List of deaths by aircraft misadventure
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This is a list of famous people who have died by various forms of aircraft misadventure.
This list is sectioned by type of aircraft. For a list of aviation-related deaths by occupation of the person see the separate list of people who died in aviation-related incidents. There are also lists of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners.
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Airplane crash
- Thomas Selfridge - September 17, 1908 (first man to die in an aircraft accident)
- Charles Rolls - July 12, 1910 (founder of Rolls-Royce, first Englishman to die in an aircraft accident)
- Eugene Ely - October 19, 1911
- Harriet Quimby - July 1, 1912
- Bessie Coleman - April 30, 1926
- Knute Rockne - March 31, 1931
- Will Rogers, Wiley Post - August 15, 1935
- Amelia Earhart - July 2, 1937
- Amy Johnson - January 5, 1941
- Carole Lombard - January 16, 1942
- Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto - April 18, 1943
- Leslie Howard - June 1, 1943
- Wladyslaw Sikorski - July 4, 1943
- Edward O'Hare - November 26, 1943
- Joseph Kennedy, Jr. - August 12, 1944
- Glenn Miller - December 14, 1944
- Admiral Bertram Ramsay - January 2, 1945
- Major Richard I. Bong - August 6, 1945
- Subhash Chandra Bose - August 18, 1945
- Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Westrobothnia - January 26, 1947
- Kathleen Kennedy - May 13, 1947
- 18 AC Torino soccer players, 12 guests (Superga air disaster) - May 4, 1949
- Marcel Cerdan, Ginette Neveu - October 27, 1949
- Jacques Thibaud, September 1, 1953
- Kim Sigler - November 30, 1953
- Wilbur Shaw, October 30, 1954
- Ramon Magsaysay - March 17, 1957
- Busby Babes, 8 players from Manchester United; 15 others - February 6, 1958
- Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens - February 3, 1959 (see also The Day The Music Died)
- Barthelemy Boganda - March 29, 1959
- 16 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo football players, 6 others - October 29, 1960
- Laurence Owen, Bradley Lord, among 18 members of U.S. figure skating team [1] (http://www.vesperis.com/skate/1961/whowelost.html) - February 15, 1961
- Dag Hammarskjöld - 18 September, 1961
- Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas - March 5, 1963
- Ken Hubbs - February 13, 1964
- Jim Reeves - July 31, 1964
- Theodore Freeman - October 31, 1964
- Elliott See, Charles Bassett - February 28, 1966
- Otis Redding - December 10, 1967
- Yuri Gagarin - March 27, 1968
- Mohammed bin Laden - May 29, 1968
- Rocky Marciano - August 31, 1969
- 14 Wichita State University football players, 17 staff - October 2, 1970
- 37 Marshall University football players, 6 guests [2] (http://members.aol.com/jeff1070/marshall2.html) - November 14, 1970
- Audie Murphy - May 28, 1971
- 13 Montevideo rugby players; 16 more die before rescue after 72 days - October 13, 1972
- Lance Reventlow, July 24, 1972
- Roberto Clemente - December 31, 1972
- Jim Croce - September 20, 1973
- Graham Hill - November 29, 1975
- Ronnie VanZant, Steve Gaines - October 20, 1977 (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
- 14 University of Evansville basketball players - December 13, 1977
- Thurman Munson - August 2, 1979
- 14 members of U.S. Olympic boxing team, 8 others - March 14, 1980
- Sanjay Gandhi - June, 1980 - political heir to Indian PM.
- Jaime Roldós Aguilera - May 24, 1981
- Omar Torrijos - July 31, 1981
- Jud Strunk - October 5, 1981
- Stan Rogers - June 2, 1983
- Samantha Smith - August 25, 1985
- Ricky Nelson - December 31, 1985
- Samora Machel - October 9, 1986
- Zia-ul Haq - August 17, 1988
- H. John Heinz III - April 4, 1991
- John Tower - April 5, 1991
- Alan Kulwicki - April 1, 1993
- George S. Mickelson - April 19, 1993
- Zambia national football team - April 28, 1993
- Cyprian Ntayamira - April 6, 1994
- Juvénal Habyarimana - April 6, 1994
- Ron Brown - April 3, 1996
- Jessica Dubroff - April 11, 1996
- Brook Berringer - April 18, 1996
- John Denver - October 12, 1997
- Payne Stewart - October 25, 1999 (Note: The circumstances of this flight indicate that Stewart and the others on board most likely died several hours before their plane crashed.)
- John F. Kennedy Jr. - November 16, 1999
- Mel Carnahan - October 16, 2000
- 2 Oklahoma State University basketball players, 8 staff - January 27, 2001
- Aaliyah - August 25, 2001
- Barbara Olsen, David Angell - September 11, 2001
- Hansie Cronje - June 1, 2002
- Paul Wellstone - October 25, 2002
- Boris Trajkovski - February 26, 2004
Airship crash
- William A. Moffett, 1933, American admiral, in the USS Akron crash
- Lord Thomson, 1930, British Secretary of State for Air, in the R101 disaster
Balloon crash
Helicopter accident
Main article: List of people who died in helicopter accidents
Helicopter crash
- Francis Gary Powers - August 1, 1977
- Stevie Ray Vaughan - August 27, 1990
- Marie Rossi - March 1, 1991
- Bill Graham - October 25, 1991
- Davey Allison - July 13, 1993
- Svyatoslav Fyodorov - July 2, 2000
- Alexander Lebed - April 28, 2002