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List of well known and famous people who died in accidents, health conditions, and from other causes.

List of well known and famous people who died in accidents, health conditions, and from other causes.

It is always a shock when anyone is taken before living their life to old age, these well known people died in accidents, health conditions, and from other causes.

Our list includes people like:

Hank Williams who died at the age of 29, (Sep17, 1923 - Jan 1, 1953), who was a famous American singer, songwriter and musician, and who has become an icon of country music and one of the most influential musicians and songwriters of the 20th century.

Brandon Lee (Feb 1, 1965 – Mar 31, 1993). Brandon Lee was born in Oakland, California, and was an American actor, son of the late legendary martial arts film star Bruce Lee and Linda Lee Cadwell, and the brother of actress Shannon Lee. Tragically On March 31, 1993, while making the film The Crow actor Michael Massee was supposed to fire a gun loaded with blanks at Lee. A cartridge with only a primer and a bullet was fired in the pistol before shooting the scene. Firing the gun caused a squib load, in which the primer provided enough force eject the bullet out of the cartridge and into the barrel of the revolver, where it became lodged. Later the same gun was re-loaded with blanks and used to shoot the films death scene. However, the squib load was still stuck in the barrel, and was propelled out of the barrel and into Brandon Lee's body. Following a six hour operation to remove the bullet and despite being given 60 pints of blood, Lee was pronounced dead at 1:30pm on March 31, 1993. The shooting was ruled an accident, and the theory of the Lee "family curse" was carried over from Bruce Lee's death to Brandon's, as he had died almost 20 years after his father and before the release of the film which catapulted him to stardom.

Persons Name Nationality What they were Known for Cause of death Date of Death
 Famous People who Died Young Aged under 16
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (2 days) American son of John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy RDS 1963
Rumwold (3 days) English Anglo-Saxon saint 662
Robin Bush (3) American sister of George W. Bush leukemia 1953
Leo II (6/7) Byzantine Emperor unknown disease 474
Jessica Dubroff (7) American young pilot aircraft crash 1996
Tokugawa Ietsugu (7) Japanese the 7th shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty common cold 1716
Lungtok Gyatso (9) the ninth Dalai Lama 1815
Judith Barsi (10) American child actress homicide 1988
Julian Scriabin (11) Russian composer drowning 1919
Nkosi Johnson (12) South African children's rights activist AIDS 2001
Heather O'Rourke (12) American child actress bowel obstruction 1988
Sadako Sasaki (12) Japanese runner, origami artist leukemia caused by Hiroshima atom bomb 1955
Samantha Smith (13) American social activist, actress, author aircraft crash 1985
Alexei Romanov (13) Russian royal heir assassination 1918
Prince John of the United Kingdom (13) English British prince epilepsy 1919
Mattie Stepanek (13) American poet muscular dystrophy 2004
Infante Alfonso (14) Spanish member of royal family accidental gunshot wound 1954
Peter II of Russia (14) Russian Tsar smallpox 1730
Faisal ibn Hamad Al Khalifah (14) Bahraini prince car accident 2006
Sophie von Kühn (15) Novalis' fiancée disease 1797
Edward VI of England (15) English King of England tuberculosis 1553
Anne Frank (15) Dutch diarist typhus 1945
Lucille Ricksen (15) American actress tuberculosis 1925
 Famous People who Died Young Aged 16
Conradin Duke of Swabia, King of Jerusalem, King of Sicily execution 1268
Tara Correa-McMullen American actress homicide 2005
Francis II French king ear infection 1560
Michael Cuccione Canadian actor respiratory failure 2001
Lucretia Maria Davidson American poet consumption 1825
Vladimir Garin Russian child actor drowning 2003
Petr Ginz Czech diarist execution in a gas chamber 1944
Lady Jane Grey English Queen for 9 to 13 days beheaded by order of Mary I 1554
Laurence Owen American figure skater aircraft crash 1961
Heikki Suolahti Finnish classical music composer not known 1936
Billy Laughlin American child actor traffic accident 1948
Julie Vega Filipino child actress and singer bronchopneumonia 1985
 Famous People who Died Young Aged 17
Anastasia Nicholaevna of Russia Russian Grand Duchess of Russia assassination 1918
Baroness Mary Vetsera Austrian Rudolf's mistress possible suicide 1889
Mori Ranmaru Japanese samurai, Oda Nobunaga's attendant killed in battle 1582
Caesarion (Little Caesar) Egyptian pharaoh, son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar executed by order of Augustus Caesar 30 BC
Thomas Chatterton English poet suicide 1770
Khendrup Gyatso the eleventh Dalai Lama 1856
Krissy Taylor American model heart failure due to a rare condition 1995
Hersal Thomas American influential boogie woogie pianist and songwriter probable poisoning 1926
Jessica Jacobs Australian Actress railway accident 2008
Ritchie Valens American Chicano-rock singer aircraft crash 1959
 Famous People who Died Young Aged 18
Ronnie Caldwell American soul musician plane crash 1967
Norman "Chubby" Chaney American actor, best known for his role in the Little Rascals films glandular ailment 1936
Do-Hum-Me Sac dancer possibly influenza ca. 1845
Edwy of England English King of England unknown 959
Elagabalus Roman Roman emperor assassination 222
Henry Frederick English Prince of Wales typhoid fever 1612
Rob Knox English Actor stabbed 2008
Anissa Jones American child actor drug overdose 1976
Ray Jones English professional footballer car accident 2007
Charlotte Long English actress car accident 1984
Mercedes of Orléans Spanish queen consort of Spain tuberculosis 1878
Yukiko Okada Japanese idol singer suicide by jumping 1986
John Spence American ska singer No Doubt) suicide by gunshot 1987
Tutankhamun Egyptian pharaoh possibly gangrene from an infected leg wound 1323 BC
Ryan White American AIDS activist pneumonia a complication of HIV 1990
 Famous People who Died Young Aged 19
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga Spanish composer disputed 1826
Divya Bharti Indian actress accidental fall from building 1993
Lucius Caesar Roman Grandson and heir to Augustus unknown illness AD 2
Dorothy Dell American actress car accident 1934
Junior Durkin American actor car accident 1935
Margot Frank Dutch Jewish victim of the Holocaust, sister of Anne Frank typhus in during The Holocaust 1945
Hilary Grivich American Gymnast car accident 1997
Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins American child actor plane crash 1945
Joan of Arc French military commander burned at the stake 1431
Marcus Claudius Marcellus Roman heir to Augustus illness 23 BC
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia Russian Grand Duchess of Russia assassination 1918
Yaki Kadafi American rapper gunshot 1996
Adam Petty American racing driver, grandson of Richard Petty head injury during Busch Series practice 2000
Adán Sánchez American singer car accident 2004
Pablo Santos Mexican actor aircraft crash 2006
 Famous People who Died Young Aged 20
Antinous Roman Emperor Hadrian's lover drowning AD 130
Emilie Dionne Canadian one of the Dionne quintuplets complications from an epileptic seizure 1954
Josh Ryan Evans American soap opera actor Passions heart failure 2002
Évariste Galois French mathematician, inventor of group theory gunshot in duel 1832
Ruslana Korshunova Kazakh model suicide 2008
Sauli Lehtonen Finnish tango singer car accident 1995
Ananda Mahidol Thai eighth king of the Chakri dynasty murder 1946
Maribel Owen American figure skater plane crash 1961
Daniel Wayne Smith American actor and reality television star drug overdose 2006
Charles Sorley Scottish war poet shot in the head by a sniper at the Battle of Loos 1915
Nancy Spungen American Sid Vicious' girlfriend murdered 1978
Charles Starkweather American spree killer executed 1959
Dorothy Stratten Canadian Playboy model homicide 1980
Vaishnavi Indian actress suicide 2006
Carol Willis American Playboy model car accident 1971
 Famous People who Died Young Aged 21
Jan Palach Czech political protester self immolation 1969
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia Russian Grand Duchess of Russia assassination 1918
Bridgette Andersen American actress drug overdose 1997
Billy the Kid American outlaw gunshot 1881
Luc Bourdon Canadian ice hockey player car crash 2008
Eddie Cochran American rockabilly musician car crash 1960
James Crichton Scottish child prodigy ("the Admirable Crichton") killed in a swordfight 1582
Duncan Edwards English footballer Manchester United Munich air disaster 1958
Matthew Garber English actor pancreatitis 1977
Jared Nathan American child actor ZOOM car crash 2006
Nicolae Labis Romanian poet tramway accident (possibly deliberate) 1956
Ernst Mielck Finnish composer tuberculosis 1899
Napoleon II French second Emperor of the French tuberculosis 1832
Otto III German Holy Roman Emperor malaria 1002
Stuart Sutcliffe Scottish artist and bassist (briefly with The Beatles) brain hemorrhage 1962
Rebecca Schaeffer American actress homicide (shot by Robert John Bardo) 1989
Sophie Scholl German Anti-Nazi activist beheaded 1943
Monisha Unni Indian Actress Car Accident 1992
Sid Vicious English punk-rock bass guitarist Sex Pistols heroin overdose, suicide 1979
Dmitry Venevitinov Russian Romantic poet arrest and cold 1827
Henry Kirke White English poet not known 1806
J. Madison Wright American actress cardiac arrest 2006
 Famous People who Died Young Aged 22
Aaliyah American R&B singer aircraft crash 2001
Alfie Anido Filipino actor officially listed as suicide 1981
Brook Berringer American college football quarterback (University of Nebraska) plane crash 1996
Len Bias American basketball player (University of Maryland) cocaine overdose 1986
Lillian Board British Olympic silver medallist (1968) cancer 1970
Darby Crash American punk-rock singer (The Germs) suicide by heroin overdose 1980
Dead Swedish black metal vocalist (Mayhem) suicide by shotgun 1991
Dominique Dunne American actress strangled into coma by ex-boyfriend 1982
Terry Fox Canadian athlete, humanitarian, cancer treatment activist cancer 1981
Mary Ann Ganser American The Shangri-Las) encephalitis 1970
Christy Henrich American artistic gymnast anorexia 1994
Buddy Holly American rock & roll singer aircraft crash 1959
Gift Leremi South African football player car accident 2007
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia Russian Grand Duchess of Russia assassination 1918
Pepe Portuguese footballer food poisoning 1930
Pocahontas Powhatan chief's daughter ("princess") uncertain, thought to be smallpox or tuberculosis 1617
Antonio Puerta Spanish heart disease 2007
Freddie Prinze American comedian, actor suicide 1977
Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt American first wife of Theodore Roosevelt Bright's disease 1884
Jack Sheppard English thief execution 1724
John Thomson Scottish footballer on-pitch collision 1931
Ivo Van Damme Belgian middle distance runner car accident 1976
Robert Wadlow American tallest man ever infection of the left ankle 1940
Jarmo Wasama Finnish hockey player car accident 1966
Pedro Zamora American MTV The Real World participant AIDS 1994
 Famous People who Died Young Aged 23
Archie Jackson Australian cricketer tubercolosis 1933
Georg Büchner German writer typhus 1837
Charles IX of France French King of France tubercolosis 1574
Ian Curtis English post-punk singer (Joy Division) suicide by hanging 1980
Taki Rentaro Japanese composer tuberculosis 1903
Ernie Davis American college football running back (Syracuse University) leukemia 1963
Bobby Fuller American rock singer, guitarist undetermined 1966
Hank Gathers American college basketball player (Loyola Marymount University) Cardiac arrest 1990
Saima Harmaja Finnish author, poet tuberculosis 1937
Jacques Herbrand French mathematician mountaineering accident 1931
Ivan VI Russian Russian emperor assassination 1764
Emilio Jacinto Filipino revolutionary leader, poet malaria 1899
Karl "Hagbard" Koch German hacker burned to death (suicide) 1989
Vitek Kieltyka Polish death metal drummer (Decapitated) bus accident 2007
Duk Koo Kim South Korean boxer died from injuries in boxing ring 1982
Bonnie Parker American bank robber killed in police ambush 1934
River Phoenix American actor heart failure due to drug overdose 1993
Gavrilo Princip Serb assassin tuberculosis 1918
Christoph Probst German Anti-Nazi activist beheaded 1943
Savannah American Porn Star suicide 1994
Selena American singer homicide 1995
Judy Tyler American actress car accident 1957
Anton Maiden Swedish singer suicide 2003
Lilian Velez Filipino actress murder 1948
Francisco "Pancho Villa" Guilledo Filipino boxing champion Ludwig's angina 1925
Otto Weininger German philosopher suicide 1903
Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski Polish poet war 1944
 Famous People who Died Young Aged 24
Higuchi Ichiyo Japanese novelist pulmonary tuberculosis 1896
Duane Allman American southern-rock slide-guitarist (Allman Brothers Band) motorcycle accident 1971
Sammy Babitzin Finnish schlager-singer car accident 1973
Lili Boulanger French composer Crohn's disease 1918
Cliff Burton American thrash metal (Metallica) tour bus accident 1986
Gaius Caesar Roman Grandson and heir to Augustus died after receiving injuries in battle AD 4
Fabio Casartelli Italian professional cyclist crash during Tour de France 1995
Charlotte Corday French assassin execution 1793
James Dean American actor car accident 1955
Gregorio del Pilar Filipino general died in battle 1899
Joe Delaney American American football running back (Kansas City Chiefs) drowning 1983
Peg Entwistle Welsh actress suicide 1932
Miklós Fehér Hungarian football player heart failure 2004
Andrea Feldman American actress suicide 1972
Robert Fergusson Scottish poet head trauma 1774
Dino Ferrari Italian son of Enzo Ferrari muscular distrophy 1956
Katy French Irish model cocaine overdose 2007
Georg Heym German Expressionist poet drowned 1912
Ben Hollioake English cricketer car accident 2002
Huo Qubing Chinese general plague 117 BC
Big L American rapper gunshots 1999
León Kilat Filipino revolutionary leader murder 1898
Stanley Ketchel American boxer gunshot 1910
Nile Kinnick American college football running back (University of Iowa) plane crash 1943
Lee Eun-ju South Korean actress suicide 2005
La Malinche Indigenous Mexican interpreter unknown 1529
Greg Moore Canadian racing driver car accident during race 1999
Maury Muehleisen American songwriter/guitarist aircraft crash 1973
Joaquin Murrieta Mexican bandit shot by California State Rangers 1853
Damien Nash American NFLrunning back (Denver Broncos) unknown 2007
Notorious B.I.G. American rapper gunshot 1997
Berry Oakley American musician motorcycle accident 1972
Lee Harvey Oswald American alleged assassin of US President John F Kennedy gunshot 1963
Christopher Pettiet American actor accidental drug overdose 2000
Steve Prefontaine American Olympic long-distance runner car accident 1975
Razzle English drummer (Hanoi Rocks) car accident 1984
Hans Scholl German Anti-Nazi activist beheaded 1943
Clarence "Pine Top" Smith American boogie woogie singer and pianist gunshot 1929
Tammi Terrell American Motown singer brain tumour 1970
Wang Bi Chinese philosopher plague AD 249
Sean Taylor American NFL free safety (Washington Redskins) gunshot 2007
Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder German Romantic writer typhus 1798
Darrent Williams American NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos) drive-by shooting 2007
Andrew Wood American grunge singer (Mother Love Bone) heroin overdose 1990
St. Thérèse de Lisieux French Catholic saint tuberculosis 1897
Matthew Jay English musician fall from an apartment building 2003
 Famous People who Died Young Aged 25
Rudolf IV of Austria Austrian Duke -- 1365
Johnny Ace American rock 'n' roll musician gunshot (Russian roulette) 1954
Clyde Barrow American bank robber killed in ambush 1934
Aubrey Beardsley English artist tuberculosis 1898
Tommy Bolin American musician drug overdose 1976
Josephine Bracken Irish common-law wife of Philippine National Hero José Rizal tuberculosis 1902
Charlie Christian American jazz guitarist tuberculosis 1942
Mike Darr American Major League Baseball outfielder car accident 2002
Teddy Diaz Filipino guitarist The Dawn stabbing 1988
Françoise Dorléac French actress car accident 1967
Euronymous Norwegian black metal guitarist (Mayhem) stabbed by Varg Vikernes 1993
Abigail Folger American socialite, heiress homicide by followers of Charles Manson 1969
René Gâteaux French mathematician killed in action 1914
Willi Graf German Anti-Nazi activist beheaded 1943
Eddie Griffin American basketball player car accident 2007
George Charles Grey English Liberal politician, youngest Member of Parliament killed in action 1944
John Keats English Romantic poet tuberculosis 1821
Paul Kossoff British rock guitarist drug-related heart problems 1976
Scott La Rock American DJ gun violence 1987
Belinda Lee English actress car accident 1961
Frankie Lymon American Singer heroin overdose 1968
Wilfred Owen English poet killed while crossing the Sambre-Oise Canal (World War I) 1918
Nafisa Joseph Indian Model, Suicide 2004
Baby Face Nelson American bank robber killed in police shootout 1934
Benny Paret Cuban boxer killed in boxing ring 1962
Brad Renfro American actor heroin overdose 2008
Randy Rhoads American hard-rock guitarist (Quiet Riot/ aircraft crash 1982
Ion Rîmaru Romanian serial killer execution by firing squad 1971
Alexander Schmorell German Anti-Nazi activist beheaded 1943
Dan Snyder Canadian ice hockey player nosocomial infection 2003
Manfred von Richthofen German World War I "ace of aces" shot down over Morlancourt Ridge 1918
Tupac Shakur (2pac) American rapper singer, poet, actor gunshots from drive-by 1996
U;Nee South Korean actress and singer suicide 2007
Marinus van der Lubbe Dutch convicted of setting Reichstag fire execution by decapitation 1934
Blaise Alexander American Racecar driver head injury 2001
 Famous People who Died Young Aged 26
Niels Henrik Abel Norwegian mathematician tuberculosis 1829
Asmahan Syrian musician car accident 1944
Ross Gregory Australian cricketer died on active service 1942
Hobey Baker American ice hockey and American football player plane crash 1918
Alexander Beresch Ukrainian artistic gymnast car accident 2004
Timothy Birdsall English cartoonist leukaemia 1963
Barcroft Boake Australian poet suicide by hanging 1892
Monty Bowden English England's youngest ever cricket captain officially epilepsy, also trampled by his own oxen 1892
Fergus Bowes-Lyon British soldier, brother to the Queen Mother killed during the Battle of Loos 1915
Joe C American rapper coeliac disease 2000
Casey Calvert American guitarist for rock band Hawthorne Heights accidental drug overdose 2007
Gia Carangi American fashion model AIDS 1986
Rudolf Charousek Hungarian chess player tuberculosis 1900
Disco D American music producer suicide 2007
Nick Drake British folk guitarist/singer antidepressant overdose, probably intentional 1974
Richey James Edwards Welsh rock guitarist (Manic Street Preachers) presumed dead, likely jumped from bridge 1995
Boris "Tron" Floricic German hacker and phreaker hanging, apparently self-inflicted 1998
Josef Hassid Polish violinist meningitis 1950
Jean Harlow American actress uremic poisoning and kidney failure 1937
Jon-Erik Hexum American actor/model Brain trauma after shooting a blank into his temple 1984
Ishikawa Takuboku Japanese poet tuberculosis 1912
Daijiro Kato Japanese motorcycle racer brain stem stoppage by crashing while racing 2003
Ned Kelly Australian bushranger executed 1880
Mikhail Lermontov Russian writer and poet gunshot in duel 1841
Pelle Lindbergh Swedish ice hockeygoaltender (Philadelphia Flyers) car accident 1985
Al Lucas American American football player spinal cord injury during game 2005
Ulrike Maier Austrian Alpine skier skiing accident while racing 1994
Tommaso Masaccio Republic of Florence artist unknown cause of death 1428
Jimmy McCulloch Scottish guitarist (Wings) heroin overdose 1979
Barbara Yung Mei-ling Chinese actress Suicide 1985
Ashleigh Aston Moore Canadian actress drug overdose 2007
Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami Iranian basketball player car accident 2007
Yutaka Ozaki Japanese musician possibly pulmonary edema 1992
Raymond Paley English mathematician skiing accident 1933
Jose Palma Filipino poet, lyricist of Philippine national anthem unknown 1903
Gram Parsons American folk and country-rock singer (The Byrds) drug overdose 1973
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Italian composer tuberculosis 1736
Sándor Petofi Hungarian poet killed in Battle of Segesvár 1849
Brian Piccolo American American footballrunning back (Chicago Bears) testicular cancer that metastasised into lung cancer 1970
Toše Proeski Macedonian singer car accident 2007
Hermano Pule Filipino cult leader and revolutionary execution 1841
James "Baby Huey" Ramey American musician drug overdose 1970
Frank P. Ramsey English economist, philosopher and mathematician jaundice 1930
Otis Redding American soul singer aircraft crash 1967
Gustav Roch German mathematician tuberculosis 1866
Jarno Saarinen Finnish motorcyclist motorcycle accident 1973
Louis de Saint-Just French revolutionary leader execution 1794
Alisher Saipov Kyrgyz journalist gunshot 2007
Dave Sands Australian boxer truck accident 1952
Hillel Slovak Israeli rock guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers) heroin overdose 1988
Joey Stefano American porn star drug overdose 1994
Pekka Streng Finnish progressive rock-musician sarcoma 1975
Jung Da Bin South Korean actress suicide 2007
Sharon Tate American actress homicide by followers of Charles Manson 1969
Tommy Taylor British Soccer player Munich Air Disaster 1958
Olive Thomas American actress accidental overdose of mercury bichloride 1920
Hans Hermann von Katte Prussian royal's lover execution 1730
David Di Tommaso French French footballer cardiac arrest 2005
Kamimura Ukyou/Kami (musician) Japanese Drummer to the visual kei band, Malice Mizer subarachnoid hemorrhage 1999
Vicki Van Meter American youngest pilot to fly across the continental United States suicide 2008
Petri Walli Finnish rock-singer (Kingston Wall) suicide 1995
Robert Gould Shaw American Colonel - 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (U.S. Army) Killed during the assault on Fort Wagner, SC 1863
 Famous People who Died Young Aged 27
Alfonso XII Spanish king tuberculosis 1885
Dave Alexander American bassist (The Stooges) pneumonia 1974
Jean-Michel Basquiat American artist heroin overdose 1988
Chris Bell American musician car accident 1978
Stefan Bellof German World Sportscar Championship and Formula 1 driver Car accident in a race 1985
Jesse Belvin American R&B singer and songwriter ("Earth Angel") car accident 1960
D. Boon American punk rock musician (The Minutemen) car accident 1985
John Wilkes Booth American assassin of President Abraham Lincoln gunshot 1865
Jonathan Brandis American actor suicide 2003
Rupert Brooke British poet septic pneumonia 1915
Barry Brown American actor suicide 1978
Louis Chauvin American ragtime musician syphilis 1908
Kurt Cobain American grunge singer/guitarist (Nirvana) gunshot after lethal overdose of heroin, ruled suicide 1994
Andrew Cunanan American spree killer suicide 1997
Pete de Freitas Trinidadian drummer (Echo & The Bunnymen) motorcycle accident 1989
Gloria Dickson American actress asphyxiation in a house fire 1945
Andrés Escobar Colombian footballer shot 1994
Alain-Fournier French author and soldier killed in battle during World War I 1914
King Ghazi Iraqi king possible murder 1939
Gregory V Papal States pope possible poison 999
Johann Christian Günther German Baroque poet tuberculosis 1723
Peter Ham British musician (Badfinger) suicide by hanging 1975
Robert Harron American actor gun accident 1920
Les Harvey Scottish guitarist (Stone the Crows) electrocution 1972
Jimi Hendrix American hard rock guitarist/singer choked on own vomit 1970
Jon Hooker American former University of Kentucky baseball pitcher plane crash 2006
Paul Hunter British snooker player cancer 2006
John XII Papal States pope assassination (presumably because of jealousy) 964
Robert Johnson American delta blues guitarist/singer alleged poisoning 1938
Brian Jones British rock guitarist (The Rolling Stones) drug-related drowning, possibly homicide 1969
Janis Joplin American rock/soul singer (Big Brother & the Holding Company) heroin overdose 1970
Terrence Kiel American football player car accident 2008
Johnny Kidd British rock-singer motor car accident 1966
Jules Laforgue French poet tuberculosis 1887
William Henry Lane, "Master Juba" American dancer and entertainer unknown 1852
Reggie Lewis American basketball player (Boston Celtics) heart attack 1993
Li He Chinese poet unknown 816/817
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan American rock/blues singer (The Grateful Dead) gastrointestinal hemorrhage 1973
Joseph Merrick (The Elephant Man) British Deformed celebrity of Victorian London suffocation, possibly suicide 1890
Jim Morrison American rock singer (The Doors) Heart failure 1971
Henry Moseley British physicist killed in action 1915
Masako Natsume Japanese actress acute myeloid leukemia 1985
Steve Olin American Major League Baseball pitcher boating accident 1993
Kristen Pfaff American rock/bassist (Hole) heroin overdose 1994
François Proth French mathematician unknown 1879
William Quantrill American Confederate guerrilla Killed by Union army 1865
Bobby Sands Northern Irish hunger striker, British Member of Parliament self-imposed starvation 1981
Abraham Sarmiento, Jr. Filipino journalist and student-activist heart attack after health weakened by imprisonment 1977
Korey Stringer American NFL player complications of heatstroke 2001
Gary Thain New Zealander bassist (Uriah Heep) drug overdose 1975
Thuy Trang Vietnamese/American Actress car accident 2001
Pat Tillman American NFL player "friendly fire" in Afghanistan 2004
Georg Trakl German Expressionist poet suicide 1914
Jeremy Michael Ward American sound technician (The Mars Volta) heroin overdose 2003
Alan Wilson American blues rock singer and songwriter (Canned Heat) barbiturate overdose 1970
Rico Yan Filipino actor either acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis or bangungot 2002
Mia Zapata American lead singer (The Gits) murdered 1993
 Famous People who Died Young Aged 28
Isabella Beeton English author of "Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management" puerperal fever 1865
The Big Bopper American Rock & roll singer aircraft crash 1959
Big Pun American rapper heart attack brought on by obesity 2000
Lyman Bostock American baseball player gunshot to the head 1978
Hristo Botev Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary killed in battle 1876
Elisa Bridges American Playboy model drug overdose 2002
Tim Buckley American folk singer drug overdose 1975
Roger Byrne English footballer (Manchester United) Munich air disaster 1958
Caligula Roman emperor assassination AD 41
Jason Collier American basketball player cardiac arrest 2005
Stephen Crane American novelist tuberculosis 1900
Maggie Dixon American Women's basketball coach cardiac arrest 2006
Jim Elliot American Christian missionary killed by Huaorani Indians 1956
Marc-Vivien Foé Cameroonian footballer heart attack during match 2003
John Glascock British bassist (Jethro Tull) congenital heart defect 1979
Keith Green American Gospel music pioneer plane crash 1982
Sergei Grinkov Russian Olympic pairs skater heart attack 1995
Shannon Hoon American rock singer (Blind Melon) drug overdose 1995
Hsu Wei Lun Taiwanese Actress cardiac arrest following car accident 2007
Sarah Kane British playwright suicide 1999
Fanny Kaplan Russian Attempted assassin of Lenin Shot 1918
David Kennedy American son of RFK drug overdose 1984
Joe Kennedy American baseball pitcher hypertensive heart disease 2007
Kathleen Kennedy American sister of JFK plane crash 1948
Heath Ledger Australian Actor Accidental prescription drug overdose 2008
Brandon Lee American actor accidentally shot when prop gun malfunctioned on set of The Crow 1993
Jules Léotard French acrobat; inventor of the leotard smallpox or cholera 1870
Maria Malibran Spanish-French singer Fall from a horse 1836
Jesse Marunde American Strongman athlete Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy 2007
Timo K. Mukka Finnish author and poet heart failure 1973
Novalis German poet and philosopher tuberculosis 1801
Bradley Nowell American reggae/ska/punk rock/hip hop singer (Sublime) heroin overdose 1996
Chaswe Nsofwa Zambian soccer striker heart attack 2007
Dražen Petrovic Yugoslavian basketball player car accident 1993
Philip I of Castile first Habsburg ruler of Spain fever 1506
Jochen Rindt Austrian Formula 1 racing driver crash during race practice 1970
Alexandru Sahia Romanian author tuberculosis 1937
Egon Schiele Austrian painter influenza 1918
Edie Sedgwick American actress barbiturate overdose 1971
Ryan Shay American marathoner collapsed during marathon 2007
Alexander Fu Sheng Chinese actor car accident 1983
Luigi Tenco Italian singer suicide 1967
Jason Thirsk American rock bassist (Pennywise) suicide 1996
Viktor Tsoi Russian rock music musician singer car accident 1990
Yu Xuanji Chinese Female poet executed for beating her maid to death c.871
 Famous People who Died Young Aged 29
Major Booth English cricketer died in action on the Somme 1916
Christine Chubbuck American news reporter suicide 1974
Rafael Moreno Aranzadi Spanish footballer, gave his nickname to the Pichichi trophy typhoid 1922
David Bacon American actor possible murder 1943
Marc Bolan British rock musician (T.Rex) car accident 1977
Walt Bond American baseball player leukemia 1967
David Brainerd American missionary tuberculosis 1747
Anne Brontë English novelist tuberculosis 1849
Merritt Butrick American actor AIDS 1989
Ken Wadsworth New Zealander cricketer skin cancer 1976
Erik Brødreskift Norwegian black metal drummer suicide by drug overdose 1999
Ray Chapman American baseball player (Cleveland Indians) hit in head by a pitch from Carl Mays 1920
Maria Cioncan Romanian runner car accident 2007
Diego Corrales American lightweight boxer motorcycle accident 2007
Candy Darling American actress leukemia 1974
Fred Grace English cricketer pneumonia 1880
Howell Davis Welsh pirate homicide 1719
Charmaine Dragun Australian news presenter apparent suicide 2007
Feodor Deahna German mathematician unknown 1844
Sabine Dünser Liechtenstein singer cerebral haemorrhage 2006
Dipendra of Nepal Nepali crown prince and briefly king alleged suicide by gunshot 2001
Ferdinand Eisenstein German mathematician tuberculosis 1852
Astrid of Belgium Belgian queen car accident 1935
Josh Hancock American baseball pitcher car accident 2007
Mike Hawthorn English racing driver car accident 1959
"Barbecue Bob" Hicks American blues singer pneumonia 1931
George Jackson American militant shot while attempting to escape prison 1971
Claudia Jennings American Playboy model car accident 1979
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. American brother of JFK killed in action 1944
Ernst Knaack German resistance fighter execution 1944
Barbara La Marr American actress tuberculosis and nephritis 1926
Carole Landis American actress suicide 1948
Anna Loginova Russian bodyguard and model carjacking 2008
Christopher Marlowe English Renaissance playwright and poet, rival of Shakespeare dagger wound during knife-fight 1593
Bill Masterton Canadian ice hockey player (Minnesota North Stars) on-ice head injury 1968
Robert Murray M'Cheyne Scottish minister typhus 1843
Bubber Miley American jazz-musician tuberculosis 1932
Davey Moore American boxer died from complications of boxing match against Sugar Ramos 1963
Davey Moore American boxer crushed by his own car 1988
Darrell Russell American American football player car crash 2005
DJ Screw American musician overdose of codeine 2000
Eugen Schauman Finnish nationalist, Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov's assassin suicide 1904
Ingo Schwichtenberg German drummer (Helloween) suicide 1995
Percy Bysshe Shelley English Romantic poet (Ozymandias) drowned at sea during storm 1822
Tom Simpson British professional cyclist exhaustion during Tour de France 1967
David Strickland American actor suicide 1999
Elmer Symons South African motorcyclist accident during race 2007
Michelle Thomas American actress stomach cancer 1998
Ronnie Van Zant American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) aircraft crash 1977
Jean Vigo French Film maker tuberculosis 1934
Hank Williams American country musician accidental overdose of morphine and alcohol 1953
Don Wilson American baseball pitcher suicide 1975
Valentina Zimina Russian-American actress influenza 1928

By Disabled World - 2008-09-07

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