User:Adam78/List of people who died in their thirties

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This is a list of people who died between the ages of 30 and 39, who were historical figures or celebrities known for reasons other than their death—relatively few people become notable before that age.


Name Nationality Known for Cause of death Year of death

Aged 30

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
abuse
1988
Fred Grace English
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
Torino
)
Superga air disaster 1949
Davey Moore American boxer
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
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
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

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
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
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
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

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
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
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
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

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
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
T. Rex
)
car crash 1981
Paul Laurence Dunbar American poet tuberculosis 1906
Chris Farley American comic actor accidental
overdose
1997
Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach German mathematician unknown 1834
Althea Flynt American wife of pornographer Larry Flynt
overdose
1987
Blind Boy Fuller American blues singer and guitarist
bladder
infection
1941
Sanjay Gandhi Indian
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
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
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
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
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

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
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
overdose
1999
James F. M. Prinsep English
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
racing driver
AIDS
1989
Chuck Schuldiner American death metal guitarist and singer (Death) pneumonia 2001
Ayrton Senna Brazilian
racing driver
crash during race 1994
Elliott Smith American singer-songwriter multiple
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)
overdose
2002
Robin Stille American actress Suicide 1996
Michael Ventris British
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

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
Wu Tang Clan
)
accidental
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
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
Scottish patriot
drawn, hanged and quartered
1305

Aged 36

Nick Adams American actor drug overdose 1968
GG Allin American punk rock singer heroin overdose 1993
Alberto Ascari Italian
racing driver
crash during testing 1955
Antonio Ascari Italian
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
gambler, gunfighter
tuberculosis 1887
Blind Lemon Jefferson American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
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
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
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
singer
suicide 1944
Gene Vincent American rockabilly musician liver damage from alcoholism 1971
Diana, Princess of Wales British
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

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
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
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
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

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
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
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
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
Mormon
)
assassination (gunshot and fall from window) 1844
Herman Spöring Jr. Finnish
explorer
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

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
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 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 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
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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