List of Last survivors of Historical events - wikipedia List of Last survivors of Historical events The following is a list of last survivors of notable historical and cultural events, excluding wars, which are covered in separate lists that can be found in the See also section. Deceased Living Contents 1 Before 1701 2 1701 -- 1800 3 1801 -- 1850 4 1851 -- 1900 5 1901 -- 1915 6 1916 -- 1930 7 1931 -- 1945 8 1946 -- 1960 9 1961 -- 2000 10 See also 11 References Before 1701 Name Death Historical event Date event ended Aristodemus of Sparta c. 479 BC ( aged c. 49 ) Last Spartan of the Battle of Thermopylae August or September 480 BC John the Apostle Around 100 Last known witness to the crucifixion of Jesus, and last Apostle 3 April 33 Romulus Augustulus After 510 Last Western Roman Emperor 4 September 476 Sophia Palaiologina 7 April 1503 Last member of the Imperial Byzantine court 29 May 1453 Don Mancio Serra de Leguízamo 18 September 1589 ( aged 78 ) Last known conquistador who participated in the capture of Atahualpa 16 November 1532 Mary Allerton 28 November 1699 ( aged 83 ) Last passenger of the Mayflower 11 November 1620 John Alden 12 September 1687 ( aged 88 ) Last living signer of the Mayflower Compact 11 November 1620 Richard Bellingham 7 December 1672 ( aged 80 ) Last signer of the Massachusetts Colonial Charter 4 March 1629 1701 -- 1800 Name Death Historical event Date event ended George Gregory 13 February 1804 ( 1804 - 02 - 13 ) ( aged 108 -- 109 ) Last sailor who took part in George Anson 's voyage around the world 1744 Isaac Smith 2 July 1831 ( 1831 - 07 - 02 ) ( aged 78 -- 79 ) Last survivor of James Cook 's first voyage 12 July 1771 George Robert Twelves Hewes 5 November 1840 ( 1840 - 11 - 05 ) ( aged 98 ) Last survivor of the Boston Tea party and Boston Massacre 5 March 1770 and 16 December 1773 Ephraim Bowen 2 September 1841 ( 1841 - 09 - 02 ) ( aged 88 ) Last individual involved in the Gaspée Affair 10 June 1772 Levi Preston 5 January 1850 ( 1850 - 01 - 05 ) ( aged 93 ) Last Concord veteran of the Battle of Lexington and Concord 19 April 1775 Jonathan Harrington 26 March 1854 ( 1854 - 03 - 26 ) ( aged 95 ) Last Lexington veteran of the Battle of Lexington and Concord 19 April 1775 Ralph Farnham 26 December 1860 ( 1860 - 12 - 26 ) ( aged 104 ) Last known survivor of the Battle of Bunker Hill 17 June 1775 John Hatley 12 December 1832 ( 1832 - 12 - 12 ) ( aged 69 -- 70 ) Last survivor of James Cook 's second voyage 30 July 1775 Charles Carroll 14 November 1832 ( 1832 - 11 - 14 ) ( aged 95 ) Last signer of the United States Declaration of Independence 4 July 1776 Alexander Milliner 15 March 1865 ( 1865 - 03 - 15 ) ( aged 95 ) Last veteran of the Battle of Brandywine and Battles of Saratoga 11 September 19 September, and 7 October 1777 Andrew Jackson 8 June 1845 ( 1845 - 06 - 08 ) ( aged 78 ) Last former President of the United States to have served in the American Revolution 25 April 1781 Elijah Churchill 11 April 1841 ( 1841 - 04 - 11 ) ( aged 85 ) Last recipient of the Badge of Military Merit 2 October 1781 John Gray 29 March 1868 ( 1868 - 03 - 29 ) ( aged 104 ) Last veteran of the Siege of Yorktown 19 October 1781 John Jay 17 May 1829 ( 1829 - 05 - 17 ) ( aged 83 ) Last signer of the Treaty of Paris 3 September 1783 David Whitney 24 March 1867 ( 1867 - 03 - 24 ) ( aged 99 ) Last veteran of Shays ' Rebellion June 1787 James Madison 28 June 1836 ( 1836 - 06 - 28 ) ( aged 85 ) Last signer of The United States Constitution 7 September 1787 Barthélemy de Lesseps 4 June 1834 ( 1834 - 06 - 04 ) ( aged 68 ) Last survivor of the scientific expedition of Jean - François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse 1788 John Adams 5 March 1829 ( 1829 - 03 - 05 ) ( aged 61 ) Last mutineer of HMS Bounty 28 April 1789 Arthur Dardenne 8 September 1872 ( 1872 - 09 - 08 ) ( aged 95 -- 96 ) Last surviving person to have taken part in the Storming of the Bastille 14 July 1789 Augusta Hejnek 1 March 1908 ( 1908 - 03 - 01 ) ( aged 108 ) Last known person born in the 1700s 31 December 1799 Salome Sellers 9 January 1909 ( 1909 - 01 - 09 ) ( aged 109 ) Last known person born in the 18th century 31 December 1800 1801 -- 1850 Name Death Historical event Date event ended Pedro Antonio Martinez Zia 1 February 1898 ( 1898 - 02 - 01 ) ( aged 108 -- 109 ) Last veteran of the Battle of Trafalgar 21 October 1805 Patrick Gass 2 April 1870 ( 1870 - 04 - 02 ) ( aged 98 ) Last member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 23 March 1806 John Rice 10 February 1880 ( 1880 - 02 - 10 ) ( aged 90 -- 91 ) Last veteran of the Battle of Lake Erie 10 September 1813 James Madison 28 June 1836 ( 1836 - 06 - 28 ) ( aged 85 ) Last former President of the United States to lead American troops in battle 24 August 1814 James Buchanan 1 June 1868 ( 1868 - 06 - 01 ) ( aged 77 ) Last former President of the United States to have served in the War of 1812 14 September 1814 Charles Booth 2 March 1896 ( 1896 - 03 - 02 ) ( aged 97 ) Last living rebel of the Pentrich rising 10 June 1817 John W. Stainer 3 March 1907 ( 1907 - 03 - 03 ) ( aged 99 ) Last veteran of the Battle of Navarino 20 October 1827 Philippe Demoulin 14 February 1912 ( 1912 - 02 - 14 ) ( aged 102 ) Last veteran of the Belgian Revolution 14 July 1831 William Carroll Crawford 3 September 1895 ( 1895 - 09 - 03 ) ( aged 90 ) Last signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence 2 March 1836 Alijo Perez Jr. 21 October 1918 ( 1918 - 10 - 21 ) ( aged 83 ) Last living Texian survivor of the Battle of the Alamo 6 March 1836 Alfonso Steele 8 July 1911 ( 1911 - 07 - 08 ) ( aged 94 ) Last survivor of the Battle of San Jacinto 21 April 1836 William Physick Zuber 22 September 1913 ( 1913 - 09 - 22 ) ( aged 93 ) Last veteran of the Texas Revolution 25 April 1836 Thomas Patrickson 15 October 1914 ( 1914 - 10 - 15 ) ( aged 85 -- 86 ) Last participant of the Second voyage of HMS Beagle 2 October 1836 Rebecca Tickaneesky Neugin 15 July 1932 ( 1932 - 07 - 15 ) ( aged 97 -- 98 ) Last survivor of the Trail of Tears 1837 Nelson Traux 25 January 1915 ( 1915 - 01 - 25 ) ( aged 96 ) Last survivor of the Battle of the Windmill 16 November 1838 Milvern Harrell 10 August 1910 ( 1910 - 08 - 10 ) ( aged 86 ) Last survivor of the Dawson Massacre 17 September 1842 François X. Matthieu 4 February 1914 ( 1914 - 02 - 04 ) ( aged 95 ) Last participant at the Champoeg Meetings 2 May 1843 Walter T. Avery 10 June 1904 ( 1904 - 06 - 10 ) ( aged 90 ) Last participant in the first official baseball game 19 June 1846 Margaret Isabella Breen McMahon 25 March 1935 ( 1935 - 03 - 25 ) ( aged 89 ) Last survivor of the Donner Party 29 April 1847 Ulysses S. Grant 23 July 1885 ( 1885 - 07 - 23 ) ( aged 63 ) Last former President of the United States to have served in the Mexican - American War 3 February 1848 Charlotte L. Woodward Peirce 15 March 1924 ( 1924 - 03 - 15 ) ( aged 94 ) Last surviving participant in the Seneca Falls Convention and last signer of the Declaration of Sentiments 20 July 1848 József Fischl March 1929 ( aged 102 ) Last Honvéd ( hu ) veteran of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 4 October 1849 1851 -- 1900 Name Death Historical event Date event ended Thomas Kelly 14 April 1932 ( 1932 - 04 - 14 ) ( aged 83 ) Last survivor of the Birkenhead disaster 26 February 1852 Edwin Hughes 18 April 1927 ( 1927 - 04 - 18 ) ( aged 96 ) Last participant in the Charge of the Light Brigade 25 October 1854 John Lishman Potter 24 October 1931 ( 1931 - 10 - 24 ) ( aged 97 ) Last veteran of the Eureka Rebellion 3 December 1854 Horace F. Sisson 10 March 1942 ( 1942 - 03 - 10 ) ( aged 98 ) Last member of the Perry Expedition 11 January 1855 Teodolfo Mertel 11 July 1899 ( 1899 - 07 - 11 ) ( aged 93 ) Last non-priest cardinal 15 March 1858 John Winchell Cullen 14 December 1939 ( 1939 - 12 - 14 ) ( aged 101 ) Last veteran of the Yakima War 23 September 1858 George Chrystie 14 June 1939 ( 1939 - 06 - 14 ) ( aged 97 ) Last British Army veteran of the Indian Mutiny 8 July 1859 Pressley Corbin Hyman 20 June 1912 ( 1912 - 06 - 20 ) ( aged 81 ) Last witness to the Broderick -- Terry duel 13 September 1859 Cudjoe Lewis 26 July 1935 ( 1935 - 07 - 26 ) ( aged 95 ) Last passenger of the Clotilde 1859 Owen Brown 8 January 1889 ( 1889 - 01 - 08 ) ( aged 64 ) Last abolitionist present at John Brown 's raid on Harpers Ferry 18 October 1859 George Pilson 22 April 1916 ( 1916 - 04 - 22 ) ( aged 73 -- 74 ) Last witness at Harpers Ferry 18 October 1859 Hugo Josef Schiff 8 September 1915 ( 1915 - 09 - 08 ) ( aged 81 ) Last attendee of the Karlsruhe Congress 5 September 1860 Giovanni Battista Egisto Sivelli 1 November 1934 ( 1934 - 11 - 01 ) ( aged 90 ) Last member of the Expedition of the Thousand 17 March 1861 James Hard 12 March 1953 ( 1953 - 03 - 12 ) ( aged 109 ) Last veteran of the First Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Antietam and Battle of Chancellorsville 21 July 1861 ; 17 September 1862 ; and 6 May 1863 John Ambrose Driscoll 13 June 1921 ( 1921 - 06 - 13 ) ( aged 82 ) Last crew member of the USS Monitor during its engagement with the CSS Virginia ( aka USS Merrimack ) 9 March 1862 James Marion Lurvey 7 April 1950 ( 1950 - 04 - 07 ) ( aged 102 ) Last verified veteran of the Battle of Gettysburg 3 July 1863 Otto Richard Gellette 1 June 1944 ( 1944 - 06 - 01 ) ( aged 98 ) Last soldier to participate in Pickett 's Charge 3 July 1863 Eli G. Biddle 8 April 1940 ( 1940 - 04 - 08 ) ( aged 93 -- 94 ) Last member of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry that assaulted Fort Wagner 18 July 1863 William Sickles 26 September 1938 ( 1938 - 09 - 26 ) ( aged 93 ) Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the Civil War 31 March 1865 Samuel J. Seymour 12 April 1956 ( 1956 - 04 - 12 ) ( aged 96 ) Last witness present at Ford 's Theater during the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln 14 April 1865 John Henry Coghill Possibly 1942 ( aged 90 ) Last surviving witness to the death of John Wilkes Booth 26 April 1865 Charles M. Eldridge 8 September 1941 ( 1941 - 09 - 08 ) ( aged 96 ) Last survivor of the Sultana disaster 27 April 1865 William McKinley 14 September 1901 ( 1901 - 09 - 14 ) ( aged 58 ) Last former President of the United States to have served in the Civil War 9 May 1865 Agustín de Iturbide 3 March 1925 ( 1925 - 03 - 03 ) ( aged 61 ) Last member of the Imperial Mexican Court 19 June 1867 Charles Tupper 30 October 1915 ( 1915 - 10 - 30 ) ( aged 94 ) Last Canadian father of Confederation 1 July 1867 Samuel Speed 8 November 1938 ( aged 95 ) Last living British convict sent to Australia 10 January 1868 Pedro Angleró 16 October 1931 ( 1931 - 10 - 16 ) ( aged 109 -- 110 ) Last participant of El Grito de Lares 23 September 1868 George H. Large 15 August 1939 ( 1939 - 08 - 15 ) ( aged 88 ) Last participant of the first American football game 6 November 1869 William F. Lukes 13 December 1923 ( 1923 - 12 - 13 ) ( aged 76 ) Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the Korean Expedition 10 June 1871 Reginald Courtenay Welch 4 June 1939 ( 1939 - 06 - 04 ) ( aged 87 ) Last participant of the first English FA Cup Final 16 March 1872 Charles Windolph 11 March 1950 ( 1950 - 03 - 11 ) ( aged 97 ) Last U.S. soldier from the Battle of the Little Bighorn 26 June 1876 Dewey Beard 2 November 1955 ( 1955 - 11 - 02 ) ( aged 96 -- 97 ) Last Indian veteran of the Battle of the Little Bighorn 26 June 1876 James Robert Cummins 9 July 1929 ( 1929 - 07 - 09 ) ( aged 82 ) Last member of the James - Younger Gang 1876 Tom Garrett 6 August 1943 ( 1943 - 08 - 06 ) ( aged 85 ) Last player from first official cricket test match 19 March 1877 Frank Bourne 8 May 1945 ( 1945 - 05 - 08 ) ( aged 91 ) Last survivor of the defense of Rorke 's Drift during the Anglo - Zulu War 23 January 1879 Wyatt Earp 13 January 1929 ( 1929 - 01 - 13 ) ( aged 80 ) Last survivor of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 26 October 1881 Danny Ryan 31 December 1966 ( 1966 - 12 - 31 ) ( aged 96 ) Last survivor of the Tipperary hurling team that won the first All - Ireland Championship 1 April 1888 Frank Shomo 20 March 1997 ( 1997 - 03 - 20 ) ( aged 108 ) Last survivor of the Johnstown Flood 31 May 1889 Louisa Yellow Shield Motley 1 May 1979 ( aged 95 ) Last survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre 29 December 1890 Dr. Ernest Gotthold Hildner 1 July 1968 ( 1968 - 07 - 01 ) ( aged 94 ) Last living participant of the first basketball game ever played 21 December 1891 Michael Shonsey 5 August 1954 ( 1954 - 08 - 05 ) ( aged 89 ) Last veteran of the Johnson County War 24 May 1893 Arthur Sherman Phillips 18 March 1941 ( 1941 - 03 - 18 ) ( aged 75 ) Last participant in Lizzie Borden 's murder trial 20 June 1893 Nawi November 1979 ( aged 100 + ) Last of the Dahomey Amazons and last veteran of the Second Franco - Dahomean War 15 January 1894 Dimitrios Loundras 15 February 1970 ( 1970 - 02 - 15 ) ( aged 84 ) Last known living competitor at the 1896 Summer Olympics 15 April 1896 Manu Ruma April 1961 ( aged 87 ) Last veteran of the Dog Tax War 5 May 1898 John Henry Turpin 10 March 1962 ( 1962 - 03 - 10 ) ( aged 85 ) Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Maine 15 February 1898 John Davis 9 June 1970 ( 1970 - 06 - 09 ) ( aged 91 ) Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the Spanish -- American War 11 May 1898 Ralph Waldo Taylor 15 May 1987 ( 1987 - 05 - 15 ) ( aged 105 ) Last survivor of the Battle of San Juan Hill 1 July 1898 Jesse Langdon 29 June 1975 ( 1975 - 06 - 29 ) ( aged 94 ) Last surviving member of the Rough Riders 1898 Bruno A. Forsterer 13 June 1957 ( 1957 - 06 - 13 ) ( aged 87 ) Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the Second Samoan Civil War 1 April 1899 Emma Morano 15 April 2017 ( 2017 - 04 - 15 ) ( aged 117 ) Last verified living person born in the 1800s, last known survivor of the reign of king Umberto I 31 December 1899 and 29 July 1900 William Seach 24 October 1978 ( 1978 - 10 - 24 ) ( aged 101 ) Last living Medal of Honor recipient of the Boxer Rebellion 22 June 1900 Maude Conic 14 November 2004 ( 2004 - 11 - 14 ) ( aged 105 -- 106 ) Last survivor of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 12 September 1900 Lucien Démanet 16 March 1979 ( 1979 - 03 - 16 ) ( aged 104 ) Last participant in the 1900 Summer Olympics 28 October 1900 Nabi Tajima Living ( age 117 ) Last living person born in the 19th century 31 December 1900 1901 -- 1915 Name Death Historical event Date event ended Violet Brown 15 September 2017 ( 2017 - 09 - 15 ) ( aged 117 ) Last known surviving subject of Queen Victoria 22 January 1901 Laura Bullion 2 December 1961 ( 1961 - 12 - 02 ) ( aged 85 ) Last member of the Wild Bunch gang 1901 Léon Compère - Léandre 1936 Last survivor on shore of Saint - Pierre during the eruption of Mount Pelée 8 May 1902 Irénise Moulonguet 28 May 2013 ( 2013 - 05 - 28 ) ( aged 112 ) Last surviving witness of the eruption of Mount Pelée 8 May 1902 Roscinda Nolasquez 4 February 1987 ( 1987 - 02 - 04 ) ( aged 94 ) Last speaker of Cupeño and last survivor of the removal of the Cupeño to Pala, California, the last of the Federal Indian Removals 13 May 1903 Gladys Ennis 20 March 1993 ( 1993 - 03 - 20 ) ( aged 92 ) Last survivor of the Frank Slide 29 April 1903 Jennings Dunlap 20 September 1964 ( 1964 - 09 - 20 ) ( aged 84 -- 85 ) Last survivor of the Wreck of the Old 97 23 September 1903 Freddy Parent 2 November 1972 ( 1972 - 11 - 02 ) ( aged 96 ) Last living player of the 1903 World Series 13 October 1903 Johnny Moore 28 February 1952 ( 1952 - 02 - 28 ) ( aged 66 ) Last living witness of the Wright Brothers ' first heavier than air flight 17 December 1903 Verde Clark Graff 3 July 1989 ( 1989 - 07 - 03 ) ( aged 97 ) Last survivor of the Iroquois Theatre fire 30 December 1903 Michael Barne 31 May 1961 ( 1961 - 05 - 31 ) ( aged 83 ) Last survivor of the Discovery Expedition 1 April 1904 Alexander Bernard Heron 24 January 2000 ( 2000 - 01 - 24 ) ( aged 105 ) Last worker involved in the construction of the Panama Canal 4 May 1904 Adella Wotherspoon 26 January 2004 ( 2004 - 01 - 26 ) ( aged 100 ) Last and youngest survivor of the General Slocum Disaster 15 June 1904 Ivan Beshoff 25 October 1987 ( 1987 - 10 - 25 ) ( aged 103 -- 104 ) Last sailor that participated in the Potemkin Mutiny of 1905 8 July 1905 Ellen Adelaide Brandenborg 22 July 2017 ( 2017 - 07 - 22 ) ( aged 111 ) Last known surviving subject of Christian IX of Denmark 29 January 1906 Bill Del Monte 11 January 2016 ( 2016 - 01 - 11 ) ( aged 109 ) Last known survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake 18 April 1906 Dorsie Williams Willis 24 August 1977 ( 1977 - 08 - 24 ) ( aged 91 ) Last living soldier accused in the Brownsville Affair 13 August 1906 Brian Evans - Lombe 31 January 1994 ( 1994 - 01 - 31 ) ( aged 100 ) Last surviving member of the Brownsea Island Scout camp, the founding event of the Scout movement 8 August 1907 Francesca Nato 16 April 2017 ( 2017 - 04 - 16 ) ( aged 110 ) Last known survivor of the 1908 Messina earthquake 28 December 1908 John T. Kennedy 22 September 1969 ( 1969 - 09 - 22 ) ( aged 84 ) Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the Philippine -- American War 4 July 1909 Philip Brocklehurst 28 January 1975 ( 1975 - 01 - 28 ) ( aged 87 ) Last member of Shackleton 's Nimrod Expedition 23 March 1909 Rose Freedman 15 February 2001 ( 2001 - 02 - 15 ) ( aged 107 ) Last survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 25 March 1911 Zhang Rentian 29 April 1995 ( 1995 - 04 - 29 ) ( aged 107 ) Last surviving Scholar of Imperial China 12 February 1912 Sid Daniels 25 May 1983 ( 1983 - 05 - 25 ) ( aged 89 ) Last surviving crew member of the RMS Titanic 15 April 1912 Millvina Dean 31 May 2009 ( 2009 - 05 - 31 ) ( aged 97 ) Last and youngest survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic 15 April 1912 Elma S. Damrell 17 March 2005 ( 2005 - 03 - 17 ) ( aged 95 ) Last survivor of the Italian Hall disaster 24 December 1913 Mary Benich - McCleary 28 June 2007 ( 2007 - 06 - 28 ) ( aged 94 ) Last survivor of the Ludlow Massacre 20 April 1914 George M. Lowry 25 September 1981 ( 1981 - 09 - 25 ) ( aged 91 ) Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the United States occupation of Veracruz 21 -- 22 April 1914 Grace Hanagan ( Martyn ) 15 May 1995 ( 1995 - 05 - 15 ) ( aged 87 ) Last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland 29 May 1914 Vaso Čubrilović 11 June 1990 ( 1990 - 06 - 11 ) ( aged 93 ) Last participant in the conspiracy to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand 28 June 1914 Paul Kley 11 May 1992 ( 1992 - 05 - 11 ) ( aged 97 ) Last German veteran of the Siege of Tsingtao 7 November 1914 Alfred Anderson 21 November 2005 ( 2005 - 11 - 21 ) ( aged 109 ) Last soldier who could remember the Christmas truce of 1914 and last veteran of the battles of Neuve Chapelle and Loos 24 December 1914 ; 13 March 1915 ; and 14 October 1915 Audrey Warren Lawson - Johnston ( née Pearl ) 11 January 2011 ( 2011 - 01 - 11 ) ( aged 95 ) Last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania 7 May 1915 Carlo Orelli 22 January 2005 ( 2005 - 01 - 22 ) ( aged 110 ) Last veteran of the First and Second Battles of the Isonzo 7 July 1915 ; 3 August 1915 Marion Eichholz 24 November 2014 ( 2014 - 11 - 24 ) ( aged 102 ) Last survivor of the capsizing of the SS Eastland 24 July 1915 Smedley Butler 21 June 1940 ( 1940 - 06 - 21 ) ( aged 58 ) Last recipient to receive two Medals of Honor for two different actions 17 November 1915 1916 -- 1930 Name Death Historical event Date event ended Alec Campbell 16 May 2002 ( 2002 - 05 - 16 ) ( aged 103 ) Last veteran of the Gallipoli Campaign 9 January 1916 Lilly Kempson 22 January 1996 ( 1996 - 01 - 22 ) ( aged 99 ) Last Irish participant in the Easter Rising 30 April 1916 Henry Allingham 18 July 2009 ( 2009 - 07 - 18 ) ( aged 113 ) Oldest member of any of the British Armed Forces, last member of the RNAS, last founding member of the Royal Air Force, and last veteran of the Battle of Jutland 1 June 1916 Roswell Winans 7 April 1968 ( 1968 - 04 - 07 ) ( aged 80 ) Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic 3 July 1916 Marcel Caux 22 August 2004 ( 2004 - 08 - 22 ) ( aged 105 ) Last survivor of the Battle of Pozières 7 August 1916 Claude - Marie Boucaud 17 May 2005 ( 2005 - 05 - 17 ) ( aged 109 ) Last survivor of the Battle of the Somme 18 November 1916 George Perman 24 May 2000 ( 2000 - 05 - 24 ) ( aged 99 ) Last survivor of the sinking of the HMHS Britannic 21 November 1916 René Marie - Martial Moreau 26 October 2005 ( 2005 - 10 - 26 ) ( aged 108 ) Last veteran of the Battle of Verdun 18 December 1916 Mark Matthews 6 September 2005 ( 2005 - 09 - 06 ) ( aged 111 ) Oldest and last surviving pre-World War II Buffalo Soldier and last veteran of the Pancho Villa Expedition 7 February 1917 ; August 1918 Yakup Satar 2 April 2008 ( 2008 - 04 - 02 ) ( aged 110 ) Last veteran of the Second Battle of Kut 23 February 1917 Alfred Finnigan 11 May 2005 ( 2005 - 05 - 11 ) ( aged 108 ) Last veteran of the Battle of Vimy Ridge 12 April 1917 Louis de Cazenave 20 January 2008 ( 2008 - 01 - 20 ) ( aged 110 ) Last veteran of the Battle of Chemin des Dames 9 May and 9 October 1917 Albert Marshall 16 May 2005 ( 2005 - 05 - 16 ) ( aged 108 ) Last veteran of the Battle of Arras and the Battle of Cambrai 16 May and 8 December 1917 Richard W. Richards 8 May 1985 ( 1985 - 05 - 08 ) ( aged 91 ) Last surviving member of the British Trans - Antarctic Expedition 29 May 1917 Edward Smout 22 June 2004 ( 2004 - 06 - 22 ) ( aged 106 ) Last witness to the death of the Red Baron and veteran of the Battle of Messines 14 June 1917 ; 21 April 1918 Alois Vocásek 9 August 2003 ( 2003 - 08 - 09 ) ( aged 107 ) Last Czechoslovakian veteran of World War I and of the Battle of Zborov 2 July 1917 Puyi 17 October 1967 ( 1967 - 10 - 17 ) ( aged 61 ) Last Emperor of China 12 July 1917 Peter Casserly 24 June 2005 ( 2005 - 06 - 24 ) ( aged 107 ) Last member of the First Australian Imperial Force and veteran of the Battle of Amiens September 1917 ; 11 August 1918 Lúcia Santos 13 February 2005 ( 2005 - 02 - 13 ) ( aged 97 ) Last of the three children who claimed to have spoken to Our Lady of Fátima 13 October 1917 Harry Patch 25 July 2009 ( 2009 - 07 - 25 ) ( aged 111 ) Last British Army veteran of World War I and last veteran of Passchendaele 10 November 1917 Lazar Kaganovich 25 July 1991 ( 1991 - 07 - 25 ) ( aged 97 ) Last Old Bolshevik who took part in the Russian October Revolution 8 November 1917 Boris Gudz 27 December 2006 ( 2006 - 12 - 27 ) ( aged 104 ) Last survivor of the October Revolution and of the Russian Civil War 8 November 1917 ; June 1923 Delfino Borroni 26 October 2008 ( 2008 - 10 - 26 ) ( aged 110 ) Last veteran of the Battle of Caporetto 19 November 1917 Antonio Todde 3 January 2002 ( 2002 - 01 - 03 ) ( aged 112 ) Last veteran of the Battle of Mount Grappa 23 December 1917 Edouard Izac 18 January 1990 ( 1990 - 01 - 18 ) ( aged 98 ) Last World War I Medal of Honor recipient and World War I United States Navy recipient 21 May 1918 Franz Künstler 27 May 2008 ( 2008 - 05 - 27 ) ( aged 107 ) Last veteran of the Battle of the Piave River 23 June 1918 Albert Wagner 20 January 2007 ( 2007 - 01 - 20 ) ( aged 107 ) Last veteran of the Battle of Belleau Wood and last U.S. Marine of World War I 26 June 1918 Thomas A. Pope 14 June 1989 ( 1989 - 06 - 14 ) ( aged 94 ) Last United States Army World War I Medal of Honor recipient 4 July 1918 Jean Grelaud 25 February 2007 ( 2007 - 02 - 25 ) ( aged 108 ) Last veteran of the Second Battle of the Marne 6 August 1918 Antonio Pierro 8 February 2007 ( 2007 - 02 - 08 ) ( aged 110 ) Last veteran of the Battle of Saint - Mihiel and Meuse - Argonne Offensive 19 September and 11 November 1918 Eddie Rickenbacker 23 July 1973 ( 1973 - 07 - 23 ) ( aged 82 ) Last Air Service, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and service 's last surviving World War I recipient 25 September 1918 John J. Kelly 20 November 1957 ( 1957 - 11 - 20 ) ( aged 59 ) Last recipient to be awarded two Medals of Honor 3 October 1918 Robert G. Robinson 5 October 1974 ( 1974 - 10 - 05 ) ( aged 78 ) Last United States Marine Corps World War I recipient of the Medal of Honor 8 October 1918 Gisbert - Wilhelm Groos 1997 ( aged 102 - 103 ) Last surviving member of Jasta 11 and possibly last surviving German flying ace of World War I 29 October 1918 James William Pearson 26 January 1993 ( 1993 - 01 - 26 ) ( aged 97 ) Last American World War I flying ace, served with the Royal Air Force 1 November 1918 Francesco Domenico Chiarello 27 June 2008 ( 2008 - 06 - 27 ) ( aged 109 ) Last veteran of the Battle of Vittorio Veneto 3 November 1918 Arthur Raymond Brooks 17 July 1991 ( 1991 - 07 - 17 ) ( aged 95 ) Last Air Service, United States Army flying ace of World War I 11 November 1918 Alexander P. de Seversky 24 August 1974 ( 1974 - 08 - 24 ) ( aged 80 ) Last Russian Empire flying ace of World War I 11 November 1918 Alfred Pugh 7 January 2004 ( 2004 - 01 - 07 ) ( aged 108 ) Last U.S. combat wounded veteran of World War I 11 November 1918 Florence Green 5 February 2012 ( 2012 - 02 - 05 ) ( aged 110 ) Last participant of World War I and last member of the original WRAF 11 November 1918 Harry Truman 26 December 1972 ( 1972 - 12 - 26 ) ( aged 88 ) Last former President of the United States to have served during World War I 11 November 1918 Harold Macmillan 29 December 1986 ( 1986 - 12 - 29 ) ( aged 92 ) Last former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to have served during World War I 11 November 1918 Charles De Gaulle 9 November 1970 ( 1970 - 11 - 09 ) ( aged 79 ) Last former President of France to have served during World War I 11 November 1918 Ludwig Erhard 5 May 1977 ( 1977 - 05 - 05 ) ( aged 80 ) Last former Chancellor of Germany to have served during World War I 11 November 1918 Gustav Heinemann 7 July 1976 ( 1976 - 07 - 07 ) ( aged 76 ) Last former President of Germany to have served during World War I 11 November 1918 Otto von Habsburg 4 July 2011 ( 2011 - 07 - 04 ) ( aged 98 ) Last surviving member of the Imperial Habsburg Court 11 November 1918 Cecil Arthur Lewis 27 January 1997 ( 1997 - 01 - 27 ) ( aged 98 ) Last British flying ace of World War I 11 November 1918 Juan Filloy 15 July 2000 ( 2000 - 07 - 15 ) ( aged 105 ) Last student who took part in the Argentine university reform of 1918 12 October 1918 Harold Gunnes 11 March 2003 ( 2003 - 03 - 11 ) ( aged 104 ) Last member of the Polar Bear Expedition July 1919 Swede Risberg 13 October 1975 ( 1975 - 10 - 13 ) ( aged 81 ) Last person involved in the Black Sox Scandal 9 October 1919 Raul Fernandes 6 January 1968 ( 1968 - 01 - 06 ) ( aged 90 ) Last surviving signer of the Treaty of Versailles 28 June 1919 Herman H. Hanneken 23 August 1986 ( 1986 - 08 - 23 ) ( aged 93 ) Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the United States occupation of Haiti 31 October -- 1 November 1919 Waldemar Levy Cardoso 13 May 2009 ( 2009 - 05 - 13 ) ( aged 108 ) Last veteran of the Tenente revolts 1922 ; 1927 Olivia Hooker Living ( age 103 ) Last survivor of the Tulsa race riot 1 June 1921 Vasco Bruttomesso 2 January 2009 ( 2009 - 01 - 02 ) ( aged 105 ) Last surviving veteran of the March on Rome 29 October 1922 Gene Bruce 6 December 2005 ( 2005 - 12 - 06 ) ( aged 98 ) Last surviving sailor of the Honda Point Disaster 8 September 1923 Emil Klein 22 February 2010 ( 2010 - 02 - 22 ) ( aged 104 ) Last surviving member of Adolf Hitler 's unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch 9 November 1923 Dürrüşehvar Sultan 7 February 2006 ( 2006 - 02 - 07 ) ( aged 92 ) Last survivor of the Imperial Ottoman court 3 March 1924 Ivo Pavelić 22 February 2011 ( 2011 - 02 - 22 ) ( aged 103 ) Last surviving participant in the 1924 Summer Olympics 27 July 1924 Edgar Nollner 15 January 1999 ( 1999 - 01 - 15 ) ( aged 94 ) Last living musher of the 1925 serum run to Nome 1 February 1925 Thomas J. Brewer 16 August 2003 ( 2003 - 08 - 16 ) ( aged 82 -- 83 ) Last surviving participant in the Scopes Trial 21 July 1925 Francisco Núñez Olivera 29 January 2018 ( 2018 - 01 - 29 ) ( aged 113 ) Last veteran of the Rif War 27 May 1926 Louis de Broglie 19 March 1987 ( 1987 - 03 - 19 ) ( aged 94 ) Last attendee of the Fifth Solvay Conference 29 October 1927 Tsien Tsuen - hsuin 9 April 2015 ( 2015 - 04 - 09 ) ( aged 105 ) Last participant of the Northern Expedition 8 June 1928 Carla Marangoni 18 January 2018 ( 2018 - 01 - 18 ) ( aged 102 ) Last surviving participant in the 1928 Summer Olympics 12 August 1928 Janet Gaynor 14 September 1984 ( 1984 - 09 - 14 ) ( aged 77 ) Last surviving winner in the 1st Academy Awards 16 May 1929 Binod Bihari Chowdhury 10 April 2013 ( 2013 - 04 - 10 ) ( aged 102 ) Last revolutionary of the Chittagong armoury raid 18 April 1930 Norman D. Vaughan 23 December 2005 ( 2005 - 12 - 23 ) ( aged 100 ) Last survivor of Richard Byrd 's 1928 expedition to Antarctica 18 June 1930 Francisco Varallo 30 September 2010 ( 2010 - 09 - 30 ) ( aged 100 ) Last surviving player from the 1930 FIFA World Cup in Uruguay 30 July 1930 Rachel Johnson 7 April 2016 ( 2016 - 04 - 07 ) ( aged 93 ) Last St. Kildan 29 August 1930 Alfred Cook 7 November 1998 ( 1998 - 11 - 07 ) ( aged 91 ) Last known survivor of the R101 disaster 5 October 1930 1931 -- 1945 Name Death Historical event Date event ended Alf Howard 4 July 2010 ( 2010 - 07 - 04 ) ( aged 104 ) Last member of the BANZARE expedition to Antarctica 19 March 1931 Clarence Norris 27 January 1989 ( 1989 - 01 - 27 ) ( aged 75 -- 76 ) Last Scottsboro Boy 25 March 1931 Albert H. Wolff 21 March 1998 ( 1998 - 03 - 21 ) ( aged 95 ) Last member of the Untouchables 1931 Simone Schaller 20 October 2016 ( 2016 - 10 - 20 ) ( aged 104 ) Last participant in the 1932 Summer Olympics 14 August 1932 Josef Felder 28 October 2000 ( 2000 - 10 - 28 ) ( aged 100 ) Last individual to vote against the Nazi Enabling Act of 1933 23 March 1933 Moody E. Erwin 20 October 1989 ( 1989 - 10 - 20 ) ( aged 85 ) Last survivor of the USS Akron disaster 3 April 1933 Donald L. Truesdell 23 September 1993 ( 1993 - 09 - 23 ) ( aged 87 ) Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the United States occupation of Nicaragua 24 April 1934 Edd L. Miller 18 September 2000 ( 2000 - 09 - 18 ) ( aged 87 ) Last witness to the shooting of Bonnie and Clyde 23 May 1934 Thomas J. Conner 14 April 1997 ( 1997 - 04 - 14 ) ( aged 90 -- 91 ) Last member of the FBI team that gunned down John Dillinger 22 July 1934 Jerry Edgerton 14 September 2013 ( 2013 - 09 - 14 ) ( aged 99 ) Last survivor of the SS Morro Castle disaster 8 September 1934 Lü Zhengcao 13 October 2009 ( 2009 - 10 - 13 ) ( aged 105 ) Last witness of the Xi'an Incident 26 December 1936 Werner Franz 13 August 2014 ( 2014 - 08 - 13 ) ( aged 92 ) Last crew member to survive the Hindenburg disaster 6 May 1937 Werner Doehner Living ( age 89 ) Last passenger to survive the Hindenburg disaster 6 May 1937 Walter Walsh 29 April 2014 ( 2014 - 04 - 29 ) ( aged 106 ) Last member of the FBI teams that captured Arthur Barker and killed Al Brady 12 October 1937 Fon Huffman 4 September 2008 ( 2008 - 09 - 04 ) ( aged 95 ) Last survivor of the USS Panay incident 12 December 1937 Jules Paivio 4 September 2013 ( 2013 - 09 - 04 ) ( aged 97 ) Last member of the Mackenzie -- Papineau Battalion 21 September 1938 Con Shiels 3 January 2013 ( 2013 - 01 - 03 ) ( aged 96 ) Last participant in the Jarrow March 31 October 1938 Gunther Scholz 24 October 2014 ( 2014 - 10 - 24 ) ( aged 102 ) Last member of the Condor Legion March 1939 Delmer Berg 28 February 2016 ( 2016 - 02 - 28 ) ( aged 100 ) Last surviving member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade 1 April 1939 Stan Hilton 21 October 2016 ( 2016 - 10 - 21 ) ( aged 97 -- 98 ) Last surviving British Spanish Civil War veteran 1 April 1939 Antoine Piñol 7 September 2016 ( 2016 - 09 - 07 ) ( aged 101 ) Last French Spanish Civil War veteran 1 April 1939 Manuel Gallego - Nicasio Living ( age 101 ) Last surviving `` La quinta del biberón '' fighter 1939 Arthur Smith 10 December 2016 ( 2016 - 12 - 10 ) ( aged 93 -- 94 ) Last survivor of the sinking of the HMS Royal Oak 14 October 1939 Emilio Ochoa 27 June 2007 ( 2007 - 06 - 27 ) ( aged 99 ) Last signer of the Constitution of Cuba 1 July 1940 Daniel Nevolt Living Last veteran of the Battle of Kufra 1 March 1941 Ted Briggs 4 October 2008 ( 2008 - 10 - 04 ) ( aged 85 ) Last survivor of the sinking of the HMS Hood 24 May 1941 Bernhard Heuer Living ( age 95 ) Last survivor of the sinking of the Bismarck 27 May 1941 Donald `` Nick '' Clifford Living ( age 97 ) Last worker on the construction of Mount Rushmore 31 October 1941 John William Finn 27 May 2010 ( 2010 - 05 - 27 ) ( aged 100 ) Last Medal of Honor recipient from the attack on Pearl Harbor and last United States Navy recipient of World War II 7 December 1941 Joseph Langdell 4 February 2015 ( 2015 - 02 - 04 ) ( aged 100 ) Last surviving commissioned officer of the USS Arizona 7 December 1941 Lamar Crawford Sr 22 December 2011 ( 2011 - 12 - 22 ) ( aged 91 ) Last surviving United States Marine of USS Arizona Marine Corps detachment 7 December 1941 Gerhard Klopfer 29 January 1987 ( 1987 - 01 - 29 ) ( aged 81 ) Last individual to attend the Wannsee Conference 20 January 1942 David Stoliar 1 May 2014 ( 2014 - 05 - 01 ) ( aged 91 ) Last survivor of the Struma disaster 24 February 1942 Bill Bower 10 January 2011 ( 2011 - 01 - 10 ) ( aged 93 ) Last pilot of the Doolittle Raid in World War II 18 April 1942 Richard E. Cole Living ( age 102 ) Last participant of the Doolittle Raid in World War II 18 April 1942 Rudolf Brazda 3 August 2011 ( 2011 - 08 - 03 ) ( aged 98 ) Last concentration camp survivor deported by Nazi Germany on charges of homosexuality 8 August 1942 Tuomas Gerdt Living ( age 95 ) Last recipient of the Mannerheim Cross 8 September 1942 Orrel Cecil 4 November 2010 ( 2010 - 11 - 04 ) ( aged 90 ) Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Juneau 13 November 1942 Havala Laula Living ( age 93 ) Last known member of the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels during the Kokoda Track campaign 16 November 1942 Bill Sparks 1 December 2002 ( 2002 - 12 - 01 ) ( aged 80 ) Last member of the Cockleshell Heroes 12 December 1942 Joachim Rønneberg Living ( age 98 ) Last officer of Operation Gunnerside 16 February 1943 Marek Edelman 2 October 2009 ( 2009 - 10 - 02 ) ( aged 86 -- 87 ) Last leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 16 May 1943 Les Munro 4 August 2015 ( 2015 - 08 - 04 ) ( aged 96 ) Last pilot of World War II Operation Chastise 17 May 1943 Jay Zeamer Jr. 22 March 2007 ( 2007 - 03 - 22 ) ( aged 88 ) Last surviving Army Air Force Medal of Honor recipient and service 's last surviving World War II recipient 16 June 1943 Samuel Willenberg 19 February 2016 ( 2016 - 02 - 19 ) ( aged 93 ) Last participant in the revolt at the Treblinka extermination camp 2 August 1943 Gerard Zinser 21 August 2001 ( 2001 - 08 - 21 ) ( aged 83 ) Last surviving crewman of Motor Torpedo Boat PT - 109 2 August 1943 John Cruickshank Living ( age 97 ) Last Victoria Cross recipient for action in World War II 1 September 1944 Frank Ellis Sublett 27 September 2006 ( 2006 - 09 - 27 ) ( aged 86 ) Last member of the Golden Thirteen March 1944 Richard Sidney Albion Churchill Living ( age 98 ) Last surviving prisoner who took part in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III 25 March 1944 Clifford Brewer 29 April 2017 ( 2017 - 04 - 29 ) ( aged 104 ) Last surviving surgeon of the Normandy landings 6 June 1944 David Wood 12 March 2009 ( 2009 - 03 - 12 ) ( aged 86 ) Last surviving officer of Operation Deadstick during the Normandy landings 6 June 1944 Ewald - Heinrich von Kleist - Schmenzin 8 March 2013 ( 2013 - 03 - 08 ) ( aged 90 ) Last participant of the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler 20 July 1944 Miep Gies 11 January 2010 ( 2010 - 01 - 11 ) ( aged 100 ) Last member of the group which hid Anne Frank in the Secret Annex 4 August 1944 Bill Leibold Living ( age 94 - 95 ) Last Survivor of the sinking of the USS Tang 25 October 1944 Charles W. Lindberg 24 June 2007 ( 2007 - 06 - 24 ) ( aged 86 ) Last Marine in the Iwo Jima Flag Raisings 23 February 1945 Hershel W. Williams Living ( age 94 ) Last Medal of Honor recipient from the battle of Iwo Jima and last United States Marine Corps recipient of World War II 26 March 1945 Rochus Misch 5 September 2013 ( 2013 - 09 - 05 ) ( aged 96 ) Last surviving occupant of the Führerbunker 2 May 1945 Noel Jacob Wiener 2015 ( aged 99 -- 100 ) Last witness to the German Surrender ceremony 7 May 1945 Rudolf Hess 17 August 1987 ( 1987 - 08 - 17 ) ( aged 93 ) Last member of the cabinet of the Third Reich 7 May 1945 Walter Scheel 24 August 2016 ( 2016 - 08 - 24 ) ( aged 97 ) Last former German president to have served in World War II 8 May 1945 Helmut Schmidt 10 November 2015 ( 2015 - 11 - 10 ) ( aged 96 ) Last former Chancellor of Germany to have served in World War II 8 May 1945 Harold Stassen 4 March 2001 ( 2001 - 03 - 04 ) ( aged 93 ) Last signer of the United Nations Charter 26 June 1945 Theodore Van Kirk 28 July 2014 ( 2014 - 07 - 28 ) ( aged 93 ) Last crew member of the Enola Gay 6 August 1945 Russell Gackenbach Living ( age 93 ) Last crew member of Necessary Evil 9 August 1945 Chester Nez 4 June 2014 ( 2014 - 06 - 04 ) ( aged 93 ) Last original Navajo code talker 2 September 1945 Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape 12 February 1981 ( 1981 - 02 - 12 ) ( aged 93 ) Last signer of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender 2 September 1945 Claude Choules 5 May 2011 ( 2011 - 05 - 05 ) ( aged 110 ) Last veteran of both World War I and World War II 2 September 1945 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing Living ( age 92 ) Last former French President to have served in World War II 2 September 1945 Giorgio Napolitano Living ( age 92 ) Last former Italian President to have served in World War II 2 September 1945 George H.W. Bush Living ( age 93 ) Last former United States President to have served in World War II 2 September 1945 Edward Heath 17 July 2005 ( 2005 - 07 - 17 ) ( aged 89 ) Last former British Prime Minister to have served in World War II 2 September 1945 Ninian Stephen 29 October 2017 ( 2017 - 10 - 29 ) ( aged 94 ) Last former Governor - General of a Commonwealth Realm to have served in World War II 2 September 1945 John Paul Stevens Living ( age 97 ) Last former United States Supreme Court Justice to have served in World War II 2 September 1945 Edward Shames Living ( age 95 ) Last surviving officer of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion in World War II 30 November 1945 Joe Medicine Crow 3 April 2016 ( 2016 - 04 - 03 ) ( aged 102 ) Last war chief of the Crow Nation 1945 1946 -- 1960 Name Death Historical event Date event ended Kenneth Mayhew Living ( age 101 ) Last recipient of the Military William Order for World War II 24 April 1946 Benjamin Ferencz Living ( age 97 ) Last prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials 1 October 1946 Knut Haugland 25 December 2009 ( 2009 - 12 - 25 ) ( aged 92 ) Last crew member on the Kon - Tiki expedition 28 April 1947 Ring Lardner Jr. 31 October 2000 ( 2000 - 10 - 31 ) ( aged 85 ) Last member of the Hollywood Ten 25 November 1947 Michael I 5 December 2017 ( 2017 - 12 - 05 ) ( aged 96 ) Last surviving King of Romania 30 December 1947 Brajraj Mahapatra 30 November 2015 ( 2015 - 11 - 30 ) ( aged 94 ) Last royal to sign the merger agreement with the Indian state 1947 Maharaja Tej Singh Prabhakar 15 February 2009 ( 2009 - 02 - 15 ) ( aged 97 ) Last recipient of the Order of the Star of India 1947 Mayurdwajsinhji Meghrajji III 1 August 2010 ( 2010 - 08 - 01 ) ( aged 87 ) Last recipient of the Order of the Indian Empire 1947 Gopal Godse 26 November 2005 ( 2005 - 11 - 26 ) ( aged 86 ) Last conspirator involved in the assassination of Gandhi 30 January 1948 Arieh Handler 20 May 2011 ( 2011 - 05 - 20 ) ( aged 95 ) Last witness to the signing of the Israeli Declaration of Independence 14 May 1948 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 27 August 1979 ( 1979 - 08 - 27 ) ( aged 79 ) Last surviving Governor - General of India 26 January 1950 Tony Rolt 6 February 2008 ( 2008 - 02 - 06 ) ( aged 89 ) Last driver in the 1950 British Grand Prix the first World Championship Grand Prix 13 May 1950 Alcides Ghiggia 16 July 2015 ( 2015 - 07 - 16 ) ( aged 88 ) Last player in the Uruguay v Brazil ( 1950 FIFA World Cup ) 16 July 1950 Andor Lilienthal 5 August 2010 ( 2010 - 08 - 05 ) ( aged 99 ) Last of the original FIDE chess grandmasters 1950 Bill Speakman Living ( age 90 ) Last Korean War Victoria Cross recipient 4 November 1951 George Lowe 20 March 2013 ( 2013 - 03 - 20 ) ( aged 89 ) Last member of the 1953 British Everest Expedition 29 May 1953 William Kelly Harrison, Jr. 29 May 1987 ( 1987 - 05 - 29 ) ( aged 91 ) Last signer of the Korean Armistice Agreement 27 July 1953 Paik Sun - yup Living ( age 97 ) Last South Korean commander in the Korean War 27 July 1953 Rafael Cancel Miranda Living ( age 87 ) Last living perpetrator in the 1954 United States Capitol shooting incident 1 March 1954 Zelma Henderson 20 May 2008 ( 2008 - 05 - 20 ) ( aged 88 ) Last living plaintiff in the Brown v. Board of Education case 17 May 1954 Horst Eckel Living ( age 86 ) Last living player of the 1954 FIFA World Cup Final 4 July 1954 Maurice Faure 6 March 2014 ( 2014 - 03 - 06 ) ( aged 92 ) Last signer of the Treaty of Rome 25 March 1957 Bill Hastie Living ( age 98 ) Last survivor of the Knox Mine Disaster 22 January 1959 Kurt Diemberger Living ( age 85 ) Last living person who has made the first ascents on two mountains over 8,000 metres 25 May 1960 1961 -- 2000 Name Death Historical event Date event ended Antonio Imbert Barrera 31 May 2016 ( 2016 - 05 - 31 ) ( aged Expression error : Unrecognized word `` ar ''. ) Expression error : Unrecognized word `` ar ''. Last participant in the assassination of Rafael Trujillo 30 May 1961 John Glenn 8 December 2016 ( 2016 - 12 - 08 ) ( aged Expression error : Unrecognized word `` ar ''. ) Expression error : Unrecognized word `` ar ''. Last astronaut from Project Mercury 16 May 1963 Franz König 13 March 2004 ( 2004 - 03 - 13 ) ( aged Expression error : Unrecognized word `` ar ''. ) Expression error : Unrecognized word `` ar ''. Last cardinal created by Pope John XXIII and last participant in the conclave that elected Pope Paul VI 21 June 1963 Clint Hill Living ( age 86 ) Last passenger of the Kennedy presidential limousine during JFK 'S assassination 22 November 1963 Gerald Ford 26 December 2006 ( 2006 - 12 - 26 ) ( aged 93 ) Last member of the committee of the Warren Commission 29 November 1963 James Ramsden Living ( age 94 ) Last living former Secretary of State for War 1 April 1964 Alexey Leonov Living ( age 83 ) Last member of the Voskhod programme 19 March 1965 Stylianos Pattakos 8 October 2016 ( 2016 - 10 - 08 ) ( aged 103 ) Last leader of the 1967 Greek coup d'état and subsequent military junta 21 April 1967 John Lewis Living ( age 78 ) Last member of the Big Six 4 April 1968 Walter Cunningham Living ( age 85 ) Last crew member of Apollo 7 22 October 1968 Thomas P. Stafford Living ( age 87 ) Last crew member of Apollo 10 26 May 1969 Keith Payne Living ( age 84 ) Last Vietnam War Victoria Cross recipient and last Australian to be awarded original medal 19 September 1969 Alan Bean Living ( age 85 ) Last crew member of Apollo 12 24 November 1969 Edgar Mitchell 4 February 2016 ( 2016 - 02 - 04 ) ( aged 85 ) Last crew member of Apollo 14 9 February 1971 Harrison Schmitt Living ( age 82 ) Last crew member of Apollo 17 19 December 1972 Nguyễn Văn Thiệu 29 September 2001 ( 2001 - 09 - 29 ) ( aged 78 ) Last former President of South Vietnam 30 April 1975 Khamtai Siphandon Living ( age 94 ) Last Pathet Lao leader in the Vietnam War 30 April 1975 Juan Valdez Living ( age c. 79 ) Last American service member to leave Saigon 30 April 1975 Yao Wenyuan 23 December 2005 ( 2005 - 12 - 23 ) ( aged 74 ) Last member of China 's Gang of Four 6 October 1976 Larry Newman 20 December 2010 ( 2010 - 12 - 20 ) ( aged 63 ) Last crew member of the Double Eagle II 17 August 1978 Joseph Ratzinger Living ( age 90 ) Last cardinal created by Pope Paul VI and last participant in the conclaves that elected Popes John Paul I and Saint John Paul II 26 August 1978 and 16 October 1978 Luz Isabel Cuevas 6 May 2014 ( 2014 - 05 - 06 ) ( aged 91 ) Last witness to the assassination of El Salvadorian bishop Óscar Romero 24 March 1980 Robert Crippen Living ( age 80 ) Last crew member of STS - 1, first operational flight of the shuttle program 14 April 1981 Stanisław Kania Living ( age 90 ) Last living leader of the Polish United Workers ' Party 18 October 1981 Egon Krenz Living ( age 80 ) Last living Chairman of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) 5 April 1990 Dmitri Yazov Living ( age 93 ) Last living Marshal of the Soviet Union 28 April 1990 Helmut Kohl 16 June 2017 ( 2017 - 06 - 16 ) ( aged 87 ) Last Chancellor of West Germany 3 October 1990 Stanislav Hurenko 14 April 2013 ( 2013 - 04 - 14 ) ( aged 76 ) Last First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR 1 September 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev Living ( age 86 ) The last serving and last living former president of the Soviet Union 25 December 1991 Václav Havel 18 December 2011 ( 2011 - 12 - 18 ) ( aged 75 ) Last former President of Czechoslovakia 31 December 1992 Cornelius Botha 6 February 2014 ( 2014 - 02 - 06 ) ( aged 81 ) Last administrator of the Natal Province 27 April 1994 F.W. de Klerk Living ( age 81 ) Last leader of the apartheid government of South Africa, last State President, and most recent head of state from the white minority 10 May 1994 See also List of last surviving veterans of military insurgencies and wars Last European veterans by war Last surviving United States war veterans List of last known speakers of languages List of last living war veterans List of last surviving Canadian war veterans List of last surviving World War I veterans by country List of surviving veterans of the Spanish Civil War References Jump up ^ Carlos Paz Soldán ( 1879 ). 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Question: when did the last person born in the 18th century die
Answer: 9 January 1909