This is a list of people who died before the age of 30, who were historical figures or celebrities known for reasons other than their death.

• Leo II (6/7) (d. 474)
  • Byzantine Emperor — unknown disease

• Jessica Dubroff (7) (d. 1996)
  • American young pilot — aircraft crash

• Tokugawa Ietsugu (7) (d. 1716)
  • Japanese the 7th shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty — common cold

• Lungtok Gyatso (9) (d. 1815)
  • the ninth Dalai Lama —

• Judith Barsi (10) (d. 1988)
  • American child actress — homicide

• Jacinta and Francisco Marto (10/11) (d. 1919 and 1920)
  • Portuguese children who apparently saw three apparitions of an angel and several apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary — influenza

• Julian Scriabin (11) (d. 1919)
  • Russian composer — drowning

• Nkosi Johnson (12) (d. 2001)
  • South African children's rights activist — AIDS

• Heather O'Rourke (12) (d. 1988)
  • American child actress — bowel obstruction

• Sadako Sasaki (12) (d. 1955)
  • Japanese runner, origami artist — leukemia caused by Hiroshima atom bomb

• Samantha Smith (13) (d. 1985)
  • American social activist, actress, author — aircraft crash

• Alexei Romanov (13) (d. 1918)
  • Russian royal heir — assassination

• Prince John of the United Kingdom (13) (d. 1919)
  • English British prince — epilepsy

• Mattie Stepanek (13) (d. 2004)
  • American poet — muscular dystrophy

• Infante Alfonso (14) (d. 1954)
  • Spanish member of royal family — accidental gunshot wound

• Peter II of Russia (14) (d. 1730)
  • Russian Tsar — small pox

• Sophie von Kühn (15) (d. 1797)
  • German Novalis' fiancée — disease

• Edward VI of England (15) (d. 1553)
  • English King of England — tuberculosis

• Anne Frank (15) (d. 1945)
  • Dutch Jewish diarist — typhus in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during The Holocaust

• Lucille Ricksen (15) (d. 1925)
  • American actress — tuberculosis

• Conradin (d. 1268)
  • Duke of Swabia, King of Jerusalem, King of Sicily, last of the Hohenstaufen family — execution

• Tara Correa-McMullen (d. 2005)
  • American actress — homicide

• Michael Cuccione (d. 2001)
  • Canadian actor — respiratory failure

• Lucretia Maria Davidson (d. 1825)
  • American poet — consumption

• Francis II (d. 1560)
  • French king — ear infection

• Lady Jane Grey (d. 1554)
  • English Queen for 9 to 13 days — beheaded by order of Mary I

• Billy Laughlin (d. 1948)
  • American child actor — traffic accident

• Heikki Suolahti (d. 1936)
  • Finnish classical music composer — not known

• Julie Vega (d. 1985)
  • Filipino child actress and singer — bronchopneumonia

• Mori Ranmaru (d. 1582)
  • Japanese samurai, Oda Nobunaga's attendant — killed in battle

• Anastasia Nicholaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
  • Russian Grand Duchess of Russia — assassination

• Baroness Mary Vetsera (d. 1889)
  • Austrian Rudolf's mistress — possible suicide

• Caesarion (Little Caesar) (d. 30 BC)
  • Egyptian pharaoh, son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar — executed by order of Augustus Caesar

• Thomas Chatterton (d. 1770)
  • English poet — suicide

• Khendrup Gyatso (d. 1856)
  • the eleventh Dalai Lama —

• Krissy Taylor (d. 1995)
  • American model — heart failure due to a rare condition

• Hersal Thomas (d. 1926)
  • American influential boogie woogie pianist and songwriter — probable poisoning

• Ritchie Valens (d. 1959)
  • American Chicano-rock singer — aircraft crash

• Ronnie Caldwell (d. 1967)
  • American soul musician — plane crash

• Do-Hum-Me (d. ca. 1845)
  • Sac dancer — possibly influenza

• Edwy of England (d. 959)
  • English King of England — unknown

• Elagabalus (d. 222)
  • Roman Roman emperor — assassination

• Henry Frederick (d. 1612)
  • English Prince of Wales — typhoid fever

• Anissa Jones (d. 1976)
  • American child actor — drug overdose

• Ray Jones (d. 2007)
  • English professional footballer — car accident

• Yukiko Okada (d. 1986)
  • Japanese idol singer — suicide by jumping

• John Spence (d. 1987)
  • American ska singer ( No Doubt) — suicide by gunshot

• Tutankhamun (d. 1323 BC)
  • Egyptian pharaoh — possibly gangrene from an infected leg wound

• Ryan White (d. 1990)
  • American AIDS activist — pneumonia a complication of HIV infection contracted from treatments for haemophilia

• Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga (d. 1826)
  • Spanish composer — disputed

• Divya Bharti (d. 1993)
  • Indian actress — accidental fall from building

• Lucius Caesar (d. AD 2)
  • Roman Grandson and heir to Augustus — unknown illness

• Dorothy Dell (d. 1934)
  • American actress — car accident

• Keeley Dorsey (d. 2007)
  • American football running back — not specified

• Junior Durkin (d. 1935)
  • American actor — car accident

• Margot Frank (d. 1945)
  • Dutch Jewish victim of the Holocaust, sister of Anne Frank — typhus in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during The Holocaust

• Hilary Grivich (d. 1997)
  • American Gymnast — car accident

• Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins (d. 1945)
  • American child actor — plane crash

• Joan of Arc (d. 1431)
  • French military commander — burned at the stake

• Marcus Claudius Marcellus (d. 23 BC)
  • Roman heir to Augustus — illness

• Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
  • Russian Grand Duchess of Russia — assassination

• Yaki Kadafi (d. 1996)
  • American rapper — gunshot

• Adam Petty (d. 2000)
  • American racing driver, grandson of Richard Petty — head injury during busch series practice

• Adán Sánchez (d. 2004)
  • American singer — car accident

• Pablo Santos (d. 2006)
  • Mexican actor — aircraft crash

• Antinous (d. AD 130)
  • Roman Emperor Hadrian's lover — drowning

• Emilie Dionne (d. 1954)
  • Canadian one of the Dionne quintuplets — complications from an epileptic seizure

• Josh Ryan Evans (d. 2002)
  • American soap opera actor ( Passions) — heart failure

• Évariste Galois (d. 1832)
  • French mathematician, inventor of group theory — gunshot in duel

• Shauna Grant (d. 1984)
  • American adult film actress — suicide

• Billy the Kid (d. 1881)
  • American outlaw — gunshot

• Charles Sorley (d. 1915)
  • Scottish war poet — shot in the head by a sniper at the Battle of Loos

• Nancy Spungen (d. 1978)
  • American Sid Vicious' girlfriend — murdered

• Charles Starkweather (d. 1959)
  • American spree killer — executed

• Dorothy Stratten (d. 1980)
  • Canadian Playboy model — homicide

• Carol Willis (d. 1971)
  • American Playboy model — car accident

• Daniel Wayne Smith (d. 2006)
  • American actor and reality television star — drug overdose

• Ananda Mahidol (d. 1946)
  • Thai eighth king of the Chakri dynasty — murder

• Vaishnavi (d. 2006)
  • Indian actress — suicide

• Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
  • Russian Grand Duchess of Russia — assassination

• Bridgette Andersen (d. 1997)
  • American actress — drug overdose

• Norman "Chubby" Chaney (d. 1936)
  • American actor — glandular ailment

• Eddie Cochran (d. 1960)
  • American rockabilly musician — car crash

• James Crichton (d. 1582)
  • Scottish child prodigy ("the Admirable Crichton") — killed in a swordfight

• Duncan Edwards (d. 1958)
  • English footballer ( Manchester United) — Munich air disaster

• Matthew Garber (d. 1977)
  • English actor — pancreatitis

• Nicolae Labiş (d. 1956)
  • Romanian poet — tramway accident (possibly deliberate)

• Ernst Mielck (d. 1899)
  • Finnish composer — tuberculosis

• Otto III (d. 1002)
  • German Holy Roman Emperor — malaria(presumably)

• Stuart Sutcliffe (d. 1962)
  • Scottish artist and bassist (briefly with The Beatles) — brain hemorrhage

• Rebecca Schaeffer (d. 1989)
  • American actress — homicide (shot to death at her home by Robert John Bardo)

• Sophie Scholl (d. 1943)
  • German Anti- Nazi activist — beheaded

• Monisha Unni (d. 1992)
  • Indian Actress — Car Accident

• Sid Vicious (d. 1979)
  • English punk-rock bass guitarist ( Sex Pistols) — heroin overdose, possibly intentional

• Dmitry Venevitinov (d. 1827)
  • Russian Romantic poet — arrest and cold

• Henry Kirke White (d. 1806)
  • English poet — not known

• Aaliyah (d. 2001)
  • American R&B singer — aircraft crash

• Alfie Anido (d. 1981)
  • Filipino actor — officially listed as suicide

• Brook Berringer (d. 1996)
  • American college football quarterback ( University of Nebraska) — plane crash

• Len Bias (d. 1986)
  • American basketball player ( University of Maryland) — cocaine overdose

• Lillian Board (d. 1970)
  • British Olympic silver medallist ( 1968) — cancer

• Darby Crash (d. 1980)
  • American punk-rock singer ( The Germs) — suicide by heroin overdose

• Dead (d. 1991)
  • Swedish black metal vocalist ( Mayhem) — suicide by shotgun

• Dominique Dunne (d. 1982)
  • American actress — strangled into coma by ex-boyfriend

• Terry Fox (d. 1981)
  • Canadian athlete, activist — cancer

• Mary Ann Ganser (d. 1970)
  • American musician ( The Shangri-Las) — encephalitis

• Buddy Holly (d. 1959)
  • American rock & roll singer — aircraft crash

• Gift Leremi (d. 2007)
  • South African football player — car accident

• Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
  • Russian Grand Duchess of Russia — assassination

• Pepe (d. 1930)
  • Portuguese footballer — food poisoning

• Pocahontas (d. 1617)
  • Powhatan chief's daughter ("princess") — uncertain, thought to be smallpox or tuberculosis

• Antonio Puerta (d. 2007)
  • Spanish footballer, Seville — heart disease

• Freddie Prinze (d. 1977)
  • American comedian, actor — suicide

• Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (d. 1884)
  • American first wife of Theodore Roosevelt — Bright's disease

• Jack Sheppard (d. 1724)
  • English thief — execution

• John Thomson (d. 1931)
  • Scottish footballer — on-pitch collision

• Ivo Van Damme (d. 1976)
  • Belgian middle distance runner — car accident

• Robert Wadlow (d. 1940)
  • American tallest man ever — infection of the left ankle

• Jarmo Wasama (d. 1966)
  • Finnish hockey player — car accident

• Pedro Zamora (d. 1994)
  • American MTV The Real World participant — AIDS

• Georg Büchner (d. 1837)
  • German writer — typhus

• Charles IX of France (d. 1574)
  • French King of France — tubercolosis

• Ian Curtis (d. 1980)
  • English post-punk singer ( Joy Division) — suicide by hanging

• Taki Rentaro (d. 1903)
  • Japanese composer — tuberculosis

• Ernie Davis (d. 1963)
  • American college football running back ( Syracuse University) — leukemia

• Bobby Fuller (d. 1966)
  • American rock singer, guitarist — undetermined

• Hank Gathers (d. 1990)
  • American college basketball player ( Loyola Marymount University) — sudden cardiac arrest due to a weakening of the heart muscle

• Saima Harmaja (d. 1937)
  • Finnish author, poet — tuberculosis

• Jacques Herbrand (d. 1931)
  • French mathematician — mountaineering accident

• Ivan VI (d. 1764)
  • Russian Russian emperor — assassination

• Emilio Jacinto (d. 1899)
  • Filipino revolutionary leader, poet — malaria

• Karl "Hagbard" Koch (d. 1989)
  • German hacker — burned to death (suicide)

• Vitek Kieltyka (d. 2007)
  • Polish death metal drummer ( Decapitated) — bus accident

• Duk Koo Kim (d. 1982)
  • South Korean boxer — died from injuries sustained in boxing ring

• Bonnie Parker (d. 1934)
  • American bank robber — killed in police ambush

• River Phoenix (d. 1993)
  • American actor — heart failure due to drug overdose

• Gavrilo Princip (d. 1918)
  • Serb assassin — tuberculosis

• Christoph Probst (d. 1943)
  • German Anti- Nazi activist — beheaded

• Selena (d. 1995)
  • American singer — homicide

• Judy Tyler (d. 1957)
  • American actress — car accident

• Anton Maiden (d. 2003)
  • Swedish singer — suicide

• Lilian Velez (d. 1948)
  • Filipino actress — murder

• Francisco "Pancho Villa" Guilledo (d. 1925)
  • Filipino boxing champion — Ludwig's angina

• Otto Weininger (d. 1903)
  • German philosopher — suicide

• Higuchi Ichiyo (d. 1896)
  • Japanese novelist — pulmonary tuberculosis

• Duane Allman (d. 1971)
  • American southern-rock slide-guitarist ( Allman Brothers Band) — motorcycle accident

• Sammy Babitzin (d. 1973)
  • Finnish schlager-singer — car accident

• Lili Boulanger (d. 1918)
  • French composer — Crohn's disease

• Cliff Burton (d. 1986)
  • American heavy-metal bass guitarist ( Metallica) — tour bus accident

• Gaius Caesar (d. AD 4)
  • Roman Grandson and heir to Augustus — died after receiving injuries in battle

• Fabio Casartelli (d. 1995)
  • Italian professional cyclist — crash during Tour de France

• Charlotte Corday (d. 1793)
  • French assassin — execution

• James Dean (d. 1955)
  • American actor — car accident

• Gregorio del Pilar (d. 1899)
  • Filipino general — died in battle

• Joe Delaney (d. 1983)
  • American American football running back ( Kansas City Chiefs) — drowning

• Peg Entwistle (d. 1932)
  • Welsh actress — suicide

• Miklós Fehér (d. 2004)
  • Hungarian football player — heart failure

• Andrea Feldman (d. 1972)
  • American actress — suicide

• Robert Fergusson (d. 1774)
  • Scottish poet — head trauma

• Dino Ferrari (d. 1956)
  • Italian son of Enzo Ferrari — muscular distrophy

• Katy French (d. 2007)
  • Irish model — cocaine overdose

• Georg Heym (d. 1912)
  • German Expressionist poet — drowned

• Ben Hollioake (d. 2002)
  • English cricketer — car accident

• Huo Qubing (d. 117 BC)
  • Chinese general — plague

• Big L (d. 1999)
  • American rapper — gunshots

• Stanley Ketchel (d. 1910)
  • American boxer — gunshot

• Nile Kinnick (d. 1943)
  • American college football running back ( University of Iowa) — plane crash

• Lee Eun-ju (d. 2005)
  • South Korean actress — suicide

• La Malinche (d. 1529)
  • Indigenous Mexican interpreter — unknown

• Greg Moore (d. 1999)
  • Canadian racing driver — car accident during race

• Maury Muehleisen (d. 1973)
  • American songwriter/ guitarist — aircraft crash

• Joaquin Murrieta (d. 1853)
  • Mexican bandit — shot by California State Rangers

• Damien Nash (d. 2007)
  • American NFL running back ( Denver Broncos) — unknown

• Notorious B.I.G. (d. 1997)
  • American rapper — gunshot

• Berry Oakley (d. 1972)
  • American musician — motorcycle accident

• Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1963)
  • American alleged assassin of US President John F Kennedy — gunshot

• Christopher Pettiet (d. 2000)
  • American actor — accidental drug overdose

• Steve Prefontaine (d. 1975)
  • American Olympic long-distance runner — car accident

• Razzle (d. 1984)
  • English drummer ( Hanoi Rocks) — car accident

• Hans Scholl (d. 1943)
  • German Anti- Nazi activist — beheaded

• Clarence "Pine Top" Smith (d. 1929)
  • American boogie woogie singer and pianist — gunshot

• Tammi Terrell (d. 1970)
  • American Motown singer — brain tumour

• Wang Bi (d. AD 249)
  • Chinese philosopher — plague

• Sean Taylor (d. 2007)
  • American NFL free safety ( Washington Redskins) — gunshot

• Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (d. 1798)
  • German Romantic writer — typhus

• Darrent Williams (d. 2007)
  • American NFL defensive back ( Denver Broncos) — drive-by shooting

• Andrew Wood (d. 1990)
  • American grunge singer ( Mother Love Bone) — heroin overdose

• St. Thérèse de Lisieux (d. 1897)
  • French Catholic saint — tuberculosis

• Rudolf IV of Austria (d. 1365)
  • Austrian Duke — --

• Hailey Paige (d. 2007)
  • American adult film actress — drug overdose

• Johnny Ace (d. 1954)
  • American rock 'n' roll musician — gunshot ( Russian roulette)

• Clyde Barrow (d. 1934)
  • American bank robber — killed in police ambush

• Aubrey Beardsley (d. 1898)
  • English artist — tuberculosis

• Tommy Bolin (d. 1976)
  • American musician — drug overdose

• Charlie Christian (d. 1942)
  • American jazz guitarist — tuberculosis

• Mike Darr (d. 2002)
  • American Major League Baseball outfielder — car accident

• Teddy Diaz (d. 1988)
  • Filipino guitarist The Dawn — stabbing

• Françoise Dorléac (d. 1967)
  • French actress — car accident

• Euronymous (d. 1993)
  • Norwegian black metal guitarist ( Mayhem) — stabbed by Varg Vikernes

• Abigail Folger (d. 1969)
  • American socialite, heiress — homicide by followers of Charles Manson

• René Gâteaux (d. 1914)
  • French mathematician — killed in action

• Willi Graf (d. 1943)
  • German Anti- Nazi activist — beheaded

• George Charles Grey (d. 1944)
  • English Liberal politician, youngest Member of Parliament — killed in action

• John Keats (d. 1821)
  • English Romantic poet — tuberculosis

• Paul Kossoff (d. 1976)
  • British rock guitarist — drug-related heart problems

• Scott La Rock (d. 1987)
  • American DJ — gun violence

• Belinda Lee (d. 1961)
  • English actress — car accident

• Frankie Lymon (d. 1968)
  • American Singer — heroin overdose

• Wilfred Owen (d. 1918)
  • English poet — killed while crossing the Sambre-Oise Canal ( World War I)

• Nafisa Joseph (d. 2004)
  • Indian Model, — Suicide

• Baby Face Nelson (d. 1934)
  • American bank robber — killed in police shootout

• Benny Paret (d. 1962)
  • Cuban boxer — killed in boxing ring

• Brad Renfro (d. 2008)
  • American actor — yet to be determined

• Randy Rhoads (d. 1982)
  • American hard-rock guitarist ( Quiet Riot/ Ozzy Osbourne) — aircraft crash

• Ion Rîmaru (d. 1971)
  • Romanian serial killer — execution by firing squad

• Alexander Schmorell (d. 1943)
  • German Anti- Nazi activist — beheaded

• Dan Snyder (d. 2003)
  • Canadian ice hockey player — nosocomial infection

• Manfred von Richthofen (d. 1918)
  • German World War I "ace of aces" — shot down over Morlancourt Ridge

• Tupac Shakur (2pac) (d. 1996)
  • American rapper singer, poet, actor — gunshots from drive-by

• U;Nee (d. 2007)
  • South Korean actress and singer — suicide

• Marinus van der Lubbe (d. 1934)
  • Dutch convicted of setting Reichstag fire — execution by decapitation

• Blaise Alexander (d. 2001)
  • American Racecar driver — head injury crashed while battling Kerry Earnhardt for the lead at Lowe's Motor Speedway

• Niels Henrik Abel (d. 1829)
  • Norwegian mathematician — tuberculosis

• Asmahan (d. 1944)
  • Syrian musician — car accident

• Hobey Baker (d. 1918)
  • American ice hockey and American football player — plane crash

• Alexander Beresch (d. 2004)
  • Ukrainian gymnast — car accident

• Timothy Birdsall (d. 1963)
  • English cartoonist — leukaemia

• Barcroft Boake (d. 1892)
  • Australian poet — suicide by hanging

• Monty Bowden (d. 1892)
  • English England's youngest ever cricket captain — officially epilepsy, also trampled by his own oxen

• Fergus Bowes-Lyon (d. 1915)
  • British soldier, brother to the Queen Mother — killed during the Battle of Loos

• Joe C (d. 2000)
  • American rapper — coeliac disease

• Casey Calvert (d. 2007)
  • American guitarist for rock band Hawthorne Heights — accidental drug overdose

• Gia Carangi (d. 1986)
  • American fashion model — AIDS

• Rudolf Charousek (d. 1900)
  • Hungarian chess player — tuberculosis

• Disco D (d. 2007)
  • American music producer — suicide

• Nick Drake (d. 1974)
  • British folk guitarist/singer — antidepressant overdose, probably intentional

• Richey James Edwards (d. 1995)
  • Welsh rock guitarist ( Manic Street Preachers) — presumed dead, likely jumped from bridge

• Boris "Tron" Floricic (d. 1998)
  • German hacker and phreaker — hanging, apparently self-inflicted

• Jean Harlow (d. 1937)
  • American actress — uremic poisoning and kidney failure

• Jon-Erik Hexum (d. 1984)
  • American actor/ model — Brain trauma after shooting a blank into his temple

• Ishikawa Takuboku (d. 1912)
  • Japanese poet — tuberculosis

• Daijiro Kato (d. 2003)
  • Japanese motorcycle racer — brain stem stoppage by crashing while racing

• Ned Kelly (d. 1880)
  • Australian bushranger — executed

• Mikhail Lermontov (d. 1841)
  • Russian writer and poet — gunshot in duel

• Pelle Lindbergh (d. 1985)
  • Swedish ice hockey goaltender ( Philadelphia Flyers) — car accident

• Al Lucas (d. 2005)
  • American American football player — spinal cord injury during game

• Ulrike Maier (d. 1994)
  • Austrian Alpine skier — skiing accident while racing

• Tommaso Masaccio (d. 1428)
  • Republic of Florence artist — unknown cause of death

• Jimmy McCulloch (d. 1976)
  • Scottish guitarist ( Wings) — heroin overdose

• Barbara Yung Mei-ling (d. 1985)
  • Chinese actress — Suicide

• Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami (d. 2007)
  • Iranian basketball player — car accident

• Yutaka Ozaki (d. 1992)
  • Japanese musician — possibly pulmonary edema

• Raymond Paley (d. 1933)
  • English mathematician — skiing accident

• Gram Parsons (d. 1973)
  • American folk and country-rock singer ( The Byrds) — drug overdose

• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (d. 1736)
  • Italian composer — tuberculosis

• Sándor Petőfi (d. 1849)
  • Hungarian poet — killed in Battle of Segesvár

• Brian Piccolo (d. 1970)
  • American American football running back ( Chicago Bears) — testicular cancer that metastasised into lung cancer

• Toše Proeski (d. 2007)
  • Macedonian singer — car accident

• James "Baby Huey" Ramey (d. 1970)
  • American musician — drug overdose

• Frank P. Ramsey (d. 1930)
  • English economist, philosopher and mathematician — jaundice

• Otis Redding (d. 1967)
  • American soul singer — aircraft crash

• Gustav Roch (d. 1866)
  • German mathematician — tuberculosis

• Jarno Saarinen (d. 1973)
  • Finnish motorcyclist — motorcycle accident

• Louis de Saint-Just (d. 1794)
  • French revolutionary leader — execution

• Alisher Saipov (d. 2007)
  • Kyrgyz journalist — gunshot

• Dave Sands (d. 1952)
  • Australian boxer — truck accident

• Hillel Slovak (d. 1988)
  • Israeli rock guitarist ( Red Hot Chili Peppers) — heroin overdose

• Joey Stefano (d. 1994)
  • American porn star — drug overdose

• Pekka Streng (d. 1975)
  • Finnish progressive rock-musician — sarcoma

• Jung Da Bin (d. 2007)
  • South Korean actress — suicide

• Sharon Tate (d. 1969)
  • American actress — homicide by followers of Charles Manson

• Olive Thomas (d. 1920)
  • American actress — accidental overdose of mercury bichloride

• Hans Hermann von Katte (d. 1730)
  • Prussian royal's lover — execution

• David Di Tommaso (d. 2005)
  • French French footballer — cardiac arrest

• Kamimura Ukyou/ Kami (musician) (d. 1999)
  • Japanese Drummer to the visual kei band, Malice Mizer — subarachnoid hemorrhage

• Petri Walli (d. 1995)
  • Finnish rock-singer ( Kingston Wall) — suicide

• Robert Gould Shaw (d. 1863)
  • American Colonel - 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry ( U.S. Army) — Killed during the assault on Fort Wagner, SC

• Dave Alexander (d. 1974)
  • American bassist ( The Stooges) — pneumonia

• Jean-Michel Basquiat (d. 1988)
  • American artist — heroin overdose ("acute mixed drug interaction")

• Chris Bell (d. 1978)
  • American musician — car accident

• Stefan Bellof (d. 1985)
  • German World Sportscar Championship and Formula 1 driver — Car accident in a race

• Jesse Belvin (d. 1960)
  • American R&B singer and songwriter (" Earth Angel") — car accident

• D. Boon (d. 1985)
  • American punk rock musician ( The Minutemen) — car accident

• John Wilkes Booth (d. 1865)
  • American assassin of President Abraham Lincoln — gunshot

• Jonathan Brandis (d. 2003)
  • American actor — suicide

• Rupert Brooke (d. 1915)
  • British poet — septic pneumonia

• Barry Brown (d. 1978)
  • American actor — suicide

• Louis Chauvin (d. 1908)
  • American ragtime musician — syphilis

• Kurt Cobain (d. 1994)
  • American grunge singer/ guitarist ( Nirvana) — gunshot after lethal overdose of heroin, presumed suicide

• Andrew Cunanan (d. 1997)
  • American spree killer — suicide

• Pete de Freitas (d. 1989)
  • Trinidadian drummer ( Echo & The Bunnymen) — motorcycle accident

• Lea De Mae (d. 2004)
  • Czech porn actress — brain cancer

• Gloria Dickson (d. 1945)
  • American actress — asphyxiation in a house fire

• Andrés Escobar (d. 1994)
  • Colombian footballer — shot, possibly for scoring " own goal"

• Alain-Fournier (d. 1914)
  • French author and soldier — killed in battle during World War I

• King Ghazi (d. 1939)
  • Iraqi king — possible murder

• Gregory V (d. 999)
  • Papal States pope — possible poison

• Johann Christian Günther (d. 1723)
  • German Baroque poet — tuberculosis

• Peter Ham (d. 1975)
  • British musician ( Badfinger) — suicide by hanging

• Robert Harron (d. 1920)
  • American actor — gun accident

• Les Harvey (d. 1972)
  • Scottish guitarist ( Stone the Crows) — electrocution

• Jimi Hendrix (d. 1970)
  • American rock guitarist/singer — choked on own vomit caused by sleeping pill overdose

• Jon Hooker (d. 2006)
  • American former University of Kentucky baseball pitcher — plane crash

• Paul Hunter (d. 2006)
  • British snooker player — cancer

• John XII (d. 964)
  • Papal States pope — assassination (presumably because of jealousy)

• Robert Johnson (d. 1938)
  • American delta blues guitarist/singer — alleged poisoning

• Brian Jones (d. 1969)
  • British rock guitarist ( The Rolling Stones) — drug-related drowning, possibly homicide

• Janis Joplin (d. 1970)
  • American rock/ soul singer ( Big Brother & the Holding Company) — heroin overdose

• Johnny Kidd (d. 1966)
  • British rock-singer — motor car accident

• William Henry Lane, "Master Juba" (d. 1852)
  • American dancer and entertainer — unknown

• Reggie Lewis (d. 1993)
  • American basketball player ( Boston Celtics) — heart attack

• Li He (d. 816/817)
  • Chinese poet — unknown

• Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (d. 1973)
  • American rock/ blues singer ( The Grateful Dead) — gastrointestinal hemorrhage

• Joseph Merrick (The Elephant Man) (d. 1890)
  • British severely deformed celebrity of Victorian era London — suffocation, possibly suicide

• Jim Morrison (d. 1971)
  • American rock singer ( The Doors) — Heart failure

• Henry Moseley (d. 1915)
  • British physicist — killed in action

• Masako Natsume (d. 1985)
  • Japanese actress — acute myeloid leukemia

• Steve Olin (d. 1993)
  • American Major League Baseball pitcher — boating accident

• Kristen Pfaff (d. 1994)
  • American rock/ bassist ( Hole) — heroin overdose

• William Quantrill (d. 1865)
  • American Confederate guerrilla — Killed by Union army

• Bobby Sands (d. 1981)
  • Northern Irish hunger striker, British Member of Parliament — self-imposed starvation

• Korey Stringer (d. 2001)
  • American NFL player — complications of heatstroke

• Gary Thain (d. 1975)
  • New Zealander bassist ( Uriah Heep) — drug overdose

• Pat Tillman (d. 2004)
  • American NFL player who gave up football to join US Army after September 11, 2001 attacks — friendly fire in Afghanistan

• Georg Trakl (d. 1914)
  • German Expressionist poet — suicide

• Jeremy Ward (d. 2003)
  • American sound technician ( The Mars Volta) — heroin overdose

• Alan Wilson (d. 1970)
  • American blues rock singer and songwriter ( Canned Heat) — barbiturate overdose

• Rico Yan (d. 2002)
  • Filipino actor — either acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis or bangungot

• Mia Zapata (d. 1993)
  • American lead singer ( The Gits) — murdered

• Isabella Beeton (d. 1865)
  • English author of " Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management" — puerperal fever

• The Big Bopper (d. 1959)
  • American rock & roll singer — aircraft crash

• Big Pun (d. 2000)
  • American rapper — heart attack brought on by obesity

• Lyman Bostock (d. 1978)
  • American baseball player — gunshot to the head

• Hristo Botev (d. 1876)
  • Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary — killed in battle

• Elisa Bridges (d. 2002)
  • American Playboy model — drug overdose

• Tim Buckley (d. 1975)
  • American folk singer — drug overdose

• Roger Byrne (d. 1958)
  • English footballer ( Manchester United) — Munich air disaster

• Caligula (d. AD 41)
  • Roman emperor — assassination

• Jason Collier (d. 2005)
  • American basketball player — cardiac arrest

• Stephen Crane (d. 1900)
  • American novelist — tuberculosis

• Lance Craner (d. 1991)
  • American porn star — AIDS

• Maggie Dixon (d. 2006)
  • American Women's basketball coach at Army and younger sister of University of Pittsburgh men's coach Jamie Dixon — cardiac arrest

• Marc-Vivien Foé (d. 2003)
  • Cameroonian footballer — heart attack during match

• John Glascock (d. 1979)
  • British bassist ( Jethro Tull) — congenital heart defect

• Keith Green (d. 1982)
  • American Gospel music pioneer — plane crash

• Sergei Grinkov (d. 1995)
  • Russian Olympic pairs skater — heart attack

• Shannon Hoon (d. 1995)
  • American rock singer ( Blind Melon) — drug overdose

• Hsu Wei Lun (d. 2007)
  • Taiwanese Actress — cardiac arrest following car accident

• Sarah Kane (d. 1999)
  • British playwright — suicide

• Joe Kennedy (d. 2007)
  • American baseball pitcher — unknown

• Kathleen Kennedy (d. 1948)
  • American sister of JFK — plane crash

• Heath Ledger (d. 2008)
  • Australian Actor — yet to be determined

• Brandon Lee (d. 1993)
  • American actor — accidentally shot when prop gun malfunctioned on set of The Crow

• Timo K. Mukka (d. 1973)
  • Finnish author and poet — heart failure

• Novalis (d. 1801)
  • German poet and philosopher — tuberculosis

• Bradley Nowell (d. 1996)
  • American reggae/ ska/ punk rock/ hip hop singer ( Sublime) — heroin overdose

• Chaswe Nsofwa (d. 2007)
  • Zambian soccer striker — heart attack

• Dražen Petrović (d. 1993)
  • Croatian basketball player — car accident

• Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
  • first Habsburg ruler of Spain — fever

• Jochen Rindt (d. 1970)
  • Austrian Formula 1 racing driver — crash during race practice

• Alexandru Sahia (d. 1937)
  • Romanian author — tuberculosis

• Egon Schiele (d. 1918)
  • Austrian painter — influenza

• Edie Sedgwick (d. 1971)
  • American actress — intentional barbiturate overdose

• Ryan Shay (d. 2007)
  • American marathoner — collapsed during marathon

• Alexander Fu Sheng (d. 1983)
  • Chinese actor — car accident

• Luigi Tenco (d. 1967)
  • Italian singer — suicide

• Jason Thirsk (d. 1996)
  • American rock bassist ( Pennywise) — suicide

• Viktor Tsoi (d. 1990)
  • Russian rock music musician singer — car accident

• Yu Xuanji (d. c.871)
  • Chinese woman poet — executed for beating her maid to death

• Christine Chubbuck (d. 1974)
  • American news reporter — suicide

• Pichichi (d. 1922)
  • Spanish footballer, gave his nickname to the Pichichi trophy — typhoid

• David Bacon (d. 1943)
  • American actor — possible murder

• Marc Bolan (d. 1977)
  • British glam-rock singer ( T. Rex) — car accident

• Walt Bond (d. 1967)
  • American baseball player — leukemia

• David Brainerd (d. 1747)
  • American missionary — tuberculosis

• Anne Brontë (d. 1849)
  • English novelist — tuberculosis

• Merritt Butrick (d. 1989)
  • American actor — AIDS

• Erik Brødreskift (d. 1999)
  • Norwegian black metal drummer — suicide by drug overdose

• Ray Chapman (d. 1920)
  • American baseball player ( Cleveland Indians) — hit in head by a pitch from Carl Mays

• Maria Cioncan (d. 2007)
  • Romanian runner — car accident

• Diego Corrales (d. 2007)
  • American lightweight boxer — motorcycle accident

• Candy Darling (d. 1974)
  • American actress — leukemia

• Howell Davis (d. 1719)
  • Welsh pirate — justified homicide

• Charmaine Dragun (d. 2007)
  • Australian news presenter — apparent suicide

• Feodor Deahna (d. 1844)
  • German mathematician — unknown

• Sabine Dünser (d. 2006)
  • Liechtenstein singer — cerebral haemorrhage

• Dipendra of Nepal (d. 2001)
  • Nepali crown prince and briefly king — alleged suicide by gunshot after allegedly shooting several members of royal family

• Ferdinand Eisenstein (d. 1852)
  • German mathematician — tuberculosis

• Astrid of Belgium (d. 1935)
  • Belgian queen — car accident

• Josh Hancock (d. 2007)
  • American baseball pitcher — car accident

• Mike Hawthorn (d. 1959)
  • English racing driver — car accident

• " Barbecue Bob" Hicks (d. 1931)
  • American blues singer — pneumonia

• George Jackson (d. 1971)
  • American militant — shot while attempting to escape prison

• Claudia Jennings (d. 1979)
  • American Playboy model — car accident

• David Kennedy (d. 1984)
  • American son of RFK — drug overdose

• Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (d. 1944)
  • American brother of JFK — killed in action

• Ernst Knaack (d. 1944)
  • German resistance fighter — execution

• Barbara La Marr (d. 1926)
  • American actress — tuberculosis and nephritis

• Carole Landis (d. 1948)
  • American actress — suicide

• Christopher Marlowe (d. 1593)
  • English Renaissance playwright and poet, rival of Shakespeare — dagger wound during knife-fight

• Bill Masterton (d. 1968)
  • Canadian ice hockey player ( Minnesota North Stars) — on-ice head injury

• Robert Murray M'Cheyne (d. 1843)
  • Scottish minister — typhus

• Bubber Miley (d. 1932)
  • American jazz-musician — tuberculosis

• Davey Moore (d. 1988)
  • American boxer — crushed by his own car

• Darrell Russell (d. 2005)
  • American American football player — car crash

• DJ Screw (d. 2000)
  • American musician — overdose of codeine

• Eugen Schauman (d. 1904)
  • Finnish nationalist, Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov's assassin — suicide

• Ingo Schwichtenberg (d. 1995)
  • German drummer ( Helloween) — suicide

• Percy Bysshe Shelley (d. 1822)
  • English Romantic poet ( Ozymandias) — drowned at sea during storm

• Tom Simpson (d. 1967)
  • British professional cyclist — exhaustion during Tour de France

• Ingo Schwichtenberg (d. 1995)
  • German drummer ( Helloween) — suicide

• David Strickland (d. 1999)
  • American actor — suicide

• Elmer Symons (d. 2007)
  • South African motorcyclist — accident during race

• Michelle Thomas (d. 1998)
  • American actress — stomach cancer

• Ronnie Van Zant (d. 1977)
  • American singer ( Lynyrd Skynyrd) — aircraft crash

• Jean Vigo (d. 1934)
  • French Film maker — tuberculosis

• Hank Williams (d. 1953)
  • American country musician — accidental overdose of morphine and alcohol

• Don Wilson (d. 1975)
  • American baseball pitcher — suicide

• Valentina Zimina (d. 1928)
  • Russian- American actress — influenza

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