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Millvina Dean Elizabeth Gladys was born on 2 february in 1912 and died the 31 of May of 2009. She was a British civil servant and cartographer. She is known as the last remaining survivour of the skining of Titanic which occured on 15 of April of 1912. She had 2 months old when she was on the Titanic. Millvina Dean's parents decided to leave England and emigrate to Wichita, Kansas, where her father had family and his cousin owned atobacco shop that her father was going to co-own. The Deans were not supposed to be aboard the Titanic, but owing to a coal strike, they were transferred to the ship and boarded it as third-class passengers at Southampton, England. Dean was barely two months old when she boarded the ship. Her father felt the ship's collision with the iceberg on the night of 14 April 1912, and after investigating, returned to his cabin telling his wife to dress the children and go up on deck. Dean, her mother, and brother were placed in Lif eboat 13and were among the first steerage passengers to escape the sinking oce onliner. Her father, however, did not survive, and his body, if recovered, was never identified.