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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 [[List of last survivors of historical events?#See also|See also]] section.

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==Before 1701==
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!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|crucifixion]] of [[Jesus]], and last [[Apostle]]
|April 3, 33
|-
|[[Romulus Augustulus]]
|After 510 
|Last [[Western Roman Emperor]]
|4 September 476
|-
|[[Sophia Palaiologina]]
|7 April 1503
|Last member of the [[Byzantine bureaucracy and aristocracy|Imperial Byzantine court]].
|29 May 1453
|-
|[[Don (honorific)|Don]] Mancio Serra de Leguízamo<ref>{{cite book|title=Revista Peruana|publisher=M. Fernandez|author=Carlos Paz Soldán|volume=1-2|year=1879|language=Spanish|pages=25–33|accessdate=June 18, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/devaca/lascasas_05.html|title=The Confession, 1589|publisher=PBS.org|accessdate=2012-06-25}}</ref>
|September 18, 1589 (aged 78)
|Last known conquistador who participated in the [[Battle of Cajamarca|capture of Atahualpa]].
|November 16, 1532
|-
|[[Mary Allerton]]
|November 28, 1699 (aged 83)
|Last passenger of the ''[[Mayflower]]''
|November 11, 1620
|-
|[[John Alden]]
|September 12, 1687 (aged 88)
|Last living signer of the [[Mayflower Compact]]
|November 11, 1620
|-
|[[Richard Bellingham]]
|December 7, 1672 (aged 80)
|Last signer of the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony|Massachusetts Colonial Charter]]
|March 4, 1629
|}

==1701–1800==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
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!Name
!Death
!Historical event
!Date event ended
|-
|George Gregory<ref>{{cite book|title=The life of George, Lord Anson: admiral of the fleet, vice-admiral of Great Britain, and first lord commissioner of the admiralty, previous to, and during, the seven years' war|last=Barrow|first=John |year=1839|page=96}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1804|2|13|1695|mf=y}}
|Last sailor who took part in [[George Anson's voyage around the world]]
|1744
|-
|[[Isaac Smith (Royal Navy officer)|Isaac Smith]]
|{{Death date and age|1831|7|2|1752|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of [[James Cook]]'s [[First voyage of James Cook|first]] voyage
|July 12, 1771
|-
|[[George Robert Twelves Hewes]]
|{{Death date and age|1840|11|5|1742|8|25|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Boston Tea party]] and [[Boston Massacre]]
|March 5, 1770 and December 16, 1773
|-
|Ephraim Bowen<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gaspee.info/raiders/Bowen_Ephraim.htm|title=Ephraim Bowen, American Raider on English Ship|accessdate=2012-01-27}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1841|9|2|1753|8|29|mf=y}}
|Last individual involved in the [[Gaspée Affair]]
|June 10, 1772
|-
|Levi Preston<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=preston&GSfn=levi&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=11010616&df=all&|title=Capt Levi Preston|publisher=Find a Grave|accessdate=2011-09-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.empowertexans.com/node/1708|title=Celebrating Self-Government|accessdate=2011-09-10}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1850|1|5|1756|10|21|mf=y}}
|Last Concord veteran of the [[Battle of Lexington and Concord]]
|April 19, 1775
|-
|Jonathan Harrington<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16903771|title=Jonathan Harrington|publisher=Find a Grave|accessdate=2011-09-20}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1854|3|26|1758|7|8|mf=y}}
|Last Lexington veteran of the [[Battle of Lexington and Concord]]
|April 19, 1775
|-
|Ralph Farnham<ref>{{cite web|url=http://actonshapleigh.com/minutes.aspx|title=Ralph Farham|publisher=Acton-Shapleigh Historical Society|accessdate=2011-09-20}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1860|12|26|1756|7|7|mf=y}}
|Last known survivor of the [[Battle of Bunker Hill]]
|June 17, 1775
|-
|[[John Hatley]]
|{{Death date and age|1832|12|12|1762|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of [[James Cook]]'s [[Second voyage of James Cook|second]] voyage
|July 30, 1775
|-
|[[Charles Carroll of Carrollton|Charles Carroll]]
|{{Death date and age|1832|11|14|1737|9|19|mf=y}}
|Last signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]]
|July 4, 1776
|-
|Alexander Milliner<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanrevolution.org/last%20men/lastmen4.html|title=Last Men - Alexander Milliner|publisher=americanrevolution.org|accessdate=2012-01-09}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1865|3|15|1770|3|14|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Battle of Brandywine]] and [[Battles of Saratoga]]
|September 11, September 19, and October 7, 1777
|-
|[[Andrew Jackson]]
|{{Death date and age|1845|6|8|1767|3|15|mf=y}}
|Last former [[President of the United States]] to have served in the [[American Revolution]]
|April 25, 1781
|-
|[[Elijah Churchill]]
|{{Death date and age|1841|4|11|1755|9|4|mf=y}}
|Last recipient of the [[Badge of Military Merit]]
|October 2, 1781
|-
|[[John Gray (American Revolutionary War)|John Gray]]
|{{Death date and age|1868|3|29|1764|1|6|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Siege of Yorktown]]
|October 19, 1781
|-
|[[John Jay]]
|{{Death date and age|1829|5|17|1745|12|23|mf=y}}
|Last signer of the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]]
|September 3, 1783
|-
|David Whitney<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney,_David_%281767-1867%29|title=Whitney, David (1767-1867)|publisher=Whitney Research Group|accessdate=November 1, 2014}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1867|3|24|1767|8|16|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of [[Shays' Rebellion]]
|June 1787
|-
|[[James Madison]]
|{{Death date and age|1836|6|28|1751|4|16|mf=y}}
|Last signer of [[The United States Constitution]]
|September 7, 1787
|-
|[[Barthélemy de Lesseps]]<ref>[http://gillesenlettonie.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/les-aventures-extraordinaires-de-jean.html]</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1834|6|4|1766|1|27|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the scientific expedition of [[Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse]]
|1788
|-
|[[John Adams (mutineer)|John Adams]]
|{{Death date and age|1829|3|5|1767|12|4|mf=y}}
|Last [[Mutiny on the Bounty|mutineer of HMS ''Bounty'']]
|April 28, 1789
|-
|Arthur Dardenne<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ8FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA286&lpg=PA286&dq=Arthur+Dardenne+bastille&source=bl&ots=t60PxbYXmK&sig=R4VkP74_gYByhTrJN8yZIr7x0A8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wacpUJP4Jsn8igL2tIG4Dw&ved=0CFIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Arthur%20Dardenne%20bastille&f=false|title=Necrological Table|publisher=The British Almanac|accessdate=2012-08-13}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1872|9|8|1776|mf=y}}
|Last surviving person to have taken part in the [[Storming of the Bastille]]
|July 14, 1789
|-
|[[Augusta Hejnek]]
|{{Death date and age|1908|3|1|1799|12|25}}
|Last known person born in the 1700s
|December 31, 1799
|-
|[[Salome Sellers]]
|{{Death date and age|1909|1|9|1800|1|1|mf=y}}
|Last known person born in the [[18th century]]
|December 31, 1800
|}

==1801–1850==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
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!Name
!Death
!Historical event
!Date event ended
|-
|Pedro Antonio Martinez Zia<ref>{{cite web|url=http://derniersveterans.free.fr/napoleon1.html|title=Some of the last soldiers of the Republic and Empire|accessdate=2011-08-20}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1898|2|1|1789|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Battle of Trafalgar]]
|October 21, 1805
|-
|[[Patrick Gass]]
|{{Death date and age|1870|4|2|1771|5|12|mf=y}}
|Last member of the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]]
|March 23, 1806
|-
|John Rice<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5029370|title=John Rice|publisher=Findagrave|accessdate=2012-06-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://portroyal200.com/view.php?id=1173|title=John F. Rice|publisher=Port Royal|accessdate=2012-06-25}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1880|2|10|1789|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Battle of Lake Erie]]
|September 10, 1813
|-
|[[James Madison]]
|{{death date and age|1836|6|28|1751|3|16|mf=y}}
|Last former [[President of the United States]] to lead [[United States|American]] troops in battle
|August 24, 1814
|-
|[[James Buchanan]]
|{{death date and age|1868|6|1|1791|4|23}}
|Last former [[President of the United States]] to have served in the [[War of 1812]]
|September 14, 1814
|-
|Charles Booth<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g98MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA437&lpg=PA437&dq=last+survivor+pentrich&source=bl&ots=L2-tYx_kRD&sig=ftXq9_7zcN01s0Ie0SMHs9zurtg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uTlVVMrOJNPtoATKrYLQBA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=last%20survivor%20pentrich&f=false|title=Highways and byways in Derbyshire|publisher=Macmillan and Co.|author=John Benjamin Firth|page=437|year=1905|accessdate=2012-12-13}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1896|3|2|1799|1|4|mf=y}}
|Last living rebel of the [[Pentrich rising]]
|June 10, 1817
|-
|John W. Stainer<ref>{{cite book|title=Naval General Service Medal Roll 1793-1840|author=Kenneth Douglas-Morris|date=April 19, 2012|publisher=Andrews UK Limited|page=310}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1907|3|3|1808|1|1|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Battle of Navarino]]
|October 20, 1827
|-
|Philippe Demoulin<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seneffe.be/focus/dossiers-reportages/historique/batailles/le-dernier-combattant-de-1830/le-dernier-combattant-de-1830|title=Le dernier combattant de 1830|language=French|accessdate=2012-08-12}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1912|2|14|1809|12|28|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Belgian Revolution]]
|July 14, 1831
|-
|William Carroll Crawford<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.texasnationalist.com/index.php/info/news/history-culture/1820-last-surviving-signer-of-the-texas-declaration|title=Last Surviving Signer of the Texas Declaration|accessdate=2011-09-29}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1895|9|3|1804|9|13|mf=y}}
|Last signer of the [[Texas Declaration of Independence]]
|March 2, 1836
|-
|[[Alfonso Steele]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fst26|title=STEELE, ALFONSO|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|author=James R. Curry|accessdate=2011-10-29}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1911|7|8|1817|4|9|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Battle of San Jacinto]]
|April 21, 1836
|-
|William Physick Zuber<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fzu02|title=ZUBER, WILLIAM PHYSICK|publisher=Texas State Historical Society|author=Robert Bruce Blake|accessdate=2011-11-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/republic/san-jacinto/zuber-01.html|title=William P. Zuber to Ben. E McCulloch Describing events at San Jacinto|publisher=Texas State Library and Archives Commission|accessdate=2011-11-27}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1913|9|22|1820|7|6|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Texas Revolution]]
|April 25, 1836
|-
|Thomas Patrickson<ref>{{cite book |last= Dodsley|first= J.|title=The Annual Register|year= 1915|page= 109}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bSldAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA109&lpg=RA1-PA109&dq=%22Nile+expedition%22+%22last+survivor%22&source=bl&ots=wYufHicC1U&sig=jHyN85W1E3jc9X_3Baf3vY4FG2A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ow5BUbG3JImoywGOmYGIAQ&ved=0CFIQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22Nile%20expedition%22%20%22last%20survivor%22&f=false|title=October Obituaries|author= J. Dodsley|accessdate=2013-04-27}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1914|10|15|1828|mf=y}}
|Last participant of the [[Second voyage of HMS Beagle|Second voyage of HMS ''Beagle'']]
|October 2, 1836
|-
|Rebecca Tickaneesky Neugin<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anpa.ualr.edu/digital_library/indianvoices/family_stories/Rackleff.htm|title=Family Stories from the Trail of Tears|accessdate=2011-09-09}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1932|7|15|1834|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Trail of Tears]]
|1837
|-
|Nelson Traux<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nnygenealogy.com/pages/patriotwar/patriotwar-truax.html|title=Last Survivor Battle of Windmill|publisher=NNY Genealogy|accessdate=2011-10-10}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1915|1|25|1818|3|23|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Battle of the Windmill]]
|November 16, 1838
|-
|Milvern Harrell<ref>{{cite web|url=http://waeldertexas.planetd21.com/articles_stories/milvern_harrell_last_survivor.asp?view=web|title=Milvern Harrell - The Last Survivor of the Dawson Massacre|accessdate=2011-10-10}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1910|8|10|1824|3|24|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Dawson Massacre]]
|September 17, 1842
|-
|[[François X. Matthieu]]
|{{Death date and age|1914|2|4|1818|4|12|mf=y}}
|Last participant at the [[Champoeg Meetings]]
|May 2, 1843
|-
|Walter T. Avery<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.19cbaseball.com/image-new-york-knickerbockers-1862.html|title=New York Knickerbockers, 1862|publisher=19cbaseball.com|accessdate=2012-11-11}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1904|6|10|1814|1|18|mf=y}}
|Last participant in the first official [[New York Knickerbockers#First "officially recorded" game and subsequent history|Baseball game]]
|June 19, 1846
|-
|Isabella Breen McMahon<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12352895|title=Margare Isabella Breen McMahon|publisher=findagrave|date=2011-09-25}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1935|3|25|1845|11|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Donner Party]]
|April 29, 1847
|-
|[[Ulysses S. Grant]]
|{{Death date and age|1885|7|23|1822|4|27}}
|Last former [[President of the United States]] to have served in the [[Mexican-American War]]
|February 3, 1848
|-
|Charlotte L. Woodward Peirce<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historynet.com/seneca-falls-convention|title=Seneca Falls Convention| year=1848|publisher=Historynet.com|accessdate=2012-10-22}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1924|3|15|1830|1|1|mf=y}}
|Last surviving participant in the [[Seneca Falls Convention]] and last signer of the [[Declaration of Sentiments]]
|July 20, 1848
|-
|József Fischl<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huszadikszazad.hu/bulvar/szazket-eves-koraban-influenzaban-meghalt-a-legutolso-negyvennyolcas-honved|title=Százkét éves korában influenzában meghalt a legutolsó negyvennyolcas honvéd| year=1929|publisher=Huszadik Század|accessdate=2014-06-21}}</ref>
|March 1929 (aged 102)
|Last {{ill|Honvédség (1848-1849)|lt=Honvéd|hu|1848–1849-es honvédsereg}} veteran of the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848]]
|4 October 1849
|}

==1851–1900==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
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!Name
!Death
!Historical event
!Date event ended
|-
|Thomas Kelly<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4536986|title=A SURVIVOR OF THE BIRKENHEAD|work=Northern Territory Times|accessdate=2012-06-26}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1932|4|14|1849|3|12|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[HMS Birkenhead (1845)|''Birkenhead'' disaster]]
|February 26, 1852
|-
|[[Edwin Hughes (soldier)|Edwin Hughes]]
|{{Death date and age|1927|4|18|1830|12|1|mf=y}}
|Last participant in the [[Charge of the Light Brigade]]
|October 25, 1854
|-
|John Lishman Potter<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2258031|title=LAST OF EUREKA STOCKADE|publisher=The Canberra Times|accessdate=2012-11-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1p26/1|title=Potter, John Lishman|publisher=Dictionary of New Zealand Biography|accessdate=2012-11-14}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1931|10|24|1834|6|25|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Eureka Rebellion]]
|December 3, 1854
|-
|Horace F. Sisson<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0LiK9OhKIjYC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=Literature+and+Lore+of+the+Sea+horace&source=bl&ots=K84xdPBJui&sig=p9hOOa7K0cj5HWfYlZdiv27cIxY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LFZ4VKXEDs20oQT-5oDQBw&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Literature%20and%20Lore%20of%20the%20Sea%20horace&f=false|title=Literature and Lore of the Sea|page=61|author=Patricia Ann Carlson|publisher=Rodopi|year=1986|accessdate=November 28, 2014}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1942|3|10|1843|4|mf=y}}
|Last member of the [[Perry Expedition]]
|January 11, 1855
|-
|[[Teodolfo Mertel]]
|{{Death date and age|1899|7|11|1806|2|9|mf=y}}
|Last [[Lay cardinal|non-priest cardinal]]
|March 15, 1858
|-
|John Winchell Cullen<ref>{{cite book|publisher=Oregon Historical Society|title=Oregon Historical Quarterly|page=299|jstor=20610950|date=1935|volume=36|edition=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|publisher=Oregon Historical Society|title=Oregon Historical Quarterly|page=297|jstor=20610950|date=1939|volume=40|edition=3}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1939|12|14|1838|6|18|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Yakima War]]
|September 23, 1858
|-
|Robert Collinson d'Esterre Spottiswoode<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hussards-photos.com/UK/UK_Canterbury_BIG.htm|title=Officers at the Cavalry Depôt in Canterbury–1878|publisher=Hussar Photos|accessdate=2011-10-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19360324&id=kH8tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I5kFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4719,2876534|title=Col. Spottiswoode Dies|publisher=The Montreal Gazette|accessdate=2011-12-12}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1936|3|21|1841|12|24|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Indian Mutiny]]
|July 8, 1859
|-
|Pressley Corbin Hyman<ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TfxHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR79&lpg=PR79&dq=Broderick+Terry+Duel+%22last+surviving%22&source=bl&ots=nSTkIFgWiE&sig=iY_MMmS9IPo_BOFV2gNXUo0Nekk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwik2PSy-67TAhUG8WMKHc4JBdoQ6AEIIjAA#v=onepage&q=Broderick%20Terry%20Duel%20%22last%20surviving%22&f=false|title=The Broderick-Terry Duel|periodical=newspaper|publisher=San Francisco Town Talk|date=September 24, 1910|page=9|accessdate=July 8, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TfxHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP16&lpg=PP16&dq=Pressley+Hyman+Broderick+Terry&source=bl&ots=nSTrIGkViK&sig=JrDLbqVcmY0xH3Yu14hA1RYxd78&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjiv6eejPvUAhVG1WMKHZnsCkEQ6AEINDAD#v=onepage&q=Pressley%20Hyman%20Broderick%20Terry&f=false|title=He Saw Broderick Fall|periodical=newspaper|publisher=San Francisco Town Talk|date=August 6, 1910|page=10|accessdate=July 8, 2017}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1912|6|20|1830|7|1|mf=y}}
|Last witness to the [[Broderick–Terry duel]]
|September 13, 1859
|-
|[[Cudjoe Lewis]]
|{{Death date and age|1935|7|26|1840|2|9|mf=y}}
|Last passenger of the [[Clotilde (slave ship)|''Clotilde'']]
|1859
|-
|[[Owen Brown (abolitionist)|Owen Brown]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4350|title=Owen Brown (1824–1889)|publisher=Find a Grave|accessdate=2011-11-13}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1889|1|8|1824|11|4|mf=y}}
|Last abolitionist present at [[John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry]]
|October 18, 1859
|-
|George Pilson<ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F4071EFF355B13738DDDAD0A94DC405B868DF1D3|title=John Browne Raider Dies|publisher=New York Times|date=April 24, 1916|accessdate=2012-01-27}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1916|4|22|1842|mf=y}}
|Last witness at [[John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry|Harpers Ferry]]
|October 18, 1859
|-
|Hugo Josef Schiff<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830903871.html|title=Schiff, Hugo Josef|publisher=Encyclopedia.com|accessdate=2012-06-25}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1915|9|8|1834|4|26|mf=y}}
|Last attendee of the [[Karlsruhe Congress]]
|September 5, 1860
|-
|[[Giovanni Battista Egisto Sivelli]]<ref>1886–1986, [[Il Secolo XIX]], [[Genova]], 1986 pag. 302</ref><ref>[http://www.museidigenova.it/spip.php?article555 I Garibaldini liguri] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126224914/http://www.museidigenova.it/spip.php?article555 |date=2012-01-26 }} sul sito del Museo del Risorgimento di [[Genova]]</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1934|11|1|1843|11|22|mf=y}}
|Last member of the [[Expedition of the Thousand]]
|March 17, 1861
|-
|[[James Hard]]
|{{Death date and age|1953|3|12|1843|7|15|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[First Battle of Bull Run]], [[Battle of Antietam]] and [[Battle of Chancellorsville]]
|July 21, 1861; September 17, 1862; and May 6, 1863
|-
|John Ambrose Driscoll<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2012-04/last-union-survivor|title=The Last Union Survivor|publisher=US Naval Institute (USNI)|accessdate=2012-06-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=86864215|title=John Ambrose Driscoll|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=2012-06-25}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1921|6|13|1839|6|13|mf=y}}
|Last crew member of the [[USS Monitor|USS ''Monitor'']] during its engagement with the [[CSS Virginia|CSS ''Virginia'']] (aka USS ''Merrimack'')
|March 9, 1862
|-
|James Marion Lurvey<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=lurvey&GSfn=james&GSmn=marion&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=17981778&df=all&|title=James Marion Lurvey|publisher=Find a Grave|accessdate=2011-09-20}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1950|4|7|1847|12|2|mf=y}}
|Last verified veteran of the [[Battle of Gettysburg]]
|July 3, 1863
|-
|Otto Richard Gellette<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/civil-war-veterans-come-alive-in-audio-and-video-recordings-97841665/|publisher=Smithonian.com|title=Civil War Veterans Come Alive in Audio and Video Recordings|accessdate=2016-02-07|date=2011|author=Fergus M. Bordewich}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1944|6|1|1845|9|23|mf=y}}
|Last soldier to participate in [[Pickett's Charge]]
|July 3, 1863
|-
|Eli G. Biddle<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mass54thcompany-a.com/members/index.html|title=Massachusetts 54th Company A|accessdate=2011-07-14}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1940|4|8|1846|mf=y}}
|Last member of the [[54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry]] that assaulted [[Fort Wagner]]
|July 18, 1863
|-
|[[William Sickles]]
|{{Death date and age|1938|9|26|1844|10|27|mf=y}}
|Last surviving [[Medal of Honor]] recipient of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]
|March 31, 1865
|-
|[[Samuel J. Seymour]]<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/04/samuel-j-seymour-lincoln-assassination_n_918381.html|title=Samuel J. Seymour, Last Surviving Witness Of Lincoln Assassination, Appears On Television In 1956 |accessdate=2011-09-29 |work=Huffington Post|first=Craig|last=Kanalley|date=August 4, 2011}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1956|4|12|1860|3|28|mf=y}}
|Last witness present at [[Ford's Theater]] during the [[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln|assassination]] of President [[Abraham Lincoln]]
|April 14, 1865
|-
|John Henry Coghill<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tc7uCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA165&lpg=PA165&dq=john+henry+coghill+Frank+L.+Grzyb&source=bl&ots=0_2hAq1DWt&sig=DGqfyiDydigisDl_YHeHdc6trZs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiyq5PNlPzOAhVC12MKHTK_BdsQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=john%20henry%20coghill%20Frank%20L.%20Grzyb&f=false|title=Last Witness to the Capture and Death of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's Assassin|author=Frank L. Grzyb|publisher=MacFarlane|year=2016|page=165|accessdate=September 6, 2016}}</ref>
|Possibly 1942 (aged 90)
|Last surviving witness to the death of [[John Wilkes Booth]]
|April 26, 1865
|-
|Charles M. Eldridge<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yH8tDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT26&lpg=PT26&dq=charles+Eldridge+sultana&source=bl&ots=18IaQMHn6-&sig=VgrdsbzXti51Y-9DGJl8QYDCBfE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjV9PaF9c_VAhWl0FQKHf07BT8Q6AEITDAH#v=onepage&q=charles%20Eldridge%20sultana&f=false|page=159|title=Sinking the Sultana: A Civil War Story of Imprisonment, Greed, and a Doomed Journey Home|publisher=Candlewick Press|date=2017|author=Sally M. Walker|accessdate=August 11, 2017}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1941|9|8|1845|6|28|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Sultana (steamboat)#The tragedy|Sultana disaster]]
|April 27, 1865
|-
|[[William McKinley]]
|{{Death date and age|1901|9|14|1843|1|29|mf=y}}
|Last former [[U.S. President|President of the United States]] to have served in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]
|May 9, 1865
|-
|[[Agustín de Iturbide y Green, Prince of Iturbide|Agustín de Iturbide]]
|{{Death date and age|1925|3|3|1863|4|2|mf=y}} 
|Last member of the Imperial Mexican Court
| June 19, 1867
|-
| [[Charles Tupper]]
|{{Death date and age|1915|10|30|1821|7|1|mf=y}}
|Last Canadian [[Fathers of Confederation|father of Confederation]]
|July 1, 1867
|-
|Pedro Angleró<ref>{{cite web|url=http://writetofight.wordpress.com/the-nationalist-insurrection-of-1950/|title=The Nationalist Insurrection of 1950|accessdate=2012-01-27}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1931|10|16|1821|mf=y}}
|Last participant of [[El Grito de Lares]]
|September 23, 1868
|-
|[[George H. Large]]
|{{Death date and age|1939|8|15|1850|12|1|mf=y}}
|Last participant of the [[1869 New Jersey vs. Rutgers football game|first American football game]]
|November 6, 1869
|-
|[[William F. Lukes]]
|{{Death date and age|1923|12|13|1847|2|19|mf=y}}
|Last surviving [[List of Medal of Honor recipients#Korean Expedition|Medal of Honor]] recipient of the [[Korean Expedition]]
|June 10, 1871
|-
|[[Reginald Courtenay Welch]]
|{{Death date and age|1939|6|4|1851|10|17|mf=y}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Warsop|first=Keith|title=The Early FA Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs, A Who's Who and Match Facts|year=2004|publisher=SoccerData|page=134|isbn=1-899468-78-1}}</ref>
|Last participant of the [[1872 FA Cup Final|first English FA Cup Final]]
|March 16, 1872
|-
|[[Charles Windolph]]
|{{Death date and age|1950|3|11|1852|10|9|mf=y}}
|Last U.S soldier from the [[Battle of the Little Bighorn]]
|June 26, 1876
|-
|[[Dewey Beard]]
|{{Death date and age|1955|11|2|1858|mf=y}}
|Last Indian veteran of the [[Battle of the Little Bighorn]]
|June 26, 1876
|-
|[[Tom Garrett]]
|{{Death date and age|1943|8|6|1858|7|26|mf=y}}
|Last player from first official cricket [[test match (cricket)|test match]]
|March 19, 1877
|-
|[[Frank Bourne]]
|{{Death date and age|1945|5|8|1854|4|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the defense of [[Rorke's Drift]] during the [[Anglo-Zulu War]]
|January 23, 1879
|-
|[[Wyatt Earp]]
|{{Death date and age|1929|1|13|1848|3|19|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]]
|October 26, 1881
|-
|[[Danny Ryan]]
|{{Death date and age|1966|12|31|1870|4|23|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Tipperary GAA|Tipperary]] [[hurling]] team that won the first [[All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship|All-Ireland Championship]]
|April 1, 1888
|-
|Frank Shomo<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~paindian/areahistory/flood.htm|title=Last Johnstown Flood Survivor Dies at 108|publisher=Roots Web|accessdate=2011-11-13}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1997|3|20|1889|2|20|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Johnstown Flood]]
|May 31, 1889
|-
|Louisa Yellow Shield Motley<ref>{{cite book|title=American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890|page=378|author=Greene, Jerome A.|year=2014|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_IFeAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA378&lpg=PA378&dq=%22Yellow+Shield%22+%22wounded+knee%22+1979&source=bl&ots=LkohHXLhia&sig=x3Te_hPyFV6a7iZS8jAFn3FY3sU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ7cnh587WAhUV_WMKHZerBXwQ6AEIOzAG#v=onepage&q=%22Yellow%20Shield%22%20%22wounded%20knee%22%201979&f=false}}</ref>
|May 1, 1979 (aged 95)
|Last survivor of the [[Wounded Knee Massacre]]
|December 29, 1890
|-
|Raymond Pimlott Kaighn<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kaighin.com/familyhistory/references/nj_kaighns/rpk.pdf|title=Raymond Pimlott Kaighn by Robert J. Kaighn, Jr.|publisher=Kaighin.com/|accessdate=2012-09-24}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1962|8|16|1869|12|8|mf=y}}
|Last living participant of the [[History of basketball#The first basketball game|first basketball game]] ever played.
|December 21, 1891
|-
|Michael Shonsey<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/20452513/Mike-Shonsey-The-War-on-Powder-River|title=Mike Shonsey & The War on Powder River|accessdate=2012-01-27}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1954|8|5|1864|9|6|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Johnson County War]]
|May 24, 1893
|-
|Arthur Sherman Phillips<ref>{{cite web|url=http://new.yankeemagazine.com/article/did-lizzie-borden-really-take-ax-and-give-her-mother-40-whacks|title=Did Lizzie Borden Really Take an Ax and Give Her Mother 40 Whacks?|work=Yankee Magazine|accessdate=2012-01-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sailsinc.org/durfee/phillipsfascicle1.pdf|title=THE PHILLIPS HISTORY OF FALL RIVER|publisher=The Dover Press|accessdate=2012-01-26}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1941|3|18|1865|12|13|mf=y}}
|Last participant in [[Lizzie Borden]]'s murder trial
|June 20, 1893
|-
|Nawi<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2011/09/dahomeys-women-warriors/|title=Dahomey's Women Warriors|publisher=Smithsonian.com|accessdate=2012-11-10}}</ref>
|November, 1979 (aged 100+)
|Last of the [[Dahomey Amazons]] and last veteran of the [[Second Franco-Dahomean War]]
|January 15, 1894
|-
|[[Dimitrios Loundras]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lo/dimitrios-loundras-1.html|title=Dimitrios Loundras|accessdate=2012-07-28}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1971|2|15|1885|9|6|mf=y}}
|Last known living competitor at the [[1896 Summer Olympics]]
|April 15, 1896
|-
|Manu Ruma<ref>{{cite web|url=http://teaohou.natlib.govt.nz/journals/teaohou/issue/Mao37TeA/full.html|title=Mr. Manu Ruma|publisher=The New World|accessdate=2012-06-25}}</ref>
|December, 1961 (aged 87)
|Last veteran of the [[Dog Tax War]]
|May 5, 1898
|-
|[[John Henry Turpin]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sandptnavsta.org/Cory-Graff-Book/1950s.html|title=Images of the 1950s|publisher=Naval Air Station Seattle|accessdate=2011-08-02}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1962|3|10|1876|8|20|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the sinking of the [[USS Maine (ACR-1)|USS ''Maine'']]
|February 15, 1898
|-
|[[John Davis (Medal of Honor, 1898)|John Davis]]
|{{Death date and age|1970|6|9|1878|10|28|mf=y}}
|Last surviving [[Medal of Honor]] recipient of the [[Spanish-American War]]
|May 11, 1898
|-
|Ralph Waldo Taylor<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/18/obituaries/ralph-w-taylor-105-fought-at-san-juan-hill.html|title=RALPH W. TAYLOR, 105, FOUGHT AT SAN JUAN HILL|work=New York Times|accessdate=2011-10-22|first=Wolfgang|last=Saxon|date=May 18, 1987}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1987|5|15|1882|1|3|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Battle of San Juan Hill]]
|July 1, 1898
|-
|[[Bruno Albert Forsterer|Bruno A. Forsterer]]
|{{Death date and age|1957|6|13|1869|7|14|mf=y}}
|Last surviving [[List of Medal of Honor recipients#Samoan Civil War|Medal of Honor]] recipient of the [[Second Samoan Civil War]]
|April 1, 1899
|-
|[[Emma Morano]]
|{{Death date and age|2017|4|15|1899|11|29|mf=y}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Oldest Validated Living Supercentenarians |url=http://grg.org/Adams/E.HTM |work=Gerontology Research Group |accessdate=23 November 2015 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103173911/http://www.grg.org/Adams/E.HTM |archivedate= 3 January 2013 |df= }}</ref>
|Last verified living person born in the 1800s, last known survivor of the reign of king [[Umberto I]] 
|December 31, 1899 and July 29, 1900
|-
|[[William Seach]]
|{{Death date and age|1978|10|24|1877|5|23|mf=y}}
|Last living [[List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Boxer Rebellion|Medal of Honor]] recipient of the [[Boxer Rebellion]]
|June 22, 1900
|-
|Maude Conic<ref>{{cite web|url=http://americanhurricanes.weebly.com/galveston.html|title=Galveston - American Hurricanes|publisher=Weebly|accessdate=2011-11-12}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2004|11|14|1898|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Galveston Hurricane of 1900]]
|September 12, 1900
|-
|[[Lucien Démanet]]
|{{Death date and age|1979|3|16|1874|12|6|mf=y}}
|Last participant in the [[1900 Summer Olympics]]
|October 28, 1900
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Nabi Tajima]]
|Living (age {{age|1900|08|04}})
|Last living person born in the [[19th century]]
|December 31, 1900
|}

==1901–1915==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Name
!Death
!Historical event
!Date event ended
|-
|[[Violet Brown]]
|{{Death date and age|2017|9|15|1900|3|mf=y}}<ref>[http://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20170915/worlds-oldest-woman-dead World's oldest woman is dead]</ref>
|Last known surviving subject of [[Queen Victoria]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.slow-journalism.com/five-things-we-learned-last-month-6|title=Five things we learned last month|work=Slow Journalism|date=7 April 2015|accessdate=23 November 2015}}</ref>
|January 22, 1901
|-
|[[Fleetwood Lindley]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/news/rietveldmem.htm|title=Professor Ron Rietveld's Lincoln Memories|publisher=Abraham Lincoln online|accessdate=2011-08-03}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1963|2|1|1887|4|4|mf=y}}
|Last person to view [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s remains
|September 26, 1901
|-
|[[Laura Bullion]]
|{{Death date and age|1961|12|2|1876|10|mf=y}}
|Last member of the [[Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch|Wild Bunch gang]]
|1901
|-
|[[Léon Compère-Léandre]]
|1936
|Last survivor on shore of [[Saint-Pierre, Martinique|Saint-Pierre]] during the eruption of [[Mount Pelée]]
|May 8, 1902
|-
|Irénise Moulonguet
|{{Death date and age|2013|5|28|1900|6|11|mf=y}}
|Last surviving witness of the eruption of [[Mount Pelée]]
|May 8, 1902
|-
|[[Roscinda Nolasquez]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://escholarship.org/uc/item/47q1n9w4;jsessionid=5A0089B60965A2F09BD86A8B57184C9F|title=Roscinda Nolasquez Remembered|publisher=University of California|accessdate=2011-12-23}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1987|2|4|1892|4|3|mf=y}}
|Last speaker of [[Cupeño language|Cupeño]] and last survivor of the removal of the [[Cupeño people|Cupeño]] to [[Pala, California]], the last of the [[Federal Indian Policy|Federal Indian Removals]]
|May 13, 1903
|-
|Gladys Ennis<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.frankslide.com/faq.html|title=Alberta's Frank Slide Interpretive Centre, FAQ|publisher=Frankslide.com|accessdate=2011-11-11}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1993|3|20|1901|2|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Frank Slide]]
|April 29, 1903
|-
|Jennings Dunlap<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19640924&id=FaBPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nCQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7029,1285108|title=Last Survivor Of Train Wreck In 1903 Is Dead|publisher=The Times|accessdate=2012-06-25}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1964|9|20|1879|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Wreck of the Old 97]]
|September 23, 1903
|-
|[[Freddy Parent]]
|{{Death date and age|1972|11|2|1875|11|25|mf=y}}
|Last living player of the [[1903 World Series]] 
|October 13, 1903
|-
|Johnny Moore<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wrightstories.com/johnny-moore-witnesses-history/|title=Johnny Moore Witnesses History|date=|accessdate=February 4, 2017}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1952|2|28|1885|3|6|mf=y}}
|Last living witness of the [[Wright Brothers]]' first heavier than air flight
|December 17, 1903
|-
|Verde Clark Graff<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-07-09/news/8902150949_1_mrs-graff-nancy-nevins-fire|title=Verde Clark Graff|publisher=Chicago Tribune|date=July 9, 1989|accessdate=November 29, 2016}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1989|7|3|1892|1|1|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Iroquois Theatre fire]]
|December 30, 1903
|-
|[[Michael Barne]]
|{{Death date and age|1961|5|31|1877|10|15|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Discovery Expedition]]
|April 1, 1904
|-
|Alexander Bernard Heron<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.czbrats.com/Builders/last.htm|title=Last Canal Builder dies|accessdate=2011-08-09}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2000|1|24|1894|2|16|mf=y}}
|Last worker involved in the construction of the [[Panama Canal]]
|May 4, 1904
|-
|[[Adella Wotherspoon]]
|{{Death date and age|2004|1|26|1903|11|28|mf=y}}
|Last and youngest survivor of the [[General Slocum]] Disaster
|June 15, 1904
|-
|Ivan Beshoff<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/28/world/ivan-beshoff-last-survivor-of-mutiny-on-the-potemkin.html|title=Ivan Beshoff, Last Survivor Of Mutiny on the Potemkin|publisher=New York Times|accessdate=2011-08-02|date=October 28, 1987}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1987|10|25|1882|mf=y}}
|Last sailor that participated in the [[Russian battleship Potemkin|''Potemkin'' Mutiny]] of 1905
|July 8, 1905
|-
|Ellen Adelaide Brandenborg
|{{Death date and age|2017|7|22|1906|1|7|mf=y}}
|Last known surviving subject of [[Christian IX of Denmark]]
|January 29, 1906
|-
|Bill Del Monte<ref>{{cite web|url=http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/oldest-survivor-san-francisco-earthquake-1906-dies-33473627|title=Oldest Survivor of San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 Dies|work=abcnews.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wral.com/last-survivor-of-1906-san-francisco-earthquake-dead-at-109/15227244/|title=Last survivor of 1906 San Francisco earthquake dies at 109|publisher=WRAL News|date=11 January 2016|accessdate=11 January 2016}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2016|1|11|1906|1|22|mf=y}}
|Last known survivor of the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]]
|April 18, 1906
|-
|Dorsie Williams Willis<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/25/archives/dorsie-w-willis-91-victim-of-army-bias-exsoldier-was-last-survivor.html|title=DORSIE W. WILLIS, 91, VICTIM OF ARMY BIAS|publisher=The New York Times|date=August 25, 1977|accessdate=August 6, 2016}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1977|8|24|1886|2|11|mf=y}}
|Last living soldier accused in the [[Brownsville Affair]]
|August 13, 1906
|-
|Brian Evans-Lombe<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/library/hqdocs/facts/pdfs/fs295306.pdf|title=The Passing Years: Milestones in the progress of Scouting|publisher=The Scout Association|accessdate=2012-10-22}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1994|1|31|1893|9|1|mf=y}}
|Last surviving member of the [[Brownsea Island Scout camp]], the founding event of the [[Scout movement]]
|August 8, 1907
|- 
|Francesca Nato<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sandonato.milanotoday.it/centenaria-sandonatese-11-febbraio-2014.html|title=Francesca Nato, sandonatese da record|publisher=sandonato.milanotoday.it|language=it}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2017|4|16|1907|2|10}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.supercentenariditalia.it/persone-viventi-piu-longeve-in-italia/|title=Persone viventi più longeve in Italia|language=it|accessdate=20 October 2016}}</ref>
|Last known survivor of the [[1908 Messina earthquake]]
|December 28, 1908
|-
|[[John Thomas Kennedy|John T. Kennedy]]
|{{Death date and age|1969|9|22|1885|7|22|mf=y}}
|Last surviving [[List of Philippine–American War Medal of Honor recipients|Medal of Honor]] recipient of the [[Philippine–American War]]
|July 4, 1909
|-
|[[Philip Brocklehurst]]
|{{Death date and age|1975|1|28|1887|3|7|mf=y}}
|Last member of [[Ernest Shackleton|Shackleton]]'s [[Nimrod Expedition]]
|March 23, 1909
|-
|Rose Freedman<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2001/010325.triangle.html|title=Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire|publisher=npr|accessdate=2011-07-14}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2001|2|15|1893|3|27mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire]]
|March 25, 1911
|-
|[[Sid Daniels]]
|{{Death date and age|1983|5|25|1893|11|19|mf=y}}
|Last surviving crew member of the [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']]
|April 15, 1912
|-
|[[Millvina Dean]]
|{{Death date and age|2009|5|31|1912|2|2|mf=y}}
|Last and youngest survivor of the [[Sinking of the RMS Titanic|sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'']]
|April 15, 1912
|-
|Elma S. Damrell<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/16/1263218/-1913-Massacre-I-interviewed-a-survivor|title=1913 Massacre: I interviewed a survivor!|publisher=DailyKos|accessdate=November 16, 2014}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2005|3|17|1910|3|16|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Italian Hall disaster]]
|December 24, 1913
|-
|Mary Benich-McCleary<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sheep.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/3/834470-last-survivor-of-the-1914-ludlow-massacre-against-striking-miners-dies|title=Last survivor of the 1914 Ludlow Massacre against striking miners dies|publisher=newsvine.com|accessdate=2012-06-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=65797094|title=Mary Benich McCleary|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=2012-06-26}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2007|6|28|1912|8|14|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Ludlow Massacre]]
|April 20, 1914
|-
|[[George M. Lowry]]
|{{Death date and age|1981|9|25|1889|10|27|mf=y}}
|Last surviving [[List of Medal of Honor recipients (Veracruz)|Medal of Honor]] recipient of the [[United States occupation of Veracruz]]
|April 21–22, 1914
|-
|[[Grace Hanagan]] (Martyn)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/empress-of-ireland.html|title=Swallowed in 14 Minutes|author=Gavin Murphy|publisher=Encyclopedia Titanica|accessdate=2011-11-26}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1995|5|15|1907|5|16|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the sinking of the [[RMS Empress of Ireland|RMS ''Empress of Ireland'']]
|May 29, 1914
|-
|[[Vaso Čubrilović]]
|{{Death date and age|1990|6|11|1897|1|14|mf=y}}
|Last participant in the conspiracy to [[Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria|assassinate]] [[Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria|Archduke Franz Ferdinand]]
|June 28, 1914
|-
|Paul Kley<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oai.de/de/publikationen/ostasienlexikon/b/47-ostasienlexikon/bbb/1040-bando-kriegsgefangenenlager-bando.html|publisher=The East Asia Institute|author=Dr. Frank Rövekamp|language=German|title=Bando (Kriegsgefangenenlager Bando)|accessdate=August 16, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tsingtau.info/index.html?kameradschaft/ehemalige.htm|title=Treffen der ehemaligen "Tsingtauer"|language=German|publisher=Tsingtau und Japan 1914 bis 1920|author=Hans-Joachim Schmidt|accessdate=August 16, 2016}}</ref>
|1992 (aged 99)
|Last German veteran of the [[Siege of Tsingtao]]
|November 7, 1914
|-
|[[Alfred Anderson (veteran)|Alfred Anderson]]
|{{Death date and age|2005|11|21|1896|6|25|mf=y}}
|Last soldier who could remember the [[Christmas Truce]] of 1914 and last veteran of the battles of [[Battle of Neuve Chapelle|Neuve Chapelle]] and [[Battle of Loos|Loos]]
|December 24, 1914; March 13, 1915; and October 14, 1915
|-
|Audrey Warren Lawson-Johnston (née Pearl)
|{{Death date and age|2011|1|11|1915|2|15|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the sinking of the [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']]
|May 7, 1915
|-
|Marion Eichholz<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chicago.suntimes.com/news-chicago/7/71/245051/marion-eichholz-last-known-survivor-eastland-disaster-dies-102|title=Marion Eichholz, last known survivor of Eastland disaster, dies at 102|publisher=Chicago Sun Times|accessdate=2015-02-11}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2014|11|24|1912|7|12|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the capsizing of the [[SS Eastland|SS ''Eastland'']]
|July 24, 1915
|-
|[[Smedley Butler]]
|{{Death date and age|1940|6|21|1881|7|30|mf=yes}}
|Last [[Medal of Honor#Double recipients|recipient]] to receive two Medals of Honor for two different actions
|November 17, 1915
|}

==1916–1930==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Name
!Death
!Historical event
!Date event ended
|-
|[[Alec Campbell]]<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1992483.stm</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2002|5|16|1899|2|26|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Gallipoli Campaign]]
|January 9, 1916
|-
|Lilly Kempson<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TRANSCRIPTIONS-EIRE/2006-11/1162922502|title=Elizabeth Ann "Lily"(KEMPSON) McALERNEY - Last surviving member 1916 EasterRebellion Uprising|publisher=RootsWeb|accessdate=2012-01-27}}</ref>
||{{Death date and age|1996|1|22|1897|1|17|mf=y}}
|Last Irish participant in the [[Easter Rising]]
|April 30, 1916
|-
|[[Henry Allingham]]
|{{Death date and age|2009|7|18|1896|6|6|mf=y}}
|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]]
|June 1, 1916
|-
|[[Roswell Winans]]
|{{Death date and age|1968|4|7|1887|12|9|mf=y}}
|Last survivng [[List of Medal of Honor recipients#Occupation of the Dominican Republic|Medal of Honor]] recipient of the [[United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–24)|United States occupation of the Dominican Republic]]
|July 3, 1916
|-
|[[Marcel Caux]]
|{{Death date and age|2004|8|22|1899|3|1|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Battle of Pozières]]
|August 7, 1916
|-
|Claude-Marie Boucaud<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.almanachs.fr/claude-marie-boucaud-un-exemple-de-longevite-ainbressebugey/|title=Claude-Marie Boucaud : un exemple de longévité|language=French|accessdate=2016-02-07|publisher=Les Almanachs des Terroirs de France}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2005|5|17|1895|8|12|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Battle of the Somme]]
|November 18, 1916
|-
|George Perman<ref>{{cite web|url=http://titanic-model.com/db/db-01/db_11.html|title=Obituary for Britannic Survivor|publisher=Titanic Research & Modeling Association|accessdate=2011-08-09}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2000|5|24|1901|3|27|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the sinking of the [[HMHS Britannic|HMHS ''Britannic'']]
|November 21, 1916
|-
|René Marie-Martial Moreau<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lagrandeguerre.cultureforum.net/t756-liste-des-derniers-survivants|title=Liste des derniers survivants|accessdate=2011-07-23}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2005|10|26|1897|9|8|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Battle of Verdun]]
|December 18, 1916
|-
|[[Mark Matthews]]
|{{Death date and age|2005|9|6|1894|8|7|mf=y}}
|Oldest and last surviving pre-World War II [[Buffalo Soldier]] and last veteran of the [[Pancho Villa Expedition]]
|February 7, 1917; August 1918
|-
|[[Yakup Satar]]
|{{Death date and age|2008|4|2|1898|3|11|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Second Battle of Kut]]
|February 23, 1917
|-
|[[Alfred Finnigan]]
|{{Death date and age|2005|5|11|1896|9|18|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Battle of Vimy Ridge]]
|April 12, 1917
|-
|[[Louis de Cazenave]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.livingwarbirds.com/second-battle-of-the-aisne.php|title=Second Battle of the Aisne|publisher= Living War Birds|accessdate=2011-10-10}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2008|1|20|1897|10|16|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Second Battle of the Aisne|Battle of Chemin des Dames]]
|May 9 and October 9, 1917
|-
|[[Albert Marshall (veteran)|Albert Marshall]]<ref>http://www.richardvanemden.com/albert-marshall.html</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2005|5|16|1897|3|15|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Battle of Arras (1917)|Battle of Arras]] and the [[Battle of Cambrai (1917)|Battle of Cambrai]]
|May 16 and December 8, 1917
|-
|[[Richard W. Richards]]
|{{Death date and age|1985|5|8|1893|11|14|mf=y}}
|Last surviving member of the [[British Trans-Antarctic Expedition]]
|May 29, 1917
|-
|[[Edward Smout]]
|{{Death date and age|2004|6|22|1898|1|5|mf=y}}
|Last witness to the death of the [[Manfred von Richthofen|Red Baron]] and veteran of the [[Battle of Messines (1917)|Battle of Messines]]
|June 14, 1917; April 21, 1918
|-
|Alois Vocásek<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/oldest-czech-legionnaire-was-never-able-to-clear-tarnished-reputation|title=Oldest Czech Legionnaire was never able to clear tarnished reputation|accessdate=2011-10-03}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2003|8|9|1896|4|13|mf=y}}
|Last Czechoslovakian veteran of World War I and of the [[Battle of Zborov (1917)|Battle of Zborov]]
|July 2, 1917
|-
|[[Peter Casserly]]
|{{Death date and age|2005|6|24|1898|1|28|mf=y}}
|Last member of the [[First Australian Imperial Force]] and veteran of the [[Battle of Amiens (1918)|Battle of Amiens]]
|September 1917; August 11, 1918
|-
|[[Harry Patch]]
|{{Death date and age|2009|7|25|1898|6|17|mf=y}}
|Last [[British Army]] veteran of World War I and last veteran of [[The Battle of Passchendaele|Passchendaele]]
|November 10, 1917
|-
|[[Lazar Kaganovich]]
|{{Death date and age|1991|7|25|1893|11|22|mf=y}}
|Last [[Old Bolshevik]] who took part in the Russian [[October Revolution]]
|November 8, 1917
|-
|[[Boris Gudz]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1295606.ece|title=Boris Gudz Veteran of early Soviet secret service operations|accessdate=2011-10-07 | location=London|work=The Times|first1=Philippe|last1=Naughton|first2=Miles|last2=Costello}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2006|12|27|1902|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[October Revolution]] and of the [[Russian Civil War]]
|November 8, 1917; June 1923
|-
|[[Delfino Borroni]]
|{{Death date and age|2008|10|26|1898|8|23|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Battle of Caporetto]]
|November 19, 1917
|-
|[[List of Italian supercentenarians#People|Antonio Todde]]
|{{Death date and age|2002|1|3|1889|1|22|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Battle of Mount Grappa]]
|December 23, 1917
|-
|[[Edouard Izac]]
|{{Death date and age|1990|1|18|1891|12|18}}
| Last [[World War I]] [[List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War I|Medal of Honor recipient]] and World War I [[United States Navy]] recipient
|May 21, 1918
|-
|Domenico De Cristofaro<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=70146|title=Axis History Forum|accessdate=2011-10-13}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2006|9|21|1899|11|21|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Battle of the Piave River]]
|June 23, 1918
|-
|[[Albert Wagner (veteran)|Albert Wagner]]
|{{Death date and age|2007|1|20|1899|9|5|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Battle of Belleau Wood]] and last [[U.S. Marine]] of World War I
|June 26, 1918
|-
|[[Thomas A. Pope]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1989-06-21/news/mn-2431_1_world-war-i-medal-honor-winner-navy-veteran|title=Thomas A. Pope, 94; Last Surviving Army WWI Medal of Honor Winner|accessdate=2011-10-13 | work=Los Angeles Times|date=June 21, 1989}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1989|6|14|1894|12|15|mf=y}}
|Last [[United States Army]] [[List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War I|World War I Medal of Honor recipient]]
|July 4, 1918
|-
|[[Jean Grelaud]]
|{{Death date and age|2007|2|25|1898|10|26|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Second Battle of the Marne]]
|August 6, 1918
|-
|[[Antonio Pierro]]
|{{Death date and age|2007|2|8|1896|2|22|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Battle of Saint-Mihiel]] and [[Meuse-Argonne Offensive]]
|September 19 and November 11, 1918
|-
|[[Eddie Rickenbacker]]
|{{Death date and age|1973|7|23|1890|10|8|mf=y}}
|Last [[Air Service, United States Army]] [[List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War I|Medal of Honor recipient]] and service's last surviving [[World War I]] recipient
|September 25, 1918
|-
|[[John J. Kelly]]
|{{Death date and age|1957|11|20|1898|6|24|mf=y}}
|Last [[Medal of Honor#Double recipients|recipient]] to be awarded two Medals of Honor
|October 3, 1918
|-
|[[Robert G. Robinson]]
|{{Death date and age|1974|10|5|1896|4|30|mf=y}}
|Last [[United States Marine Corps]] World War I [[List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War I|recipient]] of the [[Medal of Honor]]
|October 8, 1918
|-
|Gisbert-Wilhelm Groos<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.emedals.com/an-honour-goblet-group-to-leutnant-gisbert-groos-of-von-richthofen-s-flying-circus|title=An Honour Goblet Group to Leutnant Gisbert Groos of von Richthofen's "Flying Circus"|publisher=Emedals.com|accessdate=April 15, 2017}}</ref>
|1997 (aged 102-103)
|Last surviving member of [[Jasta 11]] and possibly last surviving German [[flying ace]] of [[World War I]].
|October 29, 1918
|-
|[[James William Pearson]]
|{{Death date and age|1993|1|26|1895|4|2|mf=y}}
|Last [[Americans|American]] [[World War I]] [[flying ace]], served with the [[Royal Air Force]]
|November 1, 1918
|-
|[[Francesco Domenico Chiarello]]
|{{Death date and age|2008|6|27|1898|11|5|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Battle of Vittorio Veneto]]
|November 3, 1918
|-
|[[Arthur Raymond Brooks]]
|{{Death date and age|1991|7|17|1895|11|1|mf=y}}
|Last [[Air Service, United States Army]] [[flying ace]] of [[World War I]]
|November 11, 1918
|-
|[[Alexander P. de Seversky]]
|{{Death date and age|1974|8|24|1894|6|7|mf=y}}
|Last [[Russian Empire]] [[flying ace]] of [[World War I]]
|November 11, 1918
|-
|Alfred Pugh<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jan/12/local/me-pugh12|title=Alfred Pugh, 108; U.S.'s Oldest Wounded Vet|accessdate=2016-09-08}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2004|1|7|1895|1|17|mf=y}}
|Last U.S combat wounded veteran of World War I
|November 11, 1918
|-
|[[Florence Green]]
|{{Death date and age|df=yes|2012|2|5|1901|2|19|mf=y}}
|Last participant of World War I and last member of the original [[Women's Royal Air Force|WRAF]]
|November 11, 1918
|-
|[[Harry Truman]]
|{{death date and age|1972|12|26|1884|5|8|mf=y}}
|Last former [[President of the United States]] to have served during [[World War I]]
|November 11, 1918
|-
|[[Harold Macmillan]]
|{{death date and age|1986|12|29|1894|2|10|mf=y}}
|Last former [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] to have served during [[World War I]]
|November 11, 1918
|-
|[[Charles De Gaulle]]
|{{death date and age|1970|11|9|1890|11|22|mf=y}}
|Last former [[President of France]] to have served during [[World War I]]
|November 11, 1918
|-
|[[Ludwig Erhard]]
|{{death date and age|1977|5|5|1897|2|4|mf=y}}
|Last former [[Chancellor of Germany]] to have served during [[World War I]]
|November 11, 1918
|-
|[[Gustav Heinemann]]
|{{death date and age|1976|7|7|1899|7|23|mf=y}}
|Last former [[President of Germany]] to have served during [[World War I]]
|November 11, 1918
|-
|[[Otto von Habsburg]]
|{{death date and age|2011|7|4|1912|11|20|mf=y}} 
|Last surviving member of the Imperial Habsburg Court
|November 11, 1918
|-
|[[Cecil Arthur Lewis]]
|{{Death date and age|1997|1|27|1898|3|29|mf=yes}}
|Last [[United Kingdom|British]] [[flying ace]] of [[World War I]]
|November 11, 1918
|-
|Juan Filloy<ref>{{cite news|url=http://buscador.lavoz.com.ar/intervoz/2000/07/20/cl_n06.htm|title=El último de los reformistas|date=2000-07-16|language=Spanish|publisher=LaVoz.com|accessdate=2016-02-11}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|df=yes|2000|7|15|1894|8|1|mf=y}}
|Last student who took part in the [[Argentine university reform of 1918]]
|October 12, 1918
|-
|[[Harold Gunnes]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://palinyoubetcha2012.com/wordpress/?page_id=594|title=Harold Gunnes Last of the 339th WWI|agency=[[Associated Press]]|accessdate=2011-08-03|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218233250/http://palinyoubetcha2012.com/wordpress/?page_id=594 |archivedate=2010-12-18 |deadurl=yes |date=2001-08-19}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2003|3|11|1899|2|6|mf=y}}
|Last member of the [[Polar Bear Expedition]]
|July 1919
|-
|[[Swede Risberg]]
|{{Death date and age|1975|10|13|1894|10|13|mf=y}}
|Last person involved in the [[Black Sox Scandal]]
|October 9, 1919
|-
|Raul Fernandes<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19680107&id=271YAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9ugDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7181,1745250|title=Last Surviving Signer of Versailles Pact Dies.|publisher=The Spokesman-Review|accessdate=2011-10-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19580226&id=BAUrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6ZcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5196,2892778|title=Brazilian, 80, Only Survivor of Versailles Pact Signers|publisher=Reading Eagle|accessdate=2011-10-23}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1968|1|6|1877|10|4|mf=y}}
|Last surviving signer of the [[Treaty of Versailles]]
|June 28, 1919
|-
|[[Herman H. Hanneken]]
|{{Death date and age|1986|8|23|1893|6|23|mf=y}}
|Last surviving [[List of Medal of Honor recipients#Invasion and occupation of Haiti|Medal of Honor]] recipient of the [[United States occupation of Haiti]]
|October 31 - November 1, 1919
|-
|[[Waldemar Levy Cardoso]]
|{{Death date and age|2009|5|13|1900|12|4|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of the [[Tenente revolts]]
|1922; 1927
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Olivia Hooker]]
|Living (age {{age|1915|2|12}})
|Last survivor of the [[Tulsa race riot]]
|June 1, 1921
|-
|Vasco Bruttomesso<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ilgiornale.it/interni/varese_e_morto_lultimo_veterano__della_marcia_roma_aveva_105_anni/03-01-2009/articolo-id=318416-page=0-comments=1|title=Varese, è morto l’ultimo veterano della Marcia su Roma: aveva 105 anni}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2009|1|2|1903|12|14|mf=y}}
|Last surviving veteran of the [[March on Rome]]
|October 29, 1922
|-

|Gene Bruce<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2005/dec/12/local/me-bruce12|title=Gene Bruce, 98, Last Known Survivor of 1923 Naval Disaster|publisher=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=2011-11-11|first=Valerie J.|last=Nelson|date=December 12, 2005}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2005|12|6|1907|5|19|mf=y}}
|Last surviving sailor of the [[Honda Point Disaster]]
|September 8, 1923
|-
|Emil Klein<ref>[[:de:Emil Klein (NSDAP)|Emil Klein (NSDAP)]], Retrieved 2012-06-25{{Better source|reason=per WP:CIRCULAR|date=September 2015}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2010|2|22|1905|12|3|mf=y}}
|Last surviving member of [[Adolf Hitler]]'s unsuccessful [[Beer Hall Putsch]]
|November 9, 1923
|-
|[[Dürrüşehvar Sultan]]
|{{Death date and age|2006|2|7|1914|1|26|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the Imperial Ottoman court
|March 3, 1924
|-
|[[Ivo Pavelić]]
|{{Death date and age|2011|2|22|1908|2|10|mf=y}}
|Last surviving participant in the [[1924 Summer Olympics]]
|July 27, 1924
|-
|Edgar Nollner<ref>{{cite web|url=http://juneauempire.com/stories/011999/Loc_nollner.html|title=Edgar Nollner,last survivor of original Iditarod run, dies|publisher=Juneau Empire|accessdate=2011-11-11}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1999|1|15|1904|11|11|mf=y}}
|Last living musher of the [[1925 serum run to Nome]]
|February 1, 1925
|-
|Thomas J. Brewer<ref>{{cite book|title=The Last Leaf|author=Lutz, Stuart|chapter=THOMAS BREWER: The Last Participant of The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925|page=51|publisher=Prometheus Books|year=2010}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2003|8|16|1920|mf=y}}
|Last surviving participant in the [[Scopes Trial]]
|July 21, 1925
|-
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Francisco Núñez Olivera]]
|Living (age {{age|1904|12|13}})
|Last veteran of the [[Rif War]]
|May 27, 1926
|-
|[[Louis de Broglie]]
|{{Death date and age|1987|3|19|1892|8|15|mf=y}}
|Last attendee of the [[Solvay Conference|Fifth Solvay Conference]]
|October 29, 1927
|-
|[[Tsien Tsuen-hsuin]]
|{{Death date and age|2015|4|9|1910|1|11|mf=y}}
|Last participant of the [[Northern Expedition]]
|June 8, 1928
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Carla Marangoni]]
|Living (age {{age|1915|11|13}})
|Last surviving participant in the [[1928 Summer Olympics]]
|August 12, 1928
|-
|[[Binod Bihari Chowdhury]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://morshedm.blogspot.com/2011/03/meeting-last-surviving-revolutionary-of.html|title=Meeting the last surviving revolutionary of the Chittagong Armoury Raid|accessdate=2011-10-03}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2013|4|10|1911|1|10|mf=y}}
|Last revolutionary of the [[Chittagong armoury raid]]
|April 18, 1930
|-
|[[Norman D. Vaughan]]
|{{Death date and age|2005|12|23|1905|12|19|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of [[Richard E. Byrd|Richard Byrd]]'s 1928 expedition to [[Antarctica]]
|June 18, 1930
|-
|[[Francisco Varallo]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ole.com.ar/boca-juniors/gol-luto_0_326367514.html | location=Buenos Aires | work=Ole | first=Ole | last=Ole | title=El gol está de luto | date=August 31, 2010}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2010|9|30|1910|2|5|mf=y}}
|Last surviving player from the [[1930 FIFA World Cup]] in Uruguay
|July 30, 1930
|-
|Rachel Johnson<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-35985243 Last surviving St Kildan Rachel Johnson dies] BBC. Retrieved 2016-04-07</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2016|4|7|1922|7|mf=y}}
|Last [[St. Kilda, Scotland|St. Kildan]]
|August 29, 1930
|-
|Alfred Cook<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shortstownheritage.co.uk/#/r101-crash-survivors/4553605481|title=R101 Crash Survivors|work=Shortstown Heritage|accessdate=2016-06-10}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1998|11|7|1907|3|29|mf=y}}
|Last known survivor of the [[R101]] disaster
|October 5, 1930
|}

==1931–1945==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Name
!Death
!Historical event
!Date event ended
|-
|[[Alf Howard]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hms.uq.edu.au/alf-howard-last-living-link-to-heroic-era-dies-aged-104-126239|title=Alf Howard: Last living link to heroic era dies aged 104|publisher=University of Queensland, AU|accessdate=2011-07-10}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2010|7|4|1906|4|30|mf=y}}
|Last member of the [[British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition|BANZARE]] expedition to [[Antarctica]]
|March 19, 1931
|-
|Clarence Norris<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1989-01-27/news/8901050947_1_mr-norris-death-three-times-clarence-norris|title=Clarence Norris, Last Surviving `Scottsboro Boy`|accessdate=2011-10-03}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1989|1|27|1913|mf=y}}
|Last [[Scottsboro Boys|Scottsboro Boy]]
|March 25, 1931
|-
|[[Simone Schaller]]
|{{Death date and age|2016|10|20|1912|8|22|mf=y}}
|Last participant in the [[1932 Summer Olympics]]
|August 14, 1932
|-
|[[Josef Felder]]
|{{Death date and age|2000|10|28|1900|7|24|mf=y}}
|Last individual to vote against the Nazi [[Enabling Act of 1933]]
|March 23, 1933
|-
|Moody E. Erwin<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19730510&id=PgQqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zigEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7463,1037945|title=The Airship Akron, Victim of Wind and Waves|publisher=The Milwaukee Journal|accessdate=2012-09-24}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1989|10|20|1904|7|6|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[USS Akron (ZRS-4)#Loss|USS ''Akron'' disaster]]
|April 3, 1933
|-
|[[Donald Leroy Truesdell|Donald L. Truesdell]]
|{{Death date and age|1993|9|23|1906|8|8|mf=y}}
|Last surviving [[List of Medal of Honor recipients#Occupation of Nicaragua|Medal of Honor]] recipient of the [[United States occupation of Nicaragua]]
|April 24, 1934
|-
|Edd L. Miller<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/obits_3389512/judge-edd-l-miller.html|accessdate=2011-09-17|title=JUDGE EDD L. MILLER|publisher=Chron}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2000|9|18|1913|4|28|mf=y}}
|Last witness to the shooting of [[Bonnie and Clyde]]
|May 23, 1934
|-
|Thomas J. Conner<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1997-04-23/news/9704220312_1_dillinger-squad-john-dillinger-biograph-theater|title=Thomas Conner, Helped Gun Down John Dillinger|publisher=The Washington Post|accessdate=2011-07-10}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|1997|4|14|1906|mf=y}}
|Last member of the FBI team that gunned down [[John Dillinger]]
|July 22, 1934
|- 
|Jerry Edgerton<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.philly.com/2013-08-27/news/41459400_1_ship-sinking-national-archives-titanic}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2013|9|14|1914|5|2|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[SS Morro Castle (1930)#Disaster strikes the SS Morro Castle|SS Morro Castle disaster]]
|September 8, 1934
|- 
|Werner Franz<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.9news.com.au/World/2014/08/30/13/40/Cabin-boy-from-Hindenburg-crash-dies-at-92|title=Cabin boy from Hindenburg crash dies at 92|publisher=9news.com|date=2014-08-30|accessdate=2014-08-30}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2014|8|13|1922|5|22}}
|Last crew member to survive the ''[[LZ 129 Hindenburg|Hindenburg]]'' disaster
|May 6, 1937
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|Werner Doehner<ref>{{cite web|url=http://people.com/human-interest/last-survivor-of-hindenburg-disaster-speaks-on-eve-of-80th-anniversary-of-the-crash-the-air-was-on-fire/|publisher=people.com|date=2017-05-05|accessdate=2017-05-22}}</ref>
|Living (age {{age|1929|0|0}})
|Last passenger to survive the ''[[LZ 129 Hindenburg|Hindenburg]]'' disaster
|May 6, 1937
|-
|[[Walter Walsh]]
|{{Death date and age|2014|4|29|1907|5|4}}
|Last member of the FBI teams that captured [[Arthur Barker]] and killed [[Al Brady]]
|October 12, 1937
|-
|[[Fon Huffman]]
|{{Death date and age|2008|9|4|1913|8|19|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[USS Panay incident|USS ''Panay'' incident]]
|December 12, 1937
|-
|[[Jules Paivio]]
|{{Death date and age|2013|9|4|1916|4|29|mf=y}}
|Last member of the [[Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion]]
|September 21, 1938
|-
|Con Shiels<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-20904191|title=Jarrow March protester Con Shiels dies aged 96|publisher=BBC NEWS|accessdate=August 16, 2016|date=Jan 3, 2013}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2013|1|3|1916|1|4|mf=y}}
|Last participant in the [[Jarrow March]]
|October 31, 1938
|-
|[[Gunther Scholz (fighter ace)|Gunther Scholz]]
|{{Death date and age|2014|10|24|1911|12|8|mf=y}}
|Last member of the [[Condor Legion]]
|March 1939
|-
|[[Delmer Berg]]
|{{Death date and age|2016|2|28|1915|12|20|mf=y}}
|Last surviving member of the [[XV International Brigade|Abraham Lincoln Brigade]]
|April 1, 1939
|-
|Stan Hilton
|{{Death date and age|2016|10|21|1918|mf=y}}
|Last surviving [[British people|British]] [[Spanish Civil War]] veteran
|April 1, 1939
|-
|Antoine Piñol<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sudouest.fr/2016/09/06/agen-antoine-pinol-ancien-des-brigades-internationales-est-decede-2490654-3603.php}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2016|9|7|1915|1|1|mf=y}}
|Last [[France|French]] [[Spanish Civil War]] veteran
|April 1, 1939
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|Manuel Gallego-Nicasio
|Living (age 101)
|Last surviving "La quinta del biberón" fighter
|1939
|-
|Arthur Smith<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news-2-35913/wwii-boy-sailors-remembered-through-roll-of-honour-at-gosport-museum-1-6905617}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2016|12|10|1922|=y}}
|Last survivor of the sinking of the [[HMS Royal Oak (08)|HMS Royal Oak]]
|October 14, 1939
|-
|[[Emilio Ochoa]]
|{{Death date and age|2007|6|27|1907|7|4|mf=y}}
|Last signer of the [[1940 Constitution of Cuba|Constitution of Cuba]]
|July 1, 1940
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|Daniel Nevolt<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.xa2c.com/?p=560|title=Honoring Soldiers|accessdate=2011-10-10}}</ref>
|Living
|Last veteran of the [[Battle of Kufra (1941)|Battle of Kufra]]
|March 1, 1941
|-
|[[Ted Briggs]]
|{{Death date and age|2008|10|4|1923|3|1|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the sinking of the {{HMS|Hood|51|6}}
|May 24, 1941
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|Bernhard Heuer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kearsleyeclipse.com/25129/news/hunt-for-the-bismarck-75th-anniversary-series-bismarck-is-sunk/|title=Hunt for the Bismarck 75th Anniversary Series: Bismarck is sunk|accessdate=2017-06-13}}</ref>
|Living<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kbismarck.com/crew/survivors.html|title=Bismarck Survivors|accessdate=2017-06-13}}</ref> (age {{age|1922|07|30}})
|Last survivor of the sinking of the ''[[German Battleship Bismarck|Bismarck]]''
|May 27, 1941
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|Donald "Nick" Clifford<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kvoa.com/news/tucson-snowbird-is-last-living-carver-of-mt-rushmore/|title=Tucson snowbird is last living carver of Mt. Rushmore|accessdate=2013-10-13}}</ref>
|Living (age {{age|1921|0|0}})
|Last worker on the [[construction of Mount Rushmore]]
|October 31, 1941
|-
|Ed Vezey<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kfor.com/2016/01/03/last-survivor-of-uss-oklahoma-dies-at-96/|title=Last survivor of USS Oklahoma dies at 96|publisher=kfor.com|date=2016-01-03|accessdate=2016-01-05}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2016|1|2|1920|6|3mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the sinking of the [[USS Oklahoma (BB-37)|USS ''Oklahoma'']]
|December 7, 1941
|-
|[[John William Finn]]
||{{Death date and age|2010|5|27|1909|7|23|mf=y}}
|Last [[List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War II|Medal of Honor recipient]] from the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] and last [[United States Navy]] recipient of [[World War II]]
|December 7, 1941
|-
|Joseph Langdell<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/02/10/the-uss-arizonas-last-surviving-officer-has-died-how-the-pearl-harbor-hero-recalled-the-day-of-infamy/|title=The USS Arizona's last surviving officer has died. How the Pearl Harbor hero recalled the day of infamy}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2015|2|4|1914|10|12|mf=y}}
|Last surviving commissioned officer of the [[USS Arizona (BB-39)|USS ''Arizona'']]
|December 7, 1941
|- 
|Lamar Crawford Sr<ref>{{cite web|url=lubbockonline.com/texas/2011-12-29/marine-survivor-uss-arizona-dies-91#.V-Le7zWOlrI|title=Marine survivor of USS Arizona dies at 91}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2011|12|22|1920|11|19|mf=y}}
|Last surviving [[United States Marine]] of [[USS Arizona (BB-39)|USS ''Arizona'']] Marine Corps detachment
|December 7, 1941
|-
|[[Gerhard Klopfer]]
|{{Death date and age|1987|1|29|1905|2|18|mf=y}}
|Last individual to attend the [[Wannsee Conference]]
|January 20, 1942
|-
|[[David Stoliar]]
|{{Death date and age|2014|5|1|1922|10|31|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the [[Struma disaster]]
|February 24, 1942
|-
|[[Bill Bower]]
|{{Death date and age|2011|1|10|1917|2|13|mf=y}}
|Last pilot of the [[Doolittle Raid]] in World War II
|April 18, 1942
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|Richard E. Cole
|Living (age {{Age|1915|09|07}})
|Last participant of the [[Doolittle Raid]] in World War II
|April 18, 1942
|-
|[[Rudolf Brazda]]
|{{Death date and age|2011|8|3|1913|6|26|mf=y}}
|Last concentration camp survivor deported by Nazi Germany on [[Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust|charges of homosexuality]]
|August 8, 1942
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Tuomas Gerdt]]
|Living (age {{age|1922|5|28}})
|Last recipient of the [[Mannerheim Cross]]
|September 8, 1942
|-
|Orrel Cecil<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/pomeradonews/obituary.aspx?n=orrel-glenn-cecil&pid=146690332&fhid=9467|title=Orrel Glenn Cecil (1919-2010) |publisher=Pomerado News|accessdate=2012-06-26}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2010|11|4|1919|11|22|mf=y}}
|Last survivor of the sinking of the [[USS Juneau (CL-52)|USS ''Juneau'']]
|November 13, 1942
|-style="background:#9f9;"
|Havala Laula<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-09/kokoda-track-fuzzy-wuzzy-angel-meets-world-war-two-veteran/8256238|title=Kokoda track's surviving Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel meets with WWII veteran 'for the last time'|author=Karen Percy|date=Feb 8, 2017|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News|accessdate=June 20, 2017}}</ref>
|Living (age {{age|1925|1|1}})
|Last known member of the [[Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels]] during the [[Kokoda Track campaign]]
|November 16, 1942
|-
|[[Bill Sparks]]
|{{Death date and age|2002|12|1|1922|9|5|mf=y}}
|Last member of the [[Cockleshell Heroes]]
|December 12, 1942
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Joachim Rønneberg]]
|Living (age {{age|1919|8|30}})
|Last officer of [[Operation Gunnerside]]
|February 16, 1943
|-
|[[Marek Edelman]]
|{{Death date and age|2009|10|2|1922|mf=y}}
|Last leader of the [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]]
|May 16, 1943
|-
|[[Les Munro]]
|{{Death date and age|2015|8|4|1919|4|5|mf=y}}
|Last pilot of World War II [[Operation Chastise]]
|May 17, 1943
|-
|[[Jay Zeamer Jr.]]
|{{Death date and age|2007|3|22|1918|7|25|mf=y}}
|Last surviving [[United States Army Air Forces|Army Air Force]] [[Medal of Honor]] recipient and service's last survivng [[World War II]] recipient
|June 16, 1943
|- 
|[[Samuel Willenberg]]
|{{Death date and age|2016|2|19|1923|2|16|mf=y}}
|Last participant in the revolt at the [[Treblinka extermination camp]]
|August 2, 1943
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[John Cruickshank]]
|Living (age {{age|1920|5|20}})
|Last [[Victoria Cross]] recipient for action in World War II
|September 1, 1944
|-
|Frank Ellis Sublett<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=26644|title=Last of the "Golden 13" dies"|author=Kenneth Cronk|accessdate=2011-08-03}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2006|9|27|1920|3|5|mf=y}}
|Last member of the [[Golden Thirteen]]
|March 1944
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Dick Churchill|Richard Sidney Albion Churchill]]<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/10716508/Last-British-Great-Escaper-tells-how-he-escaped-execution.html Last British Great Escaper tells how he escaped execution]</ref>
|Living (age {{age|1920|1|1}})<ref>[http://www.express.co.uk/news/obituaries/603075/Paul-Royle-Stalag-Luft-III-survivor-died-aged-101]</ref>
|Last surviving prisoner who took part in the [[Stalag Luft III#The Great Escape|Great Escape from Stalag Luft III]]
|March 25, 1944
|-
|[[Clifford Brewer]]<ref>[http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/REX-AP-3875720b-Dr-Clifford-Brewer-who-is-the-/ce7e77bd532b4ce38737838d0d5a58ea/2/0]</ref>
|{{Death date and age |2017|4|29|1913|4|29|mf=y}}
|Last surviving surgeon of the [[Normandy landings]]
|June 6, 1944
|-
|[[Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin]]
|{{Death date and age |2013|3|8|1922|7|10|mf=y}}
|Last participant of the [[20 July plot]] to assassinate [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]
|July 20, 1944
|- style="background:#9f9;
|Bill Leibold<ref>{{citenews|url=https://palomarmountainnews.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/memorial-day-and-bill-leibold/|title= Memorial Day and Bill Leibold|date=May 23, 2014|publisher=Palomar Mountain News|author=Bonnie Phelps|accessdate=September 29, 2017}}</ref>
|Living (age 94-95)
|Last Survivor of the sinking of the [[USS Tang (SS-306)|USS Tang]]
|October 25, 1944
|-
|[[Charles W. Lindberg]]
|{{Death date and age|2007|6|24|1920|6|26|mf=y}}
|Last Marine in the [[Iwo jima flag raising|Iwo Jima Flag Raisings]]
|February 23, 1945
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Hershel W. Williams]]
|Living (age {{age|1923|10|2}})
|Last [[List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War II|Medal of Honor recipient]] from the [[battle of Iwo Jima]] and last [[United States Marine Corps]] recipient of [[World War II]]
|March 26, 1945
|- 
|Noel Jacob Wiener<ref>{{citenews|url=http://www.neagle.com/article/20131024/News/131029905|title=Veteran, 98, recalls WWII service in Eisenhower’s HQ|date=October 24, 2013|publisher=The News Eagle|author=Peter Becker|accessdate=April 19, 2017}}</ref>
|2015 (aged 99–100)
|Last witness to the [[End of World War II in Europe|German Surrender ceremony]]
|May 7, 1945
|-
|[[Rudolf Hess]]
|{{Death date and age|1987|8|17|1894|4|26|mf=y}}
|Last member of the cabinet of the [[Third Reich]]
|May 7, 1945
|- 
|[[Walter Scheel]]
|{{Death date and age|2016|8|24|1919|7|8|mf=y}}
|Last [[President of Germany|former German president]] to have served in [[World War II]]
|May 8, 1945
|- 
|[[Helmut Schmidt]]
||{{Death date and age|2015|11|10|1918|12|23|mf=y}}
||Last former [[Chancellor of Germany]] to have served in [[World War II]]
|May 8, 1945
|-
|[[Theodore Van Kirk]]
|{{Death date and age|2014|7|28|1921|2|27|mf=y}}
|Last crew member of the ''[[Enola Gay]]''
|August 6, 1945
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|Russell Gackenbach<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123439622|title=Last surviving member from Hiroshima nuclear bombing mission reflects on 70th anniversary|first=Brandon |last=Shapiro|date=2015-02-19|accessdate=2016-03-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hilltoptimes.com/content/atomic-exposure|title=ATOMIC EXPOSURE|first=Brandon |last=Shapiro|date=2017-01-05|accessdate=2017-03-19}}</ref>
|Living (age 93)
|Last crew member of ''[[Necessary Evil (aircraft)|Necessary Evil]]''
|August 9, 1945
|-
|[[Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape]]
|{{Death date and age|1981|2|12|1888|2|5|mf=y}}
|Last signer of the [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender]]
|September 2, 1945
|-
|[[Claude Choules]]
|{{Death date and age|2011|5|5|1901|3|3|mf=y}}
|Last veteran of both [[World War I]] and [[World War II]]
|September 2, 1945
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]]
|Living  (age {{age|1926|2|2}})
|Last [[President of France|former French President]] to have served in [[World War II]]
|September 2, 1945
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Giorgio Napolitano]]
|Living (age {{age|1925|6|29}})
|Last [[President of Italy|former Italian President]] to have served in [[World War II]]
|September 2, 1945
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[George H. W. Bush]]
|Living (age {{age|1924|6|12}})
|Last [[President of the United States|former United States President]] to have served in [[World War II]]
|September 2, 1945
|-
|[[Edward Heath]]
|{{Death date and age|2005|7|17|1916|7|9|mf=y}}
|Last [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|former British Prime Minister]] to have served in [[World War II]]
|September 2, 1945
|-
|[[Ninian Stephen]]
|{{Death date and age|2017|10|29|1923|6|15}}
|Last former Governor-General of a Commonwealth Realm to have served in [[World War II]]
|September 2, 1945
|-
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[John Paul Stevens]]
|Living (age {{age|1920|4|20}})
|Last [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|former United States Supreme Court Justice]] to have served in [[World War II]]
|September 2, 1945
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Edward Shames]]
|Living (age {{age|1922|6|13}})
|Last surviving officer of [[E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States)|Easy Company, 2nd Battalion]] in [[World War II]]
|November 30, 1945
|-
|[[Joe Medicine Crow]]
|{{Death date and age|2016|4|3|1913|10|27|mf=y}}
|Last war chief of the [[Crow Tribe|Crow Nation]]
|1945
|}

==1946–1960==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Name
!Death
!Historical event
!Date event ended
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Benjamin Ferencz]]
|Living (age {{age|1920|3|11}})
|Last prosecutor during the [[Nuremberg Trials]]
|October 1, 1946
|-
|[[Knut Haugland]]
|{{Death date and age|2009|12|25|1917|9|23|mf=y}}
|Last crew member on the ''[[Kon-Tiki]]'' expedition
|April 28, 1947
|-
|[[Brajraj Mahapatra]]
|{{Death date and age|2015|11|30|1921|10|15}}
|Last royal to sign the merger agreement with the Indian state
|1947
|-
|[[Tej Singh Prabhakar|Maharaja Tej Singh Prabhakar]]
|{{Death date and age|2009|2|15|1911|3|17}}
|Last recipient of the [[Order of the Star of India]]
|1947
|-
|[[Meghrajji III|Mayurdwajsinhji Meghrajji III]]
|{{Death date and age|2010|8|1|1923|3|3}}
|Last recipient of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]]
|1947
|-
|[[Gopal Godse]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2005/11/2008410112618197490.html|title=Gandhi assassination plotter dies|publisher=Aljazeera|accessdate=2012-06-25}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2005|11|26|1919|6|12|mf=y}}
|Last conspirator involved in the [[Assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi|assassination of Gandhi]]
|January 30, 1948
|-
|[[Tony Rolt]]
|{{Death date and age|2008|2|6|1918|10|16|mf=y}}
|Last driver in the [[1950 British Grand Prix]] the first World Championship Grand Prix
|May 13, 1950
|-
|[[Alcides Ghiggia]]
|{{Death date and age|2015|7|16|1926|12|22|mf=y}}
|Last player in the [[Maracanazo|Uruguay v Brazil (1950 FIFA World Cup)]]
|July 16, 1950
|-
|[[Andor Lilienthal]]
|{{Death date and age|2010|8|5|1911|5|5|mf=y}}
|Last of the original FIDE [[chess grandmaster]]s
|1950
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Bill Speakman]]
|Living (age {{age|1927|9|21}})
|Last [[Korean War]] [[List of living Victoria Cross recipients|Victoria Cross recipient]] 
|November 4, 1951
|-
|[[George Lowe (mountaineer)|George Lowe]]
|{{Death date and age|2013|3|20|1924|1|15|mf=y}}
|Last member of the [[1953 British Everest Expedition]]
|May 29, 1953
|-
|[[William Kelly Harrison, Jr.]]
|{{Death date and age|1987|5|29|1895|9|7|mf=y}}
|Last signer of the [[Korean Armistice Agreement]]
|July 27, 1953
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Paik Sun-yup]]
|Living (age {{age|1920|11|23}})
|Last [[South Korea]]n commander in the [[Korean War]]
|July 27, 1953
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Rafael Cancel Miranda]]
|Living (age {{age|1930|07|18}})
|Last living perpetrator in the [[1954 United States Capitol shooting incident]]
|March 1, 1954
|-
|[[Zelma Henderson]]
|{{Death date and age|2008|5|20|1920|2|29|mf=y}}
|Last living plaintiff in the [[Brown v. Board of Education]] case
|May 17, 1954
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Horst Eckel]]
|Living (age {{age|1932|2|8}})
|Last living player of the [[1954 FIFA World Cup Final]] 
|July 4, 1954
|-
|[[Maurice Faure]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://brusselsdiplomatic.com/2014/03/06/death-of-maurice-faure-signer-of-the-treaty-of-rome-and-passionate-advocate-of-the-european-idea/|title=Death of Maurice Faure, signer of the treaty of Rome}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2014|3|6|1922|1|2|mf=y}}
|Last signer of the [[Treaty of Rome]]
|March 25, 1957
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|Bill Hastie<ref>{{cite web|url=http://psdispatch.com/top-stories/50461/bill-hastie-is-last-survivor-of-knox-mine-disaster}}</ref>
|Living (age {{age|1919|11|23}})
|Last survivor of the [[Knox Mine Disaster]]
|January 22, 1959
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Kurt Diemberger]]
|Living (age {{age|1932|03|16}})
|Last living person who has made the first ascents on two mountains over 8,000 metres
|May 25, 1960
|}

==1961–2000==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Name
!Death
!Historical event
!Date event ended
|-
|[[Antonio Imbert Barrera]]
|{{Death date and age|2016|5|31|1920|12|3|mf=year}}
|Last participant in the assassination of [[Rafael Trujillo]]
|May 30, 1961
|-
|[[John Herschel Glenn, Jr.|John Glenn]]
|{{Death date and age|2016|12|8|1921|7|18|mf=year}}
|Last astronaut from [[Project Mercury]]
|May 16, 1963
|-
|[[Franz König]]
|{{Death date and age|2004|3|13|1905|8|3|mf=year}}
|Last cardinal created by Pope [[John XXIII]] and last participant in the conclave that elected Pope [[Paul VI]]
|June 21, 1963
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Clint Hill (Secret Service)|Clint Hill]]
|Living (age {{age|1932|1|4}})
|Last passenger of the [[SS-100-X|Kennedy presidential limousine]] during [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|JFK'S assassination]]
|November 22, 1963
|-
|[[Gerald Ford]]
|{{Death date and age|2006|12|26|1913|7|14|mf=y}}
|Last member of the committee of the [[Warren Commission]]
|November 29, 1963
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Alexey Leonov]]
|Living (age {{age|1934|5|30}})
|Last member of the [[Voskhod programme]]
|March 19, 1965
|-
|[[Stylianos Pattakos]]
|{{Death date and age|2016|10|8|1912|11|8|mf=y}}
|Last leader of the [[Greek military junta of 1967-1974|1967 Greek coup d'état and subsequent military junta]]
|April 21, 1967
|-
|- style="background:#9f9;"
||[[John Lewis (Georgia politician)|John Lewis]]
|Living (age {{age|1940|2|21}})
|Last member of the [[Big Six (civil rights)|Big Six]]
|April 4, 1968
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Walter Cunningham]]
|Living (age {{age|1932|3|16}})
|Last crew member of [[Apollo 7]]
|October 22, 1968
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Keith Payne]]
|Living (age {{age|1933|08|30|df=yes}})
|Last [[Vietnam War]] [[List of living Victoria Cross recipients|Victoria Cross recipient]] and last [[Australian]] to be awarded original medal
|September 19, 1969
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Alan Bean]]
|Living (age {{age|1932|3|15}})
|Last crew member of [[Apollo 12]]
|November 24, 1969
|-
|[[Edgar Mitchell]]
|{{Death date and age|2016|2|4|1930|9|17|mf=y}}
|Last crew member of [[Apollo 14]]
|February 9, 1971
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Harrison Schmitt]]
|Living (age {{age|1935|7|3}})
|Last crew member of [[Apollo 17]]
|December 19, 1972
|-
|[[Nguyễn Văn Thiệu]]
||{{Death date and age|2001|9|29|1923|4|5|mf=y}}
|Last former [[President of South Vietnam]]
|April 30, 1975
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Khamtai Siphandon]]
|Living (age {{age|1924|2|8}})
|Last [[Pathet Lao]] leader in the [[Vietnam War]]
|April 30, 1975
|-
|[[Yao Wenyuan]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-01-06/last-surviving-member-of-chinas-gang-of-four-dies/774466|title=Last surviving member of China's Gang of Four dies|accessdate=2011-10-03}}</ref>
|{{Death date and age|2005|12|23|1931|1|12|mf=y}}
|Last member of China's [[Gang of Four]]
|October 6, 1976
|- 
|[[Larry Newman (aviator)|Larry Newman]]
|{{Death date and age|2010|12|20|1947|9|28|mf=y}}
|Last crew member of the [[Double Eagle II]]
|August 17, 1978
|-
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Pope Benedict XVI|Joseph Ratzinger]]
|Living (age {{age|1927|4|16}})
|Last cardinal created by Pope [[Paul VI]] and last participant in the conclaves that elected Popes [[John Paul I]] and Saint [[John Paul II]]
|August 26, 1978 and October 16, 1978
|-
|Luz Isabel Cuevas
|{{Death date and age|2014|5|6|1923|4|30|mf=y}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elfaro.net/es/201405/noticias/15362/?st-full_text=all&tpl=11|title=Muere madre Lucita, la última anfitriona de Monseñor Romero|date=May 8, 2014|publisher=elfaro.net|accessdate=June 18, 2014|language=Spanish}}</ref>
|Last witness to the assassination of El Salvadorian [[bishop]] [[Óscar Romero]]
|March 24, 1980
|-
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Stanisław Kania]]
|Living (age {{age|1927|3|7}})
|Last living leader of the [[Polish United Workers' Party]]
|October 18, 1981
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Egon Krenz]]
|Living (age {{age|1937|3|19}})
|Last living Chairman of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
|April 5, 1990
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Dmitri Yazov]]
|Living (age {{age|1924|11|8}})
|Last living [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]]
|April 28, 1990
|- 
|[[Helmut Kohl]]
|{{Death date and age|2017|6|16|1930|4|03|mf=y}}
|Last [[Chancellor of West Germany]]
|October 3, 1990
|-
|[[Stanislav Hurenko]]
|{{Death date and age|2013|4|14|1936|5|30|mf=y}}
|Last [[List of leaders of Ukraine#First Secretaries of the Central Committee|First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR]]
|September 1, 1991
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[Mikhail Gorbachev]]
|Living (age {{age|1931|3|2}})
|The last serving and last living former president of the [[Soviet Union]]
|December 25, 1991
|-
|[[Václav Havel]]
|{{Death date and age|2011|12|18|1936|10|5|mf=y}}
|Last former [[List of Presidents of Czechoslovakia|President of Czechoslovakia]]
|December 31, 1992
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|-
|[[Cornelius Botha]]
|{{Death date and age|2014|2|6|1932|3|mf=y}}
|Last administrator of the [[Natal Province]]
|April 27, 1994
|- style="background:#9f9;"
|[[F. W. de Klerk]]
|Living (age {{age|1936|3|18}})
|Last leader of the [[Apartheid|apartheid government]] of [[South Africa]], last [[State President of South Africa|State President]], and most recent head of state from the [[White South African|white minority]]
|May 10, 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==
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[[Category:Lists of people by aspect of death|Last survivors of historical events]]
[[Category:Lists of superlatives|Survivors of historical events]]