Richard Milhous Nixon was the thirty-seventh President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974, and the thirty-sixth Vice President of the United States in the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961). During the Second World War, he served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific, before being elected to the Congress, and later serving as Vice President. After an unsuccessful presidential run in 1960, Nixon was elected in 1968.

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, born David Dwight Eisenhower was an American General and politician, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United States (1953–1961). During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.

William "Bill" Stone (born 23 September, 1900 in Ledstone, Devon, England) is one of the few surviving British veterans of the First World War. He is the last known veteran living in Britain to have served in both the First and the Second World War. Stone was one of fourteen children and enlisted into the Royal Navy on his 18th birthday, and went on to serve both as a Stoker aboard the battlecruiser HMS "Tiger".

Henry "Harry" Patch (born June 17, 1898) is, at age 109, one of the last three surviving British veterans of the First World War still living in the country. He is, as of 2007, the last surviving Tommy to have served on the Western Front. Before the Great War he worked as an apprentice plumber in Bath. In the Great War, Patch was conscripted into the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. He was a private at the Third Battle of Ypres.

Dr. Erich Kästner is, at age 107, the last known German veteran of the First World War, and a combat veteran for that matter, and currently the second-oldest man in Germany (the oldest one did not serve). The second-to-last known German veteran of that particular war, William Seegers, passed away July 10, 2007. Kästner joined the army in July 1918 in the "Sonder Bataillon Hauck", and served on the Western Front.

William 'Will' Young (born January 4, 1900) is one of the last surviving veterans of the First World War, and one of three remaining British veterans who emigrated to Australia. Young joined up under a scheme set up by Lord Derby whereby people of less than 18 could join up under the condition that when they reached 18, they could go into the army or into the air force. He chose to join up on his 18th birthday into the Royal Flying Corps, wireless section, …

Frank Woodruff Buckles (born February 1, 1901) is one of the last three known surviving American-born veterans of the First World War. The other two are Russell Coffey and Harry Richard Landis. John Babcock is a Canadian-born American who served in the Canadian army during the war. William Seegers was a German-born American who served in the German army.

Percy "Dwight" Wilson was the second-to-last surviving Canadian veteran of the First World War and the last one still living in Canada. Born in Vienna, Elgin County, Ontario, he signed up as a 15-year old boy in 1916. When asked about his actual age he told the recruiting officer 16, but faced with soaring casualty rates for each meager yard of territory won and lost, that was good enough for the Canadian Army. On the two week voyage crossing the North Atlantic to England, …

Allenby Chilton, (16 September 1918 - 15 June 1996), was an English football player. Chilton started his career with Seaham Colliery before joining Liverpool as an amateur in the summer of 1938. Chilton transferred to Manchester United soon after in November 1938 and made his first team debut against Charlton Athletic in September 1939. Chilton's early career was cut short by the second world war although he made guest appearances for Airdrieonians, Cardiff City, …

Frank Steer (January 12, 1901 - March 7, 2006) was one of the last surviving American veterans of the First World War. Steer joined the United States Army at age 17 in 1918. He was sent to France in July 1918, and served on the Western Front against the Germans. Steer saw action at the battle of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. After the war, he stayed in the army and served in the Second World War. Steer eventually retired from service in 1945 after serving 27 years.

Forrest Reid (1875 - 1948) was a novelist, literary critic,and translator. He was, along with Hugh Walpole and J.M. Barrie, a leading pre-war British novelist of boyhood. He is still acclaimed as the greatest of Ulster novelists. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Reid was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and entered Christ's College Cambridge in 1905, and was influenced there by the novelist E.M. Forster.

Ralph Follett Wigram (1890 - December 31, 1936) was a British government official in the Foreign Office; he helped raise the alarm about German re-armament under Hitler during the period prior to World War II, and provided intelligence information about German re-armament to Winston Churchill while Churchill was out of power, which Churchill used to attack the policy of the government of Stanley Baldwin. Churchill's magisterial six-volume history of World War II, …

Eric Crozier (14 November, 1914 - 7 September, 1994) was a British theatrical director and opera librettist, long associated with Benjamin Britten. Crozier was born in London, and after an apprenticeship at the Old Vic theatre, he joined the Sadlers Wells Opera Company in London during the Second World War, and directed Britten's first opera, "Peter Grimes", at Sadler's Wells in 1945. He founded the English Opera Group in 1947, …

Charles Kuentz (February 18, 1897 - April 7, 2005) was one of the last Germany veterans of the First World War. He was born in the village of Ranspach in Alsace, then part of the German empire under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Conscripted into the imperial army in 1916, he found himself on the losing side when the first World War ended in 1918, but soon afterwards became a French citizen when France recovered Alsace, a territory it had lost after a previous war, in 1871.

Franz Künstler is the last known surviving veteran of the First World War who fought with the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He joined the Austro-Hungarian army in February 1918 for training in a mounted artillery regiment, and served at the Italian front in November 1918. After the war, he fought against the communists, and was a soldier until 1921.

Mary Elizabeth Grenander (21 November 1918 - 28 May 1998), was a professor of English and philanthropist, for whom the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives of the University Libraries of the University at Albany, the State University of New York is named. She was an authority on Ambrose Bierce. Grenander was born in Rewey, Wisconsin. She served in the U.S. Navy during the Second World War.

Sydney Lucas (born September 21, 1900 in Leicester, England) is a British veteran of the First World War who emigrated to Australia in 1928. He was conscripted into the British Army's 45th Sherwood Foresters while a teenager in August 1918, but the war ended before he was sent to fight. Lucas enlisted in Australia's 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion soon after the outbreak of the Second World War and was posted in Palestine.

Russell A. Buchanan (January 24, 1900 - December 6, 2006) was one of the last surviving American veterans of the First World War. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and died in Watertown, Massachusetts. In 1918, Buchanan enlisted in the United States Navy at age 18. Russell stayed in the military long enough to have served in the Second World War, however, he retired from service in 1943 (i.e. after 25 years of service), and died at almost age 107.

Claude Stanley Choules (born March 3, 1901 in Pershore, Worcestershire) is one of the last surviving U.K. veterans of the First World War, and one of three remaining British veterans who emigrated to Australia. Claude joined the Royal Navy as a young man in 1916, and served aboard the Naval Training Ship "HMS Impregnable" situated at Devonport dockyard. In 1917 Claude joined the battleship "HMS Revenge", which was the flagship of the First Battle Squadron.

Captain Henry Lockhart St John Fancourt, DSO, RN (April 1, 1900 - January 8, 2004) was a pioneering naval aviator, and held important aviation commands with the Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War. When Fancourt died at the age of 103, he had been the last survivor who had actively been involved in the Battle of Jutland.

William Evan Crawford Allan was one of Australia’s last living veterans of the First World War. Moreover, he was the last remaining Australian veteran who saw active service in both World War I and the Second World War. He was a career Navy man, serving in the RAN from 1914-1948, also seeing service in World War II. Allan was born in Bega in the then British colony of New South Wales, eighteen months before the Commonwealth of Australia came into being.

Wilfred J. Baker was a Scottish First World War-era veteran and veteran of the Second World War who joined the Royal Navy after his 18th birthday in 1918 and just after the Armistice, in December, retiring as a lieutenant commander in 1948, after which he worked at a miners' hostel in Dalkeith. At the time of his death he had four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild. His wife May died in 1983, aged 87, …

Walter Rowley was a footballer and manager before and after the second World War. A former player he took over as manager of Bolton Wanderers at the latter end of the war and before the League proper started again the club won the Football League North War Cup. Rowley remained as manager until 1950 but had to resign due to ill health. He was made a life member of the club for his 37 years of service as player, coach and manager.

Gerald Götting was an East German Christian Democratic (CDU) politician. Götting was born in Nietleben, near the cities of Leipzig and Halle in eastern Germany. During the Second World War he worked in the Reichsarbeitsdienst, an auxiliary support and supply organization, and served as a Wehrmacht soldier. He was briefly held as a prisoner of war by US forces in 1945. Following the conclusion of the war, Götting joined the East German Christian Democratic Union in 1946.

Walter Richardson (November 7, 1885 - December 25, 1998) from the USA was the world's oldest man and one of the world's oldest people, dying at age 113. Richardson was a Lieutenant Colonel serving in the United States Army 1st battalion during the Second World War in the 36th Task Force against the Germans.

Henry Huttleston Rogers Coe (June 30 1907 - August 1966) or Hank as he was known to his wife and friends, was the third and youngest son of William Robertson Coe and Mai Huttleston Rogers Coe. His parents' interest in the American West had a profound effect upon him and he lived in Cody, Wyoming for most of his adult life. Henry served as an enlisted man in the United States Navy during the second world war, and was wounded in a Japanese torpedo attack on his ship.

Frank J. Durbin (October 19, 1895 - April 25, 1999) was one of the last surviving American veterans of the First World War. Durbin was born in New Hampshire. By 1915, at age 20, he joined the United States Army. The next year, he was sent over to Verdun, and served with the American and French armies at the Battle of Verdun. Over there, Durbin hauled artillery over the front lines.

Henri d'Ursel was a Belgian film director and writer. He lived in Paris during the 1920s, at the height of the surrealist and avant-garde movements. In 1929 he wrote "La Perle", under the pseudonym "Henri d'Arche", based on a story by Georges Hugnet. Returning to Belgium, in 1937 d'Ursel founded "Le Prix de l’Image", a precursor to film festivals of experimental cinema. At the outbreak of the second world war, he founded "Le Séminaire des Arts", …

Bertha Fry (born December 1, 1893) is an American supercentenarian. She is the fourth oldest documented person currently alive, and is living in Muncie, Indiana. Fry is one of four surviving verified people born in 1893. Only Yone Minagawa, Edna Parker and Maria de Jesus were also born that year. Bertha was born in a farm in Vevay, Indiana. There has been remarkable longevity in her family. Her first husband died in the 1930s, and she re-married during the Second World War.

Francesco Domenico Chiarello (born November 5, 1898) is one of the last surviving Italian veterans of the First World War. Called up in 1918, he enlisted in the Castrovillari. He spent 3 months in training and then served as an infantryman at Cosenza. Sent to the frontlines, he fought at the Battle of Vittorio Veneto. On the way from Taranto to Albania, he contracted malaria, which ended his war participence. However, he served for two more years in the Italian army.

Irmgard von Stephani (born September 20, 1895) is, at age 111, the oldest person in Germany currently alive and one of only four Europeans left who were officially born in 1895. Von Stephani was born in Kassel. In the 1930s, she moved to Lankwitz, a district in the Southwest of the German capital Berlin. She was a young adult during the First World War, and at the end of the Second World War she was 50 years old. Irmgard is unmarried with no children.