The last survivor of the Titanic died May 31, 2009, at age 97.According to www.wikipedia. org, Elizabeth Gladys Millvina Dean was about nine weeks old when the RMS Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg the night of April 14, 1912, going down nearly three hours later in frigid waters. She was the youngest passenger, along with her older brother, Bertram Vere, who was two years old.
Dean became the last survivor when Barbara West Dainton, 96, died in October 2007.
Dean was born Feb. 2, 1912, in London to parents Bertram Frank Dean and Georgette Eva Light, who were on their way to America to open a tobacco shop in Kansas. Frank Dean was among those who died that night; Georgette Light later returned to England.
Dean's brother was born in 1910 and died in 1992. Dean never married and had no children, according to www.wikipedia.org.
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