Millvina Dean, Titanic survivor

[typhooforme]

Not of film or horror/sci-fi, but of historic significance--here in the 21st Century, we have lost the last remaining person who survived a disaster of the early 20th Century, nearly a hundred years ago.  I guess we can say there is some film connection as several scripts about the sinking of the Titanic made their way to film screen and tv.

From AOL news:
Millvina Dean, who as a baby was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat in the frigid North Atlantic, died Sunday, having been the last survivor of 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic.

She was 97 years old, and she died where she had lived — in Southampton, England, the city her family had tried to leave behind when it took the ship's ill-fated maiden voyage, bound for America.

[Wich2]

Often Big History is marked with Little Signposts...

Thanks, Robert; RIP, Millvina.

[ChattyLMS]

A historic person.  The last of a tragic end.