (aged 99) | Last survivor of the sinking of the HMHS Britannic | 21 November 1916 |
George D. Grundy Jr. [113] | 19 May 1998 (aged 99) | Last member of the Early Birds of Aviation | 17 December 1916 |
Stanislas Lazovert | 25 August 1976 (aged 89) | Last participant of the assassination of Grigori Rasputin | 30 December 1916 |
Hank Mann | 25 November 1971 (aged 83) | Last surviving member of the Keystone Cops | 1917 |
Sun Yaoting | 17 December 1996 (aged 94) | Last surviving imperial Chinese eunuch | |
Vsevolod Shakhovskoy | 17 August 1954 (aged 79) | Last Minister of the Russian Empire | 15 March 1917 |
Vasily Shulgin | 15 February 1976 (aged 98) | Last participant of the Abdication of Nicholas II | |
Last Deputy of the Russian Imperial Duma | 6 October 1917 | ||
Mikhail Goberman [114] | 1986 (aged 93–94) | Last person to travel with Vladimir Lenin to Finland Station | 16 April 1917 |
Richard W. Richards | 8 May 1985 (aged 91) | Last member of the British Trans-Antarctic Expedition | 29 May 1917 |
Herbert Bayard Swope [115] | 20 June 1958 (aged 76) | Last recipient of the 1st Pulitzer Prizes | 4 June 1917 |
Violet Markham | 2 February 1959 (aged 86) | Last member of the inaugural Companions of Honour | |
Lúcia Santos | 13 February 2005 (aged 97) | Last of the three children who claimed to have spoken to Our Lady of Fátima | 13 October 1917 |
Boris Gudz [116] | 27 December 2006 (aged 104) | Last participant of the October Revolution | 7 November 1917 |
Vyacheslav Molotov | 8 November 1986 (aged 96) | Last member of the Petrograd Soviet and Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee during the Russian Revolution | |
Alexander Kerensky | 11 June 1970 (aged 89) | Last member of the Russian Provisional Government during the Russian Revolution | |
Lazar Kaganovich | 25 July 1991 (aged 97) | Last Old Bolshevik to participate in the October Revolution | |
Last deputy of the Russian Constituent Assembly | 18 January 1918 | ||
Aleksandras Stulginskis | 22 September 1969 (aged 84) | Last signer of the Act of Independence of Lithuania | 16 February 1918 |
Henry Allingham | 18 July 2009 (aged 113) | Last member of the RNAS and last founding member of the Royal Air Force | 1 April 1918 |
Mykhailo Hrushevsky | 24 November 1934 (aged 68) | Last President of the Central Rada of the Ukrainian People's Republic | 29 April 1918 |
Şəfi bəy Rüstəmbəyli | 20 December 1960 (aged 67) | Last signer of the Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan | 28 May 1918 |
Alexey Kabanov [117] | 1972 (aged 81) | Last surviving participant in the execution of the Romanov family | 17 July 1918 |
Juan Filloy [118] | 15 July 2000 (aged 105) | Last student who took part in the Argentine university reform of 1918 | 12 October 1918 |
Ernst Jünger | 17 February 1998 (aged 102) | Last wearer of the military Pour le Mérite | 9 November 1918 |
Pavlo Skoropadskyi | 26 April 1945 (aged 71) | Last Hetman of the Ukrainian State | 14 December 1918 |
Raul Fernandes [119] [120] | 6 January 1968 (aged 90) | Last signer of the Treaty of Versailles | 28 June 1919 |
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando | 1 December 1952 (aged 92) | Last Big Four leader | |
Swede Risberg | 13 October 1975 (aged 81) | Last player involved in the Black Sox Scandal | 9 October 1919 |
José Ameal Peña [121] [122] | 12 May 2020 (aged 105) | Last survivor of the 1918 flu pandemic in Spain | April 1920 |
George Halas | 31 October 1983 (aged 88) | Last participant of a meeting that led to the founding of the National Football League | 17 September 1920 |
Symon Petliura | 25 May 1926 (aged 47) | Last Chairman of the Directorate of the Ukrainian People's Republic | 10 November 1920 |
Fritz Pollard | 11 May 1986 (aged 92) | Last member of the winning Akron Pros team during the 1920 APFA season | 19 December 1920 |
Peter Casserly | 24 June 2005 (aged 107) | Last member of the First Australian Imperial Force | 1 April 1921 |
Liu Renjing | 5 August 1987 (aged 85) | Last participant of the 1st National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party | 2 August 1921 |
Jules Goux | 6 April 1965 (aged 80) | Last participant in the 1921 Italian Grand Prix | 4 September 1921 |
Sergei Shervinsky | 30 July 1991 (aged 98) | Last poet from the Silver Age of Russian Poetry [123] | 1922 |
Altino Gomes da Silva | 23 March 1996 (aged 91) | Last survivor of the 18 of the Copacabana Fort revolt | 6 July 1922 |
Dürrüşehvar Sultan | 7 February 2006 (aged 92) | Last member of the Imperial Ottoman Court | 1 November 1922 |
Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan | 28 November 1982 (aged 99) | Last Privy Counsellor of Ireland | 5 December 1922 |
Mary Hall Daniels | 2 May 2018 (aged 98) | Last known survivor of the Rosewood massacre | 7 January 1923 |
Lady Evelyn Beauchamp | 31 January 1980 (aged 79) | Last witness of the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb | 16 February 1923 |
Gonzaque Lécureul | 31 December 1984 (aged 97) | Last known participant of the 1923 Grand Prix d'Endurance de 24 Heures | 27 May 1923 |
Thomas W. Miller | 5 May 1973 (aged 86) | Last member of the Ohio gang | 2 August 1923 |
Gene Bruce [124] | 6 December 2005 (aged 98) | Last survivor of the Honda Point Disaster | 8 September 1923 |
Emil Klein [125] | 22 February 2010 (aged 104) | Last participant of Adolf Hitler's unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch | 9 November 1923 |
Ivo Pavelić | 22 February 2011 (aged 103) | Last competitor at the 1924 Summer Olympics | 7 July 1924 |
Jim Crowley | 15 January 1986 (aged 83) | Last of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame | 1 January 1925 |
Gertrude Emerson Sen | 1982 (aged 91–92) | Last founder of the Society of Woman Geographers | January 1925 |
Edgar Nollner [126] [127] | 15 January 1999 (aged 94) | Last musher of the 1925 serum run to Nome | 2 February 1925 |
Aaron Copland [128] | 2 December 1990 (aged 90) | Last of the inaugural Guggenheim Fellows | 1 June 1925 |
René Thomas | 23 September 1975 (aged 88) | Last participant in the 1925 Belgian Grand Prix | 28 June 1925 |
Thomas J. Brewer [129] | 16 August 2003 (aged 82–83) | Last participant in the Scopes Trial | 21 July 1925 |
Robert Sénéchal | 30 July 1985 (aged 93) | Last known participant of the 1926 British Grand Prix | 7 August 1926 |
Mary Pickford | 29 May 1979 (aged 87) | Last of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | 11 January 1927 |
Irene Dunham [130] | 1 May 2022 (aged 114) | Last survivor of the Bath School disaster | 18 May 1927 |
Georgia Warren [131] | 6 March 2016 (aged 100) | Last person to have been recorded during the Bristol Sessions | 5 August 1927 |
Louis de Broglie | 19 March 1987 (aged 94) | Last attendee of the Fifth Solvay Conference | 29 October 1927 |
Mabel M. Williams [132] | 23 July 2015 (aged 104) | Last known Radium Girl | 1928 |
Carla Marangoni | 18 January 2018 (aged 102) | Last competitor at the 1928 Summer Olympics | 12 August 1928 |
Barbara Kent [133] | 13 October 2011 (aged 103) | Last adult silent film actor/actress | 1929 |
Garry Watson | Living (age 96) | Last living silent film actor/actress | |
Georges Bouriano | 1996 (aged 94–95) | Last participant in the 1929 Monaco Grand Prix | 14 April 1929 |
Janet Gaynor | 14 September 1984 (aged 77) | Last award winner of the 1st Academy Awards | 16 May 1929 |
Alfredo Viglieri [134] | 4 June 1979 (aged 78) | Last participant of the Umberto Nobile's Arctic expedition | 12 July 1929 |
Bobbi Trout | 24 January 2003 (aged 97) | Last participant of the Women's Air Derby | 27 August 1929 |
Irene Parlby | 12 July 1965 (aged 97) | Last of The Famous Five (Canada) | 18 October 1929 |
Norman D. Vaughan | 23 December 2005 (aged 100) | Last member of Richard Byrd's first expedition to Antarctica | 18 June 1930 |
Francisco Varallo | 30 August 2010 (aged 100) | Last surviving player of the 1930 World Cup, the inaugural FIFA World Cup [135] [136] | 30 July 1930 |
Rachel Johnson [137] | 7 April 2016 (aged 93) | Last St. Kildan | 29 August 1930 |
Alfred Cook [138] | 7 November 1998 (aged 91) | Last known survivor of the R101 disaster | 5 October 1930 |
Louis Herlédan [139] | 10 September 1993 (aged 82) | Last of Les oubliés de l'île Saint-Paul | December 1930 |
Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended |
---|---|---|---|
Albert H. Wolff | 21 March 1998 (aged 95) | Last member of the Untouchables | 1931 |
Doris Eaton Travis | 11 May 2010 (aged 106) | Last Ziegfeld girl | |
Alf Howard [140] [141] | 4 July 2010 (aged 104) | Last member of the BANZARE expedition to Antarctica | 19 March 1931 |
Clarence Norris [142] | 27 January 1989 (aged 75–76) | Last Scottsboro Boy | 25 March 1931 |
Arturo Marasso [143] | 26 April 1970 (aged 79) | Last founder of the Argentine Academy of Letters | 13 August 1931 |
René Lacoste | 12 October 1996 (aged 92) | Last of The Four Musketeers (tennis) | 1932 |
George Haigh [144] | 23 April 2019 (aged 103) | Last participant in the Mass trespass of Kinder Scout | 24 April 1932 |
Josef Felder | 28 October 2000 (aged 100) | Last Reichstag member to vote against the Nazi Enabling Act of 1933 | 23 March 1933 |
Moody E. Erwin [145] | 20 October 1989 (aged 85) | Last survivor of the USS Akron disaster | 3 April 1933 |
Jennings Randolph | 8 May 1998 (aged 96) | Last member of the United States Congress to vote during the First 100 Days | 11 June 1933 |
Lyle Talbot | 2 March 1996 (aged 94) | Last founding member of the Screen Actors Guild | 12 July 1933 |
Errie Ball | 2 July 2014 (aged 103) | Last participant in the 1934 Masters Tournament | 25 March 1934 |
Karina Vasilieva [146] | Living (age 91) | Last survivor of the SS Chelyuskin disaster | 13 April 1934 |
Evgeniy Silov [147] [148] | 15 August 2015 (aged 103) | Last participant of the SS Chelyuskin Rescue Operation | |
Anatoly Lyapidevsky | 29 April 1983 (aged 75) | Last member of the inaugural Heroes of the Soviet Union group | 23 April 1934 |
Edd L. Miller [149] | 18 September 2000 (aged 87) | Last witness to the shooting of Bonnie and Clyde | 23 May 1934 |
Russell Clark | 24 December 1968 (aged 70) | Last original member of the Dillinger Gang | 22 July 1934 |
Eddie Bentz | 31 October 1979 (aged 85) | Last known member of the Dillinger Gang | |
Thomas J. Conner [150] | 14 April 1997 (aged 90–91) | Last member of the FBI team that killed John Dillinger | |
Bill Eiserman [151] | Living (age 95–96) | Last witness to the Battle of Barrington | 27 November 1934 |
Mary Carlisle [152] | 1 August 2018 (aged 104) | Last WAMPAS Baby Star | 1935 |
Jānis Lidmanis | 29 November 1986 (aged 76) | Last winner of EuroBasket 1935, the first FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship | 7 May 1935 |
Josep Plaja Gasch Joe [153] | 11 September 1982 (aged 81–82) | Last survivor of the Medellín plane crash | 24 June 1935 |
Julian Edwin Bailes Sr. | 1 February 2010 (aged 95) | Last witness to the assassination of Huey Long | 8 September 1935 |
Ty Cobb | 17 July 1961 (aged 74) | Last surviving member of the inaugural induction class of the Baseball Hall of Fame [c] | 1936 |
Luther Gulick | 10 January 1993 (aged 100) | Last member of the Brownlow Commission | 22 March 1936 |
Iris Cummings | Living (age 103) | Last participant of the 1936 Summer Olympics | 16 August 1936 |
James Clark McReynolds | 24 August 1946 (aged 84) | Last of the Four Horsemen (Supreme Court) | 1937 |
Harlan F. Stone | 22 April 1946 (aged 73) | Last of the Three Musketeers (Supreme Court) | |
Morton Minsky [154] | 23 March 1987 (aged 85) | Last founder of Minsky's Burlesque | April 1937 |
Werner Franz [155] | 13 August 2014 (aged 92) | Last crew member to survive the Hindenburg disaster | 6 May 1937 |
Werner Doehner [156] | 8 November 2019 (aged 90) | Last passenger to survive the Hindenburg disaster | |
David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie [157] | 26 June 2023 (aged 97) | Last surviving major participant at the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth | 12 May 1937 |
Joseph F. Kennelly | 16 September 2011 (aged 97) | Last riding mechanic of the Indianapolis 500 [158] | 31 May 1937 |
Walter Walsh | 29 April 2014 (aged 106) | Last member of the FBI teams that captured Arthur Barker and killed Al Brady | 12 October 1937 |
John F. Druze [159] | 27 December 2005 (aged 91) | Last of the Seven Blocks of Granite | 27 November 1937 |
Fon Huffman | 4 September 2008 (aged 95) | Last survivor of the USS Panay incident | 12 December 1937 |
Edward Lund [160] | 20 November 1988 (aged 82) | Last crew member of Howard Hughes's round-the-world flight | 14 July 1938 |
Con Shiels [161] | 3 January 2013 (aged 96) | Last participant in the Jarrow March | 31 October 1938 |
Moon Mullen | 28 February 2013 (aged 96) | Last member of the first winners of the NCAA March Madness, the 1938 Oregon Webfoots | 27 March 1939 |
Paul Pietsch | 31 May 2012 (aged 100) | Last participant in the 1939 AIACR European Championship, the last full Grand Prix season before World War II | 20 August 1939 |
Kazimierz Świtalski | 28 December 1962 (aged 76) | Last Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic | 30 September 1939 |
Joseph Solman [162] | 16 April 2008 (aged 99) | Last of The Ten Whitney Dissenters | 4 November 1939 |
Emilio Ochoa | 27 June 2007 (aged 99) | Last signer of the 1940 Constitution of Cuba | 1 July 1940 |
John Insley Coddington [163] [164] | 10 May 1991 (aged 88) | Last founder of the American Society of Genealogists | 28 December 1940 |
Robert R. Johnson [165] | 9 April 2023 [166] (aged 102) | Last survivor of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition | 22 March 1941 |
Mikhail Petrovich Sidko | Living (age 87–88) | Last living survivor of the Babi Yar Massacre | 30 September 1941 |
Donald "Nick" Clifford [167] [168] | 23 November 2019 (aged 98) | Last worker who participated in the construction of Mount Rushmore | 31 October 1941 |
Joseph T. McNarney | 1 February 1972 (aged 78) | Last member of the Roberts Commission | December 1941 |
Edwin Arthur Hall | 18 October 2004 (aged 95) | Last member of the United States Congress to vote on the United States declaration of war on Japan | 8 December 1941 |
Norma Miller [169] | 5 May 2019 (aged 99) | Last member of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers troupe | |
Gerhard Klopfer | 29 January 1987 (aged 81) | Last attendant of the Wannsee Conference | 20 January 1942 |
David Stoliar | 1 May 2014 (aged 91) | Last survivor of the Struma disaster | 24 February 1942 |
Jarmila Doležalová [170] | Living (age 84) | Last survivor of the Ležáky massacre | 24 June 1942 |
Rudolf Brazda [171] | 3 August 2011 (aged 98) | Last concentration camp survivor deported by Nazi Germany on charges of homosexuality | 8 August 1942 |
Ray Anthony [172] [173] | Living (age 102) | Last member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra | September 1942 |
Robert L. Shumway [174] [175] | Living (age 100) | Last known survivor of the Cocoanut Grove fire | 28 November 1942 |
Albert Wattenburg | 27 June 2007 (aged 90) | Last of the physicists present at the first controlled nuclear reaction | 2 December 1942 |
Bill Sparks | 1 December 2002 (aged 80) | Last member of the Cockleshell Heroes | 12 December 1942 |
William Terbo | 14 August 2018 (aged 75) | Last living person who met Nikola Tesla | 7 January 1943 |
Traute Lafrenz [176] | 6 March 2023 (aged 103) | Last member of the White Rose | 18 February 1943 |
Viktor Zhelobkovich [177] | 24 May 2020 (aged 86) | Last survivor of the Khatyn massacre | 22 March 1943 |
Ruth Slenczynska [178] | Living (age 99) | Last pupil of Sergei Rachmaninoff | 28 March 1943 |
Marek Edelman | 2 October 2009 (aged 86–87) | Last leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | 16 May 1943 |
Aliza Melamed Vitis-Shomron [179] | Living (age 95–96) | Last participant of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | |
Samuel Willenberg | 19 February 2016 (aged 93) | Last participant in the revolt at the Treblinka extermination camp | 2 August 1943 |
Mostyn "Moss" Berryman [180] | 6 August 2020 (aged 96) | Last surviving member of Operation Jaywick | 26 September 1943 |
Simjon Rosenfeld [181] | 3 June 2019 (aged 96) | Last survivor of the Sobibor uprising | 14 October 1943 |
Emanuele Di Porto [182] | Living (age 93–94) | Last survivor of the Raid of the Ghetto of Rome | 16 October 1943 |
Winston Churchill | 24 January 1965 (aged 90) | Last participant of the Tehran Conference | 1 December 1943 |
Last participant of the Yalta Conference | 2 February 1945 | ||
Jennifer Jones | 17 December 2009 (aged 90) | Last award winner of the 1st Golden Globe Awards | 20 January 1944 |
Robert Hébras | 11 February 2023 (aged 97) | Last survivor of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre | 10 June 1944 |
Otto Günsche | 2 October 2003 (aged 86) | Last survivor of the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler | 20 July 1944 |
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin | 8 March 2013 (aged 90) | Last participant of the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler | |
Kurt Salterberg [183] | 27 November 2023 (aged 100) | Last witness to the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler | |
Edward Osóbka-Morawski | 9 January 1997 (aged 87) | Last signer of the PKWN Manifesto | 22 July 1944 |
Miep Gies | 11 January 2010 (aged 100) | Last member of the group which hid Anne Frank in the Secret Annex | 4 August 1944 |
Teruo Murakami [184] [185] | 14 September 2023 (aged 103) [186] | Last participant of the Cowra breakout | 5 August 1944 |
Dario Gabbai | 25 March 2020 (aged 97) | Last member of the Sonderkommando | 18 January 1945 |
Ivan Martynushkin | Living (age 100) | Last liberator of Auschwitz | 27 January 1945 |
Eddie Slovik [187] | 31 January 1945 (aged 24) | Last US soldier executed for desertion | 31 January 1945 |
Traudl Junge [188] | 10 February 2002 (aged 81) | Last witness to the death of Adolf Hitler | 30 April 1945 |
Rochus Misch [189] | 5 September 2013 (aged 96) | Last of Adolf Hitler's bodyguards | |
Last occupant of the Führerbunker | 2 May 1945 | ||
Luciano "Louis" C. Graziano [190] [191] | Living (age 101) | Last witness to the German Surrender Ceremony | 8 May 1945 |
Rudolf Hess | 17 August 1987 (aged 93) | Last cabinet member of the Third Reich | |
Harold Stassen | 4 March 2001 (aged 93) | Last signer of the United Nations Charter | 26 June 1945 |
Harold Bray | Living (age 97) | Last surviving crew member of the USS Indianapolis | 30 July 1945 |
Harry S. Truman | 26 December 1972 (aged 88) | Last participant of the Potsdam Conference | 2 August 1945 |
Arsilan [192] | Living (age 100–101) | Last participant in the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence | 17 August 1945 |
Robert Kenneth Kaufman [193] | 10 February 2019 (aged 99) | Last American officer present at the Surrender of Japan on board the USS Missouri | 2 September 1945 (End of World War II) |
Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape | 12 February 1981 (aged 93) | Last signer of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender |
Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended |
---|---|---|---|
Hubert Germain | 12 October 2021 (aged 101) | Last Compagnon de la Libération | 23 January 1946 |
Joy Bright Hancock [194] | 20 August 1986 (aged 88) | Last director of WAVES | September 1946 |
Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite [195] | 4 May 2020 (aged 92) | Last of the Monuments Women | |
Richard M. Barancik [196] [197] | 14 July 2023 (aged 99) | Last of the Monuments Men | |
Consalvo Sanesi | 28 July 1998 (aged 87) | Last participant of the 1946 Turin Grand Prix, the first Formula One Grand Prix | 1 September 1946 |
Simeon II [198] | Living (age 87) | Last Tsar of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, and the last leader to reign with the title of tsar [199] | 15 September 1946 |
Ben Ferencz | 7 April 2023 (aged 103) | Last prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials | 1 October 1946 |
Rudolf Hess | 17 August 1987 (aged 93) | Last defendant at the Nuremberg Trials | |
Ossie Schectman | 30 July 2013 (aged 94) | Last participant of the Inaugural NBA Game | 1 November 1946 |
Charles Luckman | 26 January 1999 (aged 89) | Last member of the President's Committee on Civil Rights | 5 December 1946 |
Last member of the Fahy Committee | 26 July 1948 | ||
Brajraj Mahapatra | 30 November 2015 (aged 94) | Last royal to sign the merger agreement with the Indian state | 1947 |
Maharaja Tej Singh Prabhakar | 15 February 2009 (aged 97) | Last recipient of the Order of the Star of India | |
Mayurdwajsinhji Meghrajji III | 1 August 2010 (aged 87) | Last recipient of the Order of the Indian Empire | |
Patricia Neal | 8 August 2010 (aged 84) | Last award winner of the 1st Tony Awards | 6 April 1947 |
Jerry Rullo | 21 October 2016 (aged 94) | Last winner in the 1947 BAA Finals, the inaugural National Basketball Association season | 22 April 1947 |
Teizaburō Sekiya [200] | 10 June 1950 (aged 75) | Last person appointed to the Privy Council of Japan | 3 May 1947 |
Knut Haugland | 25 December 2009 (aged 92) | Last crew member on the Kon-Tiki expedition | 7 August 1947 |
Kenneth C. Royall | 25 May 1971 (aged 76) | Last United States Secretary of War | 18 September 1947 |
Marsha Hunt [201] | 7 September 2022 (aged 104) | Last member of the Committee for the First Amendment | 2 November 1947 |
Last person accused in the Red Channels list | 22 June 1950 | ||
Krachang Tularak | 23 June 2009 (aged 96) | Last member of Khana Ratsadon | 8 November 1947 |
Ring Lardner Jr. [202] | 31 October 2000 (aged 85) | Last member of the Hollywood Ten | 25 November 1947 |
Clarence Beavers | 4 December 2017 (aged 96) | Last member of the Triple Nickles | 15 December 1947 |
Gopal Godse | 26 November 2005 (aged 86) | Last conspirator involved in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi | 30 January 1948 |
Emilio Colombo [203] | 24 June 2013 (aged 93) | Last member of the Constituent Assembly of Italy | 31 January 1948 |
Richard Nixon | 22 April 1994 (aged 81) | Last member of the Herter Committee | 1 May 1948 |
Arieh Handler | 20 May 2011 (aged 95) | Last witness to the signing of the Israeli Declaration of Independence | 14 May 1948 |
Teiichi Suzuki | 15 July 1989 (aged 100) | Last defendant at the Tokyo Trials | 12 November 1948 |
Hernán Santa Cruz | 1999 (aged 92–93) | Last member of the Drafting Committee of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 10 December 1948 |
Rexford Tugwell | 21 July 1979 (aged 88) | Last surviving United States-appointed Governor of Puerto Rico | 2 January 1949 |
Martin Sandberger | 30 March 2010 (aged 98) | Last defendant at the Subsequent Nuremberg trials | 13 April 1949 |
Hannsheinz Bauer [204] | 18 June 2005 (aged 96) | Last member of the Parlamentarischer Rat | 23 May 1949 |
Ernie Lyons | 5 February 2014 (aged 99) | Last rider of the first 1949 motorcycle Grand Prix, the Isle of Man TT | 17 June 1949 |
Archie Smith [205] | 27 December 2019 (aged 90) | Last driver in the 1949 Strictly Stock Division inaugural race, the inaugural NASCAR Cup Series race | 19 June 1949 |
Last driver in the 1949 Strictly Stock Division season, the inaugural NASCAR Cup Series | 16 October 1949 | ||
Caren Marsh Doll | Living (age 105) | Last survivor of the crash of Standard Air Lines Flight 897R | 12 July 1949 |
Charles L. Greenlee | 18 April 2012 (aged 78) | Last of the Groveland Four | 16 July 1949 |
Isaak Khalatnikov [206] | 9 January 2021 (aged 101) | Last physicist involved in the Soviet atomic bomb project | 29 August 1949 |
Carlo Ubbiali | 2 June 2020 (aged 90) | Last rider to participate in the 1949 motorcycle Grand Prix season [207] | 4 September 1949 |
Gonzalo Facio Segreda [208] | 24 January 2018 (aged 99) | Last member of the Founding Junta of the Second Republic | 8 November 1949 |
Tony Lovink | 27 March 1995 (aged 92) | Last Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies | 27 December 1949 |
Louis Cheslock [209] [210] | 19 June 1981 (aged 82) | Last member of H.L. Mencken's Saturday Night Club | 1950 |
Andor Lilienthal | 5 August 2010 (aged 99) | Last of the original FIDE chess grandmasters | |
Marlene Hagge | 16 May 2023 (aged 89) | Last founder of the LPGA | |
John Cairncross | 8 October 1995 (aged 82) | Last of the Cambridge Five | 1950s |
Adolf H. "Jazz" Maffie [211] | 25 September 1988 (aged 77) | Last convicted participant of the Great Brink's Robbery | 17 January 1950 |
T. M. Kaliannan [212] [213] | 28 May 2021 (aged 100) | Last member of the Constituent Assembly of India | 25 January 1950 |
Tony Rolt | 6 February 2008 (aged 89) | Last driver in the first World Championship Grand Prix [214] | 13 May 1950 |
Ludmila Brožová-Polednová [215] | 15 January 2015 (aged 93) | Last participant in Milada Horáková's trial | 8 June 1950 |
Alcides Ghiggia | 16 July 2015 (aged 88) | Last player of the winning team at the 1950 FIFA World Cup [216] | 16 July 1950 |
Robert Manzon | 19 January 2015 (aged 97) | Last driver to take part in the inaugural World Championship of Drivers [217] | 3 September 1950 |
Omar Bradley | 8 April 1981 (aged 88) | Last General of the Army and last American to hold a Five-star rank | 22 September 1950 |
Vincent Mroz [218] | 22 July 2008 (aged 86) | Last person involved in the shootout during the attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman | 1 November 1950 |
Ian Hamilton | 4 October 2022 (aged 97) | Last participant in the removal of the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey | 25 December 1950 |
Tsuzuko Sugawara | Living (age 97) | Last performer at the 1st NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen | 3 January 1951 |
Rokurō Tsuruta | 30 March 1997 (aged 80) | Last performer on the winning team at the 1st NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen | |
Nilla Pizzi | 12 March 2011 (aged 91) | Last performer at the 1st Sanremo Music Festival | 31 January 1951 |
Morton Sobell | 26 December 2018 (aged 101) | Last defendant in the Rosenberg spy trial | 5 April 1951 |
Andrew Fitzgerald [219] | 15 November 2018 (aged 86) | Last Coast Guard rescuer involved in the S.S. Pendleton rescue | 18 February 1952 |
Reginald Kray | 1 October 2000 (aged 66) | Last prisoner at the Tower of London | March 1952 |
Moon Fun Chin [220] | 9 May 2023 (aged 110) | Last CNAC pilot | May 1952 |
Luis Muñoz Rivera | 30 September 2006 (aged 90) | Last delegate to Puerto Rico's Constitutional Convention | 25 July 1952 |
Del Crandall [221] | 5 May 2021 (aged 91) | Last surviving member of the Boston Braves | 21 September 1952 |
Roman F. Tritz [222] | 31 July 2020 (aged 97) | Last known combat veteran to be lobotomized by the United States government | 1953 |
Nikolai Baibakov | 31 March 2008 (aged 97) | Last Soviet government minister who served during the Stalin Era | 5 March 1953 |
Nuritdin Mukhitdinov | 27 August 2008 (aged 90) | Last member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the Stalin Era | |
Kanchha Sherpa [223] | Living (age 91–92) | Last member of the 1953 British Everest Expedition | 29 May 1953 |
Clark Kerr | 1 December 2003 (aged 92) | Last member of the Kestnbaum Commission | 10 June 1953 |
William Kelly Harrison, Jr. | 29 May 1987 (aged 91) | Last signer of the Korean Armistice Agreement | 27 July 1953 |
Jackie Sewell | 26 September 2016 (aged 89) | Last player in the Match of the Century | 25 November 1953 |
Kenneth A. Roberts | 9 May 1989 (aged 76) | Last wounded congressman in the 1954 United States Capitol shooting incident | 1 March 1954 |
Rafael Cancel Miranda | 2 March 2020 (aged 89) | Last perpetrator in the 1954 United States Capitol shooting incident | |
Oishi Matashichi | 7 March 2021 (aged 87) | Last crew member of the Daigo Fukuryū Maru | |
Morton Prince [224] [225] [226] [227] [228] | late 2022 (aged 98) | Last inventor of Bell Labs' first solar cell | 25 April 1954 |
Zelma Henderson | 20 May 2008 (aged 88) | Last plaintiff in the Brown v. Board of Education case | 17 May 1954 |
David Rockefeller | 20 March 2017 (aged 101) | Last participant of the first Bilderberg Conference | 31 May 1954 |
Horst Eckel | 3 December 2021 (aged 89) | Last surviving player of the 1954 World Cup winning West German team [229] | 4 July 1954 |
Bobby Shantz | Living (age 99) | Last surviving member of the Philadelphia A's | 26 September 1954 |
Hermano da Silva Ramos | Living (age 98) | Last participant of 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans | 11 June 1955 |
Richard Harding Poff | 27 June 2011 (aged 87) | Last signer of the Southern Manifesto | 12 March 1956 |
Robert Siatka | Living (age 90) | Last footballer of the 1956 European Cup Final | 13 June 1956 |
Francisco Gento | 18 January 2022 (aged 88) | Last winner of the 1956 European Cup Final, the inaugural UEFA Champions League, and of the 1957 European Cup Final | |
Albert Woolson [230] | 2 August 1956 (aged 106) | Last member of the Grand Army of the Republic | 2 August 1956 |
Roger Baldwin [231] | 10 January 2021 (aged 91) | Last of the Four Horsemen of Aberdeen | September 1956 |
Jerry Lee Lewis | 28 October 2022 (aged 87) | Last member of the Million Dollar Quartet | 4 December 1956 |
Jonathan Williams [232] | 16 March 2008 (aged 79) | Last of the Black Mountain poets | 1957 |
Johannes von Trapp | Living (age 85) | Last of the Trapp Family Singers | |
Maurice Faure [233] | 6 March 2014 (aged 92) | Last signer of the Treaty of Rome | 25 March 1957 |
Alberto Orzan | 9 August 2022 (aged 91) | Last player of the 1957 European Cup Final | 30 May 1957 |
Gordon Moore | 24 March 2023 (aged 94) | Last member of the Traitorous eight who founded Silicon Valley | 18 September 1957 |
Bobby Charlton | 21 October 2023 (aged 86) | Last Manchester United F.C. player to survive the Munich air disaster | 6 February 1958 |
Neil Armstrong | 25 August 2012 (aged 82) | Last astronaut candidate selected for Man in Space Soonest | 25 June 1958 |
Mário Zagallo | 5 January 2024 (aged 92) | Last surviving player of the 1958 World Cup final winning Brazilian team [234] | 29 June 1958 |
Kurt Hamrin | 4 February 2024 (aged 89) | Last surviving player of the 1958 World Cup final | |
Alvils Gulbis | 27 February 2021 (aged 84) | Last winner of the 1958 FIBA European Champions Cup, the inaugural EuroLeague season | 19 July 1958 |
Oscar Holderer [235] | 5 May 2015 (aged 95) | Last surviving engineer of Wernher von Braun's German rocket team | 1959 |
Dorothea Schlidt [236] | 10 May 2021 (aged 100) | Last surviving member of Wernher von Braun's German rocket team | |
George Mikan | 1 June 2005 (aged 80) | Last surviving individual member of the inaugural induction class of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame [d] | |
Bill Hastie [237] | 7 November 2020 (aged 101) [238] | Last survivor of the Knox Mine Disaster | 22 January 1959 |
Yuri Yudin | 27 April 2013 (aged 75) | Last (and only) survivor of the Dyatlov Pass incident | 2 February 1959 |
Jimmy Cobb | 24 May 2020 (aged 91) | Last player in the Kind of Blue recording sessions | 22 April 1959 |
Go Gien Tjwan | 27 September 2018 (aged 98) | Last known member of the Constitutional Assembly of Indonesia | 5 July 1959 |
Barron Hilton | 19 September 2019 (aged 91) | Last member of the Foolish Club, the 8 original franchise owners of American Football League teams | 14 August 1959 |
Anatoly Kryuchkovsky [239] | Living (age 84) | Last crew member of Self-propelled barge T-36 | 7 March 1960 |
Boris Volynov | Living (age 89) | Last living member of the First Squad of Soviet Cosmonauts | |
Kurt Diemberger | Living (age 92) | Last person to make the first ascents on two mountains over 8,000 metres | 25 May 1960 |
Viktor Ponedelnik | 5 December 2020 (aged 83) | Last winner of the 1960 European Nations' Cup, the inaugural UEFA European Championship | 10 July 1960 |
Željko Matuš | Living (age 89) | Last football player in the 1960 European Nations' Cup Final, the inaugural UEFA European Championship final | |
Sander Vanocur | 16 September 2019 (aged 91) | Last on-screen participant in the first Kennedy-Nixon presidential debate | 26 September 1960 |
Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended |
---|---|---|---|
C. R. Swart | 16 July 1982 (aged 87) | Last Governor-General of South Africa | 30 April 1961 |
Antonio Imbert Barrera [240] | 31 May 2016 (aged 95) | Last participant in the assassination of Rafael Trujillo | 30 May 1961 |
Boujemaa Jdaini Larguet [241] | 22 April 2022 (aged 91) | Last founding member of FIBA Africa | 14 June 1961 |
Mikhail Krasichkov | 18 June 2009 (aged 76) | Last survivor of Soviet submarine K-19 nuclear incident | 4 July 1961 |
Dorothy Height | 20 April 2010 (aged 98) | Last member of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women | 14 December 1961 |
Millito Navarro [242] | 30 April 2011 (aged 105) | Last surviving player of the Negro American League | 26 August 1962 [243] |
Ted Sorensen | 31 October 2010 (aged 82) | Last member of EXCOMM during the Cuban Missile Crisis | 28 October 1962 |
Ken Weller [244] | 25 January 2021 (aged 85) | Last member of the Spies for Peace | April 1963 [245] |
John Glenn | 8 December 2016 (aged 95) | Last astronaut who flew in Project Mercury | 16 May 1963 |
Valentina Tereshkova | Living (age 87) | Last cosmonaut who flew in a Vostok mission | 19 June 1963 |
Audrey Nell Edwards [246] | Living (age 77–78) | Last member of the St. Augustine Four | 18 July 1963 |
Bob Welch | 2 November 2023 (aged 94) | Last known participant in the Great Train Robbery [247] | 8 August 1963 |
John Lewis | 17 July 2020 (aged 80) | Last speaker at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and last member of the Big Six | 28 August 1963 |
Sammy Baugh | 17 December 2008 (aged 94) | Last surviving member of the inaugural induction class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame | 7 September 1963 |
Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. | 26 June 2020 (aged 82) | Last perpetrator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing | 15 September 1963 |
Nnamdi Azikiwe | 11 May 1996 (aged 91) | Last Governor-General of Nigeria | 1 October 1963 |
Clint Hill | Living (age 92) | Last passenger of John F. Kennedy's presidential limousine after Kennedy was shot | 22 November 1963 |
Bill Moyers | Living (age 90) | Last person identifiable in the photograph of Lyndon B. Johnson's first inauguration | |
Andrew Wyeth | 16 January 2009 (aged 91) | Last living recipient of the inaugural Presidential Medal of Freedom | 6 December 1963 |
Albert H. Crews | Living (age 95) | Last astronaut from the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar program | 10 December 1963 |
Ferdie Pacheco [248] | 16 November 2017 (aged 89) | Last official participant in the first Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston boxing match [e] | 25 February 1964 |
James Ramsden | 29 March 2020 (aged 96) | Last Secretary of State for War | 1 April 1964 |
Dwight Ink | 17 October 2021 (aged 99) | Last member of the President's Review Committee for Development Planning in Alaska | 2 April 1964 |
Marcelino "Martín Villa" Trujillo [249] [250] | 8 February 2016 (aged 83) | Last founding member of the FARC | 27 May 1964 |
Andrew Mlangeni | 21 July 2020 (aged 95) | Last Rivonia Trialist | 12 June 1964 |
Birch Bayh | 14 March 2019 (aged 91) | Last United States Senator to vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 | 19 June 1964 |
Edgar Ray Killen | 11 January 2018 (aged 92) | Last person convicted for the Mississippi Burning murders | 21 June 1964 [f] |
Gerald Ford | 26 December 2006 (aged 93) | Last member of the Warren Commission | 24 September 1964 |
Suhardiman | 13 December 2015 (aged 90) | Last signer of the declaration of the Golkar | 20 October 1964 |
Alexei Leonov | 11 October 2019 (aged 85) | Last member of the Voskhod programme | 19 March 1965 |
John Young | 5 January 2018 (aged 87) | Last crew member of Gemini 3, the first spaceflight conducted by two American astronauts | 23 March 1965 |
Max William Fine [251] [252] | 19 April 2019 (aged 92) | Last surviving member of John F. Kennedy's Task Force on Health and Social Security for the American People | 30 July 1965 |
Marjorie Tallchief [253] | 30 November 2021 (aged 95) | Last of the Five Moons | 1966 [254] |
Alberto Moravia | 26 September 1990 (aged 82) | Last author formerly listed on the Index of Forbidden Books | 14 June 1966 |
Geoff Hurst | Living (age 82) | Last footballer of the 1966 FIFA World Cup final winning team [255] [256] | 30 July 1966 |
Waldemar Levy Cardoso | 13 May 2009 (aged 108) | Last Marshal of Brazil | 1967 |
Alexei Romanoff [257] | Living (age 88–89) | Last surviving participant of the 1967 civil demonstration at the Black Cat Tavern | 11 February 1967 |
Artati Marzuki-Sudirdjo | 15 June 2011 (aged 90) | Last minister who served in Sukarno's regime | 12 March 1967 |
Stylianos Pattakos | 8 October 2016 (aged 103) | Last leader of the 1967 Greek coup d'état and subsequent military junta | 21 April 1967 |
James A. Abrahamson | Living (age 91) | Last astronaut from Manned Orbiting Laboratory Group 3 | 30 June 1967 |
Ed Herlihy [258] | 30 January 1999 (aged 89) | Last American narrator of a newsreel | 24 October 1967 [259] |
John Minor Wisdom | 15 May 1999 (aged 93) | Last of the Fifth Circuit Four | 1968 |
Fred R. Harris [260] | Living (age 93) | Last living member of the Kerner Commission | 29 February 1968 [261] |
Walter Cunningham | 3 January 2023 (aged 90) | Last crew member of Apollo 7 | 22 October 1968 |
Joe Engle | 10 July 2024 (aged 91) | Last X-15 pilot | 24 October 1968 |
Ralph Leonard Starkey | 2 February 2019 (aged 91) | Last survivor of the Farmington Mine No.9 Disaster | 20 November 1968 |
Jim Lovell | Living (age 96) | Last crew member of Apollo 8 | 27 December 1968 |
George F. Kennan | 17 March 2005 (aged 101) | Last surviving member of the "Wise Men" | 1969 |
Thomas P. Stafford | 18 March 2024 (aged 93) | Last crew member of Apollo 10 | 26 May 1969 |
Buzz Aldrin | Living (age 94) | Last crew member of Apollo 11 | 24 July 1969 |
Alan Bean | 26 May 2018 (aged 86) | Last crew member of Apollo 12 | 24 November 1969 |
Joe DeRita | 3 July 1993 (aged 83) | Last member of The Three Stooges | 5 February 1970 |
Richard Schultz [262] | Living (age 86–87) | Last living attorney from either side of the Chicago Seven trial | 18 February 1970 |
Farimang Mamadi Singateh | 19 May 1977 (aged 64) | Last Governor-General of the Gambia | 24 April 1970 |
Edgar Mitchell | 4 February 2016 (aged 85) | Last crew member of Apollo 14 | 9 February 1971 |
Aleksei Yeliseyev | Living (age 90) | Last cosmonaut to dock with Salyut 1, the world's first space station | 24 April 1971 |
David Scott | Living (age 92) | Last crew member of Apollo 15 | 7 August 1971 |
Nurul Amin | 2 October 1974 (aged 81) | Last Prime Minister of both the East and West wings of Pakistan | 16 December 1971 |
Charles Duke | Living (age 89) | Last crew member of Apollo 16 | 27 April 1972 |
William Gopallawa | 31 January 1981 (aged 84) | Last Governor-General of Ceylon | 22 May 1972 |
G. Gordon Liddy | 30 March 2021 (aged 90) | Last member of the original Watergate Seven | 17 June 1972 |
Edward Bernard Raczyński | 30 July 1993 (aged 101) | Last member of the Rada Trzech | 8 July 1972 |
Ernest Hendon [263] | 16 January 2004 (aged 96) | Last survivor of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study | November 1972 |
Harrison Schmitt | Living (age 89) | Last crew member of Apollo 17 | 19 December 1972 |
Holly Woodlawn [264] | 6 December 2015 (aged 69) | Last of the Warhol superstars | 1973 |
Idham Chalid | 11 July 2010 (aged 88) | Last signer of the declaration of the United Development Party | 5 January 1973 |
Sabam Sirait | 29 September 2021 (aged 84) | Last signer of the declaration of the Indonesian Democratic Party | 11 January 1973 |
Joseph P. Kerwin | Living (age 92) | Last crew member of Skylab 2, the first manned mission to Skylab | 22 June 1973 |
Jack R. Lousma | Living (age 88) | Last crew member of Skylab 3 | 25 September 1973 |
William Ruckelshaus | 27 November 2019 (aged 87) | Last government official involved in the Saturday Night Massacre | 20 October 1973 |
Edward Gibson | Living (age 88) | Last crew member of Skylab 4, the final manned mission to Skylab | 8 February 1974 |
Gordon C. Strachan | Living (age 81) | Last member of the second Watergate Seven | 1 March 1974 |
Larry C. Green [265] | Living (age 72–73) | Last convicted "Zebra murderer" | 1 May 1974 |
Lowell Weicker | 28 June 2023 (aged 92) | Last member of the United States Senate Watergate Committee | 27 June 1974 |
Ronald Reagan | 5 June 2004 (aged 93) | Last member of the Rockefeller Commission | 1975 |
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu | 29 September 2001 (aged 78) | Last president of the Republic of Vietnam | 30 April 1975 |
Khamtai Siphandone | Living (age 100) | Last Pathet Lao leader in the Vietnam War | |
Vance D. Brand | Living (age 93) | Last crew member of Apollo-Soyuz | 24 July 1975 |
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing | 2 December 2020 (aged 94) | Last signer of the Helsinki Accords | 1 August 1975 |
Fernando Suárez González | 29 April 2024 (aged 90) | Last minister who had served in Francisco Franco's regime | 20 November 1975 |
José Alberty Correia | 9 June 2011 (aged 94) | Last Governor of Portuguese Timor | 28 November 1975 |
Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended |
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Gary Hart | Living (age 87) | Last member of the Church Committee | April 1976 |
Yao Wenyuan [266] | 23 December 2005 (aged 74) | Last member of China's Gang of Four | 6 October 1976 |
Douglas MacDiarmid [267] | 26 August 2020 (aged 97) | Last surviving member of The Group | 1977 |
Ollie Johnston | 14 April 2008 (aged 95) | Last of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men | 22 June 1977 |
Larry Newman | 20 December 2010 (aged 63) | Last crew member of the Double Eagle II | 17 August 1978 |
Marian Anderson | 8 April 1993 (aged 96) | Last honoree of the inaugural Kennedy Center Honors | 5 December 1978 |
Khieu Samphan | Living (age 93) | Last senior member of the Khmer Rouge | 7 January 1979 |
Timothy Knatchbull | Living (age 59) | Last survivor of the assassination of Lord Mountbatten | 27 August 1979 |
Walter Philip Leber | 3 August 2009 (aged 90) | Last surviving Governor of the Panama Canal Zone | 30 September 1979 |
Luz Isabel Cuevas | 6 May 2014 (aged 91) [268] | Last witness to the assassination of El Salvadorian bishop Óscar Romero | 24 March 1980 |
Vladimir Bakarić [269] | 16 January 1983 (aged 70) | Last member of Josip Broz Tito's inner circle | 4 May 1980 |
Angeline Nanni [270] [271] | 27 August 2019 (aged 101) | Last member of the Venona project | 1 October 1980 |
Pierre Blet [272] | 29 November 2009 (aged 91) | Last compiler of the Actes et documents du Saint Siège relatifs à la Seconde Guerre Mondiale | 1981 |
Robert Crippen | Living (age 87) | Last crew member of STS-1, first flight of the Space Shuttle program aboard space shuttle Columbia | 14 April 1981 |
Hedwig Michel [273] | 5 August 1982 (aged 90) | Last member of the Koreshan Unity | 5 August 1982 |
Mikhail Gorbachev [274] | 30 August 2022 (aged 91) | Last living member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the Brezhnev Era | 10 November 1982 |
Last head of state of the Soviet Union | 25 December 1991 | ||
Story Musgrave | Living (age 89) | Last crew member of STS-6, the first flight of space shuttle Challenger | 9 April 1983 |
Jerry Lee Lewis | 28 October 2022 (aged 87) | Last member of the inaugural induction class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | 23 January 1986 |
Vladimir Solovyov | Living (age 77) | Last crew member of Soyuz T-15, the first crew to visit the Mir space station and the last crew to visit the Salyut 7 space station | 16 July 1986 |
Vasilije Krestić | Living (age 92) | Last signer of SANU Memorandum, which started the Breakup of Yugoslavia | September 1986 |
Brian Willson | Living (age 83) | Last participant in the Veterans Fast For Life protest | 17 October 1986 |
Joey Bishop | 17 October 2007 (aged 89) | Last of the original Rat Pack | 1988 [275] |
Suharto | 27 January 2008 (aged 86) | Last Commander of Order and Security | 5 September 1988 |
Last awarded Jenderal Besar TNI | 5 October 1997 | ||
Gheorghe Apostol | 21 August 2010 (aged 97) | Last signer of the Letter of the Six | March 1989 |
Karel Urbánek | Living (age 83) | Last General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia | 20 December 1989 |
Egon Krenz | Living (age 87) | Last Chairman of the State Council of East Germany | 5 April 1990 |
Stanislav Hurenko | 14 April 2013 (aged 76) | Last First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR | 1 September 1991 |
Al D'Amato | Living (age 87) | Last member of the President's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism | 27 September 1991 |
Petar Matić Dule | 4 October 2024 (aged 104) | Last People's Hero of Yugoslavia | 29 September 1991 |
Vadim Bakatin | 31 July 2022 (aged 84) | Last Chairman of the KGB | 16 November 1991 |
Vitold Fokin | Living (age 92) | Last signer of the Belovezh Accords that put an end to the Soviet Union | 8 December 1991 |
Dmitry Yazov | 25 February 2020 (aged 95) | Last Marshal of the Soviet Union | 26 December 1991 |
Baudouin of Belgium | 31 July 1993 (aged 62) | Last knight of the Supreme Order of Christ | 31 July 1993 |
Cornelius Botha | 6 February 2014 (aged 81) | Last administrator of the Province of Natal | 27 April 1994 |
F. W. de Klerk | 11 November 2021 (aged 85) | Last leader of the apartheid government of South Africa and last State President | 10 May 1994 |
Wan Li | 15 July 2015 (aged 98) | Last member of China's Eight Elders | February 1997 |
Alberto Alemán Zubieta [276] | Living (age 73) | Last Administrator of the Panama Canal Commission | 31 December 1999 |
Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended |
---|---|---|---|
Bretagne | 6 June 2016 (aged 16) | Last 9/11 rescue dog. [277] | 20 September 2001 [g] |
Kwai Ping-hung | Living (age 64) | Last mobster of Hong Kong's 'King of Thieves' [278] | 24 December 2003 |
Charles Rangel | Living (age 94) | Last member of the Gang of Four (Harlem) | 2010 |
Ruth Klein [279] [280] | 14 August 2012 (aged 80) | Last member of the Panacea Society | 14 August 2012 |
A few of the individuals listed above are pictured here, for visual reference. Each picture is captioned.
The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed crossing of the East River. It was also the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time of its opening, with a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m) and a deck 127 ft (38.7 m) above mean high water. The span was originally called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge or the East River Bridge but was officially renamed the Brooklyn Bridge in 1915.
Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue and theater at 1260 Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Nicknamed "The Showplace of the Nation", it is the headquarters for the Rockettes. Radio City Music Hall was designed by Edward Durell Stone and Donald Deskey in the Art Deco style.
The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is a suspension bridge connecting the New York City boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn. It spans the Narrows, a body of water linking the relatively enclosed New York Harbor with Lower New York Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only fixed crossing of the Narrows. The double-deck bridge carries 13 lanes of Interstate 278: seven on the upper level and six on the lower level. The span is named for Giovanni da Verrazzano, who in 1524 was the first European explorer to enter New York Harbor and the Hudson River.
The Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) is a 13.8-mile (22.2 km) rapid transit system in the northeastern New Jersey cities of Newark, Harrison, Jersey City, and Hoboken, as well as Lower and Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. PATH trains run around the clock year-round; four routes serving 13 stations operate during the daytime on weekdays, while two routes operate during weekends, late nights, and holidays. It crosses the Hudson River through cast iron tunnels that rest on a bed of silt on the river bottom. It operates as a deep-level subway in Manhattan and the Jersey City/Hoboken riverfront; from Grove Street in Jersey City to Newark, trains run in open cuts, at grade level, and on elevated track. In 2023, the system saw 55,109,100 rides, or about 185,600 per weekday in the second quarter of 2024, making it the fifth-busiest rapid transit system in the United States.
The MetLife Building is a skyscraper at Park Avenue and 45th Street, north of Grand Central Terminal, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, United States. Designed in the International style by Richard Roth, Walter Gropius, and Pietro Belluschi and completed in 1962, the MetLife Building is 808 feet (246 m) tall with 59 stories. It was advertised as the world's largest commercial office space by square footage at its opening, with 2.4 million square feet (220,000 m2) of usable office space. As of November 2022, the MetLife Building remains one of the 100 tallest buildings in the United States.
The New York Marriott World Trade Center was a 22-story 825-room hotel within the original World Trade Center complex in Manhattan, New York City. Situated on the original Three World Trade Center, It opened in April 1981 as the Vista International Hotel and was the first major hotel to open in Lower Manhattan south of Canal Street since 1836. In November 1995, it was bought by Marriott Corporation and renamed the Marriott World Trade Center.
Castle Clinton is a restored circular sandstone fort within Battery Park at the southern end of Manhattan in New York City, United States. Built from 1808 to 1811, it was the first American immigration station, predating Ellis Island. More than 7.5 million people arrived in the United States at Fort Clinton between 1855 and 1890. Over its active life, it has also functioned as a beer garden, exhibition hall, theater, and public aquarium. The structure is a New York City designated landmark and a U.S. national monument, and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Hart Island, sometimes referred to as Hart's Island, is located at the western end of Long Island Sound, in the northeastern Bronx in New York City. Measuring approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) long by 0.33 miles (0.53 km) wide, Hart Island is part of the Pelham Islands archipelago and is east of City Island.
One Times Square is a 25-story, 363-foot-high (111 m) skyscraper on Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz in the neo-Gothic style, the tower was built in 1903–1904 as the headquarters of The New York Times. It takes up the city block bounded by Seventh Avenue, 42nd Street, Broadway, and 43rd Street. The building's design has been heavily modified throughout the years, and all of its original architectural detail has since been removed. One Times Square's primary design features are the advertising billboards on its facade, added in the 1990s. Due to the large amount of revenue generated by its signage, One Times Square is one of the most valuable advertising locations in the world.
The Palace Theatre is a Broadway theater at 1564 Broadway, at the north end of Times Square, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Milwaukee architects Kirchhoff & Rose, the theater was funded by Martin Beck and opened in 1913. From its opening to about 1929, the Palace was considered among vaudeville performers as the flagship venue of Benjamin Franklin Keith and Edward Franklin Albee II's organization. The theater had 1,648 seats across three levels as of 2018.
The St. James Theatre, originally Erlanger's Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 246 West 44th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1927, it was designed by Warren and Wetmore in a neo-Georgian style and was constructed for A. L. Erlanger. It has 1,709 seats across three levels and is operated by ATG Entertainment. Both the facade and the auditorium interior are New York City landmarks.
The Gershwin Theatre is a Broadway theater at 222 West 51st Street, on the second floor of the Paramount Plaza office building, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Opened in 1972, it is operated by the Nederlander Organization and is named after brothers George and Ira Gershwin, who wrote several Broadway musicals. The Gershwin is Broadway's largest theater, with approximately 1,933 seats across two levels. Over the years, it has hosted musicals, dance companies, and concerts.
The 59th Street–Columbus Circle station is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and the IND Eighth Avenue Line. It is located at Columbus Circle in Manhattan, where 59th Street, Broadway and Eighth Avenue intersect, and serves Central Park, the Upper West Side, Hell's Kitchen, and Midtown Manhattan. The station is served by the 1, A, and D trains at all times; the C train at all times except late nights; the B train during weekdays until 11:00 p.m.; and the 2 train during late nights.
The Broadway Theatre is a Broadway theater at 1681 Broadway in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1924, the theater was designed by Eugene De Rosa for Benjamin S. Moss, who originally operated the venue as a movie theater. It has approximately 1,763 seats across two levels and is operated by The Shubert Organization. The Broadway Theatre is one of the few Broadway theaters that is physically on Broadway.
The Nederlander Theatre is a Broadway theater at 208 West 41st Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1921, it was designed by William Neil Smith for theatrical operator Walter C. Jordan. It has around 1,235 seats across two levels and is operated by the Nederlander Organization. Since 1980, it has been named for American theater impresario David Tobias Nederlander, father of theatrical producer James M. Nederlander. It is the southernmost Broadway theater in the Theater District.
The Roundabout Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, affiliated with the League of Resident Theatres.
The 42nd Street–Bryant Park/Fifth Avenue station is an underground New York City Subway station complex, consisting of stations on the IRT Flushing Line and IND Sixth Avenue Line. Located at 42nd Street between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, it is served by the 7, D and F trains at all times, the B and M trains on weekdays, and the <7> and <F> trains during rush hours in the peak direction. A free passageway from the IND platforms to the Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal station, served by the 1, 2, 3, 7, <7>, A, C, E, N, Q, R, W, and S trains is open during the day from 6 a.m. to 12 a.m. Only the Times Square transfers are announced on NTT trains.
Politico, known originally as The Politico, is an American political digital newspaper company. Founded by American banker and media executive Robert Allbritton in 2007, it covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally, with publications dedicated to politics in the U.S., European Union, United Kingdom, and Canada, among others. Primarily providing distributed news, analysis and opinion online, it also produces printed newspapers, radio, and podcasts. Its coverage focuses on topics such as the federal government, lobbying and the media.
The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a 25-acre (10 ha) public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing New York Harbor. It is bounded by Battery Place on the north, with Bowling Green to the northeast, State Street on the east, New York Harbor to the south, and the Hudson River to the west. The park contains attractions such as an early 19th-century fort named Castle Clinton; multiple monuments; and the SeaGlass Carousel. The surrounding area, known as South Ferry, contains multiple ferry terminals, including the Staten Island Ferry's Whitehall Terminal; a boat launch to the Statue of Liberty National Monument ; and a boat launch to Governors Island.
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