To wrap up our series of blog posts following the death of Iris Cummings as the last known survivor of any pre-World War II Olympics, today Oldest Olympians completing its look into Olympians who competed at the 1936 Games. We have already covered the eisstockschießen players who have no date of birth, but there are 25 other non-starters and demonstration event competitors from 1936 for whom we lack biographical information but could, in theory, still be alive, as well as 14 art competitors. There are also 32 Olympians who competed in 1936 that could still be alive, but since all but two, Egyptian swimmer Fadl Ibrahim and Afghani field hockey player Abouwi Ahmad Shah, have known dates of birth, we will cover them when we review Olympians who could have been older than Yvonne Chabot-Curtet at the time of her death.

Before we list the remaining 1936 participants, however, we wanted to point to an additional Olympic mystery from that year: Afghani field hockey player Mian Faruq Shah. Shah, who had studied in Britain and earned a pilot’s license from that country, was Assistant Director of Agriculture and Sports Minister of Afghanistan in the mid-1930s, and also vice-captain of the hockey team. Anonymous editors have added a year of death of 2005 and a date of death of May 1, 2013 to his Wikipedia page at various times, but we have been unable to confirm either date.

Of the 14 art competitors from 1936 who could, in theory, still be alive, only one, South African painter Ann Graham, born September 22, 1915, has a known date of birth.

Name	Country	Category
Josef Bauer	Czechoslovakia	Architecture
Chiffre	Yugoslavia	Music
Piero Fervelli	Italy	Painting
Guglielmo Giuliani	Italy	Architecture
Suzuko Ito	Japan	Painting
Jerry	Czechoslovakia	Literature
Takahisa Kato	Japan	Painting
František Koubek	Czechoslovakia	Music
Hans Luckasch	Austria	Music
Karel Martínek	Czechoslovakia	Architecture
Jaroslav Nedvěd	Czechoslovakia	Architecture
Egon Plefka	Czechoslovakia	Architecture
Jean-Pierre Romuald	Belgium	Painting

(José Llovera, pictured at BoxRec)

Of the 25 non-starters and demonstration event competitors from 1936 who could still be alive, three have known years of birth. Egyptian footballer Hussein Ezzat and Japanese field hockey player Yasuo Ueno were born in 1915, while another Japanese hockey player, Satoshi Muraoka, was born in 1916.

Name	Country	Event
Emil Angelescu	Romania	Non-starter in the four-man bobsleigh
Dinu Cesiano	Romania	Non-starter in the fencing tournament
Zacarías Flores	Peru	Non-starter in the welterweight boxing tournament
Gerbrecht	Germany	Participant in the demonstration gliding event
Franz Hiermann	Austria	Participant in the demonstration military ski patrol event
Josef Jauch	Switzerland	Participant in the demonstration military ski patrol event
Branko Karadjole	Yugoslavia	Non-starter in coxed fours rowing
Peter von Lerch	Austria	Participant in the demonstration gliding event
José Llovera	Spain	Non-starter in the featherweight boxing tournament
Jean Morand	France	Participant in the demonstration military ski patrol event
Mario Peselli	Italy	Participant in the demonstration gliding event
Teodor Popescu	Romania	Non-starter in the four-man bobsleigh
José Portillo	Spain	Non-starter in the lightweight boxing tournament
Jean Pydych	Poland	Participant in the demonstration military ski patrol event
Pedro Rodríguez	Peru	Non-starter in the flyweight boxing tournament
Constantin Rosetti	Romania	Non-starter in the fencing tournament
Adam Rzepka	Poland	Participant in the demonstration military ski patrol event
Aleksandar Stanojević	Yugoslavia	Participant in the demonstration gliding event
Alexandru Tăutu	Romania	Non-starter in the four-man bobsleigh
Máximo Valdez	Peru	Non-starter in the featherweight boxing tournament
Eduard Waser	Switzerland	Participant in the demonstration military ski patrol event
Antonio Zúñiga	Spain	Non-starter in the welterweight boxing tournament