List of last survivors of historical events

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Buzz Aldrin is the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 crew.

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.

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.

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Before 1701

Name	Death	Distinction	Date ended
Narmer (possibly Menes)	c. 3100 BC	Last King of Upper Egypt and first Pharaoh of Unified Egypt	3150 BC
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus	c. 495 BC	Last King of Rome (Etruscan Era)	509 BC
Darius III	July 330 BC (aged ~50)	Last monarch of the Achaemenid Empire	330 BC
Seleucus I Nicator	c. September 281 BC (aged ~77)	Last of the original Diadochi of Alexander the Great	11 June 323 BC
Ankhmakis	c. 185 BC	Last native Egyptian Pharaoh	c. 185 BC
Junius Blaesus	AD 31 (aged 64)	Last Imperator (and subsequently Triumphator) to win those titles without serving as Roman Emperor	AD 31
John the Apostle	c. 100 (aged 93–94)	Last Apostle	c. 33
		Last witness to the Crucifixion
Julian the Apostate	26 June 363 (aged 32)	Last pagan Roman Emperor	26 June 363
Romulus Augustulus	c. 507	Last Western Roman Emperor	4 September 476
Wehha of East Anglia	c. 571	Last native Saxon invader in the British Isles	493-560s
Anas ibn Malik	712 (aged c. 103)	Last surviving companion of Muhammad	8 June 632
Abu l-Tufayl	c. 720s (aged ~ 100)	Last living eyewitness who had seen Muhammad during his lifetime
Yazdegerd III	651 (aged 27)	Last monarch of the Sasanian Empire	651
Childeric III	c. 754 (aged ~37)	Last Frankish king from the Merovingian dynasty	March 751
Alfred the Great	26 October 899 (aged ~51)	Last King of Wessex and first King of the Anglo-Saxons	886
Æthelstan	27 October 939 (aged ~45)	Last King of the Anglo-Saxons and first King of the English	927
Pope John XII	14 May 964 (aged 27–34)	Last Pope elected of the Pornocracy	16 December 955
Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois	23 September 1123 (aged ~40)	Last member of the Carolingian dynasty	c. 1020
Mstislav I of Kiev		Last ruler of united Kievan Rus'	14 April 1132
Henry I of England	1 December 1135 (aged 66–67)	Last member of the House of Normandy	1 December 1135
Alfonso VII of León and Castile	21 August 1157 (aged 52)	Last Emperor of All Spain	21 August 1157
Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair	2 December 1198 (aged ~82)	Last High King of Ireland before the Norman invasion	2 December 1198
Swietopelk II, Duke of Pomerania	11 January 1266 (aged 66–76)	Last participant of the Gąsawa massacre	24 November 1227
Pope Honorius IV	3 April 1287 (aged 76–77)	Last married Pope	3 April 1287
Kyawswa of Pagan	10 May 1299 (aged 38)	Last monarch of the Kingdom of Pagan	17 December 1297
Guillaume Bélibaste	1321	Last Cathar Perfect	1321
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York	1 August 1402 (aged 61)	Last Issue of Edward III of England	7 January 1355
Henry IV of England	20 March 1413 (aged 45)	Last of the Lords Appellant	1388
Pope Urban VI	15 October 1389 (age 70–71)	Last Non-Cardinal elected Pope	15 October 1389
Ponhea Yat	c. 1463 (aged 68–69)	Last monarch of the Khmer Empire	c. 1431
Antipope Felix V	7 January 1451 (aged 67)	Last major Antipope who had the support of at least one Cardinal	7 April 1449
Sophia Palaiologina	7 April 1503 (aged 54–63)	Last member of the Imperial Byzantine court	29 May 1453
Henry VI of England	21 May 1471 (aged 49)	Last sovereign of the Hundred Years' War	19 October 1453
Richard III of England	22 August 1485 (aged 32)	Last English monarch to be killed in battle	22 August 1485
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury	27 May 1541 (aged 67)	Last Plantagenet
		Last member of the House of York
Catherine Cornaro	10 July 1510 (aged 55)	Last monarch of the Kingdom of Cyprus	14 March 1489
Sancho de Tovar	c. 1547 (aged 75–82)	Last known member of the Second Portuguese India Armada	9 March 1500
		Last known witness to the Discovery of Brazil	22 April 1500
Pope Alexander VI	18 August 1503 (age 72)	Last Borgia Pope	18 August 1503
James IV of Scotland	9 September 1513 (aged 40)	Last British monarch to be killed in battle	9 September 1513
Cuauhtémoc	1525 (age 27–28)	Last Aztec Emperor	13 August 1521
Ibrahim Lodhi	21 April 1526 (aged 45–46)	Last Sultan of Delhi	21 April 1526
Don Mancio Serra de Leguízamo	18 September 1589 (aged 78)	Last known conquistador who participated in the capture of Atahualpa	16 November 1532
Atahualpa	26 July 1533 (aged 31)	Last Sapa Inca	26 July 1533
António, Prior of Crato	26 August 1595 (aged 64)	Last noble of the House of Aviz	31 January 1580
Bastiano de Rossi	1627 (aged 70–71)	Last founder of the Accademia della Crusca	October 1582
Elizabeth I	24 March 1603 (aged 69)	Last Tudor monarch and last member of the Tudor dynasty	24 March 1603
Francesco Stelluti	November 1652 (aged 75)	Last founder of the Accademia dei Lincei	17 August 1603
Edward Wightman		Last person to be burned at the stake in England for heresy	11 April 1612
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
Richard Bellingham	7 December 1672 (aged 80)	Last signer of the Massachusetts Colonial Charter	4 March 1629
William Hubbard	24 September 1704 (aged 82–83)	Last member of Harvard's inaugural graduating class	3 October 1642
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
Francisco Barreto de Meneses	21 January 1688 (aged ~72)	Last known commander Portuguese Brazilian of the Pernambuco Insurrection	16 February 1649
Johann Michael Fehr	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
Françoise Marie de Bourbon	1 February 1749 (aged 72)	Last issue of Louis XIV of France	6 June 1678
Andrew Marvell	6 August 1678 (aged 57)	Last Member of Parliament who received a salary from his constituents	6 August 1678
Charles François Dolu	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		Last Briton executed for blasphemy	8 January 1697

^†According to the consensus of modern Biblical studies and 1st century historians, this distinction is not verifiable, but instead is to be considered accurate according to tradition.

1701–1800

Name	Death	Distinction	Date ended
Anne, Queen of Great Britain		Last monarch of an independent Scotland	1 May 1707
		Last British Sovereign to refuse royal assent to a bill	11 March 1708
José de Solís y Gante		Last founder of the Royal Spanish Academy	3 August 1713
Peter the Great		Last Tsar of Russia and first Emperor of All Russia	22 October 1721
John Fortescue	9 May 1808 (aged 87)	Last sailor who took part in George Anson's voyage around the world	15 June 1744
Mahadhammaraza Dipadi		Last monarch of the Taungoo dynasty (Burma)	22 March 1752
William Smith		Last founder of the New York Society Library	March 1754
Kirill Razumovski		Last Hetman of Zaporizhian Host on both sides of the Dnieper	17 November 1764
Uthumphon	1796 (aged ~63)	Last surviving monarch of the Ayutthaya Kingdom (Siam)	7 April 1767
George Dance the Younger		Last founder of the Royal Academy of Arts	10 December 1768
George Robert Twelves Hewes		Last survivor of the Boston Massacre	5 March 1770
		Last participant of the Boston Tea party	16 December 1773
Isaac Smith		Last participant of James Cook's first voyage	12 July 1771
Ephraim Bowen		Last individual involved in the Gaspée Affair	10 June 1772
John Jay		Last signer of the Continental Association	20 October 1774
		Last signer of the Treaty of Paris	3 September 1783
John Hatley		Last participant of James Cook's second voyage	30 July 1775
Charles Carroll		Last signer of the United States Declaration of Independence	4 July 1776
Sir John Wentworth		Last British colonial governor of the Thirteen Colonies
Conrad Heyer		Last crew member of George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River	26 December 1776
David Cobb		Last charter member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences	4 May 1780
William Ellery		Last signer of the Articles of Confederation	1 March 1781
James Calthorpe		Last Yeoman of the Removing Wardrobe	1782
Şahin Giray		Last ruling Khan of the Crimean Khanate	8 April 1783
James Madison		Last signer of The United States Constitution	17 September 1787
Barthélemy de Lesseps		Last participant of the scientific expedition led by Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse	1788
Elizabeth Thackery		Last survivor of the First Fleet	20 January 1788
John Armstrong Jr.		Last delegate to the Continental Congress	2 March 1789
John Adams		Last mutineer of HMS Bounty	28 April 1789
Padre Manuel Rodrigues da Costa		Last member of the Inconfidência Mineira	15 June 1789
Arthur Dardenne		Last participant of the Storming of the Bastille	14 July 1789
Joseph-Marie Vien		Last First painter to the King	3 September 1791
Antoine Claire Thibaudeau		Last member of the National Convention during the French Revolution to vote in the trial of Louis XVI	15 January 1793
		Last President of the National Convention during the French Revolution	3 November 1795
Bertrand Barère		Last member of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution	27 October 1795
Ludovico Manin		Last Doge of Venice	12 May 1797
Giuseppe Maria Doria		Last surviving Doge of Genoa	17 June 1797
Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai		Last member of the French Directory	10 December 1799

1801–1850

Name	Death	Distinction	Date ended
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès		Last member of the French Consulate	18 May 1804
Samuel Miller		Last founder of the New-York Historical Society	20 November 1804
Francis II		Last Holy Roman Emperor	6 August 1806
Patrick Gass		Last member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition	23 September 1806
Henry Benedict Stuart		Last surviving member of the House of Stuart	13 July 1807
Henry Goulburn		Last signer of the Treaty of Ghent	24 December 1814
Carolyn Poulder King	28 June 1938 (aged 89)	Last widow of a War of 1812 veteran	17 February 1815
Esther Ann Hill Morgan		Last recipient of a War of 1812 pension
André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin		Last delegate to the Congress of Vienna	9 June 1815
Pratap Singh		Last Emperor of the Maratha Empire	1818
Seth Weeks		Last survivor of the sinking of the whaleship Essex	20 November 1820
Joaquim José de Sousa Breves		Last witness of the Cry of Ipiranga	7 September 1822
Dmitry Zavalishin		Last member of the Decembrist movement	14 December 1825
John Whitmer		Last of the Eight Witnesses	2 July 1829
Ramón Castilla y Marquesado		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		Last signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence	2 March 1836
Alijo Perez Jr.		Last Texian survivor of the Battle of the Alamo	6 March 1836
Jean-Paul, comte de Schramm		Last of the 660 persons whose names are inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe	29 July 1836
Thomas Patrickson		Last participant of the Second voyage of HMS Beagle	2 October 1836
Rebecca Tickaneesky Neugin		Last Cherokee survivor of the Trail of Tears	1839
Milvern Harrell		Last Texian survivor of the Dawson Massacre	17 September 1842
François X. Matthieu		Last participant at the Champoeg Meetings	2 May 1843
Walter T. Avery		Last participant of the first official baseball game	19 June 1846
Margaret Isabella Breen McMahon		Last survivor of the Donner Party	29 April 1847
James Stephens Brown		Last witness to the discovery of Gold at Sutter's Mill	28 January 1848
Charlotte L. Woodward Peirce		Last participant in the Seneca Falls Convention	20 July 1848
		Last signer of the Declaration of Sentiments

1851–1900

Name	Death	Distinction	Date ended
Thomas Kelly		Last survivor of the Birkenhead disaster	26 February 1852
Edwin Hughes		Last participant in the Charge of the Light Brigade	25 October 1854
Bahadur Shah Zafar		Last Mughal Emperor	14 September 1857
Teodolfo Mertel		Last non-priest cardinal	15 March 1858
Pressley Corbin Hyman		Last witness to the Broderick–Terry duel	13 September 1859
Owen Brown		Last abolitionist present at John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry	18 October 1859
George Pilson		Last witness at Harpers Ferry
Matilda McCrear	January 1940 (aged c. 83)	Last human cargo of the slave ship Clotilda	9 July 1860
Georg Hermann Quincke		Last known attendee of the Karlsruhe Congress	5 September 1860
Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell		Last signer of the Constitution of the Confederate States	11 March 1861
Francis Humphreys Storer		Last member of the Committee of Twenty that signed the Charter of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology	10 April 1861
John Surratt		Last participant in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln	14 April 1865
Samuel J. Seymour		Last witness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
John Henry Coghill	5 March 1943 (aged 90)	Last witness to the death of John Wilkes Booth	26 April 1865
Charles M. Eldridge		Last survivor of the Sultana disaster	27 April 1865
Irene Triplett		Last recipient of an American Civil War pension	9 May 1865
Helen Viola Jackson		Last known surviving widow of an American Civil War veteran
John Henninger Reagan		Last cabinet member of the Confederate States of America	10 May 1865
Peter Mills		Last known surviving American who was born into legal slavery	18 December 1865
Samuel Speed	8 November 1938 (aged 95)	Last surviving British convict sent to Australia	4 July 1866
William Fairfield Warren		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
Carlota of Mexico		Last Empress of Mexico	19 June 1867
Agustín de Iturbide y Green		Last member of the Imperial Court of the Second Mexican Empire
Charles Tupper		Last Canadian Father of Confederation	1 July 1867
Tokugawa Yoshinobu		Last Shōgun	19 November 1867
Mary Field Garner		Last known Mormon Pioneer and acquaintance of Joseph Smith	1868
Cornelius Cole		Last United States Senator who participated in the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson	26 May 1868
Matthew Jackson	4 February 1947 (aged 88)	Last participant involved in the escape of John Boyle O'Reilly	2 March 1869
Hitomi Katsutarō		Last cabinet member of the Republic of Ezo	27 June 1869
George H. Large		Last participant of the first American football game	6 November 1869
Napoleon III		Last monarch of France	4 September 1870
Rufino José Cuervo		Last founder of the Colombian Academy of Language	10 May 1871
Reginald Courtenay Welch		Last participant of the first English FA Cup Final	16 March 1872
Sophia Jex-Blake		Last of the Edinburgh Seven	27 June 1873
Charles Edward Munroe		Last charter member of the American Chemical Society	6 April 1876
James Wilson		Last Fenian prisoner who escaped the British penal colony of Western Australia on the Catalpa	19 April 1876
Herbert Swire	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		Last player from the first official cricket test match	19 March 1877
Francis Rawle		Last founder of the American Bar Association	21 August 1878
Pōmare V		Last King of Tahiti	29 June 1880
James Robert Cummins		Last member of the James-Younger Gang	7 September 1881
Wyatt Earp		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		Last founder of the Actors Fund of America	8 June 1882
Clothilde Gobbi	7 November 1960 (aged 104)	Last performer at the Metropolitan Opera's opening night	22 October 1883
Orlando Oscar Stealey		Last founder of the Gridiron Club	24 January 1885
Alphonse Chodron de Courcel		Last participant of the Berlin Conference	26 February 1885
Wichaichan		Last Front Palace Viceroy of Siam	28 August 1885
Thibaw Min		Last monarch of Burma and last Konbaung ruler	30 November 1885
José Vianna da Motta		Last pupil of Franz Liszt	31 July 1886
James Stockley		Last policeman to work on the Jack the Ripper case	1888
Robert Muldrow		Last founder of the National Geographic Society	13 January 1888
Danny Ryan		Last member of the Tipperary hurling team that won the first All-Ireland Championship	1 April 1888
Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau		Last of the 72 people whose names are inscribed on the Eiffel Tower	31 March 1889
Frank Shomo		Last survivor of the Johnstown Flood	31 May 1889
Pedro II of Brazil		Last Emperor of Brazil	15 November 1889
Louisa Motley (née Yellow Shield)	1 May 1979 (aged 95)	Last survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre	29 December 1890
Eli B. Felsenthal		Last charter member of the University of Chicago	1 July 1891
Dr. Ernest Gotthold Hildner		Last participant of the first basketball game ever played	21 December 1891
Julia Dent Cantacuzène Spiransky-Grant		Last of Ward McAllister's named Four Hundred	16 February 1892
Henry Churchill King		Last member of the Committee of Ten	30 December 1892
Liliʻuokalani		Last Monarch of Hawaii	17 January 1893
Michael Shonsey		Last veteran of the Johnson County War	24 May 1893
Bridget Sullivan	25 March 1948 (aged 81)	Last witness at the trial of Lizzie Borden	20 June 1893
Alfred Hennen Morris		Last founder of the Jockey Club	9 February 1894
Adolph W. Sommerfield	20 June 1957 (aged 90)	Last founder of the National Association of Manufacturers	25 January 1895
Dimitrios Loundras		Last known competitor at the 1896 Summer Olympics	15 April 1896
George H. Warren		Last charter member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants	12 January 1897
Ranavalona III		Last Queen of Madagascar	28 February 1897
Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo		Last founder of the Brazilian Academy of Letters	20 July 1897
George Fox		Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Maine	15 February 1898
Alexander Vannovskiy		Last participant of the 1st Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party	15 March 1898
Manu Ruma	April 1961 (aged 87)	Last veteran of the Dog Tax War	5 May 1898
Juan Hernández López		Last Spanish-appointed member of Puerto Rico's Autonomic Cabinet	22 July 1898
Jesse Langdon	February 1973 (aged 92)	Last member of the Rough Riders	15 September 1898
Emma Bear		Last American Indian survivor of the Battle of Sugar Point	5 October 1898
Manuel Macías y Casado		Last surviving Spanish governor of Puerto Rico	18 October 1898
Wenceslao Ramírez de Villa-Urrutia		Last signatory of the 1898 Treaty of Paris	10 December 1898
Jules Cambon		Last delegate to the 1898 Treaty of Paris
Jan Van Mirlo	3 June 1964 (aged 87)	Last member of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition	5 November 1899
Maude Conic		Last survivor of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900	12 September 1900

1901–1915

Name	Death	Distinction	Date ended
James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn	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		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	15 January 1941 (aged 67–68)	Last founder of the American Urological Association	22 February 1902
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		Last witness to the eruption of Mount Pelée
Alauddin Muhammad Da'ud Syah II		Last Sultan of Aceh	10 January 1903
Gladys Verquin (née Ennis)		Last survivor of the Frank Slide	29 April 1903
Roscinda Nolasquez		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		Last known participant of the 1903 Tour de France	19 July 1903
Jennings J. Dunlap		Last survivor of the Wreck of the Old 97	27 September 1903
Freddy Parent		Last known player of the 1903 World Series	13 October 1903
Broncho Billy Anderson		Last surviving cast member of The Great Train Robbery	1 December 1903
Johnny Moore		Last witness of the Wright Brothers' first heavier than air flight	17 December 1903
Verde Clark Graff		Last survivor of the Iroquois Theatre fire	30 December 1903
Adella Wotherspoon		Last and youngest survivor of the General Slocum disaster	15 June 1904
Michael Barne		Last participant of the Discovery Expedition	10 September 1904
William Luttgen		Last participant of the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup	8 October 1904
Guy Vaughn		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		Last known survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake	18 April 1906
Alessandro Cagno		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		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	1978 (aged 80–81)	Last known Makassan traveler to make contact with Australia
Louis Maurer	19 July 1932 (aged 100)	Last Currier and Ives staff member	1907
Brian Evans-Lombe		Last participant of the Brownsea Island Scout camp, the founding event of the Scout movement	8 August 1907
Ralph Mulford		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		Last known survivor of the 1908 Messina earthquake	28 December 1908
Philip Brocklehurst		Last member of Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition	23 March 1909
Donald Baxter MacMillan		Last member of Robert Peary's final expedition towards the North Pole	6 April 1909
Joseph Collins		Last founder of the Neurological Institute of New York	December 1909
Sunjong		Last Emperor of Korea and last leader of a free united Korean state	29 August 1910
Manuel II		Last King of Portugal	5 October 1910
Mary Jo Estep		Last survivor of the Battle of Kelley Creek	25 February 1911
Rose Freedman		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
Puyi		Last Emperor of China	12 February 1912
Sid Daniels		Last crew member of the RMS Titanic	15 April 1912
Millvina Dean		Last and youngest survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic
Jonathan Bourne Jr.		Last member of the United States Senate subcommittee which investigated the sinking of the RMS Titanic	25 May 1912
Ermenia Daley (née Padilla)		Last survivor of the Ludlow Massacre	20 April 1914
Grace Hanagan (Martyn)		Last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland	29 May 1914
Vaso Čubrilović		Last participant in the conspiracy to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand	28 June 1914
Alexander Bernard Heron		Last worker involved in the construction of the Panama Canal	15 August 1914
Alfred Anderson		Last known holder of the 1914 Star	22 November 1914
		Last known combatant to participate in the Christmas truce of 1914	24 December 1914
		Last Scottish veteran of World War I	11 November 1918
James Van Fleet		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)		Last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania	7 May 1915
Peter Stoddart	4 July 1988 (aged 91-92)	Last known survivor of the Quintinshill rail disaster	22 May 1915
Marion Eichholz		Last survivor of the capsizing of the SS Eastland	24 July 1915

1916–1930

Name	Death	Distinction	Date ended
George Perman		Last survivor of the sinking of the HMHS Britannic	21 November 1916
Hank Mann		Last surviving member of the Keystone Cops	1917
Nicholas II		Last Emperor of All Russia	15 March 1917
Vasily Shulgin		Last participant of the Abdication of Nicholas II
		Last Deputy of the Russian Imperial Duma	6 October 1917
Mikhail Goberman	1986 (aged 93–94)	Last Passenger of Lenin's Car, travelled to the Finland Station	16 April 1917
Richard W. Richards		Last member of the British Trans-Antarctic Expedition	29 May 1917
Herbert Bayard Swope	20 June 1958 (aged 76)	Last recipient of the 1st Pulitzer Prizes	4 June 1917
Lúcia Santos		Last of the three children who claimed to have spoken to Our Lady of Fátima	13 October 1917
Boris Gudz		Last participant of the October Revolution	7 November 1917
Vyacheslav Molotov		Last member of the Petrograd Soviet during the Russian Revolution
Alexander Kerensky		Last member of the Russian Provisional Government during the Russian Revolution
Lazar Kaganovich		Last Old Bolshevik to participate in the October Revolution
		Last deputy of the Russian Constituent Assembly	18 January 1918
Henry Allingham		Last member of the RNAS and last founding member of the Royal Air Force	1 April 1918
Mykhailo Hrushevsky		Last President of the Central Rada of the Ukrainian People's Republic	29 April 1918
Aarne Arvonen	1 January 2009 (aged 111)	Last veteran of the Finnish Civil War	15 May 1918
Alexey Kabanov		Last surviving participant in the execution of the Romanov family	17 July 1918
Juan Filloy		Last student who took part in the Argentine university reform of 1918	12 October 1918
Wilhelm Gisbert Groos	1997 (aged 102–103)	Last member of Jasta 11 and possibly last German flying ace of World War I	29 October 1918
Ernst Jünger		Last wearer of the military Pour le Mérite	9 November 1918
Wilhelm II		Last German Emperor and King of Prussia	28 November 1918
Pavlo Skoropadskyi		Last Hetman of the Ukrainian State	14 December 1918
Raul Fernandes		Last signer of the Treaty of Versailles	28 June 1919
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando	1 December 1952 (aged 92)	Last Big Four leader
Swede Risberg		Last player involved in the Black Sox Scandal	9 October 1919
José Ameal Peña		Last survivor of the 1918 flu pandemic in Spain	April 1920
George Halas		Last participant of a meeting that led to the founding of the National Football League	17 September 1920
Symon Petliura		Last Chairman of the Directorate of the Ukrainian People's Republic	10 November 1920
Fritz Pollard		Last member of the winning Akron Pros team during the 1920 APFA season	19 December 1920
Peter Casserly		Last member of the First Australian Imperial Force	1 April 1921
Dan Keating		Last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence	11 July 1921
Liu Renjing		Last living participant of the 1st National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party	2 August 1921
Jules Goux		Last participant in the 1921 Italian Grand Prix	4 September 1921
Sergei Shervinsky		Last poet from the Silver Age of Russian Poetry	1922
Altino Gomes da Silva	23 March 1996 (aged 91)	Last survivor of the 18 of the Copacabana Fort revolt	6 July 1922
Mehmed VI	16 May 1926 (aged 65)	Last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire	1 November 1922
Dürrüşehvar Sultan		Last member of the Imperial Ottoman Court
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
Evelyn Beauchamp	31 January 1980 (aged 79)	Last witness of the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb	16 February 1923
Gonzaque Lécureul		Last known participant of the 1923 Grand Prix d'Endurance de 24 Heures	27 May 1923
Vladimir Shostak	11 May 2010 (aged 105)	Last veteran of the Russian Civil War	16 June 1923
Gene Bruce		Last survivor of the Honda Point Disaster	8 September 1923
Emil Klein		Last participant of Adolf Hitler's unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch	9 November 1923
Abdulmejid II		Last Ottoman Caliph. He was also the only Ottoman Caliph not to be an Ottoman Sultan.	3 March 1924
Robert Bloch		Last known participant of the 1924 24 Hours of Le Mans	15 June 1924
Gertrude Emerson Sen	1982 (aged 91–92)	Last founder of the Society of Woman Geographers	January 1925
Edgar Nollner		Last musher of the 1925 serum run to Nome	2 February 1925
Aaron Copland	2 December 1990 (aged 90)	Last of the inaugural Guggenheim Fellows	1 June 1925
René Thomas		Last participant in the 1925 Belgian Grand Prix	28 June 1925
Thomas J. Brewer		Last participant in the Scopes Trial	21 July 1925
Robert Sénéchal		Last known participant of the 1926 British Grand Prix	7 August 1926
Mary Pickford		Last of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	11 January 1927
Irene Dunham		Last survivor of the Bath School disaster	18 May 1927
Georgia Warren		Last person to have been recorded during the Bristol Sessions	5 August 1927
Louis de Broglie		Last attendee of the Fifth Solvay Conference	29 October 1927
Barbara Kent		Last Adult Silent Film actor/actress	1929
Georges Bouriano		Last participant in the 1929 Monaco Grand Prix	14 April 1929
Janet Gaynor		Last award winner of the 1st Academy Awards	16 May 1929
Bobbi Trout		Last participant of the Women's Air Derby	27 August 1929
Norman D. Vaughan		Last member of Richard Byrd's first expedition to Antarctica	18 June 1930
Rachel Johnson		Last St. Kildan	29 August 1930
Alfred Cook		Last known survivor of the R101 disaster	5 October 1930
Venceslau Brás	15 May 1966 (aged 98)	Last President of the First Brazilian Republic	3 November 1930

1931–1945

Name	Death	Distinction	Date ended
Albert H. Wolff		Last member of the Untouchables	1931
Doris Eaton Travis		Last Ziegfeld girl
Alf Howard		Last member of the BANZARE expedition to Antarctica	19 March 1931
Clarence Norris		Last Scottsboro Boy	25 March 1931
Arturo Marasso	26 April 1970 (aged 79)	Last founder of the Argentine Academy of Letters	13 August 1931
George Haigh		Last participant in the Mass trespass of Kinder Scout	24 April 1932
Prajadhipok		Last absolute monarch of Siam	24 June 1932
Josef Felder		Last Reichstag member to vote against the Nazi Enabling Act of 1933	23 March 1933
Moody E. Erwin		Last survivor of the USS Akron disaster	3 April 1933
Jennings Randolph		Last member of the United States Congress to vote during the First 100 Days	11 June 1933
Lyle Talbot		Last founding member of the Screen Actors Guild	12 July 1933
Frank Patrisso		Last charter member of The Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps	1934
Errie Ball		Last participant in the 1934 Masters Tournament	25 March 1934
Karina Vasilieva	Living (age 90)	Last survivor of the SS Chelyuskin disaster	13 April 1934
Evgeniy Silov		Last participant of the SS Chelyuskin Rescue Operation	13 April 1934
Edd L. Miller		Last witness to the shooting of Bonnie and Clyde	23 May 1934
Russell Clark		Last original member of the Dillinger Gang	22 July 1934
Eddie Bentz		Last known member of the Dillinger Gang
Thomas J. Conner		Last member of the FBI team that killed John Dillinger
Jerry Edgerton		Last survivor of the SS Morro Castle disaster	8 September 1934
Bill Eiserman	Living (age 94–95)	Last witness to the Battle of Barrington	27 November 1934
Jānis Lidmanis		Last winner of EuroBasket 1935, the first FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship	7 May 1935
Josep Plaja Gasch Joe	11 September 1982 (aged 81–82)	Last survivor of the Medellín plane crash	24 June 1935
Ty Cobb		Last surviving member of the inaugural induction class of the Baseball Hall of Fame	1936
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester		Last witness to the Abdication of Edward VIII	10 December 1936
		Last knight of the Order of St Patrick	10 June 1974
Morton Minsky		Last founder of Minsky's Burlesque	April 1937
Werner Franz		Last crew member to survive the Hindenburg disaster	6 May 1937
Werner Doehner		Last passenger to survive the Hindenburg disaster
Walter Walsh		Last member of the FBI teams that captured Arthur Barker and killed Al Brady	12 October 1937
John F. Druze		Last of the Seven Blocks of Granite	27 November 1937
Fon Huffman		Last survivor of the USS Panay incident	12 December 1937
Taunggwin Sayadaw	1938 (aged 93)	Last head of the Buddhist Sangha of Myanmar	1938
Edward Lund	20 November 1988 (aged 82)	Last crew member of Howard Hughes's round-the-world flight	14 July 1938
Josep Almudéver Mateu	24 May 2021 (aged 101)	Last surviving member of the International Brigades	23 September 1938
William Herz		Last cast member of The War of the Worlds radio drama	30 October 1938
Con Shiels		Last participant in the Jarrow March	31 October 1938
Moon Mullen		Last member of the first winners of the NCAA March Madness, the 1938 Oregon Webfoots	27 March 1939
Andrés Henestrosa	10 January 2008 (aged 101)	Last witness to the arrival of the Spanish republican exiles in Mexico at Veracruz	July 1939
Paul Pietsch		Last participant in the 1939 AIACR European Championship, the last full Grand Prix season before World War II	20 August 1939
Kazimierz Świtalski		Last Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic	30 September 1939
Arthur Smith		Last survivor of the sinking of HMS Royal Oak	14 October 1939
Joseph Solman	16 April 2008 (aged 99)	Last of The Ten Whitney Dissenters	4 November 1939
Emilio Ochoa		Last signer of the 1940 Constitution of Cuba	1 July 1940
Albert Lebrun		Last President of the French Third Republic	11 July 1940
Paul Farnes		Last flying ace of the Battle of Britain	31 October 1940
John Hemingway	Living (age 104)	Last verified surviving airman (The Few) of the Battle of Britain
John Insley Coddington		Last founder of the American Society of Genealogists	28 December 1940
Robert R. Johnson	Living (age 103)	Last survivor of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition	22 March 1941
Ted Briggs		Last survivor of the sinking of the HMS Hood	24 May 1941
Mikhail Petrovich Sidko	Living (age )	Last living survivor of the Babi Yar Massacre	30 September 1941
Donald "Nick" Clifford		Last worker who participated in the construction of Mount Rushmore	31 October 1941
Edwin Arthur Hall		Last member of the United States Congress to vote on the United States declaration of war on Japan	8 December 1941
Myles R. Garrigan		Last witness present for the Day of Infamy speech
Norma Miller	5 May 2019 (aged 99)	Last member of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers troupe	1942
Gerhard Klopfer		Last attendant of the Wannsee Conference	20 January 1942
David Stoliar		Last survivor of the Struma disaster	24 February 1942
Lloyd Seaward		Last survivor of the sinking of the HMS Exeter	1 March 1942
Rudolf Brazda		Last concentration camp survivor deported by Nazi Germany on charges of homosexuality	8 August 1942
Ray Anthony	Living (age 102)	Last member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra	September 1942
Tuomas Gerdt		Last recipient of the Mannerheim Cross	8 September 1942
Orrel Glenn Cecil		Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Juneau	13 November 1942
Havala Laula		Last known member of the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels during the Kokoda Track campaign	16 November 1942
Bill Sparks		Last member of the Cockleshell Heroes	12 December 1942
Joachim Rønneberg		Last officer of Operation Gunnerside	16 February 1943
Traute Lafrenz	Living (age 104)	Last member of the White Rose	18 February 1943
Viktor Zhelobkovich		Last survivor of the Khatyn massacre	22 March 1943
Ruth Slenczynska	Living (age 99)	Last pupil of Sergei Rachmaninoff	28 March 1943
Marek Edelman		Last leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	16 May 1943
Aliza Melamed Vitis-Shomron	Living (age 95–96)	Last participant of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Samuel Willenberg		Last participant in the revolt at the Treblinka extermination camp	2 August 1943
Gerard Zinser		Last crewman of Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109
Mostyn "Moss" Berryman	6 August 2020 (aged 96)	Last surviving member of Operation Jaywick	26 September 1943
Simjon Rosenfeld		Last survivor of the Sobibor uprising	14 October 1943
Emanuele Di Porto	Living (age 92–93)	Last survivor of the Raid of the Ghetto of Rome	16 October 1943
Jennifer Jones		Last award winner of the 1st Golden Globe Awards	20 January 1944
Frank Ellis Sublett		Last member of the Golden Thirteen	March 1944
Richard Sidney Albion Churchill		Last prisoner who participated in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III	25 March 1944
Clifford Brewer		Last surgeon involved in the Normandy landings	6 June 1944
David Wood		Last officer who took part in the capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges during the Normandy landings
Robert Hébras	Living (age 98)	Last survivor of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre	10 June 1944
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin		Last participant of the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler	20 July 1944
Edward Osóbka-Morawski		Last signer of the PKWN Manifesto	22 July 1944
Miep Gies		Last member of the group which hid Anne Frank in the Secret Annex	4 August 1944
Teruo Murakami	Living (age 103)	Last participant of the Cowra breakout	5 August 1944
Bill Leibold	Living (age 100–101)	Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Tang	25 October 1944
Joe Medicine Crow		Last war chief of the Crow Nation and last Plains Indian war chief	1945
Dario Gabbai		Last member of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz	18 January 1945
Ivan Martynushkin	Living (age 100)	Last liberator of Auschwitz	27 January 1945
Charles W. Lindberg		Last Marine in the Iwo Jima Flag Raisings	23 February 1945
Traudl Junge		Last witness to the death of Adolf Hitler	30 April 1945
Rochus Misch		Last of Adolf Hitler's bodyguards
		Last occupant of the Führerbunker	2 May 1945
Luciano "Louis" C. Graziano	Living (age 101)	Last witness to the German Surrender ceremony	7 May 1945
Rudolf Hess		Last cabinet member of the Third Reich	8 May 1945
André Peyronie		Last member of the Escadron de Chasse 2/30 Normandie-Niemen
Rafael Gómez Nieto	31 March 2020 (aged 99)	Last member of La Nueve	9 May 1945
Harold Stassen		Last signer of the United Nations Charter	26 June 1945
Theodore Van Kirk		Last crew member of the Enola Gay	6 August 1945
Russell Gackenbach	13 November 2019 (aged 96)	Last crew member of the Necessary Evil	9 August 1945
Arsilan	Living (age )	Last participant in the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence	17 August 1945
Bảo Đại	30 July 1997 (aged 83)	Last Emperor of Vietnam	25 August 1945
Levi Oakes		Last Mohawk code talker	2 September 1945 (End of World War II)
Earl C. Acuff	13 February 2013 (aged 94)	Last member of Castner's Cutthroats
Robert Kenneth Kaufman		Last American officer present at the Surrender of Japan on board the USS Missouri
Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape		Last signer of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
Claude Choules		Last veteran of both World War I and World War II
Jerzy Glowczewski		Last pilot in the Polish Air Forces in France and Great Britain
Michael I of Romania		Last recipient of the Order of Victory	9 September 1945
		Last King of Romania	30 December 1947
Betty McIntosh		Last woman assigned to the Morale Operations Branch of the OSS in World War II	20 September 1945
Galina Brok-Beltsova	Living (age 99)	Last member of the women's aviation regiments founded by Marina Raskova	15 October 1945
Edward Shames		Last officer of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion in World War II	30 November 1945
Bradford C. Freeman		Last member of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion in World War II

1946–1960

Name	Death	Distinction	Date ended
Hirohito		Last Emperor of Japan to be considered an akitsumikami	1 January 1946
Hubert Germain		Last Compagnon de la Libération	23 January 1946
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy	28 December 1947 (aged 78)	Last King of Albania	9 May 1946
Umberto II		Last King of Italy	12 June 1946
Joy Bright Hancock		Last director of WAVES	September 1946
Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite		Last of the Monuments Women
Richard M. Barancik	Living (age 98–99)	Last of the Monuments Men
Consalvo Sanesi		Last participant of the 1946 Turin Grand Prix, the first Formula One Grand Prix	1 September 1946
Simeon II	Living (age 86)	Last Tsar of Bulgaria	15 September 1946
Benjamin Ferencz	Living (age 104)	Last prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials	1 October 1946
Ossie Schectman		Last participant of the Inaugural NBA Game	1 November 1946
Brajraj Mahapatra		Last royal to sign the merger agreement with the Indian state	1947
Maharaja Tej Singh Prabhakar		Last recipient of the Order of the Star of India
Mayurdwajsinhji Meghrajji III		Last recipient of the Order of the Indian Empire
Patricia Neal		Last award winner of the 1st Tony Awards	6 April 1947
Jerry Rullo		Last winner in the 1947 BAA Finals, the inaugural National Basketball Association season	22 April 1947
Teizaburō Sekiya	10 June 1950 (aged 75)	Last person appointed to the Privy Council of Japan	3 May 1947
Knut Haugland		Last crew member on the Kon-Tiki expedition	7 August 1947
Marsha Hunt		Last member of the Committee for the First Amendment	2 November 1947
Krachang Tularak		Last member of Khana Ratsadon	8 November 1947
Ring Lardner Jr.		Last member of the Hollywood Ten	25 November 1947
Clarence Beavers		Last member of the Triple Nickles	15 December 1947
Emilio Colombo	24 June 2013 (aged 93)	Last member of the Constituent Assembly of Italy	31 January 1948
Arieh Handler		Last witness to the signing of the Israeli Declaration of Independence	14 May 1948
Edward VIII		Last surviving Emperor of India	22 June 1948
Hernán Santa Cruz		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
Hannsheinz Bauer		Last member of the Parlamentarischer Rat	23 May 1949
Ernie Lyons		Last rider of the first 1949 motorcycle Grand Prix, the Isle of Man TT	17 June 1949
Archie Smith		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
Isaak Khalatnikov		Last physicist involved in the Soviet atomic bomb project	29 August 1949
Carlo Ubbiali		Last rider to participate in the 1949 motorcycle Grand Prix season	4 September 1949
Gonzalo Facio Segreda	24 January 2018 (aged 99)	Last member of the Founding Junta of the Second Republic	8 November 1949
Tony Lovink		Last Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies	27 December 1949
Louis Cheslock		Last member of H.L. Mencken's Saturday Night Club	1950
Andor Lilienthal		Last of the original FIDE chess grandmasters
Marlene Hagge	Living (age 90)	Last founder of the LPGA
Adolf H. "Jazz" Maffie		Last convicted participant of the Great Brink's Robbery	17 January 1950
T. M. Kaliannan		Last member of the Constituent Assembly of India	25 January 1950
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma		Last Governor-General of India	26 January 1950
Tony Rolt		Last driver in the first World Championship Grand Prix	13 May 1950
Ludmila Brožová-Polednová	15 January 2015 (aged 93)	Last participant in Milada Horáková's trial	8 June 1950
Robert Manzon		Last driver to take part in the inaugural World Championship of Drivers	3 September 1950
Omar Bradley		Last General of the Army and last American to hold a Five-star rank	22 September 1950
Ian Hamilton		Last participant in the removal of the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey	25 December 1950
14th Dalai Lama	Living (age 88)	Last monarch of an independent Tibet	1951
Tsuzuko Sugawara	Living (age 96)	Last performer at the 1st NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen	3 January 1951
Rokurō Tsuruta		Last performer on the winning team at the 1st NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen
Nilla Pizzi		Last performer at the 1st Sanremo Music Festival	31 January 1951
Morton Sobell		Last defendant in the Rosenberg spy trial	5 April 1951
Andrew Fitzgerald		Last Coast Guard rescuer involved in the S.S. Pendleton rescue	18 February 1952
Reginald Kray		Last prisoner at the Tower of London	March 1952
Luis Muñoz Rivera	30 September 2006 (aged 90)	Last delegate to Puerto Rico's Constitutional Convention	25 July 1952
Del Crandall	5 May 2021 (aged 91)	Last surviving member of the Boston Braves	21 September 1952
Roman F. Tritz	31 July 2020 (aged 97)	Last known combat veteran to be lobotomized by the United States government	1953
Nikolai Baibakov		Last Soviet government minister who served during the Stalin Era	5 March 1953
Nuritdin Mukhitdinov		Last member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the Stalin Era
Kanchha Sherpa	Living (age 90–91)	Last member of the 1953 British Everest Expedition	29 May 1953
Fuad II of Egypt	Living (age 72)	Last King of Egypt and the Sudan	18 June 1953
William Kelly Harrison, Jr.		Last signer of the Korean Armistice Agreement	27 July 1953
Paik Sun-yup		Last South Korean commander in the Korean War
Sergey Kramarenko		Last Soviet Korean War flying ace
Charles G. Cleveland		Last American Korean War flying ace
John Fitch		Last winning driver at the first World Championship for Sports Cars	23 November 1953
Jackie Sewell		Last player in the Match of the Century	25 November 1953
Kenneth A. Roberts		Last wounded congressman in the 1954 United States Capitol shooting incident	1 March 1954
Rafael Cancel Miranda		Last perpetrator in the 1954 United States Capitol shooting incident
Oishi Matashichi		Last crew member of the Daigo Fukuryū Maru
Mort Prince	Living (age 100–101)	Last inventor of Bell Labs' first solar cell	25 April 1954
Zelma Henderson		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		Last surviving player of the 1954 World Cup winning West German team	4 July 1954
Richard Harding Poff		Last signer of the Southern Manifesto	12 March 1956
Iskander Mirza		Last Governor-General of Pakistan	23 March 1956
Francisco Gento		Last winner of the 1956 European Cup Final, the inaugural UEFA Champions League	13 June 1956
Albert Woolson	2 August 1956 (aged 106)	Last member of the Grand Army of the Republic	2 August 1956
Roger Baldwin		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	16 March 2008 (aged 79)	Last of the Black Mountain poets	1957
Maurice Faure		Last signer of the Treaty of Rome	25 March 1957
Gordon Moore	Living (age 95)	Last member of the Traitorous eight who founded Silicon Valley	18 September 1957
Bobby Charlton	Living (age 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
A. J. Foyt	Living (age 89)	Last driver to participate in the Races of Two Worlds	29 June 1958
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	5 May 2015 (aged 95)	Last surviving engineer of Wernher von Braun's German rocket team	1959
Dorothea Schlidt	10 May 2021 (aged 100)	Last surviving member of Wernher von Braun's German rocket team
George Mikan		Last surviving individual member of the inaugural induction class of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Bill Hastie	7 November 2020 (aged 101)	Last survivor of the Knox Mine Disaster	22 January 1959
Jimmy Cobb		Last player in the Kind of Blue recording sessions	22 April 1959
Dave Burgess	Living (age 89)	Last recipient and nominee of the 1st Annual Grammy Awards	4 May 1959
Barron Hilton		Last member of the Foolish Club, the 8 original franchise owners of American Football League teams	14 August 1959
Anatoly Kryuchkovsky	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
Baudouin of Belgium	31 July 1993 (aged 62)	Last Belgian sovereign of the Congo	30 June 1960
		Last knight of the Supreme Order of Christ	31 July 1993
Viktor Ponedelnik		Last winner of the 1960 European Nations' Cup, the inaugural UEFA European Championship	10 July 1960
Željko Matuš	Living (age 88)	Last football player in the 1960 European Nations' Cup Final, the inaugural UEFA European Championship final
Sander Vanocur		Last on-screen participant in the first Kennedy-Nixon presidential debate	26 September 1960

1961–1999

Name	Death	Distinction	Date ended
Kigeli V Ndahindurwa		Last King of Rwanda	28 January 1961
C. R. Swart		Last Governor-General of South Africa	30 April 1961
Antonio Imbert Barrera		Last participant in the assassination of Rafael Trujillo	30 May 1961
Boujemaa Jdaini Larguet	22 April 2022 (aged 91)	Last founding member of FIBA Africa	14 June 1961
Millito Navarro	30 April 2011 (aged 105)	Last surviving player of the Negro American League	26 August 1962
Ted Sorensen		Last member of EXCOMM during the Cuban Missile Crisis	28 October 1962
Ken Weller	25 January 2021 (aged 85)	Last member of the Spies for Peace	April 1963
John Glenn		Last astronaut from Project Mercury and therefore last member of the Mercury Seven	16 May 1963
Valentina Tereshkova	Living (age 87)	Last cosmonaut who flew in a Vostok mission	19 June 1963
Audrey Nell Edwards	Living (age 76–77)	Last member of the St. Augustine Four	18 July 1963
Bob Welch	Living (age 95)	Last known participant in the Great Train Robbery	8 August 1963
John Lewis		Last speaker at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and last member of the Big Six	28 August 1963
Sammy Baugh		Last surviving member of the inaugural induction class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame	7 September 1963
Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr.		Last perpetrator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing	15 September 1963
Nnamdi Azikiwe		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
Albert H. Crews	Living (age 95)	Last astronaut from the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar program	10 December 1963
Jamshid bin Abdullah	Living (age 94)	Last Sultan of Zanzibar	12 January 1964
Ferdie Pacheco	16 November 2017 (aged 89)	Last official participant in the first Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston boxing match	25 February 1964
James Ramsden		Last Secretary of State for War	1 April 1964
Marcelino "Martín Villa" Trujillo	8 February 2016 (aged 83)	Last founding member of the FARC	27 May 1964
Andrew Mlangeni		Last Rivonia Trialist	12 June 1964
Birch Bayh		Last United States Senator to vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964	19 June 1964
June Foray		Last surviving voice actor of the original cast of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends	27 June 1964
Gerald Ford		Last member of the Warren Commission	24 September 1964
Suhardiman		Last signer of the declaration of the Golkar	20 October 1964
Alexei Leonov		Last member of the Voskhod programme	19 March 1965
Max William Fine	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		Last of the Five Moons	1966
Alberto Moravia		Last author formerly listed on the Index of Forbidden Books	14 June 1966
Mwambutsa IV		Last surviving King of Burundi	28 November 1966
Waldemar Levy Cardoso		Last Marshal of Brasil	1967
Alexei Romanoff	Living (age 87–88)	Last surviving participant of the 1967 civil demonstration at the Black Cat Tavern	11 February 1967
Artati Marzuki-Sudirdjo		Last minister who served in Sukarno's regime	12 March 1967
Stylianos Pattakos		Last leader of the 1967 Greek coup d'état and subsequent military junta	21 April 1967
James A. Abrahamson	Living (age 90)	Last astronaut from Manned Orbiting Laboratory Group 3	30 June 1967
Gene Deitch		Last surviving director of the theatrical run of Tom and Jerry	8 September 1967
Fred R. Harris	Living (age 93)	Last living member of the Kerner Commission	29 February 1968
Walter Cunningham		Last crew member of Apollo 7	22 October 1968
Joe Engle	Living (age 91)	Last X-15 pilot	24 October 1968
Ralph Leonard Starkey		Last survivor of the Farmington Mine No.9 Disaster	20 November 1968
George F. Kennan		Last surviving member of the "Wise Men"	1969
Thomas P. Stafford	Living (age 93)	Last crew member of Apollo 10	26 May 1969
Buzz Aldrin	Living (age 94)	Last crew member of Apollo 11	24 July 1969
David H. DePatie		Last director of the original Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies theatrical run	20 September 1969
Alan Bean		Last crew member of Apollo 12	24 November 1969
Joe DeRita		Last surviving member of The Three Stooges	5 February 1970
Richard Schultz	Living (age 85–86)	Last living attorney from either side of the Chicago Seven trial	18 February 1970
Farimang Mamadi Singateh		Last Governor-General of the Gambia	24 April 1970
James Cross		Last kidnapping victim of the Front de libération du Québec during the October Crisis	28 December 1970
Jacques Rose	Living (age )	Last perpetrator of the October Crisis
Edgar Mitchell		Last crew member of Apollo 14	9 February 1971
David Scott	Living (age 91)	Last crew member of Apollo 15	7 August 1971
Nurul Amin		Last Prime Minister of both the East and West wings of Pakistan	16 December 1971
William Gopallawa		Last Governor-General of Ceylon	22 May 1972
G. Gordon Liddy		Last member of the original Watergate Seven	17 June 1972
Edward Bernard Raczyński		Last member of the Rada Trzech	8 July 1972
Ernest Hendon		Last survivor of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study	November 1972
Harrison Schmitt	Living (age 88)	Last crew member of Apollo 17	19 December 1972
Holly Woodlawn		Last of the Warhol superstars	1973
Idham Chalid		Last signer of the declaration of the United Development Party	5 January 1973
Sabam Sirait		Last signer of the declaration of the Indonesian Democratic Party	11 January 1973
Constantine II		Last King of Greece	1 June 1973
Joseph P. Kerwin	Living (age 92)	Last crew member of Skylab 2, the first manned mission to Skylab	22 June 1973
Mohammed Zahir Shah		Last King of Afghanistan	17 July 1973
Jack R. Lousma	Living (age 88)	Last crew member of Skylab 3	25 September 1973
William Ruckelshaus		Last government official involved in the Saturday Night Massacre	20 October 1973
Edward Gibson	Living (age 87)	Last crew member of Skylab 4, the final manned mission to Skylab	8 February 1974
Gordon C. Strachan	Living (age 80)	Last member of the second Watergate Seven	1 March 1974
Lowell Weicker	Living (age 92)	Last living member of the United States Senate Watergate Committee	27 June 1974
Haile Selassie		Last Emperor of Ethiopia	12 September 1974
Ronald Reagan		Last member of the Rockefeller Commission	1975
Khamtai Siphandon	Living (age 100)	Last Pathet Lao leader in the Vietnam War	30 April 1975
Fernando Suárez González	Living (age 90)	Last minister who served in Francisco Franco's regime	20 November 1975
José Alberty Correia		Last Governor of Portuguese Timor	28 November 1975
Sisavang Vatthana		Last King of Laos	2 December 1975
Gary Hart	Living (age 87)	Last member of the Church Committee	April 1976
Tôn Đức Thắng		Last President of North Vietnam	2 July 1976
Yao Wenyuan		Last member of China's Gang of Four	6 October 1976
Douglas MacDiarmid		Last surviving member of The Group	1977
Ollie Johnston		Last of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men	22 June 1977
Pope Benedict XVI		Last living cardinal created by Pope Paul VI	27 June 1977
		Last surviving participant of both 1978 papal conclaves. This unusual circumstance made 1978 the "Year of the Three Popes," with the death of Pope Paul VI, the election and death of Pope John Paul I, and the election of Pope John Paul II. While Papal Conclaves in general are not unique, this was an extremely rare incidence of two of them in the same year.	16 October 1978
Larry Newman		Last crew member of the Double Eagle II	17 August 1978
Khieu Samphan	Living (age 92)	Last senior member of the Khmer Rouge	7 January 1979
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi		Last Shah of Iran	11 February 1979
Walter Philip Leber		Last surviving Governor of the Panama Canal Zone	30 September 1979
Luz Isabel Cuevas		Last witness to the assassination of El Salvadorian bishop Óscar Romero	24 March 1980
Vladimir Bakarić		Last member of Josip Broz Tito's inner circle	4 May 1980
Angeline Nanni	27 August 2019 (aged 101)	Last member of the Venona project	1 October 1980
Pierre Blet		Last compiler of the Actes et documents du Saint Siège relatifs à la Seconde Guerre Mondiale	1981
Robert Crippen	Living (age 86)	Last crew member of STS-1, first flight of the Space Shuttle program	14 April 1981
Hedwig Michel	5 August 1982 (aged 90)	Last member of the Koreshan Unity	5 August 1982
Mikhail Gorbachev		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
Jerry Lee Lewis		Last member of the inaugural induction class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame	23 January 1986
Brian Willson	Living (age 82)	Last participant in the Veterans Fast For Life protest	17 October 1986
Soeharto		Last Commander of Order and Security	5 September 1988
		Last awarded Jenderal Besar TNI	5 October 1997
Karel Urbánek	Living (age 83)	Last General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia	20 December 1989
Edward Babiuch		Last Prime Minister of the Polish People's Republic	31 December 1989
Stanisław Kania		Last leader of the Polish United Workers' Party	29 January 1990
Aleksandar Lilov		Last Chairman of the Bulgarian Communist Party	3 April 1990
Egon Krenz	Living (age 87)	Last Chairman of the State Council of East Germany	5 April 1990
Dmitry Yazov		Last Marshal of the Soviet Union	28 April 1990
Helmut Kohl		Last Chancellor of Germany before the reunification	3 October 1990
Edward Szczepanik		Last Prime Minister of Poland in exile	22 December 1990
Ryszard Kaczorowski		Last President of Poland in exile
Oleg Baklanov		Last member of the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP)	21 August 1991
Stanislav Hurenko		Last First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR	1 September 1991
Vadim Bakatin		Last Chairman of the KGB	16 November 1991
Leonid Kravchuk		Last signer of the Belovezh Accords that put an end to the Soviet Union	8 December 1991
Milan Kučan	Living (age 83)	Last President of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia	23 December 1991
Vasiliy Dobritsa	Living (age 99)	Last full bearer of the Order of Glory	26 December 1991
Denis Sassou Nguesso	Living (age 80)	Last President of the People's Republic of the Congo	25 March 1992
Václav Havel		Last President of Czechoslovakia	31 December 1992
F. W. de Klerk		Last leader of the apartheid government of South Africa and last State President	10 May 1994
Haris Silajdžić	Living (age 78)	Last Prime Minister of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina	7 January 1997
George D. Grundy Jr.		Last member of the Early Birds of Aviation	19 May 1998
Try Sutrisno	Living (age 88)	Last Vice President of Indonesia to serve during Suharto's Era	21 May 1998
Mário Viegas Carrascalão		Last Governor of Timor Timur	25 October 1999
Alberto Alemán Zubieta	Living (age 72)	Last Administrator of the Panama Canal Commission	31 December 1999

2000–present

Name	Death	Distinction	Date ended
Kwai Ping-hung	Living (age 64)	Last mobster of Hong Kong's 'King of Thieves'	24 December 2003
Gyanendra	Living (age 76)	Last King of Nepal	28 May 2008
Ruth Klein	14 August 2012 (aged 80)	Last member of the Panacea Society	14 August 2012
Man of the Hole	July 2022 (aged c. 60)	Last member of the uncontacted Brazilian indigenous group in Tanaru Indigenous Territory	July 2022

Images of select individuals

A few of the individuals listed above are pictured here, for visual reference. Each picture is captioned.

• Gerard ter Borch d. J. 013.jpg

  Portrait of Gaspar de Bracamonte, 3rd Count of Peñaranda by Gerard ter Borch (ca. 1645–48). He was the last diplomat who had participated in the Peace of Westphalia. Pictured in 1647/48, aged ~30.

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  Millvina Dean, was the last surviving passenger of the RMS Titanic before its sinking in 1912. Pictured in 1999, aged 87.

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  Living to the age of 106, Walter Walsh was the last member of the FBI teams that captured Arthur Barker and killed Al Brady.

See also

• List of last known speakers of languages
• List of sole survivors of aviation accidents and incidents
• List of last surviving veterans of military insurgencies and wars
• List of last surviving veterans of military operations
• List of last surviving World War I veterans by country
• List of last surviving World War II veterans
• List of the last surviving American slaves
• List of last surviving Canadian war veterans
• Last European veterans by war
• Last surviving United States war veterans