1st Of The Last

List of Last Survivors of Historical Events

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 whom were the last living members of a historic group that directly contributed to such an event (e.g. Manhattan Project scientists).

John the Apostle  Death:  c. 100 (aged 93–94)  Last Apostle and the last known witness to the Crucifixion  

Romulus Augustulus: Death: c. 507  Last Western Roman Emperor  

Cuauhtémoc: Death: 1525 (age 27-28)  Last Aztec Emperor

Mary Allerton: Death: 28 November 1699 (aged 83)  Last passenger of the Mayflower  

John Alden: Death: 12 September 1687 (aged 88)  Last signer of the Mayflower Compact

George Robert Twelves Hewes: Death: 5 November 1840 (aged 98)  Last survivor of the Boston Massacre (Event Date: 5 March 1770) Last participant of the Boston Tea Party  (Event Date: 16 December 1773)

Charles Carroll: Death: 14 November 1832 (aged 95)  Last signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (Event Date: 4 July 1776)

William Henry Harrison: Death: 4 April 1841 (aged 68)  Last President of the United States to be born a British subject

Andrew Jackson: Death: 8 June 1845 (aged 78)  Last President of the United States to have served in the American Revolution

John Jay: Death: 17 May 1829 (aged 83)  Last signer of the Treaty of Paris  (Event Date: 3 September 1783)

James Madison: Death: 28 June 1836 (aged 85)  Last signer of The United States Constitution  (Event Date: 17 September 1787)

John Adams: Death: 5 March 1829 (aged 61)  Last mutineer of HMS Bounty  (Event Date: 28 April 1789)

Arthur Dardenne: Death: 8 September 1872 (aged 95–96)  Last participant of the Storming of the Bastille  (Event Date: 14 July 1789)

Francis II: Death: 2 March 1835 (aged 67)  Last Holy Roman Emperor

Patrick Gass: Death: 2 April 1870 (aged 98)  Last member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition  (Event Date: 23 September 1806)

James Madison: Death: 28 June 1836 (aged 85)  Last President of the United States to lead American troops in battle  (Event Date: 24 August 1814)

William Carroll Crawford: Death: 3 September 1895 (aged 90)  Last signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence  (Event Date: 2 March 1836)

Alijo Perez Jr.: Death: 21 October 1918 (aged 83)  Last Texian survivor of the Battle of the Alamo  (Event Date: 6 March 1836)

Rebecca Tickaneesky Neugin: Death: 15 July 1932 (aged 97–98)  Last Cherokee survivor of the Trail of Tears  (Event Date: 1839)

Walter T. Avery: Death: 10 June 1904 (aged 90)  Last participant of the first official baseball game  (Event Date: 19 June 1846)

Margaret Isabella Breen McMahon: Death: 25 March 1935 (aged 89)  Last survivor of the Donner Party (Event Date: 29 April 1847)

Millard Fillmore: Death: 8 March 1874 (aged 74)  Last Whig President of the United States and last President who was neither a Democrat nor a Republican  (Event Date: 4 March 1853)

Edwin Hughes: Death: 18 April 1927 (aged 96)  Last participant in the Charge of the Light Brigade  (Event Date: 25 October 1854)

Owen Brown: Death: 8 January 1889 (aged 64)  Last abolitionist present at John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry  (Event Date: 18 October 1859)

Samuel J. Seymour: Death: 12 April 1956 (aged 96)  Last witness present at Ford's Theater during the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln  (Event Date: 14 April 1865)

Samuel Speed: Death: 8 November 1938 (aged 95)  Last surviving British convict sent to Australia (Event Date: 4 July 1866)

Charles Tupper: Death: 30 October 1915 (aged 94)  Last Canadian Father of Confederation (Event Date: 1 July 1867)

Tokugawa Yoshinobu: Death: 22 November 1913 (aged 76) Last Shōgun

George H. Large: Death: 15 August 1939 (aged 88)  Last participant of the first American football game (Event Date: 6 November 1869)

Napoleon III: Death: 9 January 1873 (aged 64)  Last Monarch of France

Saigō Takamori: Death: 24 November 1877 (aged 49)  Last Samurai

Wyatt Earp: Death: 13 January 1929 (aged 80)  Last participant of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (Event Date: 26 October 1881)

Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau: Death: 18 September 1896 (aged 76)  Last of the 72 people whose names are inscribed on the Eiffel Tower

Louisa Motley (née Yellow Shield): Death: 1 May 1979 (aged 95)  Last survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre  (Event Date: 29 December 1890)

Dr. Ernest Gotthold Hildner: Death: 1 July 1968 (aged 94)  Last participant of the first basketball game ever played  (Event Date: 21 December 1891)

George Fox: Death: 27 December 1964 (aged 86)  Last survivor of the sinking of USS Maine  (Event Date: 15 February 1898)

William Del Monte: Death: 11 January 2016 (aged 109)  Last known survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake  (Event Date: 18 April 1906)

Brian Evans-Lombe: 31 January 1994 (aged 100)  Last participant of the Brownsea Island Scout camp, the founding event of the Scout movement  (Event Date: 8 August 1907)

Sunjong: Death: 24 April 1926 (aged 52)  Last Emperor of Korea and last leader of a free united Korean state.   

Rose Freedman: Death: 15 February 2001 (aged 107)  Last survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (Event Date: 25 March 1911)

Sid Daniels: Death: 25 May 1983 (aged 89)  Last crew member of RMS Titanic  (Event Date: 15 April 1912)

Millvina Dean: Death: 31 May 2009 (aged 97)  Last and youngest survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic (Event Date: 15 April 1912)

Vaso Čubrilović: Death: 11 June 1990 (aged 93)  Last participant in the conspiracy to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand  (Event Date: 28 June 1914)

Alexander Bernard Heron: Death: 24 January 2000 (aged 105)  Last worker involved in the construction of the Panama Canal  (Event Date: 15 August 1914)

Alfred Anderson: Death: 21 November 2005 (aged 109) Last known combatant to participate in the Christmas truce of 1914  (Event Date: 24 December 1914) Last Scottish veteran of World War I  (Event Date: 11 November 1918)

Audrey Warren Lawson-Johnston (née Pearl): Death: 11 January 2011 (aged 95)  Last survivor of the sinking of RMS Lusitania  (Event Date: 7 May 1915)

Puyi: Death: 17 October 1967 (aged 61)  Last Emperor of China 

Lúcia Santos: Death: 13 February 2005 (aged 97)  Last of the three children who claimed to have spoken to Our Lady of Fátima (Event Date: 13 October 1917)

Boris Gudz: Death: 27 December 2006 (aged 104) Last participant of the October Revolution (Event Date: October 1917)

Edward Smout: Death: 22 June 2004 (aged 106)  Last witness to the death of the Red Baron  (Event Date: 21 April 1918)

Harry Patch: Death: 25 July 2009 (aged 111)  Last British Army veteran of World War I  (Event Date: 11 November 1918)

Albert Wagner: Death: 20 January 2007 (aged 107)  Last U.S. Marine veteran of World War I

Arthur Raymond Brooks: Death: 17 July 1991 (aged 95)  Last Air Service, United States Army flying ace of World War I

Alfred Pugh: Death: 7 January 2004 (aged 108)  Last United States combat veteran wounded in World War I

Florence Green: Death: 5 February 2012 (aged 110)  Last participant of World War I and last member of the original Royal Air Force; the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF)

Charles I of Austria: Death: 1 April 1922 (aged 34)  Last Emperor of Austria

Otto von Habsburg: Death: 4 July 2011 (aged 98)  Last member of the Imperial Habsburg Court

Albert Marshall: Death: 16 May 2005 (aged 108)  Last British cavalryman of World War I

Cecil Arthur Lewis: Death: 27 January 1997 (aged 98)  Last British flying ace of World War I

Raul Fernandes: Death: 6 January 1968 (aged 90)  Last signer of the Treaty of Versailles (Event Date: 28 June 1919)

Olivia Hooker: Death: 21 November 2018 (aged 103)  Last survivor of the Tulsa race riot  (Event Date: 1 June 1921)

Dan Keating: Death: 2 October 2007 (aged 105)  Last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence  (Event Date: 11 July 1921)

Evelyn Beauchamp: Death: 31 January 1980 (aged 79)  Last witness of the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb  (Event Date: 16 February 1923)

Emil Klein: Death: 22 February 2010 (aged 104)  Last participant of Adolf Hitler's unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch  (Event Date: 9 November 1923)

Dürrüşehvar Sultan: Death: 7 February 2006 (aged 92)  Last member of the Imperial Ottoman Court  (Event Date: 3 March 1924)

Edgar Nollner: Death: 15 January 1999 (aged 94)  Last musher of the 1925 serum run to Nome  (Event Date: 2 February 1925)

Thomas J. Brewer: Death: 16 August 2003 (aged 82–83)  Last participant in the Scopes Trial  (Event Date: 21 July 1925)

Janet Gaynor: Death: 14 September 1984 (aged 77)  Last award winner of the 1st Academy Awards (Event Date; 16 May 1929)

Norman D. Vaughan: Death: 23 December 2005 (aged 100)  Last member of Richard Byrd's 1928 expedition to Antarctica  (Event Date: 18 June 1930)

Albert H. Wolff: Death: 21 March 1998 (aged 95)  Last member of the Untouchables  (Event Date: 1931)

Edd L. Miller: Death: 18 September 2000 (aged 87)  Last witness to the shooting of Bonnie and Clyde  (Event Date: 23 May 1934)

Werner Franz: Death: 13 August 2014 (aged 92)  Last crew member to survive the Hindenburg disaster  (Event Date: 6 May 1937)

Werner Doehner: Living (age 90)  Last passenger to survive the Hindenburg disaster (Event Date: 6 May 1937)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_survivors_of_historical_events