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Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma
President of Togo from 1967 to 2005
Uli Hoeneß
German football player and executive
Vesna Vulović
Serbian former flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute
Douglas Mawson
Australian geologist and explorer of the Antarctic (1882-1958)
Juliane Koepcke
mammalogist and only survivor of LANSA Flight 508
Jaime Paz Zamora
President of Bolivia from 1989 to 1993
Lina Stern
Soviet biochemist, physiologist and humanist (1875-1968)
Alain Ducasse
French chef
Yemenia Flight 626
aviation accident
Ada Blackjack
Iñupiat explorer (1898–1983)
Northwest Airlines Flight 255
1987 crash of an MD-80 aircraft in Detroit, Michigan, USA
William Brydon
assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army (1811-1873)
Poon Lim
Chinese sailor of the British Merchant Navy
José Salvador Alvarenga
Fisherman who possibly survived 13 months at sea
Marcus Luttrell
US Navy SEAL and author (born 1975)
Nur-Pashi Kulayev
Chechen terrorist
Mel Mermelstein
Czechoslovak-born American Holocaust survivor and autobiographer
Jan Baalsrud
Norwegian SOE personnel (1917–1988)
Russian battleship Borodino
1901 Borodino-class battleship
Alferd Packer
American wilderness guide who confessed to cannibalism (1842-1907)
Abduwali Muse
convicted Somali hijacker
George H. Gay Jr.
United States Navy officer (1917–1994)
Trevor Rees-Jones
bodyguard
Ludger Sylbaris
survivor of the 1902 Mount Pelée volcanic eruption (1874–1929)
Mamatlakala highway accident
2024 bus accident in Limpopo, South Africa
Glen Kidston
English racing driver (1899–1931)
Nils Gustafsson
Finnish bus driver acquitted of murder
Ruth Kligman
Abstract painter, muse, writer (1930-2010)
Bob Ojeda
American baseball player
list of sole survivors of aviation accidents and incidents
list of people
Klaus Bargsten
German World War II U-boat commander
Othryades
Othryades ( and Othryadas () was the last surviving Spartan of the 300 Spartans selected to fight against 300 Argives in the Battle of the 300 Champions. Ashamed by surviving his comrades, he committed suicide on the field following the battle.
Eduard Prchal
Czechoslovak pilot (1911–1984)
Sole Survivor Policy
US military policy around protecting family members of dead soldiers
Tami Oldham Ashcraft
American sailor and author
Bahia Bakari
French airplane crash survivor
Vivian Bullwinkel
Australian Army nurse (1915–2000)
Iinuma Sadakichi
samurai
Jamal Al-Gashey
PLO terrorist
Annette Herfkens
sole survivor of aviation accident
David Stoliar
Romanian musician, sole survivor of the Struma disaster (1922–2014)
Gerald Finnerman
American cinematographer (1931–2011)
John King
Irish soldier and Australian explorer (1838–1872)
Moby Prince disaster
1991 maritime disaster
SS Daniel J. Morrell
Great Lakes freighter sunk in a storm in Lake Huron