| Name
|
Nationality
|
Known for
|
Cause of death
|
Year of death
|
Aged 30[edit]
|
| 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
|
Aged 31[edit]
|
| 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
|
Aged 32[edit]
|
| 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
|
Aged 33[edit]
|
| 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
|
Aged 34[edit]
|
| 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
|
Aged 35[edit]
|
| 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
|
Aged 36[edit]
|
| 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
|
Aged 37[edit]
|
| 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
|
Aged 38[edit]
|
| 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
|
Aged 39[edit]
|
| 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
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