When Did The Last Titanic Survivor Die?
Millvina Dean was only a baby during the sinking of the Titanic. Lowered into a lifeboat on the cold morning of April 15, 1912, she was one of the youngest people on the Titanic and the last Titanic survivor to die. She passed away at age 97 and died in Southampton, England where she had lived her whole life in May of 2009. Her family tried to escape the town by sailing on the Titanic to America to create a new life when the tragedy struck. Being only 2 months old during the Titanic disaster, Dean has no recollection of the event, but her mother told her the story when she was 8. The events told were so horrible that she (her mother) vowed never to speak of the event. Her mother suffered from headaches ever since the event. Her father Bertram had stayed behind along with 1,500 other passengers and crew members and had gone down with the ship. Knowing her place in history and its importance, Dean was eager to share her story with others, especially children. The Dean family was not sche
