User:Necrothesp/List of lasts

The following is a list of last occurrences. It can consist of last events, such as the last sending of a Western Union telegram; the last monarch of a monarchy (by either death or abdication); or the death of the last member of a group of people.

See: List of last survivors of historical events

Architecture and civil engineering

1777

4 June - The Chesterfield Canal, the last canal designed by James Brindley, is opened, nearly five years after his death.

1822

The Union Canal is the last canal to be completed in Scotland.^[1]

1835

The Shropshire Union Canal is the last trunk narrow canal to be completed in England.

1858

20 August - Netherton Tunnel, the last canal tunnel to be built in the United Kingdom, is opened.

1905

2 January - The New Junction Canal, the last canal built in England for commercial purposes, is completed.

Art

1825

14 January - George Dance the Younger, last surviving founder member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768, dies at the age of 83.

1873

2 October - Cornelius Varley, last surviving founder member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1804, dies at the age of 91.

2019

23 November - Nick Clifford, last surviving carver of Mount Rushmore, dies at the age of 98.^[2]

Clothing and fashion

1828

5 May - Peter Moore, said to have been the last man to have worn a pigtail in London society, dies at the age of 75.

Commerce and industry

1973

28 September - Writhlington Colliery, last remaining coal mine in the Somerset Coalfield in England, closes.

1992

Zolder Colliery, last remaining coal mine in Belgium and the Low Countries, closes.

2013

7 March - Daw Mill Colliery in Warwickshire, last remaining coal mine in the West Midlands, closes.

2015

18 December - Kellingley Colliery in North Yorkshire, last remaining deep coal mine in the United Kingdom, closes.

2022

August - The last Domino's Pizza stores in Italy close.^[3]

Last surviving

The store in Bend, Oregon, is the last surviving Blockbuster franchise in the world.^[4]
Queen Street Mill, in Harle Syke, Burnley, Lancashire, is the last surviving operational 19th-century steam-powered weaving mill in the world.^[5]
Ballycopeland Windmill is the last working windmill in Northern Ireland and the last working roller reefing windmill in the world.^[6]

Communications and broadcasting

1971

1 January - The last tobacco advertising is shown on American television.^[7]

2006

27 January - The last telegram is sent by Western Union.^[8]
14 March - A History of Violence is the last major Hollywood film to be released on VHS.^[9]

2009

12 June - The last analogue TV broadcast in the United States for full-power stations only is made.^[10] "Low-power", "Class A" and "translator" analogue stations may continue broadcasting and there is "no deadline for them to turn off their analog signals".^[11]

2019

1 October - Tokyo Telemessage, Japan's last surviving pager provider, ends service.^[12]

Disasters

1845

February - John Harrison, sailmaker, last survivor of the sinking of the East Indiaman Halsewell in 1786, dies at the age of 92.^[13]

1850

2 October - James Ingram, last survivor of the sinking of HMS Royal George at Spithead in 1782, dies at the age of 98.^[14]

1887

12 September - Seth Weeks, last surviving crew member of the whaler Essex, sunk by a sperm whale in 1820 (which inspired Moby Dick), dies in Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

1988

4 July - Peter Stoddart, last known survivor of the Quintinshill rail disaster on 22 May 1915, the worst rail disaster in British history (as a soldier in the Royal Scots, he was aboard the troop train), dies at the age of c. 92.

1995

15 May - Grace Hannagan Martyn, last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland, dies at the age of 88.

2001

18 April - Michel Marcel Navratil, last male survivor and last French survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic, dies at the age of 92.

2004

26 January - Adella Wotherspoon, last survivor of the General Slocum fire in 1904, dies at the age of 100.^[15]

2006

7 May - Lillian Asplund, last American survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic and last survivor to have memories of the event, dies at the age of 99.^[16]

2009

31 May - Millvina Dean, last survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912, dies at the age of 97.^[17]

2013

27 April - Yuri Yefimovich Yudin, only surviving member of the hiking expedition otherwise wiped out in the 1959 Dyatlov Pass incident in Russia, dies at the age of 75.

Last surviving

Emily Brown and Robert Pope are the last survivors of the 1929 Glen Cinema disaster in Paisley, Renfrewshire.^[18]
Jeff Edwards is the last surviving child to have been rescued from the ruins of Pantglas Junior School following the Aberfan disaster on 21 October 1966.^[19]

Entertainment

1922

21 April - Alessandro Moreschi, last surviving professional castrato, dies at the age of 63.

1971

25 November - Hank Mann, last survivor of the original Keystone Cops, dies at the age of 83.

1975

4 May - Moe Howard, last survivor of the original Three Stooges, dies at the age of 77.

1979

30 November - Zeppo Marx, last surviving Marx Brother, dies at the age of 78.

1984

26 April - May McAvoy, last surviving credited adult cast member of the first talking picture The Jazz Singer, dies at the age of 84.
14 September - Janet Gaynor, last surviving recipient of (and nominee for) an individual award at the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929, dies at the age of 77.

1989

26 April - Lucille Ball, last remaining core cast member of I Love Lucy, dies at the age of 77.
7 July - The Crimson White & Indigo concert by the Grateful Dead is the last event held at the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia before its condemnation.

1990

1 December - Robert Gordon, last surviving credited cast member of the first talking picture The Jazz Singer, dies at the age of 77.

1992

29 March - Paul Henreid, last surviving principal cast member of the 1942 film Casablanca, dies at the age of 84.
29 April - Mae Clarke, last surviving credited adult cast member of the 1931 film Frankenstein, dies at the age of 81.
3 November - Jack Davis, last surviving male member of the original Our Gang in the 1922 film One Terrible Day, dies at the age of 78.

1993

27 February - Lillian Gish, last surviving credited cast member of the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, dies at the age of 99.

1996

20 June - Joseph Green, probable last surviving cast member of the first talking picture The Jazz Singer, dies at the age of 96.

1998

16 January - Emil Sitka, last survivor of the Three Stooges (Harry), dies at the age of 83.
23 December - David Manners, last surviving credited cast member of the 1931 film Dracula, dies at the age of 98.

1999

1 December - Marilyn Harris, last surviving credited cast member of the 1931 film Frankenstein, dies at the age of 75.

2001

12 June - Peggy Cartwright, last survivor of the original Our Gang in the 1922 film One Terrible Day (and penultimate surviving cast member of the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation), dies at the age of 88.
22 December - Mary Wynn, last surviving cast member of the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, dies at the age of 99.

2002

27 November - Wolfgang Preiss, last surviving German credited cast member of the 1962 film The Longest Day, dies at the age of 92.

2003

6 September - Louise Platt, last surviving credited cast member of the 1939 film Stagecoach, dies at the age of 88.

2005

15 January - Ruth Warrick, last surviving cast member of the 1946 Disney film Song of the South, dies at the age of 89.
27 September - The Karate Guard, the last Tom and Jerry cartoon to be written by Joseph Barbera, is released.

2007

25 August - Elizabeth Inglis, last surviving cast member of the 1935 film The 39 Steps, dies at the age of 94.
17 October - Joey Bishop, last surviving member of the Rat Pack, dies at the age of 89.^[20]

2008

14 April - Ollie Johnston, last survivor of Disney's Nine Old Men, dies at the age of 95.
6 September - Anita Page, last surviving attendee of the very first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929, dies at the age of 98.^[21]

2010

11 May - Doris Eaton Travis, last surviving Ziegfeld girl, dies at the age of 106.

2011

7 December - Harry Morgan, last surviving credited cast member of the 1952 film High Noon, dies at the age of 96.

2013

12 March - Mickey Moore, last surviving credited cast member of the 1927 film The King of Kings, dies at the age of 98.

2014

16 January - Ruth Duccini, last surviving actress to play a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz, dies at the age of 95.
18 February - Maria Franziska von Trapp, last surviving child of Georg von Trapp and Agathe Whitehead von Trapp and last surviving member of the family to be depicted in The Sound of Music (as Louisa von Trapp), dies at the age of 99.

2015

6 December - Nicholas Smith, last surviving regular cast member from the pilot (1972) and series 1–7 (1973–1979) of the British TV sitcom Are You Being Served? and last to appear in every episode, dies at the age of 81.

2016

1 May - Madeleine Lebeau, last surviving credited cast member of the 1942 film Casablanca, dies at the age of 92.
11 November - Robert Vaughn, last surviving member of The Magnificent Seven from the 1960 film, dies at the age of 83.

2018

24 May - Jerry Maren, last surviving actor to play a Munchkin and last surviving actor to have a speaking or singing role in The Wizard of Oz, dies at the age of 98.
29 December - Rosenda Monteros, last surviving credited adult cast member of the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven, dies at the age of 83.

2019

30 June - Glyn Houston, last surviving male credited cast member of the 1953 film The Cruel Sea, dies at the age of 93.

2020

31 January - Andrée Melly, last surviving credited cast member of the 1966 Hammer Horror film The Brides of Dracula, dies at the age of 87.
25 July - Dame Olivia de Havilland, last surviving credited adult cast member of the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, dies at the age of 104.

2021

3 January - Barbara Shelley, last surviving credited cast member of the 1966 Hammer Horror film Dracula: Prince of Darkness, dies at the age of 88.

2022

25 February - Laurel Goodwin, last surviving credited cast member of the "The Cage", the first Star Trek pilot from 1965, dies at the age of 79.
29 April - Joanna Barnes, last surviving credited cast member of the 1960 film Spartacus, dies at the age of 87.
7 August - June Spencer, last original cast member from 1951 of the British BBC radio drama The Archers, retires from the show at the age of 103.
15 August - Nancy Rooks, last surviving housekeeper to Elvis Presley at Graceland, dies at the age of 84.^[22]
18 August - Virginia Patton, last surviving credited adult cast member of the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life, dies at the age of 97.^[23]
7 September - Marsha Hunt, last surviving American entertainment industry figure named as an alleged communist in the 1950 pamphlet Red Channels,^[24] dies at the age of 104.
7 November - Leslie Phillips, last surviving British credited cast member of the 1962 film The Longest Day, dies at the age of 98.
20 November - Mickey Kuhn, last surviving credited cast member of the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, dies at the age of 90.

2023

27 January - Sylvia Syms, last surviving credited cast member of the 1958 film Ice Cold in Alex, dies at the age of 89.
13 February - Zia Mohyeddin, last surviving adult credited cast member of the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia, dies at the age of 91.

2024

2 February - Ian Lavender, last surviving regular cast member of the British TV sitcom Dad's Army, dies at the age of 77.
7 February - Henry Fambrough, last surviving original member of American group The Spinners, dies at the age of 85.
22 July - Duke Fakir, last surviving original member of the American group the Four Tops, dies at the age of 88.

Last surviving

John Leyton is the last surviving credited cast member of the 1963 film The Great Escape.
Jessica Benton (who played Elizabeth Onedin) and Laura Hartong (who played Charlotte Onedin) are the last surviving main cast members of the BBC TV drama series The Onedin Line. Benton is the last surviving main cast member from the first series in 1971.
Jean Marsh and Simon Williams are the last surviving main cast members from series 1 of the British TV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs.
William Roache (who plays Ken Barlow), Philip Lowrie (who played Dennis Tanner), Anne Cunningham (who played Linda Cheveski) and Patricia Shakesby (who played Susan Cunningham) are the last surviving credited actors who appeared in the first episode of the British TV soap opera Coronation Street on 9 December 1960. Roache is the last who still appears in the series.
Ursula Andress, Marguerite LeWars and possibly Michel Mok are the last surviving credited cast members of the first James Bond film Dr. No in 1962.
Mario Navarro and Danny Bravo are the last surviving credited cast members of the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven.
Michel de Carvalho (Michael Ray) and John Dimech are the last surviving credited cast members of the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia.
Georges Rivière is the last surviving French credited cast member of the 1962 film The Longest Day.
Paul Anka (actually Canadian), Richard Beymer, Fabian Forte, Tommy Sands and Robert Wagner are the last surviving American credited cast members of the 1962 film The Longest Day.
Eva Marie Saint is the last surviving credited cast member of the 1954 film On the Waterfront.
Barbara Archer (the last adult), Janina Faye and possibly Paul Cole are the last surviving credited cast members of the 1958 Hammer Horror film Dracula.
Sir Michael Caine and Peter Gill are the last known surviving credited cast members of the 1964 film Zulu.
Dame Virginia McKenna is the last surviving credited cast member of the 1953 film The Cruel Sea.
Micky Dolenz is the last surviving member of the band The Monkees.
Otis Williams is the last surviving original member of the Motown group The Temptations.
William Shatner, George Takei, Gary Lockwood and Andrea Dromm are the last surviving credited cast members of "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the second Star Trek pilot from 1966.
William Shatner and George Takei are the last surviving credited cast members of "The Man Trap", the first broadcast episode of Star Trek in 1966.
Carole Ann Ford is the last surviving credited cast member of An Unearthly Child, the first Doctor Who serial in 1963.
Mike Berry (series 8–10) is the last surviving regular cast member of the British TV sitcom Are You Being Served?

Exploration

1804

13 February - George Gregory, last surviving participant in George Anson's voyage around the world in 1744, dies at the age of 108 or 109.

1831

2 July - Rear-Admiral Isaac Smith, last surviving participant in James Cook's first voyage of 1771, dies at the age of 78 or 79.

1832

12 December - Captain John Hatley, last surviving participant in James Cook's second voyage of 1775, dies at the age of 69 or 70.

1834

4 June - Barthélemy de Lesseps, last survivor of the expedition of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, in 1788, dies at the age of 68.

1870

2 April - Patrick Gass, last surviving member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies at the age of 99.

2010

4 July - Alf Howard, last surviving member of the expedition to Antarctica led by Sir Douglas Mawson aboard the RRS Discovery in 1929–1931, dies at the age of 104.^[25]

2021

28 April - Michael Collins, last surviving member of the Apollo 11 crew, the first mission to land on the Moon, dies at the age of 90.

Honours and awards

1855

11 October - Commander John Edmund Commerell and Quartermaster William Thomas Rickard are the last people to win the Victoria Cross in the Crimean War.

1859

6 October - Lieutenant Charles Augustus Goodfellow is the last person to win the Victoria Cross in the Indian Mutiny and the last officer of the British East India Company to win the Victoria Cross.

1870

20 March - Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden, last surviving Knight of St Patrick appointed by George IV, dies at the age of 81.

1902

8 February - Surgeon Captain Arthur Martin-Leake is the last person to win the Victoria Cross in the Second Boer War.

1918

6 November - Major Brett Cloutman is the last person to win the Victoria Cross in World War I.

1932

25 November - Sergeant John Williams, last surviving recipient of the Victoria Cross for the Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879, dies at the age of 75.

1936

May - André John Mesnard Melly is the last civilian to win the Albert Medal in Gold before its replacement with the George Cross.

1940

21 March - Gerald Winter is the last civilian to win the Empire Gallantry Medal before its replacement with the George Cross.
31 May - Corporal Daphne Pearson is the last woman to win the Empire Gallantry Medal before its replacement with the George Cross.
26 August - Second Lieutenant Wallace Launcelot Andrews is the last person to win the Empire Gallantry Medal before its replacement with the George Cross.

1942

10 November - Surgeon Lieutenant Malcolm Joseph Clow is the last person to win the Albert Medal in Gold before its replacement with the George Cross and to survive the action.

1943

3 May - Squadron Leader Leonard Henry Trent is the last member of the New Zealand Forces to win the Victoria Cross before its replacement with the Victoria Cross for New Zealand and to survive the action.
11 August - Flying Officer Lloyd Allan Trigg is the last member of the New Zealand Forces to win the Victoria Cross before its replacement with the Victoria Cross for New Zealand.

1944

23 June - Acting Captain Michael Allmand is the last British officer of the Indian Army to win the Victoria Cross.
24 June - Flight Lieutenant David Ernest Hornell is the last member of the Canadian Forces to win a posthumous Victoria Cross before its replacement with the Victoria Cross for Canada.
28 June - Sick Berth Attendant Arturo Fanconi is the last person to win the Albert Medal in Gold before its replacement with the George Cross.
31 August - Lieutenant Gerard Ross Norton is the last member of the South African Forces to win the Victoria Cross and to survive the action.
10 November - Rifleman Thaman Gurung is the last Gurkha soldier of the Indian Army to win a posthumous Victoria Cross.

1945

23 February - Captain Edwin Swales is the last member of the South African Forces to win the Victoria Cross.
18 March - Lieutenant Karamjeet Singh Judge is the last Indian soldier of the Indian Army to win a posthumous Victoria Cross.
24 March - Corporal Frederick George Topham is the last member of the Canadian Forces to win the Victoria Cross before its replacement with the Victoria Cross for Canada.
9 April - Sepoy Ali Haidar and Sepoy Namdeo Jadav are the last Indian soldiers of the Indian Army to win the Victoria Cross.
13 May - Rifleman Lachhiman Gurung is the last soldier of the Indian Army to win the Victoria Cross.
9 August - Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray is the last person to win the Victoria Cross in World War II.

1949

28 May - Margaret Vaughan is the last person to win the Albert Medal and survive the action.
30 June - Frank Bradley is the last person to win the Edward Medal in Silver before its replacement with the George Cross.

1967

7 April - Major Peter Badcoe is the last member of the Australian Forces to win a posthumous Victoria Cross before its replacement with the Victoria Cross for Australia.
9 September - Andrew Taylor is the last person to win the Edward Medal before its replacement with the George Cross.

1969

24 May - Warrant Officer Class II Keith Payne is the last member of the Australian Forces to win the Victoria Cross before its replacement with the Victoria Cross for Australia.
25 August - Kenneth Owen McIntyre is the last person to win the Albert Medal before its replacement with the George Cross.

1974

10 June - Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, last surviving Knight of the Order of St Patrick, dies at the age of 74.

1976

4 June - Constable Michael Kenneth Pratt is the last Australian to win the George Cross before its replacement with the Cross of Valour.

1980

28 April - Senior Constable Brian Tighe is the last Australian to win the Queen's Gallantry Medal before its replacement with the Bravery Medal.

1984

29 February - Constable Derek Pickles is the last Australian to win the George Medal before its replacement with the Star of Courage.

1990

20 March - Ng Hung-shek is the last Hong Kong citizen to win the George Medal.
13 November - Sergeant Stewart Graeme Guthrie is the last New Zealander to win the George Cross before its replacement with the New Zealand Cross.
13 November - Eva Dixon is the last New Zealander to win the George Medal before its replacement with the New Zealand Bravery Star.
13 November - Victor Crimp, Constable Nicholas Harvey, Detective Paul Knox, Constable Terry Van Turnhout, and Senior Constable David Weir are the last New Zealanders to win the Queen's Gallantry Medal before its replacement with the New Zealand Bravery Decoration.

1991

25 February - Staff Sergeant Kevin Davies is the last publicly named person^[26] to win the Distinguished Conduct Medal before it is replaced by the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross.
March - Chief Petty Officer (Diver) Philip Hammond is the last person to win the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal before it is replaced by the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross.
March - Acting Petty Officer (Diver) Richard Peake and Acting Petty Officer (Diver) Richard Seabrook are the last people to win the British Distinguished Service Medal before it is replaced by the Distinguished Service Cross.

1992

25 October - Petty Officer Aircrewman Adrian Rogers is the last person to win the Air Force Medal before it is replaced by the Air Force Cross.

1997

28 June - Jack Hinton, last surviving New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross before its replacement with the Victoria Cross for New Zealand, dies at the age of 87.

1998

17 February - Ernst Jünger, last surviving holder of the military class of the Pour le Mérite (Blue Max), dies at the age of 102.

2000

8 May - Percy Clarke, last surviving recipient of the Distinguished Conduct Medal in World War I, dies at the age of 104.
25 December - Arthur Mortimer, last surviving recipient of the Military Cross in World War I, dies at the age of 102.

2004

27 January - James Lovell, last surviving recipient of the Military Medal in World War I and last surviving British veteran to have been decorated in World War I, dies at the age of 104.
29 October - Gerard Ross Norton, last surviving South African recipient of the Victoria Cross, dies at the age of 89.

2005

3 August - Ernest Smith, last surviving Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross before its replacement with the Victoria Cross for Canada, dies at the age of 91.
21 November - Umrao Singh, last surviving Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, dies at the age of 85.

2018

20 June - Bill Speakman, last surviving recipient of the Victoria Cross in the Korean War, dies at the age of 90.

2021

6 April - Charles H. Coolidge, last surviving recipient of the Medal of Honor in the European theatre of World War II, dies at the age of 99.

2022

29 June - Hershel W. Williams, last surviving recipient of the Medal of Honor in World War II, dies at the age of 98.

Last surviving

John Cruickshank is the last surviving recipient of the Victoria Cross in World War II.

Law and crime

1830

24 September - Stephen Simmons is the last person to be executed by Michigan, the first jurisdiction in the English-speaking world to abolish capital punishment.

1845

13 February - John Gordon is the last person to be executed in Rhode Island.

1851

21 August - John McCaffary is the first and last person to be executed in Wisconsin.

1862

29 April - Mary Timney, 27, is the last woman to be publicly hanged in Scotland, in Dumfries, after being convicted (possibly wrongly) of murdering her neighbour.^[27]

1866

Unknown date - Sir Fitzroy Kelly is the last person to be appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

1868

Unknown date - Robert Smith, 19, convicted of murder, rape, robbery and attempted murder, is the last person to be publicly hanged in Scotland, in Dumfries.^[28]

1875

Unknown date - Nathaniel Lindley is the last English barrister to be appointed a serjeant-at-law.

1880

18 September - Sir Fitzroy Kelly, last surviving Chief Baron of the Exchequer, dies at the age of 83.
Unknown date - Sir John Walter Huddleston is the last person to be appointed a Baron of the Exchequer.

1885

21 November - Daniel Wilkinson is the last person to be executed in Maine.

1899

27 December - Frederick Spinks, last English barrister to practise at the bar as a serjeant-at-law, dies at the age of 83.

1902

11 August - James Brine, last surviving member of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, dies in Perth, Ontario, at the age of 89.^[29]

1905

17 October - John Rooney is the last person to be executed in North Dakota.

1906

13 February - William Williams is the last person to be executed in Minnesota.

1910

15 February - William Murphy is the last person to be hanged in North Wales, for the murder of his common-law wife Gwen Jones in Holyhead on 25 December 1909.^[30]
23 November - Johan Alfred Ander is the last person to be executed in Sweden.

1912

Unknown date - Irish barrister A. M. Sullivan is the last person to be appointed a serjeant-at-law.

1914

15 October - The last meeting of the Devonport Watch Committee takes place prior to Devonport's amalgamation with Plymouth.^[31]

1921

27 June - Sir John Ross is the last person to be appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
9 December - Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley, last surviving English judge to hold the title of serjeant-at-law, dies at the age of 93.

1927

21 January - General Sir Charles Warren, last surviving 19th-century Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, dies at the age of 86.
15 September - Pascual Ramos is the last person to be executed in Puerto Rico.

1928

December - Norman Kendal is the last officer to be appointed Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis "L".

1935

17 August - Sir John Ross, last surviving Lord Chancellor of Ireland, dies at the age of 82.
1 November - Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Game is the last career military officer to be appointed Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.

1936

14 August - Rainey Bethea, last person to be officially publicly executed in the United States, is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky.

1938

3 June - Harold Van Venison is the last person to be executed by hanging in Kentucky.
8 July - Tony Chebatoris is the last person to be executed in Michigan, under federal law.

1939

14 July - Howard Long is the last person to be executed in New Hampshire.

1941

15 August - Josef Jakobs is the last person to be executed in the Tower of London after his conviction under the Treachery Act 1940.^[32]

1944

7 January - Adriano Domingo is the last person to be executed by Hawaii.

1945

1 June - Sir Harold Scott is the last person who is not a career police officer to be appointed Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.

1947

9 May - Philip Bellino and Edward Gertson are the last people to be executed in Massachusetts.

1950

14 April - Eugene LaMoore is the last person to be executed in Alaska.

1953

August - Joe Jackson is the last person who is not a career police officer to be appointed Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.

1954

8 December - Donald DeMag is the last person to be executed in Vermont.

1955

13 July - Ruth Ellis is the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom.

1957

26 April - Robert Carter is the last person to be executed in the District of Columbia.

1958

6 May - Vivian Teed, 27, is the last person to be hanged in Wales, after being convicted of murdering a sub-postmaster.^[33]

1959

9 January - A. M. Sullivan, last surviving barrister to hold the title of serjeant-at-law, dies at the age of 87.
3 April - Elmer Bruner is the last person to be executed in West Virginia.

1961

4 February - Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Game, last surviving pre-World War II Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and last surviving Commissioner to have been a career military officer, dies at the age of 84.

1962

6 September - Charles Kelly is the last person to be executed by Iowa.
11 December - Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin are the last people to be executed in Canada.

1963

22 January - Ralph Hudson is the last person to be executed in New Jersey.
15 March - Victor Feguer is the last person to be executed in Iowa, under federal law.
15 August - Eddie Lee Mays is the last person to be executed in New York.

1964

13 August - Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are the last people to be hanged in the United Kingdom, for the murder of John West in Seaton, Cumbria.^[34]

1967

31 May - PC Peter Casey is the last officer to join Plymouth City Police the day before it amalgamates with Devon and Cornwall Constabulary.^[35]

1969

19 October - Sir Harold Scott, last surviving Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis not to have been a career police officer, dies at the age of 81.

1973

19 April - Liam Holden is the last person to be sentenced to death in the United Kingdom.
Unknown date - The last Metropolitan Police officers are promoted to station sergeant and first class detective sergeant.

1977

23 February - Chief Inspector Frederick John Boundy, last surviving member of the Devonport Borough Police, dies at the age of 89.^[36]

1980

Unknown date - Station Sergeant William Palmer, last serving Metropolitan Police officer to hold the rank of station sergeant, retires.

1984

March - John Dellow is the last officer to be appointed Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis "C".
Unknown date - Geoffrey Dear is the last officer to be appointed Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis "A".
Unknown date - Colin Sutton is the last officer to be appointed Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis "B".
Unknown date - Geoffrey McLean is the last officer to be appointed Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis "D".

1989

John Stewart is the last Royal Parks Constabulary officer to be promoted to the rank of station sergeant (or crown sergeant).

1990

11 June - Vaso Čubrilović, last surviving conspirator in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria that led to the outbreak of World War I, dies at the age of 93.^[37]

1996

25 January - Billy Bailey is the last person to be hanged in the United States, choosing it rather than lethal injection.

1998

21 March - Albert H. Wolff, last surviving member of the "Untouchables", dies at the age of 95.^[38]

2006

1 September - Nellie Connally, last surviving passenger of the limousine in which John F. Kennedy was assassinated, dies at the age of 87.^[39] However, Secret Service Agent Clint Hill, who jumped on the back of the limousine after the president was shot, is still alive.
27 December - Boris Gudz, last surviving member of the Cheka, dies at the age of 104.

2018

26 July - The last six members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult still on death row after being convicted of murder for the Tokyo subway sarin attack on 20 March 1995 are executed in Japan.^[40]

2023

7 April - Ben Ferencz, last surviving Allied prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, dies at the age of 103.

Last surviving

Jamal Al-Gashey is the last surviving member of the Black September Organization terrorist cell who carried out the Munich massacre in 1972.
James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, and Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, are the last surviving 20th-century Lord Chancellors.
Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, is the last surviving 20th-century Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.
Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, and Nick Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers, are the last surviving 20th-century Masters of the Rolls.

Literature and thought

2008

11 January - José Bello, last surviving member of the "Generation of '27", dies at the age of 103.

Medicine and science

1978

22 September - Janet Parker is the last person in the world to die from smallpox.
Unknown date - Hilda Witcomb, Janet Parker's mother, is the last person in the world to contract smallpox, but survives.

1984

Unknown date - The last case of natural polio is reported in the United Kingdom.^[41]

Military

1118

5 June - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, last known surviving knight to have fought alongside William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, dies.

1589

18 September - Don Mancio Sierra de Leguízamo, last surviving conquistador who participated in the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire in 1532, dies at the age of 76 or 77.

1652

12 May - Galway is the last Irish city to surrender to Cromwell's forces.

1685

6 July - The Battle of Sedgemoor is the last pitched battle fought on English soil.

1715

26 January - Admiral Sir Richard Haddock, claimed to be the last surviving English veteran of the First Anglo-Dutch War of 1652–1654, dies at the age of 84 or 85.

1730

Unknown date - John Read, claimed to be the last surviving Parliamentarian soldier and last surviving officer of the English Civil War and last surviving member of the New Model Army, dies at the age of 96 or 97.

1732

7 February - William Hiseland, claimed to be the last surviving veteran of the English Civil War and of the Battle of Edgehill, dies at the alleged age of 111.

1746

16 April - The Battle of Culloden is the last pitched battle fought on British soil.

1803

31 October - Petro Kalnyshevsky, last known surviving veteran of the Great Northern War and last surviving Zaporozhian Cossack, dies at the age of c.112.

1824

Unknown date - Peter Grant, known as Auld Dubrach, last known surviving veteran of the Jacobite rising of 1745, dies at the age of c. 110.

1829

5 March - John Adams, last survivor of the HMS Bounty mutineers, dies at the age of c.61.

1845

8 June - Andrew Jackson, last surviving President of the United States to have served in the American Revolutionary War, dies at the age of 78.

1850

5 January - Levi Preston, last surviving United States veteran of the Battle of Concord in 1775, dies at the age of 93.

1851

26 November - Jean-de-Dieu Soult, last Marshal General of France, dies at the age of 82.

1852

22 March - Auguste de Marmont, last survivor of Napoleon's Marshals, dies at the age of 77.
10 December - Count Walsh, last surviving veteran of the Irish Brigade in French service, dies at the age of 89.^[42]

1854

26 March - Jonathan Harrington, last surviving United States veteran of the Battle of Lexington in 1775, dies at the age of 95.

1856

12 March - Major Leonard Kilham Willard, probably the last surviving British veteran of the Battle of Laswari in 1803, dies at the age of 79.^[43]

1860

26 December - Ralph Farnham, last known surviving United States veteran of the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775, dies at the age of 104.

1865

15 March - Alexander Milliner, last surviving United States veteran of the Battle of Brandywine and Battles of Saratoga in 1777, dies at the age of 95.
26 May - The Army of the Trans-Mississippi is the last major Confederate States Army army command to surrender in the American Civil War.

1866

20 May - Lemuel Cook, last surviving veteran of the 2nd Continental Light Dragoons, dies at the age of 106.

1867

24 March - David Whitney, last surviving participant in Shays' Rebellion in 1787, dies at the age of 99.
April - William Sandilands, last survivor of the men who carried the dying Lord Nelson below at the Battle of Trafalgar, dies.^[44]

1868

29 March - John Gray, last surviving United States veteran of the Siege of Yorktown in 1781 and last authenticated surviving United States veteran of the American Revolutionary War, dies at the age of 104.

1869

5 April - Daniel F. Bakeman, probable last surviving United States veteran of the American Revolutionary War, dies at the age of 108.

1871

31 October - The last British Army commissions are purchased before the practice is abolished.

1881

28 January - The 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot is the last British Army regiment to carry its colours into action at the Battle of Laing's Nek during the First Boer War.

1890

29 December - The Battle of Wounded Knee is the last battle of the Indian Wars and the last battle fought on mainland United States soil. Chief Big Foot is the last Indian chief to die in battle.^[45]

1891

December - Reverend Josiah Allen, last surviving veteran of the Creek War in 1813–1814, dies at the age of 91.^[46]^[47]

1892

5 February - Maurice Shea, last surviving British veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, dies at the age of 96.^[48]
13 February - Sir Provo Wallis, last surviving commanding officer of the Napoleonic Wars and last surviving Royal Navy officer of the French Revolutionary Wars, dies at the age of 100.^[49]
Unknown date - The last officer to have been warranted as a master retires from the Royal Navy.

1895

25 March - David McCoy, last surviving veteran of Tecumseh's War in 1810–1813, dies at the age of 104.^[50]

1896

Unknown date - Josephine Mazurkewicz, last surviving female veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, dies at the age of 111 or 112.

1898

Unknown date - Louis Victor Baillot, last surviving veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, dies at the age of 104 or 105.
Unknown date - Pedro Martinez, last surviving veteran of the Battle of Trafalgar, dies at the age of 108 or 109.

1899

3 February - Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, claimed to be the last surviving veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, dies at the age of 110.

1905

13 May - Hiram Cronk, last surviving United States veteran of the War of 1812, dies at the age of 105.

1911

8 July - Alfonso Steele, last veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto during the Texas Revolution, dies at the age of 94.

1912

25 January - Count Dmitry Milyutin, last surviving non-royal field marshal of the Russian Empire, dies at the age of 95.

1913

September - Staff Captain John Davis Moulton, last serving officer of the Navigating Branch, retires from the Royal Navy.

1915

1 August - The battlecruiser SMS Hindenburg is the last capital ship launched for the Imperial German Navy.

1918

11 November - Private George Edwin Ellison of the 5th Royal Irish Lancers is the last British soldier to be killed in action in World War I, at 9:30 a.m.^[51]
11 November - Private George Lawrence Price of the 28th Battalion (Northwest), CEF, is the last soldier of the British Empire to be killed in action in World War I, at 10:58 a.m.

1919

21 June - The nine Imperial German Navy sailors killed by Royal Navy gunfire during the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow are the last people killed by enemy action in the First World War.^[52]

1927

23 January - John McCausland, last surviving Confederate general officer of the American Civil War whose rank was confirmed by the Confederate Senate, dies at the age of 90.
14 May - Edwin Hughes, last surviving veteran of the Charge of the Light Brigade, dies at the age of 96.

1928

29 January - Earl Haig, last surviving non-royal British Army field marshal of World War I, dies at the age of 66.
20 April - Felix H. Robertson, last surviving Confederate general officer of the American Civil War, dies at the age of 89.

1929

18 July - HMS Exeter is the last Royal Navy heavy cruiser to be launched.
3 September - Owen Thomas Edgar, last surviving United States veteran of the Mexican-American War, dies at the age of 98.
20 September - Sir Hedworth Meux, last surviving British non-royal "5 star officer" of World War I, dies at the age of 73.

1933

13 April - Adelbert Ames, last surviving general officer of the American Civil War whose promotion was confirmed, dies at the age of 97.

1934

Unknown date - Charles Nathan, last surviving French army veteran of the Crimean War, dies at the age of 99 or 100.
Unknown date - James Crawford, last surviving Crimean War veteran to have been nursed by Florence Nightingale, dies at the age of 104.^[53]

1936

11 March - Earl Beatty, last surviving Royal Navy admiral of the fleet to have been promoted to the rank for service in World War I, dies at the age of 65.
14 May - Viscount Allenby, last surviving British "5 star officer" to have been promoted to the rank for service in World War I, dies at the age of 75.

1938

14 May - Aaron S. Daggett, last surviving general officer of the American Civil War, dies at the age of 100.

1941

9 December - Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, last surviving non-royal Austro-Hungarian field marshal, dies at the age of 85.

1942

16 January - The last United States cavalry charge takes place at Morong, Bataan, Philippines.^[54]
Unknown date - Jules Pujos, last surviving French veteran of the Franco-Mexican War, dies at the age of 95 or 96.

1944

29 January - The Iowa-class battleship USS Missouri is the last United States Navy battleship to be launched.
30 November - The Royal Navy's HMS Vanguard is the last battleship to be launched in the world.

1945

7 May - The last German military signal is decoded by Bletchley Park; transmitted by a Lieutenant Kunkel at Cuxhaven at 7.35am, it reads "Closing down forever - all the best - goodbye."^[55]
20 December - HMS Blake is the last gun-armed cruiser of the Royal Navy to be launched.
8 May - Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Bourne, last surviving British veteran of the Battle of Rorke's Drift, dies at the age of 91.
20 May - The surrender of German and Georgian troops on the Dutch island of Texel marks the last fighting of World War II in Europe.
25 October - The Battle of Surigao Strait, off the Philippine Islands during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, is the last engagement between battleships in naval warfare.
8 November - August von Mackensen, last surviving non-royal field marshal of the German Empire, dies at the age of 95.

1951

31 December - Pleasant Crump, last authenticated surviving Confederate veteran of the American Civil War and last witness of the Confederate surrender, dies at the age of 104.

1953

23 January - William Allen Magee, last authenticated surviving cavalry veteran of the American Civil War, dies at the age of 106.
12 March - James Hard, last authenticated surviving veteran of the American Civil War to see action and last surviving infantry veteran, dies at the age of 109.
3 October - Karl Glockner, last surviving German veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, dies at the age of 107.
Unknown date - Charles Wallace Warden, last surviving British veteran of the Zulu War, dies.

1955

2 August - Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, last surviving field marshal of the German Empire, dies at the age of 86.
2 November - Dewey Beard, last surviving veteran of the Battle of the Little Bighorn and last Indian survivor of the Battle of Wounded Knee, dies at the age of 96.
8 December - Seraphin Pruvost, last surviving French veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, dies at the age of 106.

1956

2 August - Albert Woolson, last authenticated surviving veteran of the American Civil War, dies at the age of 106.

1957

10 March - The last Royal Air Force Supermarine Spitfire squadron, No. 611 Squadron RAF, is disbanded at RAF Woodvale and the last operational Spitfire flight takes place there.

1958

Unknown date - HMS Cumberland, last heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy, is decommissioned.

1960

7 June - HMS Vanguard, last battleship of the Royal Navy, is decommissioned.
November - The last intake of National Servicemen enters the British Armed Forces.

1961

25 October - Vice-Admiral Michael Le Fanu is the last Royal Navy officer to be appointed Third Sea Lord before the title is abolished in 1965.

1962

10 May - Shunroku Hata, last surviving Japanese "5 star officer" of World War II, dies at the age of 82.
6 July - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, last surviving "5 star officer" of World War I, dies at the age of 89.

1963

16 May - Lieutenant Richard Vaughan of the Royal Army Pay Corps is the last British National Servicemen to be officially demobbed.
Unknown date - Vice-Admiral Frank Hopkins is the last Royal Navy officer to be appointed Fifth Sea Lord.

1964

Unknown date - Vice-Admiral Raymond Hawkins is the last Royal Navy officer to be appointed Fourth Sea Lord before the title is abolished later that year.

1965

15 June - John Daw, last surviving U.S. Army Indian Scout of the American Indian Wars, dies at the age of 95.

1966

20 February - Chester W. Nimitz, last surviving U.S. Navy fleet admiral of World War II, dies at the age of 80.

1967

1 April - Sir Charles Elworthy is the last Royal Air Force officer to be promoted to the rank of marshal of the Royal Air Force while serving as Chief of the Air Staff.
28 October - Sergei Gorshkov is the last Soviet Navy officer to the promoted to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union.

1968

24 May - Chief, the last surviving U.S. Cavalry horse, dies at the age of 36.^[56]

1969

28 March - Dwight D. Eisenhower, last surviving American General of the Army and 5-star officer of World War II, dies at the age of 78.

1970

31 July - The Royal Navy gives its sailors their last daily ration of rum on "Black Tot Day", abolishing a practice that has been tradition for 325 years.^[57]

1971

12 January - Lord Tovey, last surviving Royal Navy admiral of the fleet of World War II, dies at the age of 85.
22 April - Viscount Portal of Hungerford, last surviving Marshal of the Royal Air Force of World War II, dies at the age of 77.
28 October - Colonel Hubert Eva, believed to be the last survivor of the Battle of Sugar Point in 1898, is killed in a road traffic collision at the age of 102.^[58]^[59]

1972

25 January - Erhard Milch, last surviving Luftwaffe field marshal of World War II, dies at the age of 79.
2 December - Ettore Bastico, last surviving Italian non-royal "5 star officer" of World War II, dies at the age of 96.

1973

18 June - Frederick Fraske, last surviving U.S. Army veteran of the American Indian Wars, dies at the age of 101.
2 July - Ferdinand Schörner, last surviving German field marshal of World War II, dies at the age of 80.

1974

9 March - Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda is the last ethnic Japanese soldier to surrender after World War II, after hiding in the Philippines for nearly thirty years.^[60]
18 December - Teruo Nakamura is the last soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army to surrender after World War II after having been in hiding since 1944 on the island of Morotai in Indonesia.

1975

28 June - Jesse Langdon, last surviving veteran of the Rough Riders of the Spanish-American War, dies.

1976

24 March - Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, last surviving British "5 star officer" of World War II, dies at the age of 88.
3 December - Alexander Novikov, last surviving air force "5 star officer" of World War II, dies at the age of 74.

1977

5 December - Marshal of the Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky, last surviving Soviet "5 star officer" of World War II, dies at the age of 82.

1978

27 September - August Sabbe, last resistance fighter (Forest Brother) in Estonia and in the three Baltic States, allegedly commits suicide when discovered by KGB agents.

1979

6 July - Sir Terence Lewin is the last Royal Navy officer to be promoted to the rank of admiral of the fleet while serving as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff.
December - HMS Blake, last gun-armed cruiser of the Royal Navy, is decommissioned.

1980

24 December - Karl Dönitz, last surviving naval and Axis "5 star officer" of World War II, dies at the age of 89.

1981

12 February - Admiral of the Fleet Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape, last surviving Royal Navy officer to have served as Third Sea Lord, dies at the age of 93.
14 March - Otto Van Norman, last survivor of the Battle of Kelley Creek in 1911, dies at the age of 105.^[61]^[62]
23 March - Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, last surviving British "5 star officer" to have been promoted to the rank for service in World War II, dies at the age of 96.
8 April - Omar Bradley, last surviving American General of the Army and 5-star officer of the World War II era, dies at the age of 88.

1982

1 April - Sir Edwin Bramall is the last British Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal while serving as Chief of the General Staff and last British individual service chief to be promoted to five-star rank while serving in the post.

1985

2 August - Sir John Fieldhouse is the last Royal Navy officer to be promoted to the rank of admiral of the fleet on appointment as Chief of the Defence Staff and while still a serving officer.

1988

13 May - Sergei Gorshkov, last surviving Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union, dies at the age of 78.

1989

15 October - Marshal Michał Rola-Żymierski, last surviving "5 star officer" of World War II, dies at the age of 99.
4 November - Ivan Kapitanets and Konstantin Makarov are the last Soviet Navy officers to be promoted to the rank of admiral of the fleet.

1990

28 April - Dmitry Yazov is the last Red Army officer to be promoted to the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.

1991

20 March - Admiral Sir Frederick Parham, last surviving Royal Navy officer to have served as Fourth Sea Lord, dies at the age of 90.
2 April - Sir Richard Vincent is the last British Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal on appointment as Chief of the Defence Staff and while still a serving officer.

1992

1 March - The United States Navy Iowa-class battleship USS Missouri is the last battleship in the world to be decommissioned.
14 May - Nie Rongzhen, last surviving marshal of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, dies at the age of 92.
10 September - Nathan E. Cook, last authenticated surviving United States veteran of the Spanish-American War, dies at the age of 106.
6 November - Sir Peter Harding is the last Royal Air Force officer to be promoted to the substantive rank of marshal of the Royal Air Force and the last British Armed Forces officer to be promoted to five-star rank on appointment as Chief of the Defence Staff and while still a serving officer.
11 November - Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Gretton, last surviving Royal Navy officer to have served as Fifth Sea Lord, dies at the age of 80.
Unknown date - The last serving warrant officer retires from the United States Air Force Reserve.

1993

12 April - George Frederick Ives, last surviving British veteran of the Second Boer War, dies at the age of 111.
5 May - Sir Dermot Boyle, last surviving British Chief of the Air Staff to have held the rank of marshal of the Royal Air Force while serving in the post, dies at the age of 88.
29 August - Jones Morgan, possible last surviving United States veteran of the Spanish-American War, dies at the age of 110.

1994

11 January - John Bradley, last surviving flag raiser of Iwo Jima, dies at the age of 70.^[63]
15 March - Sir Peter Inge is the last British Army officer to be promoted to the substantive rank of field marshal.

1995

10 July - Sir Benjamin Bathurst is the last Royal Navy officer to be promoted to the substantive rank of admiral of the fleet and the last British Armed Forces officer to be promoted to substantive five-star rank.

1997

27 January - Cecil Arthur Lewis, last surviving World War I fighter ace, dies at the age of 98.
December - Ted Matthews, last surviving Australian veteran of the landings at ANZAC Cove, Gallipoli, in World War I, dies.

1998

10 November - Abdoulaye N'Diaye, last surviving French colonial veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 104.
Unknown date - Adil Sahin, last surviving Turkish veteran of the Gallipoli Campaign, dies.
Unknown date - Saci Ben Hocine Mahdi, last surviving French North African veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 99 or 100.

1999

23 January - Terence Lewin, Baron Lewin, last surviving First Sea Lord to have held the rank of admiral of the fleet while serving in the post, dies at the age of 78.
11 April - Wallace Pike, last surviving Newfoundland veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 99.
26 April - Tedoro Garcia, last surviving "Federal" to fight in the Mexican Revolution, dies at the age of 110.^[64]
30 April - Lloyd Botimer, last surviving American veteran of the Battle of Verdun, dies at the age of 104.
April - Michael Lally, last surviving veteran of the pre-World War I British Regular Army, dies at the age of 104.

2000

March - Norman Kark, last surviving South African veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 102.
24 May - George Hayward Perman, last survivor of the sinking of the HMHS Britannic, die at the age of 99.
October - Albert Riches, last surviving British Tank Corps veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 102.
6 December - Gershom Browne, last surviving Guyanese veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 102.
Unknown date - Ibrahim Sol Khalil, last known surviving veteran of the World War I German colonial forces, dies at the age of 105.

2001

13 February - Ivan Kovacic, last surviving Slovenian veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 103.
27 July - Percy Goring, last surviving British veteran of the Gallipoli Campaign, dies at the age of 106.
8 September - Paul Ooghe, last surviving Belgian veteran to have seen action in World War I, dies at the age of 103.

2002

12 January - Robin Ruttledge, last known surviving Indian Army veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 102.
2 March - Thomas Shaw, last surviving Irish veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 102.
April - Gerald Dixon, last surviving Royal Flying Corps pilot, dies at the age of 102.
16 May - Alec Campbell, last surviving veteran of the Gallipoli Campaign, dies at the age of 103.^[65]
2 October - Eracleo Alimpolo, last surviving Filipino veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 104.
1 December - Bill Sparks, last survivor of the Cockleshell Heroes, dies at the age of 80.

2003

2 January - Maurice Bourgeois, last surviving French Army commissioned officer of World War I, dies at the age of 106.
3 January - Henry Botterell, last surviving pilot of the Royal Naval Air Service and last surviving pilot to have seen action in World War I, dies at the age of 106.
13 February - Bright Williams, last surviving New Zealand veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 105.
1 March - Charles Reaper, last surviving Canadian veteran of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, dies at the age of 103.
March - George Blackman, last surviving Barbadian veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 105.
16 April - Walter Humphrys, last surviving Welsh veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 105.
5 May - José Ladeira, last surviving Portuguese veteran of World War I, dies.
18 June - Marie-Marthe Spruyt, last surviving Belgian female veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 107.
9 August - Alois Vocásek, last surviving Czech veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 107.
3 September - Norman Porteous, last surviving British Army commissioned officer to have seen action in World War I, dies at the age of 104.
9 October - Yod Sangrungruang, last surviving veteran of the Siamese Expeditionary Forces of World War I, dies at the age of 106.^[66]

2004

9 January - Al Pugh, last surviving American veteran to have been wounded and gassed in World War I, dies at the age of 108.
1 April - Arthur Halestrap, last surviving Royal Engineers veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 105.
24 May - Ramire Rosan, last surviving veteran of World War I from the overseas departments and territories of France, dies at the age of 109.
22 June - Aleksa Radovanović, last surviving Serbian veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 103.
7 September - Albert Dye, last surviving British veteran of the Middle East campaigns of World War I, dies at the age of 107.
16 September - Cyriel Barbary, last surviving Belgian veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 104.
14 October - Joseph Mondoloni, last surviving Corsican veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 107.
9 November - Tom Kirk, last surviving British commissioned officer to have seen action in World War I, dies at the age of 104.

2005

1 January - Charles Watson, last surviving aircrew veteran of the Royal Flying Corps to have seen action in World War I and last surviving aircrewman to have been shot down in World War I, dies at the age of 105.
17 January - Kara McCoy, last surviving Australian female veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 106.
23 March - Jan Rzepa, last surviving German veteran of the Battle of Verdun and last surviving Polish veteran of the Polish Uprising, dies at the age of 105.
7 April - Charles Kuentz, last surviving German veteran of the World War I Eastern Front and last surviving German veteran to have been wounded in World War I, dies at the age of 108.
16 May - Albert Marshall, last surviving British soldier to have taken part in a cavalry charge with drawn sword and last surviving British cavalryman of World War I, dies at the age of 108.
22 June - William Elder, last surviving Royal Artillery veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 108.
September - Bert van Sloten, last surviving Dutch veteran of World War I (although he fought for Germany), dies.
17 October - William Evan Allan, last surviving Australian veteran to have seen active service in World War I, last surviving Royal Australian Navy veteran of World War I, and last surviving Australian veteran of both World Wars, dies at the age of 106.
26 October - René Moreau, last surviving veteran of the Battle of Verdun, dies at the age of 108.
21 November - Alfred Anderson, last surviving veteran of the pre-World War I Territorial Force, last surviving member of the Old Contemptibles, last surviving veteran of the Battle of the Somme, and last surviving British senior non-commissioned officer of World War I, dies at the age of 109.
26 November - Charles Laking, last surviving Canadian veteran to have seen action in World War I, dies at the age of 106.
December - Stephen Butcher, last surviving Royal Marines veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 101.

2006

2 February - Nicholas Swarbrick, last surviving British Merchant Service veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 107.
3 February - Ants Ilus, last known surviving Estonian veteran of the Estonian War of Independence, dies at the age of 105.
1 March - The Royal Welch Fusiliers, the last unamalgamated Welsh line infantry regiment of the British Army, amalgamates into the Royal Welsh.
4 March - August Bischof, last surviving Austrian veteran of World War I,^[67] dies at the age of 105.
17 March - The last battleships in naval service, USS Iowa and USS Wisconsin, are officially retired from the United States Navy, although they had been decommissioned in the early 1990s.^[68]
28 March - The Royal Scots and the King's Own Scottish Borderers, the last unamalgamated Scottish line infantry regiments of the British Army, amalgamate into the Royal Regiment of Scotland.
18 September - Heinrich Trettner, last surviving German general of World War II, dies at the age of 98.
15 October - Antonia de Bettin Casanova, last surviving Italian female veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 105.
10 December - Kenneth Cummins, last surviving Royal Navy officer of World War I, last surviving British officer to have seen action in World War I (although, as a midshipman, not commissioned), and last survivor of being torpedoed in World War I, dies at the age of 106.

2007

9 January - Gheorghe Pănculescu, last surviving Romanian veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 103.
20 January - Albert Wagner, last surviving U.S. Marine Corps veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 107.
24 January - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, last surviving Puerto Rican veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 115.
8 February - Antonio Pierro, last American veteran of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, dies at the age of 110.
27 March - Charlotte Winters, last surviving American female veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 109.^[69]
29 March - Lloyd Brown, last surviving U.S. Navy veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 105.^[70]
9 April - Philip Mayne, last surviving British officer of World War I, dies at the age of 107.
27 May - Wilhelm Remmert, last surviving veteran of the Eastern Front trenches in World War I, dies at the age of 107.^[71]
24 July - William Young, last surviving Scottish veteran of World War I, last surviving British non-commissioned officer of World War I, and last surviving veteran of the Royal Flying Corps, dies at the age of 107.
1 September - The Cheshire Regiment, the last unamalgamated line infantry regiment of the British Army, amalgamates into the Mercian Regiment.
1 October - Bernard Delaire, last surviving French Navy veteran and French officer of World War I, dies at the age of 108.
2 October - Dan Keating, last surviving IRA veteran of the Irish War of Independence, dies at the age of 105.
4 November - Lennart Rönnback, last surviving veteran of the White Guards in the Finnish Civil War, dies at the age of 102.

2008

1 January - Erich Kästner, last surviving German veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 107.
12 January - Stanisław Wycech, last surviving Polish veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 105.
2 April - Yakup Satar, last surviving Turkish veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 110.
12 April - Barbara McDermott, last surviving American passenger of RMS Lusitania, dies at the age of 95.
April - Stanley Stair, last surviving West Indian veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 107.^[72]^[73]
27 May - Franz Künstler, last surviving Central Powers and Austro-Hungarian veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 107.
25 August - Maudie Hopkins, last surviving widow of an American Civil War combatant, dies at the age of 93.
4 September - Fon Huffman, last survivor of the sinking of the USS Panay, dies.
4 October - Ted Briggs, last survivor of the sinking of HMS Hood, dies at the age of 85.
26 October - Delfino Borroni, last surviving Italian and Alpine Front veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 110.
9 November - Fernand Goux, last surviving French veteran of World War I trench warfare, dies at the age of 108.
11 November - Mustafa Şekip Birgöl, last surviving Turkish veteran of the Turkish War of Independence, dies at the age of 105.
20 November - Pierre Picault, last surviving French veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 109.^[74]
26 December - Mikhail Krichevsky, last surviving Ukrainian veteran of World War I and last surviving veteran of the Imperial Russian Army, dies at the age of 111.^[75]

2009

1 January - Aarne Arvonen, last surviving veteran of the Finnish Civil War, dies at the age of 111.
10 January - Bill Stone, last surviving veteran to have served in the British Armed Forces in both world wars, dies at the age of 108.
22 January - Bob Doyle, last surviving Irish member of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, dies at the age of 93.
2 February - Staff Sergeant Susan Hibbert, last surviving British witness to the German surrender on 7 May 1945, dies at the age of 84.
16 March - David Wood, last surviving officer to have fought at Pegasus Bridge, dies at the age of 85.^[76]
13 May - Waldemar Levy Cardoso, last surviving field marshal of the Brazilian Army, dies at the age of 108.
3 June - John Campbell Ross, last surviving Australian veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 110.
18 July - Henry Allingham, last surviving veteran of the Battle of Jutland, last surviving member of the Royal Naval Air Service, last surviving founder member of the Royal Air Force and last surviving serviceman to have volunteered for service in World War I, dies at the age of 113.
25 July - Harry Patch, last surviving veteran of World War I to have seen action, last to have experienced trench warfare and last surviving veteran of the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, dies at the age of 111.

2010

18 February - John Babcock, last surviving Canadian veteran of World War I, dies at the age of 109.

2012

8 January - Jimmy Storie, last surviving founder member of the Special Air Service in 1941, dies at the age of 92.^[77]

2014

28 October - CWO5 Ralph E. Rigby, last continuously serving Vietnam draftee on active duty in the U.S. Army, retires on his 62nd birthday.^[78]

2015

4 August - Squadron Leader Les Munro, last surviving pilot of the Dambusters Raid of May 1943, dies at the age of 96.

2016

28 February - Delmer Berg, probably the last surviving member of the XV International Brigade of the Spanish Civil War, dies at the age of 100.
28 April - Sir Edward Ashmore, last surviving British Chief of the Defence Staff to have held the rank of admiral of the fleet while serving in the post, dies at the age of 96.
November - James Dresnok, last surviving United States Army defector to North Korea who remained in the country, dies at the age of 74.^[79]

2017

16 November - Franciszek Kornicki, last surviving Polish fighter squadron commander of World War II, dies at the age of 100.
11 December - Charles Jenkins, last surviving United States Army defector to North Korea, dies in Japan at the age of 77.^[80]

2018

9 June - Korvettenkapitän Reinhard Hardegen, last surviving German U-boat ace of World War II, dies at the age of 105.
24 July - Mary Ellis, last surviving female pilot of the Air Transport Auxiliary, dies at the age of 101.
22 December - Simcha Rotem, last surviving Jewish veteran of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, dies at the age of 94.

2019

13 February - Squadron Leader Dick Churchill, last surviving escapee in the "Great Escape" of 1944, dies at the age of 99.^[81]
9 April - Lieutenant Colonel Richard E. Cole, last surviving participant in the Doolittle Raid of 18 April 1942, dies at the age of 103.
21 Apr - Geoffrey Servante, last surviving British member of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, dies at the age of 99.
12 November - Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall, last surviving British Chief of the General Staff to have held the rank of field marshal while serving in the post and last surviving British individual service chief to have held five-star rank while serving in the post, dies at the age of 95.

2020

18 January - Jim Auton, last surviving British airman to have taken part in the Warsaw airlift in 1944, dies at the age of 95.^[82]
28 January - Wing Commander Paul Farnes, last surving fighter ace of the Battle of Britain, dies at the age of 101.^[83]
25 February - Dmitry Yazov, last surviving Marshal of the Soviet Union, dies at the age of 95.

2021

18 July - Squadron Leader Lawrence Seymour Goodman, last surviving pilot to have served in No. 617 Squadron RAF during World War II, dies at the age of 100.
30 Aug - Major General Chris Donahue is the last member of the United States Armed Forces to board the last military flight from Kabul Airport to leave Afghanistan.

2022

3 Jul - Bradford C. Freeman, last surviving member of E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment, immortalised in the TV series Band of Brothers, although he was not actually depicted in the series, dies at the age of 97.
20 Jul - Peter Inge, Baron Inge, last surviving British Army officer to hold the substantive rank of field marshal, dies at the age of 86.
7 August - Staff Sergeant Cyril Robinson, last surviving New Zealand veteran and probably last surviving veteran of the Battle of Crete in 1941, dies at the age of 104.^[84]
21 September - Colonel Dean Caswell, last surviving United States Marine Corps flying ace of World War II, dies at the age of 100.
7 December - Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson, last surviving participant in the Dambusters Raid of May 1943, dies at the age of 101.

2023

18 March - Vladimir Chernavin, last surviving officer to have held the rank of admiral of the fleet in the Soviet Navy, dies at the age of 94.
10 May - The last known surviving Taiwanese "comfort woman" from World War II dies at the age of 92.^[85]
3 July - Léon Gautier, last surviving Free French veteran of D-Day, dies at the age of 100.
10 August - Lawrence Churcher, last surviving Royal Navy veteran of the Dunkirk evacuation, dies at the age of 102.^[86]^[87]

2024

4 January - Major Mike Sadler, last surviving member of the Long Range Desert Group and last surviving original member of the Special Air Service, dies at the age of 103.
19 January - Jack Jennings, thought to be the last surviving Allied prisoner forced to work on the construction of the Burma Railway, dies at the age of 104.
1 April - Lieutenant Commander Lou Conter, last survivor of the sinking of the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, dies at the age of 102.
7 November - Sir Bom Gillies, last surviving member of 28th (Māori) Battalion in World War II, dies at the age of 99.

Last surviving

Flight Lieutenant Alan Bryett is the last known surviving participant in the "Great Escape" of 1944, although he did not actually succeed in escaping.^[88]
Josep Almudéver Mateu is the last surviving foreign-born veteran of the International Brigades and with his brother Vincent Almudéver is the last surviving foreign-born veteran of the Spanish Civil War.
Miguel de Miguel Montañés is the last surviving veteran of the Spanish Republican Air Force.
Group Captain John Hemingway is the last surviving member of "The Few" of the Battle of Britain.
Sir Benjamin Bathurst is the last surviving Royal Navy officer to hold the substantive rank of admiral of the fleet.
David Craig, Baron Craig of Radley, is the last surviving Royal Air Force officer to hold the substantive rank of marshal of the Royal Air Force and the last surviving British Chief of the Defence Staff to have held five-star rank while serving in the post.
Ivan Martynushkin is possibly the last surviving Soviet soldier to have taken part in the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp on 27 January 1945.
Peter Hale is the last surviving Supermarine Spitfire pilot of World War II.
Marshal of the RAF David Craig, Baron Craig of Radley, and Field Marshal Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, are the last surviving British Chiefs of the Defence Staff of the 20th century.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Patrick Hine, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Benjamin Bathurst and Admiral Sir Jock Slater are the last surviving British Vice-Chiefs of the Defence Staff of the 20th century.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Benjamin Bathurst and Admiral Sir Jock Slater are the last surviving First Sea Lords and Chiefs of the Naval Staff of the 20th century.
Field Marshal Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, General Sir Roger Wheeler and Field Marshal Michael Walker, Baron Walker of Aldringham, are the last surviving British Chiefs of the General Staff of the 20th century.
Marshal of the RAF David Craig, Baron Craig of Radley, Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Graydon and Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns are the last surviving British Chiefs of the Air Staff of the 20th century.
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Beverley, Lieutenant-General Sir Robin Ross, Major-General David Pennefather and Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Fulton are the last surviving Commandants General Royal Marines of the 20th century.
General Hugh Shelton is the last surviving Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the 20th century.
Admiral William Owens, General Joseph Ralston and General Richard Myers are the last surviving Vice Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the 20th century.
Admiral Jay L. Johnson and Admiral Vern Clark are the last surviving Chiefs of Naval Operations of the 20th century.
General Merrill McPeak, General Ronald Fogleman and General Michael E. Ryan are the last surviving Chiefs of Staff of the United States Air Force of the 20th century.
General Alfred M. Gray Jr., General Charles C. Krulak and General James L. Jones are the last surviving Commandants of the United States Marine Corps of the 20th century.
Lieutenant General Herbert R. Temple Jr., Lieutenant General John B. Conaway and Lieutenant General Russell C. Davis are the last surviving Chiefs of the National Guard Bureau of the 20th century.
Admiral James Loy is the last surviving Commandant of the United States Coast Guard of the 20th century.
The Royal Navy monitor HMS M33 is the last surviving Allied warship of the 1915 Gallipoli campaign.
The Ottoman minelayer Nusret is the last surviving Turkish warship of the 1915 Gallipoli campaign.
The light cruiser HMS Caroline, the monitor HMS M33 and the Q-ship HMS President are the last surviving Royal Navy warships of World War I.

Natural world

1627

Unknown date - The last known aurochs, a female, dies in the Jaktorów Forest in Poland.

1662

Unknown date - The last confirmed sighting of a dodo, reported by shipwrecked mariner Volkert Evertsz on the island of Mauritius.

1768

Unknown date - The last known Steller's sea cow is killed, less than thirty years after the discovery of the species.

1822

Unknown date - The last known King Island emu dies in captivity at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.

1875

Unknown date - The last known broad-faced potoroo is collected near Northam, Western Australia.

1877

1 September - The last known Eastern elk, a young male, is shot in Centre County, Pennsylvania.

1878

12 December - The last known sighting of a Labrador duck in Elmira, New York.

1883

12 August - The last known quagga, a mare, dies in captivity at the Natura Artis Magistra in Amsterdam.

1899

July - The last known sighting of a Hawai'i mamo, near Kaumana on Hawaii.

1902

9 January - The last known sighting of an Auckland Islands merganser, when a pair is shot.
Unknown date - The last known Bubal hartebeest in Tunisia is shot near Tataouine.

1914

1 September - Martha, the world's last known passenger pigeon, dies in Cincinnati Zoo.^[89]

1917

Unknown date - Lady Jane, the last known female Carolina parakeet, dies in Cincinnati Zoo.^[90]

1918

21 February - Incas, the last known Carolina parakeet, dies in Cincinnati Zoo. Coincidentally, Incas dies in the same aviary cage as the last Passenger Pigeon, Martha, had done nearly four years earlier.^[91]^[92]

1923

9 November - The last Bubal hartebeest in captivity, a female, dies at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
Unknown date - The last known wild European bison is killed in north-eastern Poland. They survive in captivity and are reintroduced into the wild from 1951.

1925

Unknown date - The last known Bubal hartebeest in Morocco is shot near Missour.
Unknown date - The last known photograph of a wild Barbary lion is taken from an aeroplane over the Atlas Mountains by Marcelin Flandrin .

1930

Unknown date - The last known Tasmanian tiger to be killed in the wild is shot near Mawbanna.

1932

11 March - The last known sighting of a heath hen, nicknamed "Booming Ben", on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

1933

Unknown date - The last known Tasmanian tiger, possibly named Benjamin, is trapped in the Upper Florentine Valley and sent to Hobart Zoo.

1934

Unknown date - A Hawaiʻi ʻōʻō is last heard, on the slopes of Mauna Loa, Hawaii.

1936

7 September - The last known Tasmanian tiger, possibly named Benjamin, dies in Hobart Zoo.

1937

27 September - The last confirmed sighting of a Bali tiger, when an adult female is killed at Sumbar Kima. There have been several unconfirmed sightings since.

1938

Unknown date - The last captive Schomburgk's deer is killed. There is speculation that there may still be wild specimens alive.

1942

Unknown date - The last known shooting of a wild Barbary lion takes place in the Atlas Mountains near Tizi n'Tichka, Morocco.

1952

Unknown date - The last reliable sighting of a Caribbean monk seal, when a small colony was seen at Serranilla Bank between Honduras and Jamaica. The pinniped is now presumed extinct due to over-hunting.

1956

Unknown date - The last known sighting of a wild Barbary lion takes place in Béni Ourtilane District, Algeria.

1958

Unknown date - The last known wild white tiger is shot in India.^[93]

1973

Unknown date - The last surviving pure-bred Norfolk Horn ram dies in England.

1993

Unknown date - The last surviving dolphinarium in the United Kingdom, at Flamingo Land in North Yorkshire, closes.^[94]

2000

6 January - The last known Pyrenean ibex, a female named Celia, is found dead, apparently killed by a falling tree.^[95]

2012

24 June - Lonesome George, the last Pinta Island tortoise, dies in captivity at the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island.^[96]

2018

19 March - Sudan, last surviving male northern white rhinoceros, is put to sleep at the age of 45.

2019

28 May - Tam, last male Sumatran rhinoceros living in Malaysia, dies.^[97]

Peoples and cultures

1622

November - Tisquantum (aka Squanto), last member of the Patuxet people, dies of smallpox.^[98]

1699

28 November - Mary Allerton, last surviving Pilgrim from the Mayflower voyage of 1620, dies at the age of 83.^[99]

1829

6 June - Shanawdithit, last living member of the Beothuk, dies at the age of c.28.

1853

19 October - Juana Maria, also known as the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island, last surviving member of the Nicoleño tribe of California, dies of dysentery at Mission Santa Barbara.

1888

13 May - Brazil is the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery.

1916

25 March - Ishi, last member of the Yahi tribe from Northern California (known as the "last wild Indian"), dies at the age of 56.^[100]

1923

Greece is the last Western country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.^[45]

1937

Redoshi (Sally Smith), last known surviving former slave to have been brought from Africa to the United States on a slave ship at an age to remember the journey, dies at the age of 89 or 90.^[101]

1940

January - Matilda McCrear, last known surviving former slave to have been brought from Africa to the United States on a slave ship, dies at the age of 83.^[102]

2008

21 January - Marie Smith Jones, last native Eyak language speaker, dies in Alaska at the age of 89.

2010

28 January - Boa Sr, last surviving speaker of Bo, an indigenous language of the Andaman Islands, dies at the age of 85.^[103]
21 June - Stanley Lucas, last surviving British male born during the 19th century and the Victorian era, dies at the age of 110.

2017

15 April - Emma Morano, last known surviving person to have been born before 1900, dies at the age of 117.

2021

February - Aruká, last surviving male member of the Juma people of the Amazon and last native speaker of their language, dies at the age of 86–90.^[104]

2022

24 August - The so-called Man of the Hole, last surviving inhabitant of the Tanaru Indigenous Territory in Brazil, is found dead. He had probably died some weeks earlier at the age of c.60.

Politics and government

1555

Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York, is the last bishop to be appointed Lord Chancellor of England.

1621

John Williams, then Bishop of Lincoln, is the last bishop to be appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.

1672

17 November - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, is the last non-lawyer to be appointed Lord Chancellor before the reform of the office in 2007.
7 December - Richard Bellingham, last surviving signatory of the Massachusetts Colonial Charter in 1629, dies at the age of 80.

1687

12 September - John Alden, last surviving signatory of the Mayflower Compact in 1620, dies at the age of 88.

1697

April - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, is the last person to be appointed Lord Chancellor of England.

1705

James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield, is the last person to be appointed Lord Chancellor of Scotland.

1716

26 April - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, last surviving person to have served as Lord Chancellor of England, dies at the age of 65.

1730

19 August - James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater, last surviving person to have served as Lord Chancellor of Scotland, dies at the age of 66.

1757

30 June - Sir Robert Henley is the last person to be appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.

1768

17 November - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, last surviving member of Sir Robert Walpole's cabinets in the British governments of 1721−1730 and 1730−1742 and last surviving original member of Henry Pelham's cabinet in the government of 1744−1754 (Broad Bottom Ministry), dies at the age of 75.

1769

2 August - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, last surviving minister in the British short-lived ministry of 1746, dies at the age of 80.

1770

10 June - George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley, last surviving member of the Earl of Wilmington's cabinet in the British government of 1742−1744, dies at the age of 67.

1772

14 January - Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington, last person to hold the office of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, dies at the age of c.63.

1778

16 May - Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, last surviving member of Henry Pelham's cabinet in the British government of 1744−1754 (Broad Bottom Ministry) and last surviving original member of the Duke of Newcastle's cabinet in the government of 1754−1756, dies at the age of 59.

1779

12 September - Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, last surviving original member of the Duke of Newcastle's cabinet in the British government of 1757−1762, dies at the age of 67.

1788

2 November - Cyrus Griffin, last President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation, serves his final day.^[105]

1792

10 March - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, last surviving original member of his own cabinet in the British government of 1762−1763, dies at the age of 78.

1832

14 November - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, last surviving signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, dies at the age of 95.

1834

21 October - Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby, last surviving member of the Duke of Portland's cabinet in the British government of 1783, dies at the age of 82.
10 November - George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, last surviving Whig member of William Pitt the Younger's cabinet in the British government of 1783−1801, dies at the age of 76.

1836

28 June - James Madison, last surviving signatory of the United States Constitution in 1787 and last surviving Founding Father of the United States, dies at the age of 85.

1840

5 November - George Robert Twelves Hewes, last surviving participant in both the Boston Tea Party in 1770 and the Boston Massacre in 1773, dies at the age of 98.

1841

2 September - Ephraim Bowen, last surviving participant in the Gaspee Affair in 1772, dies at the age of 88.
15 December - John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland, last surviving member of William Pitt the Younger's cabinet in the British government of 1783−1801, last surviving original member of the Duke of Portland's cabinet in the Tory government of 1807−1809, and last surviving person to have served in the British cabinet in the 18th century, dies at the age of 82.

1844

15 February - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, last surviving member of his own cabinet in the British Tory government of 1801−1804, dies at the age of 86.

1845

17 July - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, last surviving member of the Society of the Friends of the People, dies at the age of 81.^[106]

1847

26 December - Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby, last surviving member of William Pitt the Younger's cabinet in the British Tory government of 1804−1806, the Duke of Portland's cabinet in the Tory government of 1807−1809 and Spencer Perceval's cabinet in the Tory government of 1809−1812, dies at the age of 85.

1850

9 July - Millard Fillmore, last member of the Whig Party to be President of the United States, is inaugurated.

1851

10 June - Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, last surviving original member of Lord Liverpool's cabinet in the British Tory government of 1812−1827, dies at the age of 80.

1859

28 January - F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, last surviving member of Lord Liverpool's cabinet in the British Tory government of 1812−1827, dies at the age of 76.

1862

5 July - Étienne-Denis, duc de Pasquier, last surviving official of the pre-revolutionary parlement of Paris, dies at the age of 95.^[107]^[108]

1863

31 January - Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, last surviving member of Lord Grenville's cabinet in the British government of 1806−1807 (Ministry of All the Talents), dies at the age of 82.

1865

18 October - Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, last surviving member of George Canning's cabinet in the British Tory government of 1827−1828, dies at the age of 80.

1866

23 April - Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg, last surviving member of Viscount Goderich's cabinet in the British Tory government of 1827−1828, dies at the age of 87.

1868

17 November–7 December - The last United Kingdom general election at which all the seats are won by only two parties is held.

1871

22 December - Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, last surviving member of the Duke of Wellington's cabinet in the British Tory government of 1828−1830 and caretaker cabinet of 1834 and Sir Robert Peel's cabinet in the Conservative government of 1834−1835, last surviving original member of Peel's cabinet in the Conservative government of 1841−1846, and last surviving pre-1834 Tory cabinet minister, dies at the age of 81.

1872

8 September - Arthur Dardenne, last surviving participant in the Storming of the Bastille in 1789, dies at the age of 95 or 96.

1874

8 March - Millard Fillmore, last surviving pre-American Civil War President of the United States, dies at the age of 74.

1878

28 May - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, last surviving member of Earl Grey's and Lord Melbourne's cabinets in the British Whig government of 1830–1834, dies at the age of 85.

1882

9 September - Sir George Grey, last surviving member of Lord Melbourne's second cabinet in the British Whig government of 1835−1839, dies at the age of 83.

1891

4 July - Hannibal Hamlin, last surviving pre-American Civil War Vice President of the United States, dies at the age of 81.

1894

9 October - Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Grey, last surviving member of Lord Melbourne's first cabinet in the British Whig government of 1835−1839 and Lord John Russell's cabinet in the Whig government of 1846–1852, dies at the age of 91.

1898

19 May - William Ewart Gladstone, last surviving member of Sir Robert Peel's cabinet in the British Conservative government of 1841−1846, dies at the age of 88.

1900

24 April - George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, last surviving member of the Earl of Aberdeen's cabinet in the British coalition government of 1852−1855 and Lord Palmerston's cabinets in the Whig government of 1855−1858 and Liberal government of 1859–1865, and last surviving Whig cabinet minister, dies at the age of 76.

1906

4 August - John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland, last surviving member of the Earl of Derby's cabinets in the British Conservative governments of 1852 and 1858–1859, dies at the age of 87.
30 October - Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, last surviving member of the Earl of Derby's cabinet in the British Conservative government of 1866–1868 and of Benjamin Disraeli's cabinet in the Conservative government of 1868, dies at the age of 92.

1908

24 June - Grover Cleveland, last surviving 19th-century President of the United States, dies at the age of 71.

1909

9 July - George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, last surviving member of Earl Russell's cabinet in the British Liberal government of 1865–1866 and of William Ewart Gladstone's cabinet in the Liberal government of 1868–1874, dies at the age of 81.

1910

3–19 December - The last British general election to be held over several days takes place.

1914

8 January - R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, last surviving member of Benjamin Disraeli's first cabinet in the British Conservative government of 1874–1880, dies at the age of 90.
2 July - Joseph Chamberlain, last surviving member of William Ewart Gladstone's first cabinet in the British Liberal government of 1880–1885, dies at the age of 77.

1916

30 April - Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn, last surviving member of Benjamin Disraeli's cabinet in the British Conservative government of 1874–1880, dies at the age of 78.

1920

16 May - Levi P. Morton, last surviving 19th-century Vice President of the United States, dies at the age of 96.

1922

28 November - Charles Curtis Craig, William Henry Holmes Lyons, and Henry Arthur Wynne are the last people sworn of the Privy Council of Ireland.

1927

3 June - Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, last surviving Liberal Unionist member of Lord Salisbury's cabinet in the British Unionist government of 1895–1900, dies at the age of 82.
22 September - Lord George Hamilton, last surviving member of Lord Salisbury's cabinet in the British Conservative government of 1885–1886, dies at the age of 81.

1929

21 May - Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, last surviving member of William Ewart Gladstone's cabinets in the British Liberal governments of 1880–1885, 1886 and 1892–1894, and of his own cabinet in the Liberal government of 1894–1895, dies at the age of 82.

1930

19 March - Arthur Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, last surviving member of Lord Salisbury's cabinets in the British Conservative government of 1886–1892 and the Unionist government of 1895–1900, dies at the age of 81.

1940

3 September - Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan, last surviving Conservative member of David Lloyd George's first cabinet in the British coalition government of 1919–1922, dies at the age of 69.

1942

26 February - William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne, last surviving Liberal Unionist member of Lord Salisbury's cabinet in the British Unionist government of 1900–1902 and of Arthur Balfour's cabinet in the Unionist government of 1902–1905, dies at the age of 82.
Unknown date - Adrien Lejeune, last surviving French Communard, dies at the age of 94.

1945

14 January - Gerald Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour, last surviving member of Lord Salisbury's cabinet in the British Unionist government of 1900–1902 and of his older brother Arthur Balfour's first cabinet in the Unionist government of 1902–1905, and last surviving person to have served in the British cabinet during the 19th century, dies at the age of 91.
26 March - David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, last surviving original member of his own war cabinet in the British coalition government of 1916–1919, dies at the age of 82.
20 June - Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, last surviving member of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet in the British Liberal government of 1905–1908, dies at the age of 87.

1947

4 April - James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, last surviving member of Arthur Balfour's cabinet in the British Unionist government of 1902–1905 and last surviving Conservative to have served in the British cabinet in the 1900s, dies at the age of 85.
17 April - William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel is the last person to be appointed Secretary of State for India.
21 July - Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham, last surviving Conservative member of David Lloyd George's cabinet in the British coalition government of 1919–1922, dies at the age of 78.

1949

21 January - J. H. Thomas, last surviving Labour member of Ramsay MacDonald's cabinets in the British National Governments of 1931 and 1931–1935, dies at the age of 74.

1950

11 September - Jan Smuts, last surviving member of David Lloyd George's war cabinet in the British coalition government of 1916–1919, dies at the age of 80.

1954

11 January - John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, last surviving Liberal member of Stanley Baldwin's cabinet in the British National Government of 1935–1937, dies at the age of 80.

1957

13 November - William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel is the last person to be appointed Governor-General of Ghana.

1958

24 January - Sir Charles Trevelyan, last surviving member of Ramsay MacDonald's cabinet in the first British Labour government of 1924, dies at the age of 87.
24 November - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, last surviving Conservative member of H. H. Asquith's cabinet in the British coalition government of 1915–1916 and last surviving Conservative to have served in the British cabinet during the 1910s, dies at the age of 94.

1962

16 February - Ernest Brown, last surviving Liberal member of Neville Chamberlain's cabinet in the British National Government of 1937–1939, dies at the age of 80.
16 July - Hugh Fraser is the last person to be appointed Secretary of State for Air before its abolition on 1 April 1964.

1963

5 February - Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, last surviving Liberal member of Ramsay MacDonald's cabinet in the British National Government of 1931, dies at the age of 92.
29 March - August Rei, last surviving pre-World War II State Elder of Estonia, dies at the age of 77.
7 August - John Hay is the last person to be appointed Civil Lord of the Admiralty before its abolition on 1 April 1964.
21 October - James Ramsden is the last person to be appointed Secretary of State for War before its abolition on 1 April 1964.
22 October - George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, is the last person to be appointed First Lord of the Admiralty before its abolition on 1 April 1964.

1964

20 October - Herbert Hoover, last surviving pre-World War II President of the United States, dies at the age of 90.

1965

11 January - A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, last surviving member of Ramsay MacDonald's first cabinet in the British Labour government of 1929–1931 and last surviving Labour minister to have served in the British cabinet during the 1920s, dies at the age of 79.
24 January - Sir Winston Churchill, last surviving member of H. H. Asquith's cabinets in the British Liberal government of 1908–1915 and the coalition government of 1915–1916 and of David Lloyd George's cabinet in the coalition government of 1919–1922, and last surviving person to have served in the British cabinet during World War I, the 1900s and the 1910s, dies at the age of 90.
5 September - Tom Johnston, last surviving member of Ramsay MacDonald's cabinet in the British Labour government of 1929–1931 and last surviving Labour minister to have served in the British cabinet before World War II, dies at the age of 83.

1966

6 April - Frederick Lee is the last person to be appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies before its abolition on 1 August.

1967

7 January - Douglas Houghton, last serving British cabinet minister to the have been born in the 19th century, leaves the cabinet.
8 October - Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, last surviving Labour member of Winston Churchill's cabinet in the British coalition government of 1940–1945 and last surviving member of the first war cabinet, dies at the age of 84.
7 November - John Nance Garner, last surviving pre-World War II Vice President of the United States, dies at the age of 98.
15 November - Admiral of the Fleet Ernle Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield, last surviving member of Neville Chamberlain's war cabinet in the British coalition government of 1939–1940, dies at the age of 94.

1968

1 July - John Stonehouse is the last person to be appointed Postmaster General of the United Kingdom before its abolition on 1 October 1969.

1970

15 June - Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso, last surviving Liberal member of Ramsay MacDonald's cabinet in the British National Government of 1931–1935 and last surviving Liberal to have served in the British cabinet before World War II, dies at the age of 79.

1972

27 July - Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton, last surviving member of Bonar Law's cabinet in the British Conservative government of 1922–1923, Stanley Baldwin's cabinets in the Conservative governments of 1923–1924 and 1924–1929, and Ramsay MacDonald's cabinets in the National Governments of 1931 and 1931–1935, and last surviving person to have served in the British cabinet during the 1920s, dies at the age of 88.

1974

31 May - Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery, last surviving member of the Liberal Party to have served in the British cabinet and last survivor of the Liberal MPs elected in the Liberal landslide of 1906, dies at the age of 92.

1977

14 January - Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, last surviving Conservative member of Stanley Baldwin's cabinet in the British National Government of 1935–1937 and Neville Chamberlain's first cabinet in the British National Government of 1937–1939, last surviving member of Winston Churchill's cabinet in the British coalition government of 1940–1945 and of the war cabinet, and last surviving Conservative to have served in the British cabinet before World War II, dies at the age of 79.

1981

11 January - Malcolm MacDonald, last surviving member of Stanley Baldwin's cabinet in the British National Government of 1935–1937 and Neville Chamberlain's cabinet in the British National Government of 1937–1939, and last surviving person to have served in the British cabinet before World War II, dies at the age of 79.

1982

28 November - Lord Rathcavan, last surviving member of the Privy Council of Ireland, dies at the age of 98.

1986

8 May - Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell, last surviving member of both Clement Attlee's first cabinet in the British Labour government of 1945–1950 and Attlee's first cabinet in the Labour government of 1950–1951, and last surviving Labour minister to have served in the British cabinet during World War II, dies at the age of 101.
29 December - Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, last surviving member of Winston Churchill's cabinet in the British caretaker government of 1945 and Churchill's first cabinet in the Conservative government of 1951–1955, and last surviving person to have served in the British cabinet during World War II, dies at the age of 92.

1987

29 January - Gerhard Klopfer, last surviving person to have attended the Wannsee Conference, dies at the age of 82.
17 August - Rudolf Hess, last surviving defendant of the original Nuremberg Trials, last prisoner of Spandau Prison, and Hitler's last living lieutenant, dies in Spandau Prison at the age of 93.^[109]

1988

21 November 1988 - The Social Credit Party of Canada contests its last Canadian federal election, winning no seats.

1989

7 January - Japanese Emperor Hirohito, only surviving major Axis Powers ruler from World War II, dies at the age of 87.
6 February - Chris Gueffroy is the last person to be shot trying to cross the Berlin Wall.
8 March - Winfried Freudenberg is the last person to be killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall when his improvised balloon aircraft crashes.

1990

October 2 - Lothar de Maiziere, last leader of the German Democratic Republic, resigns as East Germany is absorbed into the German Federal Republic.

1991

25 December - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as the last President of the Soviet Union.
25 December - The flag of the Soviet Union is lowered for the last time over the Kremlin.

1994

10 May - Frederik Willem de Klerk steps down as State President of South Africa, officially ending the apartheid era and National Party dominance.

1996

3 September - Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh, last surviving person to have served as Secretary of State for Air, dies at the age of 77.
Unknown date - Annie Huggett, believed to be the last surviving British suffragette, dies at the age of 103.^[110]

1997

30 June - The last British Governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, steps down and the Union Flag is hoisted for the last time in Hong Kong.

1999

24 February - David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, last surviving member of Sir Winston Churchill's cabinet in the British Conservative government of 1951–1955 and Sir Anthony Eden's cabinet in the Conservative government of 1955–1957, dies at the age of 94.
19 August - Ian Orr-Ewing, Baron Orr-Ewing, last surviving person to have served as Civil Lord of the Admiralty, dies at the age of 87.
11 December - Jack Oldfield, last surviving member of the British House of Commons during the reign of King George V, dies at the age of 100.
20 December - The last Portuguese Governor of Macau, Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira, steps down and the flag of Portugal is hoisted for the last time in Macau.

2001

3 August - Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, last surviving member of Clement Attlee's cabinet in the British Labour government of 1945–1950, last surviving person to have served in the British cabinet during the 1940s and last surviving person to have served as Secretary of State for the Colonies, dies at the age of 95.
12 October - Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, last surviving member of Harold Macmillan's cabinet in the British Conservative government of 1957–1959, dies at the age of 94.

2003

10 July - Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, last surviving member of Clement Attlee's cabinet in the British Labour government of 1950–1951, dies at the age of 101.

2005

17 July - Sir Edward Heath, last surviving member of Harold Macmillan's cabinet in the British Conservative government of 1957–1963 and last surviving person to have served in the British cabinet during the 1950s, dies at the age of 89.

2006

4 July - Lord Falconer is the last Lord Chancellor to sit on the Woolsack as Speaker of the House of Lords.
26 December - United States President Gerald Ford, last surviving member of the Warren Commission, dies at the age of 93.

2008

1 May - Philipp von Boeselager, last surviving conspirator of the July 20 Plot, dies at the age of 90.

2009

9 May - Ernest Millington, last surviving British politician to have sat as an MP during World War II and last surviving Common Wealth Party MP, dies at the age of 93.
25 October - Fritz Darges, last surviving member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, dies at the age of 96.

2010

11 January - Miep Gies, last surviving person involved with the Secret Annexe, dies at the age of 100.
24 April - W. Willard Wirtz, last surviving member of John F. Kennedy's cabinet, dies at the age of 98.

2013

9 May - Davita Vance-Cooks is appointed last Public Printer of the United States before the office is renamed Director of the U.S. Government Publishing Office in 2015.

2015

19 April - Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, last surviving person to have served as Postmaster General of the United Kingdom, dies at the age of 91.
3 October - Denis Healey, Baron Healey, last surviving member of Harold Wilson's cabinet in the British Labour government of 1964–1970, dies at the age of 98.

2017

5 December - King Michael I of Romania, last surviving head of state of World War II who was not a minor at the time, dies at the age of 96.

2018

10 July - Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, last surviving member of both Sir Alec Douglas-Home's cabinet in the British Conservative government of 1963–1964 and Edward Heath's cabinet in the Conservative Government of 1970–1974, last surviving minister in Sir Winston Churchill's Conservative government of 1951–1955, Sir Anthony Eden's Conservative government of 1955–1957 and Harold Macmillan's Conservative government of 1957–1959, last surviving person to have served in the British cabinet during the 1960s and last surviving person to have served as First Lord of the Admiralty, dies at the age of 99.

2019

3 January - Colonel Sam Johnson, last Korean War veteran to serve in the United States Congress, retires from the United States House of Representatives.

2020

29 March - James Ramsden, last surviving person to have served as Secretary of State for War, dies at the age of 96.

2023

5 June - John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon, last surviving member of Harold Wilson's cabinet in the British Labour government of 1974–1976, dies at the age of 91.

2024

6 November - Sir John Nott, last surviving member of Margaret Thatcher's war cabinet in the Falklands War, dies at the age of 92.

Last surviving

Bill Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, is the last surviving member of James Callaghan's first cabinet in the British Labour government of 1976–1979.
David Owen, Baron Owen, Roy Hattersley, Baron Hattersley, and Bill Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, are the last surviving members of James Callaghan's cabinet in the British Labour government of 1976–1979.
David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford and Michael Heseltine, Baron Heseltine are the last surviving members of Margaret Thatcher's first cabinet in the British Conservative government of 1979–1983.
Khieu Samphan is the last surviving senior member of the Khmer Rouge.
Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton are the last surviving 20th-century Presidents of the United States.
Rosalynn Carter and Hillary Clinton are the last surviving 20th-century First Ladies of the United States.
Dan Quayle and Al Gore are the last surviving 20th-century Vice Presidents of the United States.
Marilyn Quayle and Tipper Gore are the last surviving 20th-century Second Ladies of the United States.
Sir John Major and Sir Tony Blair are the last surviving 20th-century Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom.
Henry Kissinger and James Baker are the last surviving 20th-century United States Secretaries of State.

Religion

1585

3 April - Thomas Goldwell, Bishop of St Asaph, last surviving pre-Reformation Catholic bishop of England and Wales, dies in Rome at the age of 83 or 84.

1944

23 August - Abdülmecid II, last Caliph, dies at the age of 76.

1950

25 June - Ella Florence Underwood, last surviving original member of the Oneida Society, dies at the age of 100.^[111]

Royalty and aristocracy

30 BC

12 August - Caesarion, last Pharaoh of Egypt, dies at the age of 17.

106

Unknown date - Decebalus, last King of Dacia, commits suicide after defeat by the Romans at the Battle of Sarmisegetusa.

476

4 September - Romulus Augustulus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed.

1034

25 November - Malcolm II, last Scottish monarch of the House of Alpin, dies at the age of c.80.

1066

14 October - Harold II, last Anglo-Saxon King of England, is killed at the Battle of Hastings.

1074

28 April - Denmark's last Viking king, Sweyn II of Denmark, dies.

1137

8 March - Adela, Countess of Blois, last surviving child of William the Conqueror, dies at the age of 69 or 70.

1175

1 July - Reginald de Dunstanville, 1st Earl of Cornwall, last surviving child of Henry I of England and last surviving grandchild of William the Conqueror, dies at the age of c.65.

1216

19 October - King John, last surviving child of Henry II of England and last surviving grandchild of Empress Matilda, dies at the age of 49.

1259

Unknown date - Margaret of Scotland, Countess of Kent, last surviving child of William the Lion of Scotland and his wife Ermengarde de Beaumont, dies at the age of 65 or 66.

1275

13 April - Eleanor of Leicester, last surviving child of King John and last surviving grandchild of Henry II, dies at the age of 59 or 60.

1286

19 March - Alexander III, last surviving grandchild of William the Lion of Scotland and his wife Ermengarde de Beaumont and last Scottish monarch of the House of Dunkeld, dies at the age of 44.

1307

13 July - Edward I, last surviving child of Henry III of England and last surviving grandchild of King John, dies at the age of 68.

1338

4 August - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, last surviving child of Edward I of England, dies at the age of 38.

1345

22 September - Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, last surviving grandchild of Henry III of England, dies at the age of c.63 or 64.

1371

22 February - David II, last surviving legitimate child of Robert the Bruce, dies at the age of 46.

1377

21 June - Edward III, last surviving child of Edward II of England, dies at the age of 64.

1399

24 March - Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, last surviving grandchild of Edward I of England, dies at the age of c.78 or 79.

1402

1 August - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, last surviving child of Edward III of England and last surviving grandchild of Edward II of England, dies at the age of 61.

1440

13 November - Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland, last surviving child of John of Gaunt and last surviving grandchild of Edward III of England, dies at the age of c.60 or 61.

1447

23 February - Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, last surviving child of Henry IV of England, dies at the age of 56.

1453

29 May - Constantine XI Palaeologus, last emperor of the Byzantine Empire, is killed in the defence of Constantinople.

1471

21 May - Henry VI, last surviving grandchild of Henry IV of England, dies at the age of 49.

1485

22 August - Richard III, last English king of the Plantagenet dynasty, is killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

1495

31 May - Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, last surviving grandchild of John of Gaunt, dies at the age of 80.

1503

23 November - Margaret of York, last surviving child of Richard of York and Cecily Neville and last surviving sibling of Edward IV and Richard III of England, dies at the age of 57.

1509

Unknown date - Annabella Stewart, last surviving child of James I of Scotland, dies at the age of c.73.

1513

9 September - James IV, last surviving child of James III of Scotland, is killed at the Battle of Flodden at the age of 40.

1527

15 November - Catherine of York, last surviving legitimate child of Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville, dies at the age of 48.

1542

3 March - Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, last surviving child of Edward IV of England and last surviving grandchild of Richard of York and Cecily Neville, dies.
14 December - James V, last King of Scotland who is never also King of England, dies at the age of 30.

1547

28 January - Henry VIII, last surviving child of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York and last known surviving grandchild of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, dies at the age of 55.

1548

5 September - Catherine Parr, last Queen Consort of England who is not also Queen Consort of Scotland, dies at the age of 35 or 36.

1553

6 July - Edward VI, last King of England who is not also King of Scotland, dies at the age of 15.

1557

16 July - Anne of Cleves, last surviving wife of Henry VIII and last surviving Queen Consort of England who was not also Queen Consort of Scotland, dies at the age of 41.

1560

11 June - Mary of Guise, last Queen Consort of Scotland who was never also Queen Consort of England, dies at the age of 44.

1562

20 February - Lady Janet Stewart, last surviving child of James IV of Scotland, dies at the age of 59.

1587

8 February - Mary, Queen of Scots, last monarch of Scotland who is never also monarch of England, is executed at the age of 44.

1603

24 March - Elizabeth I, last monarch of England who is not also monarch of Scotland, last monarch of the House of Tudor, and last surviving grandchild of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, dies at the age of 69.

1619

2 March - Anne of Denmark, last Queen Consort of Scotland who was not always also Queen Consort of England, dies at the age of 44.

1625

27 March - James VI, last King of Scotland who was not always also King of England, dies at the age of 58.

1651

1 January - Charles II is the last monarch to be crowned in Scotland.

1662

13 February - Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, last surviving child of James VI and I and last surviving grandchild of Mary, Queen of Scots, dies at the age of 65.

1688

11 December - James II, last Roman Catholic King of England, Scotland and Ireland, is deposed.

1689

11 April - William III is the last person to be crowned King of England and Scotland.

1701

6 September - James II, last surviving child of Charles I of England, dies at the age of 67.

1702

8 March - William III, last King of England and Scotland, dies at the age of 51.
23 April - Queen Anne is the last person to be crowned monarch of England and Scotland.

1714

8 June - Sophia of Hanover, last surviving grandchild of James VI and I and last surviving great-grandchild of Mary, Queen of Scots, dies at the age of 83.
1 August - Queen Anne, last monarch of England and Scotland and last monarch of the House of Stuart, dies at the age of 49.

1718

7 May - Mary of Modena, last Queen Consort of England and Scotland, dies at the age of 59.

1730

9 September - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland, last known surviving child of Charles II of England, dies at the age of 68.

1761

22 September - George III is the last person to be crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland, but not of the United Kingdom.

1766

1 January - James Francis Edward Stuart, the "Old Pretender", last surviving child of James II of England and last known surviving grandchild of Charles I, dies at the age of 77.

1778

16 September - Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham, last surviving child of George I of Great Britain, dies at the age of 85.

1786

31 October - Princess Amelia, last surviving child of George II of Great Britain, dies at the age of 75.

1806

6 August - Emperor Francis II abdicates, formally dissolving the Holy Roman Empire.

1807

13 July - Cardinal Henry Benedict Stuart, last surviving grandchild of James II of England through the legitimate line, dies at the age of 82.

1813

2 May - Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, last surviving grandchild of George I of Great Britain, dies at the age of 82.

1818

17 November - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, last Queen of Great Britain and Ireland before it became the United Kingdom, dies at the age of 74.

1820

29 January - George III, last King of Great Britain and Ireland before it became the United Kingdom and last surviving child of Frederick, Prince of Wales, dies at the age of 81.

1830

July - Charles X, last King of France, is deposed in the July Revolution.

1837

20 May - Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel, last surviving grandchild of George II of Great Britain, dies at the age of 89.

1857

30 April - Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, last surviving child of George III of the United Kingdom and last known surviving grandchild of Frederick, Prince of Wales, dies at the age of 81.

1865

8 December - Lady Augusta Gordon, last surviving child of William IV of the United Kingdom, dies at the age of 62.

1867

Maximilian I, last Emperor of Mexico, is deposed and executed.

1873

9 January - Napoleon III, last Emperor of the French, dies at the age of 64.

1889

15 November - Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, last hereditary monarch in Latin America, is deposed.

1893

17 January - Queen Liliuokalani, last Monarch of Hawaii, is deposed.

1901

22 January - Queen Victoria, last British monarch of the House of Hanover, dies at the age of 81.

1910

29 August - Sunjong, last Emperor of Korea, abdicates.
4 October - Manuel II, last King of Portugal, is deposed.

1911

18 September - Asaf Jah VII is the last ruling Nizam of Hyderabad to be crowned.
12 December - The last Delhi Durbar is held in India.

1912

12 February - Puyi, last Emperor of China, abdicates.

1913

Unknown date - Empress Dowager Longyu, last reigning Empress of China, dies at the age of 44.

1916

5 December - Princess Augusta of Cambridge, last surviving grandchild of George III of the United Kingdom, dies at the age of 94.
30 December - Charles I is the last person to be crowned Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

1917

16 March - Michael II, technically the last Tsar of Russia, refuses to take the throne.
12 July - Puyi, last Emperor of China, abdicates for a second time after a brief restoration.
11 November - Liliuokalani, last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, dies at the age of 79.

1918

8 November - Ernest Augustus, last Duke of Brunswick, abdicates.
9 November - Wilhelm II, last German Emperor and King of Prussia, abdicates.
12 November - Joachim Ernst, last Duke of Anhalt, abdicates.
12 November - Charles I, last Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is forced into exile, effectively ending the empire.
13 November - Ludwig III, last King of Bavaria, abdicates.
13 November - Frederick Augustus III, last King of Saxony, abdicates.
22 November - Frederick II, last Grand Duke of Baden, abdicates.
30 November - William II, last King of Württemberg, is deposed.

1919

3 February - Maria Theresia, last Queen of Bavaria, dies at the age of 69.

1920

11 July - Eugénie, last Empress of the French, dies at the age of 94.
30 August - Mohammed Alim Khan, last Emir of Bukhara, is deposed.

1921

11 April - Augusta Viktoria, last German Empress and Queen of Prussia, dies at the age of 62.
2 October - William II, last King of Württemberg, dies at the age of 73.
18 October - Ludwig III, last King of Bavaria, dies at the age of 76.

1922

1 April - Charles I, last Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, dies at the age of 34.
1 November - Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan, abdicates and dissolves the Ottoman Empire.

1924

March 3 - Abdülmecid II, last Muslim Caliph, is deposed, thereby dissolving the Caliphate.

1926

24 April - Sunjong, last Emperor of Korea, dies at the age of 52.

1927

19 January - Charlotte, last Empress of Mexico, dies at the age of 86.
25 July - Cardinal János Csernoch, last person to have crowned a King of Hungary, dies at the age of 75.

1928

8/9 August - Frederick II, last Grand Duke of Baden, dies at the age of 71.

1930

2 November - Haile Selassie I is the last Emperor of Ethiopia to be crowned.

1932

18 February - Frederick Augustus III, last King of Saxony, dies at the age of 66.
2 July - Manuel II, last King of Portugal, dies in exile in England.

1937

12 May - George VI is the last person to be crowned King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
9 October - Ernest Louis, last Grand Duke of Hesse, dies at the age of 68.
16 November - Eleonore, last Grand Duchess of Hesse, dies in a plane crash at the age of 66.

1938

18 July - Marie, last Queen of Romania to be crowned, dies at the age of 62.
20 November - Queen Maud of Norway, last surviving child of Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Queen Alexandra, dies at the age of 68.

1941

4 June - Wilhelm II, last German Emperor and King of Prussia, dies at the age of 82.

1944

28 April - Mohammed Alim Khan, last Emir of Bukhara, dies at the age of 64.
26 October - Princess Beatrice, last surviving child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, dies at the age of 87.

1945

15 August - Puyi, last Emperor of Manchukuo is deposed.

1946

9 May - Umberto II is the last King of Italy to be crowned.
12 June - Umberto II, last King of Italy, is forced into exile.
16 September - Simeon II, last Tsar of Bulgaria, is forced into exile.
Unknown date - Charlotte, last Queen of Württemberg, dies at the age of 81 or 82.

1947

18 February - Joachim Ernst, last Duke of Anhalt, dies at the age of 46.
23 March - Louise, last Queen of Saxony, dies at the age of 76.

1948

January - Michael, last king of Romania is deposed.
September - Asaf Jah VII, last ruling Nizam of Hyderabad, is deposed.

1952

6 February - George VI, last Emperor of India and last King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, dies at the age of 56.
8 February - Hilda, last Grand Duchess of Baden, dies at the age of 87.

1953

30 January - Ernest Augustus, last Duke of Brunswick, dies at the age of 65.
18 June - Fuad II, last King of Egypt, is deposed.
Unknown date - Luise, last Duchess of Anhalt, dies at the age of 79 or 80.

1955

22 March - Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, last surviving German monarch, dies at the age of 83.

1958

3 July - The last Scottish debutantes are presented at court at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.^[112]
14 July - Faisal II, last King of Iraq, is assassinated at the age of 23.
17 July - Sandra Seagram is the last debutante to be presented at court in the United Kingdom.^[112]^[113]

1962

15 February - Menen, last Empress of Ethiopia, dies at the age of 72.
18 September - Constantine II is the last King of Greece to be crowned.

1966

3 February - Sunjeong, last Empress of Korea, dies at the age of 69.
28 November - Ntare V, last King of Burundi, is deposed.

1967

24 February - Asaf Jah VII, last ruling Nizam of Hyderabad, dies at the age of 80.
1 June - Constantine II, last King of Greece, is forced into exile, effectively abolishing the monarchy.
17 October - Puyi, last Emperor of China, dies in Beijing at the age of 61.^[114]

1972

29 April - Ntare V, last King of Burundi, is shot dead at the age of 24.

1973

17 July - Mohammed Zahir Shah, last King of Afghanistan, is deposed.

1974

10 June - Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, last surviving child of George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary and last surviving grandchild of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, dies at the age of 74.
12 September - Haile Selassie I, last Emperor of Ethiopia, is deposed.

1975

27 August - Haile Selassie I, last Emperor of Ethiopia, dies at the age of 83.

1979

11 February - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, is deposed in a revolution.

1980

27 July - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, dies at the age of 60.
11 December - Victoria Louise, last Duchess of Brunswick, dies at the age of 88.

1981

3 January - Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, dies at the age of 97.^[115]

1983

18 March - Umberto II, last King of Italy, dies at the age of 78.

1989

14 March - Zita, last Empress of Austria-Hungary, dies at the age of 96.^[116]

1995

7 August - Lady Alexandra Metcalfe, last surviving attendee at the wedding of Edward, Duke of Windsor, and Wallis Simpson in 1937, dies at the age of 91.^[117]

2000

26 February - Giovanna, last Tsaritsa of Bulgaria, dies at the age of 92.

2001

11 January - Princess Vera Konstantinova, last surviving member of the Romanov family who could remember Imperial Russia, dies at the age of 94.
27 January - Marie-José, last Queen of Italy, dies at the age of 94.

2002

30 March - Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, last Empress of India and last Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, dies at the age of 101.
27 June - Humaira Begum, last Queen of Afghanistan, dies at the age of 83 or 84.

2005

16 February - Narriman Sadek, last Queen of Egypt, dies at the age of 71.

2007

13 March - Ekaterina Romanov de Farace di Villaforesta, last surviving member of the Russian Imperial Family born before the February Revolution, dies in Montevideo, Uruguay, at the age of 91.^{[citation needed]}
9 April - Prince Wilhelm Karl of Prussia, last surviving grandchild of Kaiser Wilhelm II, dies at the age of 85.^[118]
23 July - Mohammed Zahir Shah, last King of Afghanistan, dies at the age of 92.^[119]
2 October - Lady Katherine Brandram, last surviving child of Constantine I of Greece and last surviving great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, dies at the age of 94.^[120]

2008

28 May - Gyanendra abdicates as King of Nepal, dissolving the last Hindu monarchy.

2009

23 September - Ertuğrul Osman, last surviving pretender to the Ottoman throne, dies at the age of 97.

2010

23 May - Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna, last surviving member of the Romanov family (by marriage) to have been born in the Russian Empire, dies in Spain at the age of 95.^[121]

2012

5 May - Carl Johan Bernadotte, last surviving child of Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, last surviving grandchild of Gustaf V of Sweden, and last surviving great-grandchild of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, dies at the age of 95.

2015

10 April - Jin Youzhi, last surviving brother of the last Emperor of China, Puyi, dies at the age of 96.

2016

1 August - Anne, last person to use the title of Queen of Romania, dies at the age of 92.

2017

5 December - Michael I, last King of Romania, dies at the age of 96.

Sports and pastimes

393

The last Olympic Games of antiquity are held, later being suppressed by Theodosius I as part of the campaign to impose Christianity as a state religion.

404

The last official Roman gladiatorial games are held.^[45]

1951

10 October - Joe DiMaggio plays his last baseball game, the final game of the 1951 World Series, before his retirement.

1957

5 March - The 1957 World Ice Hockey Championships, last World Ice Hockey Championships to be played on natural ice, end at the Palace of Sports of the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow.

1962

21 July - The 1962 British Grand Prix is the last British Grand Prix held at the Aintree Motor Racing Circuit.

1971

23 May - The 1971 Monaco Grand Prix is the last grand prix to be held on the original Monaco circuit.

1980

21 June - The last play-off for third place in a UEFA European Football Championship takes place.

1984

3 July - Ernesto Mascheroni, last surviving footballer to have played for the winning side during the inaugural FIFA World Cup final, dies at the age of 76.

1990

17 September - Angelo Schiavio, last surviving member of the winning Italy squad to have played in the 1934 FIFA World Cup final, dies at the age of 84.

1991

8 May - The final football match of the last Marshal Tito Cup is played in Yugoslavia.

1993

26 November - Guido Masetti, last surviving member of the winning Italy squad in the 1934 FIFA World Cup, dies at the age of 86.

1994

24 July - The final of the last Federation Cup tennis tournament is played.
13 November - The original Team Lotus races for the last time at the Australian Grand Prix.

1996

20 July - František Plánička, last surviving player in the 1934 FIFA World Cup final, dies at the age of 92.

2006

5 November - Pietro Rava, last surviving member of the winning Italy squad in the 1938 FIFA World Cup and last surviving player in the final, dies at the age of 90.

2007

22 January - Baron Emmanuel de Graffenried, last surviving racing driver to have competed at the inaugural Formula One World Championship race, dies at the age of 92.

2008

26 September - Géza Kalocsay, last surviving footballer to have played for Czechoslovakia and Hungary before World War II, dies at the age of 95.

2009

22 January - William Werber, last surviving teammate of Babe Ruth and last surviving player to have played against Ruth while he was with the New York Yankees, dies at the age of 100.

2010

30 August - Francisco Varallo, last surviving player to have participated in the inaugural FIFA World Cup final in 1930, dies at the age of 100.^[122]

2015

16 July - Alcides Ghiggia, last surviving member of the winning Uruguay squad in the 1950 FIFA World Cup and last surviving player in the final, dies at the age of 88.

2016

13 March - The 70th Scottish League Cup Final is the last to be played in March; subsequent finals will take place in November.

2017

25 March - The last meeting is held at Wimbledon Stadium, last surviving greyhound racing venue in the London postal district.^[123]

2021

3 December - Horst Eckel, last surviving member of the winning West Germany squad in the 1954 FIFA World Cup and last surviving player in the final, dies at the age of 89.

2024

5 January - Mário Zagallo, last surviving member of the winning Brazil squad in the 1958 FIFA World Cup to have played in the final, dies at the age of 92.

Last surviving

José Altafini, Moacir, Pepe and Dino Sani are the last surviving members of the winning Brazil squad in the 1958 FIFA World Cup. Moacir and Pepe did not actually play in any matches in the tournament.
Amarildo, Jair, Mengálvio and Pepe are the last surviving members of the winning Brazil squad in the 1962 FIFA World Cup. Jair, Mengálvio and Pepe did not actually play in any matches in the tournament. Amarildo is the last surviving member to have played in the final.
Ian Callaghan, George Eastham, Sir Geoff Hurst and Terry Paine are the last surviving members of the winning England squad in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. Hurst is the last surviving member to have played in the final. Eastham did not actually play in any matches in the tournament.
Romford Greyhound Stadium and Crayford Stadium are the last surviving greyhound racing venues in Greater London.
Valley Greyhound Stadium is the last surviving greyhound racing venue in Wales.
Thornton Stadium is the last surviving greyhound racing venue in Scotland and the last surviving venue in Great Britain not regulated by the Greyhound Board of Great Britain.
Derry Greyhound Stadium and New Grosvenor Stadium are the last surviving greyhound racing venues in Northern Ireland.
Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack and Mardi Gras Casino and Resort are the last surviving greyhound racing venues in the United States.

Transportation

1860

24 May - The Clotilda is the last known slave ship to leave Africa with an illegal cargo of slaves bound for the United States.^[124]
9 July - The Clotilda is the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States with an illegal cargo of slaves from Africa and is scuttled in the Alabama River.

1900

The last cargo is carried from London to Bristol on the Kennet and Avon Canal.^[125]

1901

21 March - RRS Discovery, last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in Britain, is launched.

1921

Unknown date - A cargo of timber from Bristol to Honeystreet is the last commercial load to be carried on the Kennet and Avon Canal before the retirement of the last carrier William Dickenson.^[126]

1927

26 May - The last Ford Model T leaves the production line.

1939

8 May - Fir is the last lighthouse tender launched for the United States Lighthouse Service.

1940

April - The last fully-rigid zeppelins, the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin and the LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin, are broken up as a result of the German World War II war effort.

1953

5 March - PS Maid of the Loch, last paddle steamer to be built in the United Kingdom, is launched for service on Loch Lomond.

1959

19 November - The last Ford Edsel leaves the production line.

1960

Unknown date - The last commercial coal shipment arrives at Worcester via the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal the the River Severn.^[127]

1971

Unknown date - The last regular long-distance narrowboat commercial contract in the United Kingdom comes to an end.

1980

3 December - The last American steam locomotive in regular service is retired by Northwestern Steel and Wire.^[128]

1991

4 December - The last Pan Am flight, Flight 436, flies from Bridgetown, Barbados, to Miami, Florida.^[129]

1998

Unknown date - Fair Isle South Lighthouse is the last lighthouse operated by the Northern Lighthouse Board to be automated.^[130]

2003

30 July - The last VW Beetle leaves the production line in Mexico.
24 October - Three Concorde aircraft (G-BOAE, G-BOAF, G-BOAG) land one after another at London Heathrow Airport, bringing an end to commercial supersonic air travel.

2004

29 April - The last Oldsmobile, an Alero GLS 4-door sedan, leaves the General Motors production line.

2005

4 October - The foghorn at Skerryvore Lighthouse, the last foghorn operated by the Northern Lighthouse Board, is sounded for the last time.^[131]

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