Harry Patch

Henry John Patch, dubbed in his later years "the Last Fighting Tommy", was an English supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe, and the last surviving trench combat soldier of the First World War from any country. Patch was not the longest-surviving soldier of the First World War, but he was the fifth-longest-surviving veteran of any sort from the First World War, behind British veterans Claude Choules and Florence Green, Frank Buckles of the United States and John Babcock of Canada. At the time of his death, aged 111 years and 38 days, Patch was the third-oldest man in the world, behind Walter Breuning and Jiroemon Kimura.

17 June 1898

Born on the same birth date (17 June 1898): Carl H. Hermann • Joe McKelvey • M. C. Escher

Born on the same birth day (17 June): Dan Jansen • George Hees • Henrik Wergeland • Igor Stravinsky • Michael Gross (swimmer) • Pierre Berbizier • Ralph E. Winters • Roger Steffens • Starhawk • Steve Georgallis • Susan La Flesche Picotte • Ted Nelson

Born in the same month (June 1898): Armin Öpik • Carl H. Hermann • Chesty Puller • Erich Maria Remarque • Federico García Lorca • Hubertus Strughold • Jim Fouché • Luigi Fagioli • M. C. Escher • Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt • Willy Messerschmitt • Yvonne Lefébure