List of notable surviving veterans of World War II

This is a list of notable surviving veterans of World War II (1939–1945). A total of 545 veterans are listed.

A

21 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Abdullah CD	(1923-10-02) October 2, 1923	Chairman and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Malaya	Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army	Federated Malay States
S. Daniel Abraham	(1924-08-15) August 15, 1924	Businessman, philanthropist	US Army	United States
Valdas Adamkus	(1926-11-03) November 3, 1926	President of Lithuania	Lithuanian resistance	Lithuania
Lee Adams	(1924-08-14) August 14, 1924	Musician	US Army	United States
Hans Albert	(1921-02-08) February 8, 1921	Philosopher	Heer	Germany
Marshall Allen	(1924-05-25) May 25, 1924	Musician	US Army	United States
Wolfgang Altenburg	(1928-06-24) June 24, 1928	General	Kriegsmarine	Germany
Walter Althammer	(1928-03-12) March 12, 1928	Politician	Heer	Germany
Aksel Andersen	1924/1925 (age 96–97)	Accused of War Crimes by SWC	Wehrmacht	Germany
James A. Andersen	(1924-09-21) September 21, 1924	Politician, judge	US Army	United States
Bud Anderson	(1922-01-13) January 13, 1922	Fighter pilot	US Army Air Forces	United States
Erwin Andrä	(1921-05-20) May 20, 1921	Designer	Wehrmacht	Germany
Valérie André	(1922-04-21) April 21, 1922	General, neurosurgeon, aviator	French Resistance	Free France
Roger Angell	(1920-09-19) September 19, 1920	Journalist	US Army	United States
Ray Anthony	(1922-01-20) January 20, 1922	Bandleader and trumpeter	US Navy	United States
Stefan Arczyński	(1916-07-31) July 31, 1916	Photographer	Luftwaffe Heer	Germany
George Ariyoshi	(1926-03-12) March 12, 1926	Governor of Hawaii (1974–1986)	US Army	United States
Michael Arnold	(1928-12-27) December 27, 1928	Professor	Heer	Germany
Stanisław Aronson	(1925-05-06) May 6, 1925	Order of Polonia Restituta recipient	Home Army	Poland
Austin Asche	(1925-11-28) November 28, 1925	Administrator of the Northern Territory, judge	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
Vasily Astafyev	(1919-10-26) October 26, 1919	Soviet Army colonel; Hero of the Soviet Union	Red Army	Soviet Union

B

63 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Robert L. Backman	(1922-03-22) March 22, 1922	Lawyer, politician	US Army	United States
Peter Badie	(1925-05-17) May 17, 1925	Jazz bass guitarist	US Navy	United States
Dave Bailey (musician)	(1926-02-22) February 22, 1926	Musician	US Army Air Forces	United States
Millie Bailey	(1918-02-03) February 3, 1918	Civil servant	Women's Army Corps	United States
Walter Balderson	(1926-09-19) September 19, 1926	Television pioneer	US NavyThomas W. Horton deceased	United States
Vincent Ball	(1923-12-04) December 4, 1923	Actor	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
James Bama	(1926-04-28) April 28, 1926	Artist	US Army Air Corps	United States
Bernhard Banaschewski	(1926-03-22) March 22, 1926	Mathematician	Luftwaffenhelfer	Germany
Rudolf Barbarino	(1920-03-19) March 19, 1920	Journalist	Heer	Germany
Bob Barker	(1923-12-12) December 12, 1923	Game show host	US Navy	United States
Haven J. Barlow	(1922-01-04) January 4, 1922	Politician	US Navy	United States
Phil Batt	(1927-03-04) March 4, 1927	29th Governor of Idaho	US Army Air Forces	United States
Karlheinz Bauer	(1928-04-24) April 24, 1928	Former head of Bauer Group	Heer	Germany
William J. Bauer	(1926-09-15) September 15, 1926	Federal judge	US Army	United States
Julius W. Becton Jr.	(1926-06-29) June 29, 1926	American military officer, former FEMA director	US Army Air Corps	United States
Harry Belafonte	(1927-03-01) March 1, 1927	American singer	US Navy	United States
V.J. Bella	(1927-07-29) July 29, 1927	American politician	US Marine Corps	United States
Tony Bennett	(1926-08-03) August 3, 1926	Singer	US Army	United States
Paul Berg	(1926-06-30) June 30, 1926	Chemist	US Navy	United States
Alan Bergman	(1925-09-11) September 11, 1925	Songwriter	US Army	United States
Rasammah Bhupalan	(1927-05-01) May 1, 1927	Social activist	Indian National Army	Azad Hind
Ruth Bidgood	(1922-07-20) July 20, 1922	Poet, historian	Women's Royal Naval Service	United Kingdom
Walter Bingham	1924 (age 96–97)	Journalist	British Army	United Kingdom
Bryan Harvey Bjarnason	(1924-04-02) April 2, 1924	Politician	Royal Canadian Air Force	Canada
Benjamin B. Blackburn	(1927-02-14) February 14, 1927	Politician	US Navy	United States
Robert J. Blackwell	(1925-02-26) February 26, 1925	Government official	US Navy	United States
Eric Blackwood	(1921-12-07) December 7, 1921	Aviator	Royal Canadian Air Force Royal Air Force	Canada United Kingdom
Simon Bland	(1923-12-04) December 4, 1923	Courtier	British Army	United Kingdom
Harry Blank	(1925-05-24) May 24, 1925	Politician	Canadian Army	Canada
Hans Blum	(1928-05-23) May 23, 1928	Singer and Songwriter (Henry Valentino)	Kriegsmarine	Germany
Ronald Blythe	(1922-11-06) November 6, 1922	Author		United Kingdom
Emil Boček	(1923-02-25) February 25, 1923	Last surviving Czech RAF Pilot	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Daoud Bokhary	(1920-01-15) January 15, 1920	Businessman	British Indian Army	British India
Dave Bolen	(1923-12-23) December 23, 1923	Olympic runner and ambassador	US Army Air Forces	United States
Jacques Borker	1922 (age 98–99)	Artist	French Resistance	Free France
George Boscawen, 9th Viscount Falmouth	(1919-10-31) October 31, 1919	British hereditary peer, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (1977–1994)	British Army	United Kingdom
Robert William Bradford	(1923-12-17) December 17, 1923	Artist	Royal Canadian Air Force	Canada
Lewis M. Branscomb	(1926-08-17) August 17, 1926	Scientist	US Navy	United States
Egidius Braun	(1925-02-27) February 27, 1925	President of the German Football Association	Wehrmacht	Germany
Denis Brian	(1923-12-11) December 11, 1923	Journalist, author	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Hugo Broch	(1922-01-06) January 6, 1922	World War II flying ace	Luftwaffe	Germany
Manuel Bromberg	(1917-03-06) March 6, 1917	Artist, professor	US Army	United States
Victor Brombert	(1923-11-11) November 11, 1923	Professor	US Army	United States
Lawrence Brooks	(1909-09-12) September 12, 1909	Oldest surviving American World War II veteran.	US Army	United States
Mel Brooks	(1926-06-28) June 28, 1926	Director, actor, producer	US Army, Battle of the Bulge	United States
Bud Brown	(1927-06-18) June 18, 1927	Politician	US Navy	United States
Geoff Brown	(1927-04-04) April 4, 1927	Tennis player	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
June Brown	(1927-02-16) February 16, 1927	Actress	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Mervyn Brown	(1923-09-24) September 24, 1923	Diplomat, historian	British Army	United Kingdom
Stephen Brown	(1924-10-03) October 3, 1924	Judge	Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve	United Kingdom
Walt Brown	(1926-07-28) July 28, 1926	Politician	US Navy	United States
Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin	(1924-02-17) February 17, 1924	11th Earl of Elgin	British Army, Scots Guards	United Kingdom
Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury	(1926-03-31) March 31, 1926	British peer, businessman	British Army	United Kingdom
Ashley Bryan	(1923-07-13) July 13, 1923	Children's book writer & illustrator; Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum	US Army	United States
Arthur E. Bryson	(1925-10-07) October 7, 1925	Control theorist	US Navy	United States
James L. Buckley	(1923-03-09) March 9, 1923	Politician; New York senator (1971–1977)	US Navy	United States
Frederick Buechner	(1926-07-11) July 11, 1926	Christian author, minister, and theologian	US Army	United States
Veljko Bulajić	(1928-03-22) March 22, 1928	Film director	Yugoslav Partisans	Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
Jack Burke, Jr.	(1923-01-29) January 29, 1923	PGA professional golfer	US Marine Corps	United States
Peter Burns	1924 (age 96–97)	Architect	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
Charles Burrell	(1920-10-04) October 4, 1920	Musician	US Navy	United States
Julian J. Bussgang	(1925-03-26) March 26, 1925	Mathematician, author	Polish Armed Forces in the West British Army	Poland United Kingdom
David Butler	(1924-10-17) October 17, 1924	Political scientist	British Army	United Kingdom

C

29 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Józef Caban	(1915-08-28) August 28, 1915	Polish social activist	Polish Army Home Army	Poland
Robert Cardenas	(1920-03-10) March 10, 1920	General	US Army Air Forces	United States
Harry Carmean	(1922-08-05) August 5, 1922	Painter	US Army	United States
Lou Carnesecca	(1925-05-01) May 1, 1925	Basketball coach	US Coast Guard	United States
Gerard Caris	(1925-03-20) March 20, 1925	Artist	US Marine Corps	United States
Jimmy Carter	(1924-10-01) October 1, 1924	39th U.S. President	US Navy	United States
Jean-Gabriel Castel	(1925-06-21) June 21, 1925	Law professor	French Resistance	Free France
Patrick Skene Catling	(1925-02-14) February 14, 1925	Journalist, author	Royal Canadian Air Force	Canada
Nadia Cattouse	(1924-11-02) November 2, 1924	Actress, singer, songwriter	Auxiliary Territorial Service	United Kingdom
Friedrich Cerha	(1926-02-17) February 17, 1926	Composer	Luftwaffe	Germany
Robert A. Chase	(1923-01-01) January 1, 1923	Surgeon, professor	US Army	United States
Kenneth O. Chilstrom	(1921-04-20) April 20, 1921	Air force officer	US Army Air Corps	United States
Bob Chinn	(1923-03-02) March 2, 1923	Restaurateur	US Army	United States
Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher	(1925-04-25) April 25, 1925	Businessman, trade unionist, tax official	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
John B. Cobb	(1925-02-09) February 9, 1925	Theologian, philosopher, environmentalist	US Army	United States
Sterling R. Cockrill	(1925-04-07) April 7, 1925	Politician, artist	US Navy	United States
Avern Cohn	(1924-07-23) July 23, 1924	Judge	US Army	United States
Marthe Cohn	(1920-04-13) April 13, 1920	Author, spy	French Army	France
Ena Collymore-Woodstock	(1917-09-10) September 10, 1917	Solicitor, magistrate	Auxiliary Territorial Service	United Kingdom
Leon Comber	(1921-09-20) September 20, 1921	Author	British Indian Army	British India
Fred Cone	(1926-06-21) June 21, 1926	American football player	US Army	United States
Harry Connick Sr.	(1926-03-27) March 27, 1926	Attorney	US Navy	United States
Jerome Coopersmith	(1925-08-11) August 11, 1925	Dramatist	US Army	United States
Tom Copeland	(1924-04-17) April 17, 1924	Politician	US Army	United States
John Thomas Copenhaver, Jr.	(1925-09-29) September 29, 1925	Federal judge	US Army	United States
Roger Corman	(1926-04-05) April 5, 1926	Filmmaker & actor	V-12 Navy College Training Program	United States
John Cruickshank	(1920-05-20) May 20, 1920	Recipient of the Victoria Cross	British Army Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Charles Csuri	(1922-07-04) July 4, 1922	Artist	US Army	United States
Iris Cummings	(1920-12-21) December 21, 1920	Olympic swimmer, Aviator	Women Airforce Service Pilots	United States

D

22 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Phyllis Dalton	October 16, 1925 (age 96)	Costume designer	Women's Royal Naval Service	United States
Ernest L. Daman	March 14, 1923 (age 98)	Mechanical engineer, businessman, inventor	US Army	United States
Henry Danton	March 30, 1919 (age 102)	Dancer, teacher	British Army	United Kingdom
Louis Danziger	November 17, 1923 (age 97)	Graphic designer, professor	US Army	United States
Bob Dawson	January 3, 1921 (age 100)	Football player	Australian Army	Australia
Eddie Deerfield	August 24, 1923 (age 98)	Government official	US Army Air Corps	United States
Vincent DeRosa	October 5, 1920 (age 101)	Musician	US Army Air Corps	United States
Gene Derricotte	June 14, 1926 (age 95)	American football player, Tuskegee Airmen	US Army	United States
Klaus von Dohnanyi	June 23, 1928 (age 93)	Politician, First Mayor of Hamburg	Volkssturm	Germany
Charles Dolan	October 16, 1926 (age 95)	Businessman, Philanthropist	US Army Air Force	United States
Lou Donaldson	November 1, 1926 (age 94)	Musician	US Navy	United States
William I. Donnermeyer Sr.	September 19, 1924 (age 97)	Politician	US Navy	United States
Harry Dornbrand	November 10, 1922 (age 98)	Aerospace engineer	US Navy	United States
Bruce L. Douglas	July 14, 1925 (age 96)	Politician	US Navy	United States
Karl-Heinz Drews	December 22, 1929 (age 91)	General	Volkssturm Wehrmacht	Germany
Roy Drinkard	July 12, 1920 (age 101)	Businessman	US Marine Corps	United States
Charles C. Droz	July 8, 1924 (age 97)	Politician	US Army	United States
Richard L. Duchossois	October 7, 1921 (age 100)	Sports businessman	US Army	United States
Patrick Duffy (British politician)	June 17, 1920 (age 101)	President of the NATO Assembly	Fleet Air Arm	United Kingdom
Roland Dumas	August 23, 1922 (age 99)	Politician, lawyer	French Resistance	Free France
Charles Duncan, Jr.	September 9, 1926 (age 95)	Entrepreneur, statesman, and administrator	US Army Air Corps	United States
Winfield Dunn	July 1, 1927 (age 94)	Politician; Governor of Tennessee (1971–1975)	US Navy	United States

E

12 veterans

	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Ray Edenton	November 3, 1926 (age 94)	Musician	US Army	United States
James Francis Edwards	June 5, 1921 (age 100)	World War II flying ace	Royal Canadian Air Force	Canada
Eberhard Eimler	November 30, 1930 (age 90)	General	Volkssturm	Germany
Einwag Alfred Einwag	March 18, 1928 (age 93)	Lawyer	Heer	Germany
George Elder (baseball)	March 10, 1921 (age 100)	Baseball player	US Marines	United States
Elizabeth II	April 21, 1926 (age 95)	Queen of the Commonwealth Realms	Colonel-in-Chief, Grenadier Guards and Auxiliary Territorial Service	United Kingdom
Billy Emerson	December 21, 1925 (age 95)	Singer, songwriter	US Navy	United States
Juan Ponce Enrile	February 14, 1924 (age 97)	Lawyer	Philippine Navy	Philippines
Carl Erskine	December 13, 1926 (age 94)	Baseball player	US Navy	United States
Daniel J. Evans	October 16, 1925 (age 96)	Politician; 16th Governor of Washington (1965–1977)	US Navy	United States
Klas Ewert Everwyn	March 10, 1930 (age 91)	Author	Volkssturm	Germany
Anthony Eyton	May 17, 1923 (age 98)	Artist	British Army	United Kingdom

F

21 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Bob Falkenburg	January 29, 1926 (age 95)	Tennis player, entrepreneur	US Army Air Forces	United States
Josef-Gerhard Farkas	July 13, 1929 (age 92)	Hungariologist	Volkssturm	Germany
Ben Ferencz	March 11, 1920 (age 101)	Lawyer; last living prosecutor at Nuremberg Trials	US Army	United States
David Ferry	March 5, 1924 (age 97)	Poet & professor	US Army Air Forces	United States
Edward Field	June 7, 1924 (age 97)	Poet & author	US Army Air Forces	United States
Frank Field (meteorologist)	March 30, 1923 (age 98)	Meteorologist	US Army Air Forces	United States
Nathaniel Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele	September 22, 1920 (age 101)	British hereditary peer, businessman	British Army	United Kingdom
Mario Fiorentini	May 28, 1918 (age 103)	Partisan, mathematician	Italian Resistance	Italian Resistance
Leonard Everett Fisher	June 24, 1924 (age 97)	Children's writer & illustrator	US Army	United States
Heinrich Fischler Graf von Treuberg	May 9, 1919 (age 102)	General	Heer	Germany
Sergio Flamigni	October 22, 1925 (age 96)	Politician & writer	Italian Resistance	Italian Resistance
Samuel C. Florman	January 19, 1925 (age 96)	Civil engineer, author	US Navy	United States
Loretta Ford	December 28, 1920 (age 100)	Nurse, Academic	US Army Air Forces	United States
Wieland Förster	February 12, 1930 (age 91)	Painter, writer	Volkssturm	Germany
John S. Foster Jr.	September 18, 1922 (age 99)	Physicist	US Army Air Forces	United States
James Clayton Flowers	December 25, 1915 (age 105)	Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen	United States Army Air Forces	United States
Paul Fox (television executive)	October 27, 1925 (age 96)	Television executive	British Army	United Kingdom
J. Keith Fraser	February 18, 1922 (age 99)	Physical geographer	Royal Canadian Air Force Royal Air Force	Canada United Kingdom
Russell Freeburg	March 4, 1923 (age 98)	Editor of the Chicago Tribune	US Army	United States
Daniel Fuller	August 28, 1925 (age 96)	Theologian	US Navy	United States
Andrew Fulton	January 23, 1927 (age 94)	Commander of Maritime Command (1980–1983)	Royal Canadian Navy	Canada

G

34 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Arnald Gabriel	May 31, 1925 (age 96)	Conductor of the US Air Force Band	US Army	United States
Samuel Rhea Gammon III	January 22, 1924 (age 97)	Ambassador	US Army	United States
Norman Garbo	February 15, 1919 (age 102)	Author & lecturer	US Army Air Forces	United States
Harold Garde	June 7, 1923 (age 98)	Artist	US Army Air Forces	United States
Bernard Garfield	March 27, 1924 (age 97)	Bassoonist	US Army	United States
Stanley Michael Gartler	June 9, 1923 (age 98)	Biologist & geneticist	US Army Air Forces	United States
Philippe de Gaulle	December 28, 1921 (age 99)	Inspector General, Senator and son of leader Charles De Gaulle	Free French Naval Forces	Free France
Léon Gautier	October 27, 1922 (age 99)	Legion of Honour recipient, last living member of Commando Kieffer	Free French Naval Forces	Free France
Eddie Germano	November 15, 1924 (age 96)	Cartoonist	US Army	United States
Harry Gesner	April 28, 1925 (age 96)	Architect	US Army	United States
Andrée Geulen-Herscovici	September 6, 1921 (age 100)	Member of the Comité de Défense des Juifs, helped rescue almost one thousand Jewish children	Belgian Resistance	Belgium
Roy Gibson	July 4, 1924 (age 97)	Aerospace engineer	British Army	United Kingdom
I. Leo Glasser	April 6, 1924 (age 97)	Judge	US Army	United States
Charles Godfrey	September 24, 1917 (age 104)	Physician, professor, politician		Canada
Howard Golden	1925 (age 95–96)	Politician	US Navy	United States
Harry E. Goldsworthy	April 3, 1914 (age 107)	Lieutenant General	US Army	United States
John B. Goodenough	July 25, 1922 (age 99)	Physicist, 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry	US Army	United States
Alfred T. Goodwin	June 29, 1923 (age 98)	Judge; 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (1971–1991)	US Army	United States
Bert I. Gordon	September 24, 1922 (age 99)	Film director; Village of the Giants, Empire of the Ants	US Army Air Corps	United States
René Henry Gracida	June 9, 1923 (age 98)	Bishop	Flying Tigers	United States
Friedrich Grade	March 29, 1916 (age 105)	Engineer and naval officer	Kriegsmarine	Germany
David E. Grange, Jr.	April 9, 1925 (age 96)	General	US Army	United States
Bud Grant	May 20, 1927 (age 94)	Athlete	US Navy	United States
Bill Grayden	August 5, 1920 (age 101)	Politician	Australian Army	Australia
Bill Greason	September 3, 1924 (age 97)	Baseball player	US Marine Corps	United States
Peter Green	December 22, 1924 (age 96)	Historian	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Russell H. Greenan	September 17, 1925 (age 96)	Author	US Navy	United States
Maurice R. Greenberg	May 4, 1925 (age 96)	CEO of American International Group (1967–2005)	US Army	United States
Shecky Greene	April 8, 1926 (age 95)	Comedian	US Navy	United States
Stu Griffing	November 9, 1926 (age 94)	Olympic rower	US Army	United States
Werner Grossmann	March 6, 1929 (age 92)	Former East German deputy leader of the Ministry of State Security	Volkssturm	Germany
Doris Grumbach	July 12, 1918 (age 103)	Writer	Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service	United States
Frank Joseph Guarini	August 20, 1924 (age 97)	Politician; New Jersey Representative (1979–1990)	US Navy	United States

H

31 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Jürgen Habermas	June 18, 1929 (age 92)	Philosopher; sociologist	Luftwaffenhelfer	Germany
Barbara Hall	February 3, 1923 (age 98)	Crossword puzzle editor	Women's Royal Naval Service	United Kingdom
Gail Halvorsen	October 10, 1920 (age 101)	US Air Force pilot; Berlin Airlift "Candy Bomber"	US Army Air Forces	United States
Ian Hamilton	September 13, 1925 (age 96)	Lawyer, Scottish nationalist, participated in the removal of the Stone of Scone in 1950	British Army	United Kingdom
Walter Hanel	September 14, 1930 (age 91)	Political caricaturist	Volkssturm	Germany
Monique Hanotte	August 10, 1920 (age 101)	Member of Belgian Resistance	Belgian Resistance	Belgium
G. Homer Harding	December 7, 1925 (age 95)	Politician	US Army	United States
George Hardy	June 8, 1925 (age 96)	Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen	US Army Air Forces	United States
Robert Harlow	November 19, 1923 (age 97)	Writer, academic	Royal Canadian Air Force	Canada
Sheldon Harnick	April 30, 1924 (age 97)	Lyricist (Fiddler on the Roof)	US Army	United States
Ted Hartley	November 6, 1924 (age 96)	Pilot, banker, actor, film producer	US Navy	United States
Chris Haughey	October 3, 1925 (age 96)	Baseball player	US Army	United States
Helmut Hauptmann	March 12, 1928 (age 93)	Writer	Heer	Germany
Bill Hayes	June 5, 1925 (age 96)	Actor	US Naval Air Corps	United States
Thomas B. Hayward	May 3, 1924 (age 97)	Admiral	US Navy	United States
Eric Heath	November 28, 1923 (age 97)	Artist	Royal New Zealand Air Force	New Zealand
Robert Hébras	June 29, 1925 (age 96)	Oradour-sur Glane massacre survivor	French Resistance	Free France
John Hemingway (RAF pilot)	July 17, 1919 (age 102)	Pilot, last surviving member of "The Few" from the Battle of Britain	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Józef Hen	November 8, 1923 (age 97)	Writer	Polish People's Army	Poland
James Hennessy	September 26, 1923 (age 98)	Diplomat, prison official	British Army	United Kingdom
Werner Henninger	April 7, 1929 (age 92)	Admiral	Volkssturm	Germany
Laurin L. Henry	May 23, 1921 (age 100)	Researcher	US Navy	United States
Elwood Hillis	March 6, 1926 (age 95)	Indiana congressman (1971–1987)	US Army	United States
Cyril Hilsum	May 17, 1925 (age 96)	Physicist, academic	Royal Navy	United Kingdom}
Stuart Hodes	November 27, 1924 (age 96)	Dancer, choreographer, writer	US Army Air Corps	United States
Earl Holliman	September 11, 1928 (age 93)	Actor	US Navy	United States
Masao Horie	June 16, 1915 (age 106)	Japan Ground Self-Defense Force general. Commander Western Army (1972–1973)	Imperial Japanese Army	Japan
Tom Hughes	November 26, 1923 (age 97)	Politician	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
Evan Hultman	July 15, 1925 (age 96)	Politician	US Army	United States
Edwin Hunt	March 20, 1920 (age 101)	Queen's Bargemaster	British Army	United Kingdom
Harold Hyman	July 24, 1924 (age 97)	American Civil War historian	US Marine Corps	United States

I

1 veteran

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Paul Robert Ignatius	November 11, 1920 (age 100)	Government official	US Navy	United States

J

16 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Al Jaffee	March 13, 1921 (age 100)	Cartoonist	United States Armed Forces	United States
Stephen A. Jarislowsky	September 9, 1925 (age 96)	Businessman, billionaire	US Army	United States
Alexander Jefferson	November 15, 1921 (age 99)	Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen	US Army Air Corps	United States
Edward B. Jelks	September 10, 1922 (age 99)	Archaeologist	US Navy	United States
William A. Jenkins	November 2, 1917 (age 103)	Admiral	US Coast Guard	United States
Karl Jetter	June 2, 1929 (age 92)	Journalist	Wehrmacht	Germany
Norman Jewison	July 21, 1926 (age 95)	Filmmaker	Royal Canadian Navy	Canada
David Johnson	August 3, 1926 (age 95)	Photographer	US Navy	United States
Johnny Johnson (RAF officer)	November 25, 1921 (age 99)	Last surviving British member of the Dambuster Raids	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Marilyn P. Johnson	June 19, 1922 (age 99)	Diplomat	US Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve)	United States
Dub Jones	December 29, 1924 (age 96)	American football player	US Navy	United States
Lawrence W. Jones	1925 (age 95–96)	Physicist, professor	US Army	United States
L. Q. Jones	August 19, 1927 (age 94)	Actor	United States Navy	United States
Raymond Jones	July 18, 1925 (age 96)	Architect	Royal Australian Navy	Australia
George Joseph (insurer)	September 11, 1921 (age 100)	Founder of Mercury Insurance Group	US Army	United States
George Judge	May 2, 1925 (age 96)	Professor, econometrician	US Army Air Forces	United States

K

16 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Bernard Kalb	February 4, 1922 (age 99)	Journalist	US Army	United States
Adolfo Kaminsky	October 1, 1925 (age 96)	French resistance fighter, Forged documents that helped save 14,000 Jews from Holocaust	French Resistance French Army	Free France
Sydney Kentridge	November 5, 1922 (age 98)	Lawyer, judge	South African Army	South Africa
John Keston	December 5, 1924 (age 96)	Actor, singer, runner	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Elisabeth Kirkby	January 26, 1921 (age 100)	Actress, writer, broadcaster	Auxiliary Territorial Service	United Kingdom
Henry Kissinger	May 27, 1923 (age 98)	Statesman, Secretary of State (1973–1977), and Nobel Peace Prize recipient	US Army	United States
Helma Kissner	December 23, 1923 (age 97)	Accused of war crimes by SWC	Wehrmacht	Germany
Kazimierz Klimczak	February 15, 1914 (age 107)	Colonel, Oldest surviving participant of Warsaw Uprising	Polish Army Home Army	Poland
Ted Knap	May 26, 1920 (age 101)	Journalist	US Army	United States
Jill Knight	July 9, 1923 (age 98)	Politician, life peer	Women's Auxiliary Air Force	United Kingdom
Gert Kohlmann	December 3, 1919 (age 101)	General	Heer	Germany
Barbara Kremen	1922 (age 98–99)	Writer	Women's Army Corps	United States
Werner Krolikowski	March 12, 1928 (age 93)	Politician	Kriegsmarine	Germany
Herbert Kroker	August 24, 1929 (age 92)	Politician	Volkssturm	Germany
Hardy Krüger	April 12, 1928 (age 93)	German actor	Heer	Germany
Eduard Kuuskor	January 2, 1918 (age 103)	Radio operator	Estonian Army Red Army Forest Brothers	Estonia Soviet Union

L

29 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Traute Lafrenz	May 3, 1919 (age 102)	Member of the White Rose		Germany
Dean S. Laird	February 7, 1921 (age 100)	World War II flying ace	US Navy	United States
Horst Langes	December 2, 1928 (age 92)	Member of state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate	Wehrmacht	Germany
Phyllis Latour	April 8, 1921 (age 100)	Legion of Honour recipient, member of the Special Operations Executive	Women's Auxiliary Air Force Special Operations Executive French Resistance	United Kingdom Free France
Lothar Lauterbach	June 3, 1929 (age 92)	Artist		Germany
Peter Lax	May 1, 1926 (age 95)	Mathematician	US Navy	United States
Norman Lear	July 27, 1922 (age 99)	Film & television producer; All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons	US Army Air Forces	United States
Nikolai Lebedev	December 15, 1921 (age 99)	Actor	Red Navy	Soviet Union
Jean Lee	July 26, 1924 (age 97)	Only woman of Chinese-Canadian descent to serve in RCAF	Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division	Canada
James Lees	February 14, 1924 (age 97)	Maritime expert, curator	Royal Navy British Merchant Navy	United Kingdom
Juhan Lepasaar	May 13, 1921 (age 100)	Writer, journalist, former Gulag prisoner	Forest Brothers Luftwaffenhelfer	Estonia Germany
Ülo Lepik	July 11, 1921 (age 100)	Mathematician, academician	Schutzstaffel	Germany
Sergio Lepri	September 24, 1919 (age 102)	Journalist, director of ANSA news agency (1961-1990)	Royal Italian Army Italian Resistance	Italy Italian Resistance
Ted Lerner	October 15, 1925 (age 96)	Real estate developer, principal owner of the Washington Nationals	US Army	United States
Sonny Lester	November 15, 1924 (age 96)	Music producer	US Army	United States
Marv Levy	August 3, 1925 (age 96)	Football coach	US Army Air Corps	United States
Guenter Lewy	August 22, 1923 (age 98)	Author, professor	British Army	United Kingdom
Mark Litchman	April 14, 1925 (age 96)	Politician, lawyer	US Navy	United States
Peter Lloyd (aviator)	December 15, 1920 (age 100)	Aviator	Australian Army	Australia
Nina Lobkovskaya	March 8, 1925 (age 96)	Sniper	Red Army	Soviet Union
Mujeeb Ahmad Khan Lodhi	1922 (age 98–99)	Admiral	Royal Indian Navy	British India
Elgen Long	August 12, 1927 (age 94)	Aviator, historian, author	US Navy	United States
Ernst Löschner	June 20, 1929 (age 92)	Conductor	Wehrmacht	Germany
David Elliot Loye	April 26, 1925 (age 96)	Author, psychologist	US Navy	United States
Dick Lucas	September 10, 1925 (age 96)	Anglican minister	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
William R. Lucas	March 1, 1922 (age 99)	Fourth director of the Marshall Space Flight Center	US Navy	United States
Johnny Lujack	January 4, 1925 (age 96)	Football player	US Navy	United States
Bernt H. Lund	August 14, 1924 (age 97)	Civil servant, diplomat, politician	Norwegian resistance movement	Norway
Ted Luscombe	November 10, 1924 (age 96)	Bishop, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church (1985–1990)	British Indian Army British Army	British India United Kingdom

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67 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Terence Macartney-Filgate	(1924-08-06) August 6, 1924	Film director	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Ian Verner Macdonald	(1925-01-19) January 19, 1925	Diplomat, entrepreneur	Royal Canadian Air Force Royal Navy	Canada United Kingdom
Maharram Mammadyarov	(1924-10-17) October 17, 1924	Chemist	Red Army	Soviet Union
Emil Mangelsdorff	(1925-04-11) April 11, 1925	Musician	Heer	Germany
Marion Mann	(1920-03-29) March 29, 1920	Physician, pathologist	US Army	United States
Josip Manolić	(1920-03-22) March 22, 1920	Politician; prime minister of the Republic of Croatia (1990–1991)	Yugoslav Partisans	Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
Steve Marsh	(1924-09-12) September 12, 1924	Australian rules football player	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
Peter Marshall	(1926-03-30) March 30, 1926	TV personality & actor	US Army	United States
Ray Marshall	(1928-08-22) August 22, 1928	US Secretary of Labor (1977-1981)	US Navy	United States
Gordon Eugene Martin	(1925-08-22) August 22, 1925	Physicist, author	US Navy	United States
Knox Martin	(1923-02-12) February 12, 1923	Artist	US Coast Guard	United States
Mac Martin	(1925-04-26) April 26, 1925	Bluegrass musician	US Navy	United States
Angel Martín Taboas	(1918-06-18) June 18, 1918	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico	US Armed Forces	United States
Ivan Martynushkin	(1923-12-23) December 23, 1923	Last surviving liberator of the Auschwitz concentration camp	Red Army	Soviet Union
Anthony Mason	(1925-04-21) April 21, 1925	Judge; ninth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
Miloslav Masopust	(1924-09-26) September 26, 1924	General	1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the USSR	Czechoslovakia
Joseph Matarazzo	(1925-11-12) November 12, 1925	Psychologist	US Navy	United States
Robert D. Maurer	(1924-07-20) July 20, 1924	Physicist	US Army	United States
Charlie Maxwell	(1927-04-08) April 8, 1927	Baseball Player	US Army	United States
Otto Mayrhofer	(1920-11-02) November 2, 1920	Anaesthetist	Wehrmacht	Germany
Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow	(1921-03-20) March 20, 1921	Director-general of UNESCO (1974–1987)	French Army Free French Army French Air Force	France Free France
William V. McBride	(1922-05-25) May 25, 1922	General	US Army Air Forces	United States
Charles McGee	(1919-12-07) December 7, 1919	Air Force officer, oldest living Tuskegee Airman	US Army Air Forces	United States
Robert McGinnis	(1926-02-03) February 3, 1926	Artist, illustrator	US Merchant Marine	United States
Fred McLafferty	(1923-05-11) May 11, 1923	Chemist	US Army	United States
Art McNally	(1925-07-01) July 1, 1925	American football referee	US Marine Corps	United States
Francis Terry McNamara	(1927-11-02) November 2, 1927	Diplomat	US Navy	United States
Henry R. McPhee, Jr.	(1925-01-11) January 11, 1925	Special assistant to President Dwight Eisenhower	US Navy	United States
Kirke Mechem	(1925-08-16) August 16, 1925	Composer	US Army	United States
Hellmut Mehnert	(1928-02-22) February 22, 1928	Physician, professor	Volkssturm	Germany
Bill Mercer	(1926-02-13) February 13, 1926	Sportscaster, educator, & author	US Navy	United States
Manfred Messerschmidt	(1926-10-01) October 1, 1926	Historian	Luftwaffe	Germany
A. L. Mestel	(1926-09-17) September 17, 1926	Pediatric surgeon	US Navy	United States
Harald Metzkes	(1929-01-23) January 23, 1929	Painter	Heer	Germany
Ed Mickelson	(1926-09-09) September 9, 1926	Baseball player	US Army Air Forces	United States
J. William Middendorf II	(1924-09-22) September 22, 1924	Diplomat & politician	US Navy	United States
Larry Miggins	(1925-08-20) August 20, 1925	Baseball player	US Merchant Marine	United States
Jim Miller	(1919-05-30) May 30, 1919	Australian rules football player	Australian Army Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
John H. Miller	(1925-04-16) April 16, 1925	General	US Marine Corps	United States
Newton N. Minow	(1926-01-17) January 17, 1926	FCC chairman (1961–1963)	US Army	United States
Maria Mirecka-Loryś	(1916-02-07) February 7, 1916	Lawyer, journalist	Home Army	Poland
John Matthew Mitchell	(1925-03-22) March 22, 1925	Charity worker	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Hiroshi H. Miyamura	(1925-10-06) October 6, 1925	Medal of Honor recipient	US Army	United States
Sanford K. Moats	(1921-12-04) December 4, 1921	General	US Army Air Forces	United States
David O. Moberg	(1922-02-13) February 13, 1922	Sociologist	US Army	United States
Hans Modrow	(1928-01-27) January 27, 1928	Prime Minister of East Germany	Heer	Germany
Gerhard Moehring	(1921-03-28) March 28, 1921	Educationist	Heer	Germany
Gwen Moffat	(1924-07-03) July 3, 1924	Climber, writer	Auxiliary Territorial Service	United Kingdom
Jürgen Moltmann	(1926-04-08) April 8, 1926	Protestant theologian	Wehrmacht	Germany
Henry Moore	(1923-11-02) November 2, 1923	Bishop of Cyprus and The Gulf	British Army British Indian Army	United Kingdom British India
Bobby Morgan	(1926-06-29) June 29, 1926	Baseball player	US Army	United States
Shigehiro Mori	(1928-01-07) January 7, 1928	General; Chief of the Joint Staff of the JSDF (1986–1987), Chief of Staff, JASDF (1983–1986)	Imperial Japanese Army	Japan
Edgar Morin	(1921-07-08) July 8, 1921	Philosopher & sociologist	French Resistance	Free France
Joseph Wilson Morris	(1922-04-28) April 28, 1922	Lawyer & federal judge	US Naval Reserve	United States
Addold Mossin	(1919-12-12) December 12, 1919	Neopagan priest	Finnish Army	Finland
Ben R. Mottelson	(1926-07-09) July 9, 1926	Physicist	US Navy	United States
Georg Müller	(1930-10-01) October 1, 1930	Mineralogist	Hitlerjugend	Germany
Henry J. Muller	(1917-04-07) April 7, 1917	General	US Army	United States
Charlie Munger	(1924-01-01) January 1, 1924	Business magnate; vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway	US Army Air Corps	United States
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
Tomiichi Murayama	(1924-03-03) March 3, 1924	Japanese Prime Minister	Imperial Japanese Army	Japan
David H. Murdock	(1923-04-11) April 11, 1923	Billionaire & businessman	US Army	United States
Austin Murphy	(1927-06-17) June 17, 1927	Member of U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania	US Marine Corps	United States
Thomas Murphy	(1925-05-31) May 31, 1925	Broadcasting executive	US Navy	United States
Tony Murray	(1920-02-08) February 8, 1920	Businessman, billionaire	Free French Army Royal Air Force	Free France United Kingdom
David Musuguri	(1920-01-04) January 4, 1920	Chief of the Tanzania People's Defence Force(1980-1988)	British Army	United Kingdom
Gordon Mydland	(1922-05-12) May 12, 1922	Politician, lawyer	US Navy	United States

N

13 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Bill Nankivell	September 7, 1923 (age 98)	Politician	Royal Australian Air Force	Australia
Giorgio Napolitano	June 29, 1925 (age 96)	11th President of Italy (2006–2015)	Italian Resistance	Italian Resistance
Lucien N. Nedzi	May 28, 1925 (age 96)	Politician	US Army	United States
Joe Negri	June 10, 1926 (age 95)	Musician, educator	US Army	United States
Joan Neiman	September 9, 1920 (age 101)	Senator	Royal Canadian Navy (Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service)	Canada
Yakov Neishtadt	October 6, 1923 (age 98)	Chess player	Red Army	Soviet Union
Nerio Nesi	June 16, 1925 (age 96)	Politician, businessman, banker	Italian Resistance	Italian Resistance
Frederick M. Nicholas	May 30, 1920 (age 101)	Lawyer	US Army	United States
George Nigh	June 9, 1927 (age 94)	Politician; 17th and 22nd governor of Oklahoma (1963, 1979–1987)	US Navy	United States
Richard Nimmerrichter	December 31, 1920 (age 100)	Journalist	Wehrmacht	Germany
Ian Nish	June 3, 1926 (age 95)	Academic; specialist in Japanese studies	British Army	United Kingdom
Peter L. Nissen	January 8, 1924 (age 97)	Aviator and businessman	Norwegian resistance movement Royal Norwegian Air Force	Norway
Abdizhamil Karimuly Nurpeisov	October 22, 1924 (age 97)	Writer	Red Army	Soviet Union

O

7 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
René de Obaldia	October 22, 1918 (age 103)	Playwright & poet	French Army	France
Makoto Ogawa	February 1917 (age 104)	Pilot	Japanese Imperial Army	Japan
David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie	May 17, 1926 (age 95)	Scottish peer, Lord Chamberlain of the Household	British Army	United Kingdom
Jiro Ono	October 27, 1925 (age 96)	Sushi Chef	Japanese Imperial Army	Japan
David Oreck	September 17, 1923 (age 98)	Entrepreneur	US Army Air Forces	United States
Edward Ormondroyd	October 8, 1925 (age 96)	Author	US Navy	United States
Donald Owens	September 12, 1926 (age 95)	General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene	US Army	United States

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20 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Boris Pahor	August 26, 1913 (age 108)	Writer & publicist	Royal Italian Army Slovene Partisans	Italy Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
Rudolph Pariser	December 8, 1923 (age 97)	Physicist & polymer chemist	US Army	United States
Deanie Parrish	1922 (age 99)	Congressional Gold Medal recipient	Women Airforce Service Pilots	United States
Victor Parsonnet	August 29, 1924 (age 97)	Surgeon	US Navy Reserve	United States
Johnny Pate	December 5, 1923 (age 97)	Bass player & arranger	US Army; played with the 218th AGF Army Band	United States
Philip Pearlstein	May 24, 1924 (age 97)	Modern Realist painter	US Army	United States
John Peoples	August 26, 1926 (age 95)	President of Jackson State University	US Marine Corps	United States
Simon Perchik	December 24, 1923 (age 97)	Poet	US Army Air Forces	United States
Solomon Perel	April 21, 1925 (age 96)	Holocaust survivor, author	Wehrmacht	Germany
Nehemiah Persoff	August 2, 1919 (age 102)	Actor; Some Like It Hot, Yentl	US Army	United States
Jack Petchey	July 19, 1925 (age 96)	Businessman	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Helmut Peters	July 23, 1930 (age 91)	Sinologist, Marxist	Volkssturm	Germany
Leslie Phillips	April 20, 1924 (age 97)	Actor	British Army	United Kingdom
Muriel Phillips	January 12, 1921 (age 100)	Author	US Army (nurse)	United States
Bill Pitman	February 12, 1920 (age 101)	Musician	US Armed Forces	United States
Sidney Poitier	February 20, 1927 (age 94)	Actor	US Army	United States
Wanda Półtawska	November 2, 1921 (age 99)	Subject of medical experiments in Ravensbrück concentration camp, author	Polish Resistance	Poland
Martin Pope	August 22, 1918 (age 103)	Physical chemist	US Armed Forces	United States
Aris Poulianos	July 24, 1924 (age 97)	Anthropologist & archaeologist	Greek People's Liberation Army	Greece
Ralph Puckett	December 8, 1926 (age 94)	Medal of Honor recipient	US Army Reserve	United States

Q

1 veteran

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Al Quie	September 18, 1923 (age 98)	Governor of Minnesota (1979–1983)	US Navy	United States

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23 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Bhisadej Rajani	(1922-01-20) January 20, 1922	Member of the Thai royal family	British Army	United Kingdom
Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger	(1927-04-16) April 16, 1927	Pope Benedict XVI, the 265th Pope	Luftwaffenhelfer	Germany
Helmut Rasbol	1925 (age 95-96)	Accused of war crimes by SWC	Wehrmacht	Germany
Arthur Ravenel, Jr.	(1927-03-29) March 29, 1927	Politician	US Marine Corps	United States
Dennis V. Razis	(1923-05-30) May 30, 1923	Oncologist	Greek Resistance	Greece
Vasily Reshetnikov	(1919-12-23) December 23, 1919	Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force	Soviet Air Forces	Soviet Union
Madeleine Riffaud	(1924-08-23) August 23, 1924	Poet, journalist, & war correspondent	French Resistance	Free France
Basil Rigg	(1926-08-12) August 12, 1926	Cricket player	Australian Army	Australia
Fred Risser	(1927-05-05) May 5, 1927	Politician	US Navy	United States
Edward L. Rissien	(1924-10-01) October 1, 1924	Film producer and executive	US Army Air Forces	United States
John Roberts	(1924-04-04) April 4, 1924	Admiral	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Arthur Rock	(1926-08-19) August 19, 1926	Businessman, investor	US Army	United States
Maria Lisa Cinciari Rodano	(1921-01-21) January 21, 1921	Politician	Italian Resistance	Italian Resistance
Alan Rogers	(1924-12-31) December 31, 1924	Football manager	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Richard Rohmer	(1924-01-24) January 24, 1924	Military writer; Ultimatum	Royal Canadian Air Force	Canada
Charles P. Roland	(1918-04-08) April 8, 1918	Historian, professor	US Army	United States
Andrew Romanov	(1923-01-21) January 21, 1923	Pretender to the Russian throne	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Roy Roper	(1923-09-11) September 11, 1923	Rugby union player	Royal New Zealand Navy	New Zealand
J. Roy Rowland	(1926-02-03) February 3, 1926	Georgia congressman (1981–1995)	US Army	United States
Richard E. Rumble	(1922-10-26) October 26, 1922	Admiral	US Navy	United States
Philip Ruppe	(1926-09-29) September 29, 1926	United States Congressman	V-12 Navy College Training Program	United States
William Russell	(1924-11-19) November 19, 1924	Actor	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
F. James Rutherford	(1924-07-11) July 11, 1924	Science professor, radar officer	US Navy	United States

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60 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Howard F. Sachs	September 13, 1925 (age 96)	Judge	US Navy	United States
Guy Sajer	January 13, 1927 (age 94)	Military writer	Wehrmacht	Germany
Agadadash Samedov	March 10, 1924 (age 97)	Order of Glory recipient	Red Army	Soviet Union
Sydney Samuelson	December 7, 1925 (age 95)	Film commissioner	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Ashot Sarkisov	January 30, 1924 (age 97)	Admiral, scientist	Red Army	Soviet Union
S. H. Sarma	December 1, 1922 (age 98)	Admiral	Royal Indian Navy	British India
Frank Saucier	May 28, 1926 (age 95)	Baseball player	US Navy	United States
Laurie Sawle	August 19, 1925 (age 96)	Cricket player	Australian Army	Australia
Norman Scarth	1925 (age 95–96)	Blogger & political candidate	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Art Schallock	April 25, 1924 (age 97)	Baseball player	US Navy	United States
Harold Zvi Schiffrin	September 26, 1922 (age 99)	Professor	US Army	United States
Rolf Schimpf	November 14, 1924 (age 96)	German television actor	Heer	Germany
Walter Franz Schleser	October 25, 1930 (age 91)	Representative of the Vereinigung Heimatvertriebener Deutscher Studenten	Volkssturm	Germany
Helmut Schlesinger	September 4, 1924 (age 97)	President of the Deutsche Bundesbank	Heer	Germany
Friedrich-Wilhelm Schlomann	September 5, 1928 (age 93)	Journalist	Wehrmacht	Germany
Wolf Schneider	May 7, 1925 (age 96)	Journalist	Luftwaffe	Germany
Arnold Schulman	August 11, 1925 (age 96)	Writer	US Navy	United States
Harry D. Schultz	September 11, 1923 (age 98)	Financial adviser, author	US Army	United States
Wolfgang Schumann	June 5, 1929 (age 92)	Member of Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate	Wehrmacht	Germany
Bernard L. Schwartz	December 12, 1926 (age 94)	CEO of Loral Corporation (1972–2006)	US Army Air Corps	United States
Ted Schwinden	August 31, 1925 (age 96)	Politician; Governor of Montana (1976–1980)	US Army	United States
Vin Scully	November 29, 1927 (age 93)	Sportscaster	US Navy	United States
Simone Segouin	October 3, 1925 (age 96)	Resistance member	French Resistance	Free France
Bruno Segre	September 4, 1918 (age 103)	Journalist	Italian Resistance	Italian Resistance
Sergio Camillo Segre	September 15, 1926 (age 95)	Politician, journalist	Italian Resistance	Italian Resistance
Vic Seixas	August 30, 1923 (age 98)	Tennis player	US Army Air Forces	United States
Sen Sōshitsu XV	April 19, 1923 (age 98)	Hereditary master of the Urasenke chanoyu school	Imperial Japanese Navy	Japan
Ralph Senensky	May 1, 1923 (age 98)	TV director & writer	US Army	United States
Doc Severinsen	July 7, 1927 (age 94)	Trumpeter	US Army	United States
Frank Shakespeare	April 9, 1925 (age 96)	Diplomat, president of CBS	US Navy	United States
Bobby Shantz	September 26, 1925 (age 96)	Baseball player	US Army	United States
Pamela Sharples, Baroness Sharples	February 11, 1923 (age 98)	British peer	Women's Auxiliary Air Force	United Kingdom
Charles Norman Shay	June 27, 1924 (age 97)	Penobscot tribal elder, writer	US Army	United States
Jack Sheedy	September 28, 1926 (age 95)	Sportsman	Royal Australian Navy	Australia
Thomas D. Shepard	c. 1925 (age 95-96)	Politician	US Army	United States
Robert G. Shulman	March 3, 1924 (age 97)	Biophysicist	US Navy	United States
Władysław Siemaszko	June 8, 1919 (age 102)	Author, Lawyer	Home Army	Poland
Leon Silver	April 9, 1925 (age 96)	Geologist	US Navy	United States
Maria Simon	August 6, 1918 (age 103)	Sociologist	Auxiliary Territorial Service	United Kingdom
Edward H. Sims	May 29, 1923 (age 98)	Author	US Army Air Forces	United States
John K. Singlaub	July 10, 1921 (age 100)	Army general	US Army	United States
Carlo Smuraglia	August 12, 1923 (age 98)	Politician; National president of the A.N.P.I. association (2011-2017)	Italian Rersistance	Italian Resistance
Robert M. Solow	August 23, 1924 (age 97)	Economist	US Army	United States
Mihai Șora	November 7, 1916 (age 104)	Philosopher, writer	French Resistance	Free France
Pierre Soulages	December 24, 1919 (age 101)	Painter and sculptor		France
Larry South	February 26, 1925 (age 96)	Politician	Canadian Army	Canada
Robert Hitchcock Spain	October 26, 1925 (age 96)	Bishop	US Navy	United States
Bill Spence	April 20, 1923 (age 98)	Writer	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Richard T. Spooner	September 10, 1925 (age 96)	Author	US Marine Corps	United States
Jeremiah Stamler	October 27, 1919 (age 102)	Cardiologist	US Army	United States
Irena Stankiewicz	February 28, 1925 (age 96)	Graphic artist	Home Army	Poland
Colin Stannard	February 8, 1924 (age 97)	Archdeacon of Carlisle	British Army	United Kingdom
Epaminondas Stassinopoulos	January 17, 1921 (age 100)	Astrophysicist	Greek Resistance	Greece
William L. Stearman	June 22, 1922 (age 99)	Government official, author	US Navy	United States
Willis H. Stephens, Sr.	June 7, 1925 (age 96)	Politician	US Army Air Forces	United States
Guy Stern	January 14, 1922 (age 99)	Literary scholar	US Army	United States
Heinz Stöcker	January 22, 1929 (age 92)	General	Volkssturm	Germany
Larry Storch	January 8, 1923 (age 98)	Comedian and Actor; TV's F Troop	US Navy	United States
Fritz Streletz	September 28, 1928 (age 93)	General	Wehrmacht	Germany
Lyle Elmer Strom	January 6, 1925 (age 96)	Judge	US Naval Reserve	United States

T

13 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Sulev Tailo	December 2, 1920 (age 100)	Poet, artist	Finnish Army	Finland
Jiro Tanaka	January 16, 1917 (age 104)	Aircraft & automotive engineer	Imperial Japanese Army	Japan
Maurice Taylor	May 5, 1926 (age 95)	Bishop	British Army	United Kingdom
Fletcher Thompson	February 5, 1925 (age 96)	Politician & lawyer	US Army Medical Corps & US Army Air Corps	United States
John Thorn	April 28, 1925 (age 96)	Headmaster, writer	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Dan Tolkowsky	January 17, 1921 (age 100)	Commander of the Israeli Air Force	Royal Air Force	United Kingdom
Aldo Tortorella	July 10, 1926 (age 95)	Journalist & politician	Italian Resistance	Italian Resistance
Simon Towneley	December 14, 1921 (age 99)	Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (1976–1997)	British Army	United Kingdom
Krastyu Trichkov	April 12, 1923 (age 98)	Politician	Bulgarian Resistance	Bulgaria
Charley Trippi	December 14, 1921 (age 99)	Football player	US Army Air Corps	United States
Ankica Tuđman	July 24, 1926 (age 95)	First Lady of Croatia	Yugoslav Partisans	Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
Joe Turkel	July 15, 1927 (age 94)	Actor	US Army	United States
James Wesley Turpin	December 18, 1928 (age 92)	Founder of Project Concern International, physician, activist	US Navy	United States

U

1 veteran

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Yosh Uchida	April 1, 1920 (age 101)	Sports businessman, entrepreneur, & engineer	US Army	United States

V

7 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Tony Vaccaro	December 20, 1922 (age 98)	Photographer	US Army	United States
Jaakko Valtanen	February 9, 1925 (age 96)	General	Finnish Defence Forces	Finland
Ronald R. Van Stockum	July 8, 1916 (age 105)	General	US Marine Corps	United States
Dick Van Dyke	December 13, 1925 (age 95)	Actor and comedian	US Army Air Corps	United States
Enrico Vanzini	November 18, 1922 (age 98)	Holocaust survivor; last Italian sonderkommando	Royal Italian Army	Italy
Thomas Franklin Vaughns	July 12, 1920 (age 100)	Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen	United States Army Air Force	United States
Inez Voyce	August 16, 1924 (age 97)	Baseball player	US Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve)	United States

W

27 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Angel Wagenstein	October 17, 1922 (age 99)	Film director, author	Bulgarian Resistance	Bulgaria
Herbert Wahler	December 10, 1921 (age 99)	Accused of war crimes by SWC	Einsatzgruppe	Germany
Udo Walendy	January 21, 1927 (age 94)	Historian	Luftwaffenhelfer	Germany
Joe Wallach	September 10, 1923 (age 98)	Businessman	US Army	United States
Martin Walser	March 24, 1927 (age 94)	Writer	Heer	Germany
Wan Haifeng	September 25, 1920 (age 101)	General	Red Army	Republic of China
Stan Waterman	April 5, 1923 (age 98)	Cinematographer	US Navy	United States
Josser Watling	May 11, 1925 (age 96)	Association football player	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Billy Watson	December 25, 1923 (age 97)	Child actor	US Army	United States
Donald J. Watt	August 10, 1918 (age 103)	Author	Australian Army	Australia
William H. Webster	March 26, 1924 (age 97)	3rd F.B.I. Director, 10th C.I.A. Director and Chairperson of the Homeland Security Advisory Council	US Navy	United States
Jimmy Weldon	September 23, 1923 (age 97)	Voice actor & ventriloquist	US Army Air Corps	United States
Lloyd F. Wheat	April 27, 1923 (age 98)	Lawyer, politician	US Army	United States
Alan White	February 23, 1924 (age 97)	Writer		United Kingdom
G. William Whitehurst	March 12, 1925 (age 96)	Politician	US Navy	United States
Leopold Wiel	May 14, 1916 (age 105)	Architect and professor	Wehrmacht	Germany
Hershel W. Williams	October 2, 1923 (age 98)	Medal of Honor recipient	US Marine Corps	United States
G. I. Williamson	May 19, 1925 (age 96)	Theologian, pastor, author	US Army	United States
Oscar Lawton Wilkerson	February 9, 1926 (age 95)	Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen	United States Army Air Forces	United States
Dennis Wilson	June 25, 1921 (age 100)	Poet	British Army	United Kingdom
Edwin Wilson	February 1, 1923 (age 98)	Professor	US Navy	United States
Charley Winner	July 2, 1924 (age 97)	Football player	US Army Air Forces	United States
Graham Winteringham	March 2, 1923 (age 98)	Architect	Royal Navy	United Kingdom
Louis Witten	April 13, 1921 (age 100)	Theoretical physicist	US Army Air Forces	United States
Woody Woodbury	February 9, 1924 (age 97)	Comedian & actor	US Marine Corps	United States
Francesca Laura Fabbri Wronowski	January 1, 1924 (age 97)	Partisan, Journalist	Italian Resistance	Italian Resistance
Oscar Wyatt	July 11, 1924 (age 97)	Businessman	US Army Air Corps	United States

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1 veteran

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Alex Xydias	March 22, 1922 (age 99)	Auto racing driver	US Army Air Forces	United States

Y

3 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Barbara Yeaman	December 16, 1924 (age 96)	Conservationist	Women Airforce Service Pilots	United States
Robert M. Young	November 22, 1924 (age 96)	Director, screenwriter, cinematographer, producer	US Navy	United States
Ihor Yukhnovskyi	September 1, 1925 (age 96)	Physicist, politician	Red Army	Soviet Union

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6 veterans

Veteran	Birth	Notability	Service	Country
Rolf Zick	April 16, 1921 (age 100)	Journalist	Luftwaffenhelfer	Germany
Heinz Zickler	March 25, 1920 (age 101)	Musician	Heer	Germany
Franklin B. Zimmerman	June 20, 1923 (age 98)	Musicologist, conductor	US Army	United States
Zou Jiahua	October 1926 (age 95)	Politician	National Revolutionary Army	Republic of China
Leszek Żukowski	February 11, 1929 (age 92)	President of World Association of Home Army Soldiers	Gray Ranks	Poland
Stanisław Żurakowski	July 24, 1920 (age 101)	Polish lieutenant colonel	Polish Army Anders' Army Polish Armed Forces in the West	Poland