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.
Animals
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2000
- January 6 - Last Pyrenean Ibex, a female named Celia, was found dead, apparently killed by a falling tree.[1]
1968
- May 24 - 'Chief', the last surviving horse to serve in the US Cavalry, dies at the age of thirty-six.[2]
1952
- Unknown date - Last reliable observation records of a small Caribbean Monk Seal colony at Serranilla Bank between Honduras and Jamaica. The pinniped is now presumed extinct due to over-hunting.
1938
- Unknown date - Last captive Schomburgk's Deer is killed.
1937
- September 27 - Last confirmed Bali Tiger, an adult female, is killed.
1936
- September 7 - Last Tasmanian Tiger, named "Benjamin", dies in the Hobart, Tasmania zoo.
1934
- Unknown date - Hawai'i 'Ō'ō is last heard, on the slopes of Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
1932
- March 11 - Last sighting of a Heath Hen (nicknamed "Booming Ben") on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
1923
- November 9 - Last Bubal Hartebeest, a female, dies in captivity at Jardin des Plantes in Paris, France.
1923
1918
- February 12 - Last Carolina Parakeet, a male named "Incas", dies at the Cincinnati Zoo. Coincidentally, Incas died in the same aviary cage as the last Passenger Pigeon, "Martha", had done nearly four years prior.[3]
1914
- September 1 - "Martha", world's last passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo.[4]
1902
- January 9 - Last sighting of Auckland Islands Mergansers, when a pair is shot.
1899
- Unknown date - Last sighting of a Hawai'i Mamo, near Kaumana on Hawaii.
1883
- August 12 - Last Quagga, a mare, dies in captivity at the Natura Artis Magistra in Amsterdam.
1878
- December 12 - Last Labrador Duck is seen in Elmira, New York.
1877
- September 1 - Last Eastern Elk, a young male, is shot in Centre County, Pennsylvania.
1875
- Unknown Date - Last Broad-faced Potoroo is collected near Northam, Western Australia.
1822
- Unknown date - Last King Island Emu dies in captivity at the Jardin des Plantes.
1768
- Unknown date - Less than 30 years after its discovery, Steller's Sea Cow becomes extinct.
1662
- Unknown date - Last confirmed sighting of the dodo, reported by shipwrecked mariner Volkert Evertsz on the island of Mauritius.
1627
Military history
2007
- September 1 - The Cheshire Regiment, the last unamalgamated line infantry regiment of the British Army, is amalgamated into the Mercian Regiment.
2006
- March 8 - The Royal Scots and the King's Own Scottish Borderers, the last unamalgamated Scottish line infantry regiments, amalgamate into the Royal Regiment of Scotland.
1945
- May 20 - The capture of the Germans on the Dutch island of Texel marks the end of World War II in Europe.
1942
- January 16 - Last US cavalry charge, Morong, Philippines[5]
1890
- December 29 - Battle of Wounded Knee is the last battle of the Indian Wars and the last battle on mainland United States soil. Chief Big Foot is the last Indian chief to die in battle.[6]
1871
- October 31 - Last British Army commissions are purchased before the practice is abolished.
404
- Last official Roman gladiatorial games.[7]
People
2009
- October 25 - Fritz Darges, last surviving member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, dies at 96.
- September 23 - Ertuğrul Osman, last surviving pretender to the Ottoman throne, dies at 97.
- July 25 - Harry Patch, last surviving veteran of World War I trench warfare, dies at age 111.
- July 18 - Henry Allingham, last surviving veteran of the Battle of Jutland in World War I, last member of the Royal Naval Air Service and therefore the last founder member of the RAF, dies at age 113. He was believed to be the last person to have watched W. G. Grace play cricket, at The Oval in 1903.[8]
- June 3 - John Campbell Ross, last surviving Australian veteran of World War I, dies at age 110.
- May 31 - Millvina Dean, last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, dies at age 97. [3]
- May 13 - Waldemar Levy Cardoso, last surviving field marshall of the Brazilian army, dies at age 108.
- May 9 - Ernest Millington, last surviving British politician to sit as an MP during World War II, dies at the age of 93. He was also the last surviving person to have served as a Common Wealth Party MP, which dissolved in 1993.
- March 16 - David Wood, last surviving officer to serve in Pegasus Bridge, dies at the age of 85.[9]
- February 2 - Staff Sergeant Susan Hibbert, last surviving British witness to the World War II German surrender on May 7, 1945, dies at age 84.
- January 22 - Bob Doyle, last surviving Irish member of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, dies at age 93.
- January 22 - William Werber, last surviving teammate of Babe Ruth, as well as the last player to play against Ruth while he was with the New York Yankees, dies at age 100.
- January 10 - Bill Stone, last surviving veteran to have served in the British Armed Forces in both world wars, dies at age 108.
- January 1 - Aarne Arvonen, last surviving veteran of the Finnish Civil War, dies at age 111.
2008
- December 26 - Mikhail Krichevsky, last surviving Ukrainian veteran of World War I, and last surviving veteran of the Russian Imperial Army dies at age 111.[10]
- December 19 - Ivy Campany, last surviving female veteran of World War I, dies at age 107.[11]
- November 20 - Pierre Picault, last surviving French veteran of World War I, dies at age 109.[12]
- November 11 - Mustafa Şekip Birgöl, last surviving Turkish veteran of the Turkish War of Independence, dies at age 105.
- November 9 - Fernand Goux, last surviving French veteran of World War I trench warfare, dies at age 108.
- October 26 - Delfino Borroni, last surviving Italian and Alpine Front veteran of World War I, dies at age 110.
- October 4 - Ted Briggs, last survivor of the sinking of HMS Hood, dies at age 85.
- September 6 - Anita Page, last living attendee of the very first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929, dies at age 98.[13]
- August 25 - Maudie White Hopkins, last widow of an American Civil War combatant dies at age 93.
- May 27 - Franz Künstler, last surviving Central Powers and Austro-Hungarian veteran of World War I, dies at age 107.
- May 1 - Philipp von Boeselager, last surviving conspirator of the July 20 Plot, dies at age 90.
- April - Stanley Stair, last surviving West Indian veteran of World War I, dies at age 107.[14][15]
- April 14 - Ollie Johnston, last survivor of Disney's Nine Old Men, dies at age 95.
- April 12 - Barbara McDermott, last surviving American passenger of RMS Lusitania, dies at age 95.
- April 2 - Yakup Satar, last surviving Turkish veteran of World War I, dies at age 110.
- January 21 - Marie Smith Jones, last native Eyak language speaker, dies in Alaska at age 89.
- January 12 - Stanisław Wycech, last surviving Polish veteran of World War I, dies at age 105.
- January 11 - José Bello, last surviving member of the "Generation of '27", dies at age 103.
- January 1 - Erich Kästner, last surviving German veteran of World War I, dies at age 107.
2007
- November 4 - Lennart Rönnback, last surviving veteran of the White Guards in the Finnish Civil War, dies at age 102.
- October 17 - Joey Bishop, last surviving member of the Rat Pack, dies at age 89.[16]
- October 2 - Lady Katherine Brandram, last surviving great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, dies at age 94.[17]
- October 2 - Dan Keating, last surviving IRA veteran of the Irish War of Independence, dies at age 105.
- October 1 - Bernard Delaire, last surviving French Navy veteran and French officer of World War I, dies at age 108.
- July 24 - 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 age 107.
- July 23 - Mohammed Zahir Shah, last King of Afghanistan, dies at age 92.[18]
- May 27 - Wilhelm Remmert, last surviving veteran of the Eastern Front trenches in World War I, dies at age 107.[19]
- April 9 - Prince Wilhelm Karl of Prussia, last surviving grandchild of Kaiser Wilhelm II, dies at age 85.[20]
- April 9 - Philip Mayne, last surviving British officer of World War I, dies at age 107.
- March 29 - Lloyd Brown, last surviving U.S. Navy veteran of World War I, dies at age 105.[21]
- March 27 - Charlotte Winters, last surviving female United States veteran of World War I, dies at age 109.[22]
- March 13 - Ekaterina Romanov de Farace di Villaforesta, last living member of the Russian Imperial Family born before the February Revolution, dies in Montevideo, Uruguay, at age 91.[citation needed]
- February 8 - Antonio Pierro, last American veteran of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, dies at age 110.
- January 24 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, last surviving Puerto Rican veteran of World War I, dies at age 115.
- January 22 - Baron Emmanuel de Graffenried, last surviving racing driver to compete at the inaugural Formula One World Championship race, dies at age 92.
- January 20 - Albert Wagner, last surviving U.S. Marine Corps veteran of World War I, dies at age 107.
- January 9 - Gheorghe Pănculescu, last surviving Romanian veteran of World War I, dies at age 103.
2006
- December 26 - United States President Gerald Ford, last surviving member of the Warren Commission, dies at age 93. (Ford was the oldest former U.S. president.)
- December 10 - 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 age 106.
- October 15 - Antonia de Bettin Casanova, last surviving Italian female veteran of World War I, dies at age 105.
- September 18 - Heinrich Trettner, the last German General from World War II, dies at age 99.
- September 1 - Nellie Connally, last surviving passenger of the limousine in which John F. Kennedy was assassinated, dies at age 87.[23] However, Secret Service Agent Clint Hill, who jumped on the back of the limousine after the president was shot, is still alive.
- May 7 - Lillian Asplund, last American survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic and last survivor to have memories of the event, dies at age 99.[24]
- March 4 - August Bischof, last surviving Austrian veteran of World War I,[25] dies at age 105.
- February 3 - Ants Ilus, last known surviving Estonian veteran of the Estonian War of Independence, dies at age 105.
- February 2 - Nicholas Swarbrick, last surviving British Merchant Navy veteran of World War I, dies at age 107.
2005
- December - Stephen Butcher, last surviving Royal Marines veteran of World War I, dies at age 101.
- December 23 - Yao Wenyuan, last surviving member of the Gang of Four, dies at age 74.[26]
- November 26 - Charles Laking, last surviving Canadian veteran to see action in World War I, dies at age 106.
- November 21 - Umrao Singh, last surviving Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, dies at age 85.
- November 21 - 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 age 109.
- October 26 - René Moreau, last surviving veteran of the Battle of Verdun, dies at age 108.
- October 17 - 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 age 106.
- September - Bert van Sloten, last surviving Dutch veteran of World War I (although he fought for Germany), dies.
- August 3 - Ernest Smith, last surviving Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross before its replacement with the Victoria Cross for Canada, dies at age 91.
- June 22 - William Elder, last surviving Royal Artillery veteran of World War I, dies at age 108.
- May 16 - 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 age 108.
- April 7 - 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 age 108.
- March 23 - Jan Rzepa, last surviving German veteran of the Battle of Verdun and last surviving Polish veteran of the Polish Uprising, dies at age 105.
- February 16 - Narriman Sadek, last Queen of Egypt, dies at age 71.
- January 17 - Kara McCoy, last surviving Australian female veteran of World War I, dies at age 106.
- January 15 - Ruth Warrick, last surviving actor of the Disney film Song of the South, dies at age 89.
- January 1 - 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 age 105.
2004
- November 9 - Tom Kirk, last surviving British commissioned officer to have seen action in World War I, dies at age 104.
- October 29 - Gerard Ross Norton, last surviving South African recipient of the Victoria Cross, dies at age 89.
- October 14 - Joseph Mondoloni, last surviving Corsican veteran of World War I, dies at age 107.
- September 16 - Cyriel Barbary, last surviving Belgian veteran of World War I, dies at age 104.
- September 7 - Albert Dye, last surviving British veteran of the Middle East campaigns of World War I, dies at age 107.
- June 22 - Aleksa Radovanović, last surviving Serbian veteran of World War I, dies.
- May 24 - Ramire Rosan, last surviving veteran of World War I from the overseas departments and territories of France, dies at age 109.
- April 1 - Arthur Halestrap, last surviving Royal Engineers veteran of World War I, dies at age 105.
- January 27 - James Lovell, last surviving British veteran to have been decorated in World War I, dies at age 104.
- January 26 - Adella Wotherspoon, last survivor of the General Slocum fire, dies at age 100.[27]
- January 9 - Al Pugh, last surviving American veteran to have been wounded and gassed in World War I, dies at age 108.
2003
- October 9 - Yod Sangrungruang, last surviving Thai veteran of World War I, dies at age 106.
- September 3 - Norman Porteous, last surviving British Army commissioned officer to have seen action in World War I, dies at age 104.
- August 9 - Alois Vocásek, last surviving Czech veteran of World War I, dies at age 107.
- June 18 - Marie-Marthe Spruyt, last surviving Belgian female veteran of World War I, dies at age 107.
- May 5 - José Ladeira, last surviving Portuguese veteran of World War I, dies.
- April 16 - Walter Humphrys, last surviving Welsh veteran of World War I, dies at age 105.
- March - George Blackman, last surviving Barbadian veteran of World War I, dies at age 105.
- March 1 - Charles Reaper, last surviving Canadian veteran of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, dies at age 103.
- February 13 - Bright Williams, last surviving New Zealand veteran of World War I, dies at age 105.
- January 3 - 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 age 106.
- January 2 - Maurice Bourgeois, last surviving French Army commissioned officer of World War I, dies at age 106.
2002
- December 1 - Bill Sparks, last survivor of the Cockleshell Heroes, dies at age 80.
- October 2 - Eracleo Alimpolo, last surviving Filipino veteran of World War I, dies at age 104.
- June 27 - Humaira Begum, last Queen of Afghanistan, dies at age 83 or 84.
- May 16 - Alec Campbell, last surviving veteran of the Gallipoli Campaign, dies at age 103.[28]
- April - Gerald Dixon, last surviving Royal Flying Corps pilot of World War I, dies at age 102.
- March 30 - Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, last Empress of India and last Queen of Ireland, dies at age 101.
- March 2 - Thomas Shaw, last surviving Irish veteran of World War I, dies at age 102.
- January 12 - Robin Ruttledge, last known surviving Indian Army veteran of World War I, dies at age 102.
2001
- September 8 - Paul Ooghe, last surviving Belgian veteran to see action in World War I, dies at age 103.
- July 27 - Percy Goring, last surviving British veteran of the Gallipoli Campaign, dies at age 106.
- April 18 - Michel Marcel Navratil, last male survivor and last French survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic, dies at age 92.
- February 13 - Ivan Kovacic, last surviving Slovenian veteran of World War I, dies at age 103.
- January 27 - Marie-José, last Queen of Italy, dies at age 94.
- January 11 - Princess Vera Konstantinova of Russia, last surviving member of the Romanov family who could remember Imperial Russia, dies at 94
2000
- December 25 - Arthur Mortimer, last surviving recipient of the Military Cross in World War I, dies at age 102.
- December 6 - Gershom Browne, last surving Guyanese veteran of World War I, dies.
- October - Albert Riches, last surviving British Tank Corps veteran of World War I, dies at age 102.
- May 24- George Hayward Perman, last survivor of the sinking of the HMHS Britannic, dies at age 99.
- May 8 - Percy Clarke, last surviving recipient of the Distinguished Conduct Medal in World War I, dies at age 104.
- March - Norman Kark, last surviving South African veteran of World War I, dies at age 102.
- February 26 - Giovanna, last Tsaritsa of Bulgaria, dies at age 92.
- Unknown date - Ibrahim Sol Khalil, last known surviving veteran of the World War I German colonial forces, dies at age 105.
1999
- April 30 - Lloyd Botimer, last surviving American veteran of the Battle of Verdun, dies at age 104.
- April 26 - Tedoro Garcia, last surviving 'Federale' to fight in the Mexican Revolution, dies at age 110.[29]
- April 11 - Wallace Pike, last Newfoundland veteran of World War I, dies at age 99.
- April - Michael Lally, last surviving veteran of the pre-World War I British Regular Army, dies at age 104.
1998
- November 10 - Abdoulaye N'Diaye, last surviving French colonial veteran of World War I, dies at age 104.
- March 21, Albert H. Wolff, last surviving member of the law-enforcement agents nicknamed "Untouchables", dies at age 95.[30]
- January 16 - Emil Jozef Sitka, last of the "Three Stooges" ("Harry"), dies at age 83. He was affectionately known as "The Fourth Stooge" and is only one of two actors to have worked with all the other six Stooges.
- 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 age 99 or 100.
1997
- December - Ted Matthews, last surviving Australian veteran of the landings at ANZAC Cove, Gallipoli in World War I, dies.
- June 28 - Jack Hinton, last surviving New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross before its replacement with the Victoria Cross for New Zealand, dies at age 87.
- January 27 - Cecil Arthur Lewis, last surviving World War I fighter ace, dies at age 98.
1995
- May 15 - Grace Hannagan Martyn, last survivor of the 1914 sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland, dies at age 88.
1994
- January 11 - John Bradley, last surviving member of the six flag raisers of Iwo Jima, dies at the age of 70.[31]
1993
- August 29 - Jones Morgan, probable last surviving United States veteran of the Spanish-American War, dies at age 110.
- April 12 - George Frederick Ives, last surviving British veteran of the Second Boer War, dies at age 111.
1992
- October 25 - Petty Officer Aircrewman Adrian Rogers is the last person to win the Air Force Medal before it is replaced by the Air Force Cross.
- September 10 - Nathan E. Cook, last authenticated surviving United States veteran of the Spanish-American War, dies at age 106.
1991
- 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. 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.
- February 25 - Staff Sergeant Kevin Davies is the last publicly named person[32] to win the Distinguished Conduct Medal before it is replaced by the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross.
1990
- November 13 - Sergeant Stewart Graeme Guthrie is the last New Zealander to win the George Cross before its replacement with the New Zealand Cross. Eva Dixon is the last New Zealander to win the George Medal before its replacement with the New Zealand Bravery Star. 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.
- June 11 - Vaso Čubrilović, the last surviving perpertrator of the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria that led to the outbreak of World War I dies at the age of 93.[33]
- March 20 - Ng Hung-shek is the last Hong Kong citizen to win the George Medal.
1989
- October 15 - Michał Rola-Żymierski, last surviving "5 star officer" of World War II, dies at age 99.
- March 14 - Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last Empress of Austria-Hungary, dies at age 96.[34]
- March 8 - Winfried Freudenberg is the last person to be killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall when his improvised balloon aircraft crashes.
- February 6 - Chris Gueffroy is the last person to be shot trying to cross the Berlin Wall.
1987
- August 17 - 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 age 93.[35]
1984
- February 29 - Constable Derek Pickles is the last Australian to win the George Medal before its complete replacement with the Star of Courage.
- September 14 - Janet Gaynor, last living recipient (and nominee) of an individual award at the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929, dies at age 77.
1983
- March 18 - Umberto II, last King of Italy, dies at age 78.
1981
- 8 April: Omar Bradley, the last surviving American 5 star general, dies
- March 23 - Sir Claude Auchinleck, last surviving British "5 star officer" to have been promoted to the rank for service in World War II, dies at age 96.
- January 3 - Princess Alice, last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, dies at age 97.[36]
1980
- December 24 - Karl Dönitz, last surviving naval and Axis "5 star officer" of World War II, dies at age 89.
- December 11 - Victoria Louise, last Duchess of Brunswick, dies at age 88.
- July 27 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, dies at age 60.
- April 28 - Senior Constable Brian Tighe is the last Australian to win the Queen's Gallantry Medal before its complete replacement with the Bravery Medal.
1979
- February 11 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, is deposed.
1978
- September 27 - August Sabbe, last resistance fighter (Forest Brother) in Estonia and in the three Baltic States, is discovered and killed by KGB agents.
1977
- December 5 - Aleksandr Vasilevsky, last surviving Soviet "5 star officer" of World War II, dies at age 82.
1976
- December 3 - Alexander Novikov, last surviving air force "5 star officer" of World War II, dies at age 74.
- June 4 - Constable Michael Kenneth Pratt is the last Australian to win the George Cross before its complete replacement with the Cross of Valour.
- March 24 - Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, last surviving British "5 star officer" of World War II, dies at age 88.
1975
- August 27 - Haile Selassie I, last Emperor of Ethiopia, dies at age 83.
- June 28 - Jesse Langdon, last surviving veteran of the Rough Riders of the Spanish-American War, dies.
- May 4 - Moe Howard, last of the "original" Three Stooges, dies at age 77.
1974
- December 18 - 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.
- June 10 - Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, last surviving Knight of the Order of St. Patrick, dies at age 74.
- March 9 - Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda is the last Japanese soldier to surrender after World War II, after hiding in the Philippines for nearly thirty years.[37]
1973
- July 2 - Ferdinand Schörner, last surviving German field marshal of World War II, dies at age 80.
- June 18 - Frederick Fraske, last surviving U.S. Army veteran of the American Indian Wars, dies at age 101.
1972
- December 2 - Ettore Bastico, last surviving Italian non-royal "5 star officer" of World War II, dies at age 96.
- April 29 - Ntare V, last King of Burundi, dies at age 25.
- January 25 - Erhard Milch, last surviving German Luftwaffe field marshal of World War II, dies at age 79.
1971
- April 22 - Viscount Portal of Hungerford, last surviving Marshal of the Royal Air Force to have been promoted to the rank for service in World War II, dies at age 77.
- January 12 - Lord Tovey, last surviving Royal Navy admiral of the fleet to have been promoted to the rank for service in World War II, dies at age 85.
1969
- August 25 - Kenneth Owen McIntyre is the last person to win the Albert Medal before its replacement with the George Cross.
- May 24 - 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.
1967
- October 17 - Puyi, last Emperor of China, dies in Beijing at age 61.[38]
- September 9 - Andrew Taylor is the last person to win the Edward Medal before its replacement with the George Cross.
- April 7 - 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.
- February 24 - Asaf Jah VII, last ruling Nizam of Hyderabad, dies at age 80.
1966
- February 20 - Chester W. Nimitz, last surviving U.S. Navy fleet admiral of World War II, dies at age 80.
- February 3 - Sunjeong, last Empress of Korea, dies at age 69.
1965
- Date unknown - John Daw, last surviving U.S. Army Indian Scout of the American Indian Wars, dies at age 95.
1963
- March 29 - August Rei, last surviving pre-World War II State Elder of Estonia, dies at age 77.
1962
- December 11 - Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin become the last people executed (for murder) in Canada
- July 6 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, last surviving "5 star officer" of World War I, dies at age 89.
- May 10 - Shunroku Hata, last surviving Japanese "5 star officer" of World War II, dies at age 82.
- February 15 - Menen, last Empress of Ethiopia, dies at age 72.
1958
- July 14 - Faisal II, last King of Iraq, is murdered at age 23.
1956
- August 2 - Albert Woolson, last authenticated surviving veteran of the American Civil War, dies at age 106.
1955
- December 8 - Seraphin Pruvost, last surviving French veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, dies at age 106.
- August 2 - Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, last surviving field marshal of the German Empire, dies at age 86.
- March 22 - Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, last surviving German monarch, dies at age 83.
1953
- October 3 - Karl Glockner, last surviving German veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, dies at age 107.
- March 12 - James Hard, last authenticated surviving veteran of the American Civil War to see action and last surviving infantry veteran, dies at age 109.
- January 30 - Ernest Augustus, last Duke of Brunswick, dies at age 65.
- January 23 - William Allen Magee, last authenticated surviving cavalry veteran of the American Civil War, dies at age 106.
- Unknown date - Charles Wallace Warden, last surviving British veteran of the Zulu War, dies.
- Unknown date - Luise, last Duchess of Anhalt, dies at age 79 or 80.
1952
- February 8 - Hilda, last Grand Duchess of Baden, dies at age 87.
- February 6 - George VI of the United Kingdom, last Emperor of India and last King of Ireland (having lost those titles in 1947 and 1949 respectively), dies at age 56.
1951
- December 31 - Pleasant Crump, last authenticated surviving Confederate veteran of the American Civil War and last witness of the Confederate surrender, dies at age 104.
1950
- June 25 - Ella Florence Underwood, last surviving original member of the Oneida Society, dies at age 100.[39]
1949
- June 30 - Frank Bradley is the last person to win the Edward Medal in Silver before its replacement with the George Cross.
1947
- February 18 - Joachim Ernst, last Duke of Anhalt, dies at age 46.
1946
- Unknown date - Charlotte, last Queen of Württemberg, dies at age 81 or 82.
1945
- November 8 - August von Mackensen, last surviving non-royal field marshal of the German Empire, dies at age 95.
- August 9 - Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray is the last person to win the Victoria Cross in World War II.
- May 13 - Rifleman Lachhiman Gurung is the last soldier of the Indian Army to win the Victoria Cross.
- May 8 - Frank Bourne, last surviving British veteran of the Battle of Rorke's Drift, dies at age 91.
- April 9 - Sepoy Ali Haidar and Sepoy Namdeo Jadav are the last Indians to win the Victoria Cross.
- March 24 - 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.
- March 18 - Lieutenant Karamjeet Singh Judge is the last Indian to win a posthumous Victoria Cross.
- February 23 - Captain Edwin Swales is the last member of the South African Forces to win the Victoria Cross.
1944
- November 10 - Rifleman Thaman Gurung is the last Gurkha soldier of the Indian Army to win a posthumous Victoria Cross.
- August 31 - Lieutenant Gerard Ross Norton is the last member of the South African Forces to win the Victoria Cross and to survive the action.
- August 23 - Abdülmecid II, last Caliph, dies at age 76.
- June 28 - Sick Berth Attendant Arturo Fanconi is the last person to win the Albert Medal in Gold before its replacement with the George Cross.
- June 24 - 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.
- June 23 - Acting Captain Michael Allmand is the last British officer of the Indian Army to win the Victoria Cross.
- April 28 - Mohammed Alim Khan, last Emir of Bukhara, dies at age 64.
1943
- August 11 - 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.
- May 3 - 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.
1942
- November 10 - Temporary 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.
- Unknown date - Adrien Lejeune, last surviving French Communard, dies at age 94.
- Unknown date - Jules Pujos, last surviving French veteran of the Franco-Mexican War, dies at age 95 or 96.
1941
- December 9 - Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, last surviving non-royal Austro-Hungarian field marshal, dies at age 85.
- August 15 - Josef Jakobs is the last person to be executed in the Tower of London after his conviction under the Treachery Act 1940.[40]
- June 4 - Wilhelm II, last German Emperor and King of Prussia, dies at age 82.
1940
- August 26 - Second Lieutenant Wallace Launcelot Andrews is the last person to win the Empire Gallantry Medal before its replacement with the George Cross.
- May 31 - Corporal Daphne Pearson is the last woman to win the Empire Gallantry Medal before its replacement with the George Cross.
- March 21 - Gerald Winter is the last civilian to win the Empire Gallantry Medal before its replacement with the George Cross.
1938
- May 14 - Aaron S. Daggett, last surviving general officer of the American Civil War, dies at age 100.
1937
- November 16 - Eleonore, last Grand Duchess of Hesse, dies in a plane crash at age 66.
- October 9 - Ernest Louis, last Grand Duke of Hesse, dies at age 68.
1936
- August 14 - Rainey Bethea, last person on record to be officially publicly executed in the United States, is hanged.
- May 14 - Viscount Allenby, last surviving British "5 star officer" to have been promoted to the rank for service in World War I, dies at age 75.
- May - André John Mesnard Melly is the last civilian to win the Albert Medal in Gold before its replacement with the George Cross.
- March 11 - 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 age 65.
1934
- Unknown date - Charles Nathan, last surviving French army veteran of the Crimean War, dies at age 99 or 100.
- Unknown date - James Crawford, last surviving Crimean War veteran to have been nursed by Florence Nightingale, dies at age 104.[41]
1933
- April 13 - Adelbert Ames, last surviving general officer of the American Civil War whose promotion was confirmed, dies at age 97.
1932
- July 2 - Manuel II, last King of Portugal, dies in exile in England.
1929
- September 20 - Sir Hedworth Meux, last surviving British non-royal "5 star officer" of World War I, dies at age 73.
- September 3 - Owen Thomas Edgar, last surviving United States veteran of the Mexican-American War, dies at age 98.
1928
- August 8 or August 9 - Frederick II, last Grand Duke of Baden, dies at age 71.
- April 20 - Felix H. Robertson, last surviving Confederate general officer of the American Civil War, dies at age 89.
- January 29 - Earl Haig, last surviving non-royal British Army field marshal of World War I, dies at age 66.
1927
- May 14 - Edwin Hughes, last surviving British veteran of the Charge of the Light Brigade, dies at age 96.
- January 23 - John McCausland, last surviving Confederate general officer of the American Civil War whose rank was confirmed by the Confederate Senate, dies at age 90.
- January 19 - Charlotte, last Empress of Mexico, dies at 86.
1926
- April 24 - Sunjong, last Emperor of Korea, dies at age 52.
1922
- April 21 - Alessandro Moreschi, last surviving professional castrato, dies at age 63.
- April 1 - Charles I, last Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, dies at age 34.
1921
- October 18 - Ludwig III, last King of Bavaria, dies at age 76.
- October 2 - William II, last King of Württemberg, dies at age 73.
- April 11 - Augusta Viktoria, last German Empress and Queen of Prussia, dies at age 62.
1920
1919
- February 3 - Maria Theresia, last Queen of Bavaria, dies at age 69.
1918
- November 6 - Major Brett Cloutman is the last person to win the Victoria Cross in World War I.
1917
- November 11 - Liliuokalani, last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, dies at age 79.
1916
- March 25 - Ishi, last member of the Yahi tribe from Northern California (known as the "last wild Indian"), dies at age 56.[42]
1913
- Unknown date - Empress Dowager Longyu, last Empress of China, dies at age 44.
1912
- January 25 - Count Dmitry Milyutin, last surviving non-royal field marshal of the Russian Empire, dies at age 95.
1911
- July 8 - Alfonso Steele, last veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto during the Texas Revolution, dies at age 94.
1905
- May 13 - Hiram Cronk, last surviving United States veteran of the War of 1812, dies at age 105.
1902
- February 8 - Surgeon-Captain Arthur Martin-Leake is the last person to win the Victoria Cross in the Second Boer War.
1899
- February 3 - Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, claimed to be the last surviving veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, dies at age 110.
1898
- Unknown date - Louis Victor Baillot, last surviving veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, dies at age 104 or 105.
- Unknown date - Pedro Martinez, last surviving veteran of the Battle of Trafalgar, dies at age 108 or 109.
1896
- Unknown date - Josephine Mazurkewicz, last surviving female veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, dies at age 111 or 112.
1892
- February 13 - Sir Provo Wallis, last surviving commanding officer of the Napoleonic Wars and last surviving Royal Navy officer of the French Revolutionary Wars, dies at age 100.[43]
- February 5 - Maurice Shea, last surviving British veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, dies at age 96.[44]
1873
- January 9 - Napolean III, Last Emperor of the French, dies at age 64
1870
- April 2 - Patrick Gass, last surviving member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies at age 99.
1869
- April 5 - Daniel F. Bakeman, last likely surviving United States veteran of the American Revolutionary War, dies at age 108.
1866
- May 20 - Lemuel Cook, last authenticated surviving United States veteran of the American Revolutionary War, dies at age 106.
1859
- October 6 - 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.
1855
- October 11 - Commander John Edmund Commerell and Quartermaster William Thomas Rickard are the last people to win the Victoria Cross in the Crimean War.
1836
- June 28 - James Madison, last surviving signatory of the United States Constitution and last surviving Founding Father, dies at age 85.
1832
- November 14 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, last surviving signer of United States Declaration of Independence, dies at age 95.
1829
- June 6 - Shanawdithit, last living member of the Beothuk, dies at age c. 28.
- March 5 - John Adams, last survivor of the HMS Bounty mutineers, dies at age c.61.
1803
- October 31 - Petro Kalnyshevsky, last known surviving veteran of the Great Northern War and last surviving Zaporozhian Cossack, dies at age c.112.
1699
- November 28 - Mary Allerton, last surviving Pilgrim from the Mayflower voyage of 1620, dies.[45]
1622
Politics
2008
- May 28 - Gyanendra abdicates as King of Nepal, dissolving the last Hindu monarchy.
1999
- December 20 - Last Portuguese Governor of Macau, Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira, steps down. Flag of Portugal is hoisted for the last time in Macau.
1997
- June 30 - Last British Governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, steps down. Union Jack hoisted for the last time in Hong Kong.
1994
- May 10 - Last White State President of South Africa, Frederik Willem de Klerk, steps down, officially ending the apartheid era and National Party dominance.
1991
- December 25 - Last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, resigns as President. The flag of the Soviet Union is lowered for the last time over the Kremlin.
1990
- October 2 - Lothar de Maiziere, Last leader of the German Democratic Republic, resigns as East Germany is absorbed into the German Federal Republic.
1979
- February 11 - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, is deposed in a revolution.
1974
- September 12 - Haile Selassie I, last Emperor of Ethiopia, is deposed.
1973
- July 17 - Mohammed Zahir Shah, last King of Afghanistan, is deposed.
1967
- June 1 - Constantine II, last King of Greece, is forced into exile, effectively abolishing the monarchy.
1966
- November 28 - Ntare V, last King of Burundi, is deposed.
1962
- September 18 - Last coronation of a King of Greece.
1953
- June 18 - Fuad II, last King of Egypt, is deposed.
1948
- September - Asaf Jah VII, last ruling Nizam of Hyderabad, is deposed.
- January = Michael, the last king of Romania is deposed.
1946
- September 16 - Simeon II, last Tsar of Bulgaria, is forced into exile.
- June 12 - Umberto II, last King of Italy, is forced into exile.
- May 9 - Last coronation of a King of Italy.
1945
- August 15 - Puyi, last Emperor of Manchukuo is deposed.
1930
- November 2 - Last coronation of an Emperor of Ethiopia.
1924
- March 3 - Abdülmecid II, last Muslim Caliph, is deposed, thereby dissolving the Caliphate.
1923
- Greece becomes the last Western country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.[6]
1922
- November 1 - Mehmed VI, last Sultan, abdicates and dissolves the Ottoman Empire.
1920
- August 30 - Mohammed Alim Khan, last Emir of Bukhara, is deposed.
1918
- November 30 - William II, last King of Württemberg, is deposed.
- November 22 - Frederick II, last Grand Duke of Baden, abdicates.
- November 13 - Ludwig III, last King of Bavaria, abdicates.
- November 12 - Charles I, last Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is forced into exile, effectively ending the empire.
- November 12 - Joachim Ernst, last Duke of Anhalt, abdicates.
- November 9 - Wilhelm II, last German Emperor and King of Prussia, abdicates.
- November 8 - Ernest Augustus, last Duke of Brunswick, abdicates.
1917
- July 12 - Puyi, last Emperor of China, abdicates for a second time after a brief restoration.
- March 16 - Michael II, technically the last Tsar of Russia, refuses to take the throne.
1916
- December 30 - Last imperial coronation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1912
- February 12 - Puyi, last Emperor of China, abdicates.
1911
- September 18 - Last coronation of a Nizam of Hyderabad.
1910
- October 4 - Manuel II of Portugal, that country's last king, is deposed.
- August 29 - Sunjong, last Emperor of Korea, abdicates.
1889
- 15 November - Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, last hereditary Monarch in Latin America, is deposed.
1867
- Maximilian I last Emperor of Mexico, is deposed and executed.
1865
- Jefferson Davis, last President of the Confederate States of America is deposed and arrested.
1830
- Charles X, last King of France, is deposed in the July Revolution.
1806
- August 6 - Emperor Francis II abdicates, formally dissolving the Holy Roman Empire.
1788
- November 2 - Cyrus Griffin, last President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation, serves his final day.[47]
1688
- December 11 - James II, last Roman Catholic King of England, Scotland and Ireland, is deposed.
1485
- August 22 - Richard III, last English king of the Plantagenet dynasty, is killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
1453
- May 29 - Constantine XI Palaeologus, last emperor of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire), dies defending Constantinople.
1074
- April 28 - Denmark's last Viking king, Sweyn II of Denmark, dies.
476
- September 4 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed.
Technology and commerce
2009
- June 12 - Last planned analog TV broadcast in the United States for full-power stations only.[48] "Low-power", "Class A" and "translator" analog stations may continue broadcasting and there is "no deadline for them to turn off their analog signals".[49]
2006
- March 17 - The last battleships to be in naval service (the USS Iowa (BB-61) and USS Wisconsin (BB-64)) are retired, although they had been decomissioned in the early 1990s[50].
- March 14 - A History of Violence becomes the last major Hollywood film to be released on VHS.[51]
- January 27 - Last telegram sent by Western Union.[52]
2004
- April 29 - Final production day for the Oldsmobile (General Motors) division product line; final car built is an Alero GLS 4-door sedan.
2003
1991
- December 4 - The last Pan Am flight, Flight 436.[53]
1980
- December 3 - Last American steam locomotive in regular service is retired by Northwestern Steel and Wire.[54]
1971
- January 1 - Last tobacco advertising on American television.[55]
1959
- November 19 - Last official day of production for the Ford Edsel (for 1960 models).
1944
- November 30 - Last launching of a battleship of the Royal Navy. The HMS Vanguard was launched.
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.[citation needed] (Semi-rigid zeppelins have since been manufactured, but in recent years.)
1927
- May 26 - Last Ford Model T manufactured.
See also
- List of first occurrences
- List of last living war veterans
- List of last surviving World War I veterans by country
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Further reading
- Corsinet: Unusual, unique, and uncommon facts about a diversity of subjects: The End: Famous Endings, the Last of Things
- Brahms, William B.; Notable Last Facts: A Compendium of Endings, Conclusions, Terminations and Final Events Throughout History ISBN 0-9765325-0-6
- Panati, Charles, "Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody", New York, New York: Harper and Row, 1989
- Slee, Christopher, "The Chameleon Book of Lasts", Huntington, England: Chameleon Publishing Ltd, 1990 ISBN 1-871469-31-7
- Slee, Christopher, "The Guinness Book of Lasts", Enfield, England: Guinness Publishing, 1994
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