The youngest passenger aboard the Titanic, she boarded the ship with her mother, Georgette, her father, Bertram Frank, and her brother, Bertram Vere, on April 10, 1912, before the ship set sail from Southampton, England.

The family was supposed to cross the Atlantic on a different White Star Line ship, according to the Los Angeles Times' obituary of Dean. However, a coal strike led to the cancellation of their original voyage. The White Star Line offered them third-class tickets on the Titanic instead.

The Deans were going to Missouri to be with her father's cousin, who owned a store in Kansas City, according to Millvina Dean's obituary in The New York Times. Her father was going to co-own the store after the Deans sold the pub they owned in England.

Dean said her father felt the ship collide with the iceberg, which might have saved his family's lives.

"I think it was my father who saved us," Dean told the Los Angeles Times. "So many other people thought the Titanic would never sink, and they didn't bother. My father didn't take a chance."

Dean, her mother, and brother were put on lifeboat 13, as reported by BBC News.

The survivors on lifeboats were later picked up by the RMS Carpathia and taken to New York City. But Dean's father was among the more than 1,500 people who died in the tragedy. 

Dean said she believed it was true that White Star Lines employees had prevented third-class passengers from going above deck and potentially escaping the sinking ship, The New York Times reported.

"It couldn't happen nowadays, and it's so wrong, so unjust. What do they say? 'Judy O'Grady and the colonel's lady are sisters under the skin.' That's the way it should have been that night, but it wasn't," she said.

Three weeks after the sinking of the Titanic, the RMS Adriatic took some survivors back to England. Dean, her mother, and brother were on board.

"Passengers who knew what the family had been through lined up to hold baby Millvina, the youngest survivor of the Titanic. To keep the line moving, a ship's officer ordered that no one could hold the baby for more than 10 minutes," wrote Mary Rourke of the Los Angeles Times in Dean's obituary.

"My mother would never speak of it, because it was her husband and they were only married four years. He was strikingly handsome. I didn't know anything about it until I was 8 years old. And then my mother got married again. That's when I first heard about the Titanic, and about my father going down, everything like that," she told the Belfast Telegraph in 2009.

In another interview with the Irish Times, the Los Angeles Times reported, Dean said that her mother suffered severe headaches every day after the sinking.

The White Star Line rather infamously didn't accept any liability for the Titanic's sinking for years, even though the tragedy left almost all of its passengers with no money, no possessions, and in many cases, no breadwinner — many families lost their husbands and fathers since they couldn't get on lifeboats.

The Wall Street Journal reported in 2003 that four years after the crash, the White Star Line agreed to pay the US $665,000, or roughly $430 per passenger.

In 2025, that'd be around $12,972 each.

According to the Los Angeles Times, after the war, she worked as a secretary in an engineering office for 20 years.

"Nobody knew about me and the Titanic, to be honest, nobody took any interest, so I took no interest either," she said, according to The New York Times. "But then they found the wreck, and after they found the wreck, they found me."

For decades after, Millvina Dean attended many Titanic exhibitions, conventions, and events. She also traveled to different schools to tell her life's story.

Even though Dean had said she didn't feel a huge connection to her father since she never really knew him, she couldn't watch any movies or documentaries about the Titanic.

"Because that's the ship on which my father went down. Although I didn't remember him, nothing about him, I would still be emotional. I would think: 'How did he go down? Did he go down with the ship or did he jump overboard?'" she told the Belfast Telegraph in May 2009, weeks before her death.

Her mother lived to be 96, dying in 1975, according to The New York Times.

Eighty-five years after the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic, Dean finally completed the journey from Southampton to New York City, reported the Deseret News.

According to United Press International, after she arrived in NYC in August, she then journeyed to Kansas City to visit the neighborhood that would've been hers, if everything had gone to plan.

After breaking her hip in 2006, Dean began living in a nursing home. To help with expenses, she auctioned off some items that had been with her family on the Titanic, including a suitcase that sold for $18,650. In total, she raised $53,906, according to NBC News.

Reuters reported that the trio behind "Titanic" donated $30,000 to Dean after her longtime friend Don Mullan challenged them to.

"I laid down the challenge to the 'Titanic' actors and directors to support the Millvina Fund and I was delighted with the generosity they have shown in meeting that challenge," Mullan told the Irish Examiner in 2009.

Millvina Dean's ashes were scattered by her partner, Bruno Nordmanis, at the Southampton Docks, where the Titanic left for its first and only voyage, NBC News reported.

John Jacob Astor, 48, was a member of the prominent Astor family and helped build the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. He was also an inventor, a science-fiction novelist, and a veteran of the Spanish-American War.

He was traveling with his wife, Madeleine, in Europe when she became pregnant. To ensure the child would be born in the US, the couple booked a trip home on the Titanic.

The New York Times reported that Astor was last seen smoking a cigarette on the deck. His wife, who was 30 years his junior, survived the disaster.

He had a fortune worth somewhere between $90 and $150 million, CNBC reported, when he boarded the fateful ship, or between $2.9 and $4.8 billion in today's dollars when adjusted for inflation. He was the richest passenger on board the Titanic.

Gracie achieved prominence in the wake of the Titanic disaster because of his meticulous and detailed account of the tragedy.

The historian and Alabama native, who had written a book on the American Civil War's Battle of Chickamauga, was on the Titanic, returning from a European vacation.

He was woken up when the ship crashed into an iceberg. After escorting several women to the lifeboats, Gracie helped other passengers evacuate the ship.

When the ship sank, Gracie surfaced beside an overturned lifeboat. He managed to climb on top with other men, and they spent much of the night balanced there.

The historian was one of the first Titanic survivors to die after being rescued, on December 4, 1912, after a prolonged illness. He was 54.

The New York Times reported at the time that Gracie's final words were "We must get them all in the boats," according to Alabama News Center.

Stead was a highly influential editor who, in an uncanny twist, may have foreseen his death on the Titanic.

As the editor of The Pall Mall Gazette, the newspaperman published an explosive and controversial investigative series about child prostitution, Britannica reported. He is credited with helping to invent investigative journalism.

A devoted spiritualist, Stead also established a magazine dedicated to the supernatural and a psychic service known as Julia's Bureau.

He also wrote a fictional story in 1886 that resembled the real-life events of the Titanic in unsettling ways.

"How the Mail Steamer Went Down in Mid Atlantic by a Survivor" tells a story of an ocean liner that sinks in the Atlantic.

In the story, only 200 passengers and crew members of the original 700 people on board survive the disaster because of a lifeboat shortage.

His website reported that Stead didn't hang around on deck as the Titanic sank. Instead, he reportedly spent his final hours reading in the first-class smoking room. He was 62 years old.

Leslie, the Countess of Rothes, was one of the Titanic's most famous passengers.

A popular figure in London society, Leslie became a countess after marrying Norman Evelyn Leslie, the Earl of Rothes, in 1900.

Leslie and her cousin Gladys Cherry booked a trip on the Titanic.

When Leslie made it into a lifeboat, she reportedly found it understaffed and volunteered to help row it away from the sinking ship.

The countess reportedly helped take care of her fellow survivors on board the Carpathia and was dubbed "the plucky little countess" in the press.

After surviving the Titanic disaster, Leslie became a prominent philanthropist and worked as a nurse during World War I.

Andrews was no ordinary Titanic victim. 

The longtime Harland & Wolff employee designed the ship itself. He traveled on the Titanic's maiden voyage to observe the ship and make recommendations on areas where the ship could be improved.

When an iceberg damaged the Titanic's hull and he learned that five of its watertight compartments had holes in them, Andrews immediately knew the ship was going to sink, the BBC reported.

The 39-year-old shipbuilder then began helping women and children into the lifeboats. He made no attempt to exit the ship and was last seen in the first-class smoking room not wearing a lifebelt.

Brown, a socialite and philanthropist, is best known for surviving the Titanic disaster.

Biography reported that she was born in Missouri to Irish immigrants. She married James Joseph Brown in New York City. The couple became fabulously wealthy when Brown's mining business struck ore.

Margaret Brown became a well-known socialite with a penchant for dramatic hats and social activism on behalf of women and children.

She was returning from a voyage around Europe when she decided to book a trip on the Titanic.

During the disaster, she reportedly helped row the lifeboat and demanded that the group of survivors row back to the spot where the ship went down to look for survivors. This earned her the nickname "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" — though her friends and family reportedly called her Maggie.

Brown's life was immortalized in the Broadway musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," which was later adapted into a Hollywood film. Kathy Bates also portrayed her in the award-winning film "Titanic."

Thayer was well known in 1912 as both a former cricket player and a Pennsylvania Railroad Co. executive.

The railroad company vice president was traveling on the Titanic with his wife and son following a trip to Berlin. After the ship struck an iceberg, Thayer made certain that his wife and their maid boarded a lifeboat.

According to Encyclopedia Titanic, Gracie's account of the events reported seeing Thayer looking "pale and determined" on deck before the ship sank. Thayer's body was never found. His son survived by diving into the water and swimming to an overturned lifeboat.

Ismay may have survived the sinking of the Titanic, but he never lived down the public scorn he received in the wake of the disaster.

The White Star Line managing director was the highest-ranking company official to survive the disaster. He boarded a lifeboat 20 minutes before the ship sank into the Atlantic.

He later said he turned away as the Titanic slipped beneath the surface of the water, saying, "I did not wish to see her go down. I am glad I did not," The Telegraph reported.

Ismay received a lot of flak for boarding a lifeboat before other passengers. He was ostracized in society and ultimately resigned from his post and kept a low profile.

The BBC reported in 2012 that Ismay's family said the press unfairly maligned him and that he never fully recovered from the ordeal.

Isidor and Ida Straus first met after the Civil War when a penniless Straus moved to New York City.

Isidor and his brother later acquired Macy's, and he eventually became a powerful businessman and a member of the US House of Representatives.

Straus was reportedly offered a spot on a lifeboat while the ship was sinking. He declined, saying he wouldn't board a raft until every woman and child had gotten off the ship.

Ida then refused to leave her husband. When her husband urged her to evacuate the ship, she reportedly responded, "I will not be separated from my husband. As we have lived, so will we die, together."

She then ordered her maid to board a lifeboat and gave her a mink coat, quipping that she wouldn't need the garment anymore. The couple was last seen together on the deck of the Titanic. Isidor's body was recovered from the ocean, but Ida was never found.

Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, memorialized Isidor and Ida Straus with a cenotaph bearing a line from the "Song of Solomon."

"Many waters cannot quench love — neither can the floods drown it," it reads.

Cosmo Duff-Gordon and his wife, Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, were two of the most prominent passengers on board the Titanic. 

Cosmo Duff-Gordon was a major landowner and society figure in the UK known for his fencing skills. His wife was a top British fashion designer whose innovations included the precursor to the modern-day fashion show.

The Duff-Gordons booked a trip on the Titanic to travel to New York City on business. When disaster struck, they both escaped on the first lifeboat that embarked off the ship.

Vogue reported that Lady Duff-Gordon described the scene on the Titanic, saying, "Everyone seemed to be rushing for that boat. A few men who crowded in were turned back at the point of Capt. Smith's revolver, and several of them were felled before order was restored. I recall being pushed towards one of the boats and being helped in."

In the wake of the tragedy, Cosmo Duff-Gordon received criticism for not adhering to the ship's "women and children first" evacuation policy.

A few years later, in 1915, Lady Duff-Gordon escaped death again after canceling her voyage on the doomed Lusitania.

Guggenheim was a member of the powerful Guggenheim family, which earned its fortune in the mining industry.

He was traveling on the ship with his mistress, Léontine Aubart, and staffers.

Guggenheim was initially optimistic about the ship's prospects, telling his maid: "We will soon see each other again. It's just a repair. Tomorrow the Titanic will go on again," according to "Life Titanic: The Tragedy That Shook the World,"

Britannica reported that Guggenheim, whose body was never recovered, dressed in his best evening attire and quipped, "We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen."

He later passed on a message for his estranged wife to a Titanic survivor.

"If anything should happen to me, tell my wife in New York that I've done my best in doing my duty," he said.

After getting her start as a young girl in vaudeville, Gibson became a model and launched a career as a silent film star.

She was 22 years old when she booked a passage on the Titanic. Gibson reportedly heard the ship crash into an iceberg. She grabbed her mother, and together they escaped the ship on the first lifeboat.

"I will never forget the terrible cry that rang out from people who were thrown into the sea and others who were afraid for their loved ones," Gibson told a newspaper reporter shortly after the disaster, The History Press reported.

Gibson subsequently appeared as herself in a now-lost 1912 film about her experience called "Saved From the Titanic." The History Press reported that Gibson sported the same clothes in the film as she had on during the disaster. Gibson quit acting shortly afterward.

After that, Gibson's life is a bit cloudy. Her affair with a prominent film producer was a scandal in America and prompted Gibson to move to Paris. As World War II began, there were allegations that she was a Nazi sympathizer — the veracity of those rumors is unclear.

Later, while living in Italy in the 1940s, the former actor was imprisoned by fascists. She survived prison but died shortly after the war ended.

The industrialist was the founding president of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., a now-defunct steel-manufacturing business. 

Wick had been traveling in Europe to improve his health. Unfortunately, he booked a trip on the Titanic to return to the US.

Encyclopedia Titanica reported that he was last seen on the ship's deck waving to his wife, daughter, cousin, and aunt as they escaped on a lifeboat.

Bowerman survived the sinking of the Titanic and went on to have an extraordinary career.

Biography reported that the British suffragette and Cambridge graduate booked a trip on the ocean liner with her mother to visit friends living in America and Canada.

They both survived the catastrophe by getting on the same lifeboat as Margaret Brown.

When WWI broke out, Bowerman served in a traveling hospital unit that moved across Europe. Later, in 1923, she was admitted to the bar and became the first woman barrister to practice in the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales.

Biography said that later in life, Bowerman headed the establishment of the UN's Commission on the Status of Women.

Hays started in the railway business as a teenage clerk. He went on to become the president of the Grand Trunk Railway, which operated in Canada and the Northeastern US. 

The American railway magnate may have had some reservations about embarking on the Titanic's maiden voyage. Encyclopedia Titanica reported that he told his companions that the trend toward large boats might end in tragedy.

Hays' wife, Clara, and their daughter, Orian, were evacuated from the ship on lifeboats. 

After Charles and Clara were separated, she called out to every other lifeboat they came across, hoping that he had made it on one of them.

But Hays had died when the Titanic sank — his body was later recovered and buried in Montreal.

An author and a single mother, Candee wrote the early feminist work "How Women May Earn a Living" in 1900.

The American writer traveled extensively and befriended several prominent people, including Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan.

She booked a passage on the Titanic to return to the US to care for her son who'd been injured. The writer teamed up with Margaret Brown to operate the oars of the lifeboat.

Even after surviving the Titanic, Candee continued to travel the world, undaunted. She also spoke of the men aboard's bravery during the disaster.

"The men were the heroes, and among the bravest and most heroic, as I recall, were Mr. Widener, Mr. Thayer, and Colonel Astor," Candee said in a 1912 interview, Titanic Archive reported. "They thought only of the saving of the women and went down with the Titanic, martyrs to their manhood."

Harris was a major player on Broadway when he died on the Titanic. He was returning to the US after a business trip to London.

He went down with the ship after ensuring his wife, Renee, who had previously broken her elbow after falling down the ship's grand staircase, got on a lifeboat.

"Harry lifted me in his arms and threw me into the arms of a sailor and then threw a blanket that he had been carrying for me through the hours," his wife said, according to the author Charles Pellegrino's website.

Renee achieved prominence by taking up her husband's line of work and becoming one of the first female theatrical producers in the US.

The Independent reported that Behr, a banker and tennis star, booked a trip on the Titanic only to pursue his future wife, Helen Newsom.

Behr survived the disaster because he was asked to help row one of the lifeboats. Encyclopedia Titanica reported that he may have asked Newsom for her hand in marriage while they were adrift in a lifeboat.

Behr went on to continue his successful tennis career, The New York Times reported.

Futrelle achieved success as a mystery author before dying on the Titanic.

The Georgia native started out as a journalist, working for the New York Herald and The Boston Post — two now-defunct papers.

Futrelle is best remembered for his fictional stories. He wrote a series about the fictional detective professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen. His most famous story was "The Problem of Cell 13."

Futrelle and his wife dined with Henry and Renee Harris on the night the ship sank. Futrelle ensured that his wife got on a lifeboat and was last seen speaking on deck with Astor.

Rosenbaum was a stylist, fashion buyer, and journalist who was returning to the US on the Titanic after embarking on a reporting assignment in Paris.

The Telegraph reported that a year before the Titanic disaster, Rosenbaum had "survived a car accident the year before in which her fiancé, a German gun manufacturer, had been killed."

Following the accident, her mother purchased her a small musical toy pig as a good-luck charm.

As the ship went down, the stylist would play the toy's tune to calm and distract the crying children on her lifeboat, The Daily Mail reported.

"The children were crying and whimpering," Rosenbaum said, The Huffington Post reported. "And I said, I believe I'll play music and maybe the children would be diverted. ... And the poor children were so interested, most of them stopped crying."

Butt led a distinguished — and varied — career before dying during the Titanic disaster.

Arlington National Cemetery's website said that Butt started out as a reporter but enlisted in the US Army during the Spanish-American War.

He served in Cuba and the Philippines. In 1908, he became President Theodore Roosevelt's military aide and served Roosevelt's successor, William Taft, in the same capacity.

Butt's "health began to deteriorate in 1912 because of his attempts to remain neutral during the bitter personal quarrel" between Roosevelt and Taft, which may have prompted his decision to travel to Europe.

There are a number of unverified accounts of Butt's behavior during the sinking — with many sensationalized stories of the military officer leading the evacuation or threatening male passengers who tried to ignore the ship's "women and children first" protocol.

"If Archie could have selected a time to die, he would have chosen the one God gave him," Taft said in a private memorial service, according to the Smithsonian. "His life was spent in self-sacrifice, serving others."

He added: "Everybody who knew him called him Archie. I couldn't prepare anything in advance to say here. I tried, but couldn't. He was too near me."

Taft then said: "To me, he had become as a son or a brother."

The president later broke down weeping while delivering the eulogy at Butt's funeral.

The entry-level Frontier and Tacoma are similarly priced with both starting at around $32,000.

However, the cost of the Tacoma escalates pretty quickly from there.

My luxury-oriented 2025 Frontier SL Crew Cab long-wheel-base 4x4 is the most expensive version of the Frontier, starting at $45,610. My test truck priced out to $46,750.

That's comparable in price and content to the middle-of-the-lineup Limited trim Tacoma, which starts at around $52,000 to $55,000, depending on whether or not you opt for the hybrid engine.

My range-topping 2025 Tacoma TRD Pro Double Cab 4x4 test truck starts at a whopping $63,900 and, as tested, cost $68,093 thanks to a myriad of specialty off-road equipment.

The Tacoma and Frontier are both handsomely styled trucks with styling elements evoking the look of their forefathers from the 1980s.

However, the Tacoma test truck's brawny off-road stance and heritage grille with an LED light bar put it over the top for me in this category.

The Frontier and Tacoma are available in two different cab types and two different bed lengths, making them the most configurable trucks in the midsize segment.

While both offer five-passenger seating in their Crew/Double Cab models, Toyota's extended cab model, XtraCab, does not have back seats and can only seat two, while Nissan's equivalent King Cab models can seat four.

The only engine available in the Frontier is a smooth and powerful 3.8-liter, 310-horsepower VQ-Series V6 engine paired with a nine-speed automatic transmission.

All Tacomas are powered by different versions of Toyota's T24A-FTS 2.4-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine.

My test truck had the most powerful powertrain option, the 2.4-liter turbo paired with a hybrid system consisting of a 48-horsepower electric drive motor and a small 1.87-kilowatt-hour nickel-metal hydride battery pack.

Together, they produce a robust 326 total horsepower and a whopping 465 pound-feet of torque while sending power through an eight-speed automatic transmission.

The Tacoma and the Jeep Gladiator are the last two pickups left in the US that can be had with a manual transmission.

Both trucks come standard with rear-wheel drive, with four-wheel drive available as an optional extra.

My Frontier and Tacoma test trucks were equipped with part-time four-wheel-drive systems that default to rear-wheel drive but can be manually switched to four-wheel drive.

My Tacoma TRD Pro is rated for 22 mpg city, 24 mpg highway, and 23 mpg of fuel economy in combined driving, which aren't spectacular for a hybrid but solid for a high-performance truck of this size.

My Frontier test truck was much more thirsty, with EPA fuel economy figures of 17 mpg city, 21 mpg highway, and 19 mpg combined.

The Tacoma's hybrid turbo four delivered strong and peppy performance while emitting an impressively throaty rumble. At the same time, the Frontier's powerful V6 delivers smooth acceleration on demand.

Neither vehicle is car-like to drive, but they're civilized enough for your everyday commute. The Tacoma came out on top here thanks to the Frontier's abnormally heavy steering.

Both trucks' cabins are designed to be durable and easy to use, with intuitively placed controls and large physical switches. The material and build quality of both vehicles are excellent.

The Tacoma and Frontier are similarly roomy, but the special IsoDynamic front seats on the TRD Pro trim take up a lot of rear legroom, rendering the back seats unusable for anyone except small children.

Both Nissan and Toyota have really stepped up their games with the updated tech in their pickups. Both trucks come standard with eight-inch touchscreens, but both test vehicles were equipped with upgraded systems. The Frontier's 12.3-inch display looked great, but you could only use 2/3 of its real estate when not running Apple CarPlay or Android Auto.

The Tacoma's overall tech suite and massive 14-inch screen are on a different level, with a complex multi-terrain camera system, digital rearview mirror, color head-up display, and configurable digital instrument display.

The Frontier's towing capacity varies by trim, with the highest being 7,150 lbs for the base Frontier S King Cab 4X2. My loaner was rated for 6,700 lbs.

The Tacoma falls short of the Frontier at 6,500 pounds. Hybrid Tacomas max out at an even lower 6,000 pounds of towing weight.

I have to admit, the Toyota Tacoma is a better truck. It's more efficient, more powerful, has better driving dynamics, and boasts a truly impressive array of tech features.

But as great as the performance and efficiency gains from its turbo and hybrid systems are, they also add cost and complexity.

What I really need from a truck is simplicity, affordability, and dependability. And the Frontier is exactly that.

Despite the Tacoma's excellence, I'd buy the Nissan Frontier with its wonderful V6 engine.

The Astor family dates back to the early 1700s when the original John Jacob Astor (pictured) came to the Americas from a small village in Germany to make a name for himself.

He started making money in the fur-trading businesses, but his real fortune began when he entered the world of real estate, Biography reported.

One of his first big purchases was a plot of land in the middle of Manhattan, modern-day Times Square. Quickly, Astor bought land all around Manhattan, becoming one of the richest men in the world and creating a dynasty. 

When John Jacob Astor IV was born to William Astor and Caroline Webster Schermerhorn in 1864, the Astor name was already well-respected in high society, and the family's fortune was one of the world's largest. 

The New Netherland Institute reported he first attended St. Paul's School in Concord and then went on to Harvard University, but there is no official record of him graduating from the college.

After schooling, Astor went abroad for a few years before returning to New York to take up the family business: real estate. 

In 1893, William Waldorf Astor built the Waldorf Hotel on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 33rd Street.

Reportedly, he built the hotel to spite his cousin, John Jacob Astor IV. In retaliation, Astor built a competing hotel in 1897 on the adjacent corner and named it the Astoria Hotel.

Architectural Digest reported that when the cousins were finally convinced that joining both hotels would be a smart business decision, a 300-foot marble corridor was built between them. The famous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel was born. 

For the next few decades, the hotel became a symbol of luxury, wealth, and class in New York. It was considered one of the best hotels in the country and even in the world. 

The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel closed in 1928 and was demolished, making room for the Empire State Building. The new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel was built farther uptown in 1931, long after Astor's death.

In 1904, Astor opened the St. Regis Hotel, which The New York Times called "the finest hotel in America" at the time.

The St. Regis Hotel said that Astor aimed to make the hotel technologically advanced and ensured that each room had a telephone, making the hotel's rooms as practical as they were glamorous.

Some historians call the hotel Astor's "greatest achievement," according to Biography.

In 1894, Astor published his first and only science-fiction novel, "Journey in Other Worlds."

"A 'Journey in Other Worlds' races far ahead of the nineteenth century to imagine what life would be like in the year 2000," the Amazon synopsis reads.

"At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Earth is effectively a corporate technocracy, with big businesses using incredible advances in science to improve life on the planet as a whole," it continues. "Seeking other planets habitable for the growing human population, the spaceship Callisto, powered by an antigravitational force known as apergy, embarks on a momentous tour of the solar system."

In 1898, he patented a bicycle brake, invented a vibratory disintegrator (used to generate gas from peat), and created a pneumatic road-improver. He also helped invent a turbine engine. 

Ava Lowle Willing and Astor had two children together, Vincent and Alice.

Although they seemed like the perfect, upper-class family, the marriage was largely unhappy.

The couple got divorced in 1909, setting Astor up for one of the family's biggest scandals. 

When Astor and Madeleine Talmage Force married in 1911, it became a scandal — at the time, divorce was rare and remarrying was even more so.

The controversy over their relationship even made its way onto screens decades later. In the 1997 Oscar-winning movie "Titanic," Rose points out Astor and his pregnant wife to Jack. 

"His little wifey there, Madeleine, is my age and in delicate condition. See how she's trying to hide it? Quite the scandal," she says.

At the time, Astor was one of the world's richest men, and he certainly was the wealthiest aboard the Titanic.

CNBC reported that he had a fortune worth between $90 and $150 million when he boarded the fateful ship. Today, when adjusted for inflation, he would be worth between $2.9 and $4.9 billion.

Biography reported that Astor was among the first few people who knew the ship was sinking.

He woke his sleeping, pregnant wife and told her to get dressed in her warmest clothes. He then put all of the couple's jewelry on her, took her to the deck, and placed her in a lifeboat.

She clung to her husband and wanted to stay with him, but he reportedly said, "The sea is calm. You'll be alright. You're in good hands. I'll see you in the morning."

The New York Times reported that Astor was last seen smoking a cigarette on the deck. He was wearing a dinner suit and holding a personalized pocket watch.

Astor was among the 306 bodies found by the crew of the Mackay-Bennett in the weeks after the tragedy, according to the Nova Scotia Archives, but only one of 59 bodies that were claimed by victims' relatives and returned home. 

The initials sewn into his jacket reportedly identified him. The New York Times reported his pocket also contained a solid gold watch engraved with the initials JJA.

Many of the Titanic's victims were buried in a cemetery (pictured) in Halifax, but Astor's son, Vincent, traveled there to claim his father's body and bring it home to New York.

If Astor made it to the US, it's believed he would have made his and Madeleine's unborn child the heir to his fortune.

However, most of his money went to his first son, Vincent (pictured), from his first marriage.

John Jacob Astor VI received only a small portion of his father's fortune, but Vincent went on to donate a large sum of his father's money and became a philanthropist in New York City. 

As the most famous person to die in the tragedy, Astor's name and reputation have survived through the years.

In fact, he has been portrayed in several TV shows and movies. Most notably, Eric Braeden played Astor in "Titanic."