* August 2 – Albert Woolson, last surviving Union veteran of the American Civil War ( b. 1847 )

In 1956, after the death of the last member, Albert Woolson, the GAR was formally dissolved.

* Albert Woolson ( 1847 – 1956 )

Albert Henry Woolson ( February 11, 1850 – August 2, 1956 ), was the last surviving member of the Union Army, which fought in the American Civil War.

The company never saw action, and Albert Woolson was discharged on September 7, 1865.

Life magazine ran a seven-page article upon the death of Albert Woolson, in the August 20, 1956 issue.

In mid-2006, new census research indicated that Albert Woolson was actually only 106 years old, being listed as less than one year old in the 1850 census.

File: 1850UnitedStatesFederalCensus 312130447. jpg | Woolson as " Henry Albert Woolson " in the 1850 census as a newborn

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* Albert Woolson, the last surviving Civil War Veteran

Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

Albert of Prussia (; ) ( 17 May 1490 – 20 March 1568 ) was the 37th and last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion.

However, Albert inherited the Margraviate of Brandenburg from its last Wendish ruler, Pribislav, in 1157, and became the first Ascanian margrave.

In Dresden on 18 June 1853 Albert married Princess Carola, daughter of Gustav, Prince of Vasa and granddaughter of Gustav IV Adolf, the second to last king of Sweden of the House of Holstein-Gottorp.

Kate McGarrigle's song about the legend was one of the last things she wrote prior to her death, and received its only performance at her last concert at Royal Albert Hall in December 2009.

They were also the last to feature an arts competition, which took place at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Rudolph I's last agnatic descendant was Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress ( 1717 – 1780 ), by Albert I of Germany's fourth son Albert II, Duke of Austria.

Bellanca remained President and Chairman of the Board from the corporation's inception on the last day of 1927 until he sold the company to L. Albert and Sons in 1954.

These include Ryszard Kaczorowski, the last émigré President of the Republic of Poland ; L. L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto ; and Albert Sabin, the co-developer of the polio vaccine.

A list of recent notable persons includes, but is not limited to ; Ryszard Kaczorowski, last émigré President of the Republic of Poland, L. L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto, Albert Sabin, co-developer of the polio vaccine, Izabella Scorupco, actress, Max Weber, painter

The last is singled out, particularly by Albert Einstein as " the " Mach's principle.

While his pace cooled somewhat in the final eight weeks of the season ( he only hit 10 home runs in the Mariners ' last 47 games ), his 40 home runs by August 12 still put him two ahead of Chicago's Frank Thomas and four ahead of Cleveland's Albert Belle for the AL lead.

Finally, Albert Speer, head of the Nazi economy, shifted the last nitrogen from the war effort to agriculture because he believed the war was lost and next year's crops were more important.

* George Albert Cairns-Winner of the last Victoria Cross of World War II.

His last major concert performance was the Music for Montserrat all-star charity concert at London's Royal Albert Hall on September 15, 1997.

The last infant born within the city limits of Strawn was Angelea Wheeler, daughter of Albert and Thelma Wheeler.

* Albert F. " Jud " Wagner, Kansas ' last confirmed World War I veteran

The second to the last person in America to be executed by firing squad, John Albert Taylor, raped and murdered Charla King in Washington Terrace in 1988.

The eastern part of Prussia remained under the rule of the Teutonic Knights and its successors as a fief of Poland, becoming the Ducal Prussia in 1525 when the Order's last Grand Master Albert von Hohenzollern adopted Lutheranism and secularized the land as its hereditary ruler.

Founded in 1895, each season currently consists of more than 70 concerts in the Albert Hall, a series of chamber concerts at Cadogan Hall, additional Proms in the Park events across the United Kingdom on the last night, and associated educational and children's events.

Saxony, which he had attempted to hold but was not officially invested with, was given to Albert the Bear, son of the younger daughter of Magnus, the last Billung duke.

Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.

Albert, who was a man of great strength and considerable skill in feats of arms, delighted in tournaments and knightly exercises.

During his time on NBC, Albert continued as lead play-by-play man for the New York Knicks on local MSG Network telecasts and began calling national games for TNT in 1999 as well.

In 2005, Albert officially became the lead play-by-play man for the New Jersey Nets franchise and started calling their games in the 2005 – 2006 basketball season on the YES Network, often teaming with Brooklyn native and NBA veteran, Mark Jackson.

Albert maintained that Perhach had requested that he bite her and denied her accusation that he'd asked her to bring another man into their sexual affair.

NBC brought Albert back less than two years later, and he was the network's main play-by-play man for the 2000 – 01 and 2001 – 02 NBA seasons, including the finals.

In 1575, Albert de Gondi, a man from Florence who had come to France with Catherine de ' Medici, bought the seigneury of Versailles.

Although a hard, stern man, Albert had a keen sense of justice when his own interests were not involved, and few of the German kings possessed so practical an intelligence.

* Albert Kachellek ( alias " James Clark "), Moran's second-in-command, a retired man at the time, he was not a member of the gang himself but happened to be there at the time the killing happened.

In the film, Close played the title role of Albert Nobbs, a woman living her life as a man in 1800s Ireland after being sexually assaulted as a young girl.

His journey by sea to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji took him via Jamaica, where Albert played doubles tennis partnered with a black man, which was unusual at the time and taken locally as a display of equality between races.

Gautier instead turned the plot into a simple love triangle between a man, d ' Albert, and his mistress, Rosette, who both fall in love with Madelaine de Maupin, who is disguised as a man named Théodore.

As a young man, Prince Albert served in the Spanish Navy, but during the Franco-Prussian War, he joined the French Navy where he was awarded the Legion of Honor.

In addition to his interest in oceanographic studies, Albert had a keen interest in the origins of man and in Paris, he founded the " Institute for Human Paleontology " that was responsible for a number of archeological digs.

Of his private life, a childhood friend of Albert Victor later recalled that it was uneventful: " his brother officers had said that they would like to make a man of the world of him.

In recent years, Andrew Cook has continued attempts to rehabilitate Albert Victor's reputation, arguing that his lack of academic progress was partly due to the incompetence of his tutor, Dalton ; that he was a warm and charming man ; that there is no tangible evidence that he was homosexual or bisexual ; that he held liberal views, particularly on Irish Home Rule ; and that his reputation has been diminished by biographers eager to improve the image of his brother, George.

Albert Tucker painted Man's Head to capture the moral disintegration, and lack of conscience, of a man convicted of kicking a dog to death.

She is supported by Ray Danton as the man whose death first upsets her ; by Jo Van Fleet as her domineering mother who realises what she has done too late ; Richard Conte, Eddie Albert and Don Taylor.

With Buchalter's death, Albert " Lord High Executioner " Anastasia, a made man, of the Cosa Nostra took over " Murder, Inc ." As a reaction to government informants in Murder, Inc., the New York crime families started using their own members and associates, who were more easily controlled, to commit murders.

One of the " witnesses ", a supposed SA man, appeared in court wearing a mask and claimed that it was the SA that really set the fire ; in fact, the " SA man " was really Albert Norden, the editor of the German Communist newspaper Rote Fahne.