A historical event can be defined as any occurrence from the past regardless of significance, with the term "history" an umbrella term relating to past events and any associated memories, discoveries, collections, organizations, presentations, and/or interpretations of them. This differs from a historic event which is often less inclusive, and stands out as having made a significant impact on history itself.[1]
The following is a list of notable people documented as the last living individuals to have witnessed, survived or participated in significant historical events or who were the last living members of a historic group that directly contributed to such an event (e.g. Manhattan Project scientists). Excluded from this list are last living survivors of wars, speakers of languages, and others who are already recorded on pages representing more narrow categories.
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anas ibn Malik | 712 (aged c. 103) | Last surviving companion of Muhammad | 8 June 632 | |
| William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury | 3 June 1397 (aged 68) | Last Founder Knight of the Order of the Garter | 1348 | |
| Henry Bolingbroke | 20 March 1413 (aged 45) | 1388 | ||
| Sancho de Tovar | c. 1547 (aged 75–82) | Last known witness to the Discovery of Brazil | 22 April 1500 | |
| Bastiano de' Rossi | 1627 (aged 70–71) | Last founder of the Accademia della Crusca | October 1582 | |
| Francesco Stelluti[2] | November 1652 (aged 75) | Last founder of the Accademia dei Lincei | 17 August 1603 | |
| Mary Allerton | 28 November 1699 (aged 83) | Last passenger of the Mayflower | 11 November 1620 | |
| John Alden | 12 September 1687 (aged 88) | Last signer of the Mayflower Compact | ||
| Peregrine White | 20 July 1704 (aged 83) | Last participant at the First Thanksgiving | 11 November 1621 | |
| Last surviving Pilgrim Father | 30 November 1621 | |||
| Richard Bellingham | 7 December 1672 (aged 80) | Last signer of the Massachusetts Colonial Charter | 4 March 1629 | |
| Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles | Last of the Five Members | 4 January 1642 | ||
| William Hubbard | 24 September 1704 (aged 82–83) | Last member of Harvard's inaugural graduating class | 3 October 1642[3] | |
| Gaspar de Bracamonte, 3rd Count of Peñaranda | 14 December 1676 (aged ~81) | Last known diplomat at the Peace of Westphalia | 24 October 1648 | |
| Edmund Ludlow | c.1692 (aged ~75) | Last regicide of Charles I of England | 30 January 1649 | |
| Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton | 4 February 1696 (aged 82) | Last member of the Committee of Both Kingdoms | 7 February 1649 | |
| Johann Michael Fehr[4] | 15 November 1688 (aged 78) | Last founder of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina | 1 January 1652 | |
| Sir Christopher Wren | 8 March 1723 (aged 90) | Last founder of the Royal Society | 28 November 1660 | |
| George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon | 7 December 1716 (aged 73) | Last Founder Knight of the Order of the Thistle | 1687 | |
| Charles François Dolu[5] [6] | 6 January 1740 (aged 88–89) | Last surviving member of the Embassy of Loubère-Céberet | 1688 | |
| Jonathan Trelawny | 19 July 1721 (aged 71) | Last of the Seven Bishops | 30 June 1688 | |
| Edward Russell | 26 November 1727 (aged 70) | Last of the Immortal Seven | June 1688 | |
| Samuel Sewall | 1 January 1730 (aged 77) | Last court official in the Salem Witch Trials | May 1693 | |
| Thomas Aikenhead[7] | Last Briton executed for blasphemy | 8 January 1697 |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland | 26 January 1782 (aged 85) | Last Founder Knight of the Order of the Bath | 17 June 1725 |
| John Fortescue[8] [9] | 9 May 1808 (aged 87) | Last sailor who took part in George Anson's voyage around the world | 15 June 1744 |
| George Robert Twelves Hewes | 5 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[10] [11] | 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 | |
| David Cobb | Last charter member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | ||
| William Ellery | Last signer of the Articles of Confederation | 1 March 1781 | |
| Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley | 26 September 1842 (aged 82) | Last Founder Knight of the Order of St. Patrick | 11 March 1783 |
| James Madison | Last signer of The United States Constitution | 17 September 1787 | |
| Barthélemy de Lesseps[12] | 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[13] | Last member of the Inconfidência Mineira | 15 June 1789 | |
| Arthur Dardenne[14] | Last participant of the Storming of the Bastille | 14 July 1789 | |
| Paine Wingate | Last member of the first United States Congress | 3 March 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 | |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès | Last member of the French Consulate | 18 May 1804 | |
| Samuel Miller[15] | Last founder of the New-York Historical Society | 20 November 1804 | |
| Patrick Gass | Last member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition | 23 September 1806 | |
| Henry Goulburn | Last signer of the Treaty of Ghent | 24 December 1814 | |
| Carolyn Poulder King[16] | 28 June 1938 (aged 89) | Last widow of a War of 1812 veteran | 17 February 1815 |
| Esther Ann Hill Morgan[17] | Last recipient of a War of 1812 pension | ||
| André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin | Last delegate to the Congress of Vienna | 9 June 1815 | |
| Seth Weeks | Last survivor of the sinking of the whaleship Essex | 20 November 1820 | |
| Dmitry Zavalishin | Last member of the Decembrist movement | 14 December 1825 | |
| Last of the Three Witnesses | 28 June 1829 | ||
| 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[18] | Last signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence | 2 March 1836 | |
| Alijo Perez Jr. | 19 October 1918 (aged 83) | Last civilian Survivor of the Battle of the Alamo | 6 March 1836 |
| Jean-Paul, comte de Schramm | Last of the 660 persons whose names are inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe | 29 July 1836 | |
| Thomas Patrickson[19] | Last participant of the Second voyage of HMS Beagle | 2 October 1836 | |
| Rebecca Tickaneesky Neugin[20] [21] | Last Cherokee survivor of the Trail of Tears | 1839 | |
| Milvern Harrell[22] [23] | Last Texian survivor of the Dawson Massacre | 17 September 1842 | |
| François X. Matthieu | Last participant at the Champoeg Meetings | 2 May 1843 | |
| Joseph Dalton Hooker[24] | Last participant of the Ross expedition | 4 September 1843 | |
| Walter T. Avery[25] | Last participant of the first official baseball game | 19 June 1846 | |
| Margaret Isabella Breen McMahon[26] | Last survivor of the Donner Party | 29 April 1847 | |
| James Stephens Brown[27] [28] | 28 January 1848 | ||
| Charlotte L. Woodward Peirce[29] [30] | Last participant in the Seneca Falls Convention | 20 July 1848 | |
| Last signer of the Declaration of Sentiments |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Kelly[31] | Last survivor of the Birkenhead disaster | 26 February 1852 | ||
| Teodolfo Mertel | Last non-priest cardinal | 15 March 1858 | ||
| Pressley Corbin Hyman[32] [33] | Last witness to the Broderick–Terry duel | 13 September 1859 | ||
| Owen Brown[34] [35] | Last abolitionist present at John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry | 18 October 1859 | ||
| George Pilson[36] | Last witness at Harpers Ferry | |||
| Lyman Epps, Jr. | Last witness of the funeral and burial of John Brown | 8 December 1859 | ||
| Matilda McCrear | January 1940 (aged c. 83) | Last human cargo of the slave ship | 9 July 1860 | |
| Georg Hermann Quincke[37] | 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[38] | 10 April 1861 | |||
| John Surratt[39] | 14 April 1865 | |||
| Samuel J. Seymour[40] | Last witness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln | |||
| John Henry Coghill[41] | 5 March 1943 (aged 90) | Last witness to the death of John Wilkes Booth | 26 April 1865 | |
| Charles M. Eldridge[42] | Last survivor of the Sultana disaster | 27 April 1865 | ||
| Irene Triplett[43] | 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[44] [45] [46] | 8 November 1938 (aged 95) | Last surviving British convict sent to Australia | 4 July 1866 | |
| William Fairfield Warren[47] | Last charter member of the New England Conservatory of Music | 18 February 1867 | ||
| Last charter member of Wellesley College | 17 March 1870 | |||
| Last charter member of Boston University | 1873 | |||
| Agustín de Iturbide y Green | Last member of the Imperial Court of the Second Mexican Empire | |||
| Charles Tupper | Last Canadian Father of Confederation | 1 July 1867 | ||
| Kirino Toshiaki | ||||
| Mary Field Garner[48] [49] | 1868 | |||
| Andreas Kieber | 19 April 1939 (aged 94)[50] | Last surviving member of the Liechtenstein military | 12 February 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)[51] | 2 March 1869 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Rufino José Cuervo[52] | Last founder of the Colombian Academy of Language | 10 May 1871 | ||
| Reginald Courtenay Welch | [53] | 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[54] | 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[55] [56] | 21 December 1934 (aged 84) | Last member of the Challenger expedition | 24 May 1876 | |
| Mary Ann Mitchell (née Stammers) | 27 July 1958 (aged 84) | Last survivor of the sinking of the | 1 December 1876 | |
| Tom Garrett | Last player from the first official cricket test match | 19 March 1877 | ||
| Ann Eliza Young | 7 December 1917 (aged 73) | Last wife of Brigham Young | 29 August 1877 | |
| Francis Rawle[57] | Last founder of the American Bar Association | 21 August 1878 | ||
| Nikolai Morozov | Last person involved in the Assassination of Alexander II | 13 March 1881 | ||
| 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[58] | Last founder of the Actors Fund of America | 8 June 1882 | ||
| Clothilde Gobbi[59] | 7 November 1960 (aged 104) | Last performer at the Metropolitan Opera's opening night | 22 October 1883 | |
| Orlando Oscar Stealey[60] | Last founder of the Gridiron Club | 24 January 1885 | ||
| Alphonse Chodron de Courcel | Last participant of the Berlin Conference | 26 February 1885 | ||
| José Vianna da Motta[61] | 31 July 1886 | |||
| Samuel Fielden | 7 February 1922 (aged 74) | Last person originally convicted as part of the Haymarket affair | 11 August 1886 | |
| James Stockley[62] | 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[63] | Last survivor of the Johnstown Flood | 31 May 1889 | ||
| Louisa Motley (née Yellow Shield)[64] | 1 May 1979 (aged 95) | Last survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre | 29 December 1890 | |
| Borges de Medeiros | 25 April 1961 (aged 97) | Last known signatory of the Brazilian Constitution of 1891 | 24 February 1891 | |
| Eli B. Felsenthal[65] | Last charter member of the University of Chicago | 1 July 1891 | ||
| Ernest Gotthold Hildner[66] [67] | Last participant of the first basketball game ever played | 21 December 1891 | ||
| Julia Dent Cantacuzène Spiransky-Grant[68] [69] | Last of Ward McAllister's named Four Hundred | 16 February 1892 | ||
| Henry Churchill King | Last member of the Committee of Ten | 30 December 1892 | ||
| Bridget Sullivan[70] | 25 March 1948 (aged 81) | Last witness at the trial of Lizzie Borden | 20 June 1893 | |
| Alfred Hennen Morris[71] | Last founder of the Jockey Club | 9 February 1894 | ||
| Adolph W. Sommerfield[72] | 20 June 1957 (aged 90) | Last founder of the National Association of Manufacturers | 25 January 1895 | |
| Dimitrios Loundras[73] | Last known competitor at the 1896 Summer Olympics | 15 April 1896 | ||
| George H. Warren[74] | Last charter member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants | 12 January 1897 | ||
| Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo | Last founder of the Brazilian Academy of Letters | 20 July 1897 | ||
| George Fox[75] | Last survivor of the sinking of the | 15 February 1898 | ||
| Alexander Vannovskiy | Last participant of the 1st Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party | 15 March 1898 | ||
| Juan Hernández López[76] | Last Spanish-appointed member of Puerto Rico's Autonomic Cabinet | 22 July 1898 | ||
| Manuel Macías y Casado | Last surviving Spanish governor of Puerto Rico | 18 October 1898 | ||
| Wenceslao Ramírez de Villa-Urrutia | Last signer of the 1898 Treaty of Paris | 10 December 1898 | ||
| Jules Cambon | Last delegate to the 1898 Treaty of Paris | |||
| Jacob Gould Schurman | 12 August 1942 (aged 88) | Last member of the Schurman Commission | 29 January 1899 | |
| Jan Van Mirlo[77] [78] | 3 June 1964 (aged 87) | Last member of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition | 5 November 1899 | |
| Bernard Moses | 3 March 1930 (aged 83) | Last (original) member of the Taft Commission | 16 March 1900 | |
| Maude Conic[79] | Last survivor of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 | 12 September 1900 | ||
| Yau Lit | Last of the Four Bandits | Late 19th-century |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn[80] | 3 January 1913 (aged 74) | Last Groom of the Stool | 22 January 1901 | |
| James Sant | 12 July 1916 (aged 96) | Last Principal Painter in Ordinary | ||
| Laura Bullion | Last member of the Wild Bunch gang | 2 April 1901 | ||
| George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry | 13 March 1930 (aged 91) | Last surviving Master of the Buckhounds | 2 July 1901 | |
| Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen | 10 February 1923 (aged 77) | Last laureate of the first Nobel Prize ceremony | 10 December 1901 | |
| Colin L. Begg[81] | 15 January 1941 (aged 67–68) | Last founder of the American Urological Association | 22 February 1902[82] | |
| Léon Compère-Léandre | 1936 (aged 62) | Last known survivor on the shore of Saint-Pierre during the eruption of Mount Pelée | 8 May 1902 | |
| Irénise Moulonguet[83] | Last witness to the eruption of Mount Pelée | |||
| Sir Edward Seymour | 2 March 1929 (aged 88) | Last of the original recipients of the Order of Merit | 26 June 1902 | |
| Gladys Verquin (née Ennis)[84] | Last survivor of the Frank Slide | 29 April 1903 | ||
| Roscinda Nolasquez[85] | 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 | ||
| Gleb Krzhizhanovsky | Last member of the 1st Central Committee of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party | 23 August 1903 | ||
| Jennings J. Dunlap[86] | Last survivor of the Wreck of the Old 97 | 27 September 1903 | ||
| Freddy Parent | Last known player of the 1903 World Series[87] | 13 October 1903 | ||
| Johnny Moore[88] [89] | Last witness of the Wright Brothers' first heavier than air flight | 17 December 1903 | ||
| Verde Clark Graff[90] | Last survivor of the Iroquois Theatre fire | 30 December 1903 | ||
| Adella Wotherspoon | Last and youngest survivor of the disaster | 15 June 1904 | ||
| Michael Barne | Last participant of the Discovery Expedition | 10 September 1904 | ||
| William Luttgen[91] | Last participant of the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup | 8 October 1904 | ||
| James Rudolph Garfield | 24 March 1950 (aged 84) | Last member of the Keep Commission | 1905 | |
| Guy Vaughn | Last participant of the 1905 Morris Park 5, the first AAA National Motor Car Championship | 10 June 1905 | ||
| Last participant of the 1905 AAA National Motor Car Championship, the forerunner of the IndyCar Series | 29 September 1905 | |||
| William Del Monte[92] | 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[93] | Last soldier accused in the Brownsville Affair | 13 August 1906 | ||
| Using Daeng Rangka | 1927 (aged 81–82) | Last Makassan trepanger to visit Australia | 1907 (End of Makassan contact with Australia) | |
| Mangnellai Daeng Maro[94] | 1978 (aged 80–81) | Last known Makassan traveler to make contact with Australia | ||
| Louis Maurer[95] | 19 July 1932 (aged 100) | Last Currier and Ives staff member | 1907 | |
| Brian Evans-Lombe[96] | 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[97] | [98] | 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[99] | Last member of Robert Peary's final expedition towards the North Pole | 6 April 1909 | ||
| Joseph Collins[100] | Last founder of the Neurological Institute of New York | December 1909[101] | ||
| Mary Jo Estep | Last survivor of the Battle of Kelley Creek | 25 February 1911 | ||
| Rose Freedman[102] | Last survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | 25 March 1911 | ||
| Ishi | 25 March 1916 (aged 55) | Last known member of the Native American Yahi people, the last uncontacted peoples of the United States | 29 August 1911 | |
| Georges Hostelet | 4 November 1960 (aged 85) | Last attendee of the First Solvay Conference | 3 November 1911 | |
| Sid Daniels | Last crew member of the | 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 | ||
| Dhimitër Beratti | Last signer of the Albanian Declaration of Independence | 28 November 1912 | ||
| Alessandro Moreschi | Last castrato | 1913 | ||
| Courtney Letts | Last of the Big Four (debutantes) | 1914 | ||
| Ermenia Daley (née Padilla)[103] | Last survivor of the Ludlow Massacre | 20 April 1914 | ||
| Grace Hanagan (Martyn)[104] [105] | Last survivor of the sinking of the | 29 May 1914 | ||
| Vaso Čubrilović | Last participant in the conspiracy to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand | 28 June 1914 | ||
| Alexander Bernard Heron[106] | Last worker involved in the construction of the Panama Canal | 15 August 1914 | ||
| James Van Fleet[107] | Last surviving member of The class the stars fell on to have reached the rank of general | 3 May 1915 | ||
| Audrey Warren Lawson-Johnston (née Pearl)[108] [109] | Last survivor of the sinking of the | 7 May 1915 | ||
| Peter Stoddart[110] | 4 July 1988 (aged 91–92) | Last known survivor of the Quintinshill rail disaster | 22 May 1915 | |
| Marion Eichholz[111] | Last survivor of the capsizing of the | 24 July 1915 |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Perman[112] | Last survivor of the sinking of the | 21 November 1916 | ||
| George D. Grundy Jr.[113] | Last member of the Early Birds of Aviation | 17 December 1916 | ||
| Hank Mann | 1917 | |||
| Sun Yaoting | Last surviving imperial Chinese eunuch | |||
| Vsevolod Shakhovskoy | Last Minister of the Russian Empire | 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[114] | 1986 (aged 93–94) | Last person to travel with Vladimir Lenin to Finland Station | 16 April 1917 | |
| Richard W. Richards | Last member of the British Trans-Antarctic Expedition | 29 May 1917 | ||
| Herbert Bayard Swope[115] | 20 June 1958 (aged 76) | Last recipient of the 1st Pulitzer Prizes | 4 June 1917 | |
| Violet Markham | 2 February 1959 (aged 86) | Last member of the inaugural Companions of Honour | ||
| Lúcia Santos | Last of the three children who claimed to have spoken to Our Lady of Fátima | 13 October 1917 | ||
| Boris Gudz[116] | Last participant of the October Revolution | 7 November 1917 | ||
| Vyacheslav Molotov | Last member of the Petrograd Soviet and Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee 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 | |||
| Aleksandras Stulginskis | Last signer of the Act of Independence of Lithuania | 16 February 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 | ||
| Şəfi bəy Rüstəmbəyli | 20 December 1960 (aged 67) | Last signer of the Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan | 28 May 1918 | |
| Alexey Kabanov[117] | Last surviving participant in the execution of the Romanov family | 17 July 1918 | ||
| Juan Filloy[118] | Last student who took part in the Argentine university reform of 1918 | 12 October 1918 | ||
| Ernst Jünger | Last wearer of the military Pour le Mérite | 9 November 1918 | ||
| Pavlo Skoropadskyi | Last Hetman of the Ukrainian State | 14 December 1918 | ||
| Raul Fernandes[119] [120] | 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[121] [122] | 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 | ||
| Liu Renjing | Last 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[123] | 1922 | ||
| Altino Gomes da Silva | 23 March 1996 (aged 91) | Last survivor of the 18 of the Copacabana Fort revolt | 6 July 1922 | |
| Dürrüşehvar Sultan | Last member of the Imperial Ottoman Court | 1 November 1922 | ||
| Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan | 28 November 1982 (aged 99) | Last Privy Counsellor of Ireland | 5 December 1922 | |
| Mary Hall Daniels | 2 May 2018 (aged 98) | Last known survivor of the Rosewood massacre | 7 January 1923 | |
| Lady Evelyn Beauchamp | 31 January 1980 (aged 79) | Last witness of the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb | 16 February 1923 | |
| Last known participant of the 1923 Grand Prix d'Endurance de 24 Heures | 27 May 1923 | |||
| Thomas W. Miller | 5 May 1973 (aged 86) | Last member of the Ohio gang | 2 August 1923 | |
| Gene Bruce[124] | Last survivor of the Honda Point Disaster | 8 September 1923 | ||
| Emil Klein[125] | Last participant of Adolf Hitler's unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch | 9 November 1923 | ||
| Ivo Pavelić | Last competitor at the 1924 Summer Olympics | 7 July 1924 | ||
| Jim Crowley | Last of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame | 1 January 1925 | ||
| Gertrude Emerson Sen | 1982 (aged 91–92) | Last founder of the Society of Woman Geographers | January 1925 | |
| Edgar Nollner[126] [127] | Last musher of the 1925 serum run to Nome | 2 February 1925 | ||
| Aaron Copland[128] | 2 December 1990 (aged 90) | Last of the inaugural Guggenheim Fellows | 1 June 1925 | |
| René Thomas | Last participant in the 1925 Belgian Grand Prix | 28 June 1925 | ||
| Thomas J. Brewer[129] | 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[130] | Last survivor of the Bath School disaster | 18 May 1927 | ||
| Georgia Warren[131] | 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 | ||
| Mabel M. Williams[132] | Last known Radium Girl | 1928 | ||
| Carla Marangoni | Last competitor at the 1928 Summer Olympics | 12 August 1928 | ||
| Barbara Kent[133] | Last adult silent film actor/actress | 1929 | ||
| Gary Watson | Living (age) | Last living silent film actor/actress | ||
| 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 | ||
| Alfredo Viglieri[134] | Last participant of the Umberto Nobile's Artic expedition | 12 July 1929 | ||
| Bobbi Trout | Last participant of the Women's Air Derby | 27 August 1929 | ||
| Irene Parlby | Last of The Famous Five (Canada) | 18 October 1929 | ||
| Norman D. Vaughan | Last member of Richard Byrd's first expedition to Antarctica | 18 June 1930 | ||
| Francisco Varallo | Last surviving player of the 1930 World Cup, the inaugural FIFA World Cup[135] [136] | 30 July 1930 | ||
| Rachel Johnson[137] | Last St. Kildan | 29 August 1930 | ||
| Alfred Cook[138] | Last known survivor of the R101 disaster | 5 October 1930 | ||
| Louis Herlédan[139] | 10 September 1993 (aged 82) | Last of Les oubliés de l'île Saint-Paul | December 1930 |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albert H. Wolff | Last member of the Untouchables | 1931 | |
| Doris Eaton Travis | Last Ziegfeld girl | ||
| Alf Howard[140] [141] | Last member of the BANZARE expedition to Antarctica | 19 March 1931 | |
| Clarence Norris[142] | Last Scottsboro Boy | 25 March 1931 | |
| [143] | 26 April 1970 (aged 79) | 13 August 1931 | |
| René Lacoste | Last of The Four Musketeers (tennis) | 1932 | |
| George Haigh[144] | Last participant in the Mass trespass of Kinder Scout | 24 April 1932 | |
| Josef Felder | Last Reichstag member to vote against the Nazi Enabling Act of 1933 | 23 March 1933 | |
| Moody E. Erwin[145] | 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 | |
| Errie Ball | Last participant in the 1934 Masters Tournament | 25 March 1934 | |
| Karina Vasilieva[146] | Living (age) | Last survivor of the SS Chelyuskin disaster | 13 April 1934 |
| Evgeniy Silov[147] [148] | Last participant of the SS Chelyuskin Rescue Operation | ||
| Anatoly Lyapidevsky | Last member of the inaugural Heroes of the Soviet Union group | 23 April 1934 | |
| Edd L. Miller[149] | 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[150] | Last member of the FBI team that killed John Dillinger | ||
| Bill Eiserman[151] | Living (age) | Last witness to the Battle of Barrington | 27 November 1934 |
| Mary Carlisle[152] | Last WAMPAS Baby Star | 1935 | |
| Jānis Lidmanis | Last winner of EuroBasket 1935, the first FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship | 7 May 1935 | |
| Josep Plaja Gasch Joe[153] | 11 September 1982 (aged 81–82) | Last survivor of the Medellín plane crash | 24 June 1935 |
| Julian Edwin Bailes Sr. | 1 February 2010 (aged 95) | Last witness to the assassination of Huey Long | 8 September 1935 |
| Ty Cobb | Last surviving member of the inaugural induction class of the Baseball Hall of Fame | 1936 | |
| Luther Gulick | 10 January 1993 (aged 100) | Last member of the Brownlow Commission | 22 March 1936 |
| Iris Cummings | Living (age) | Last participant of the 1936 Summer Olympics | 16 August 1936 |
| James Clark McReynolds | Last of the Four Horsemen (Supreme Court) | 1937 | |
| Harlan F. Stone | Last of the Three Musketeers (Supreme Court) | ||
| Morton Minsky[154] | Last founder of Minsky's Burlesque | April 1937 | |
| Werner Franz[155] | Last crew member to survive the Hindenburg disaster | 6 May 1937 | |
| Werner Doehner[156] | Last passenger to survive the Hindenburg disaster | ||
| David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie[157] | Last surviving major participant at the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth | 12 May 1937 | |
| Joseph F. Kennelly | Last riding mechanic of the Indianapolis 500[158] | 31 May 1937 | |
| Walter Walsh | Last member of the FBI teams that captured Arthur Barker and killed Al Brady | 12 October 1937 | |
| John F. Druze[159] | Last of the Seven Blocks of Granite | 27 November 1937 | |
| Fon Huffman | Last survivor of the USS Panay incident | 12 December 1937 | |
| Edward Lund[160] | 20 November 1988 (aged 82) | Last crew member of Howard Hughes's round-the-world flight | 14 July 1938 |
| Con Shiels[161] | 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 | |
| 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 | 30 September 1939 | ||
| Arthur Smith[162] | Last survivor of the sinking of | 14 October 1939 | |
| Joseph Solman[163] | 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 | |
| John Insley Coddington[164] [165] | Last founder of the American Society of Genealogists | 28 December 1940 | |
| Robert R. Johnson[166] | 9 April 2023[167] (aged 102) | Last survivor of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition | 22 March 1941 |
| Ted Briggs | Last survivor of the sinking of | 24 May 1941 | |
| Mikhail Petrovich Sidko | Living (age) | Last living survivor of the Babi Yar Massacre | 30 September 1941 |
| Donald "Nick" Clifford[168] [169] | Last worker who participated in the construction of Mount Rushmore | 31 October 1941 | |
| Joseph T. McNarney | 1 February 1972 (aged 78) | Last member of the Roberts Commission | December 1941 |
| Lou Conter[170] | Last survivor of the sinking of the | 7 December 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 | |
| Norma Miller[171] | 5 May 2019 (aged 99) | Last member of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers troupe | |
| Gerhard Klopfer | Last attendant of the Wannsee Conference | 20 January 1942 | |
| David Stoliar | Last survivor of the Struma disaster | 24 February 1942 | |
| Lloyd Seaward[172] | Last survivor of the sinking of the | 1 March 1942 | |
| Jarmila Doležalová[173] | Living (age) | Last survivor of the Ležáky massacre | 24 June 1942 |
| Rudolf Brazda[174] | Last concentration camp survivor deported by Nazi Germany on charges of homosexuality | 8 August 1942 | |
| Ray Anthony[175] [176] | Living (age) | Last member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra | September 1942 |
| Orrel Glenn Cecil[177] | Last survivor of the sinking of the | 13 November 1942 | |
| Robert L. Shumway[178] [179] | Living (age) | Last known survivor of the Cocoanut Grove fire | 28 November 1942 |
| Albert Wattenburg | 27 June 2007 (aged 90) | Last of the physicists present at the first controlled nuclear reaction | 2 December 1942 |
| Bill Sparks | Last member of the Cockleshell Heroes | 12 December 1942 | |
| William Terbo | Last living person who met Nikola Tesla | 7 January 1943 | |
| Traute Lafrenz[180] | Last member of the White Rose | 18 February 1943 | |
| Viktor Zhelobkovich[181] | Last survivor of the Khatyn massacre | 22 March 1943 | |
| Ruth Slenczynska[182] | Living (age) | Last pupil of Sergei Rachmaninoff | 28 March 1943 |
| Marek Edelman | Last leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | 16 May 1943 | |
| Aliza Melamed Vitis-Shomron[183] | Living (age) | Last participant of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | |
| Samuel Willenberg | Last participant in the revolt at the Treblinka extermination camp | 2 August 1943 | |
| Mostyn "Moss" Berryman[184] | 6 August 2020 (aged 96) | Last surviving member of Operation Jaywick | 26 September 1943 |
| Simjon Rosenfeld[185] | Last survivor of the Sobibor uprising | 14 October 1943 | |
| Emanuele Di Porto[186] | Living (age) | Last survivor of the Raid of the Ghetto of Rome | 16 October 1943 |
| Winston Churchill | Last participant of the Tehran Conference | 1 December 1943 | |
| Last participant of the Yalta Conference | 2 February 1945 | ||
| Jennifer Jones | Last award winner of the 1st Golden Globe Awards | 20 January 1944 | |
| Robert Hébras | Last survivor of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre | 10 June 1944 | |
| Otto Günsche | 2 October 2003 (aged 86) | Last survivor of the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler | 20 July 1944 |
| Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin | Last participant of the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler | ||
| Kurt Salterberg[187] | Last witness to the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler | ||
| 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[188] [189] | [190] | Last participant of the Cowra breakout | 5 August 1944 |
| Bill Leibold[191] | Last survivor of the sinking of the | 25 October 1944 | |
| Dario Gabbai | Last member of the Sonderkommando | 18 January 1945 | |
| Ivan Martynushkin | Living (age) | Last liberator of Auschwitz | 27 January 1945 |
| Traudl Junge[192] | Last witness to the death of Adolf Hitler | 30 April 1945 | |
| Rochus Misch[193] | Last of Adolf Hitler's bodyguards | ||
| Last occupant of the Führerbunker | 2 May 1945 | ||
| Luciano "Louis" C. Graziano[194] [195] | Living (age) | Last witness to the German Surrender Ceremony | 8 May 1945 |
| Rudolf Hess | Last cabinet member of the Third Reich | ||
| Artur Axmann | Last Reichsleiter of the Nazi Party | 23 May 1945 | |
| Harold Stassen | Last signer of the United Nations Charter | 26 June 1945 | |
| Harold Bray | Living (age) | Last surviving crew member of the | 30 July 1945 |
| Harry S. Truman | Last participant of the Potsdam Conference | 2 August 1945 | |
| Arsilan[196] | Living (age) | Last participant in the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence | 17 August 1945 |
| Robert Kenneth Kaufman[197] | Last American officer present at the Surrender of Japan on board the | 2 September 1945 (End of World War II) | |
| Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape | Last signer of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hubert Germain | Last Compagnon de la Libération | 23 January 1946 | ||
| Joy Bright Hancock[198] | Last director of WAVES | September 1946 | ||
| Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite[199] | Last of the Monuments Women | |||
| Richard M. Barancik[200] [201] | 14 July 2023 (aged 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 | ||
| Ben Ferencz | Last prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials | 1 October 1946 | ||
| Rudolf Hess | 17 August 1987 (aged 93) | Last defendant at the Nuremberg Trials | ||
| Ossie Schectman | Last participant of the Inaugural NBA Game | 1 November 1946 | ||
| Charles Luckman | 26 January 1999 (aged 89) | Last member of the President's Committee on Civil Rights | 5 December 1946 | |
| Last member of the Fahy Committee | 26 July 1948 | |||
| Brajraj Mahapatra | 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 | ||
| [202] | 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 | ||
| Kenneth C. Royall | Last United States Secretary of War | 18 September 1947 | ||
| Marsha Hunt[203] | Last member of the Committee for the First Amendment | 2 November 1947 | ||
| Last person accused in the Red Channels list | 22 June 1950 | |||
| Krachang Tularak | Last member of Khana Ratsadon | 8 November 1947 | ||
| Ring Lardner Jr.[204] | Last member of the Hollywood Ten | 25 November 1947 | ||
| Clarence Beavers | Last member of the Triple Nickles | 15 December 1947 | ||
| Gopal Godse | Last conspirator involved in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi | 30 January 1948 | ||
| Emilio Colombo[205] | 24 June 2013 (aged 93) | Last member of the Constituent Assembly of Italy | 31 January 1948 | |
| Richard Nixon | Last member of the Herter Committee | 1 May 1948 | ||
| Arieh Handler | Last witness to the signing of the Israeli Declaration of Independence | 14 May 1948 | ||
| Teiichi Suzuki | 15 July 1989 (aged 100) | Last defendant at the Tokyo Trials | 12 November 1948 | |
| Hernán Santa Cruz | Last member of the Drafting Committee of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 10 December 1948 | ||
| Rexford Tugwell | 21 July 1979 (aged 88) | Last surviving United States-appointed Governor of Puerto Rico | 2 January 1949 | |
| Martin Sandberger | Last defendant at the Subsequent Nuremberg trials | 13 April 1949 | ||
| [206] | 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[207] | Last driver in the 1949 Strictly Stock Division inaugural race, the inaugural NASCAR Cup Series race | 19 June 1949 | ||
| Last driver in the 1949 Strictly Stock Division season, the inaugural NASCAR Cup Series | 16 October 1949 | |||
| Caren Marsh Doll | Living (age) | Last survivor of the crash of Standard Air Lines Flight 897R | 12 July 1949 | |
| Charles L. Greenlee | 18 April 2012 (aged 78) | Last of the Groveland Four | 16 July 1949 | |
| Isaak Khalatnikov[208] | 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[209] | 4 September 1949 | ||
| Gonzalo Facio Segreda[210] | 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[211] [212] | Last member of H.L. Mencken's Saturday Night Club | 1950 | ||
| Andor Lilienthal | Last of the original FIDE chess grandmasters | |||
| Marlene Hagge | Last founder of the LPGA | |||
| John Cairncross | Last of the Cambridge Five | 1950s | ||
| Adolf H. "Jazz" Maffie[213] | Last convicted participant of the Great Brink's Robbery | 17 January 1950 | ||
| T. M. Kaliannan[214] [215] | Last member of the Constituent Assembly of India | 25 January 1950 | ||
| Tony Rolt | Last driver in the first World Championship Grand Prix[216] | 13 May 1950 | ||
| Ludmila Brožová-Polednová[217] | 15 January 2015 (aged 93) | Last participant in Milada Horáková's trial | 8 June 1950 | |
| Alcides Ghiggia | Last player of the winning team at the 1950 FIFA World Cup[218] | 16 July 1950 | ||
| Robert Manzon | Last driver to take part in the inaugural World Championship of Drivers[219] | 3 September 1950 | ||
| Omar Bradley | Last General of the Army and last American to hold a Five-star rank | 22 September 1950 | ||
| Vincent Mroz[220] | 22 July 2008 (aged 86) | Last person involved in the shootout during the attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman | 1 November 1950 | |
| Ian Hamilton | Last participant in the removal of the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey | 25 December 1950 | ||
| Living (age) | Last performer at the NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen | 3 January 1951 | ||
| Last performer on the winning team at the NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen | ||||
| Nilla Pizzi | Last performer at the Sanremo Music Festival | 31 January 1951 | ||
| Morton Sobell | Last defendant in the Rosenberg spy trial | 5 April 1951 | ||
| Andrew Fitzgerald[221] | 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 | ||
| Moon Fun Chin[222] | Last CNAC pilot | May 1952 | ||
| Luis Muñoz Rivera | 30 September 2006 (aged 90) | Last delegate to Puerto Rico's Constitutional Convention | 25 July 1952 | |
| Del Crandall[223] | 5 May 2021 (aged 91) | Last surviving member of the Boston Braves | 21 September 1952 | |
| Roman F. Tritz[224] | 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[225] | Living (age) | Last member of the 1953 British Everest Expedition | 29 May 1953 | |
| Clark Kerr | 1 December 2003 (aged 92) | Last member of the Kestnbaum Commission | 10 June 1953 | |
| William Kelly Harrison, Jr. | 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 | |||
| Wang Hai | Last Chinese Korean War flying ace | |||
| Charles G. Cleveland | Last American Korean War flying ace | |||
| 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 | |||
| Morton Prince[226] [227] [228] [229] [230] | late 2022 (aged 98) | 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 | ||
| 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[231] | 4 July 1954 | ||
| Bobby Shantz | Living (age) | Last surviving member of the Philadelphia A's | 26 September 1954 | |
| Richard Harding Poff | Last signer of the Southern Manifesto | 12 March 1956 | ||
| Robert Siatka | Living (age) | Last footballer of the 1956 European Cup Final | 13 June 1956 | |
| Francisco Gento | Last winner of the 1956 European Cup Final, the inaugural UEFA Champions League, and of the 1957 European Cup Final | |||
| Albert Woolson[232] | 2 August 1956 (aged 106) | Last member of the Grand Army of the Republic | 2 August 1956 | |
| Roger Baldwin[233] | 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[234] | Last of the Black Mountain poets | 1957 | ||
| Johannes von Trapp | Living (age) | Last of the Trapp Family Singers | ||
| Maurice Faure[235] | Last signer of the Treaty of Rome | 25 March 1957 | ||
| Last player of the 1957 European Cup Final | 30 May 1957 | |||
| Last member of the Traitorous eight who founded Silicon Valley | 18 September 1957 | |||
| Bobby Charlton | Last Manchester United F.C. player to survive the Munich air disaster | 6 February 1958 | ||
| Neil Armstrong | 25 August 2012 (aged 82) | Last astronaut candidate selected for Man in Space Soonest | 25 June 1958 | |
| Mário Zagallo | Last surviving player of the 1958 World Cup final winning Brazilian team[236] | 29 June 1958 | ||
| Kurt Hamrin | 4 February 2024 (aged 89) | |||
| 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[237] | 5 May 2015 (aged 95) | Last surviving engineer of Wernher von Braun's German rocket team | 1959 | |
| Dorothea Schlidt[238] | 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[239] | 7 November 2020 (aged 101)[240] | Last survivor of the Knox Mine Disaster | 22 January 1959 | |
| Yuri Yudin | Last (and only) survivor of the Dyatlov Pass incident | 2 February 1959 | ||
| Jimmy Cobb | Last player in the Kind of Blue recording sessions | 22 April 1959 | ||
| Go Gien Tjwan | Last known member of the Constitutional Assembly of Indonesia | 5 July 1959 | ||
| Barron Hilton | Last member of the Foolish Club, the 8 original franchise owners of American Football League teams | 14 August 1959 | ||
| Anatoly Kryuchkovsky[241] | Living (age) | Last crew member of Self-propelled barge T-36 | 7 March 1960 | |
| Boris Volynov | Living (age) | Last living member of the First Squad of Soviet Cosmonauts | ||
| Kurt Diemberger | Living (age) | 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 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) | 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 |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. R. Swart | Last Governor-General of South Africa | 30 April 1961 | ||
| Antonio Imbert Barrera[242] | Last participant in the assassination of Rafael Trujillo | 30 May 1961 | ||
| Boujemaa Jdaini Larguet[243] | 22 April 2022 (aged 91) | Last founding member of FIBA Africa | 14 June 1961 | |
| Mikhail Krasichkov | Last survivor of Soviet submarine K-19 nuclear incident | 4 July 1961 | ||
| Dorothy Height | 20 April 2010 (aged 98) | Last member of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women | 14 December 1961 | |
| Millito Navarro[244] | 30 April 2011 (aged 105) | Last surviving player of the Negro American League | 26 August 1962[245] | |
| Ted Sorensen | Last member of EXCOMM during the Cuban Missile Crisis | 28 October 1962 | ||
| Ken Weller[246] | 25 January 2021 (aged 85) | Last member of the Spies for Peace | April 1963[247] | |
| John Glenn | Last astronaut who flew in Project Mercury | 16 May 1963 | ||
| Valentina Tereshkova | Living (age) | Last cosmonaut who flew in a Vostok mission | 19 June 1963 | |
| Audrey Nell Edwards[248] | Living (age) | Last member of the St. Augustine Four | 18 July 1963 | |
| Bob Welch | Last known participant in the Great Train Robbery[249] | 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) | Last passenger of John F. Kennedy's presidential limousine after Kennedy was shot | 22 November 1963 | |
| Bill Moyers | Living (age) | Last person identifiable in the photograph of Lyndon B. Johnson's first inauguration | ||
| Andrew Wyeth | Last living recipient of the inaugural Presidential Medal of Freedom | 6 December 1963 | ||
| Albert H. Crews | Living (age) | Last astronaut from the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar program | 10 December 1963 | |
| Ferdie Pacheco[250] | 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 | ||
| Dwight Ink | 17 October 2021 (aged 99) | Last member of the President's Review Committee for Development Planning in Alaska | 2 April 1964 | |
| Marcelino "Martín Villa" Trujillo[251] [252] | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| John Young | Last crew member of Gemini 3, the first spaceflight conducted by two American astronauts | 23 March 1965 | ||
| Max William Fine[253] [254] | 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[255] | Last of the Five Moons | 1966[256] | ||
| Alberto Moravia | Last author formerly listed on the Index of Forbidden Books | 14 June 1966 | ||
| Geoff Hurst | Living (age) | Last footballer of the 1966 FIFA World Cup final winning team[257] [258] | 30 July 1966 | |
| Waldemar Levy Cardoso | Last Marshal of Brazil | 1967 | ||
| Alexei Romanoff[259] | Living (age) | 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) | Last astronaut from Manned Orbiting Laboratory Group 3 | 30 June 1967 | |
| John Minor Wisdom | Last of the Fifth Circuit Four | 1968 | ||
| Fred R. Harris[260] | Living (age) | Last living member of the Kerner Commission | 29 February 1968[261] | |
| Walter Cunningham | Last crew member of Apollo 7 | 22 October 1968 | ||
| Joe Engle | Last X-15 pilot | 24 October 1968 | ||
| Ralph Leonard Starkey | Last survivor of the Farmington Mine No.9 Disaster | 20 November 1968 | ||
| Jim Lovell | Living (age) | Last crew member of Apollo 8 | 27 December 1968 | |
| George F. Kennan | Last surviving member of the "Wise Men" | 1969 | ||
| Thomas P. Stafford | Last crew member of Apollo 10 | 26 May 1969 | ||
| Buzz Aldrin | Living (age) | Last crew member of Apollo 11 | 24 July 1969 | |
| Alan Bean | Last crew member of Apollo 12 | 24 November 1969 | ||
| Joe DeRita | Last member of The Three Stooges | 5 February 1970 | ||
| Richard Schultz[262] | Living (age) | 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 | ||
| Edgar Mitchell | Last crew member of Apollo 14 | 9 February 1971 | ||
| Aleksei Yeliseyev | Living (age) | Last cosmonaut to dock with Salyut 1, the world's first space station | 24 April 1971 | |
| David Scott | Living (age) | 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 | ||
| Charles Duke | Living (age) | Last crew member of Apollo 16 | 27 April 1972 | |
| 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[263] | Last survivor of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study | November 1972 | ||
| Harrison Schmitt | Living (age) | Last crew member of Apollo 17 | 19 December 1972 | |
| Holly Woodlawn[264] | 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 | ||
| Joseph P. Kerwin | Living (age) | Last crew member of Skylab 2, the first manned mission to Skylab | 22 June 1973 | |
| Jack R. Lousma | Living (age) | 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) | Last crew member of Skylab 4, the final manned mission to Skylab | 8 February 1974 | |
| Gordon C. Strachan | Living (age) | Last member of the second Watergate Seven | 1 March 1974 | |
| Larry C. Green[265] | Living (age) | Last convicted "Zebra murderer" | 1 May 1974 | |
| Lowell Weicker | Last member of the United States Senate Watergate Committee | 27 June 1974 | ||
| Ronald Reagan | Last member of the Rockefeller Commission | 1975 | ||
| Nguyễn Văn Thiệu | Last president of the Republic of Vietnam | 30 April 1975 | ||
| Khamtai Siphandone | Living (age) | Last Pathet Lao leader in the Vietnam War | ||
| Vance D. Brand | Living (age) | Last crew member of Apollo-Soyuz | 24 July 1975 | |
| Valéry Giscard d’Estaing | Last signer of the Helsinki Accords | 1 August 1975 | ||
| Fernando Suárez González | Last minister who had served in Francisco Franco's regime | 20 November 1975 | ||
| Last Governor of Portuguese Timor | 28 November 1975 |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gary Hart | Living (age) | Last member of the Church Committee | April 1976 | |
| Yao Wenyuan[266] | Last member of China's Gang of Four | 6 October 1976 | ||
| Douglas MacDiarmid[267] | 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 participant of the 1978 Papal conclave | 16 October 1978 | |||
| Larry Newman | Last crew member of the Double Eagle II | 17 August 1978 | ||
| Marian Anderson | Last honoree of the inaugural Kennedy Center Honors | 5 December 1978 | ||
| Khieu Samphan | Living (age) | Last senior member of the Khmer Rouge | 7 January 1979 | |
| Timothy Knatchbull | Living (age) | Last survivor of the assassination of Lord Mountbatten | 27 August 1979 | |
| Walter Philip Leber | Last surviving Governor of the Panama Canal Zone | 30 September 1979 | ||
| Luz Isabel Cuevas | [268] | Last witness to the assassination of El Salvadorian bishop Óscar Romero | 24 March 1980 | |
| Vladimir Bakarić[269] | Last member of Josip Broz Tito's inner circle | 4 May 1980 | ||
| Angeline Nanni[270] [271] | 27 August 2019 (aged 101) | Last member of the Venona project | 1 October 1980 | |
| [272] | Last compiler of the Actes et documents du Saint Siège relatifs à la Seconde Guerre Mondiale | 1981 | ||
| Robert Crippen | Living (age) | Last crew member of STS-1, first flight of the Space Shuttle program aboard space shuttle Columbia | 14 April 1981 | |
| Hedwig Michel[273] | 5 August 1982 (aged 90) | Last member of the Koreshan Unity | 5 August 1982 | |
| Mikhail Gorbachev[274] | Last living member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the Brezhnev Era | 10 November 1982 | ||
| Last head of state of the Soviet Union | 25 December 1991 | |||
| Story Musgrave | Living (age) | Last crew member of STS-6, the first flight of space shuttle Challenger | 9 April 1983 | |
| Jerry Lee Lewis | Last member of the inaugural induction class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | 23 January 1986 | ||
| Vladimir Solovyov | Living (age) | Last crew member of Soyuz T-15, the first crew to visit the Mir space station and the last crew to visit the Salyut 7 space station | 16 July 1986 | |
| Vasilije Krestić | Living (age) | Last signer of SANU Memorandum, which started the Breakup of Yugoslavia | September 1986 | |
| Brian Willson | Living (age) | Last participant in the Veterans Fast For Life protest | 17 October 1986 | |
| Penaia Ganilau | Last Governor-General of Fiji | 15 October 1987 | ||
| Suharto | Last Commander of Order and Security | 5 September 1988 | ||
| Last awarded Jenderal Besar TNI | 5 October 1997 | |||
| Gheorghe Apostol | Last signer of the Letter of the Six | March 1989 | ||
| Karel Urbánek | Living (age) | Last General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia | 20 December 1989 | |
| Egon Krenz | Living (age) | Last Chairman of the State Council of East Germany | 5 April 1990 | |
| 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 | ||
| Al D'Amato | Living (age) | Last member of the President's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism | 27 September 1991 | |
| Vadim Bakatin | Last Chairman of the KGB | 16 November 1991 | ||
| Vitold Fokin | Living (age) | Last signer of the Belovezh Accords that put an end to the Soviet Union | 8 December 1991 | |
| Dmitry Yazov | 25 February 2020 (aged 95) | Last Marshal of the Soviet Union | 26 December 1991 | |
| Cornelius Botha | Last administrator of the Province of Natal | 27 April 1994 | ||
| F. W. de Klerk | Last leader of the apartheid government of South Africa and last State President | 10 May 1994 | ||
| Wan Li | Last member of China's Eight Elders | February 1997 | ||
| Try Sutrisno | Living (age) | Last Vice President of Indonesia to serve during the Suharto Era | 21 May 1998 | |
| Mário Viegas Carrascalão | 25 October 1999 | |||
| Alberto Alemán Zubieta[275] | Living (age) | Last Administrator of the Panama Canal Commission | 31 December 1999 |
| Name | Death | Distinction | Date ended | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last 9/11 rescue dog.[276] | 20 September 2001 | |||
| Living (age) | Last mobster of Hong Kong's 'King of Thieves'[277] | 24 December 2003 | ||
| Charles Rangel | Living (age) | Last member of the Gang of Four (Harlem) | 2010 | |
| Ruth Klein[278] [279] | 14 August 2012 (aged 80) | Last member of the Panacea Society | 14 August 2012 |
A few of the individuals listed above are pictured here, for visual reference. Each picture is captioned.