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.

Chronological

2009

• February 17 - Last planned analog TV broadcast in the United States.

2008

• August 22 - Gladys Powers, last female veteran of World War I, dies at age 109.
• June 27 - Francesco Domenico Chiarello, last soldier to see action in both World Wars, dies at age 109.
• May 28 - Gyanendra abdicates as King of Nepal, dissolving the last Hindu monarchy.
• May 27 - Franz Künstler, last Central Powers combatant of World War I, dies at age 107.
• May 20 - Zelma Henderson, last plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, dies at age 88.
• May 12 - Irena Sendler, last member of Children's Section of the ?egota Council for Assistance to the Jews, dies at age 98.
• May 1 - Philipp von Boeselager, last member of the July 20 Plot, dies at age 90.
• April 14 - Ollie Johnston, last of Disney's Nine Old Men, dies at age 95.
• April 12 - Barbara McDermott, last American passenger of RMS Lusitania, dies at age 95.
• April 2 - Yakup Satar, last Turkish combatant of World War I, dies at age 110.
• February 6 - Tony Rolt, last survivor of the first F1 World Championship race, dies at age 89.
• January 21 - Marie Smith Jones, last native Eyak language speaker, dies in Alaska at age 89.
• January 12 - Stanis?aw Wycech, last Polish combatant of World War I, dies at age 105.
• January 11 - José Bello, last member of the "Generation of '27", dies at age 103.
• January 1 - Erich Kästner, last German combatant of World War I, dies at age 107.

2007

• October 17 - Joey Bishop, last surviving member of the Rat Pack, dies at age 89.^[1]
• October 2 - Lady Katherine Brandram, the last living great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, dies at age 94.^[2]
• July 23 - Mohammed Zahir Shah, last king of Afghanistan, dies at age 92. ^[3]
• May 27 - Wilhelm Remmert, last Eastern Front trench veteran of World War I, dies at age 107.
• April 9 - Prince Wilhelm Karl of Prussia, the last living grandchild of Kaiser Wilhelm II, dies at age 85.^[4]
• March 29 - Lloyd Brown, last surviving U.S. Navy veteran of World War I, dies at age 105.^[5]
• March 27 - Charlotte Winters, last surviving female U.S. veteran of World War I, dies at age 109.^[6]
• March 13 - Ekaterina Romanov de Farace di Villaforesta, last living member of the Russian imperial family born before the February Revolution, dies in Montevideo, Uruguay, at age 91.

2006

• December 26 - President Gerald Ford, last surviving central member of the Warren Commission, dies at age 93.
• September 1 - Nellie Connally, the last surviving passenger of the limousine in which John F. Kennedy was assassinated, dies at age 87.^[7]
• May 7 - Lillian Asplund, last American survivor of the Titanic, and last survivor to have memories of the event, dies at age 99.^[8]
• January 27 - Last telegram sent by Western Union.^[9]

2005

• December 23 - Yao Wenyuan, the last surviving member of the Gang of Four, dies at age 74.^[10]

2004

• January 26 - Adella Wotherspoon, last survivor of the General Slocum fire, dies at age 100.^[11]

2002

• March 30 - Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, last Empress of India, dies at age 101.
• May 16 - Alec Campbell, the last ANZAC at Gallipoli, dies at age 103.^[12]

1999

• December 20 - The Flag of Portugal is hoisted for the last time in Macau (China).
• December 20 - Last Portuguese Governor of Macau, Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira, steps down.

1997

• January 27 - Cecil Arthur Lewis, last WW1 fighter ace, dies at age 98.
• June 30 - Union Jack hoisted for the last time in Hong Kong.
• June 30 - Last British Governor of Hong Kong, Christopher Patten, steps down.

1995

• May 15 - Grace Hannagan Martyn, last survivor of the 1914 sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland, dies at age 88.

1991

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

1989

• March 14 - Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last empress of Austria-Hungary, dies at age 96.^[13]
• February 6 - Chris Gueffroy becomes the last person to die trying to cross the Berlin Wall.

1987

• August 17 - Rudolf Hess, last surviving defendant of the original Nuremberg Trials, last prisoner of Spandau Prison, and Hitler's last living lieutenant, dies in Spandau Prison at age 93. ^[14]

1983

• March 18 - Umberto II, the last King of Italy, dies.

1981

• January 3 - Princess Alice, the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, dies at age 97.^[15]

1980

• December 3 - Last American steam locomotive in regular service is retired by Northwestern Steel and Wire.^[16]

1978

• September 27 - August Sabbe, the last resistance fighter (Forest Brother) in Estonia and in the three Baltic States, is discovered and killed by KGB agents.

1974

• Unknown date - Lt. Hiroo Onoda becomes the last Japanese soldier to surrender after World War II, after hiding in the Philippines for nearly thirty years.^[17]

1971

• January 1 - Last tobacco advertising on American television.^[18]

1967

• October 17 - Puyi, last Emperor of China, dies in Beijing at age 61.^[19]

1955

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

1952

• February 6 - George VI of the United Kingdom, last Emperor of India and last King of Ireland (having lost those titles in 1947 and 1949 respectively), dies.

1950

• June 25 - Ella Florence Underwood, last original member of the Oneida Society, dies at age 100.^[20]

1941

• August 15 - Josef Jakobs becomes the last person to be executed in the Tower of London after his conviction under the Treachery Act 1940.^[21]

1936

• September 7 - Last Tasmanian Wolf dies in the Hobart, Tasmania zoo.^[22]
• August 14 - Rainey Bethea, last person to be publicly executed in the United States, is hanged.

1932

• July 2 - Manuel II, the last King of Portugal, dies in exile in England.

1927

• May 26 - Last Ford Model T manufactured.

1922

• November 1 - Mehmed VI, the last Sultan, abdicates and dissolves the Ottoman Empire.
• April 21 - Alessandro Moreschi, the last professional castrato, dies at age 63.

1917

• March 15 - Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, is forced to abdicate.

1916

• March 25 - Ishi, the "last wild Indian", dies.^[23]

1914

• September 1 - "Martha", world's last passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo.^[24]

1911

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

1899

• February 3 - Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, last veteran of Napoleon's army, dies at age 110.

1870

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

1836

• June 28 - James Madison, the last surviving signer of the United States Constitution, dies.

1832

• November 14 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signer of United States Declaration of Independence, dies.

1829

• March 5 - John Adams (mutineer), the last survivor of the HMS Bounty mutineers dies aged c. 61

1806

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

1788

• November 2 - Cyrus Griffin, last President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation, serves his final day. George Washington becomes the first President under the U.S. Constitution the following April 30.^[25]

1699

• November 28 - Mary Allerton, the last surviving Pilgrim from the Mayflower voyage of 1620, dies.^[26]

1520

• October 18 - Pier Gerlofs Donia, last king of Frisia, dies in his hometown of Kimswerd, Fryslan.

1453

• May 29 - Constantine XI Palaeologus, last emperor of the Byzantine Empire, dies defending Constantinople.

1074

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

476

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

Topical

Titanic survivors

• Living: Elizabeth Gladys Dean (born 2 February, 1912)
• United States: Lillian Gertrud Asplund, died May 7, 2006
• Male: Michel Marcel Navratil, died April 18, 2001

War Veterans

• American Revolutionary War
  • United States: Daniel F. Bakeman, died April 5, 1869

• War of 1812
  • United States: Hiram Cronk, died May 13, 1905

• Mexican-American War
  • United States: Owen Thomas Edgar, died September 3, 1929

• American Civil War
  • Union: Albert Woolson, died August 2, 1956
  • Confederate: Pleasant Crump, died December 31, 1951

• Franco-Prussian War
  • France: Thomas Guillaume Troubat, died March 9, 1954^[27]
  • Germany: Karl Glöckner, died October 3, 1953

• Spanish-American War
  • United States: Jones Morgan, died August 29, 1993 or Nathan E. Cook, died September 10, 1992

• Second Boer War
  • UK: George Frederick Ives, died April 12, 1993

• Finnish Civil War
  • Red Guards: Aarne Arvonen, still alive
  • White Guards: Lennart Rönnback, died November 4, 2007

• Irish War of Independence
  • IRA: Dan Keating, died October 2, 2007

• Polish-Soviet War
  • Poland: Josef Kowalski, still alive^[28]

• Turkish War of Independence
  • Turkey: Mustafa Sekip Birgol, still alive^[29]

• World War I
  • Last surviving World War I veteran by country

See also

• List of first occurrences
• Last surviving United States war veterans

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