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

• 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.

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.

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, Yvonne Shima, 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 film Dracula.
• Sir Michael Caine, Peter Gill and Denys Graham 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 and William Russell are the last surviving credited cast members 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?
• Duke Fakir, who still performs with the group, is the last surviving original member of the American group, the Four Tops.

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]

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.

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.

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.

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 on record to be officially publicly executed in the United States, is hanged.

1938

• 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 British or Irish 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

• 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]
• 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.

1960

• 7 June - HMS Vanguard, the Royal Navy's last battleship, 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.

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.

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.

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.

1793

• 1 February - William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington, last surviving member of the Duke of Newcastle's cabinet in the British government of 1757−1762, dies at the age of 76.

1803

• 26 October - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, last surviving member of the Duke of Newcastle's cabinet in the British government of 1754−1756 and Duke of Devonshire's cabinet in the government of 1756−1757 and caretaker cabinet of 1757 and last surviving original member of Lord North's cabinet in the government of 1770−1782, dies at the age of 82.

1811

• 14 March - Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, last surviving member of the Marquess of Rockingham's cabinet in the British government of 1765−1766, the Earl of Chatham's cabinet in the government of 1766−1768, his own cabinet in the government of 1768−1770, Lord North's cabinet in the government of 1770−1782, the Marquess of Rockingham's cabinet in the government of 1782 and the Earl of Shelburne's cabinet in the government of 1782−1783, dies at the age of 75.

1813

• 11 February - George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham, last surviving original member of William Pitt the Younger's cabinet in the British government of 1783−1801, dies at the age of 59.

1817

• 29 January - George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, last surviving member of the Earl of Bute's cabinet in the British government of 1762−1763 and George Grenville's cabinet in the government of 1763−1765, 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.

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, Michael Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, and Sir John Nott are the last surviving members of Margaret Thatcher's first cabinet in the British Conservative government of 1979–1983.
• Sir John Nott is the last surviving member of Margaret Thatcher's war cabinet in the Falklands War.
• 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.

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, Dino Sani and Mário Zagallo 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.

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.^[123]
• 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.^[124]

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.^[125]

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.^[126]

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.^[127]

1991

• 4 December - The last Pan Am flight, Flight 436, flies from Bridgetown, Barbados, to Miami, Florida.^[128]

1998

• Unknown date - Fair Isle South Lighthouse is the last lighthouse operated by the Northern Lighthouse Board to be automated.^[129]

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.^[130]

See also

• List of the last monarchs in the Americas
• List of last living war veterans
• List of last surviving World War I veterans by country
• List of last surviving veterans of military insurgencies and wars
• List of last surviving veterans of military operations

References

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
• Lutz, Stuart, "The Last Leaf: Voices of History's Last-Known Survivors", New York [Prometheus Books], 2010

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