The death on 31 May 2009 of Elizabeth Gladys Millvina Dean aged ninety-seven, was both ironic and befitting given her status as the last survivor of the tragedy, in the sense that she died on the ninety-eighth anniversary of the launch of RMS Titanic which occurred on 31 May 1911.
Her elder brother Bertram Vere Dean also died on an anniversary related to the RMS Titanic disaster. Bertram died on 14 April 1992 at the age of eighty-one. He died on the eightieth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic
It is ironic that the deaths of the Dean's should occur on anniversaries related to a ship that affected the beginning of their lives so profoundly.
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