List of people who became famous only in death
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The following is a list of people who, for a variety of reasons, became famous only after their deaths:
People who became famous because of the manner of their death
- Todd Beamer (killed in September 11 terrorist attacks)
- Nicholas Berg (killed by militants)
- Cassie Bernall (murdered in Columbine High School massacre)
- Lauren Bessette (killed in a plane crash along with her sister Carolyn and John F. Kennedy, Jr.)
- Mark Bingham (killed in September 11 terrorist attacks)
- Jamie Bulger (murdered)
- Tom Burnett (killed in September 11 terrorist attacks)
- James Byrd, Jr. (murdered)
- Annie Chapman (Jack the Ripper victim)
- Jessica Chapman (murdered)
- Kris Donald (murdered)
- Thich Quang Duc (Buddhist monk protestor, self-immolation)
- Catherine Eddowes (Jack the Ripper victim)
- Yvonne Fletcher (policewoman shot outside Libyan Embassy in London)
- Kitty Genovese (murdered)
- Jeremy Glick (killed in September 11 terrorist attacks)
- Ronald Goldman (murdered)
- Lori Hacking (believed murdered)
- Amber Hagerman (murdered)
- John Luther "Casey" Jones (railroad collision)
- Mary Jane Kelly (believed to be a Jack the Ripper victim)
- Polly Klaas (murdered)
- Mary Jo Kopechne (died in car accident in car driven by Ted Kennedy)
- Leno and Rosemary LaBianca (murdered)
- Stephen Lawrence (murdered)
- Marc Lepine (mass-murderer)
- Chandra Levy (murdered)
- Mary Ann Nichols (victim of Jack the Ripper)
- Jan Palach (protestor, self-immolation )
- Laci Peterson (murdered)
- JonBenét Ramsey (murdered)
- Rachel Scott (murdered in Columbine High School massacre)
- Matthew Shepard (murdered)
- Nicole Brown Simpson (murdered)
- Elizabeth Stride (believed to be a Jack the Ripper victim)
- Damilola Taylor (murdered)
- Martha Tabram (possible victim of Jack the Ripper)
- Brandon Teena (murdered)
- Emmett Till (murdered)
- J. D. Tippit (murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald)
- Adam Walsh (murdered)
- Holly Wells (murdered)
- Cecilia Zhang (murdered)
- Henry "Dickie" Marrow (murdered)
People who became posthumously famous for other reasons
- Eva Cassidy (singer)
- Emily Dickinson (not widely published until after her death)
- Anne Frank (genocide victim whose diary became a posthumous classic)
- Edith Holden (artist whose 1906 diary was a best-seller when published posthumously in 1977)
- William Webb Ellis (alleged inventor of Rugby Football)
- Vincent van Gogh (artist)