User:Sjorford/List of people who died before the age of 30

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.

Aged under 16

 * 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

Aged 16

 * 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

Aged 17

 * 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

Aged 18

 * 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

Aged 19

 * 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

Aged 20

 * 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

Aged 21

 * 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

Aged 22

 * 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

Aged 23

 * 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

Aged 24

 * 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

Aged 25

 * 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

Aged 26

 * 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

Aged 27

 * 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

Aged 28

 * 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

Aged 29

 * 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