Name
|
Nationality
|
Known for
|
Cause of death
|
Year of death
|
|
Domenico Alberti |
Italian |
composer |
not specified |
1740 (exact age at death not known; born c. 1710)
|
Steve Biko |
South African |
anti-apartheid activist |
severe head trauma while in police custody |
1977
|
Jimmy Blythe |
American |
jazz pianist |
meningitis |
1931
|
Emily Brontë |
English |
novelist, poet |
tuberculosis |
1848
|
Jeff Buckley |
American |
singer/guitarist |
drowned in river |
1997
|
Leroy Carr |
American |
blues singer and pianist |
nephritis through alcoholism |
1935
|
Rex Cherryman |
American |
actor |
septic poisoning |
1928
|
Gaius Valerius Catullus |
Ancient Roman |
poet |
exhaustion |
54 BC
|
Steve Clark |
British |
rock guitarist (Def Leppard) |
alcohol and drug related problems |
1991
|
Patsy Cline |
American |
country music singer |
aircraft crash |
1963
|
Jim Croce |
American |
songwriter/singer |
aircraft crash |
1973
|
Paul Dana |
American |
race car driver
|
car accident during a practice run |
2006
|
Nicole DeHuff |
American |
actress |
pneumonia |
2005
|
Brandon De Wilde |
American |
actor |
car accident |
1972
|
Eazy-E |
American |
gangsta-rap pioneer (NWA) |
complications from unknowingly having AIDS |
1995
|
Pretty Boy Floyd |
American |
bank robber |
gunshot |
1934
|
Mehran Ghassemi |
Iranian |
journalist |
heart failure |
2008
|
Talitha Getty |
Dutch-British |
actress |
heroin overdose |
1971
|
Andy Gibb |
British |
singer |
heart failure due to cocaine abuse |
1988
|
Fred Grace |
English |
Test cricketer, brother of WG Grace |
pneumonia |
1880
|
John Harvard |
English |
clergyman after whom Harvard University was named |
tuberculosis |
1638
|
Robert E. Howard |
American |
writer |
suicide |
1936
|
Kenny Irwin Jr. |
American |
Nascar driver |
accident practicing for race |
2000
|
Little Willie John |
American |
musician |
pneumonia |
1968
|
Bronisław Malinowski |
Polish |
Olympic gold medallist (1980) |
car accident |
1981
|
Alice Martineau |
English |
singer, songwriter |
Cystic fibrosis |
2003
|
Valentino Mazzola |
Italian |
footballer (Torino) |
Superga air disaster |
1949
|
Davey Moore |
American |
boxer |
brain injuries sustained during boxing match |
1963
|
Lenny Murphy |
Northern Irish |
Loyalist paramilitary, leader of the Shankill Butchers |
assassinated by the Provisional IRA |
1982
|
Nero |
Roman |
emperor |
suicide |
A.D. 68
|
Ginette Neveu |
French |
violinist |
plane crash |
1949
|
Minamoto no Yoshitsune |
Japanese |
General (exact age at death uncertain) |
Attack ordered by brother Yoritomo |
1189
|
Nalan Xingde |
Chinese-Manchu |
Poet |
unknown illness |
1685
|
Lorenzo Odone |
American |
adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) patient |
aspiration pneumonia |
2008
|
Bobby Phills |
American |
basketball player |
road accident |
2000
|
Sylvia Plath |
American |
Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet and author |
suicide by asphyxiation |
1963
|
Proof |
American |
rapper |
gunfire |
2006
|
Kuljeet Randhawa |
Indian |
actress |
suicide |
2006
|
Virginia Rappe |
American |
actress |
ruptured bladder and peritonitis |
1921
|
Malik Sealy |
American |
basketball player |
road accident |
2000
|
Mieszko Talarczyk |
Polish |
singer and guitarist of Nasum |
tsunami |
2004
|
Oswald Teichmüller |
German |
mathematician |
killed in action |
1943
|
Henri Toivonen |
Finnish |
rally car driver |
car accident during race |
1986
|
Volodymyr Ivasyuk |
Soviet |
singer/composer |
suicide |
1979
|
Chuck Willis |
American |
R&B singer |
peritonitis |
1958
|
Sergei Yesenin |
Russian/Soviet |
poet/writer |
suicide |
1925
|
|
Commodus |
Roman |
Roman Emperor |
assassination |
AD 192
|
Richard Beckinsale |
British |
television actor |
heart attack |
1979
|
Paula Björkqvist |
Finnish |
politician |
homicide |
2006
|
Branwell Brontë |
English |
painter |
tuberculosis |
1848
|
Guy Wetmore Carryl |
American |
poet |
undefined illness |
1904
|
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha |
American |
author |
murder |
1982
|
Michael Collins |
Irish |
revolutionary leader |
assassination |
1922
|
Natasha Collins |
British |
actress and model |
drug overdose |
2008
|
Eric Cullen |
British |
actor |
heart attack |
1996
|
Cyril Davies |
British |
harmonica player and blues bandleader |
leukaemia |
1964
|
Sandy Denny |
British |
singer |
cerebral haemorrhage |
1978
|
Bobby Driscoll |
American |
actor |
drug-related heart disease |
1968
|
Pete Duel |
American |
actor |
suicide |
1971
|
Hans Fitting |
German |
mathematician |
unknown |
1938
|
Sidney Fox |
American |
actress |
suicide |
1942
|
Jeff Hanson |
American |
singer-songwriter |
falling |
2009
|
Keith Haring |
American |
painter |
AIDS |
1990
|
Thomas Hansen |
Norwegian |
alt-country musician |
combination of prescribed drugs |
2007
|
Flo Hyman |
American |
Volleyball player |
Marfan's Syndrome |
1986
|
Zygmunt Janiszewski |
Polish |
mathematician |
influenza |
1920
|
Addie Joss |
American |
baseball pitcher (Cleveland Indians) |
tuberculosis |
1911
|
Kostas Karyotakis |
Greek |
poet |
suicide |
1928
|
Terry Kath |
American |
rock musician (Chicago) |
self inflicted gunshot |
1978
|
Harold Lockwood |
American |
actor |
Spanish flu |
1918
|
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes |
American |
singer (TLC) |
car accident |
2002
|
Ettore Majorana |
Italian |
physicist |
missing, presumed dead |
1938
|
Stevens T. Mason |
American |
politician |
pneumonia |
1843
|
Renate Müller |
German |
actress |
undetermined, suicide, or murder by Gestapo agents |
1937
|
Smita Patil |
Indian |
actress |
Childbirth |
1986
|
Vijay Kumar Patodi |
Indian |
mathematician |
kidney transplant |
1976
|
Karen Ann Quinlan |
American |
Central figure in a right to die dispute |
Eventual pneumonia after being in a persistent vegetative state |
1985
|
Wallace Reid |
American |
actor |
influenza |
1923
|
Minnie Riperton |
American |
singer |
cancer |
1979
|
Lyda Roberti |
Polish |
actress |
heart attack |
1938
|
Franz Schubert |
Austrian |
Composer |
possibly syphilis or typhoid fever |
1828
|
Georges-Pierre Seurat |
French |
artist |
unknown illness |
1891
|
Sir Philip Sidney |
English |
poet and soldier |
killed in battle |
1586
|
J.E.B. Stuart |
American |
Confederate General |
died of battle wounds |
1864
|
Carl Switzer ("Alfalfa") |
American |
actor |
homicide |
1959
|
Yutaka Taniyama |
Japanese |
Mathematician |
suicide |
1958
|
Steve Peregrin Took |
English |
musician (T. Rex) |
choking |
1980
|
John Kennedy Toole |
American |
writer |
suicide |
1969
|
Eric Turner |
American |
NFL defensive back |
intestinal cancer |
2000
|
Nat Turner |
American |
rebel |
execution |
1831
|
Rudolph Valentino |
Italian |
actor |
septicaemia |
1926
|
Wenceslao Vinzons |
Filipino |
politician & guerrilla leader |
execution during World War II |
1942
|
Phillis Wheatley |
American |
poet, first African-American writer published in US |
poverty |
1784
|
Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev |
Russian |
mathematician |
bacteremia |
1878
|
|
Angela Aames |
American |
actress |
sudden heart disease |
1988
|
Norifumi Abe |
Japanese |
motorcyclist |
traffic accident |
2007
|
Alexander the Great |
Ancient Macedonian |
king, conqueror of "known" world |
malaria, possibly poisoned |
323 BC
|
Davey Allison |
American |
NASCAR racing driver |
helicopter crash |
1993
|
Aung San |
Burmese |
politician |
assassination |
1947
|
Florence Ballard |
American |
singer (The Supremes) |
coronary thrombosis |
1976
|
Duster Bennett |
British |
blues singer |
car accident |
1976
|
John Bonham |
British |
rock drummer (Led Zeppelin) |
alcohol poisoning |
1980
|
Milton Brown |
American |
Western swing bandleader |
pneumonia following car accident, possibly due to narcolepsy |
1936
|
Karen Carpenter |
American |
singer (The Carpenters) |
cardiac arrest due to anorexia nervosa |
1983
|
Cazuza |
Brazilian |
singer |
AIDS |
1990
|
Jim Clark |
British |
Formula One driver |
car accident during race |
1968
|
Hart Crane |
American |
poet |
suicide |
1932
|
Tim Crews |
American |
Major League Baseball pitcher |
boating accident |
1993
|
Hansie Cronje |
South African |
cricketer |
aircraft crash |
2002
|
Lya De Putti |
Hungarian |
actress |
pneumonia |
1931
|
Ernest Dowson |
English |
poet |
alcoholism or tuberculosis |
1900
|
J Dilla |
American |
hip hop producer |
thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura |
2006
|
Cass Elliot |
American |
singer (The Mamas & the Papas) |
heart attack |
1974
|
Belinda Emmett |
Australian |
actress |
breast cancer |
2006
|
Robert Enke |
German |
soccer player |
suicide |
2009
|
Brian Epstein |
British |
businessman, manager of The Beatles |
overdose, probably of sleeping pills |
1967
|
Wyndham Halswelle |
Scottish |
athlete, 400m gold medallist at 1908 Olympic Games |
sniper's bullet at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle |
1915
|
Christine Hamill |
English |
mathematician |
poliomyelitis |
1956
|
Hibiscus |
American |
founder of The Cockettes |
AIDS |
1982
|
Bill Hicks |
American |
stand-up comedian |
pancreatic cancer |
1994
|
Dana Hill |
American |
actress/voice actor |
stroke from diabetes |
1996
|
Andy Houts |
American |
television actor and production assistant |
leukemia |
1997
|
Attila József |
Hungarian |
poet |
suicide |
1937
|
Bruce Lee |
Chinese American |
martial arts actor |
possibly allergic reaction |
1973
|
Antonio Luna |
Filipino |
military general |
assassination |
1899
|
Magic Sam |
American |
blues guitarist |
heart attack |
1969
|
Mary II of England |
English |
Queen of England |
smallpox |
1694
|
Jim McGlothlin |
American |
baseball pitcher |
leukemia |
1975
|
Matthew McGrory |
American |
actor |
natural causes |
2005
|
Keith Moon |
British |
rock drummer (The Who) |
overdose of anti-alcohol medication |
1978
|
Thurman Munson |
American |
baseball player (New York Yankees) |
aircraft crash |
1979
|
Brittany Murphy |
American |
actor |
cardiac arrest |
2009
|
Hugh O'Connor |
American |
actor |
suicide |
1995
|
Kim Perrot |
American |
WNBA basketball player (Houston Comets) |
brain tumor attributed to lung cancer |
1999
|
Rod Phillips |
American |
porn star |
either AIDS or suicide |
1993
|
Rob Pilatus |
American-Afro-German |
Milli Vanilli |
overdose |
1998
|
Mark Priestley |
Australian |
actor |
suicide |
2008
|
Glenn Quinn |
Irish |
actor |
heroin overdose |
2002
|
Srinivasa Ramanujan |
Indian |
mathematician |
amoebiasis |
1920
|
John Reed |
American |
journalist, Bolshevik |
typhus |
1920
|
Emily Remler |
American |
jazz guitarist |
heart failure |
1990
|
Charles Rolls |
British |
co-founder of Rolls-Royce |
aircraft crash |
1910
|
Michael Roof |
American |
actor |
suicide by hanging |
2009
|
Sakamoto Ryoma |
Japanese |
politician |
assassination |
1867
|
Natasja Saad |
Danish |
reggae singer/rapper |
car accident |
2007
|
Diego Silang |
Filipino |
revolt leader |
assassination |
1763
|
Gabriela Silang |
Filipino |
revolt leader |
execution |
1763
|
Jedediah Smith |
American |
Explorer |
Killed in fight with Comanche Indians |
1831
|
Soundarya |
Indian |
actress |
plane crash |
2004
|
Gilles Villeneuve |
Canadian |
Formula One driver |
car accident during race qualifying |
1982
|
Kim Walker |
American |
actress (Heathers) |
brain tumour |
2001
|
Robert Hudson Walker |
American |
actor |
reaction to medication |
1951
|
Alan Wiggins |
American |
baseball player |
AIDS |
1991
|
Ricky Wilson |
American |
guitarist (The B-52's) |
AIDS |
1985
|
James Wolfe |
English |
General, established British rule over Canada |
killed during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham |
1759
|
|
John Belushi |
American |
actor and comedian |
overdose of cocaine and heroin |
1982
|
Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy |
American |
wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. |
plane crash |
1999
|
Big Moe |
American |
rapper |
heart attack |
2007
|
Big Mello |
American |
rapper |
car accident |
2002
|
Andrés Bonifacio |
Filipino |
revolutionary leader |
execution |
1897
|
Leigh Bowery |
Australian |
conceptual artist |
AIDS |
1994
|
Eva Braun |
German |
Adolf Hitler's lover |
suicide |
1945
|
William S. Burroughs Jr. |
American |
writer |
liver failure |
1981
|
Eva Cassidy |
American |
singer |
cancer |
1996
|
Catherine of Siena |
Italian |
Catholic saint |
not known |
1380
|
Marcel Cerdan |
French |
boxer |
plane crash |
1949
|
Charlotte Coleman |
British |
actress |
asthma attack |
2001
|
William Kingdon Clifford |
British |
mathematician (inventor of Clifford Algebra) and philosopher |
tuberculosis |
1879
|
Sam Cooke |
American |
soul musician |
homicide |
1964
|
Roger Cotes |
English |
mathematician |
fever |
1716
|
Laurie Cunningham |
English |
footballer |
car accident |
1989
|
Steve Currie |
British |
bassist (T. Rex) |
car crash |
1981
|
Paul Laurence Dunbar |
American |
poet |
tuberculosis |
1906
|
Chris Farley |
American |
comic actor |
accidental cocaine and heroin overdose |
1997
|
Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach |
German |
mathematician |
unknown |
1834
|
Althea Flynt |
American |
wife of pornographer Larry Flynt |
drowned due to heroin overdose |
1987
|
Blind Boy Fuller |
American |
blues singer and guitarist |
bladder infection |
1941
|
Sanjay Gandhi |
Indian |
politician, member of Nehru-Gandhi family |
aircraft crash |
1980
|
Stephen Gately |
Irish |
singer, member of Boyzone |
unknown |
2009
|
Andy Hallett |
American |
actor |
heart disease |
2009
|
Gary Holton |
English |
Musician, actor |
depression induced heroin and alcohol overdose |
1985
|
Jesus (exact age at death uncertain) |
Judean |
founder of Christianity |
crucifixion |
ca. AD 30
|
Kay Kendall |
English |
actress |
myeloid leukaemia |
1959
|
Valeri Kharlamov |
Russian |
ice hockey player |
car accident |
1981
|
Darryl Kile |
American |
Major League Baseball pitcher |
coronary heart disease |
2002
|
Al Killian |
American |
jazz trumpeter |
murdered by landlord |
1950
|
Mary Faustina Kowalska |
Polish |
nun and mystic |
possibly tuberculosis |
1938
|
Carole Lombard |
American |
actress, wife of Clark Gable |
aircraft crash |
1942
|
Andrew "Test" Martin |
American |
wrestler |
oxycodone overdose |
2009
|
Hideto Matsumoto |
Japanese |
musician |
hanged, possibly accidental |
1998
|
Frank Melrose |
American |
jazz and blues pianist |
probably fight, made to look like car accident |
1941
|
Unity Mitford |
British |
fascist |
meningitis |
1948
|
Eva Perón |
Argentinian |
actress, wife of President Juan Perón |
cancer |
1952
|
Harry Nelson Pillsbury |
American |
chess player |
syphilis |
1906
|
Pimp C |
American |
rapper |
Accidental codeine overdose in conjunction with sleep apnea |
2007
|
Moana Pozzi |
Italian |
porn actress |
liver cancer |
1994
|
Roland Ratzenberger |
Austrian |
Formula One racing driver |
crash during race qualifying |
1994
|
Keith Relf |
British |
singer / harmonica player (The Yardbirds) |
accidentally electric shock while playing his electric guitar |
1976
|
Richard II of England |
English |
king, who was deposed and imprisoned by his cousin, Henry IV |
probably homicide or starvation |
1400
|
David Rocastle |
English |
footballer |
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma |
2001
|
Alma Rubens |
American |
actress |
pneumonia |
1931
|
Lev Schnirelmann |
Soviet |
mathematician |
suicide |
1938
|
Dutch Schultz |
American |
gangster |
gunshot |
1935
|
Bon Scott |
Australian |
hard-rock singer (AC/DC) |
Acute alcoholic poisoning. Death by misadventure. |
1980
|
Derrick Thomas |
American |
American football linebacker (Kansas City Chiefs) |
car accident |
2000
|
Wolfgang von Trips |
German |
Formula One driver |
car crash |
1961
|
Theo Van Gogh |
Dutch |
art dealer |
syphilis |
1891
|
Ray Vitte |
American |
actor |
shot by police while resisting arrest |
1983
|
John Wilmot |
English |
Restoration poet |
syphilis and alcoholism |
1680
|
|
Carter Albrecht |
American |
keyboardist (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians) |
gunshot |
2007
|
Rodney Anoa'i (Yokozuna) |
American |
professional wrestler |
heart attack |
2000
|
Richard Burns |
English |
rally driver |
brain tumour |
2005
|
Charles I of Austria |
Austrian |
deposed Emperor and King |
pneumonia |
1922
|
Alma Cogan |
British |
pop singer |
cancer |
1966
|
Maureen Connolly |
American |
tennis player |
cancer |
1969
|
Jeffrey Dahmer |
American |
serial killer |
bludgeoning in prison by fellow inmate |
1994
|
Georges Danton |
French |
revolutionary leader |
execution |
1794
|
Camille Desmoulins |
French |
revolutionary journalist |
execution |
1794
|
Thomas Anthony Dooley |
American |
activist |
cancer |
1961
|
Andreas Floer |
German |
mathematician |
suicide |
1991
|
Leo Ford |
American |
porn star |
motorcycle accident |
1991
|
Yuri Gagarin |
Soviet |
cosmonaut, first man in space |
fighter jet crash during test flight |
1968
|
Gioachino Greco |
Italian |
chess player |
unknown disease |
1634
|
Lil Green |
American |
blues singer |
pneumonia |
1954
|
Robert Greene |
English |
playwright |
unknown |
1592
|
Hermann Hankel |
German |
mathematician |
stroke |
1873
|
Lorraine Hansberry |
American |
playwright |
breast cancer |
1965
|
Owen Hart |
Canadian |
professional wrestler |
fall while being lowered to ring during live televised event |
1999
|
Jesse James |
American |
outlaw and train-robber |
gunshot |
1882
|
Toivo Kuula |
Finnish |
composer |
homicide |
1918
|
Eugenio Elia Levi |
Italian |
mathematician |
killed in action |
1917
|
Cory Lidle |
American |
Major League Baseball pitcher |
killed when his plane crashed into a high-rise building |
2006
|
Jayne Mansfield |
American |
actress and sex symbol |
car accident |
1967
|
Katherine Mansfield |
New Zealander |
writer |
tuberculosis |
1923
|
Maximilian I of Mexico |
Austrian |
emperor of Mexico |
execution |
1867
|
Lynn McGlothen |
American |
baseball pitcher |
died in mobile home fire |
1984
|
Howie Morenz |
Canadian |
ice hockey player |
complications from broken leg |
1937
|
Marco Pantani |
Italian |
cyclist |
cerebral oedema and heart failure from acute cocaine poisoning |
2004
|
Charlie Parker |
American |
jazz saxophonist |
pneumonia and ulcer, brought on by drug abuse |
1955
|
Ronnie Peterson |
Swedish |
racing driver |
pulmonary embolism following racing injury |
1978
|
Dana Plato |
American |
actress |
prescription drug overdose |
1999
|
James F. M. Prinsep |
English |
footballer, long-time holder of the record as England's youngest player |
fighting in Egypt |
1895
|
Joe Orton |
English |
playwright |
bludgeoned to death by his lover Kenneth Halliwell |
1967
|
Bo Rein |
American |
college football coach (NC State / LSU) |
bizarre aircraft crash in Atlantic Ocean, presumed dead |
1980
|
Tim Richmond |
American |
NASCAR racing driver |
AIDS |
1989
|
Chuck Schuldiner |
American |
death metal guitarist and singer (Death) |
pneumonia |
2001
|
Ayrton Senna |
Brazilian |
Formula One racing driver |
crash during race |
1994
|
Elliott Smith |
American |
singer-songwriter |
multiple stab wounds to chest, possibly suicide |
2003
|
Robert Southwell (exact age at death uncertain) |
British |
Roman Catholic priest and poet |
drawn and quartered |
1595
|
Layne Staley |
American |
heavy metal/grunge singer (Alice in Chains) |
cocaine and heroin overdose |
2002
|
Robin Stille |
American |
actress |
Suicide |
1996
|
Michael Ventris |
British |
architect, classicist, linguist |
car accident |
1956
|
Raoul Wallenberg |
Swedish |
humanitarian |
unknown, possibly executed |
1947
|
Simone Weil |
French |
philosopher |
tuberculosis |
1943
|
Weng Weng |
Filipino |
actor |
heart failure |
1992
|
Keith Whitley |
American |
country western singer |
alcohol poisoning |
1989
|
Paul Williams |
American |
singer (The Temptations) |
suicide by gunshot |
1973
|
|
Renée Adorée |
French-American |
actress |
tubercolosis |
1933
|
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa |
Japanese |
writer |
suicide |
1927
|
St. Anthony of Padua |
Portuguese |
Catholic saint |
illness |
1231
|
José Burgos |
Spanish-Filipino |
nationalist Catholic priest |
execution |
1872
|
Ed Delahanty |
American |
baseball player |
fell over Niagara Falls |
1903
|
Guy Fawkes |
English |
explosives expert |
hanged |
1606
|
Josh Gibson |
American |
baseball player (Negro Leagues) |
stroke |
1947
|
Charles Griffes |
American |
composer |
influenza |
1920
|
Andy Kaufman |
American |
actor, comedian, hoaxer |
lung cancer |
1984
|
Jonathan Larson |
American |
composer |
aortic dissection |
1996
|
Meriwether Lewis |
American |
explorer |
gunshot |
1809
|
Patrice Lumumba |
Congolese |
first Congolese Prime Minister |
assassinated |
1961
|
Miguel Miramón |
Mexican |
general |
execution |
1867
|
Donnie Moore |
American |
baseball pitcher |
suicide |
1989
|
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Salzburgian |
composer |
Rheumatic fever |
1791
|
Phil Ochs |
American |
singer |
suicide by hanging |
1976
|
Ol' Dirty Bastard |
American |
rapper (Wu Tang Clan) |
accidental overdose of cocaine and painkillers |
2004
|
Elis Regina |
Brazilian |
singer |
overdose |
1982
|
José Rizal |
Filipino |
novelist, National Hero of the Philippines |
Spanish firing squad |
1896
|
Jimmie Rodgers |
American |
country musician |
hemorrage brought on by tuberculosis |
1933
|
Philippa Schuyler |
American |
musician |
aircraft crash |
1967
|
Matthias Sindelar |
Austrian |
footballer |
carbon monoxide poisoning |
1939
|
Silk Smitha |
Indian |
actress and sex symbol |
suicide |
1996
|
Bernadette Soubirous |
French |
visionary |
tuberculosis |
1879
|
Wolfe Tone |
Irish |
independence leader |
suicide by stab wounds to throat while awaiting execution in British custody |
1798
|
Stevie Ray Vaughan |
American |
blues guitarist |
helicopter crash |
1990
|
Kellie Waymire |
American |
actress |
cardiac arrhythmia |
2003
|
Lena Zavaroni |
Scottish |
pop singer |
anorexia nervosa |
1999
|
Sir William Wallace |
Scottish |
Knight & Scottish patriot |
executed - drawn, hanged and quartered |
1305
|
|
Nick Adams |
American |
actor |
drug overdose |
1968
|
GG Allin |
American |
punk rock singer |
heroin overdose |
1993
|
Alberto Ascari |
Italian |
Formula One racing driver |
crash during testing |
1955
|
Antonio Ascari |
Italian |
Formula One racing driver |
crash during French Grand Prix |
1925
|
Georges Bizet |
French |
composer |
"acute articular rheumatism" |
1875
|
Lord Byron |
English |
poet |
tuberculosis |
1824
|
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot |
French |
mathematician and physicist |
cholera |
1832
|
Iris Chang |
American |
author |
suicide |
2004
|
Cyril Collard |
French |
artist |
AIDS |
1993
|
George Curry |
American |
robber |
justified homicide |
1900
|
George Armstrong Custer |
American |
United States Army cavalry commander |
killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn |
1876
|
Paul Demayo |
American |
bodybuilder |
heroin overdose |
2005
|
Tip Foster |
English |
only man to have captained both England football and cricket teams |
diabetes |
1914
|
John Gilbert |
American |
actor |
heart attack |
1936
|
Adam Goldstein |
American |
club disc jockey known as DJ AM |
suspected drug overdose |
2009
|
Veronica Guerin |
Irish |
journalist |
homicide |
1996
|
Joe Hall |
Canadian |
ice hockey player |
Spanish flu |
1919
|
Mary Hansen |
Australian |
musician in Stereolab |
car accident |
2002
|
Robin Harris |
American |
comedian, actor |
heart attack |
1990
|
Bruno Hauptmann |
German |
Lindbergh kidnapper and killer |
electrocuted |
1936
|
Doc Holliday |
American |
dentist, gambler, gunfighter |
tuberculosis |
1887
|
Blind Lemon Jefferson |
American |
blues singer, songwriter and guitarist |
heart attack or hypothermia when disoriented during snowstorm |
1929
|
Casey Jones |
American |
railroad engineer |
train accident |
1900
|
Loïc Leferme |
French |
free diver |
drowning |
2007
|
Debbie Linden |
British |
actress and model |
heroin overdose |
1996
|
George Lohmann |
English |
cricketer |
tuberculosis |
1901
|
Ada Lovelace |
English |
mathematician |
uterine cancer |
1852
|
Phil Lynott |
Irish |
rock musician (Thin Lizzy) |
drug overdose |
1986
|
Étienne Louis Malus |
French |
mathematician & physicist |
unknown |
1812
|
Bob Marley |
Jamaican |
reggae musician |
melanoma, started in toe, spread to lung and brain |
1981
|
Madhubala |
Indian |
actress |
heart condition |
1969
|
Steve McNair |
American |
former NFL quarterback (Tennessee Titans) |
homicide |
2009
|
Milan Mladenović |
Yugoslav |
rock musician |
pancreatic cancer |
1994
|
Marilyn Monroe |
American |
actress, sex symbol |
barbiturate overdose, probably intentional |
1962
|
Joe Morris |
American |
trumpeter and bandleader |
cerebral haemorrhage |
1958
|
Tom Murphy |
Irish |
actor |
lymphatic cancer |
2007
|
Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu |
Turkish |
harpist |
plane crash (Air France Flight 447) |
2009
|
Kamala Nehru |
Indian |
wife of Jawaharlal Nehru |
tuberculosis |
1936
|
Kimmo Nevonmaa |
Finnish |
composer |
cerebral haemorrhage |
1996
|
Jaco Pastorius |
American |
bass player, former member of Weather Report |
beaten to death by Luc Havan |
1987
|
Patrick Pearse |
Irish |
nationalist |
execution |
1916
|
Arndt Pekurinen |
Finnish |
pacifist |
execution |
1941
|
Jack Pickford |
Canadian-born American |
actor |
syphilis, alcoholism |
1933
|
Evelyn Preer |
American |
actress, singer |
pneumonia |
1932
|
Herman Potočnik |
Slovene |
aerospace engineer |
pneumonia |
1929
|
Henry Purcell |
English |
composer |
unknown |
1695
|
C. P. Ramanujam |
Indian |
mathematician |
suicide |
1974
|
Rene Requiestas |
Filipino |
actor |
tuberculosis |
1993
|
Maximilien Robespierre |
French |
revolutionary leader |
guillotined |
1794
|
Óscar Carmelo Sánchez |
Bolivian |
football player |
cancer |
2007
|
Jessica Savitch |
American |
journalist |
drowning |
1983
|
Gaetano Scirea |
Italian |
footballer |
car crash |
1989
|
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec |
French |
artist |
alcoholism |
1901
|
Lupe Velez |
Mexican |
actress/singer |
suicide |
1944
|
Gene Vincent |
American |
rockabilly musician |
liver damage from alcoholism |
1971
|
Diana, Princess of Wales |
British |
royal, ex-wife of Prince Charles |
car accident |
1997
|
Peter Warlock (Philip Arnold Heseltine) |
British |
composer and music critic |
gas poisoning |
1930
|
Nathanael West |
American |
writer |
car accident |
1940
|
Jacinto Zamora |
Filipino |
priest recognized as national martyr |
execution |
1872
|
|
Mike Bloomfield |
American |
guitarist |
overdose |
1981
|
Robert Burns |
Scottish |
poet |
heart problems |
1796
|
Colin Clive |
British |
actor |
pneumonia |
1937
|
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor |
English |
composer |
pneumonia |
1912
|
King Curtis |
American |
saxophonist |
homicide |
1971
|
Jill Dando |
British |
television presenter |
gunshot |
1999
|
Bobby Darin |
American |
singer, actor |
complications during heart surgery |
1973
|
Guillaume Depardieu |
French |
actor |
pneumonia |
2008
|
Medgar Evers |
American |
civil rights activist from Mississippi, recognized as national martyr |
gunshot in front of his home by Byron De La Beckwith |
1963
|
Justin Fashanu |
English |
footballer |
suicide |
1998
|
Stephen Foster |
American |
composer |
accidental fall |
1864
|
Rosalind Franklin |
English |
DNA pioneer |
ovarian cancer |
1958
|
Alexander Friedman |
Russian |
mathematician |
typhoid fever |
1925
|
Arturo Gatti |
Italian-Canadian |
professional boxer |
homicide |
2009
|
Lou Gehrig |
American |
baseball player (New York Yankees) |
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
1941
|
Albert Girard |
French |
mathematician |
unknown |
1632
|
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden |
Swedish |
King of Sweden |
killed in Battle of Lützen |
1632
|
Carl Gustav Axel Harnack |
German |
mathematician |
unknown cause |
1888
|
Jacques-René Hébert |
French |
revolutionary journalist |
execution |
1794
|
Mitch Hedberg |
American |
comedian |
drug overdose |
2005
|
Henry III of France |
French |
King of France |
assassination |
1589
|
Winifred Holtby |
United Kingdom |
novelist |
kidney disease |
1935
|
István Horthy |
Hungarian |
politician and fighter pilot |
plane crash |
1942
|
Qusay Hussein |
Iraqi |
son of Saddam Hussein and head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service |
gun battle with US forces |
2003
|
Michael Hutchence |
Australian |
rock singer (INXS) |
suicide; hanged himself by belt |
1997
|
Jam-Master Jay |
American |
hip hop DJ (Run-D.M.C.) |
gunshots from unknown attacker in recording studio |
2002
|
Riku Järvinen |
Finnish |
bassist (Sir Elwoodin hiljaiset värit) |
falling from a balcony |
2004
|
Marie Antoinette |
French |
Queen, wife of Louis XVI |
executed |
1793
|
MC Breed |
American |
rapper |
kidney failure |
2008
|
Joe Meek |
British |
record producer |
suicide |
1967
|
Marilyn Miller |
United States |
actress and dancer |
complications from surgery |
1936
|
Sal Mineo |
American |
actor |
murder by stabbing |
1976
|
Murat Nasyrov |
Russian-Kazakh |
singer |
suicide by jumping |
2007
|
Georg von Peuerbach |
Austrian/German |
astronomer, mathematician |
unknown |
1461
|
Drew Posada |
American |
comic book colorist |
pancreatitis |
2007
|
Ramon Power y Giralt |
Puerto Rican |
navy admiral |
yellow fever |
1813
|
Ernst Paul Heinz Prüfer |
German |
mathematician |
unknown cause |
1934
|
Aleksandr Pushkin |
Russian |
playwright, poet |
gunshot during duel |
1837
|
Raphael |
Italian |
artist |
unknown cause |
1520
|
Arthur Rimbaud |
French |
poet |
gangrene |
1891
|
Thomas Sankara |
Burkinabé |
President of Burkina Faso |
assassination |
1987
|
Franklyn Seales |
Vincentian |
actor (Silver Spoons) |
AIDS |
1990
|
Soraya |
Colombian-American |
singer |
breast cancer |
2006
|
Peter Stefan |
Czech |
mathematician |
accident |
1978
|
John Millington Synge |
Irish |
novelist |
Hodgkin's lymphoma |
1909
|
Evan Tanner |
American |
Mixed martial arts fighter |
suspected hyperthermia |
2008
|
Irving Thalberg |
American |
film producer |
pneumonia |
1936
|
Michael Turner |
American |
comic book artist |
chondrosarcoma |
2008
|
Vincent Van Gogh |
Dutch |
painter |
suicide by gunshot to his chest |
1890
|
Hidehiko Yamabe |
Japanese |
mathematician |
stroke |
1960
|
Yasmine |
Belgian |
singer |
Suicide by hanging |
2009
|
|
Guillaume Apollinaire |
French |
poet |
influenza |
1918
|
Caravaggio |
Italian |
artist |
pneumonia |
1610
|
Diana Barrymore |
American |
actress |
suicide |
1960
|
Blackbeard |
English |
pirate |
justified homicide |
1718
|
David Byron |
English |
singer, (Uriah Heep) |
alcohol related complications |
1985
|
Mary Kay Bergman |
American |
voice actress (South Park) |
suicide |
1999
|
Charlotte Brontë |
English |
novelist |
tuberculosis (debated) |
1855
|
Harry Chapin |
American |
singer-songwriter |
car crash |
1981
|
Roberto Clemente |
Puerto Rican |
baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates) |
aircraft crash |
1972
|
Jackie Curtis |
American |
actress |
drug overdose |
1985
|
Dimebag Darrell |
American |
guitarist (Pantera) |
murder |
2004
|
Osamu Dazai |
Japanese |
novelist |
suicide |
1948
|
Ted Demme |
American |
film director |
heart attack |
2002
|
Lolo Ferrari |
French |
porn star |
drug overdose, possible murder
|
2000
|
Vernon Forrest |
American |
professional boxer |
homicide |
2009
|
Federico García Lorca |
Spanish |
writer |
shot by Spanish Nationalists |
1936
|
George Gershwin |
American |
composer |
brain tumor |
1937
|
Eddie Guerrero |
American |
professional wrestler |
heart failure |
2005
|
Florence Griffith Joyner |
American |
sprinter |
cavernous angioma, possibly caused by performance-enhancing drugs |
1998
|
Corey Haim |
Canadian |
actor |
pulmonary congestion |
2010
|
Imogen Hassall |
English |
actress |
suicide |
1980
|
Tubby Hayes |
British |
jazz musician |
heart failure |
1973
|
Minako Honda |
Japanese |
singer, actress |
acute myeloid leukemia |
2005
|
John F. Kennedy, Jr |
American |
journalist, publisher |
aircraft crash |
1999
|
Sam Kinison |
American |
stand-up comedian |
car accident caused by drunk driver |
1992
|
Aleksis Kivi |
Finnish |
author |
borreliosis |
1872
|
Alan Kulwicki |
American |
NASCAR racing driver |
plane crash |
1993
|
Mario Lanza |
American |
operatic tenor and actor |
heart attack |
1959
|
J. B. Lenoir |
American |
blues singer and songwriter |
heart attack following injuries from car accident |
1967
|
Sonny Liston |
American |
heavyweight boxer |
drug overdose |
1970
|
Louis XVI of France |
French |
King of France |
execution |
1793
|
Apolinario Mabini |
Filipino |
Prime Minister of the Philippines |
cholera |
1903
|
James MacCullagh |
Irish |
mathematician |
suicide |
1847
|
Anna Malle |
American |
pornographic actress |
car crash |
2006
|
John Matuszak |
American |
football player, actor |
heart failure |
1989
|
Vera Menchik |
British |
chess player |
V-2 rocket |
1944
|
Felix Mendelssohn |
German |
composer |
stroke |
1847
|
Jeff Porcaro |
American |
drummer |
heart attack |
1992
|
Marie Prevost |
Canadian-born American |
actress |
alcoholism, malnutrition |
1937
|
Quorthon |
Swedish |
black metal songwriter |
heart failure |
2004
|
David Rappaport |
British |
diminutive actor |
suicide |
1990
|
Joseph Schmidt |
Austro-Jewish |
tenor |
pneumonia |
1942
|
Charles Kingsford Smith |
Australian |
pioneering aviator |
presumed aircraft crash |
1935
|
Joseph Smith Jr. |
American |
founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) |
assassination (gunshot and fall from window) |
1844
|
Herman Spöring Jr. |
Finnish |
explorer |
dysentery complications related to food poisoning |
1771
|
Leonid Stein |
Russian |
chess player |
heart attack |
1973
|
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes |
Dutch |
mathematician |
unknown |
1894
|
Johnny Thunders |
American |
glam rock guitarist/singer (New York Dolls) |
methadone and alcohol poisoning |
1991
|
Bill Williams |
American |
game designer |
cystic fibrosis |
1998
|
|
Swami Vivekananda |
India |
monk |
mahasamadhi |
1902
|
Pier Angeli |
Italian |
actress |
suicide |
1971
|
Evald Aav |
Estonian |
composer |
not specified |
1939
|
Dave Batters |
Canadian |
politician |
suicide |
2009
|
Bill Black |
American |
bass player for Elvis Presley |
brain tumour |
1965
|
David Bloom |
American |
reporter for NBC |
deep vein thrombosis and a pulmonary embolism |
2003
|
Frédéric Chopin |
Polish |
composer |
tuberculosis |
1849
|
Alfred Clebsch |
German |
mathematician |
diphtheria |
1872
|
Cleopatra VII |
Egyptian |
Queen of Egypt |
suicide |
30 BC
|
Davie Cooper |
Scottish |
soccer player |
cerebral hemorrhage |
1995
|
Crazy Horse |
Sioux |
warrior (exact age at death uncertain) |
assassination |
1877
|
Amelia Earhart |
American |
aviator |
plane disappeared while crossing Pacific Ocean, presumed dead |
1937
|
Mihai Eminescu |
Romanian |
poet |
probable syphilis |
1889
|
Carlo Farina |
Italian |
composer and violinist |
not specified |
1639
|
Brenda Fassie |
South African |
pop singer |
cocaine overdose |
2004
|
Gao Qi |
Chinese |
poet |
executed for "inciting rebellion" |
1374
|
Gidget Gein |
American |
musician |
overdose |
2008
|
Johnny Golden |
American |
golfer |
pneumonia |
1936
|
Felix Gonzalez-Torres |
American |
artist |
AIDS |
1996
|
Che Guevara |
Argentine |
Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader |
executed while in Bolivian army’s custody |
1967
|
Tim Hardin |
American |
singer, songwriter |
heroin and morphine overdose |
1980
|
Jaroslav Hašek |
Czech |
writer |
tubercolosis |
1923
|
George Herbert |
English |
poet |
tuberculosis |
1633
|
Craig Heyward |
American |
former NFL running back |
brain tumor |
2006
|
Eldon Hoke |
American |
drummer |
train collision |
1997
|
Uday Hussein |
Iraqi |
son of Saddam Hussein |
gun battle with US forces |
2003
|
Johnny "J" |
American |
music producer |
suicide |
2008
|
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |
American |
Confederate Civil War general |
pneumonia - result of friendly-fire |
1863
|
Philip Jourdain |
English |
mathematician |
Friedreich's ataxia |
1919
|
Graciano López Jaena |
Filipino |
journalist and writer |
tuberculosis |
1896
|
Kenneth Keith Kallenbach |
American |
comedian (The Wack Pack) |
pneumonia |
2008
|
Michael Kennedy |
American |
son of Robert F. Kennedy |
skiing accident |
1997
|
Martin Luther King Jr. |
American |
Nobel laureate, minister, civil rights activist |
gunshot |
1968
|
Meena Kumari |
Indian |
actress |
Cirrhosis of the liver |
1972
|
Suzanne Lenglen |
American |
tennis player |
leukemia |
1938
|
Billy Mackenzie |
Scottish |
musician |
suicide |
1997
|
Van McCoy |
American |
record producer |
heart attack |
1979
|
Colin McRae |
Scottish |
rally driver |
helicopter crash |
2007
|
Jean Baptiste Meusnier |
French |
mathematician |
killed in action |
1793
|
Veronica Micle |
Romanian |
poet |
suicide by arsenic |
1889
|
Carl Morton |
American |
baseball pitcher |
heart attack after jogging |
1983
|
Mitch Mullany |
American |
actor, comedian |
diabetes related stroke |
2008
|
Klaus Nomi |
German |
singer |
AIDS |
1983
|
Flannery O'Connor |
American |
Author |
lupus |
1964
|
Kevin O'Halloran |
Australian |
swimmer |
accidentally shot himself |
1976
|
Blaise Pascal |
French |
mathematician and philosopher |
possibly tuberculosis or stomach cancer
|
1662
|
Barbara Payton |
American |
actress |
heart and liver failure |
1967
|
Howard Taylor Ricketts |
American |
pathologist |
typhus |
1910
|
Bernhard Riemann |
German |
mathematician |
tuberculosis |
1866
|
Bartholomew Roberts |
Welsh |
pirate |
justified homicide |
1722
|
Pio Sagapolutele |
American Samoan |
American football player |
aneurysm |
2009
|
Anna Nicole Smith |
American |
model and actress |
overdose |
2007
|
Davey Boy Smith (British Bulldog) |
British |
Wrestler |
heart attack |
2002
|
Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki |
Finnish |
musician |
alcohol-related health ailments |
1987
|
Jermaine Stewart |
American |
musician |
AIDS |
1997
|
Dylan Thomas |
Welsh |
poet |
alcohol poisoning |
1953
|
Evangelista Torricelli |
Italian |
physicist and mathematician |
typhoid fever |
1647
|
Georges Vézina |
Canadian |
ice hockey goaltender (Canadien) |
tuberculosis |
1926
|
Carl Maria von Weber |
German |
composer |
tuberculosis |
1826
|
Dan White |
American |
politician |
suicide |
1985
|
Dennis Wilson |
American |
rock and roll musician (The Beach Boys) |
drowning due to intoxication |
1983
|
Malcolm X |
American |
leader of militant black nationalism |
gunshots |
1965
|
Karen Young |
American |
disco singer |
bleeding ulcer |
1991
|
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi |
Jordanian |
Al Qaeda leader |
bomb attack |
2006
|
Guru Dutt |
Indian |
actor and director |
suicide |
1964
|