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This is a list of '''notable surviving veterans of World War II''' (1939–1945). A total of 500 veterans are listed.
This is a list of '''notable surviving veterans of World War II''' (1939–1945). A total of 223 veterans are listed.


== A ==
== A ==
20 veterans
11 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Veteran
!Veteran
!Birth
!Born
!Notability
!Notability
!Service
!Service
!Country
!Country
|-
!Age
|{{wp|Abdullah CD}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|10|2}}
|Chairman and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Malaya
|Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army
|Federated Malay States
|-
|-
|{{wp|S. Daniel Abraham}}
|{{wp|S. Daniel Abraham}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|8|15}}
|August 15, 1924
|Businessman, philanthropist
|Businessman, philanthropist
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|8|15}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Valdas Adamkus}}
|{{wp|Valdas Adamkus}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|11|3}}
|November 3, 1926
|President of Lithuania
|President of Lithuania
|Lithuanian resistance
|Lithuanian resistance
|Lithuania
|Lithuania
|{{age in years and days|1926|11|3}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Lee Adams}}
|{{wp|Lee Adams}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|8|14}}
|August 14, 1924
|Musician
|Musician
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|-
|{{age in years and days|1924|8|14}}
|{{wp|Hans Albert}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|2|8}}
|Philosopher
|Heer
|Germany
|-
|-
|{{wp|Marshall Allen}}
|{{wp|Marshall Allen}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|5|25}}
|May 25, 1924
|Musician
|Musician
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|-
|{{age in years and days|1924|5|25}}
|{{wp|Wolfgang Altenburg}}
|{{birth date and age|1928|6|24}}
|General
|Kriegsmarine
|Germany
|-
|-
|{{wp|Walter Althammer}}
|{{wp|Walter Althammer}}
|{{birth date and age|1928|3|12}}
|March 12, 1928
|Politician
|Politician
|Heer
|Heer
|Germany
|Germany
|-
|{{age in years and days|1928|3|12}}
|[https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Andersen Aksel Andersen]
|1924/1925 (age 96–97)
|Accused of War Crimes by SWC
|Wehrmacht
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|James A. Andersen}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|9|21}}
|Politician, judge
|US Army
|United States
|-
|-
|{{wp|Bud Anderson}}
|{{wp|Bud Anderson}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|1|13}}
|January 13, 1922
|Fighter pilot
|Fighter pilot
|US Army Air Forces
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|United States
|-
|{{age in years and days|1922|1|13}}
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Andrä Erwin Andrä]
|{{birth date and age|1921|5|20}}
|Designer
|Wehrmacht
|Germany
|-
|-
|{{wp|Valérie André}}
|{{wp|Valérie André}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|4|21}}
|April 21, 1922
|General, neurosurgeon, aviator
|General, neurosurgeon, aviator
|French Resistance
|French Resistance
|Free France
|Free France
|-
|{{age in years and days|1922|4|21}}
|{{wp|Roger Angell}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|9|19}}
|Journalist
|US Army
|United States
|-
|-
|{{wp|Ray Anthony}}
|{{wp|Ray Anthony}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|1|20}}
|January 20, 1922
|Bandleader and trumpeter
|Bandleader and trumpeter
|US Navy
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|-
|{{age in years and days|1922|1|20}}
|{{wp|Stefan Arczyński}}
|{{birth date and age|1916|7|31}}
|Photographer
|Luftwaffe
Heer
|Germany
|-
|-
|{{wp|George Ariyoshi}}
|{{wp|George Ariyoshi}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|3|12}}
|March 12, 1926
|Governor of Hawaii (1974–1986)
|Governor of Hawaii (1974–1986)
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|3|12}}
|-
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Arnold_(Mediziner) Michael Arnold]
|{{wp|Stanisław Aronson}}
|{{birth date and age|1928|12|27}}
|May 6, 1925
|Professor
|Order of Polonia Restituta recipient
|Heer
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Stanisław Aronson}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|5|6}}
|Order of Polonia Restituta recipient
|Home Army
|Home Army
|Poland
|Poland
|{{age in years and days|1925|5|6}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Austin Asche}}
|{{wp|Austin Asche}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|11|28}}
|November 28, 1925
|Administrator of the Northern Territory, judge
|Administrator of the Northern Territory, judge
|Royal Australian Air Force
|Royal Australian Air Force
|Australia
|Australia
|{{age in years and days|1925|11|28}}
|}
|}


== B ==
== B ==
57 veterans
21 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Veteran
!Veteran
!Birth
!Born
!Notability
!Notability
!Service
!Service
!Country
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|{{wp|Robert L. Backman}}
|{{wp|Vincent Ball}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|3|22}}
|December 4, 1923
|Lawyer, politician
|Actor
|US Army
|Royal Australian Air Force
|United States
|Australia
|{{age in years and days|1923|12|4}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Peter Badie}}
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Bauer_(Unternehmer) Karlheinz Bauer]
|{{birth date and age|1925|5|17}}
|April 24, 1928
|Jazz bass guitarist
|Former head of Bauer Group
|US Navy
|Heer
|United States
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1928|4|24}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Dave Bailey (musician)|Dave Bailey}}
|{{wp|William J. Bauer}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|2|22}}
|September 15, 1926
|Musician
|Federal judge
|US Army Air Forces
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|9|15}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Millie Bailey}}
|{{wp|V. J. Bella}}
|{{birth date and age|1918|2|3}}
|July 29, 1927
|Civil servant
|American politician
|Women's Army Corps
|US Marine Corps
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1927|7|29}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Walter Balderson}}
|{{wp|Alan and Marilyn Bergman|Alan Bergman}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|9|19}}
|September 11, 1925
|Television pioneer
|Songwriter
|US NavyThomas W. Horton deceased
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|9|11}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Vincent Ball}}
|{{wp|Rasammah Bhupalan}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|12|4}}
|May 1, 1927
|Actor
|Social activist
|Royal Australian Air Force
|Indian National Army
|Australia
|Azad Hind
|{{age in years and days|1927|5|1}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|James Bama}}
|{{wp|Walter Bingham (journalist)|Walter Bingham}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|4|28}}
|January 5, 1924
|Artist
|US Army Air Corps
|United States
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Banaschewski Bernhard Banaschewski]
|{{birth date and age|1926|3|22}}
|Mathematician
|Luftwaffenhelfer
|Germany
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Barbarino Rudolf Barbarino]
|{{birth date and age|1920|3|19}}
|Journalist
|Journalist
|Heer
|British Army
|Germany
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1924|1|5}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Bob Barker}}
|{{wp|Benjamin B. Blackburn}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|12|12}}
|February 14, 1927
|Game show host
|Politician
|US Navy
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1927|2|14}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Phil Batt}}
|{{wp|Eric Blackwood}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|3|4}}
|December 7, 1921
|29th Governor of Idaho
|Aviator
|US Army Air Forces
|Royal Canadian Air Force
|United States
Royal Air Force
|-
|Canada
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Bauer_(Unternehmer) Karlheinz Bauer]
United Kingdom
|{{birth date and age|1928|4|24}}
|{{age in years and days|1921|12|7}}
|Former head of Bauer Group
|Heer
|Germany
|-
|-
|{{wp|William J. Bauer}}
|{{wp|Harry Blank}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|9|15}}
|May 24, 1925
|Federal judge
|Politician
|US Army
|Canadian Army
|United States
|Canada
|{{age in years and days|1925|5|24}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Julius W. Becton Jr.}}
|{{wp|Daoud Bokhary}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|6|29}}
|January 15, 1920
|American military officer, former FEMA director
|Businessman
|US Army Air Corps
|British Indian Army
|United States
|British India
|{{age in years and days|1920|1|15}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Harry Belafonte}}
|{{wp|Jacques Borker}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|3|1}}
|September 29, 1922
|American singer
|Artist
|US Navy
|French Resistance
|United States
|Free France
|{{age in years and days|1922|9|29}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|V.J. Bella}}
|{{wp|Hugo Broch}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|7|29}}
|January 6, 1922
|American politician
|World War II flying ace
|US Marine Corps
|Luftwaffe
|United States
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1922|1|6}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Tony Bennett}}
|{{wp|Victor Brombert}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|8|3}}
|November 11, 1923
|Singer
|Professor
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1923|11|11}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Paul Berg}}
|{{wp|Mel Brooks}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|6|30}}
|June 28, 1926
|Chemist
|Director, actor, producer
|US Navy
|US Army, Battle of the Bulge
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|6|28}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Alan Bergman}}
|{{wp|Stephen Brown (judge)|Stephen Brown}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|9|11}}
|October 3, 1924
|Songwriter
|Judge
|US Army
|Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Rasammah Bhupalan}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|5|1}}
|Social activist
|Indian National Army
|Azad Hind
|-
|{{wp|Walter Bingham (journalist)|Walter Bingham}}
|1924 (age 96–97)
|Journalist
|British Army
|United Kingdom
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1924|10|3}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Bryan Harvey Bjarnason}}
|{{wp|Walt Brown (politician)|Walt Brown}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|4|2}}
|July 28, 1926
|Politician
|Politician
|Royal Canadian Air Force
|US Navy
|Canada
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|7|28}}
|-
|{{wp|Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin}}
|February 17, 1924
|11th Earl of Elgin
|British Army, Scots Guards
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1924|2|17}}
|-
|{{wp|Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury}}
|March 31, 1926
|British peer, businessman
|British Army
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1926|3|31}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Benjamin B. Blackburn}}
|{{wp|Arthur E. Bryson}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|2|14}}
|October 7, 1925
|Politician
|Control theorist
|US Navy
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|10|7}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Robert J. Blackwell}}
|{{wp|Charles Burrell (musician)|Charles Burrell}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|2|26}}
|October 4, 1920
|Government official
|Musician
|US Navy
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1920|10|4}}
|}
== C ==
15 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Born
!Notability
!Service
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|{{wp|Eric Blackwood}}
|{{wp|Gerard Caris}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|12|7}}
|March 20, 1925
|Aviator
|Artist
|US Marine Corps
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|3|20}}
|-
|{{wp|Lou Carnesecca}}
|January 5, 1925
|Basketball coach
|US Coast Guard
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|1|5}}
|-
|{{wp|Jimmy Carter}}
|October 1, 1924
|39th U.S. President
|US Navy
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|10|1}}
|-
|{{wp|Patrick Skene Catling}}
|February 14, 1925
|Journalist, author
|Royal Canadian Air Force
|Royal Canadian Air Force
Royal Air Force
|Canada
|Canada
United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1925|2|14}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Simon Bland}}
|{{wp|Nadia Cattouse}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|12|4}}
|November 2, 1924
|Courtier
|Actress, singer, songwriter
|British Army
|Auxiliary Territorial Service
|United Kingdom
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1924|11|2}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Harry Blank}}
|{{wp|Robert A. Chase}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|5|24}}
|January 6, 1923
|Politician
|Surgeon, professor
|Canadian Army
|US Army
|Canada
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1923|1|6}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Hans Blum}}
|{{wp|Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher}}
|{{birth date and age|1928|5|23}}
|April 25, 1925
|Singer and Songwriter (Henry Valentino)
|Businessman, trade unionist, tax official
|Kriegsmarine
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Ronald Blythe}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|11|6}}
|Author
|
|United Kingdom
|-
|[https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Boček Emil Boček]
|{{birth date and age|1923|2|25}}
|Last surviving Czech RAF Pilot
|Royal Air Force
|Royal Air Force
|United Kingdom
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1925|4|25}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Daoud Bokhary}}
|{{wp|John B. Cobb}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|1|15}}
|February 9, 1925
|Businessman
|Theologian, philosopher, environmentalist
|British Indian Army
|US Army
|British India
|-
|{{wp|Dave Bolen}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|12|23}}
|Olympic runner and ambassador
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|2|9}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Jacques Borker}}
|{{wp|Marthe Cohn}}
|1922 (age 98–99)
|April 13, 1920
|Artist
|Author, spy
|French Resistance
|French Army
|Free France
|France
|{{age in years and days|1920|4|13}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|George Boscawen, 9th Viscount Falmouth}}
|{{wp|Ena Collymore-Woodstock}}
|{{birth date and age|1919|10|31}}
|September 10, 1917
|British hereditary peer, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (1977–1994)
|Solicitor, magistrate
|British Army
|Auxiliary Territorial Service
|United Kingdom
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1917|9|10}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Robert William Bradford}}
|{{wp|Tom Copeland}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|12|17}}
|April 17, 1924
|Artist
|Politician
|Royal Canadian Air Force
|US Army
|Canada
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|4|17}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Lewis M. Branscomb}}
|{{wp|John Thomas Copenhaver Jr.}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|8|17}}
|September 29, 1925
|Scientist
|Federal judge
|US Navy
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|9|29}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Egidius Braun}}
|{{wp|Roger Corman}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|2|27}}
|April 5, 1926
|President of the German Football Association
|Filmmaker, actor
|Wehrmacht
|V-12 Navy College Training Program
|Germany
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|4|5}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Denis Brian}}
|{{wp|John Cruickshank}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|12|11}}
|May 20, 1920
|Journalist, author
|Recipient of the Victoria Cross
|Royal Air Force
|British Army
Royal Air Force
|United Kingdom
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1920|5|20}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Hugo Broch}}
|{{wp|Iris Cummings}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|1|6}}
|December 21, 1920
|World War II flying ace
|Olympic swimmer, Aviator
|Luftwaffe
|Women Airforce Service Pilots
|Germany
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1920|12|21}}
|}
 
== D ==
13 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Born
!Notability
!Service
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|{{wp|Victor Brombert}}
|{{wp|Phyllis Dalton}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|11|11}}
|October 16, 1925
|Professor
|Costume designer
|US Army
|Women's Royal Naval Service
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|10|16}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Mel Brooks}}
|{{wp|Louis Danziger}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|6|28}}
|November 17, 1923
|Director, actor, producer
|Graphic designer, professor
|US Army, Battle of the Bulge
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1923|11|17}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Geoff Brown (tennis)|Geoff Brown}}
|{{wp|Klaus von Dohnanyi}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|4|4}}
|June 23, 1928
|Tennis player
|Politician, First Mayor of Hamburg
|Royal Australian Air Force
|Volkssturm
|Australia
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1928|6|23}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|June Brown}}
|{{wp|Charles Dolan}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|2|16}}
|October 16, 1926
|Actress
|Businessman, Philanthropist
|Royal Navy
|US Army Air Force
|United Kingdom
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|10|16}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Mervyn Brown}}
|{{wp|Lou Donaldson}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|9|24}}
|November 1, 1926
|Diplomat, historian
|Musician
|British Army
|US Navy
|United Kingdom
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|11|1}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Stephen Brown (judge)|Stephen Brown}}
|{{wp|William I. Donnermeyer Sr.}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|10|3}}
|September 19, 1924
|Judge
|Politician
|Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
|US Navy
|United Kingdom
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|9|19}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Walt Brown}}
|{{wp|Bruce L. Douglas}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|7|28}}
|July 14, 1925
|Politician
|Politician
|US Navy
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|7|14}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin}}
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Heinz_Drews Karl-Heinz Drews]
|{{birth date and age|1924|2|17}}
|December 22, 1929
|11th Earl of Elgin
|General
|British Army, Scots Guards
|Volkssturm
|United Kingdom
Wehrmacht
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1929|12|22}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury}}
|{{wp|Roy Drinkard}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|3|31}}
|July 12, 1920
|British peer, businessman
|Businessman
|British Army
|US Marine Corps
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Arthur E. Bryson}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|10|7}}
|Control theorist
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1920|7|12}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|James L. Buckley}}
|{{wp|Charles C. Droz}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|3|9}}
|July 8, 1924
|Politician; New York senator (1971–1977)
|Politician
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Frederick Buechner}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|7|11}}
|Christian author, minister, and theologian
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|7|8}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Veljko Bulajić}}
|{{wp|Patrick Duffy (British politician)|Patrick Duffy}}
|{{birth date and age|1928|3|22}}
|June 17, 1920
|Film director
|President of the NATO Assembly
|Yugoslav Partisans
|Fleet Air Arm
|Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1920|6|17}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Jack Burke, Jr.}}
|{{wp|Roland Dumas}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|1|29}}
|August 23, 1922
|PGA professional golfer
|Politician, lawyer
|US Marine Corps
|French Resistance
|United States
|Free France
|{{age in years and days|1922|8|23}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Peter Burns}}
|{{wp|Winfield Dunn}}
|1924 (age 96–97)
|July 1, 1927
|Architect
|Politician; Governor of Tennessee (1971–1975)
|Royal Australian Air Force
|Australia
|-
|{{wp|Charles Burrell}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|10|4}}
|Musician
|US Navy
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|-
|{{age in years and days|1927|7|1}}
|{{wp|Julian J. Bussgang}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|3|26}}
|Mathematician, author
|Polish Armed Forces in the West
British Army
|Poland
United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|David Butler (psephologist)|David Butler}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|10|17}}
|Political scientist
|British Army
|United Kingdom
|}
|}


== C ==
== E ==
25 veterans
4 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Veteran
!Birth
!Born
!Notability
!Notability
!Service
!Service
!Country
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|{{wp|Józef Caban}}
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Einwag Alfred Einwag]
|{{birth date and age|1915|8|28}}
|March 18, 1928
|Polish social activist
|Lawyer
|Polish Army
|Heer
Home Army
|Germany
|Poland
|{{age in years and days|1928|3|18}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Robert Cardenas}}
|{{wp|Juan Ponce Enrile}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|3|10}}
|February 14, 1924
|General
|Lawyer
|US Army Air Forces
|Philippine Navy
|United States
|Philippines
|{{age in years and days|1924|2|14}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Lou Carnesecca}}
|{{wp|Daniel J. Evans}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|5|1}}
|October 16, 1925
|Basketball coach
|Politician; 16th Governor of Washington (1965–1977)
|US Coast Guard
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|10|16}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Gerard Caris}}
|{{wp|Anthony Eyton}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|03|20}}
|May 17, 1923
|Artist
|Artist
|US Marine Corps
|British Army
|United States
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1923|5|17}}
|}
 
== F ==
10 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Born
!Notability
!Service
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|{{wp|Jimmy Carter}}
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef-Gerhard_Farkas Josef-Gerhard Farkas]
|{{birth date and age|1924|10|1}}
|July 13, 1929
|39th U.S. President
|Hungariologist
|US Navy
|Volkssturm
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1929|7|13}}
|-
|{{wp|Edward_Field_(poet)|Edward Field}}
|June 7, 1924
|Poet, author
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|6|7}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Jean-Gabriel Castel}}
|{{wp|Sergio Flamigni}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|6|21}}
|October 22, 1925
|Law professor
|Politician, writer
|French Resistance
|Italian Resistance
|Free France
|Italian Resistance
|{{age in years and days|1925|10|22}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Patrick Skene Catling}}
|{{wp|Samuel C. Florman}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|2|14}}
|January 19, 1925
|Journalist, author
|Civil engineer, author
|Royal Canadian Air Force
|US Navy
|Canada
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|1|19}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Nadia Cattouse}}
|{{wp|James Clayton Flowers}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|11|2}}
|December 25, 1915
|Actress, singer, songwriter
|Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen
|Auxiliary Territorial Service
|United States Army Air Forces
|United Kingdom
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1915|12|25}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Friedrich Cerha}}
|{{wp|Loretta Ford}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|2|17}}
|December 28, 1920
|Composer
|Nurse, Academic
|Luftwaffe
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1920|12|28}}
|-
|{{wp|Wieland Förster}}
|February 12, 1930
|Painter, writer
|Volkssturm
|Germany
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1930|2|12}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Robert A. Chase}}
|{{wp|John S. Foster Jr.}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|1|1}}
|September 18, 1922
|Surgeon, professor
|Physicist
|US Army
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1922|9|18}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Kenneth O. Chilstrom}}
|{{wp|J. Keith Fraser}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|4|20}}
|February 18, 1922
|Air force officer
|Physical geographer
|US Army Air Corps
|Royal Canadian Air Force
|United States
Royal Air Force
|Canada
United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1922|2|18}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Bob Chinn}}
|{{wp|Russell Freeburg}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|3|2}}
|March 4, 1923
|Restaurateur
|Editor of the ''Chicago Tribune''
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1923|3|4}}
|}
== G ==
13 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Born
!Notability
!Service
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|{{wp|Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher}}
|{{wp|Arnald Gabriel}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|4|25}}
|May 31, 1925
|Businessman, trade unionist, tax official
|Conductor of the US Air Force Band
|Royal Air Force
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|John B. Cobb}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|2|9}}
|Theologian, philosopher, environmentalist
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|5|31}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Sterling R. Cockrill}}
|{{wp|Samuel Rhea Gammon III}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|4|7}}
|January 22, 1924
|Politician, artist
|Ambassador
|US Navy
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|1|22}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Marthe Cohn}}
|{{wp|Bernard Garfield}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|4|13}}
|May 27, 1924
|Author, spy
|Bassoonist
|French Army
|US Army
|France
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|5|27}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Ena Collymore-Woodstock}}
|{{wp|Stanley Michael Gartler}}
|{{birth date and age|1917|9|10}}
|June 9, 1923
|Solicitor, magistrate
|Biologist, geneticist
|Auxiliary Territorial Service
|US Army Air Forces
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Leon Comber}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|9|20}}
|Author
|British Indian Army
|British India
|-
|{{wp|Harry Connick Sr.}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|3|27}}
|Attorney
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1923|6|9}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Jerome Coopersmith}}
|{{wp|Eddie Germano}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|8|11}}
|November 15, 1924
|Dramatist
|Cartoonist
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|11|15}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Tom Copeland}}
|{{wp|Roy Gibson}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|4|17}}
|July 4, 1924
|Politician
|Aerospace engineer
|US Army
|British Army
|United States
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1924|7|4}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|John Thomas Copenhaver, Jr.}}
|{{wp|I. Leo Glasser}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|9|29}}
|April 6, 1924
|Federal judge
|Judge
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|4|6}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Roger Corman}}
|{{wp|René Henry Gracida}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|4|5}}
|June 9, 1923
|Filmmaker & actor
|Bishop
|V-12 Navy College Training Program
|Flying Tigers
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1923|6|9}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|John Cruickshank}}
|{{wp|Bill Grayden}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|5|20}}
|August 5, 1920
|Recipient of the Victoria Cross
|Politician
|British Army
|Australian Army
Royal Air Force
|Australia
|{{age in years and days|1920|8|5}}
|-
|{{wp|Bill Greason}}
|September 3, 1924
|Baseball player
|US Marine Corps
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|9|3}}
|-
|{{wp|Peter Green (historian)|Peter Green}}
|December 22, 1924
|Historian
|Royal Air Force
|United Kingdom
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1924|12|22}}
|-
|{{wp|Maurice R. Greenberg}}
|May 4, 1925
|CEO of American International Group (1967–2005)
|US Army
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|5|4}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Iris Cummings}}
|{{wp|Frank J. Guarini}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|12|21}}
|August 20, 1924
|Olympic swimmer, Aviator
|Politician; New Jersey Representative (1979–1990)
|Women Airforce Service Pilots
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|8|20}}
|}
|}


== D ==
== H ==
20 veterans
15 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Veteran
!Birth
!Born
!Notability
!Notability
!Service
!Service
!Country
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|{{wp|Phyllis Dalton}}
|{{wp|Jürgen Habermas}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|10|16}}
|June 18, 1929
|Costume designer
|Philosopher; sociologist
|Women's Royal Naval Service
|Luftwaffenhelfer
|United States
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1929|6|18}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Ernest L. Daman}}
|{{wp|G. Homer Harding}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|3|14}}
|December 7, 1925
|Mechanical engineer, businessman, inventor
|Politician
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|12|7}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Louis Danziger}}
|{{wp|George Hardy (Tuskegee Airman)|George Hardy}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|11|17}}
|June 8, 1925
|Graphic designer, professor
|Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen
|US Army
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|6|8}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Bob Dawson}}
|{{wp|Robert Harlow (writer)|Robert Harlow}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|1|3}}
|November 19, 1923
|Football player
|Writer, academic
|Australian Army
|Royal Canadian Air Force
|Australia
|Canada
|{{age in years and days|1923|11|19}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Eddie Deerfield}}
|{{wp|Ted Hartley}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|8|24}}
|November 6, 1924
|Government official
|Pilot, banker, actor, film producer
|US Army Air Corps
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|11|6}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Vincent DeRosa}}
|{{wp|Helmut Hauptmann}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|10|5}}
|March 12, 1928
|Musician
|Writer
|US Army Air Corps
|Heer
|United States
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1928|3|12}}
|-
|{{wp|Eric Heath (artist)|Eric Heath}}
|November 23, 1923
|Artist
|Royal New Zealand Air Force
|New Zealand
|{{age in years and days|1923|11|23}}
|-
|{{wp|John Hemingway (RAF officer)|John Hemingway}}
|July 17, 1919
|Pilot, last surviving member of "The Few" from the Battle of Britain
|Royal Air Force
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1919|7|17}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Gene Derricotte}}
|{{wp|Józef Hen}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|6|14}}
|November 8, 1923
|American football player, Tuskegee Airmen
|Writer
|US Army
|Polish People's Army
|United States
|Poland
|{{age in years and days|1923|11|8}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Klaus von Dohnanyi}}
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Henninger Werner Henninger]
|{{birth date and age|1928|6|23}}
|April 7, 1929
|Politician, First Mayor of Hamburg
|Admiral
|Volkssturm
|Volkssturm
|Germany
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1929|4|7}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Charles Dolan}}
|{{wp|Laurin L. Henry}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|10|16}}
|May 23, 1921
|Businessman, Philanthropist
|Researcher
|US Army Air Force
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1921|5|23}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Lou Donaldson}}
|{{wp|Cyril Hilsum}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|11|1}}
|May 17, 1925
|Musician
|Physicist, academic
|Royal Navy
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1925|5|17}}
|-
|{{wp|Earl Holliman}}
|September 11, 1928
|Actor
|US Navy
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1928|9|11}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|William I. Donnermeyer Sr.}}
|{{wp|Tom Hughes (Australian politician)|Tom Hughes}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|9|19}}
|November 26, 1923
|Politician
|Politician
|US Navy
|Royal Australian Air Force
|United States
|Australia
|{{age in years and days|1923|11|26}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Harry Dornbrand}}
|{{wp|Evan Hultman}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|11|10}}
|July 15, 1925
|Aerospace engineer
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Bruce L. Douglas}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|7|14}}
|Politician
|Politician
|US Navy
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|7|15}}
|}
== I ==
1 veteran
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Born
!Notability
!Service
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Heinz_Drews Karl-Heinz Drews]
|{{wp|Paul Ignatius}}
|{{birth date and age|1929|12|22}}
|November 11, 1920
|General
|Government official
|Volkssturm
|US Navy
Wehrmacht
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Roy Drinkard}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|7|12}}
|Businessman
|US Marine Corps
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1920|11|11}}
|}
== J ==
4 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Born
!Notability
!Service
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|{{wp|Charles C. Droz}}
|{{wp|Stephen A. Jarislowsky}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|7|8}}
|September 9, 1925
|Politician
|Businessman, billionaire
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|9|9}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Patrick Duffy (British politician)|Patrick Duffy}}
|{{wp|Dub_Jones_(American_football)|Dub Jones}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|6|17}}
|December 29, 1924
|President of the NATO Assembly
|American football player
|Fleet Air Arm
|US Navy
|United Kingdom
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|12|29}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Roland Dumas}}
|{{wp|George Joseph (insurer)|George Joseph}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|8|23}}
|September 11, 1921
|Politician, lawyer
|Founder of Mercury Insurance Group
|French Resistance
|US Army
|Free France
|-
|{{wp|Charles Duncan, Jr.}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|9|9}}
|Entrepreneur, statesman, and administrator
|US Army Air Corps
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1921|9|11}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Winfield Dunn}}
|{{wp|George Judge}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|7|1}}
|May 2, 1925
|Politician; Governor of Tennessee (1971–1975)
|Professor, econometrician
|US Navy
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|5|2}}
|}
|}


== E ==
== K ==
11 veterans
3 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Veteran
!Birth
!Born
!Notability
!Notability
!Service
!Service
!Country
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|{{wp|Ray Edenton}}
|{{wp|Sydney Kentridge}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|11|3}}
|November 5, 1922
|Musician
|Lawyer, judge
|US Army
|South African Army
|United States
|South Africa
|{{age in years and days|1922|11|5}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|James Francis Edwards}}
|{{wp|Elisabeth Kirkby}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|6|5}}
|January 26, 1921
|World War II flying ace
|Actress, writer, broadcaster
|Royal Canadian Air Force
|Auxiliary Territorial Service
|Canada
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1921|1|26}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Eberhard Eimler}}
|{{wp|Helma Kissner}}
|{{birth date and age|1930|11|30}}
|December 23, 1923
|General
|Accused of war crimes by SWC
|Volkssturm
|Wehrmacht
|Germany
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1923|12|23}}
|}
== L ==
11 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Born
!Notability
!Service
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Einwag Alfred Einwag]
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Langes Horst Langes]
|{{birth date and age|1928|3|18}}
|December 2, 1928
|Lawyer
|Member of state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate
|Heer
|Wehrmacht
|Germany
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1928|12|2}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|George Elder (baseball)|George Elder}}
|{{wp|Peter Lax}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|3|10}}
|May 1, 1926
|Baseball player
|Mathematician
|US Marines
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|5|1}}
|-
|{{wp|Jean Lee (aircraftwoman)|Jean Lee}}
|July 26, 1924
|Only woman of Chinese-Canadian descent to serve in RCAF
|Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division
|Canada
|{{age in years and days|1924|7|26}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Elizabeth II}}
|{{wp|James Lees}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|4|21}}
|February 14, 1924
|Queen of the Commonwealth Realms
|Maritime expert, curator
|Colonel-in-Chief, Grenadier Guards and Auxiliary Territorial Service
|Royal Navy
British Merchant Navy
|United Kingdom
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1924|2|14}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Billy Emerson}}
|{{wp|Marv Levy}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|12|21}}
|August 3, 1925
|Singer, songwriter
|Football coach
|US Navy
|US Army Air Corps
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|8|3}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Juan Ponce Enrile}}
|{{wp|Guenter Lewy}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|2|14}}
|August 22, 1923
|Lawyer
|Author, professor
|Philippine Navy
|British Army
|Philippines
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1923|8|22}}
|-
|{{wp|Nina Lobkovskaya}}
|March 8, 1925
|Sniper
|Red Army
|Soviet Union
|{{age in years and days|1925|3|8}}
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Löschner_(Chorleiter) Ernst Löschner]
|June 20, 1929
|Conductor
|Wehrmacht
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1929|6|20}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Carl Erskine}}
|{{wp|Dick Lucas (minister)|Dick Lucas}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|12|13}}
|September 10, 1925
|Baseball player
|Anglican minister
|US Navy
|Royal Navy
|United States
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1925|9|10}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Daniel J. Evans}}
|{{wp|William R. Lucas}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|10|16}}
|March 1, 1922
|Politician; 16th Governor of Washington (1965–1977)
|Fourth director of the Marshall Space Flight Center
|US Navy
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1922|3|1}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Anthony Eyton}}
|{{wp|Bernt H. Lund}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|5|17}}
|August 14, 1924
|Artist
|Civil servant, diplomat, politician
|British Army
|Norwegian resistance movement
|United Kingdom
|Norway
|{{age in years and days|1924|8|14}}
|}
|}


== F ==
== M ==
20 veterans
31 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Veteran
!Birth
!Born
!Notability
!Notability
!Service
!Service
!Country
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef-Gerhard_Farkas Josef-Gerhard Farkas]
|{{wp|Peter Marshall (entertainer)|Peter Marshall}}
|{{birth date and age|1929|7|13}}
|March 30, 1926
|Hungariologist
|TV personality, actor
|Volkssturm
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Ben Ferencz}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|3|11}}
|Lawyer; last living prosecutor at Nuremberg Trials
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|3|30}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|David Ferry}}
|{{wp|Ray Marshall}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|3|5}}
|August 22, 1928
|Poet & professor
|US Secretary of Labor (1977-1981)
|US Army Air Forces
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1928|8|22}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Edward_Field_(poet)|Edward Field}}
|{{wp|Gordon Eugene Martin}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|6|7}}
|August 22, 1925
|Poet & author
|Physicist, author
|US Army Air Forces
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|8|22}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Frank Field (meteorologist)|Frank Field}}
|{{wp|Ivan Martynushkin}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|3|30}}
|January 18, 1924
|Meteorologist
|Last surviving liberator of the Auschwitz concentration camp
|US Army Air Forces
|Red Army
|United States
|Soviet Union
|{{age in years and days|1924|1|18}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Nathaniel Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele}}
|{{wp|Anthony Mason (judge)|Anthony Mason}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|9|22}}
|April 21, 1925
|British hereditary peer, businessman
|Judge; ninth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
|British Army
|Royal Australian Air Force
|United Kingdom
|Australia
|{{age in years and days|1925|4|21}}
|-
|{{wp|Miloslav Masopust}}
|September 26, 1924
|General
|1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the USSR
|Czechoslovakia
|{{age in years and days|1924|9|26}}
|-
|{{wp|Joseph Matarazzo}}
|November 12, 1925
|Psychologist
|US Navy
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|11|12}}
|-
|-
|[https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Fiorentini Mario Fiorentini]
|{{wp|Robert D. Maurer}}
|{{birth date and age|1918|5|28}}
|July 20, 1924
|Partisan, mathematician
|Physicist
|Italian Resistance
|US Army
|Italian Resistance
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|7|20}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Leonard Everett Fisher}}
|{{wp|Charlie Maxwell}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|6|24}}
|April 8, 1927
|Children's writer & illustrator
|Baseball Player
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1927|4|8}}
|-
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Fischler_Graf_von_Treuberg Heinrich Fischler Graf von Treuberg]
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Mayrhofer Otto Mayrhofer]
|{{birth date and age|1919|5|9}}
|November 2, 1920
|General
|Anaesthetist
|Heer
|Wehrmacht
|Germany
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1920|11|2}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Sergio Flamigni}}
|{{wp|Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|10|22}}
|March 20, 1921
|Politician & writer
|Director-general of UNESCO (1974–1987)
|Italian Resistance
|French Army
|Italian Resistance
Free French Army
 
French Air Force
|France
----Free France
|{{age in years and days|1921|3|20}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Samuel C. Florman}}
|{{wp|Robert McGinnis}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|1|19}}
|February 3, 1926
|Civil engineer, author
|Artist, illustrator
|US Navy
|US Merchant Marine
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|2|3}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|James Clayton Flowers}}
|{{wp|Francis Terry McNamara}}
|{{birth date and age|1915|12|25}}
|November 2, 1927
|Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen
|Diplomat
|United States Army Air Forces
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1927|11|2}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Loretta Ford}}
|{{wp|Kirke Mechem}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|12|28}}
|August 16, 1925
|Nurse, Academic
|Composer
|US Army Air Forces
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|8|16}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Wieland Förster}}
|{{wp|Bill Mercer}}
|{{birth date and age|1930|2|12}}
|February 13, 1926
|Painter, writer
|Sportscaster, educator, author
|Volkssturm
|US Navy
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|2|13}}
|-
|{{wp|Harald Metzkes}}
|January 23, 1929
|Painter
|Heer
|Germany
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1929|1|23}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|John S. Foster Jr.}}
|{{wp|Ed Mickelson}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|9|18}}
|September 9, 1926
|Physicist
|Baseball player
|US Army Air Forces
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|9|9}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Paul Fox (television executive)|Paul Fox}}
|{{wp|J. William Middendorf}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|10|27}}
|September 22, 1924
|Television executive
|Diplomat, politician
|British Army
|US Navy
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|J. Keith Fraser}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|2|18}}
|Physical geographer
|Royal Canadian Air Force
Royal Air Force
|Canada
United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Russell Freeburg}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|3|4}}
|Editor of the ''Chicago Tribune''
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|9|22}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Daniel Fuller}}
|{{wp|Jim Miller (Australian footballer, born 1919)|Jim Miller}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|8|28}}
|May 30, 1919
|Theologian
|Australian rules football player
|US Navy
|Australian Army
Royal Australian Air Force
|Australia
|{{age in years and days|1919|5|30}}
|-
|{{wp|John H. Miller}}
|April 16, 1925
|General
|US Marine Corps
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|4|16}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Andrew Fulton (admiral)|Andrew Fulton}}
|{{wp|Sanford K. Moats}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|1|23}}
|December 4, 1921
|Commander of Maritime Command (1980–1983)
|General
|Royal Canadian Navy
|US Army Air Forces
|Canada
|}
 
== G ==
31 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Birth
!Notability
!Service
!Country
|-
|{{wp|Arnald Gabriel}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|5|31}}
|Conductor of the US Air Force Band
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1921|12|4}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Samuel Rhea Gammon III}}
|{{wp|Gwen Moffat}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|1|22}}
|July 3, 1924
|Ambassador
|Climber, writer
|US Army
|Auxiliary Territorial Service
|United States
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1924|7|3}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Norman Garbo}}
|{{wp|Jürgen Moltmann}}
|{{birth date and age|1919|2|15}}
|April 8, 1926
|Author & lecturer
|Protestant theologian
|US Army Air Forces
|Wehrmacht
|United States
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1926|4|8}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Harold Garde}}
|{{wp|Henry Moore (bishop)|Henry Moore}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|6|7}}
|November 2, 1923
|Artist
|Bishop of Cyprus and The Gulf
|US Army Air Forces
|British Army
|United States
British Indian Army
|United Kingdom
British India
|{{age in years and days|1923|11|2}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Bernard Garfield}}
|[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/森繁弘 Shigehiro Mori]
|{{birth date and age|1924|3|27}}
|January 7, 1928
|Bassoonist
|General; Chief of the Joint Staff of the JSDF (1986–1987), Chief of Staff, JASDF (1983–1986)
|US Army
|Imperial Japanese Army
|United States
|Japan
|{{age in years and days|1928|1|7}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Stanley Michael Gartler}}
|{{wp|Edgar Morin}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|6|9}}
|July 8, 1921
|Biologist & geneticist
|Philosopher, sociologist
|US Army Air Forces
|French Resistance
|United States
|Free France
|{{age in years and days|1921|7|8}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Philippe de Gaulle}}
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Müller_(Mineraloge) Georg Müller]
|{{birth date and age|1921|12|28}}
|October 1, 1930
|Inspector General, Senator and son of leader Charles De Gaulle
|Mineralogist
|Free French Naval Forces
|Hitlerjugend
|Free France
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1930|10|1}}
|-
|-
|[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Gautier_(militaire) Léon Gautier]
|[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/村井澄夫 Sumio Murai]
|{{birth date and age|1922|10|27}}
|February 24, 1925
|Legion of Honour recipient, last living member of Commando Kieffer
|General; Chief of the Joint Staff of the JSDF (1983–1984), Chief of Staff, JGSDF (1981–1983)
|Free French Naval Forces
|Imperial Japanese Army
|Free France
|Japan
|{{age in years and days|1925|2|24}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Eddie Germano}}
|{{wp|Tomiichi Murayama}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|11|15}}
|March 3, 1924
|Cartoonist
|Japanese Prime Minister
|US Army
|Imperial Japanese Army
|United States
|Japan
|{{age in years and days|1924|3|3}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Harry Gesner}}
|{{wp|David H. Murdock}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|4|28}}
|April 11, 1923
|Architect
|Businessman, billionaire
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1923|4|11}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Andrée Geulen-Herscovici}}
|{{wp|David Musuguri}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|9|6}}
|January 4, 1920
|Member of the Comité de Défense des Juifs, helped rescue almost one thousand Jewish children
|Chief of the Tanzania People's Defence Force (1980–1988)
|Belgian Resistance
|Belgium
|-
|{{wp|Roy Gibson}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|7|4}}
|Aerospace engineer
|British Army
|British Army
|United Kingdom
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1920|1|4}}
|}
== N ==
6 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Born
!Notability
!Service
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|{{wp|I. Leo Glasser}}
|{{wp|Bill Nankivell}}
|April 6, 1924 (age 97){{birth date and age|1924|4|6}}
|September 7, 1923
|Judge
|Politician
|US Army
|Royal Australian Air Force
|United States
|Australia
|-
|{{age in years and days|1923|9|7}}
|{{wp|Charles Godfrey}}
|{{birth date and age|1917|9|24}}
|Physician, professor, politician
|
|Canada
|-
|-
|{{wp|Howard Golden}}
|{{wp|Lucien Nedzi}}
|1925 (age 96–97)
|May 28, 1925
|Politician
|Politician
|US Navy
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|5|28}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|John B. Goodenough}}
|{{wp|Joe Negri}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|7|25}}
|June 10, 1926
|Physicist, 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
|Musician, educator
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|6|10}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Alfred T. Goodwin}}
|{{wp|Frederick M. Nicholas}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|6|29}}
|May 30, 1920
|Judge; 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (1971–1991)
|Lawyer
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1920|5|30}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Bert I. Gordon}}
|{{wp|George Nigh}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|9|24}}
|June 9, 1927
|Film director; ''Village of the Giants'', ''Empire of the Ants''
|Politician; 17th and 22nd governor of Oklahoma (1963, 1979–1987)
|US Army Air Corps
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1927|6|9}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|René Henry Gracida}}
|{{wp|Peter L. Nissen}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|6|9}}
|January 8, 1924
|Bishop
|Aviator and businessman
|Flying Tigers
|Norwegian resistance movement
|United States
Royal Norwegian Air Force
|Norway
|{{age in years and days|1924|1|8}}
|}
 
== O ==
3 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Born
!Notability
!Service
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Grade Friedrich Grade]
|{{wp|Jiro Ono (chef)|Jiro Ono}}
|{{birth date and age|1916|3|29}}
|October 27, 1925
|Engineer and naval officer
|Sushi Chef
|Kriegsmarine
|Japanese Imperial Army
|Germany
|Japan
|{{age in years and days|1925|10|27}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|David E. Grange, Jr.}}
|{{wp|Edward Ormondroyd}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|4|9}}
|October 8, 1925
|General
|Author
|US Navy
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|10|8}}
|-
|{{wp|Donald Owens}}
|September 12, 1926
|General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|9|12}}
|}
== P ==
4 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Born
!Notability
!Service
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|{{wp|Bud Grant}}
|{{wp|Victor Parsonnet}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|5|20}}
|August 29, 1924
|Athlete
|Surgeon
|US Navy
|US Navy Reserve
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|8|29}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Bill Grayden}}
|{{wp|Johnny Pate}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|8|5}}
|December 5, 1923
|Politician
|Bass player, arranger
|Australian Army
|US Army; played with the 218th AGF Army Band
|Australia
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1923|12|5}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Bill Greason}}
|{{wp|John Peoples (educator)|John Peoples}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|9|3}}
|August 26, 1926
|Baseball player
|President of Jackson State University
|US Marine Corps
|US Marine Corps
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|8|26}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Peter Green}}
|{{wp|Jack Petchey}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|12|22}}
|July 19, 1925
|Historian
|Businessman
|Royal Air Force
|Royal Navy
|United Kingdom
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{age in years and days|1925|7|19}}
|{{wp|Russell H. Greenan}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|9|17}}
|Author
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Maurice R. Greenberg}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|5|4}}
|CEO of American International Group (1967–2005)
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Shecky Greene}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|4|8}}
|Comedian
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Stu Griffing}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|11|9}}
|Olympic rower
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Doris Grumbach}}
|{{birth date and age|1918|7|12}}
|Writer
|Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Frank Joseph Guarini}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|8|20}}
|Politician; New Jersey Representative (1979–1990)
|US Navy
|United States
|}
|}


== H ==
== R ==
28 veterans
10 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Veteran
!Birth
!Born
!Notability
!Notability
!Service
!Service
!Country
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|{{wp|Jürgen Habermas}}
|{{wp|Dennis V. Razis}}
|{{birth date and age|1929|6|18}}
|May 30, 1923
|Philosopher; sociologist
|Oncologist
|Luftwaffenhelfer
|Greek Resistance
|Germany
|Greece
|{{age in years and days|1923|5|30}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Barbara Hall (editor)|Barbara Hall}}
|{{wp|Madeleine Riffaud}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|2|3}}
|August 23, 1924
|Crossword puzzle editor
|Poet, journalist, war correspondent
|Women's Royal Naval Service
|French Resistance
|United Kingdom
|Free France
|{{age in years and days|1924|8|23}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Ian Hamilton}}
|{{wp|Basil Rigg}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|9|13}}
|August 12, 1926
|Lawyer, Scottish nationalist,  participated in the removal of the Stone of Scone in 1950
|Cricket player
|British Army
|Australian Army
|United Kingdom
|Australia
|{{age in years and days|1926|8|12}}
|-
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hanel Walter Hanel]
|{{wp|Fred Risser}}
|{{birth date and age|1930|9|14}}
|May 5, 1927
|Political caricaturist
|Volkssturm
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|G. Homer Harding}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|12|7}}
|Politician
|Politician
|US Army
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1927|5|5}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|George Hardy}}
|{{wp|John Roberts (Royal Navy officer)|John Roberts}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|6|8}}
|April 4, 1924
|Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen
|Admiral
|US Army Air Forces
|Royal Navy
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1924|4|4}}
|-
|{{wp|Arthur Rock}}
|August 19, 1926
|Businessman, investor
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|8|19}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Robert Harlow}}
|{{wp|Alan Rogers (football manager)|Alan Rogers}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|11|19}}
|December 31, 1924
|Writer, academic
|Football manager
|Royal Navy
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1924|12|31}}
|-
|{{wp|Richard Rohmer}}
|January 24, 1924
|Military writer; ''Ultimatum''
|Royal Canadian Air Force
|Royal Canadian Air Force
|Canada
|Canada
|{{age in years and days|1924|1|24}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Sheldon Harnick}}
|{{wp|Philip Ruppe}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|4|30}}
|September 29, 1926
|Lyricist (''Fiddler on the Roof'')
|United States Congressman
|US Army
|V-12 Navy College Training Program
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|9|29}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Ted Hartley}}
|{{wp|William Russell (English actor)|William Russell}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|11|6}}
|November 19, 1924
|Pilot, banker, actor, film producer
|Actor
|US Navy
|Royal Air Force
|United States
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1924|11|19}}
|}
 
== S ==
26 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Born
!Notability
!Service
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|{{wp|Chris Haughey}}
|{{wp|Howard F. Sachs}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|10|3}}
|September 13, 1925
|Baseball player
|Judge
|US Army
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|9|13}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Helmut Hauptmann}}
|{{wp|Agadadash Samedov}}
|{{birth date and age|1928|3|12}}
|March 10, 1924
|Writer
|Order of Glory recipient
|Heer
|Red Army
|Germany
|Soviet Union
|{{age in years and days|1924|3|10}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Bill Hayes}}
|{{wp|Frank Saucier}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|6|5}}
|May 28, 1926
|Actor
|Baseball player
|US Naval Air Corps
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|5|28}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Eric Heath}}
|{{wp|Norman Scarth}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|11|28}}
|October 1925
|Artist
|Blogger, political candidate
|Royal New Zealand Air Force
|Royal Navy
|New Zealand
|-
|{{wp|Robert Hébras}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|6|29}}
|Oradour-sur Glane massacre survivor
|French Resistance
|Free France
|-
|{{wp|John Hemingway (RAF pilot)|John Hemingway}}
|{{birth date and age|1919|7|17}}
|Pilot, last surviving member of "The Few" from the Battle of Britain
|Royal Air Force
|United Kingdom
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1925|10|31}} to {{age in years and days|1925|10|1}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Józef Hen}}
|{{wp|Art Schallock}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|11|8}}
|April 25, 1924
|Writer
|Baseball player
|Polish People's Army
|Poland
|-
|{{wp|James Hennessy}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|9|26}}
|Diplomat, prison official
|British Army
|United Kingdom
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Henninger Werner Henninger]
|{{birth date and age|1929|4|7}}
|Admiral
|Volkssturm
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Laurin L. Henry}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|5|23}}
|Researcher
|US Navy
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|4|25}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Elwood Hillis}}
|{{wp|Harold Zvi Schiffrin}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|3|6}}
|September 26, 1922
|Indiana congressman (1971–1987)
|Professor
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1922|9|26}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Cyril Hilsum}}
|{{wp|Rolf Schimpf}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|5|17}}
|November 14, 1924
|Physicist, academic
|German television actor
|Royal Navy
|Heer
|United Kingdom}
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1924|11|14}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Stuart Hodes}}
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Franz_Schleser Walter Franz Schleser]
|{{birth date and age|1924|11|27}}
|October 25, 1930
|Dancer, choreographer, writer
|Representative of the Vereinigung Heimatvertriebener Deutscher Studenten
|US Army Air Corps
|Volkssturm
|United States
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1930|10|25}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Earl Holliman}}
|{{wp|Helmut Schlesinger}}
|{{birth date and age|1928|9|11}}
|September 4, 1924
|Actor
|President of the Deutsche Bundesbank
|US Navy
|Heer
|United States
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1924|9|4}}
|-
|-
|[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A0%80%E6%B1%9F%E6%AD%A3%E5%A4%AB Masao Horie]
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich-Wilhelm_Schlomann Friedrich-Wilhelm Schlomann]
|{{birth date and age|1915|6|16}}
|September 5, 1928
|Japan Ground Self-Defense Force general. Commander Western Army (1972–1973)
|Journalist
|Imperial Japanese Army
|Wehrmacht
|Japan
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1928|9|5}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Tom Hughes}}
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Schumann_(Politiker) Wolfgang Schumann]
|{{birth date and age|1923|11|26}}
|June 5, 1929
|Politician
|Member of Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate
|Royal Australian Air Force
|Wehrmacht
|Australia
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1929|6|5}}
|-
|{{wp|Vic Seixas}}
|August 30, 1923
|Tennis player
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1923|8|30}}
|-
|{{wp|Sen Sōshitsu XV}}
|April 19, 1923
|Hereditary master of the ''Urasenke'' ''chanoyu'' school
|Imperial Japanese Navy
|Japan
|{{age in years and days|1923|4|19}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Evan Hultman}}
|{{wp|Ralph Senensky}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|7|15}}
|May 1, 1923
|Politician
|TV director, writer
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1923|5|1}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Edwin Hunt}}
|{{wp|Doc Severinsen}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|3|20}}
|July 7, 1927
|Queen's Bargemaster
|Trumpeter
|British Army
|US Army
|United Kingdom
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1927|7|7}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Harold Hyman}}
|{{wp|Bobby Shantz}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|7|24}}
|September 26, 1925
|American Civil War historian
|Baseball player
|US Marine Corps
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|}
|{{age in years and days|1925|9|26}}
 
== I ==
1 veteran
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Birth
!Notability
!Service
!Country
|-
|-
|{{wp|Paul Robert Ignatius}}
|{{wp|Charles Norman Shay}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|11|11}}
|June 27, 1924
|Government official
|Penobscot tribal elder, writer
|US Navy
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|}
|{{age in years and days|1924|6|27}}
 
== J ==
16 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Birth
!Notability
!Service
!Country
|-
|-
|{{wp|Al Jaffee}}
|{{wp|Robert G. Shulman}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|3|13}}
|March 3, 1924
|Cartoonist
|Biophysicist
|United States Armed Forces
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|3|3}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Stephen A. Jarislowsky}}
|{{wp|Władysław Siemaszko}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|9|9}}
|June 8, 1919
|Businessman, billionaire
|Author, Lawyer
|US Army
|Home Army
|Poland
|{{age in years and days|1919|6|8}}
|-
|{{wp|Edward H. Sims}}
|May 29, 1923
|Author
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1923|5|29}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Alexander Jefferson}}
|{{wp|Bill Spence (writer)|Bill Spence}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|11|15}}
|April 20, 1923
|Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen
|Writer
|US Army Air Corps
|Royal Air Force
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1923|4|20}}
|-
|{{wp|Richard T. Spooner}}
|September 10, 1926
|Author
|US Marine Corps
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1926|9|10}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Edward B. Jelks}}
|{{wp|Irena Stankiewicz}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|9|10}}
|February 28, 1925
|Archaeologist
|Graphic artist
|US Navy
|Home Army
|United States
|Poland
|{{age in years and days|1925|2|28}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|William A. Jenkins}}
|{{wp|Willis H. Stephens}}
|{{birth date and age|1917|11|2}}
|June 7, 1925
|Admiral
|Politician
|US Coast Guard
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|6|7}}
|-
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Jetter Karl Jetter]
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Stöcker Heinz Stöcker]
|{{birth date and age|1929|6|2}}
|January 22, 1929
|Journalist
|General
|Volkssturm
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1929|1|22}}
|-
|{{wp|Fritz Streletz}}
|September 28, 1926
|General
|Wehrmacht
|Wehrmacht
|Germany
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1926|9|28}}
|}
== T ==
4 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Born
!Notability
!Service
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|{{wp|Norman Jewison}}
|[https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulev_Tailo Sulev Tailo]
|{{birth date and age|1926|7|21}}
|December 2, 1920
|Filmmaker
|Poet, artist
|Royal Canadian Navy
|Finnish Army
|Canada
|Finland
|{{age in years and days|1920|12|2}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|David_Johnson_(photographer)|David Johnson}}
|{{wp|Dan Tolkowsky}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|8|3}}
|January 17, 1921
|Photographer
|Commander of the Israeli Air Force
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Johnny Johnson (RAF officer)|Johnny Johnson}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|11|25}}
|Last surviving British member of the Dambuster Raids
|Royal Air Force
|Royal Air Force
|United Kingdom
|United Kingdom
|{{age in years and days|1921|1|17}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Marilyn P. Johnson}}
|{{wp|Aldo Tortorella}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|6|19}}
|July 10, 1926
|Diplomat
|Journalist, politician
|US Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve)
|Italian Resistance
|United States
|Italian Resistance
|{{age in years and days|1926|7|10}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Dub_Jones_(American_football)|Dub Jones}}
|{{wp|James Wesley Turpin}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|12|29}}
|December 18, 1927
|American football player
|Founder of Project Concern International, physician, activist
|US Navy
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|-
|{{age in years and days|1927|12|18}}
|{{wp|Lawrence W. Jones}}
|1925 (age 96–97)
|Physicist, professor
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|L. Q. Jones}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|8|19}}
|Actor
|United States Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Raymond_Jones_(architect)|Raymond Jones}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|7|18}}
|Architect
|Royal Australian Navy
|Australia
|-
|{{wp|George Joseph (insurer)|George Joseph}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|9|11}}
|Founder of Mercury Insurance Group
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|George Judge}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|5|2}}
|Professor, econometrician
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|}
|}


== K ==
== U ==
12 veterans
1 veteran
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Veteran
!Birth
!Born
!Notability
!Notability
!Service
!Service
!Country
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|{{wp|Bernard Kalb}}
|{{wp|Yosh Uchida}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|2|4}}
|April 1, 1920
|Journalist
|Sports businessman, entrepreneur, engineer
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1920|4|1}}
|}
== V ==
3 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Born
!Notability
!Service
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|{{wp|Adolfo Kaminsky}}
|{{wp|Dick Van Dyke}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|10|1}}
|December 13, 1925
|French resistance fighter, Forged documents that helped save 14,000 Jews from Holocaust
|Actor and comedian
|French Resistance
|US Army Air Corps
French Army
|United States
|Free France
|{{age in years and days|1925|12|13}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Sydney Kentridge}}
|[https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Vanzini Enrico Vanzini]
|{{birth date and age|1922|11|5}}
|November 18, 1922
|Lawyer, judge
|Holocaust survivor; last Italian sonderkommando
|South African Army
|Royal Italian Army
|South Africa
|Italy
|{{age in years and days|1922|11|18}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Elisabeth Kirkby}}
|{{wp|Thomas Franklin Vaughns}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|1|26}}
|July 7, 1920
|Actress, writer, broadcaster
|Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen
|Auxiliary Territorial Service
|United States Army Air Force
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Henry Kissinger}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|5|27}}
|Statesman, Secretary of State (1973–1977), and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1920|7|7}}
|}
== W ==
8 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Born
!Notability
!Service
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|{{wp|Helma Kissner}}
|{{wp|Herbert Wahler}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|12|23}}
|December 10, 1921
|Accused of war crimes by SWC
|Accused of war crimes by SWC
|Wehrmacht
|Einsatzgruppe
|Germany
|Germany
|{{age in years and days|1921|12|10}}
|-
|-
|[https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_Klimczak Kazimierz Klimczak]
|{{wp|Joe Wallach}}
|{{birth date and age|1914|2|15}}
|September 10, 1923
|Colonel, Oldest surviving participant of Warsaw Uprising
|Businessman
|Polish Army
Home Army
|Poland
|-
|{{wp|Ted Knap}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|5|26}}
|Journalist
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1923|9|10}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Jill Knight}}
|{{wp|William H. Webster}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|7|9}}
|March 6, 1924
|Politician, life peer
|3rd F.B.I. Director, 10th C.I.A. Director and Chairperson of the Homeland Security Advisory Council
|Women's Auxiliary Air Force
|US Navy
|United Kingdom
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|3|6}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Barbara Kremen}}
|{{wp|G. William Whitehurst}}
|1922 (age 99–100)
|March 12, 1925
|Writer
|Politician
|Women's Army Corps
|US Navy
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1925|3|12}}
|-
|{{wp|Charley Winner}}
|July 2, 1924
|Football player
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|7|2}}
|-
|{{wp|Louis Witten}}
|April 13, 1921
|Theoretical physicist
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1921|4|13}}
|-
|-
|{{wp|Werner Krolikowski}}
|{{wp|Woody Woodbury}}
|{{birth date and age|1928|3|12}}
|February 9, 1924
|Politician
|Comedian, actor
|Kriegsmarine
|US Marine Corps
|Germany
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|2|9}}
|-
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Kroker Herbert Kroker]
|{{wp|Oscar Wyatt}}
|{{birth date and age|1929|8|24}}
|July 11, 1924
|Politician
|Businessman
|Volkssturm
|US Army Air Corps
|Germany
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|7|11}}
|}
|}


== L ==
== X ==
26 veterans
1 veteran
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Veteran
!Birth
!Born
!Notability
!Notability
!Service
!Service
!Country
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|{{wp|Traute Lafrenz}}
|{{wp|Alex Xydias}}
|{{birth date and age|1919|5|3}}
|March 22, 1922
|Member of the White Rose
|Auto racing driver
|
|US Army Air Forces
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Dean S. Laird}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|2|7}}
|World War II flying ace
|US Navy
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1922|3|22}}
|}
== Y ==
1 veteran
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Born
!Notability
!Service
!Country
!Age
|-
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Langes Horst Langes]
|{{wp|Barbara Yeaman}}
|{{birth date and age|1928|12|2}}
|December 16, 1924
|Member of state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate
|Conservationist
|Wehrmacht
|Women Airforce Service Pilots
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Phyllis Latour}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|4|8}}
|Legion of Honour recipient, member of the Special Operations Executive
|Women's Auxiliary Air Force
Special Operations Executive
French Resistance
|United Kingdom
----Free France
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_Lauterbach Lothar Lauterbach]
|{{birth date and age|1929|6|3}}
|Artist
|
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Peter Lax}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|5|1}}
|Mathematician
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Norman Lear}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|7|27}}
|Film & television producer; ''All in the Family,'' ''Maude,'' ''The Jeffersons''
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Nikolai Lebedev}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|12|15}}
|Actor
|Red Navy
|Soviet Union
|-
|{{wp|Jean Lee (aircraftwoman)|Jean Lee}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|7|26}}
|Only woman of Chinese-Canadian descent to serve in RCAF
|Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division
|Canada
|-
|{{wp|James Lees}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|2|14}}
|Maritime expert, curator
|Royal Navy
British Merchant Navy
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Ted Lerner}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|10|15}}
|Real estate developer, principal owner of the Washington Nationals
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Sonny Lester}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|11|15}}
|Music producer
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Marv Levy}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|8|3}}
|Football coach
|US Army Air Corps
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Guenter Lewy}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|8|22}}
|Author, professor
|British Army
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Mark Litchman}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|4|14}}
|Politician, lawyer
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Peter Lloyd (aviator)|Peter Lloyd}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|12|15}}
|Aviator
|Australian Army
|Australia
|-
|{{wp|Nina Lobkovskaya}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|3|8}}
|Sniper
|Red Army
|Soviet Union
|-
|{{wp|Mujeeb Ahmad Khan Lodhi}}
|1922 (age 99–100)
|Admiral
|Royal Indian Navy
|British India
|-
|{{wp|Elgen Long}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|8|12}}
|Aviator, historian, author
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Löschner_(Chorleiter) Ernst Löschner]
|{{birth date and age|1929|6|20}}
|Conductor
|Wehrmacht
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|David Elliot Loye}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|4|26}}
|Author, psychologist
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Dick Lucas}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|9|10}}
|Anglican minister
|Royal Navy
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|William R. Lucas}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|3|1}}
|Fourth director of the Marshall Space Flight Center
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Johnny Lujack}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|2|4}}
|Football player
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Bernt H. Lund}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|8|14}}
|Civil servant, diplomat, politician
|Norwegian resistance movement
|Norway
|-
|{{wp|Ted Luscombe}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|11|10}}
|Bishop, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church (1985–1990)
|British Indian Army
British Army
|British India
United Kingdom
|}
 
== M ==
61 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Birth
!Notability
!Service
!Country
|-
|{{wp|Terence Macartney-Filgate}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|8|6}}
|Film director
|Royal Air Force
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Ian Verner Macdonald}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|1|19}}
|Diplomat, entrepreneur
|Royal Canadian Air Force
Royal Navy
|Canada
United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Marion Mann}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|3|29}}
|Physician, pathologist
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Josip Manolić}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|3|22}}
|Politician; prime minister of the Republic of Croatia (1990–1991)
|Yugoslav Partisans
|Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
|-
|{{wp|Steve Marsh (footballer)|Steve Marsh}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|9|12}}
|Australian rules football player
|Royal Australian Air Force
|Australia
|-
|{{wp|Peter Marshall (entertainer)|Peter Marshall}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|3|30}}
|TV personality & actor
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Ray Marshall}}
|{{birth date and age|1928|8|22}}
|US Secretary of Labor (1977-1981)
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Gordon Eugene Martin}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|8|22}}
|Physicist, author
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Knox Martin}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|2|12}}
|Artist
|US Coast Guard
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Angel Martín Taboas}}
|{{birth date and age|1918|6|18}}
|Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
|US Armed Forces
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Ivan Martynushkin}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|12|23}}
|Last surviving liberator of the Auschwitz concentration camp
|Red Army
|Soviet Union
|-
|{{wp|Anthony Mason (judge)|Anthony Mason}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|4|21}}
|Judge; ninth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
|Royal Australian Air Force
|Australia
|-
|{{wp|Miloslav Masopust}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|9|26}}
|General
|1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the USSR
|Czechoslovakia
|-
|{{wp|Joseph Matarazzo}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|11|12}}
|Psychologist
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Robert D. Maurer}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|7|20}}
|Physicist
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Charlie Maxwell}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|4|8}}
|Baseball Player
|US Army
|United States
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Mayrhofer Otto Mayrhofer]
|{{birth date and age|1920|11|2}}
|Anaesthetist
|Wehrmacht
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|3|20}}
|Director-general of UNESCO (1974–1987)
|French Army
Free French Army
French Air Force
|France
----Free France
|-
|{{wp|William V. McBride}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|5|25}}
|General
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Robert McGinnis}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|2|3}}
|Artist, illustrator
|US Merchant Marine
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Art McNally}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|7|1}}
|American football referee
|US Marine Corps
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Francis Terry McNamara}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|11|2}}
|Diplomat
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Henry R. McPhee Jr.}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|1|11}}
|Special assistant to President Dwight Eisenhower
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Kirke Mechem}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|8|16}}
|Composer
|US Army
|United States
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellmut_Mehnert Hellmut Mehnert]
|{{birth date and age|1928|2|22}}
|Physician, professor
|Volkssturm
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Bill Mercer}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|2|13}}
|Sportscaster, educator, & author
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Manfred Messerschmidt}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|10|1}}
|Historian
|Luftwaffe
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|A. L. Mestel}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|9|17}}
|Pediatric surgeon
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Harald Metzkes}}
|{{birth date and age|1929|1|23}}
|Painter
|Heer
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Ed Mickelson}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|9|9}}
|Baseball player
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|-
|{{wp|J. William Middendorf II}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|9|22}}
|Diplomat & politician
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Larry Miggins}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|8|20}}
|Baseball player
|US Merchant Marine
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Jim Miller (Australian footballer, born 1919)|Jim Miller}}
|{{birth date and age|1919|5|30}}
|Australian rules football player
|Australian Army
Royal Australian Air Force
|Australia
|-
|{{wp|John H. Miller}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|4|16}}
|General
|US Marine Corps
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Newton N. Minow}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|1|17}}
|FCC chairman (1961–1963)
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Maria Mirecka-Loryś}}
|{{birth date and age|1916|2|7}}
|Lawyer, journalist
|Home Army
|Poland
|-
|{{wp|John Matthew Mitchell}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|3|22}}
|Charity worker
|Royal Navy
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Hiroshi H. Miyamura}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|10|6}}
|Medal of Honor recipient
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Sanford K. Moats}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|12|4}}
|General
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|-
|{{wp|David O. Moberg}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|2|13}}
|Sociologist
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Hans Modrow}}
|{{birth date and age|1928|1|27}}
|Prime Minister of East Germany
|Heer
|Germany
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Moehring Gerhard Moehring]
|{{birth date and age|1921|3|28}}
|Educationist
|Heer
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Gwen Moffat}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|7|3}}
|Climber, writer
|Auxiliary Territorial Service
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Jürgen Moltmann}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|4|8}}
|Protestant theologian
|Wehrmacht
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Henry Moore (bishop)|Henry Moore}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|11|2}}
|Bishop of Cyprus and The Gulf
|British Army
British Indian Army
|United Kingdom
British India
|-
|{{wp|Bobby Morgan (baseball)|Bobby Morgan}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|6|29}}
|Baseball player
|US Army
|United States
|-
|[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A3%AE%E7%B9%81%E5%BC%98 Shigehiro Mori]
|{{birth date and age|1928|1|7}}
|General; Chief of the Joint Staff of the JSDF (1986–1987), Chief of Staff, JASDF (1983–1986)
|Imperial Japanese Army
|Japan
|-
|{{wp|Edgar Morin}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|7|8}}
|Philosopher & sociologist
|French Resistance
|Free France
|-
|{{wp|Joseph Wilson Morris}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|4|28}}
|Lawyer & federal judge
|US Naval Reserve
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Addold Mossin}}
|{{birth date and age|1919|12|12}}
|Neopagan priest
|Finnish Army
|Finland
|-
|{{wp|Ben R. Mottelson}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|7|9}}
|Physicist
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Müller_(Mineraloge) Georg Müller]
|{{birth date and age|1930|10|1}}
|Mineralogist
|Hitlerjugend
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Charlie Munger}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|1|1}}
|Business magnate; vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
|US Army Air Corps
|United States
|-
|[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%91%E4%BA%95%E6%BE%84%E5%A4%AB Sumio Murai]
|February 1925 (age 96)
|General; Chief of the Joint Staff of the JSDF (1983–1984), Chief of Staff, JGSDF (1981–1983)
|Imperial Japanese Army
|Japan
|-
|{{wp|Tomiichi Murayama}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|3|3}}
|Japanese Prime Minister
|Imperial Japanese Army
|Japan
|-
|{{wp|David H. Murdock}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|4|11}}
|Billionaire & businessman
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Austin Murphy}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|6|17}}
|Member of U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
|US Marine Corps
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Thomas Murphy (broadcasting)|Thomas Murphy}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|5|31}}
|Broadcasting executive
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Tony Murray (businessman)|Tony Murray}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|2|8}}
|Businessman, billionaire
|Free French Army
Royal Air Force
|Free France
United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|David Musuguri}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|1|4}}
|Chief of the Tanzania People's Defence Force(1980-1988)
|British Army
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Gordon Mydland}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|5|12}}
|Politician, lawyer
|US Navy
|United States
|}
 
== N ==
11 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Birth
!Notability
!Service
!Country
|-
|{{wp|Bill Nankivell}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|9|7}}
|Politician
|Royal Australian Air Force
|Australia
|-
|{{wp|Giorgio Napolitano}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|6|29}}
|11th President of Italy (2006–2015)
|Italian Resistance
|Italian Resistance
|-
|{{wp|Lucien N. Nedzi}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|5|28}}
|Politician
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Joe Negri}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|6|10}}
|Musician, educator
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Joan Neiman}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|9|9}}
|Senator
|Royal Canadian Navy (Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service)
|Canada
|-
|{{wp|Yakov Neishtadt}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|10|6}}
|Chess player
|Red Army
|Soviet Union
|-
|{{wp|Nerio Nesi}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|6|16}}
|Politician, businessman, banker
|Italian Resistance
|Italian Resistance
|-
|{{wp|Frederick M. Nicholas}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|5|30}}
|Lawyer
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|George Nigh}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|6|9}}
|Politician; 17th and 22nd governor of Oklahoma (1963, 1979–1987)
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Ian Nish}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|6|3}}
|Academic; specialist in Japanese studies
|British Army
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Peter L. Nissen}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|1|8}}
|Aviator and businessman
|Norwegian resistance movement
Royal Norwegian Air Force
|Norway
|}
 
== O ==
6 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Birth
!Notability
!Service
!Country
|-
|{{wp|Makoto Ogawa}}
|{{birth date and age|1917|2|1}}
|Pilot
|Japanese Imperial Army
|Japan
|-
|{{wp|David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|5|17}}
|Scottish peer, Lord Chamberlain of the Household
|British Army
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Jiro Ono}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|10|27}}
|Sushi Chef
|Japanese Imperial Army
|Japan
|-
|{{wp|David Oreck}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|9|17}}
|Entrepreneur
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Edward Ormondroyd}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|10|8}}
|Author
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Donald Owens}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|9|12}}
|General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene
|US Army
|United States
|}
 
== P ==
18 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Birth
!Notability
!Service
!Country
|-
|{{wp|Boris Pahor}}
|{{birth date and age|1913|8|26}}
|Writer & publicist
|Royal Italian Army
Slovene Partisans
|Italy
Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
|-
|{{wp|Rudolph Pariser}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|12|8}}
|Physicist & polymer chemist
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Victor Parsonnet}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|8|29}}
|Surgeon
|US Navy Reserve
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Johnny Pate}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|12|5}}
|Bass player & arranger
|US Army; played with the 218th AGF Army Band
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Philip Pearlstein}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|5|24}}
|Modern Realist painter
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|John Peoples}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|8|26}}
|President of Jackson State University
|US Marine Corps
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Simon Perchik}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|12|24}}
|Poet
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Solomon Perel}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|4|21}}
|Holocaust survivor, author
|Wehrmacht
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Nehemiah Persoff}}
|{{birth date and age|1919|8|2}}
|Actor; ''Some Like It Hot,'' ''Yentl''
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Jack Petchey}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|7|19}}
|Businessman
|Royal Navy
|United Kingdom
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Peters_(Sinologe) Helmut Peters]
|{{birth date and age|1930|7|23}}
|Sinologist, Marxist
|Volkssturm
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Leslie Phillips}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|4|20}}
|Actor
|British Army
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Muriel Phillips}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|1|12}}
|Author
|US Army (nurse)
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Bill Pitman}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|2|12}}
|Musician
|US Armed Forces
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Wanda Półtawska}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|11|2}}
|Subject of medical experiments in Ravensbrück concentration camp, author
|Polish Resistance
|Poland
|-
|{{wp|Martin Pope}}
|{{birth date and age|1918|8|22}}
|Physical chemist
|US Armed Forces
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Aris Poulianos}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|7|24}}
|Anthropologist & archaeologist
|Greek People's Liberation Army
|Greece
|-
|{{wp|Ralph Puckett}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|12|8}}
|Medal of Honor recipient
|US Army Reserve
|United States
|}
 
== Q ==
1 veteran
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Birth
!Notability
!Service
!Country
|-
|{{wp|Al Quie}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|9|18}}
|Governor of Minnesota (1979–1983)
|US Navy
|United States
|}
 
== R ==
23 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Birth
!Notability
!Service
!Country
|-
|{{wp|Bhisadej Rajani}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|1|20}}
|Member of the Thai royal family
|British Army
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|4|16}}
|Pope Benedict XVI, the 265th Pope
|Luftwaffenhelfer
|Germany
|-
|[https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Rasbol Helmut Rasbol]
|1925 (age 95-96)
|Accused of war crimes by SWC
|Wehrmacht
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Arthur Ravenel, Jr.}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|3|29}}
|Politician
|US Marine Corps
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Dennis V. Razis}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|5|30}}
|Oncologist
|Greek Resistance
|Greece
|-
|{{wp|Vasily Reshetnikov}}
|{{birth date and age|1919|12|23}}
|Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force
|Soviet Air Forces
|Soviet Union
|-
|{{wp|Madeleine Riffaud}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|8|23}}
|Poet, journalist, & war correspondent
|French Resistance
|Free France
|-
|{{wp|Basil Rigg}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|8|12}}
|Cricket player
|Australian Army
|Australia
|-
|{{wp|Fred Risser}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|5|5}}
|Politician
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Edward L. Rissien}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|10|1}}
|Film producer and executive
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|-
|{{wp|John Roberts (Royal Navy officer)|John Roberts}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|4|4}}
|Admiral
|Royal Navy
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Arthur Rock}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|8|19}}
|Businessman, investor
|US Army
|United States
|-
|[https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Lisa_Cinciari_Rodano Maria Lisa Cinciari Rodano]
|{{birth date and age|1921|1|21}}
|Politician
|Italian Resistance
|Italian Resistance
|-
|{{wp|Alan Rogers}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|12|31}}
|Football manager
|Royal Navy
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Richard Rohmer}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|1|24}}
|Military writer; ''Ultimatum''
|Royal Canadian Air Force
|Canada
|-
|{{wp|Charles P. Roland}}
|{{birth date and age|1918|4|8}}
|Historian, professor
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Andrew Romanov}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|1|21}}
|Pretender to the Russian throne
|Royal Navy
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Roy Roper}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|9|11}}
|Rugby union player
|Royal New Zealand Navy
|New Zealand
|-
|{{wp|J. Roy Rowland}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|2|3}}
|Georgia congressman (1981–1995)
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Richard E. Rumble}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|10|26}}
|Admiral
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Philip Ruppe}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|9|29}}
|United States Congressman
|V-12 Navy College Training Program
|United States
|-
|{{wp|William Russell (English actor)|William Russell}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|11|19}}
|Actor
|Royal Air Force
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|F. James Rutherford}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|7|11}}
|Science professor, radar officer
|US Navy
|United States
|}
 
== S ==
55 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Birth
!Notability
!Service
!Country
|-
|{{wp|Howard F. Sachs}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|9|13}}
|Judge
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Agadadash Samedov}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|3|10}}
|Order of Glory recipient
|Red Army
|Soviet Union
|-
|{{wp|Sydney Samuelson}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|12|7}}
|Film commissioner
|Royal Air Force
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Ashot Sarkisov}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|1|30}}
|Admiral, scientist
|Red Army
|Soviet Union
|-
|{{wp|Frank Saucier}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|5|28}}
|Baseball player
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Laurie Sawle}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|8|19}}
|Cricket player
|Australian Army
|Australia
|-
|{{wp|Norman Scarth}}
|1925 (age 96–97)
|Blogger & political candidate
|Royal Navy
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Art Schallock}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|4|25}}
|Baseball player
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Harold Zvi Schiffrin}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|9|26}}
|Professor
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Rolf Schimpf}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|11|14}}
|German television actor
|Heer
|Germany
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Franz_Schleser Walter Franz Schleser]
|{{birth date and age|1930|10|25}}
|Representative of the Vereinigung Heimatvertriebener Deutscher Studenten
|Volkssturm
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Helmut Schlesinger}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|9|4}}
|President of the Deutsche Bundesbank
|Heer
|Germany
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich-Wilhelm_Schlomann Friedrich-Wilhelm Schlomann]
|{{birth date and age|1928|9|5}}
|Journalist
|Wehrmacht
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Wolf Schneider}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|5|7}}
|Journalist
|Luftwaffe
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Arnold Schulman}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|8|11}}
|Writer
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Harry D. Schultz}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|9|11}}
|Financial adviser, author
|US Army
|United States
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Schumann_(Politiker) Wolfgang Schumann]
|{{birth date and age|1929|6|5}}
|Member of Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate
|Wehrmacht
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Bernard L. Schwartz}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|12|12}}
|CEO of Loral Corporation (1972–2006)
|US Army Air Corps
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Ted Schwinden}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|8|31}}
|Politician; Governor of Montana (1976–1980)
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Vin Scully}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|11|29}}
|Sportscaster
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Simone Segouin}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|10|3}}
|Resistance member
|French Resistance
|Free France
|-
|[https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Segre Bruno Segre]
|{{birth date and age|1918|9|4}}
|Journalist
|Italian Resistance
|Italian Resistance
|-
|[https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Camillo_Segre Sergio Camillo Segre]
|{{birth date and age|1926|9|15}}
|Politician, journalist
|Italian Resistance
|Italian Resistance
|-
|{{wp|Vic Seixas}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|8|30}}
|Tennis player
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Sen Sōshitsu XV}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|4|19}}
|Hereditary master of the ''Urasenke'' ''chanoyu'' school
|Imperial Japanese Navy
|Japan
|-
|{{wp|Ralph Senensky}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|5|1}}
|TV director & writer
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Doc Severinsen}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|7|7}}
|Trumpeter
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Frank Shakespeare}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|4|9}}
|Diplomat, president of CBS
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Bobby Shantz}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|9|26}}
|Baseball player
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Pamela Sharples, Baroness Sharples}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|2|11}}
|British peer
|Women's Auxiliary Air Force
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Charles Norman Shay}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|6|27}}
|Penobscot tribal elder, writer
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Jack Sheedy (Australian rules footballer)|Jack Sheedy}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|9|28}}
|Australian rules footballer
|Royal Australian Navy
|Australia
|-
|{{wp|Thomas D. Shepard}}
|c. 1925 (age 96-97)
|Politician
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Robert G. Shulman}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|3|3}}
|Biophysicist
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Władysław Siemaszko}}
|{{birth date and age|1919|6|8}}
|Author, Lawyer
|Home Army
|Poland
|-
|{{wp|Maria Simon (sociologist)|Maria Simon}}
|{{birth date and age|1918|8|6}}
|Sociologist
|Auxiliary Territorial Service
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Edward H. Sims}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|5|29}}
|Author
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Carlo Smuraglia}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|8|12}}
|Politician; National president of the A.N.P.I. association (2011-2017)
|Italian Rersistance
|Italian Resistance
|-
|{{wp|Robert M. Solow}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|8|23}}
|Economist
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Mihai Șora}}
|{{birth date and age|1916|11|7}}
|Philosopher, writer
|French Resistance
|Free France
|-
|{{wp|Pierre Soulages}}
|{{birth date and age|1919|12|24}}
|Painter and sculptor
|
|France
|-
|{{wp|Larry South}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|2|26}}
|Politician
|Canadian Army
|Canada
|-
|{{wp|Robert Hitchcock Spain}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|10|26}}
|Bishop
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Bill Spence}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|4|20}}
|Writer
|Royal Air Force
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Richard T. Spooner}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|9|10}}
|Author
|US Marine Corps
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Irena Stankiewicz}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|2|28}}
|Graphic artist
|Home Army
|Poland
|-
|{{wp|Colin Stannard}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|2|8}}
|Archdeacon of Carlisle
|British Army
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Epaminondas Stassinopoulos}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|1|17}}
|Astrophysicist
|Greek Resistance
|Greece
|-
|{{wp|William L. Stearman}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|6|22}}
|Government official, author
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Willis H. Stephens, Sr.}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|6|7}}
|Politician
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Guy Stern}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|1|14}}
|Literary scholar
|US Army
|United States
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Stöcker Heinz Stöcker]
|{{birth date and age|1929|1|22}}
|General
|Volkssturm
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Larry Storch}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|1|8}}
|Comedian and Actor; TV's ''F Troop''
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Fritz Streletz}}
|{{birth date and age|1928|9|28}}
|General
|Wehrmacht
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Lyle Elmer Strom}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|1|6}}
|Judge
|US Naval Reserve
|United States
|}
 
== T ==
13 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Birth
!Notability
!Service
!Country
|-
|[https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulev_Tailo Sulev Tailo]
|{{birth date and age|1920|12|2}}
|Poet, artist
|Finnish Army
|Finland
|-
|{{wp|Jiro Tanaka}}
|{{birth date and age|1917|1|16}}
|Aircraft & automotive engineer
|Imperial Japanese Army
|Japan
|-
|{{wp|Maurice Taylor}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|5|5}}
|Bishop
|British Army
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Fletcher Thompson}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|2|5}}
|Politician & lawyer
|US Army Medical Corps & US Army Air Corps
|United States
|-
|{{wp|John Thorn}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|4|28}}
|Headmaster, writer
|Royal Navy
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Dan Tolkowsky}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|1|17}}
|Commander of the Israeli Air Force
|Royal Air Force
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Aldo Tortorella}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|7|10}}
|Journalist & politician
|Italian Resistance
|Italian Resistance
|-
|{{wp|Simon Towneley}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|12|14}}
|Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (1976–1997)
|British Army
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Krastyu Trichkov}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|4|12}}
|Politician
|Bulgarian Resistance
|Bulgaria
|-
|{{wp|Charley Trippi}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|12|14}}
|Football player
|US Army Air Corps
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Ankica Tuđman}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|7|24}}
|First Lady of Croatia
|Yugoslav Partisans
|Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
|-
|{{wp|Joe Turkel}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|7|15}}
|Actor
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|James Wesley Turpin}}
|{{birth date and age|1928|12|18}}
|Founder of Project Concern International, physician, activist
|US Navy
|United States
|}
 
== U ==
1 veteran
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Birth
!Notability
!Service
!Country
|-
|{{wp|Yosh Uchida}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|4|1}}
|Sports businessman, entrepreneur, & engineer
|US Army
|United States
|}
 
== V ==
7 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Birth
!Notability
!Service
!Country
|-
|{{wp|Tony Vaccaro}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|12|20}}
|Photographer
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Jaakko Valtanen}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|2|9}}
|General
|Finnish Defence Forces
|Finland
|-
|{{wp|Ronald R. Van Stockum}}
|{{birth date and age|1916|7|8}}
|General
|US Marine Corps
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Dick Van Dyke}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|12|13}}
|Actor and comedian
|US Army Air Corps
|United States
|-
|[https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Vanzini Enrico Vanzini]
|{{birth date and age|1922|11|18}}
|Holocaust survivor; last Italian sonderkommando
|Royal Italian Army
|Italy
|-
|{{wp|Thomas Franklin Vaughns}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|7|12}}
|Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen
|United States Army Air Force
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Inez Voyce}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|8|16}}
|Baseball player
|US Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve)
|United States
|}
 
== W ==
25 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Birth
!Notability
!Service
!Country
|-
|{{wp|Angel Wagenstein}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|10|17}}
|Film director, author
|Bulgarian Resistance
|Bulgaria
|-
|{{wp|Herbert Wahler}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|12|10}}
|Accused of war crimes by SWC
|Einsatzgruppe
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Udo Walendy}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|1|21}}
|Historian
|Luftwaffenhelfer
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Joe Wallach}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|9|10}}
|Businessman
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Martin Walser}}
|{{birth date and age|1927|3|24}}
|Writer
|Heer
|Germany
|-
|{{wp|Wan Haifeng}}
|{{birth date and age|1920|9|25}}
|General
|Red Army
|Republic of China
|-
|{{wp|Stan Waterman}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|4|5}}
|Cinematographer
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Josser Watling}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|5|11}}
|Association football player
|Royal Navy
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Donald J. Watt}}
|{{birth date and age|1918|8|10}}
|Author
|Australian Army
|Australia
|-
|{{wp|William H. Webster}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|3|26}}
|3rd F.B.I. Director, 10th C.I.A. Director and Chairperson of the Homeland Security Advisory Council
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Jimmy Weldon}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|9|23}}
|Voice actor & ventriloquist
|US Army Air Corps
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Lloyd F. Wheat}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|4|27}}
|Lawyer, politician
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Alan White}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|2|23}}
|Writer
|
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|G. William Whitehurst}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|3|12}}
|Politician
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Hershel W. Williams}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|10|2}}
|Medal of Honor recipient
|US Marine Corps
|United States
|-
|{{wp|G. I. Williamson}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|5|19}}
|Theologian, pastor, author
|US Army
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Oscar Lawton Wilkerson}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|2|9}}
|Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen
|United States Army Air Forces
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Dennis Wilson}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|6|25}}
|Poet
|British Army
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Edwin Wilson}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|2|1}}
|Professor
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Charley Winner}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|7|2}}
|Football player
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Graham Winteringham}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|3|2}}
|Architect
|Royal Navy
|United Kingdom
|-
|{{wp|Louis Witten}}
|{{birth date and age|1921|4|13}}
|Theoretical physicist
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Woody Woodbury}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|2|9}}
|Comedian & actor
|US Marine Corps
|United States
|-
|[https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Laura_Fabbri_Wronowski Francesca Laura Fabbri Wronowski]
|{{birth date and age|1924|1|1}}
|Partisan, Journalist
|Italian Resistance
|Italian Resistance
|-
|{{wp|Oscar Wyatt}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|7|11}}
|Businessman
|US Army Air Corps
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1924|12|16}}
|}
|}


== X ==
== Z ==
1 veteran
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Birth
!Notability
!Service
!Country
|-
|{{wp|Alex Xydias}}
|{{birth date and age|1922|3|22}}
|Auto racing driver
|US Army Air Forces
|United States
|}
 
== Y ==
3 veterans
3 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Veteran
!Birth
!Born
!Notability
!Service
!Country
|-
|{{wp|Barbara Yeaman}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|12|16}}
|Conservationist
|Women Airforce Service Pilots
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Robert M. Young}}
|{{birth date and age|1924|11|22}}
|Director, screenwriter, cinematographer, producer
|US Navy
|United States
|-
|{{wp|Ihor Yukhnovskyi}}
|{{birth date and age|1925|9|1}}
|Physicist, politician
|Red Army
|Soviet Union
|}
 
== Z ==
6 veterans
{| class="wikitable"
!Veteran
!Birth
!Notability
!Notability
!Service
!Service
!Country
!Country
|-
!Age
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Zick Rolf Zick]
|{{birth date and age|1921|4|16}}
|Journalist
|Luftwaffenhelfer
|Germany
|-
|[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Zickler Heinz Zickler]
|{{birth date and age|1920|3|25}}
|Musician
|Heer
|Germany
|-
|-
|{{wp|Franklin B. Zimmerman}}
|{{wp|Franklin B. Zimmerman}}
|{{birth date and age|1923|6|20}}
|June 20, 1923
|Musicologist, conductor
|Musicologist, conductor
|US Army
|US Army
|United States
|United States
|{{age in years and days|1923|6|20}}
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|{{wp|Zou Jiahua}}
|{{wp|Zou Jiahua}}
|{{birth date and age|1926|10|1}}
|October 1926
|Politician
|Politician
|National Revolutionary Army
|National Revolutionary Army
|Republic of China
|Republic of China
|{{age in years and days|1926|10|31}} to {{age in years and days|1926|10|1}}
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|[https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszek_Żukowski Leszek Żukowski]
|[https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszek_Żukowski Leszek Żukowski]
|{{birth date and age|1929|2|11}}
|February 11, 1929
|President of World Association of Home Army Soldiers
|President of World Association of Home Army Soldiers
|Gray Ranks
|Gray Ranks
|Poland
|Poland
|-
|{{age in years and days|1929|2|11}}
|[https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Żurakowski_(podpułkownik) Stanisław Żurakowski]
|{{birth date and age|1920|7|24}}
|Polish lieutenant colonel
|Polish Army
Anders' Army
Polish Armed Forces in the West
|Poland
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This is a list of notable surviving veterans of World War II (1939–1945). A total of 223 veterans are listed.

A

11 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
S. Daniel Abraham August 15, 1924 Businessman, philanthropist US Army United States 99 years, 284 days
Valdas Adamkus November 3, 1926 President of Lithuania Lithuanian resistance Lithuania 97 years, 204 days
Lee Adams August 14, 1924 Musician US Army United States 99 years, 285 days
Marshall Allen May 25, 1924 Musician US Army United States 100 years, 0 days
Walter Althammer March 12, 1928 Politician Heer Germany 96 years, 74 days
Bud Anderson January 13, 1922 Fighter pilot US Army Air Forces United States 102 years, 133 days
Valérie André April 21, 1922 General, neurosurgeon, aviator French Resistance Free France 102 years, 34 days
Ray Anthony January 20, 1922 Bandleader and trumpeter US Navy United States 102 years, 126 days
George Ariyoshi March 12, 1926 Governor of Hawaii (1974–1986) US Army United States 98 years, 74 days
Stanisław Aronson May 6, 1925 Order of Polonia Restituta recipient Home Army Poland 99 years, 19 days
Austin Asche November 28, 1925 Administrator of the Northern Territory, judge Royal Australian Air Force Australia 98 years, 179 days

B

21 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Vincent Ball December 4, 1923 Actor Royal Australian Air Force Australia 100 years, 173 days
Karlheinz Bauer April 24, 1928 Former head of Bauer Group Heer Germany 96 years, 31 days
William J. Bauer September 15, 1926 Federal judge US Army United States 97 years, 253 days
V. J. Bella July 29, 1927 American politician US Marine Corps United States 96 years, 301 days
Alan Bergman September 11, 1925 Songwriter US Army United States 98 years, 257 days
Rasammah Bhupalan May 1, 1927 Social activist Indian National Army Azad Hind 97 years, 24 days
Walter Bingham January 5, 1924 Journalist British Army United Kingdom 100 years, 141 days
Benjamin B. Blackburn February 14, 1927 Politician US Navy United States 97 years, 101 days
Eric Blackwood December 7, 1921 Aviator Royal Canadian Air Force

Royal Air Force

Canada

United Kingdom

102 years, 170 days
Harry Blank May 24, 1925 Politician Canadian Army Canada 99 years, 1 day
Daoud Bokhary January 15, 1920 Businessman British Indian Army British India 104 years, 131 days
Jacques Borker September 29, 1922 Artist French Resistance Free France 101 years, 239 days
Hugo Broch January 6, 1922 World War II flying ace Luftwaffe Germany 102 years, 140 days
Victor Brombert November 11, 1923 Professor US Army United States 100 years, 196 days
Mel Brooks June 28, 1926 Director, actor, producer US Army, Battle of the Bulge United States 97 years, 332 days
Stephen Brown October 3, 1924 Judge Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve United Kingdom 99 years, 235 days
Walt Brown July 28, 1926 Politician US Navy United States 97 years, 302 days
Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin February 17, 1924 11th Earl of Elgin British Army, Scots Guards United Kingdom 100 years, 98 days
Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury March 31, 1926 British peer, businessman British Army United Kingdom 98 years, 55 days
Arthur E. Bryson October 7, 1925 Control theorist US Navy United States 98 years, 231 days
Charles Burrell October 4, 1920 Musician US Navy United States 103 years, 234 days

C

15 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Gerard Caris March 20, 1925 Artist US Marine Corps United States 99 years, 66 days
Lou Carnesecca January 5, 1925 Basketball coach US Coast Guard United States 99 years, 141 days
Jimmy Carter October 1, 1924 39th U.S. President US Navy United States 99 years, 237 days
Patrick Skene Catling February 14, 1925 Journalist, author Royal Canadian Air Force Canada 99 years, 101 days
Nadia Cattouse November 2, 1924 Actress, singer, songwriter Auxiliary Territorial Service United Kingdom 99 years, 205 days
Robert A. Chase January 6, 1923 Surgeon, professor US Army United States 101 years, 140 days
Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher April 25, 1925 Businessman, trade unionist, tax official Royal Air Force United Kingdom 99 years, 30 days
John B. Cobb February 9, 1925 Theologian, philosopher, environmentalist US Army United States 99 years, 106 days
Marthe Cohn April 13, 1920 Author, spy French Army France 104 years, 42 days
Ena Collymore-Woodstock September 10, 1917 Solicitor, magistrate Auxiliary Territorial Service United Kingdom 106 years, 258 days
Tom Copeland April 17, 1924 Politician US Army United States 100 years, 38 days
John Thomas Copenhaver Jr. September 29, 1925 Federal judge US Army United States 98 years, 239 days
Roger Corman April 5, 1926 Filmmaker, actor V-12 Navy College Training Program United States 98 years, 50 days
John Cruickshank May 20, 1920 Recipient of the Victoria Cross British Army

Royal Air Force

United Kingdom 104 years, 5 days
Iris Cummings December 21, 1920 Olympic swimmer, Aviator Women Airforce Service Pilots United States 103 years, 156 days

D

13 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Phyllis Dalton October 16, 1925 Costume designer Women's Royal Naval Service United States 98 years, 222 days
Louis Danziger November 17, 1923 Graphic designer, professor US Army United States 100 years, 190 days
Klaus von Dohnanyi June 23, 1928 Politician, First Mayor of Hamburg Volkssturm Germany 95 years, 337 days
Charles Dolan October 16, 1926 Businessman, Philanthropist US Army Air Force United States 97 years, 222 days
Lou Donaldson November 1, 1926 Musician US Navy United States 97 years, 206 days
William I. Donnermeyer Sr. September 19, 1924 Politician US Navy United States 99 years, 249 days
Bruce L. Douglas July 14, 1925 Politician US Navy United States 98 years, 316 days
Karl-Heinz Drews December 22, 1929 General Volkssturm

Wehrmacht

Germany 94 years, 155 days
Roy Drinkard July 12, 1920 Businessman US Marine Corps United States 103 years, 318 days
Charles C. Droz July 8, 1924 Politician US Army United States 99 years, 322 days
Patrick Duffy June 17, 1920 President of the NATO Assembly Fleet Air Arm United Kingdom 103 years, 343 days
Roland Dumas August 23, 1922 Politician, lawyer French Resistance Free France 101 years, 276 days
Winfield Dunn July 1, 1927 Politician; Governor of Tennessee (1971–1975) US Navy United States 96 years, 329 days

E

4 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Alfred Einwag March 18, 1928 Lawyer Heer Germany 96 years, 68 days
Juan Ponce Enrile February 14, 1924 Lawyer Philippine Navy Philippines 100 years, 101 days
Daniel J. Evans October 16, 1925 Politician; 16th Governor of Washington (1965–1977) US Navy United States 98 years, 222 days
Anthony Eyton May 17, 1923 Artist British Army United Kingdom 101 years, 8 days

F

10 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Josef-Gerhard Farkas July 13, 1929 Hungariologist Volkssturm Germany 94 years, 317 days
Edward Field June 7, 1924 Poet, author US Army Air Forces United States 99 years, 353 days
Sergio Flamigni October 22, 1925 Politician, writer Italian Resistance Italian Resistance 98 years, 216 days
Samuel C. Florman January 19, 1925 Civil engineer, author US Navy United States 99 years, 127 days
James Clayton Flowers December 25, 1915 Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen United States Army Air Forces United States 108 years, 152 days
Loretta Ford December 28, 1920 Nurse, Academic US Army Air Forces United States 103 years, 149 days
Wieland Förster February 12, 1930 Painter, writer Volkssturm Germany 94 years, 103 days
John S. Foster Jr. September 18, 1922 Physicist US Army Air Forces United States 101 years, 250 days
J. Keith Fraser February 18, 1922 Physical geographer Royal Canadian Air Force

Royal Air Force

Canada

United Kingdom

102 years, 97 days
Russell Freeburg March 4, 1923 Editor of the Chicago Tribune US Army United States 101 years, 82 days

G

13 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Arnald Gabriel May 31, 1925 Conductor of the US Air Force Band US Army United States 98 years, 360 days
Samuel Rhea Gammon III January 22, 1924 Ambassador US Army United States 100 years, 124 days
Bernard Garfield May 27, 1924 Bassoonist US Army United States 99 years, 364 days
Stanley Michael Gartler June 9, 1923 Biologist, geneticist US Army Air Forces United States 100 years, 351 days
Eddie Germano November 15, 1924 Cartoonist US Army United States 99 years, 192 days
Roy Gibson July 4, 1924 Aerospace engineer British Army United Kingdom 99 years, 326 days
I. Leo Glasser April 6, 1924 Judge US Army United States 100 years, 49 days
René Henry Gracida June 9, 1923 Bishop Flying Tigers United States 100 years, 351 days
Bill Grayden August 5, 1920 Politician Australian Army Australia 103 years, 294 days
Bill Greason September 3, 1924 Baseball player US Marine Corps United States 99 years, 265 days
Peter Green December 22, 1924 Historian Royal Air Force United Kingdom 99 years, 155 days
Maurice R. Greenberg May 4, 1925 CEO of American International Group (1967–2005) US Army United States 99 years, 21 days
Frank J. Guarini August 20, 1924 Politician; New Jersey Representative (1979–1990) US Navy United States 99 years, 279 days

H

15 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Jürgen Habermas June 18, 1929 Philosopher; sociologist Luftwaffenhelfer Germany 94 years, 342 days
G. Homer Harding December 7, 1925 Politician US Army United States 98 years, 170 days
George Hardy June 8, 1925 Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen US Army Air Forces United States 98 years, 352 days
Robert Harlow November 19, 1923 Writer, academic Royal Canadian Air Force Canada 100 years, 188 days
Ted Hartley November 6, 1924 Pilot, banker, actor, film producer US Navy United States 99 years, 201 days
Helmut Hauptmann March 12, 1928 Writer Heer Germany 96 years, 74 days
Eric Heath November 23, 1923 Artist Royal New Zealand Air Force New Zealand 100 years, 184 days
John Hemingway July 17, 1919 Pilot, last surviving member of "The Few" from the Battle of Britain Royal Air Force United Kingdom 104 years, 313 days
Józef Hen November 8, 1923 Writer Polish People's Army Poland 100 years, 199 days
Werner Henninger April 7, 1929 Admiral Volkssturm Germany 95 years, 48 days
Laurin L. Henry May 23, 1921 Researcher US Navy United States 103 years, 2 days
Cyril Hilsum May 17, 1925 Physicist, academic Royal Navy United Kingdom 99 years, 8 days
Earl Holliman September 11, 1928 Actor US Navy United States 95 years, 257 days
Tom Hughes November 26, 1923 Politician Royal Australian Air Force Australia 100 years, 181 days
Evan Hultman July 15, 1925 Politician US Army United States 98 years, 315 days

I

1 veteran

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Paul Ignatius November 11, 1920 Government official US Navy United States 103 years, 196 days

J

4 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Stephen A. Jarislowsky September 9, 1925 Businessman, billionaire US Army United States 98 years, 259 days
Dub Jones December 29, 1924 American football player US Navy United States 99 years, 148 days
George Joseph September 11, 1921 Founder of Mercury Insurance Group US Army United States 102 years, 257 days
George Judge May 2, 1925 Professor, econometrician US Army Air Forces United States 99 years, 23 days

K

3 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Sydney Kentridge November 5, 1922 Lawyer, judge South African Army South Africa 101 years, 202 days
Elisabeth Kirkby January 26, 1921 Actress, writer, broadcaster Auxiliary Territorial Service United Kingdom 103 years, 120 days
Helma Kissner December 23, 1923 Accused of war crimes by SWC Wehrmacht Germany 100 years, 154 days

L

11 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Horst Langes December 2, 1928 Member of state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate Wehrmacht Germany 95 years, 175 days
Peter Lax May 1, 1926 Mathematician US Navy United States 98 years, 24 days
Jean Lee July 26, 1924 Only woman of Chinese-Canadian descent to serve in RCAF Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division Canada 99 years, 304 days
James Lees February 14, 1924 Maritime expert, curator Royal Navy

British Merchant Navy

United Kingdom 100 years, 101 days
Marv Levy August 3, 1925 Football coach US Army Air Corps United States 98 years, 296 days
Guenter Lewy August 22, 1923 Author, professor British Army United Kingdom 100 years, 277 days
Nina Lobkovskaya March 8, 1925 Sniper Red Army Soviet Union 99 years, 78 days
Ernst Löschner June 20, 1929 Conductor Wehrmacht Germany 94 years, 340 days
Dick Lucas September 10, 1925 Anglican minister Royal Navy United Kingdom 98 years, 258 days
William R. Lucas March 1, 1922 Fourth director of the Marshall Space Flight Center US Navy United States 102 years, 85 days
Bernt H. Lund August 14, 1924 Civil servant, diplomat, politician Norwegian resistance movement Norway 99 years, 285 days

M

31 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Peter Marshall March 30, 1926 TV personality, actor US Army United States 98 years, 56 days
Ray Marshall August 22, 1928 US Secretary of Labor (1977-1981) US Navy United States 95 years, 277 days
Gordon Eugene Martin August 22, 1925 Physicist, author US Navy United States 98 years, 277 days
Ivan Martynushkin January 18, 1924 Last surviving liberator of the Auschwitz concentration camp Red Army Soviet Union 100 years, 128 days
Anthony Mason April 21, 1925 Judge; ninth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia Royal Australian Air Force Australia 99 years, 34 days
Miloslav Masopust September 26, 1924 General 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the USSR Czechoslovakia 99 years, 242 days
Joseph Matarazzo November 12, 1925 Psychologist US Navy United States 98 years, 195 days
Robert D. Maurer July 20, 1924 Physicist US Army United States 99 years, 310 days
Charlie Maxwell April 8, 1927 Baseball Player US Army United States 97 years, 47 days
Otto Mayrhofer November 2, 1920 Anaesthetist Wehrmacht Germany 103 years, 205 days
Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow March 20, 1921 Director-general of UNESCO (1974–1987) French Army

Free French Army

French Air Force

France
Free France 		103 years, 66 days
Robert McGinnis February 3, 1926 Artist, illustrator US Merchant Marine United States 98 years, 112 days
Francis Terry McNamara November 2, 1927 Diplomat US Navy United States 96 years, 205 days
Kirke Mechem August 16, 1925 Composer US Army United States 98 years, 283 days
Bill Mercer February 13, 1926 Sportscaster, educator, author US Navy United States 98 years, 102 days
Harald Metzkes January 23, 1929 Painter Heer Germany 95 years, 123 days
Ed Mickelson September 9, 1926 Baseball player US Army Air Forces United States 97 years, 259 days
J. William Middendorf September 22, 1924 Diplomat, politician US Navy United States 99 years, 246 days
Jim Miller May 30, 1919 Australian rules football player Australian Army

Royal Australian Air Force

Australia 104 years, 361 days
John H. Miller April 16, 1925 General US Marine Corps United States 99 years, 39 days
Sanford K. Moats December 4, 1921 General US Army Air Forces United States 102 years, 173 days
Gwen Moffat July 3, 1924 Climber, writer Auxiliary Territorial Service United Kingdom 99 years, 327 days
Jürgen Moltmann April 8, 1926 Protestant theologian Wehrmacht Germany 98 years, 47 days
Henry Moore November 2, 1923 Bishop of Cyprus and The Gulf British Army

British Indian Army

United Kingdom

British India

100 years, 205 days
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 96 years, 139 days
Edgar Morin July 8, 1921 Philosopher, sociologist French Resistance Free France 102 years, 322 days
Georg Müller October 1, 1930 Mineralogist Hitlerjugend Germany 93 years, 237 days
Sumio Murai February 24, 1925 General; Chief of the Joint Staff of the JSDF (1983–1984), Chief of Staff, JGSDF (1981–1983) Imperial Japanese Army Japan 99 years, 91 days
Tomiichi Murayama March 3, 1924 Japanese Prime Minister Imperial Japanese Army Japan 100 years, 83 days
David H. Murdock April 11, 1923 Businessman, billionaire US Army United States 101 years, 44 days
David Musuguri January 4, 1920 Chief of the Tanzania People's Defence Force (1980–1988) British Army United Kingdom 104 years, 142 days

N

6 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Bill Nankivell September 7, 1923 Politician Royal Australian Air Force Australia 100 years, 261 days
Lucien Nedzi May 28, 1925 Politician US Army United States 98 years, 363 days
Joe Negri June 10, 1926 Musician, educator US Army United States 97 years, 350 days
Frederick M. Nicholas May 30, 1920 Lawyer US Army United States 103 years, 361 days
George Nigh June 9, 1927 Politician; 17th and 22nd governor of Oklahoma (1963, 1979–1987) US Navy United States 96 years, 351 days
Peter L. Nissen January 8, 1924 Aviator and businessman Norwegian resistance movement

Royal Norwegian Air Force

Norway 100 years, 138 days

O

3 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Jiro Ono October 27, 1925 Sushi Chef Japanese Imperial Army Japan 98 years, 211 days
Edward Ormondroyd October 8, 1925 Author US Navy United States 98 years, 230 days
Donald Owens September 12, 1926 General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene US Army United States 97 years, 256 days

P

4 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Victor Parsonnet August 29, 1924 Surgeon US Navy Reserve United States 99 years, 270 days
Johnny Pate December 5, 1923 Bass player, arranger US Army; played with the 218th AGF Army Band United States 100 years, 172 days
John Peoples August 26, 1926 President of Jackson State University US Marine Corps United States 97 years, 273 days
Jack Petchey July 19, 1925 Businessman Royal Navy United Kingdom 98 years, 311 days

R

10 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Dennis V. Razis May 30, 1923 Oncologist Greek Resistance Greece 100 years, 361 days
Madeleine Riffaud August 23, 1924 Poet, journalist, war correspondent French Resistance Free France 99 years, 276 days
Basil Rigg August 12, 1926 Cricket player Australian Army Australia 97 years, 287 days
Fred Risser May 5, 1927 Politician US Navy United States 97 years, 20 days
John Roberts April 4, 1924 Admiral Royal Navy United Kingdom 100 years, 51 days
Arthur Rock August 19, 1926 Businessman, investor US Army United States 97 years, 280 days
Alan Rogers December 31, 1924 Football manager Royal Navy United Kingdom 99 years, 146 days
Richard Rohmer January 24, 1924 Military writer; Ultimatum Royal Canadian Air Force Canada 100 years, 122 days
Philip Ruppe September 29, 1926 United States Congressman V-12 Navy College Training Program United States 97 years, 239 days
William Russell November 19, 1924 Actor Royal Air Force United Kingdom 99 years, 188 days

S

26 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Howard F. Sachs September 13, 1925 Judge US Navy United States 98 years, 255 days
Agadadash Samedov March 10, 1924 Order of Glory recipient Red Army Soviet Union 100 years, 76 days
Frank Saucier May 28, 1926 Baseball player US Navy United States 97 years, 363 days
Norman Scarth October 1925 Blogger, political candidate Royal Navy United Kingdom 98 years, 207 days to 98 years, 237 days
Art Schallock April 25, 1924 Baseball player US Navy United States 100 years, 30 days
Harold Zvi Schiffrin September 26, 1922 Professor US Army United States 101 years, 242 days
Rolf Schimpf November 14, 1924 German television actor Heer Germany 99 years, 193 days
Walter Franz Schleser October 25, 1930 Representative of the Vereinigung Heimatvertriebener Deutscher Studenten Volkssturm Germany 93 years, 213 days
Helmut Schlesinger September 4, 1924 President of the Deutsche Bundesbank Heer Germany 99 years, 264 days
Friedrich-Wilhelm Schlomann September 5, 1928 Journalist Wehrmacht Germany 95 years, 263 days
Wolfgang Schumann June 5, 1929 Member of Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate Wehrmacht Germany 94 years, 355 days
Vic Seixas August 30, 1923 Tennis player US Army Air Forces United States 100 years, 269 days
Sen Sōshitsu XV April 19, 1923 Hereditary master of the Urasenke chanoyu school Imperial Japanese Navy Japan 101 years, 36 days
Ralph Senensky May 1, 1923 TV director, writer US Army United States 101 years, 24 days
Doc Severinsen July 7, 1927 Trumpeter US Army United States 96 years, 323 days
Bobby Shantz September 26, 1925 Baseball player US Army United States 98 years, 242 days
Charles Norman Shay June 27, 1924 Penobscot tribal elder, writer US Army United States 99 years, 333 days
Robert G. Shulman March 3, 1924 Biophysicist US Navy United States 100 years, 83 days
Władysław Siemaszko June 8, 1919 Author, Lawyer Home Army Poland 104 years, 352 days
Edward H. Sims May 29, 1923 Author US Army Air Forces United States 100 years, 362 days
Bill Spence April 20, 1923 Writer Royal Air Force United Kingdom 101 years, 35 days
Richard T. Spooner September 10, 1926 Author US Marine Corps United States 97 years, 258 days
Irena Stankiewicz February 28, 1925 Graphic artist Home Army Poland 99 years, 87 days
Willis H. Stephens June 7, 1925 Politician US Army Air Forces United States 98 years, 353 days
Heinz Stöcker January 22, 1929 General Volkssturm Germany 95 years, 124 days
Fritz Streletz September 28, 1926 General Wehrmacht Germany 97 years, 240 days

T

4 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Sulev Tailo December 2, 1920 Poet, artist Finnish Army Finland 103 years, 175 days
Dan Tolkowsky January 17, 1921 Commander of the Israeli Air Force Royal Air Force United Kingdom 103 years, 129 days
Aldo Tortorella July 10, 1926 Journalist, politician Italian Resistance Italian Resistance 97 years, 320 days
James Wesley Turpin December 18, 1927 Founder of Project Concern International, physician, activist US Navy United States 96 years, 159 days

U

1 veteran

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Yosh Uchida April 1, 1920 Sports businessman, entrepreneur, engineer US Army United States 104 years, 54 days

V

3 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Dick Van Dyke December 13, 1925 Actor and comedian US Army Air Corps United States 98 years, 164 days
Enrico Vanzini November 18, 1922 Holocaust survivor; last Italian sonderkommando Royal Italian Army Italy 101 years, 189 days
Thomas Franklin Vaughns July 7, 1920 Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen United States Army Air Force United States 103 years, 323 days

W

8 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Herbert Wahler December 10, 1921 Accused of war crimes by SWC Einsatzgruppe Germany 102 years, 167 days
Joe Wallach September 10, 1923 Businessman US Army United States 100 years, 258 days
William H. Webster March 6, 1924 3rd F.B.I. Director, 10th C.I.A. Director and Chairperson of the Homeland Security Advisory Council US Navy United States 100 years, 80 days
G. William Whitehurst March 12, 1925 Politician US Navy United States 99 years, 74 days
Charley Winner July 2, 1924 Football player US Army Air Forces United States 99 years, 328 days
Louis Witten April 13, 1921 Theoretical physicist US Army Air Forces United States 103 years, 42 days
Woody Woodbury February 9, 1924 Comedian, actor US Marine Corps United States 100 years, 106 days
Oscar Wyatt July 11, 1924 Businessman US Army Air Corps United States 99 years, 319 days

X

1 veteran

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Alex Xydias March 22, 1922 Auto racing driver US Army Air Forces United States 102 years, 64 days

Y

1 veteran

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Barbara Yeaman December 16, 1924 Conservationist Women Airforce Service Pilots United States 99 years, 161 days

Z

3 veterans

Veteran Born Notability Service Country Age
Franklin B. Zimmerman June 20, 1923 Musicologist, conductor US Army United States 100 years, 340 days
Zou Jiahua October 1926 Politician National Revolutionary Army Republic of China 97 years, 207 days to 97 years, 237 days
Leszek Żukowski February 11, 1929 President of World Association of Home Army Soldiers Gray Ranks Poland 95 years, 104 days
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