At the age of 93 he’s the last remaining astronaut of the Mercury Seven and one of the very few surviving astronauts (American or Soviet) of the Space Age that began in the late 1950s. Josef Felder, also a Dachau survivor, joined the Social Democratic Party at the age of 20 and was elected to Germany’s Parliament for the first time in 1932. Near the end of his life he was celebrated in Germany as a symbol of democracy and freedom and the last of the 94 legislators who voted on March 23, 1933, against the law ceding parliament’s powers to Hitler’s cabinet. He is best remembered as having been the last surviving member of the highly skilled group of eleven federal law-enforcement agents, led by Eliot Ness, known as the Untouchables. He died in March 1998 at the age of 95. As the last surviving Ziegfeld girl, Eaton Travis was featured in many books, while she was often interviewed for specials and documentaries about the Ziegfeld Follies. She would also take honorary part in benefit performances where the crowd usually paid tribute to her in standing ovations. She died on May 11, 2010, at the age of 106. When Lardner died in October 2000, one of the darkest chapters in American political history closed with him, since Ring he was the last surviving member of the Hollywood Ten.
