List of Famous People Who Died Young
Published: 2017-11-10 - Updated: 2023-09-12
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Synopsis: List of well known and famous people who died before their time in accidents, from health conditions, and other causes. The people included in this list are aged from shortly after birth and up to age 29.
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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 - (See our average life span expectancy chart
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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.
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| Famous People Who Died Under 16 |
| Alexei Romanov (13) - Russian - royal heir - assassination - 1918 |
| Anne Frank (15) - Dutch - diarist - As a jew, she was a victim of the Nazi holocaust and died of starvation in concentration camp Bergen Belsen. Three weeks later, the camp was liberated. - 1945 |
| Edward VI of England (15) - English - King of England - tuberculosis - 1553 |
| Faisal ibn Hamad Al Khalifah (14) - Bahraini - prince - car accident - 2006 |
| Heather O'Rourke (12) - American - child actress - bowel obstruction - 1988 |
| Infante Alfonso (14) - Spanish - member of royal family - accidental gunshot wound - 1954 |
| Jessica Dubroff (7) - American - young pilot - aircraft crash - 1996 |
| Judith Barsi (10) - American - child actress - homicide - 1988 |
| Julian Scriabin (11) - Russian - composer - drowning - 1919 |
| Leo II (6/7) - Byzantine Emperor - unknown disease - 474 |
| Lucille Ricksen (15) - American - actress - tuberculosis - 1925 |
| Lungtok Gyatso (9) - the ninth Dalai Lama - 1815 |
| Mattie Stepanek (13) - American - poet - muscular dystrophy - 2004 |
| Nkosi Johnson (12) - South African - children's rights activist - AIDS - 2001 |
| Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (2 days) - American - son of John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy - RDS - 1963 |
| Peter II of Russia (14) - Russian - Tsar - smallpox - 1730 |
| Prince John of the United Kingdom (13) - English - British prince - epilepsy - 1919 |
| Robin Bush (3) - American - sister of George W. Bush - leukemia - 1953 |
| Rumwold (3 days) - English - Anglo-Saxon saint - 662 |
| 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 |
| Sophie von Kuhn (15) - GERMAN - Novalis' fiancee - disease - 1797 |
| Tokugawa Ietsugu (7) - Japanese - the 7th shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty - common cold - 1716 |
| Famous People Who Died Aged 16 |
| Billy Laughlin - American - child actor - traffic accident - 1948 |
| Conradin - Duke of Swabia, King of Jerusalem, King of Sicily - execution - 1268 |
| Francis II - French - king - ear infection - 1560 |
| Heikki Suolahti - Finnish - classical music composer - not known - 1936 |
| Julie Vega - Filipino - child actress and singer - bronchopneumonia - 1985 |
| 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 |
| Lucretia Maria Davidson - American - poet - consumption - 1825 |
| Michael Cuccione - Canadian - actor - respiratory failure - 2001 |
| Petr Ginz - Czech - diarist - execution in a gas chamber - 1944 |
| Tara Correa-McMullen - American - actress - homicide - 2005 |
| Vladimir Garin - Russian - child actor - drowning - 2003 |
| Famous People Who Died Aged 17 |
| Anastasia Nicholaevna of Russia - Russian - Grand Duchess of Russia - assassination - 1918 |
| Baroness Mary Vetsera - Austrian - Rudolf's mistress - possible suicide - 1889 |
| Caesarion (Little Caesar) - Egyptian - pharaoh, son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar - executed by order of Augustus Caesar - 30 BC |
| Hersal Thomas - American - influential boogie woogie pianist and songwriter - probable poisoning - 1926 |
| Jessica Jacobs - Australian - Actress - railway accident - 2008 |
| Khendrup Gyatso - the eleventh Dalai Lama - 1856 |
| Krissy Taylor - American - model - heart failure due to a rare condition - 1995 |
| Mori Ranmaru - Japanese - samurai, Oda Nobunaga's attendant - killed in battle - 1582 |
| Ritchie Valens - American - Chicano-rock singer - aircraft crash - 1959 |
| Thomas Chatterton - English - poet - suicide - 1770 |
| Famous People Who Died Aged 18 |
| Anissa Jones - American - child actor - drug overdose - 1976 |
| Charlotte Long - English - actress - car accident - 1984 |
| 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 |
| John Spence - American - ska singer No Doubt) - suicide by gunshot - 1987 |
| Mercedes of Orleans - Spanish - queen consort of Spain - tuberculosis - 1878 |
| Norman "Chubby" Chaney - American - actor, best known for his role in the Little Rascals films - glandular ailment - 1936 |
| Ray Jones - English - professional footballer - car accident - 2007 |
| Rob Knox - English - Actor - stabbed - 2008 |
| Ronnie Caldwell - American - soul musician - plane crash - 1967 |
| Ryan White - American - AIDS activist - pneumonia a complication of HIV - 1990 |
| Tutankhamun - Egyptian - pharaoh - possibly gangrene from an infected leg wound - 1323 BC |
| Yukiko Okada - Japanese - idol singer - suicide by jumping - 1986 |
| Famous People Who Died Aged 19 |
| Adam Petty - American - racing driver, grandson of Richard Petty - head injury during Busch Series practice - 2000 |
| Adan Sanchez - American - singer - car accident - 2004 |
| Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins - American - child actor - plane crash - 1945 |
| Divya Bharti - Indian - actress - accidental fall from building - 1993 |
| Dorothy Dell - American - actress - car accident - 1934 |
| Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia - Russian - Grand Duchess of Russia - assassination - 1918 |
| Hilary Grivich - American - Gymnast - car accident - 1997 |
| Joan of Arc - French - military commander - burned at the stake - 1431 |
| Juan Crisostomo Arriaga - Spanish - composer - disputed - 1826 |
| Junior Durkin - American - actor - car accident - 1935 |
| Lucius Caesar - Roman - Grandson and heir to Augustus - unknown illness - AD 2 |
| Marcus Claudius Marcellus - Roman - heir to Augustus - illness - 23 BC |
| Margot Frank - Dutch - Jewish victim of the Holocaust, sister of Anne Frank - typhus in during The Holocaust - 1945 |
| Pablo Santos - Mexican - actor - aircraft crash - 2006 |
| Yaki Kadafi - American - rapper - gunshot - 1996 |
| Famous People Who Died Aged 20 |
| Ananda Mahidol - Thai - eighth king of the Chakri dynasty - murder - 1946 |
| Antinous - Roman - Emperor Hadrian's lover - drowning - AD 130 |
| Carol Willis - American - Playboy model - car accident - 1971 |
| Charles Sorley - Scottish - war poet - shot in the head by a sniper at the Battle of Loos - 1915 |
| Charles Starkweather - American - spree killer - executed - 1959 |
| Daniel Wayne Smith - American - actor and reality television star - drug overdose - 2006 |
| Dorothy Stratten - Canadian - Playboy model - homicide - 1980 |
| Emilie Dionne - Canadian - one of the Dionne quintuplets - complications from an epileptic seizure - 1954 |
| Evariste Galois - French - mathematician, inventor of group theory - gunshot in duel - 1832 |
| Josh Ryan Evans - American - soap opera actor Passions - heart failure - 2002 |
| Maribel Owen - American - figure skater - plane crash - 1961 |
| Nancy Spungen - American - Sid Vicious' girlfriend - murdered - 1978 |
| Ruslana Korshunova - Kazakh - model - suicide - 2008 |
| Sauli Lehtonen - Finnish - tango singer - car accident - 1995 |
| Vaishnavi - Indian - actress - suicide - 2006 |
| Famous People Who Died Aged 21 |
| Billy the Kid - American - outlaw - gunshot - 1881 |
| Bridgette Andersen - American - actress - drug overdose - 1997 |
| Dmitry Venevitinov - Russian - Romantic poet - arrest and cold - 1827 |
| Duncan Edwards - English - footballer Manchester United - Munich air disaster - 1958 |
| Eddie Cochran - American - rockabilly musician - car crash - 1960 |
| Ernst Mielck - Finnish - composer - tuberculosis - 1899 |
| Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia - Russian - Grand Duchess of Russia - assassination - 1918 |
| Henry Kirke White - English - poet - not known - 1806 |
| J. Madison Wright - American - actress - cardiac arrest - 2006 |
| James Crichton - Scottish - child prodigy ("the Admirable Crichton") - killed in a swordfight - 1582 |
| Jan Palach - Czech - political protester - self immolation - 1969 |
| Jared Nathan - American - child actor ZOOM - car crash - 2006 |
| Luc Bourdon - Canadian - ice hockey player - car crash - 2008 |
| Matthew Garber - English - actor - pancreatitis - 1977 |
| Monisha Unni - Indian - Actress - Car Accident - 1992 |
| Napoleon II - French - second Emperor of the French - tuberculosis - 1832 |
| Nicolae Labis - Romanian - poet - tramway accident (possibly deliberate) - 1956 |
| Otto III - German - Holy Roman Emperor - malaria - 1002 |
| Rebecca Schaeffer - American - actress - homicide (shot by Robert John Bardo) - 1989 |
| Sid Vicious - English - punk-rock bass guitarist Sex Pistols - heroin overdose, suicide - 1979 |
| Sophie Scholl - German - Anti-Nazi activist - beheaded - 1943 |
| Stuart Sutcliffe - Scottish - artist and bassist (briefly with The Beatles) - brain hemorrhage - 1962 |
| Famous People Who Died Aged 22 |
| Aaliyah - American - R&B singer - aircraft crash - 2001 |
| Alfie Anido - Filipino - actor - officially listed as suicide - 1981 |
| Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt - American - first wife of Theodore Roosevelt - Bright's disease - 1884 |
| Antonio Puerta - Spanish - heart disease - 2007 |
| Brook Berringer - American - college football quarterback (University of Nebraska) - plane crash - 1996 |
| Buddy Holly - American - rock & roll singer - aircraft crash - 1959 |
| Christy Henrich - American - artistic gymnast - anorexia - 1994 |
| 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 |
| Freddie Prinze - American - comedian, actor - suicide - 1977 |
| Gift Leremi - South African - football player - car accident - 2007 |
| Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia - Russian - Grand Duchess of Russia - assassination - 1918 |
| Ivo Van Damme - Belgian - middle distance runner - car accident - 1976 |
| Jack Sheppard - English - thief - execution - 1724 |
| Jarmo Wasama - Finnish - hockey player - car accident - 1966 |
| John Thomson - Scottish - footballer - on-pitch collision - 1931 |
| Len Bias - American - basketball player (University of Maryland) - cocaine overdose - 1986 |
| Lillian Board - British - Olympic silver medallist (1968) - cancer - 1970 |
| Mary Ann Ganser - American - The Shangri-Las) - encephalitis - 1970 |
| Pedro Zamora - American - MTV The Real World participant - AIDS - 1994 |
| Pepe - Portuguese - footballer - food poisoning - 1930 |
| Pocahontas - Powhatan - chief's daughter ("princess") - uncertain, thought to be smallpox or tuberculosis - 1617 |
| Robert Wadlow - American - tallest man ever - infection of the left ankle - 1940 |
| Terry Fox - Canadian - athlete, humanitarian, cancer treatment activist - Cancer - 1981 |
| Famous People Who Died Aged 23 |
| Anton Maiden - Swedish - singer - suicide - 2003 |
| Archie Jackson - Australian - cricketer - tubercolosis - 1933 |
| Bobby Fuller - American - rock singer, guitarist - undetermined - 1966 |
| Bonnie Parker - American - bank robber - killed in police ambush - 1934 |
| Charles IX of France - French - King of France - tubercolosis - 1574 |
| Christoph Probst - German - Anti-Nazi activist - beheaded - 1943 |
| Duk Koo Kim - South Korean - boxer - died from injuries in boxing ring - 1982 |
| Emilio Jacinto - Filipino - revolutionary leader, poet - malaria - 1899 |
| Ernie Davis - American - college football running back (Syracuse University) - leukemia - 1963 |
| Francisco "Pancho Villa" Guilledo - Filipino - boxing champion - Ludwig's angina - 1925 |
| Gavrilo Princip - Serb - assassin - tuberculosis - 1918 |
| Georg Buchner - German - writer - typhus - 1837 |
| Hank Gathers - American - college basketball player (Loyola Marymount University) - Cardiac arrest - 1990 |
| Ian Curtis - English - post-punk singer (Joy Division) - suicide by hanging - 1980 |
| Ivan VI - Russian - Russian emperor - assassination - 1764 |
| Jacques Herbrand - French - mathematician - mountaineering accident - 1931 |
| Judy Tyler - American - actress - car accident - 1957 |
| Karl "Hagbard" Koch - German - hacker - burned to death (suicide) - 1989 |
| Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski - Polish - poet - war - 1944 |
| Lilian Velez - Filipino - actress - murder - 1948 |
| Otto Weininger - German - philosopher - suicide - 1903 |
| River Phoenix - American - actor - heart failure due to drug overdose - 1993 |
| Saima Harmaja - Finnish - author, poet - tuberculosis - 1937 |
| Savannah - American - Porn Star - suicide - 1994 |
| Selena - American - singer - homicide - 1995 |
| Taki Rentaro - Japanese - composer - tuberculosis - 1903 |
| Vitek Kieltyka - Polish - death metal drummer (Decapitated) - bus accident - 2007 |
| Famous People Who Died Aged 24 |
| Andrea Feldman - American - actress - suicide - 1972 |
| Andrew Wood - American - grunge singer (Mother Love Bone) - heroin overdose - 1990 |
| Ben Hollioake - English - cricketer - car accident - 2002 |
| Berry Oakley - American - musician - motorcycle accident - 1972 |
| Big L - American - rapper - gunshots - 1999 |
| Charlotte Corday - French - assassin - execution - 1793 |
| Christopher Pettiet - American - actor - accidental drug overdose - 2000 |
| Clarence "Pine Top" Smith - American - boogie woogie singer and pianist - gunshot - 1929 |
| Cliff Burton - American - thrash metal (Metallica) - tour bus accident - 1986 |
| Damien Nash - American - NFLrunning back (Denver Broncos) - unknown - 2007 |
| Darrent Williams - American - NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos) - drive-by shooting - 2007 |
| Dino Ferrari - Italian - son of Enzo Ferrari - muscular distrophy - 1956 |
| Duane Allman - American - southern-rock slide-guitarist (Allman Brothers Band) - motorcycle accident - 1971 |
| Fabio Casartelli - Italian - professional cyclist - crash during Tour de France - 1995 |
| Gaius Caesar - Roman - Grandson and heir to Augustus - died after receiving injuries in battle - AD 4 |
| Georg Heym - German - Expressionist poet - drowned - 1912 |
| Greg Moore - Canadian - racing driver - car accident during race - 1999 |
| Gregorio del Pilar - Filipino - general - died in battle - 1899 |
| Hans Scholl - German - Anti-Nazi activist - beheaded - 1943 |
| Higuchi Ichiyo - Japanese - novelist - pulmonary tuberculosis - 1896 |
| Huo Qubing - Chinese - general - plague - 117 BC |
| James Dean - American - actor - car accident - 1955 |
| Joaquin Murrieta - Mexican - bandit - shot by California State Rangers - 1853 |
| Joe Delaney - American - American football running back (Kansas City Chiefs) - drowning - 1983 |
| Katy French - Irish - model - cocaine overdose - 2007 |
| La Malinche - Indigenous Mexican - interpreter - unknown - 1529 |
| Lee Eun-ju - South Korean - actress - suicide - 2005 |
| Lee Harvey Oswald - American - alleged assassin of US President John F Kennedy - gunshot - 1963 |
| Leon Kilat - Filipino - revolutionary leader - murder - 1898 |
| Lili Boulanger - French - composer - Crohn's disease - 1918 |
| Matthew Jay - English - musician - fall from an apartment building - 2003 |
| Maury Muehleisen - American - songwriter/guitarist - aircraft crash - 1973 |
| Miklos Feher - Hungarian - football player - heart failure - 2004 |
| Nile Kinnick - American - college football running back (University of Iowa) - plane crash - 1943 |
| Notorious B.I.G. - American - rapper - gunshot - 1997 |
| Peg Entwistle - Welsh - actress - suicide - 1932 |
| Razzle - English - drummer (Hanoi Rocks) - car accident - 1984 |
| Robert Fergusson - Scottish - poet - head trauma - 1774 |
| Sammy Babitzin - Finnish - schlager-singer - car accident - 1973 |
| Sean Taylor - American - NFL free safety (Washington Redskins) - gunshot - 2007 |
| St. Therese de Lisieux - French - Catholic saint - tuberculosis - 1897 |
| Stanley Ketchel - American - boxer - gunshot - 1910 |
| Steve Prefontaine - American - Olympic long-distance runner - car accident - 1975 |
| Tammi Terrell - American - Motown singer - brain tumour - 1970 |
| Wang Bi - Chinese - philosopher - plague - AD 249 |
| Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder - German - Romantic writer - typhus - 1798 |
| Famous People Who Died Aged 25 |
| Abigail Folger - American - socialite, heiress - homicide by followers of Charles Manson - 1969 |
| Alexander Schmorell - German - Anti-Nazi activist - beheaded - 1943 |
| Aubrey Beardsley - English - artist - tuberculosis - 1898 |
| Baby Face Nelson - American - bank robber - killed in police shootout - 1934 |
| Belinda Lee - English - actress - car accident - 1961 |
| Benny Paret - Cuban - boxer - killed in boxing ring - 1962 |
| Blaise Alexander - American - Racecar driver - head injury - 2001 |
| Brad Renfro - American - actor - heroin overdose - 2008 |
| Charlie Christian - American - jazz guitarist - tuberculosis - 1942 |
| Clyde Barrow - American - bank robber - killed in ambush - 1934 |
| Dan Snyder - Canadian - ice hockey player - nosocomial infection - 2003 |
| Eddie Griffin - American - basketball player - car accident - 2007 |
| Euronymous - Norwegian - black metal guitarist (Mayhem) - stabbed by Varg Vikernes - 1993 |
| Francoise Dorleac - French - actress - car accident - 1967 |
| Frankie Lymon - American - Singer - heroin overdose - 1968 |
| George Charles Grey - English - Liberal politician, youngest Member of Parliament - killed in action - 1944 |
| Ion Rimaru - Romanian - serial killer - execution by firing squad - 1971 |
| John Keats - English - Romantic poet - tuberculosis - 1821 |
| Johnny Ace - American - rock 'n' roll musician - gunshot (Russian roulette) - 1954 |
| Josephine Bracken - Irish - common-law wife of Philippine National Hero Jose Rizal - tuberculosis - 1902 |
| Manfred von Richthofen - German - World War I "ace of aces" - shot down over Morlancourt Ridge - 1918 |
| Marinus van der Lubbe - Dutch - convicted of setting Reichstag fire - execution by decapitation - 1934 |
| Mike Darr - American - Major League Baseball outfielder - car accident - 2002 |
| Nafisa Joseph - Indian - Model, - Suicide - 2004 |
| Paul Kossoff - British - rock guitarist - drug-related heart problems - 1976 |
| Randy Rhoads - American - hard-rock guitarist (Quiet Riot - OZZY Osbourne - aircraft crash - 1982 |
| Rene Gateaux - French - mathematician - killed in action - 1914 |
| Rudolf IV of Austria - Austrian - Duke - 1365 |
| Scott La Rock - American - DJ - gun violence - 1987 |
| Teddy Diaz - Filipino - guitarist The Dawn - stabbing - 1988 |
| Tommy Bolin - American - musician - drug overdose - 1976 |
| Tupac Shakur (2pac) - American - rapper singer, poet, actor - gunshots from drive-by - 1996 |
| U;Nee - South Korean - actress and singer - suicide - 2007 |
| Wilfred Owen - English - poet - killed while crossing the Sambre-Oise Canal (World War I) - 1918 |
| Willi Graf - German - Anti-Nazi activist - beheaded - 1943 |
| Famous People Who Died Aged 26 |
| Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami - Iranian - basketball player - car accident - 2007 |
| Al Lucas - American - American football player - spinal cord injury during game - 2005 |
| Alexander Beresch - Ukrainian - artistic gymnast - car accident - 2004 |
| Alisher Saipov - Kyrgyz - journalist - gunshot - 2007 |
| Ashleigh Aston Moore - Canadian - actress - drug overdose - 2007 |
| Asmahan - Syrian - musician - car accident - 1944 |
| Barbara Yung Mei-ling - Chinese - actress - Suicide - 1985 |
| Barcroft Boake - Australian - poet - suicide by hanging - 1892 |
| Boris "Tron" Floricic - German - hacker and phreaker - hanging, apparently self-inflicted - 1998 |
| Brian Piccolo - American - American footballrunning back (Chicago Bears) - testicular cancer that metastasised into lung cancer - 1970 |
| Casey Calvert - American - guitarist for rock band Hawthorne Heights - accidental drug overdose - 2007 |
| Daijiro Kato - Japanese - motorcycle racer - brain stem stoppage by crashing while racing - 2003 |
| Dave Sands - Australian - boxer - truck accident - 1952 |
| David Di Tommaso - French - French footballer - cardiac arrest - 2005 |
| Disco D - American - music producer - suicide - 2007 |
| Fergus Bowes-Lyon - British - soldier, brother to the Queen Mother - killed during the Battle of Loos - 1915 |
| Frank P. Ramsey - English - economist, philosopher and mathematician - jaundice - 1930 |
| Gia Carangi - American - fashion model - AIDS - 1986 |
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - Italian - composer - tuberculosis - 1736 |
| Gram Parsons - American - folk and country-rock singer (The Byrds) - drug overdose - 1973 |
| Gustav Roch - German - mathematician - tuberculosis - 1866 |
| Hans Hermann von Katte - Prussian - royal's lover - execution - 1730 |
| Hermano Pule - Filipino - cult leader and revolutionary - execution - 1841 |
| Hillel Slovak - Israeli - rock guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers) - heroin overdose - 1988 |
| Hobey Baker - American - ice hockey and American football player - plane crash - 1918 |
| Ishikawa Takuboku - Japanese - poet - tuberculosis - 1912 |
| James "Baby Huey" Ramey - American - musician - drug overdose - 1970 |
| Jarno Saarinen - Finnish - motorcyclist - motorcycle accident - 1973 |
| Jean Harlow - American - actress - uremic poisoning and kidney failure - 1937 |
| Jimmy McCulloch - Scottish - guitarist (Wings) - heroin overdose - 1979 |
| Joe C - American - rapper - coeliac disease - 2000 |
| Joey Stefano - American - porn star - drug overdose - 1994 |
| Jon-Erik Hexum - American - actor/model - Brain trauma after shooting a blank into his temple - 1984 |
| Jose Palma - Filipino - poet, lyricist of Philippine national anthem - unknown - 1903 |
| Josef Hassid - Polish - violinist - meningitis - 1950 |
| Jung Da Bin - South Korean - actress - suicide - 2007 |
| Kamimura Ukyou/Kami (musician) - Japanese - Drummer to the visual kei band, Malice Mizer - subarachnoid hemorrhage - 1999 |
| Louis de Saint-Just - French - revolutionary leader - execution - 1794 |
| Mikhail Lermontov - Russian - writer and poet - gunshot in duel - 1841 |
| Monty Bowden - English - England's youngest ever cricket captain - officially epilepsy, also trampled by his own oxen - 1892 |
| Ned Kelly - Australian - bushranger - executed - 1880 |
| Nick Drake - British - folk guitarist/singer - antidepressant overdose, probably intentional - 1974 |
| Niels Henrik Abel - Norwegian - mathematician - tuberculosis - 1829 |
| Olive Thomas - American - actress - accidental overdose of mercury bichloride - 1920 |
| Otis Redding - American - soul singer - aircraft crash - 1967 |
| Pekka Streng - Finnish - progressive rock-musician - sarcoma - 1975 |
| Pelle Lindbergh - Swedish - ice hockeygoaltender (Philadelphia Flyers) - car accident - 1985 |
| Petri Walli - Finnish - rock-singer (Kingston Wall) - suicide - 1995 |
| Raymond Paley - English - mathematician - skiing accident - 1933 |
| Richey James Edwards - Welsh - rock guitarist (Manic Street Preachers) - presumed dead, likely jumped from bridge - 1995 |
| Robert Gould Shaw - American - Colonel - 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (U.S. Army) - Killed during the assault on Fort Wagner, SC - 1863 |
| Ross Gregory - Australian - cricketer - died on active service - 1942 |
| Rudolf Charousek - Hungarian - chess player - tuberculosis - 1900 |
| Sandor Petofi - Hungarian - poet - killed in Battle of Segesvar - 1849 |
| Sharon Tate - American - actress - homicide by followers of Charles Manson - 1969 |
| Timothy Birdsall - English - cartoonist - leukaemia - 1963 |
| Tommaso Masaccio - Republic of Florence - artist - unknown cause of death - 1428 |
| Tommy Taylor - British - Soccer player - Munich Air Disaster - 1958 |
| Tose Proeski - Macedonian - singer - car accident - 2007 |
| Ulrike Maier - Austrian - Alpine skier - skiing accident while racing - 1994 |
| Vicki Van Meter - American - youngest pilot to fly across the continental United States - suicide - 2008 |
| Yutaka Ozaki - Japanese - musician - possibly pulmonary edema - 1992 |
| Famous People Who Died Aged 27 |
| Abraham Sarmiento, Jr. - Filipino - journalist and student-activist - heart attack after health weakened by imprisonment - 1977 |
| Alain-Fournier - French - author and soldier - killed in battle during World War I - 1914 |
| Alan Wilson - American - blues rock singer and songwriter (Canned Heat) - barbiturate overdose - 1970 |
| Alfonso XII - Spanish - king - tuberculosis - 1885 |
| Andres Escobar - Colombian - footballer - shot - 1994 |
| Andrew Cunanan - American - spree killer - suicide - 1997 |
| Barry Brown - American - actor - suicide - 1978 |
| Bobby Sands - Northern Irish - hunger striker, British Member of Parliament - self-imposed starvation - 1981 |
| Brian Jones - British - rock guitarist (The Rolling Stones) - drug-related drowning, possibly homicide - 1969 |
| Chris Bell - American - musician - car accident - 1978 |
| D. Boon - American - punk rock musician (The Minutemen) - car accident - 1985 |
| Dave Alexander - American - bassist (The Stooges) - pneumonia - 1974 |
| Francois Proth - French - mathematician - unknown - 1879 |
| Gary Thain - New Zealander - bassist (Uriah Heep) - drug overdose - 1975 |
| Georg Trakl - German - Expressionist poet - suicide - 1914 |
| Gloria Dickson - American - actress - asphyxiation in a house fire - 1945 |
| Gregory V - Papal States - pope - possible poison - 999 |
| Henry Moseley - British - physicist - killed in action - 1915 |
| Janis Joplin - American - rock/soul singer (Big Brother & the Holding Company) - heroin overdose - 1970 |
| Jean-Michel Basquiat - American - artist - heroin overdose - 1988 |
| Jeremy Michael Ward - American - sound technician (The Mars Volta) - heroin overdose - 2003 |
| Jesse Belvin - American - R&B singer and songwriter ("Earth Angel") - car accident - 1960 |
| Jim Morrison - American - rock singer (The Doors) - Heart failure - 1971 |
| Jimi Hendrix - American - hard rock guitarist/singer - choked on own vomit - 1970 |
| Johann Christian Gunther - German - Baroque poet - tuberculosis - 1723 |
| John Wilkes Booth - American - assassin of President Abraham Lincoln - gunshot - 1865 |
| John XII - Papal States - pope - assassination (presumably because of jealousy) - 964 |
| Johnny Kidd - British - rock-singer - motor car accident - 1966 |
| Jon Hooker - American - former University of Kentucky baseball pitcher - plane crash - 2006 |
| Jonathan Brandis - American - actor - suicide - 2003 |
| Joseph Merrick (The Elephant Man) - British - Deformed celebrity of Victorian London - suffocation, possibly suicide - 1890 |
| Jules Laforgue - French - poet - tuberculosis - 1887 |
| King Ghazi - Iraqi - king - possible murder - 1939 |
| Korey Stringer - American - NFL player - complications of heatstroke - 2001 |
| Kristen Pfaff - American - rock/bassist (Hole) - heroin overdose - 1994 |
| Kurt Cobain - American - grunge singer/guitarist (Nirvana) - gunshot after lethal overdose of heroin, ruled suicide - 1994 |
| Les Harvey - Scottish - guitarist (Stone the Crows) - electrocution - 1972 |
| Li He - Chinese - poet - unknown - 816/817 |
| Louis Chauvin - American - ragtime musician - syphilis - 1908 |
| Masako Natsume - Japanese - actress - acute myeloid leukemia - 1985 |
| Mia Zapata - American - lead singer (The Gits) - murdered - 1993 |
| Pat Tillman - American - NFL player - "friendly fire" in Afghanistan - 2004 |
| Paul Hunter - British - snooker player - cancer - 2006 |
| Pete de Freitas - Trinidadian - drummer (Echo & The Bunnymen) - motorcycle accident - 1989 |
| Peter Ham - British - musician (Badfinger) - suicide by hanging - 1975 |
| Reggie Lewis - American - basketball player (Boston Celtics) - heart attack - 1993 |
| Rico Yan - Filipino - actor - either acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis or bangungot - 2002 |
| Robert Harron - American - actor - gun accident - 1920 |
| Robert Johnson - American - delta blues guitarist/singer - alleged poisoning - 1938 |
| Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - American - rock/blues singer (The Grateful Dead) - gastrointestinal hemorrhage - 1973 |
| Rupert Brooke - British - poet - septic pneumonia - 1915 |
| Stefan Bellof - German - World Sportscar Championship and Formula 1 driver - Car accident in a race - 1985 |
| Steve Olin - American - Major League Baseball pitcher - boating accident - 1993 |
| Terrence Kiel - American - football player - car accident - 2008 |
| Thuy Trang - Vietnamese/American - Actress - car accident - 2001 |
| William Henry Lane, "Master Juba" - American - dancer and entertainer - unknown - 1852 |
| William Quantrill - American - Confederate guerrilla - Killed by Union army - 1865 |
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| Alexander Fu Sheng - Chinese - actor - car accident - 1983 |
| Alexandru Sahia - Romanian - author - tuberculosis - 1937 |
| Big Pun - American - rapper - heart attack brought on by obesity - 2000 |
| Bradley Nowell - American - reggae/ska/punk rock/hip hop singer (Sublime) - heroin overdose - 1996 |
| Brandon Lee - American - actor - accidentally shot when prop gun malfunctioned on set of The Crow - 1993 |
| Caligula - Roman - emperor - assassination - AD 41 |
| Chaswe Nsofwa - Zambian - soccer striker - heart attack - 2007 |
| David Kennedy - American - son of RFK - drug overdose - 1984 |
| Drazen Petrovic - Yugoslavian - basketball player - car accident - 1993 |
| Edie Sedgwick - American - actress - barbiturate overdose - 1971 |
| Egon Schiele - Austrian - painter - influenza - 1918 |
| Elisa Bridges - American - Playboy model - drug overdose - 2002 |
| Fanny Kaplan - Russian - Attempted assassin of Lenin - Shot - 1918 |
| Heath Ledger - Australian - Actor - Accidental prescription drug overdose - 2008 |
| Hristo Botev - Bulgarian - poet and national revolutionary - killed in battle - 1876 |
| Hsu Wei Lun - Taiwanese - Actress - cardiac arrest following car accident - 2007 |
| Isabella Beeton - English - author of "Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management" - puerperal fever - 1865 |
| Jason Collier - American - basketball player - cardiac arrest - 2005 |
| Jason Thirsk - American - rock bassist (Pennywise) - suicide - 1996 |
| Jesse Marunde - American - Strongman athlete - Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy - 2007 |
| Jim Elliot - American - Christian missionary - killed by Huaorani Indians - 1956 |
| Jochen Rindt - Austrian - Formula 1 racing driver - crash during race practice - 1970 |
| Joe Kennedy - American - baseball pitcher - hypertensive heart disease - 2007 |
| John Glascock - British - bassist (Jethro Tull) - congenital heart defect - 1979 |
| Jules Leotard - French - acrobat; inventor of the leotard - smallpox or cholera - 1870 |
| Kathleen Kennedy - American - sister of JFK - plane crash - 1948 |
| Keith Green - American - Gospel music pioneer - plane crash - 1982 |
| Luigi Tenco - Italian - singer - suicide - 1967 |
| Lyman Bostock - American - baseball player - gunshot to the head - 1978 |
| Maggie Dixon - American - Women's basketball coach - cardiac arrest - 2006 |
| Marc-Vivien Foe - Cameroonian - footballer - heart attack during match - 2003 |
| Maria Malibran - Spanish-French - singer - Fall from a horse - 1836 |
| Novalis - German - poet and philosopher - tuberculosis - 1801 |
| Philip I of Castile - first Habsburg ruler of Spain - fever - 1506 |
| Roger Byrne - English - footballer (Manchester United) - Munich air disaster - 1958 |
| Ryan Shay - American - marathoner - collapsed during marathon - 2007 |
| Sarah Kane - British - playwright - suicide - 1999 |
| Sergei Grinkov - Russian - Olympic pairs skater - heart attack - 1995 |
| Shannon Hoon - American - rock singer (Blind Melon) - drug overdose - 1995 |
| Stephen Crane - American - novelist - tuberculosis - 1900 |
| The Big Bopper - American - Rock & roll singer - aircraft crash - 1959 |
| Tim Buckley - American - folk singer - drug overdose - 1975 |
| Timo K. Mukka - Finnish - author and poet - heart failure - 1973 |
| Viktor Tsoi - Russian - rock music musician singer - car accident - 1990 |
| Yu Xuanji - Chinese - Female poet - executed for beating her maid to death - c.871 |
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| "Barbecue Bob" Hicks - American - blues singer - pneumonia - 1931 |
| Anna Loginova - Russian - bodyguard and model - carjacking - 2008 |
| Anne Bronte - English - novelist - tuberculosis - 1849 |
| Astrid of Belgium - Belgian - queen - car accident - 1935 |
| Barbara La Marr - American - actress - tuberculosis and nephritis - 1926 |
| Bill Masterton - Canadian - ice hockey player (Minnesota North Stars) - on-ice head injury - 1968 |
| Bubber Miley - American - jazz-musician - tuberculosis - 1932 |
| Candy Darling - American - actress - leukemia - 1974 |
| Carole Landis - American - actress - suicide - 1948 |
| Charmaine Dragun - Australian - news presenter - apparent suicide - 2007 |
| Christine Chubbuck - American - news reporter - suicide - 1974 |
| Christopher Marlowe - English - Renaissance playwright and poet, rival of Shakespeare - dagger wound during knife-fight - 1593 |
| Claudia Jennings - American - Playboy model - car accident - 1979 |
| DJ Screw - American - musician - overdose of codeine - 2000 |
| Darrell Russell - American - American football player - car crash - 2005 |
| Davey Moore - American - boxer - crushed by his own car - 1988 |
| Davey Moore - American - boxer - died from complications of boxing match against Sugar Ramos - 1963 |
| David Bacon - American - actor - possible murder - 1943 |
| David Brainerd - American - missionary - tuberculosis - 1747 |
| David Strickland - American - actor - suicide - 1999 |
| Diego Corrales - American - lightweight boxer - motorcycle accident - 2007 |
| Dipendra of Nepal - Nepali - crown prince and briefly king - alleged suicide by gunshot - 2001 |
| Don Wilson - American - baseball pitcher - accidental - 1975 |
| Elmer Symons - South African - motorcyclist - accident during race - 2007 |
| Erik Brodreskift - Norwegian - black metal drummer - suicide by drug overdose - 1999 |
| Ernst Knaack - German - resistance fighter - execution - 1944 |
| Eugen Schauman - Finnish - nationalist, Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov's assassin - suicide - 1904 |
| Feodor Deahna - German - mathematician - unknown - 1844 |
| Ferdinand Eisenstein - German - mathematician - tuberculosis - 1852 |
| Fred Grace - English - cricketer - pneumonia - 1880 |
| George Jackson - American - militant - shot while attempting to escape prison - 1971 |
| Hank Williams - American - country musician - accidental overdose of morphine and alcohol - 1953 |
| Howell Davis - Welsh - pirate - homicide - 1719 |
| Ingo Schwichtenberg - German - drummer (Helloween) - suicide - 1995 |
| Jean Vigo - French - Film maker - tuberculosis - 1934 |
| Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. - American - brother of JFK - killed in action - 1944 |
| Josh Hancock - American - baseball pitcher - car accident - 2007 |
| Ken Wadsworth - New Zealander - cricketer - skin cancer - 1976 |
| Major Booth - English - cricketer - died in action on the Somme - 1916 |
| Marc Bolan - British - rock musician (T.Rex) - car accident - 1977 |
| Maria Cioncan - Romanian - runner - car accident - 2007 |
| Merritt Butrick - American - actor - AIDS - 1989 |
| Michelle Thomas - American - actress - stomach cancer - 1998 |
| Mike Hawthorn - English - racing driver - car accident - 1959 |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - English - Romantic poet (Ozymandias) - drowned at sea during storm - 1822 |
| Rafael Moreno Aranzadi - Spanish - footballer, gave his nickname to the Pichichi trophy - typhoid - 1922 |
| Ray Chapman - American - baseball player (Cleveland Indians) - hit in head by a pitch from Carl Mays - 1920 |
| Robert Murray M'Cheyne - Scottish - minister - typhus - 1843 |
| Ronnie Van Zant - American - singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) - aircraft crash - 1977 |
| Sabine Dunser - Liechtenstein - singer - cerebral haemorrhage - 2006 |
| Tom Simpson - British - professional cyclist - exhaustion during Tour de France - 1967 |
| Valentina Zimina - Russian-American - actress - influenza - 1928 |
| Walt Bond - American - baseball player - leukemia - 1967 |
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