248: Perla Ovitz Entertainer who was Born With Pseudoachondroplasia Dwarfism; Alongside Most of her Siblings Born: 10 January 1921, Rozavlea, Romania Died: 9 September 2001, Israel Original Name: Piroska Ovitz Perla’s father had the condition and her mother was of average size (as was her father’s first wife). Of his ten children seven were little…
247: Millvina Dean The Last Living Survivor of the Wreck of RMS Titanic Born: 2 February 1912, Branscombe, United Kingdom Died: 31 May 2009, Ashurst, United Kingdom Original Name: Elizabeth Gladys Dean Millvina was two months old at the time and the youngest of the 705 surviving passengers and crew. She was traveling third-class with…
246: Eva Hart Survived the Sinking of the RMS Titanic When She was Seven Years Old Born: 31 January 1905, Ilford, United Kingdom Died: 14 February 1996, Dagenham, United Kingdom Traveling second-class with her parents, she was asleep at the time of the collision but made it into a lifeboat with her mother (her father…
245: Marjorie Collyer Dutton Survived the Sinking of the RMS Titanic Born: 28 January 1904, Bishopstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom Died: 26 February 1961, Gosport, Hampshire, United Kingdom Marjorie and her parents were second-class passengers and she was eight years old at the time. Her father perished in the sinking and so she and her mother…
244: Robertha Watt Marshall Survived the Sinking of the RMS Titanic When She was Twelve Years Old Born: 11 September 1899, Scotland, United Kingdom Died: 4 March 1993, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Robertha traveled alongside her mother in second-class (her father had crossed over to the United States in 1911). Robertha was reportedly friends with…
243: Ruth Becker Blanchard Survived the Sinking of the RMS Titanic When She was Twelve Years Old Born: 28 October 1899, Guntur, India Died: 6 July 1990, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Ruth was traveling in second-class with her mother and two siblings (her father stayed behind in India where he was working…
242: Edith Brown Haisman Survived the Sinking of the RMS TitanicWhen She was Fifteen Years Old Born: 27 October 1896, Cape Town, South Africa Died: 20 January 1997, Southampton, United Kingdom Edith and her parents traveled second-class (which upset her mother as they had been living very well in South Africa before an economic slump…
241: Madeleine Astor Dick Survived the Sinking of the RMS Titanic at the Age of Eighteen, and She was Pregnant Born: 19 June 1893, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America Died: 27 March 1940, Palm Beach, Florida, United States of America Madeleine was married to Colonel John Jacob Astor IV—one of the richest men…
240: Violet Jessop Given the Nickname of Mrs. Unsinkable Born: 2 October 1887, Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina Died: 5 May 1971, Great Ashfield, Suffolk, United Kingdom Violet survived the sinking of both Titanic and her sister ship Britannic and was also present on the third sister Olympic during Olympic’s famous collision with the HMS…
“Neptune was exceedingly kind to me and I am now high and dry.” 239: Margaret Tobin Brown Remembered Today by the Nickname She Acquired After the Sinking of the RMS Titanic—”Unsinkable Maggie Brown” Born: 18 July 1867, Hannibal, Missouri, United States of America Died: 26 October 1932, New York City, New York, United States of…