List of notable surviving veterans of World War II

This is a list of notable surviving veterans of World War II (1939–1945).

Contents

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

• See also
• References
• External links

List

Total of 674 veterans listed

A

24 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Abdullah CD	October 2, 1923	Chairman and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Malaya	Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army	Federated Malay States
S. Daniel Abraham[1]	August 15, 1924	Businessman, philanthropist	US Army[2]	United States
Valdas Adamkus	November 3, 1926	President of Lithuania	Lithuanian resistance	Lithuania
Lee Adams	August 14, 1924	Musician	US Army	United States
Hans Albert	February 8, 1921	Philosopher	Heer	Germany
Marshall Allen	May 25, 1924	Musician	US Army	United States
Wolfgang Altenburg	June 24, 1928	General	Kriegsmarine	Germany
Walter Althammer	March 12, 1928	Politician	Heer	Germany
Aksel Andersen		Accused of War Crimes by SWC	Wehrmacht	Germany
James A. Andersen	September 21, 1924	Politician, judge	US Army	United States
Bud Anderson	January 13, 1922	Fighter pilot	US Army Air Forces	United States
William S. Anderson	March 29, 1919	President and chairman of the NCR Corporation	Royal Hong Kong Regiment	British Hong Kong
Valérie André	April 21, 1922	General, neurosurgeon, aviator	French Resistance	Free France
Roger Angell	September 19, 1920	Journalist	US Army	United States
Ray Anthony	January 20, 1922	Bandleader and trumpeter	US Navy	United States
Stefan Arczyński	July 31, 1916	Photographer	Luftwaffe Heer	Germany
George Ariyoshi	March 12, 1926	Governor of Hawaii (1974–1986)	US Army	United States
Michael Arnold	December 27, 1928	Professor	Heer	Germany
Stanisław Aronson	May 6, 1925	Order of Polonia Restituta recipient	Home Army	Poland
Austin Asche	November 28, 1925	Administrator of the Northern Territory, judge	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
Yitzhak Arad	November 11, 1926	Historian, author, general	Soviet partisans	Soviet Union
Helmut Ashley	September 17, 1919	Cinematographer	Wehrmacht	Germany
Vasily Astafyev	October 26, 1919	Soviet Army colonel; Hero of the Soviet Union	Red Army	Soviet Union
Roy Austen-Smith	June 28, 1924	RAF air marshal	Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve	United Kingdom

B

75 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Sheldon Bach	1925 (age 95–96)	Psychologist, psychoanalyst	US Armed Forces	United States
Robert L. Backman	March 22, 1922	Lawyer, politician	US Army	United States
Peter Badie	May 17, 1925	Jazz bass guitarist	US Navy	United States
Dave Bailey	February 22, 1926	Musician	US Army Air Forces	United States
Millie Bailey	February 3, 1918	Civil servant	Women's Army Corps	United States
Victor Balashov	December 24, 1924	Broadcaster	Red Army	Soviet Union
Walter Balderson	September 19, 1926	Television pioneer	US Navy	United States
Vincent Ball	December 4, 1923	Actor	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
Clinton Ballou	June 18, 1923	Biochemist, professor	US Navy	United States
James Bama	April 28, 1926	Artist	US Army Air Corps	United States
Bob Barker	December 12, 1923	Game show host	US Navy	United States
Haven J. Barlow	January 4, 1922	Politician	US Navy	United States
Phil Batt	March 4, 1927	29th Governor of Idaho	US Army Air Forces	United States
Karlheinz Bauer	April 24, 1928	Former head of Bauer Group	Heer	Germany
William Joseph Bauer	September 15, 1926	Federal judge	US Army	United States
Léonel Beaudoin	September 13, 1924	Politician	Canadian Army	Canada
Julius W. Becton, Jr.	June 29, 1926	American military officer, former FEMA director	US Army Air Corps	United States
Harry Belafonte	March 1, 1927	American singer	US Navy	United States
V.J. Bella	July 29, 1927	American politician	US Marine Corps	United States
Tony Bennett	August 3, 1926	Singer	US Army	United States
Paul Berg	June 30, 1926	Chemist	US Navy	United States
Alan Bergman	September 11, 1925	Songwriter	US Army	United States
Rasammah Bhupalan	May 1, 1927	Social activist	Indian National Army	Azad Hind
Ruth Bidgood	July 20, 1922	Poet, historian	Women's Royal Naval Service	United Kingdom
Max Bingham	March 18, 1927	Politician	Royal Australian Navy	Australia
Walter Bingham	1924 (age 96–97)	Journalist	British Army	United Kingdom
Bryan Harvey Bjarnason	April 2, 1924	Politician	Royal Canadian Air Force	Canada
Timuel Black	December 7, 1918	Historian, author, activist	US Army	United States
Benjamin B. Blackburn	February 14, 1927	Politician	US Navy	United States
Robert J. Blackwell	February 26, 1925	Government official	US Navy	United States
Eric Blackwood	December 7, 1921	Aviator	Royal Canadian Air Force Royal Air Force	Canada  United Kingdom
Simon Bland	1923 (age 97–98)	Courtier	British Army	United Kingdom
Harry Blank	May 24, 1925	Politician	Canadian Army	Canada
Hans Blohm	November 12, 1927	Photographer and author	Kriegsmarine	Germany
Hans Blum	May 23, 1928	Singer and Songwriter (Henry Valentino)	Kriegsmarine	Germany
Naftali Blumenthal	March 1, 1922	Politician	Haganah	Mandatory Palestine
Robert Bly	December 23, 1926	Poet	US Navy	United States
Ronald Blythe	November 6, 1922	Author		United Kingdom
Vittore Bocchetta	November 15, 1918	Sculptor, painter & academic	Italian Resistance	Italian Resistance
Emil Boček	February 25, 1923	Last surviving Czech RAF Pilot	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Werner Böcking	January 24, 1929 [3]	Archaeologist, author	Volkssturm	Germany
Gottfried Böhm	January 23, 1920	Architect	Heer	Germany
Daoud Bokhary	January 15, 1920	Businessman	British Indian Army	British India
Dave Bolen	December 23, 1923	Olympic runner and ambassador	US Army Air Forces	United States
Peter Jeffrey Booker	1924 (age 96–97)	Engineer, historian	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Jacques Borker	1922 (age 98–99)	Artist	French Resistance	Free France
George Boscawen, 9th Viscount Falmouth	October 31, 1919	British hereditary peer, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (1977–1994)	British Army	United Kingdom
Cloyd Boyer	September 1, 1927	Baseball player	US Navy	United States
Robert William Bradford	December 17, 1923	Artist	Royal Canadian Air Force	Canada
Lewis M. Branscomb	August 17, 1926	Scientist	US Navy	United States
Egidius Braun	February 27, 1925	President of the German Football Association	Wehrmacht	Germany
Ted E. Brewerton	March 30, 1925	General authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints	Royal Canadian Air Force	Canada
Denis Brian	December 11, 1923	Journalist, author	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Hugo Broch	January 6, 1922	World War II flying ace	Luftwaffe	Germany
Manuel Bromberg	March 6, 1917	Artist, professor	US Army	United States
Victor Brombert	November 11, 1923	Professor	US Army	United States
Mel Brooks	June 28, 1926	Director, actor, producer	US Army, Battle of the Bulge	United States
Bobby Brown	October 25, 1924	Baseball player	US Navy	United States
Bud Brown	June 18, 1927	Politician	US Navy	United States
Geoff Brown	April 4, 1927	Tennis player	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
June Brown	February 16, 1927	Actress	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Mervyn Brown	September 24, 1923	Diplomat, historian	British Army	United Kingdom
Stephen Brown	October 3, 1924	Judge	Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve	United Kingdom
Walt Brown	July 28, 1926	Politician	US Navy	United States
Andrew Bruce	February 17, 1924	11th Earl of Elgin	British Army, Scots Guards	United Kingdom
Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury	March 31, 1926	British peer, businessman	British Army	United Kingdom
Ashley Bryan	July 13, 1923	Children's book writer & illustrator; Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum	US Army	United States
Arthur E. Bryson	October 7, 1925	Control theorist	US Navy	United States
James L. Buckley	March 9, 1923	Politician; New York senator (1971–1977)	US Navy	United States
Frederick Buechner	July 11, 1926	Christian author, minister, and theologian	US Army	United States
Veljko Bulajić	March 22, 1928	Film director	Yugoslav Partisans	Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
Jack Burke, Jr.	January 29, 1923	PGA professional golfer	US Marine Corps	United States
Peter Burns	1924 (age 96–97)	Architect	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
Charles Burrell	October 4, 1920	Musician	US Navy	United States
Julian J. Bussgang	March 26, 1925	Mathematician, author	Polish Armed Forces in the West British Army	Poland  United Kingdom

C

39 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Robert Cardenas	March 10, 1920	General	US Army Air Forces	United States
Eric Carle	June 25, 1929	Children's author & illustrator	Dug trenches on the Siegfried Line	Germany
Harry Carmean	August 5, 1922	Painter	US Army	United States
Lou Carnesecca	May 1, 1925	Basketball coach	US Coast Guard	United States
Gerard Caris	March 20, 1925	Artist	US Marine Corps	United States
Jimmy Carter	October 1, 1924	39th U.S. President	US Navy	United States
Jean-Gabriel Castel	June 21, 1925	Law professor	French Resistance	Free France
Patrick Skene Catling	February 14, 1925	Journalist, author	Royal Canadian Air Force	Canada
Nadia Cattouse	November 2, 1924	Actress, singer, songwriter	Auxiliary Territorial Service	United Kingdom
Raymond Cauchetier	January 10, 1920	Photographer	French Resistance	Free France
Robert A. Chase	January 1, 1923	Surgeon, professor	US Army	United States
J. D. Chesswas	1919 (age 101–102)	Author, linguist	British Army	United Kingdom
Kenneth O. Chilstrom	April 20, 1921	Air force officer	US Army Air Corps	United States
Bob Chinn	March 2, 1923	Restaurateur	US Army	United States
Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher	April 25, 1925	Businessman, trade unionist, tax official	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Marc Clark	October 23, 1923	Sculptor	British Army	United Kingdom
Ramsey Clark	December 18, 1927	66th US Attorney General	US Marine Corps	United States
John B. Cobb	February 9, 1925	Theologian, philosopher, environmentalist	US Army	United States
Eric Cockeram	July 4, 1924	Member of Parliament		United Kingdom[4]
Sterling R. Cockrill	April 7, 1925	Politician, artist	US Navy	United States
Avern Cohn	July 23, 1924	Judge	US Army	United States
Marthe Cohn	April 13, 1920	Author, spy	French Army	France
Tony Collins	March 19, 1926	Football player, manager and scout	British Army	United Kingdom
Ena Collymore-Woodstock	September 10, 1917	Solicitor, magistrate	Auxiliary Territorial Service	United Kingdom
Leon Comber	September 20, 1921	Author	British Indian Army	British India
Fred Cone	June 21, 1926	American football player	US Army	United States
Robert H. Conn	June 8, 1925	Government official	US Navy	United States
Harry Connick Sr.	March 27, 1926	Attorney	US Navy	United States
Charles H. Coolidge	August 4, 1921	Medal of Honor recipient	US Army	United States
Jerome Coopersmith	August 11, 1925	Dramatist	US Army	United States
Tom Copeland	April 17, 1924	Politician	US Army	United States
John Thomas Copenhaver, Jr.	September 29, 1925	Federal judge	US Army	United States
Roger Corman	April 5, 1926	Filmmaker & actor	V-12 Navy College Training Program	United States
Jack Couffer	December 7, 1924	Cinematographer, director, author	US Army	United States
John Cruickshank	May 20, 1920	Recipient of the Victoria Cross	British Army Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Charles Csuri	July 4, 1922	Artist	US Army	United States
Iris Cummings	December 21, 1920	Olympic swimmer, Aviator	Women Airforce Service Pilots	United States
Peter Cundall	April 1, 1927	Host of Gardening Australia (1969–2008)	British Army	United Kingdom
Donald L. Custis	July 23, 1917	Surgeon General of the United States Navy	US Navy	United States

D

28 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Phyllis Dalton	October 16, 1925	Costume designer	Women's Royal Naval Service	United States
Ernest L. Daman	March 14, 1923	Mechanical engineer, businessman, inventor	US Army	United States
Henry Danton	March 30, 1919	Dancer, teacher	British Army	United Kingdom
Louis Danziger	November 17, 1923	Graphic designer, professor	US Army	United States
R. W. Davies	April 23, 1925	Professor	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Bob Dawson	January 3, 1921	Football player	Australian Army	Australia
Eddie Deerfield	August 24, 1923	Government official	US Army Air Corps	United States
Angelo Del Boca	May 23, 1925	Historian	Italian Resistance	Italian Resistance
Vincent DeRosa	October 5, 1920	Musician	US Army Air Corps	United States
Gene Derricotte	June 14, 1926	American football player, Tuskegee Airmen	US Army	United States
C. G. Devashar	June 19, 1924	Air marshal	Royal Indian Air Force	British India
George Dickson	September 27, 1923	Football player	US Army	United States
Allen Dines	November 20, 1921	Politician	US Navy Reserve	United States
Klaus von Dohnanyi	June 23, 1928	Politician, First Mayor of Hamburg	Volkssturm	Germany
Charles Dolan	October 16, 1926 (age 94)	Businessman, Philanthropist	US Army Air Force	United States
Bob Dole	July 22, 1923	US Senator (1969–1996); 1976 Republican vice-presidential nominee; 1996 Republican presidential nominee	US Army	United States
Lou Donaldson	November 1, 1926	Musician	US Navy	United States
William I. Donnermeyer Sr.	September 19, 1924	Politician	US Navy	United States
Harry Dornbrand	November 10, 1922	Aerospace engineer	US Navy	United States
Bruce L. Douglas	July 14, 1925	Politician	US Navy	United States
Karl-Heinz Drews	December 22, 1929	General	Volkssturm Wehrmacht	Germany
Roy Drinkard	July 12, 1920	Businessman	US Marine Corps	United States
Charles C. Droz	July 8, 1924	Politician	US Army	United States
Richard L. Duchossois	October 7, 1921	Sports businessman	US Army	United States
Patrick Duffy	June 17, 1920	President of the NATO Assembly	Fleet Air Arm	United Kingdom
Roland Dumas	August 23, 1922	Politician, lawyer	French Resistance	Free France
Charles Duncan, Jr.	September 9, 1926	Entrepreneur, statesman, and administrator	US Army Air Corps	United States
Winfield Dunn	July 1, 1927	Politician; Governor of Tennessee (1971–1975)	US Navy	United States

E

15 veterans

	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Guy Eby	November 9, 1918	Pilot	US Navy	United States
Ray Edenton	November 3, 1926	Musician	US Army	United States
Edwin Edwards	August 7, 1927	Governor of Louisiana (1972–1980, 1984–1988; 1992–1996); congressman from Louisiana (1965–1972)	US Navy	United States
James Francis Edwards	June 5, 1921	World War II flying ace	Royal Canadian Air Force	Canada
George Elder	March 10, 1921	Baseball player	US Marines	United States
Eberhard Eimler	November 30, 1930	General	Volkssturm	Germany
Alfred Einwag	March 18, 1928	Lawyer	Heer	Germany
Princess Elizabeth	April 21, 1926	Queen of the Commonwealth Realms	Colonel-in-Chief, Grenadier Guards and Auxiliary Territorial Service	United Kingdom
Billy Emerson	December 21, 1925	Singer, songwriter	US Navy	United States
Juan Ponce Enrile	February 14, 1924	Lawyer	Philippine Navy	Philippines
Jerald Ericksen	December 20, 1924	Mathematician	US Navy	United States
Carl Erskine	December 13, 1926	Baseball player	US Navy	United States
Daniel J. Evans	October 16, 1925	Politician; 16th Governor of Washington (1965–1977)	US Navy	United States
Klas Ewert Everwyn	March 10, 1930	Author	Volkssturm	Germany
Anthony Eyton	May 17, 1923	Artist	British Army	United Kingdom

F

27 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Bob Falkenburg	January 29, 1926	Tennis player, entrepreneur	US Army Air Forces	United States
Josef-Gerhard Farkas	July 13, 1929	Hungariologist	Volkssturm	Germany
Hubert Faure	May 28, 1914	Legion of Honour recipient, Member of Commando Kieffer	French Army Free French Army	France  Free France
Nicholas Felice	February 5, 1927	Politician	US Army	United States
Benjamin B. Ferencz	March 11, 1920	Lawyer; last living prosecutor at Nuremberg Trials	US Army	United States
Lawrence Ferlinghetti	March 24, 1919	Poet	US Navy	United States
David Ferry	March 5, 1924	Poet & professor	US Army Air Forces	United States
Edward Field	June 7, 1924	Poet & author	US Army Air Forces	United States
Frank Field	March 30, 1923	Meteorologist	US Army Air Forces	United States
Nathaniel Fiennes	September 22, 1920	British hereditary peer, businessman	British Army	United Kingdom
Mario Fiorentini	May 28, 1918	Partisan, mathematician	Italian Resistance	Italian Resistance
Bernhard Fisch	August 22, 1926	Writer	Wehrmacht	Germany
Leonard Everett Fisher	June 24, 1924	Children's writer & illustrator	US Army	United States
Jimmy Fitzmorris	November 15, 1921	Businessman, politician	US Army	United States
Sergio Flamigni	October 22, 1925	Politician & writer	Italian Resistance	Italian Resistance
Samuel C. Florman	January 19, 1925	Civil engineer, author	US Navy	United States
Loretta Ford	December 28, 1920	Nurse, Academic	US Army Air Forces	United States
Patrick Forrest	1923 (age 97–98)	Surgeon	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Wieland Förster	February 12, 1930	Painter, writer	Volkssturm	Germany
John S. Foster Jr.	September 18, 1922	Physicist	US Army Air Forces	United States
James Clayton Flowers	December 25, 1915	Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen	United States Army Air Forces	United States
Paul Fox	October 27, 1925	Television executive	British Army	United Kingdom
J. Keith Fraser	February 18, 1922	Physical geographer	Royal Canadian Air Force Royal Air Force	Canada  United Kingdom
Russell Freeburg	March 4, 1923	Editor of the Chicago Tribune	US Army	United States
Jean Frydman	June 26, 1925	Businessman	French Resistance	Free France
Daniel Fuller	August 28, 1925	Theologian	US Navy	United States
Andrew Fulton	January 23, 1927	Commander of Maritime Command (1980–1983)	Royal Canadian Navy	Canada

G

41 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Arnald Gabriel	May 31, 1925	Conductor of the US Air Force Band	US Army	United States
Samuel Rhea Gammon III	January 22, 1924	Ambassador	US Army	United States
Norman Garbo	February 15, 1919	Author & lecturer	US Army Air Forces	United States
Harold Garde	June 7, 1923	Artist	US Army Air Forces	United States
Bernard Garfield	March 27, 1924	Bassoonist	US Army	United States
Stanley Michael Gartler	June 9, 1923	Biologist & geneticist	US Army Air Forces	United States
Philippe de Gaulle	December 28, 1921	Inspector General, Senator and son of leader Charles De Gaulle	Free French Naval Forces	Free France
Léon Gautier	October 27, 1922	Legion of Honour recipient, Member of Commando Kieffer	Free French Naval Forces	Free France
Theodore H. Geballe	January 20, 1920	Physicist	US Army	United States
Hubert Germain	August 6, 1920	Former minister (1972–1974); Compagnon de la Libération	Free French Army	Free France
Eddie Germano	November 15, 1924	Cartoonist	US Army	United States
Harry Gesner	April 28, 1925	Architect	US Army	United States
Andrée Geulen-Herscovici	September 6, 1921	Member of the Comité de Défense des Juifs, helped rescue almost one thousand Jewish children	Belgian Resistance	Belgium
Roy Gibson	July 4, 1924	Aerospace engineer	British Army	United Kingdom
I. Leo Glasser	April 6, 1924	Judge	US Army	United States
Charles Godfrey	September 24, 1917	Physician, professor, politician		Canada
Howard Golden	1925 (age 95–96)	Politician	US Navy	United States
Harry E. Goldsworthy	April 3, 1914	Lieutenant General	US Army	United States
Wiesław Gołas	October 9, 1930	Actor	Gray Ranks	Poland
U. L. Gooch	September 13, 1923	Politician	US Army	United States
John B. Goodenough	July 25, 1922	Physicist, 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry	US Army	United States
Alfred T. Goodwin	June 29, 1923	Judge; 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (1971–1991)	US Army	United States
Bert I. Gordon	September 24, 1922	Film director; Village of the Giants, Empire of the Ants	US Army Air Corps	United States
Noah Gordon	November 11, 1926	Novelist	US Army	United States
René Henry Gracida	June 9, 1923	Bishop	Flying Tigers	United States
David E. Grange, Jr.	April 9, 1925	General	US Army	United States
Anatoli Granovsky	1922 (age 98–99)	Defected NKVD agent, author	Red Army	Soviet Union
John R. Gray	May 14, 1925	Politician	US Army	United States
Bill Grayden	August 5, 1920	Politician	Australian Army	Australia
Bill Greason	September 3, 1924	Baseball player	US Marine Corps	United States
Peter Green	December 22, 1924	Historian	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Russell H. Greenan	September 17, 1925	Author	US Navy	United States
Martin Greenberg	February 3, 1918	Poet, translator	US Armed Forces	United States
Maurice R. Greenberg	May 4, 1925	CEO of American International Group (1967–2005)	US Army	United States
Shecky Greene	April 8, 1926	Comedian	US Navy	United States
Stu Griffing	November 9, 1926	Olympic rower	US Army	United States
Hans-Werner Grosse	November 28, 1922	Aviator	Luftwaffe	Germany
Werner Grossmann	March 6, 1929	Former East German deputy leader of the Ministry of State Security	Volkssturm	Germany
Johnny Groth	July 23, 1926	Baseball player	US Navy	United States
Doris Grumbach	July 12, 1918	Writer	Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service	United States
Frank Joseph Guarini	August 20, 1924	Politician; New Jersey Representative (1979–1990)	US Navy	United States

H

38 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Barbara Hall	February 3, 1923	Crossword puzzle editor	Women's Royal Naval Service	United Kingdom
Gail Halvorsen	October 10, 1920	US Air Force pilot; Berlin Airlift "Candy Bomber"	US Army Air Forces	United States
Ian Hamilton	September 13, 1925	Lawyer, Scottish nationalist, participated in the removal of the Stone of Scone in 1950	British Army	United Kingdom
Walter Hanel	September 30, 1930	Political caricaturist	Volkssturm	Germany
Arnold Hano	March 2, 1922	Writer	US Army	United States
G. Homer Harding	December 7, 1925	Politician	US Army	United States
George Hardy	June 8, 1925	Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen	US Army Air Forces	United States
Robert Harlow	November 19, 1923	Writer, academic	Royal Canadian Air Force	Canada
Sheldon Harnick	April 30, 1924	Lyricist (Fiddler on the Roof)	US Army	United States
Ted Hartley	November 6, 1924	Pilot, banker, actor, film producer	US Navy	United States
Karl-Günther von Hase	December 15, 1917	German Ambassador to the UK (1970–1977)	Heer	Germany
Chris Haughey	October 3, 1925	Baseball player	US Army	United States
Helmut Hauptmann	March 12, 1928	Writer	Heer	Germany
Bill Hayes	June 5, 1925	Actor	US Naval Air Corps	United States
Thomas B. Hayward	May 3, 1924	Admiral	US Navy	United States
Eric Heath	November 28, 1923	Artist	Royal New Zealand Air Force	New Zealand
Robert Hébras	June 29, 1925	Oradour-sur Glane massacre survivor	French Resistance	Free France
Paul Hellyer	August 6, 1923	Engineer and politician	Canadian Army	Canada
John Hemingway	July 17, 1919	Pilot, last surviving member of "The Few" from the Battle of Britain	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Józef Hen	November 8, 1923	Writer	Polish People's Army	Poland
James Hennessy	September 26, 1923	Diplomat, prison official	British Army	United Kingdom
Werner Henninger	April 7, 1929	Admiral	Volkssturm	Germany
Laurin L. Henry	May 23, 1921	Researcher	US Navy	United States
Elwood Hillis	March 6, 1926	Indiana congressman (1971–1987)	US Army	United States
Cyril Hilsum	May 17, 1925	Physicist, academic	Royal Navy	United Kingdom}
Georg Himmelheber	August 4, 1929	Historian	Volkssturm	Germany
Stuart Hodes	November 27, 1924	Dancer, choreographer, writer	US Army Air Corps	United States
Horst-Klaus Hofmann	November 20, 1928	Secretary of the German YMCA	Heer	Germany
Earl Holliman	September 11, 1928	Actor	US Navy	United States
A. Linwood Holton, Jr.	September 21, 1923	Politician; governor of Virginia (1970–1974)	US Army	United States
Amos Horev	June 30, 1924	Military officer	Haganah	Mandatory Palestine
Ted Horlick	September 28, 1925	Admiral	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Thomas W. Horton	December 29, 1919	Pilot	Royal New Zealand Air Force	New Zealand
Tom Hughes	November 26, 1923	Politician	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
Evan Hultman	July 15, 1925	Politician	US Army	United States
Edwin Hunt	March 20, 1920	Queen's Bargemaster	British Army	United Kingdom
Francis Huré	October 5, 1916	Ambassador, writer	Free French Army	Free France
Harold Hyman	July 24, 1924	American Civil War historian	US Marine Corps	United States

I

3 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Paul Robert Ignatius	November 11, 1920	Government official	US Navy	United States
Paul Ioannidis	February 22, 1924	Businessman	Greek People's Liberation Army	Greece
Daniel Ivin	April 16, 1932	Writer	Yugoslav Partisans	Democratic Federal Yugoslavia

J

17 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Philip Jamison	July 3, 1925	Artist	US Navy	United States
Stephen A. Jarislowsky	September 9, 1925	Businessman, billionaire	US Army	United States
Alexander Jefferson	November 15, 1921	Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen	US Army Air Corps	United States
Edward B. Jelks	September 10, 1922	Archaeologist	US Navy	United States
William A. Jenkins	November 2, 1917	Admiral	US Coast Guard	United States
Karl Jetter	June 2, 1929	Journalist	Wehrmacht	Germany
Norman Jewison	July 21, 1926	Filmmaker	Royal Canadian Navy	Canada
David Johnson	1926 (age 94–95)	Photographer	US Navy	United States
Johnny Johnson	November 25, 1921	Last surviving British member of the Dambuster Raids	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Marilyn P. Johnson	June 19, 1922	Diplomat	US Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve)	United States
Bill Johnston	January 2, 1925	Golfer	US Navy	United States
Marshall Johnston	July 20, 1922	Diplomat	Australian Army	Australia
Dub Jones	December 29, 1924	American football player	US Navy	United States
Lawrence W. Jones	1925 (age 95–96)	Physicist, professor	US Army	United States
Raymond Jones	July 18, 1925	Architect	Royal Australian Navy	Australia
George Joseph	September 11, 1921	Founder of Mercury Insurance Group	US Army	United States
George Judge	May 2, 1925	Professor, econometrician	US Army Air Forces	United States

K

18 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Rajan Kadiragamar	1922 (age 98–99)	Admiral	Royal Ceylon Navy	Ceylon
Bernard Kalb	February 4, 1922	Journalist	US Army	United States
Adolfo Kaminsky	October 1, 1925	French resistance fighter, Forged documents that helped save 14,000 Jews from Holocaust	French Resistance French Army	Free France
Walter Kaufmann	January 24, 1924	Writer	Australian Army	Australia
Sydney Kentridge	November 5, 1922	Lawyer, judge	South African Army	South Africa
John Keston	December 5, 1924	Actor, singer, runner	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Witold Kieżun	February 6, 1922	Economist	Home Army	Poland
Elisabeth Kirkby	January 26, 1921	Actress, writer, broadcaster	Auxiliary Territorial Service	United Kingdom
Henry Kissinger	May 27, 1923	Statesman, Secretary of State (1973–1977), and Nobel Peace Prize recipient	US Army	United States
Helma Kissner	December 23, 1923 (age 96)	Accused of war crimes by SWC	Wehrmacht	Germany
Kazimierz Klimczak	February 15, 1914	Colonel, Oldest surviving participant of Warsaw Uprising	Polish Army Home Army	Poland
Ted Knap	May 26, 1920	Journalist	US Army	United States
Jill Knight	July 9, 1923	Politician, life peer	Women's Auxiliary Air Force	United Kingdom
Herbert Köfer	February 17, 1921	Actor	Wehrmacht	Germany
Barbara Kremen	1922 (age 98–99)	Writer	Women's Army Corps	United States
Herbert Kroker	August 24, 1929	Politician	Volkssturm	Germany
Hardy Krüger	April 12, 1928	German actor	Heer	Germany
Charlie Kulp	September 20, 1925	Aerobatic pilot	US Navy	United States

L

32 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Traute Lafrenz	May 3, 1919	Member of the White Rose		Germany
Robert J. Lagomarsino	September 4, 1926	Politician	US Navy	United States
Archie Lamb	October 23, 1921	Diplomat, writer and businessman	Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve	United Kingdom
Horst Langes	December 2, 1928	Member of state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate	Wehrmacht	Germany
Phyllis Latour	April 8, 1921	Legion of Honour recipient, member of the Special Operations Executive	Women's Auxiliary Air Force Special Operations Executive French Resistance	United Kingdom  Free France
Lothar Lauterbach	June 3, 1929	Artist		Germany
Peter Lax	May 1, 1926	Mathematician	US Navy	United States
Anthony Lazzaro	January 31, 1921	Academic	US Navy	United States
Norman Lear	July 27, 1922	Film & television producer; All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons	US Army Air Forces	United States
Nikolai Lebedev	December 15, 1921	Actor	Red Navy	Soviet Union
Jean Lee	July 26, 1924	Only woman of Chinese-Canadian descent to serve in RCAF	Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division	Canada
James Lees	February 14, 1924	Maritime expert, curator	Royal Navy British Merchant Navy	United Kingdom
Juhan Lepasaar	May 13, 1921	Writer, journalist, former Gulag prisoner	Forest Brothers Luftwaffenhelfer	Estonia  Germany
Ülo Lepik	July 11, 1921	Mathematician, academician	Schutzstaffel	Germany
Ted Lerner	October 15, 1925	Real estate developer, principal owner of the Washington Nationals	US Army	United States
Sonny Lester	November 15, 1924	Music producer	US Army	United States
Marv Levy	August 3, 1925	Football coach	US Army Air Corps	United States
Albert B. Lewis	October 16, 1925	Politician, lawyer	US Army	United States
Guenter Lewy	August 22, 1923	Author, professor	British Army	United Kingdom
Mark Litchman	April 14, 1925	Politician, lawyer	US Navy	United States
Peter Lloyd	December 15, 1920	Aviator	Australian Army	Australia
Nina Lobkovskaya	March 8, 1925	Sniper	Red Army	Soviet Union
Mujeeb Ahmad Khan Lodhi	1922 (age 98–99)	Admiral	Royal Indian Navy	British India
Dick Long	May 4, 1924	Politician	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
Elgen Long	August 12, 1927	Aviator, historian, author	US Navy	United States
Ernst Löschner	June 20, 1929	Conductor	Wehrmacht	Germany
David Elliot Loye	April 26, 1925	Author, psychologist	US Navy	United States
Dick Lucas	September 10, 1925	Anglican minister	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
William R. Lucas	March 1, 1922	Fourth director of the Marshall Space Flight Center	US Navy	United States
Johnny Lujack	January 4, 1925	Football player	US Navy	United States
Bernt H. Lund	August 14, 1924	Civil servant, diplomat, politician	Norwegian resistance movement	Norway
Ted Luscombe	November 10, 1924	Bishop, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church (1985–1990)	British Indian Army British Army	British India  United Kingdom

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79 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Terence Macartney-Filgate	August 6, 1924	Film director	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Ian Verner Macdonald	January 19, 1925	Diplomat, entrepreneur	Royal Canadian Air Force Royal Navy	Canada  United Kingdom
Maharram Mammadyarov	October 17, 1924	Chemist	Red Army	Soviet Union
Branko Mamula	May 30, 1921	Yugoslav Defense Minister (1982–1988)	Yugoslav Partisans	Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
George Mandel	February 11, 1920	Author	US Army	United States
Emil Mangelsdorff	April 11, 1925	Musician	Heer	Germany
Marion Mann	March 29, 1920	Physician, pathologist	US Army	United States
Josip Manolić	March 22, 1920	Politician; prime minister of the Republic of Croatia (1990–1991)	Yugoslav Partisans	Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
Leroy J. Manor	February 21, 1921	Air Force general	US Army Air Forces	United States
Robert Marchand	November 26, 1911	Cyclist	French Army	France
Irwin Marcus	March 18, 1919	Physician	US Army	United States
Joseph Margolis	May 16, 1924	Philosopher	US Army	United States
Lee Marmon	September 20, 1925	Photographer, artist	US Army	United States
Leslie Marr	August 14, 1922	Artist, racing driver, Baronet	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Steve Marsh	September 11, 1924	Australian rules football player	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
Peter Marshall	March 30, 1926	TV personality & actor	US Army[5]	United States
Ray Marshall	August 22, 1928	US Secretary of Labor (1977-1981)	US Navy	United States
Gordon Eugene Martin	August 22, 1925	Physicist, author	US Navy	United States
Knox Martin	February 12, 1923	Artist	US Coast Guard	United States
Mac Martin	April 26, 1925	Bluegrass musician	US Navy	United States
Angel Martín Taboas	June 18, 1918	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico	US Armed Forces	United States
Jaswant Singh Marwah	January 21, 1921	Journalist, author	British Indian Army	British India
Anthony Mason	April 21, 1925	Judge; ninth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
Miloslav Masopust	September 26, 1924	General	1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the USSR	Czechoslovakia
Joseph Matarazzo	November 12, 1925	Psychologist	US Navy	United States
Helmut Matheis	November 21, 1917	Typographer, calligrapher, graphic artist	Heer	Germany
Robert D. Maurer	July 20, 1924	Physicist	US Army	United States
Charlie Maxwell	April 8, 1927	Baseball Player	US Army	United States
Wendell Wise Mayes Jr.	March 2, 1924	Radio and television executive	US Navy	United States
Kenneth Mayhew	January 18, 1917	Knight of the Military William Order	British Army	United Kingdom
Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow	March 20, 1921	Director-general of UNESCO (1974–1987)	French Army Free French Army French Air Force	France  Free France
William V. McBride	May 25, 1922	General	US Army Air Forces	United States
Lloyd McCuiston	March 26, 1918	Politician	US Navy	United States
Charles McGee	December 7, 1919	Air Force officer, Tuskegee Airmen	US Army Air Forces	United States
Robert McGinnis	February 3, 1926	Artist, illustrator	US Merchant Marine	United States
Fred McLafferty	May 11, 1923	Chemist	US Army	United States
Art McNally	July 1, 1925	American football referee	US Marine Corps	United States
Francis Terry McNamara	November 2, 1927	Diplomat	US Navy	United States
Henry R. McPhee, Jr.	January 11, 1925	Special assistant to President Dwight Eisenhower	US Navy	United States
Kirke Mechem	August 16, 1925	Composer	US Army	United States
Hellmut Mehnert	February 22, 1928	Physician, professor	Volkssturm	Germany
Bill Mercer	February 13, 1926	Sportscaster, educator, & author	US Navy	United States
A. L. Mestel	September 17, 1926	Pediatric surgeon	US Navy	United States
Harald Metzkes	January 23, 1929	German painter	Heer	Germany
Ed Mickelson	September 9, 1926	Baseball player	US Army Air Forces	United States
J. William Middendorf II	September 22, 1924	Diplomat & politician	US Navy	United States
Larry Miggins	August 20, 1925	Baseball player	US Merchant Marine	United States
Jim Miller	May 30, 1919	Australian rules football player	Australian Army Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
John H. Miller	April 16, 1925	General	US Marine Corps	United States
Newton N. Minow	January 17, 1926	FCC chairman (1961–1963)	US Army	United States
Maria Mirecka-Loryś	February 7, 1916	Lawyer, journalist	Home Army	Poland
John Matthew Mitchell	March 22, 1925	Charity worker	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Hiroshi H. Miyamura	October 6, 1925	Medal of Honor recipient	US Army	United States
Sanford K. Moats	December 4, 1921	General	US Army Air Forces	United States
David O. Moberg	February 13, 1922	Sociologist	US Army	United States
Hans Modrow	January 27, 1928	Prime Minister of East Germany	Heer	Germany
Gwen Moffat	July 3, 1924	Climber, writer	Auxiliary Territorial Service	United Kingdom
Jürgen Moltmann	April 8, 1926	Protestant theologian	Wehrmacht	Germany
William Moncrief	March 27, 1920	Businessman, billionaire	US Naval Reserve	United States
Danny Roy Moore	August 9, 1925	Civil engineer, politician	US Army Air Corps	United States
Henry Moore	November 2, 1923	Bishop of Cyprus and The Gulf	British Army British Indian Army	United Kingdom  British India
Bobby Morgan	June 29, 1926	Baseball player	US Army	United States
Shigehiro Mori	January 7, 1928	General; Chief of the Joint Staff of the JSDF (1986–1987), Chief of Staff, JASDF (1983–1986)	Imperial Japanese Army	Japan
Edgar Morin	July 8, 1921	Philosopher & sociologist	French Resistance	Free France
Joseph Wilson Morris	April 28, 1922	Lawyer & federal judge	US Naval Reserve	United States
Addold Mossin	December 12, 1919	Neopagan priest	Finnish Army	Finland
Ben R. Mottelson	July 9, 1926	Physicist	US Navy	United States
Georg Müller	October 1, 1930	Mineralogist	Hitlerjugend	Germany
Henry J. Muller	September 16, 1917	General	US Army	United States
Paul Muller	March 11, 1923	Actor	French Army	France
Charlie Munger	January 1, 1924	Business magnate; vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway	US Army Air Corps	United States
Sumio Murai	February 1925	General; Chief of the Joint Staff of the JSDF (1983–1984), Chief of Staff, JGSDF (1981–1983)	Imperial Japanese Army	Japan
Tomiichi Murayama	March 3, 1924	Prime Minister	Imperial Japanese Army	Japan
David H. Murdock	April 11, 1923	Billionaire & businessman	US Army	United States
Austin Murphy	June 17, 1927	Member of U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania	US Marine Corps	United States
Thomas Murphy	May 31, 1925	Broadcasting executive	US Navy	United States
Tony Murray	February 8, 1920	Businessman, billionaire	French Army Royal Air Force	France  United Kingdom
David Musuguri	January 4, 1920	Chief of the Tanzania People's Defence Force(1980-1988)	British Army	United Kingdom
Gordon Mydland	May 12, 1922	Politician, lawyer	US Navy	United States

N

16 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Bill Nankivell	September 7, 1923	Politician	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
Giorgio Napolitano	June 29, 1925	11th President of Italy (2006–2015)	Italian Resistance	Italian Resistance
Lucien N. Nedzi	May 28, 1925	Politician	US Army	United States
Joe Negri	June 10, 1926	Musician, educator	US Army	United States
Aryeh Nehemkin	November 2, 1925	Politician	Haganah	Mandatory Palestine
Joan Neiman	September 9, 1920	Senator	Royal Canadian Navy (Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service)	Canada
Yakov Neishtadt	October 6, 1923	Chess player	Red Army	Soviet Union
Harvey Frans Nelson Jr.	January 6, 1924	Ambassador	US Navy	United States
Nerio Nesi	June 16, 1925	Politician, businessman, banker	Italian Resistance	Italian Resistance
Frederick M. Nicholas	May 30, 1920	Lawyer	US Army	United States
Artturi Niemelä	August 23, 1923	Homesteader and politician	Finnish Army	Finland
George Nigh	June 9, 1927	Politician	US Navy	United States
Ian Nish	June 3, 1926	Academic; specialist in Japanese studies	British Army	United Kingdom
Peter L. Nissen	January 8, 1924	Aviator and businessman	Norwegian resistance movement Royal Norwegian Air Force	Norway
John Albert Nordberg	June 18, 1926	Judge	US Navy	United States
Abdizhamil Karimuly Nurpeisov	October 22, 1924	Writer	Red Army	Soviet Union

O

10 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
René de Obaldia	October 22, 1918	Playwright & poet	French Army	France
Helmut Oberlander	February 15, 1924	Accused of war crimes by SWC	Heer	Germany
Makoto Ogawa	February 1917 (age 103–104)	Pilot	Japanese Imperial Army	Japan
David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie	May 17, 1926	Scottish peer, Lord Chamberlain of the Household	British Army	United States
Jiro Ono	October 27, 1925	Sushi Chef	Japanese Imperial Army	Japan
David Oreck	September 17, 1923	Entrepreneur	US Army Air Forces	United States
Edward Ormondroyd	October 8, 1925	Author	US Navy	United States
Virgil Orr	February 2, 1923	Professor, politician	US Army	United States
Hans Ots	December 5, 1921	Engineer, scientist	Schutzstaffel	Germany
Donald Owens	September 12, 1926	General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene	US Army	United States

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28 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Frank D. Padgett	March 9, 1923	Judge	US Army Air Forces	United States
Boris Pahor	August 26, 1913	Writer & publicist	Royal Italian Army Slovene Partisans	Italy  Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
Karolos Papoulias	June 4, 1929	Former President of Greece	Greek People's Liberation Army	Greece
Rudolph Pariser	December 8, 1923	Physicist & polymer chemist	US Army	United States
Deanie Parrish	1922 (age 99)	Congressional Gold Medal recipient	Women Airforce Service Pilots	United States
Victor Parsonnet	August 29, 1924	Surgeon	US Navy Reserve	United States
Johnny Pate	December 5, 1923	Bass player & arranger	US Army; played with the 218th AGF Army Band	United States
Alastair Craig Paterson	January 15, 1924	Civil engineer	British Army	United Kingdom
John Malcolm Patterson	September 27, 1921	Governor of Alabama (1959–1963)	US Army	United States
Philip Pearlstein	May 24, 1924	Modern Realist painter	US Army	United States
Raymond E. Peet	January 27, 1921	Admiral	US Navy	United States
Johnny Peirson	July 21, 1925	Hockey player	Canadian Army	Canada
Zbigniew Pełczyński	December 29, 1925	Political philosopher, academic	Polish Resistance	Poland
John Peoples	August 26, 1926	President of Jackson State University	US Marine Corps	United States
Simon Perchik	December 24, 1923	Poet	US Army Air Forces	United States
Solomon Perel	April 21, 1925	Holocaust survivor, author	Wehrmacht	Germany
Nehemiah Persoff	August 2, 1919	Actor; Some Like It Hot, Yentl	US Army	United States
Jack Petchey	July 19, 1925	Businessman	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Helmut Peters	July 23, 1930	Sinologist, Marxist	Volkssturm	Germany
Prince Philip	June 10, 1921	Duke of Edinburgh	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Leslie Phillips	April 20, 1924	Actor	British Army	United Kingdom
Muriel Phillips	1921 (age 99–100)	Author	US Army (nurse)	United States
Raimund Johannes Piirvee	March 1, 1923	Forester, ecologist	Schutzstaffel	Germany
Bill Pitman	February 12, 1920	Musician	US Armed Forces	United States
Sidney Poitier	February 20, 1927	Actor	US Army	United States
Wanda Półtawska	November 2, 1921	Subject of medical experiments in Ravensbrück concentration camp, author	Polish Resistance	Poland
Martin Pope	August 22, 1918	Physical chemist	US Armed Forces	United States
Aris Poulianos	July 24, 1924	Anthropologist & archaeologist	Greek People's Liberation Army	Greece

Q

1 veteran

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Al Quie	September 18, 1923	Governor of Minnesota (1979–1983)	US Navy	United States

R

31 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Keith Rae	July 30, 1917	Australian rules football player	Royal Australian Navy	Australia
Bhisadej Rajani	January 20, 1922	Member of the Thai royal family	British Army	United Kingdom
Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger	April 16, 1927	Pope Benedict XVI, the 265th Pope	Luftwaffenhelfer	Germany
Helmut Rasbol	1925 (age 95)	Accused of War Crimes by SWC	Wehrmacht	Germany
Arthur Ravenel, Jr.	March 29, 1927	Politician	US Marine Corps	United States
Dennis V. Razis	May 30, 1923	Oncologist	Greek Resistance	Greece
Vasily Reshetnikov	December 23, 1919	Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force	Soviet Air Forces	Soviet Union
Patrick Reyntiens	1925 (age 95–96)	Stained glass artist	British Army	United Kingdom
Madeleine Riffaud	August 23, 1924	Poet, journalist, & war correspondent	French Resistance	Free France
John Rigas	November 14, 1924	CEO of Adelphia (1952–2002)	US Army	United States
Basil Rigg	August 12, 1926	Cricket player	Australian Army	Australia
Fred Risser	May 5, 1927	Politician	US Navy	United States
Edward L. Rissien	October 1924 (age 96)	Film producer and executive	US Army Air Forces	United States
Johann Robert Riss	1921 (age 99)	Accused of War Crimes by SWC	Wehrmacht	Germany
John Roberts	April 4, 1924	Admiral	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Eddie Robinson	December 15, 1920	American baseball player, coach, and manager	US Navy	United States
Maria Lisa Cinciari Rodano	January 21, 1921	Politician	Italian Resistance	Italian Resistance
Arthur Rock	August 19, 1926	Businessman, investor	US Army	United States
Alan Rogers	December 31, 1924	Football manager	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Richard Rohmer	January 24, 1924	Military writer; Ultimatum	Royal Canadian Air Force	Canada
Charles P. Roland	April 8, 1918	Historian, professor	US Army	United States
Andrew Romanov	January 21, 1923	Pretender to the Russian throne	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Roy Roper	September 11, 1923	Rugby union player	Royal New Zealand Navy	New Zealand
Klaus Rose	June 3, 1928	Professor of economics	Heer	Germany
Justus Rosenberg	1921 (age 99–100)	Professor	French Resistance	Free France
J. Roy Rowland	February 3, 1926	Georgia congressman (1981–1995)	US Army	United States
Rudolf Rückert	January 15, 1929	Mayor of Salzgitter	Heer	Germany
Gerd Ruge	August 9, 1928	German journalist, author and filmmaker	Heer	Germany
Richard E. Rumble	October 26, 1922	Admiral	US Navy	United States
William Russell	November 19, 1924	Actor	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
F. James Rutherford	July 10, 1924	Science professor, radar officer	US Navy	United States

S

71 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Howard F. Sachs	September 13, 1925	Judge	US Navy	United States
Guy Sajer	January 13, 1927	Military writer	Wehrmacht	Germany
Alex Salaueu	September 13, 1926	Artist	Soviet partisans Red Army	Soviet Union
Agadadash Samedov	March 10, 1924	Order of Glory recipient	Red Army	Soviet Union
Sydney Samuelson	December 7, 1925	Film commissioner	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Ashot Sarkisov	January 30, 1924	Admiral, scientist	Red Army	Soviet Union
S. H. Sarma	December 1, 1922	Admiral	Royal Indian Navy	British India
Frank Saucier	May 28, 1926	Baseball player	US Navy	United States
Laurie Sawle	August 19, 1925	Cricket player	Australian Army	Australia
Henry Sayler	January 16, 1921	Politician	US Army Air Forces	United States
Norman Scarth	1925 (age 95–96)	Blogger & political candidate	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Art Schallock	April 25, 1924	Baseball player	US Navy[6]	United States
Harold Zvi Schiffrin	September 26, 1922	Professor	US Army	United States
Rolf Schimpf	November 14, 1924	German television actor		Germany
Walter Franz Schleser	October 25, 1930	Representative of the Vereinigung Heimatvertriebener Deutscher Studenten	Volkssturm	Germany
Helmut Schlesinger	September 4, 1924	President of the Deutsche Bundesbank		Germany
Friedrich-Wilhelm Schlomann	September 5, 1928	Journalist		Germany
Wolf Schneider	May 7, 1925	Journalist	Luftwaffe	Germany
Arnold Schulman	August 11, 1925	Writer	US Navy	United States
Harry D. Schultz	1923 (age 97–98)	Financial adviser, author	Heer	Germany
Wolfgang Schumann	June 5, 1929	Member of Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate	Wehrmacht	Germany
Bernard L. Schwartz	December 12, 1926	CEO of Loral Corporation (1972–2006)	US Army Air Corps	United States
Ted Schwinden	August 31, 1925	Politician; Governor of Montana (1976–1980)	US Army	United States
Vin Scully	November 29, 1927	Sportscaster	US Navy	United States
Simone Segouin	October 3, 1925	Resistance member	French Resistance	Free France
Vic Seixas	August 30, 1923	Tennis player	US Army Air Forces	United States
Charles Grier Sellers	September 9, 1923	Historian	US Army	United States
Sen Sōshitsu XV	April 19, 1923	Hereditary master of the Urasenke chanoyu school	Imperial Japanese Navy	Japan
Ralph Senensky[7]	May 1, 1923	TV director & writer	US Army	United States
Doc Severinsen	July 7, 1927	Trumpeter	US Army	United States
Frank Shakespeare	April 9, 1925	Diplomat, president of CBS	US Navy	United States
Edward Shames	June 13, 1922	Member of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment	US Army	United States
Bobby Shantz	September 26, 1925	Baseball player	US Army	United States
Pamela Sharples, Baroness Sharples	February 11, 1923	British peer	Women's Auxiliary Air Force	United Kingdom
Charles Norman Shay	June 27, 1924	Penobscot tribal elder, writer	US Army	United States
Jack Sheedy	September 28, 1926	Sportsman	Royal Australian Navy	Australia
Thomas D. Shepard	c. 1925	Politician	US Army	United States
Robert G. Shulman	March 3, 1924	Biophysicist	US Navy	United States
George P. Shultz	December 13, 1920	60th U.S. Secretary of State (1982–1989)	US Marine Corps	United States
Władysław Siemaszko	June 8, 1919	Author, Lawyer	Home Army	Poland
Leon Silver	April 9, 1925	Geologist	US Navy	United States
Maria Dorothea Simon	August 6, 1918	Sociologist	Auxiliary Territorial Service	United Kingdom
Edward H. Sims	May 29, 1923	Author	US Army Air Forces	United States
Kirpal Singh	September 5, 1925	Businessman	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
John K. Singlaub	July 10, 1921	Army general	US Army	United States
Arthur Smith	May 8, 1915	Football player	British Army	United Kingdom
Jeffrey G. Smith	October 14, 1921	General	US Army	United States
Neal Edward Smith	March 23, 1920	Politician; Iowa representative (1959–1995)	US Army Air Forces	United States
Robert M. Solow	August 23, 1924	Economist	US Army	United States
Gerhard Sommer	June 24, 1921	Accused of war crimes by SWC	Schutzstaffel	Germany
Mihai Șora	November 7, 1916	Philosopher, writer	French Resistance	Free France
Cecil Souders	January 3, 1921	Football player	US Navy	United States
Pierre Soulages	December 24, 1919	Painter and sculptor		France
Larry South	February 26, 1925	Politician	Canadian Army	Canada
Robert Hitchcock Spain	October 26, 1925	Bishop	US Navy	United States
Bill Spence	April 20, 1923	Writer	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Ronald Spiers	July 9, 1925	Diplomat; US Ambassador to Pakistan (1981–1983)	US Navy	United States
Peter Spoden	November 8, 1921	Night fighter ace	Luftwaffe	Germany
Richard T. Spooner	September 10, 1925	Author	US Marine Corps	United States
Wilfried Stallknecht	August 12, 1928	Architect and designer	Heer	Germany
Jeremiah Stamler	October 27, 1919	Cardiologist	US Army	United States
Irena Stankiewicz	February 28, 1925	Graphic artist	Home Army	Poland
Colin Stannard	February 8, 1924	Archdeacon of Carlisle	British Army	United Kingdom
Epaminondas Stassinopoulos	January 17, 1921	Astrophysicist	Greek Resistance	Greece
William L. Stearman	June 22, 1922	Government official, author	US Navy	United States
Willis H. Stephens, Sr.	June 7, 1925	Politician	US Army Air Forces	United States
Guy Stern	January 14, 1922	Literary scholar	US Army	United States
Alfred Stork	1923 (age 97)	Accused of War Crimes by SWC	Wehrmach	Germany
Heinz Stöcker	January 22, 1929	General	Volkssturm	Germany
Larry Storch	January 8, 1923	Comedian and Actor; TV's F Troop	US Navy	United States
Lyle Elmer Strom	January 6, 1925	Judge	US Naval Reserve	United States

T

20 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Sulev Tailo	December 2, 1920	Poet, artist	Finnish Army	Finland
Igal Talmi	January 31, 1925	Nuclear physicist	Haganah	Mandatory Palestine
Cyril Tamplin	May 27, 1921	Cricketer	British Armed Forces	United Kingdom
Jiro Tanaka	January 16, 1917	Aircraft & automotive engineer	Imperial Japanese Army	Japan
Maurice Taylor	May 5, 1926	Bishop	British Army	United Kingdom
Mikis Theodorakis	July 29, 1925	Songwriter & composer	Greek People's Liberation Army	Greece
Wayne Thiebaud	November 15, 1920	Pop art painter	US Army Air Corps	United States
Fletcher Thompson	February 5, 1925	Politician & lawyer	US Army Medical Corps & US Army Air Corps	United States
Tim Thompson	March 1, 1924	Major League baseball player	US Army	United States
John Thorn	April 28, 1925	Headmaster, writer	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Dan Tolkowsky	January 17, 1921	Commander of the Israeli Air Force	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Aldo Tortorella	July 10, 1926	Journalist & politician	Italian Resistance	Italian Resistance
Simon Towneley	December 14, 1921	Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (1976–1997)	British Army	United Kingdom
Krastyu Trichkov	April 12, 1923	Politician	Bulgarian Resistance	Bulgaria
Vance Trimble	July 6, 1913	Journalist	US Army	United States
Charley Trippi	December 14, 1921	Football player	US Army Air Corps	United States
Ankica Tuđman	July 24, 1926	First Lady of Croatia	Yugoslav Partisans	Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
Joe Turkel	July 15, 1927	Actor	US Army	United States
Ralph Turlington	October 5, 1920	Politician	US Armed Forces	United States
James Wesley Turpin	December 18, 1928	Founder of Project Concern International, physician, activist	US Navy	United States

U

1 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Yosh Uchida	April 1, 1920	Sports businessman, entrepreneur, & engineer	US Army	United States

V

11 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Tony Vaccaro	December 20, 1922	Photographer	US Army	United States
Jaakko Valtanen	February 9, 1925	General	Finnish Defence Forces	Finland
Ronald R. Van Stockum	July 8, 1916	General	US Marine Corps	United States
Joe Vancisin	June 4, 1922	Basketball coach and executive	US Army Air Forces	United States
Dick Van Dyke	December 13, 1925	Actor and comedian	US Army Air Corps	United States
Enrico Vanzini	November 18, 1922	Holocaust survivor; last Italian sonderkommando	Royal Italian Army	Italy
Thomas Franklin Vaughns	July 12, 1920 (age 100)	Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen	United States Army Air Force	United States
Henri Vernes	October 16, 1918	Action and science-fiction writer	Belgian Army	Belgium
George S. Vest	December 25, 1918	Diplomat	US Army	United States
Robert-Rudolf Volk	February 8, 1921	Sculptor and the oldest member of Estonian Defence League	Estonian Defence League Schutzmannschaft Forest Brothers	Estonia  Germany
Inez Voyce	August 16, 1924	Baseball player	US Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve)	United States

W

38 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Angel Wagenstein	October 17, 1922	Film director, author	Bulgarian Resistance	Bulgaria
Murray Walker	October 10, 1923	Formula One motorsport commentator & journalist	British Army	United Kingdom
Joe Wallach	September 10, 1923	Businessman	US Army	United States
Martin Walser	March 24, 1927	Writer	Heer	Germany
Sidney Walton	February 11, 1919	Participated in the coin flip for Super Bowl LIV	US Army	United States
Wan Haifeng	September 1920 (age 100)	General	Red Army	Republic of China
John Warner	February 18, 1927	Politician	US Navy	United States
Stan Waterman	April 5, 1923	Cinematographer	US Navy	United States
Josser Watling	May 11, 1925	Association football player	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Billy Watson	December 25, 1923	Child actor	US Army[8]	United States
Donald J. Watt	August 10, 1918	Author	Australian Army	Australia
William H. Webster	March 26, 1924	3rd F.B.I. Director, 10th C.I.A. Director and Chairperson of the Homeland Security Advisory Council	US Navy	United States
George Wein	October 3, 1925	Jazz promoter and producer	US Army	United States
Jack B. Weinstein	August 10, 1921	Federal judge	US Navy	United States
Jimmy Weldon	September 23, 1923	Voice actor & ventriloquist	US Army Air Corps[9]	United States
Harry W. Wellford	August 6, 1924	Judge	US Navy	United States
Paul W. Whear	November 13, 1925	Composer	US Navy	United States
Lloyd F. Wheat	April 27, 1923	Lawyer, politician	US Army	United States
Alan White	1924 (age 96–97)	Writer		United Kingdom
John White	1924 (age 96–97)	Art historian	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
G. William Whitehurst	March 12, 1925	Politician	US Navy	United States
Leopold Wiel	May 14, 1916	Architect and professor	Wehrmacht	Germany
Stephen Wilkinson	April 29, 1919	Musician	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
E. J. Williams	January 28, 1918	Politician	Canadian Army	Canada
Joseph G. Williams	July 1, 1920	Musician	US Army	United States
Hershel W. Williams	October 2, 1923	Medal of Honor recipient	US Marine Corps	United States
G. I. Williamson	May 19, 1925	Theologian, pastor, author	US Army	United States
Oscar Lawton Wilkerson	February 9, 1926 (age 94)	Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen	United States Army Air Forces	United States
Dennis Wilson	June 1921 (age 99)	Poet	British Army	United Kingdom
Edwin Wilson	February 1, 1923	Professor	US Navy	United States
Charley Winner	July 2, 1924	Football player	US Army Air Forces	United States
Graham Winteringham	March 2, 1922	Architect	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Louis Witten	April 13, 1921	Theoretical physicist	US Army Air Forces	United States
Dale E. Wolf	September 6, 1924	Governor of Delaware (1992–1993)	US Army	United States
Lester L. Wolff	January 4, 1919	US House of Representative member from New York	US Air Force Auxiliary	United States
Woody Woodbury	February 9, 1924	Comedian & actor	US Marine Corps	United States
Oscar Wyatt	July 11, 1924	Businessman	US Army Air Corps	United States
Bill Wynne	March 29, 1922	Former owner of Smoky the dog, author	US Army Air Forces	United States

X

1 veteran

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Alex Xydias	March 22, 1922	Auto racing driver	US Army Air Forces	United States

Y

5 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Earl P. Yates	December 23, 1923	Admiral	US Navy	United States
Barbara Yeaman	December 16, 1924	Conservationist	Women Airforce Service Pilots	United States
Tom York	November 30, 1924	TV personality	US Navy	United States
Robert M. Young	November 22, 1924	Director, screenwriter, cinematographer, producer	US Navy	United States
Ihor Yukhnovskyi	September 1, 1925	Physicist, politician	Red Army	Soviet Union

Z

5 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Zvi Zamir	March 3, 1925	General	Haganah	Mandatory Palestine
Donald Zec	March 12, 1919	Journalist	British Army	United Kingdom
Franklin B. Zimmerman	June 20, 1923	Musicologist, conductor	US Army	United States
Zou Jiahua	October 1926 (age 94)	Politician	National Revolutionary Army	Republic of China
Leszek Żukowski	February 11, 1929	President of World Association of Home Army Soldiers	Gray Ranks	Poland

See also

• List of last surviving veterans of military insurgencies and wars

References

1. "S. Daniel Abraham, $1.5 billion – In Photos: The 17 Richest Living Veterans". Forbes. July 25, 2011. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
2. Broward Sun Sentinel: "S. Daniel Abraham: Philanthropist and peace maker" by Shani McManus April 20, 2010
3. "Rastloser Chronist seiner Heimatstadt". rp-online.de (in German). 24 January 2019.
4. "75th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings | WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO". ukwhoswho.com. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
5. "NARA – AAD – Display Full Records – Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938 – 1946 (Enlistment Records)". Aad.archives.gov. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
6. Baseball in Wartime
7. "NARA – AAD – Display Full Records – Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938 – 1946 (Reserve Corps Records)". Aad.archives.gov. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
8. "William Watson Military Record". National Archives. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
9. "NARA – AAD – Display Full Records – Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938 – 1946 (Enlistment Records)". Aad.archives.gov. Retrieved 2014-03-12.

External links

• Football and America: World War II