List of people who died in aviation-related incidents
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This is a list of well-known people who have died in aviation-related tragedies. This list does not include the approximately three thousand people who died in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack.
This list is sectioned by occupation. For a list of aviation-related deaths by type of aircraft see a separate list of famous deaths by aircraft misadventure.
The year after the names of persons is the year of the aviation-related death. Within each section, people are listed in alphabetical order.
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Aviation
- Bessie Coleman, first African-American woman pilot
- Jessica Dubroff, young pilot
- Eugene Ely, 1911
- Amy Johnson, British pilot
Entertainment
- Aaliyah, 2001, actor and singer
- The Big Bopper, 1959, singer
- Guido Cantelli, orchestral conductor
- Buddy Clark, singer
- Patsy Cline, 1963, country music singer
- Jim Croce, 1973, singer
- Marcel Dadi, 1996, French musician on TWA Flight 800
- John Denver, 1997, singer
- Cassie Gaines, 1977, musician, Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Steve Gaines, 1977, musician, Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Carlos Gardel, 1935, Argentinian singer
- William Gardner Knight, actor
- Bill Graham, rock impresario
- Keith Green, 1982, contemporary Christian musician
- Buddy Holly, 1959, singer
- Leslie Howard, 1943, actor
- Pedro Infante, Mexican singer
- Anna Jantar, 1980, Polish singer
- Carole Lombard, 1942, actress
- Glenn Miller, 1944, Big Band leader
- Grace Moore, opera singer
- Vic Morrow, actor
- Audie Murphy, 1971, actor
- Ricky Nelson, 1985, actor and singer
- Otis Redding, 1967, singer
- Lionel Poilane, French baker and entrepreneur
- Jim Reeves, country music singer
- Stan Rogers, Canadian singer
- Will Rogers, 1935, actor, humorist, singer
- Kyu Sakamoto, 1985, Japanese singer
- Larry Shue, playwright
- Graham "Shirley" Strahan, 2001, singer, Skyhooks
- Frank Tallman III, stuntman
- Melanie Thornton, singer
- Mike Todd, producer
- Ritchie Valens, 1959, singer
- Ronnie VanZant, 1977, member of Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Stevie Ray Vaughan, 1990, guitarist and singer
Politicians
- Abdul Salam Arif, 1966, president of Iraq
- GM Balayogi, 2002, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, India
- Rene Barrientos, 1969, president of Bolivia
- Džemal Bijedić, 1977, premier of Yugoslavia
- Barthelemy Boganda, 1959, president of the Central African Republic
- Hale Boggs, 1972, U.S Congressman
- Subhash Chandra Bose, 1945, leader of the Indian Congress
- Ahmed Ould Bouceif, 1979, prime minister of Mauritania
- Ron Brown, 1996, United States Secretary of Commerce with over 30 others in Croatia
- Mel Carnahan, 2000, governor of Missouri
- Igor Farkhutdinov, 2003, Russian politician, governor of Sakhalin
- Sanjay Gandhi, 1980, son of Indira Gandhi
- Dag Hammarskjoeld, 1961, Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Juvenal Habyarimana, 1994, president of Rwanda
- Aleksandr Lebed, 2002, Russian politician, governor of Krasnoyarsk
- Ernest Lundeen, Senator from Minnesota
- Samora Machel, 1986, president of Mozambique
- Ramon Magsaysay, 1957, president of the Philippines
- Larry McDonald, U.S Congressman, 1983, aboard Korean Air Flight KAL-007
- Carlos Menem Jr, 1995, former first son of Argentina
- George S. Mickelson, 1993, governor of South Dakota
- Edward Moss, 1964, aide of senator Ted Kennedy, who was also injured during accident
- Cyprien Ntaryamira, 1994, president of Burundi
- Joel Rakotomalala, 1976, prime minister of Madagascar
- Jaime Roldos, 1981, president of Ecuador
- Francisco Sa Carneiro, 1980, prime minister of Portugal
- Madhavrao Scindia, 2001, Indian politician
- Wladyslaw Sikorski, 1943, Polish prime minister
- Omar Torrijos, 1981, Panamanian dictator
- John Tower, 1991, former Senator from Texas
- Boris Trajkovski, 2004, president of the Republic of Macedonia
- Paul Wellstone, 2002, Senator from Minnesota
- Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, 1988, Pakistani president
Royalty
- Prince Christopher of Hesse - Nazi
- Prince George, Duke of Kent, 1942
- Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden
- Prince William of Gloucester, 1972
Sports
- Davey Allison, 1993, NASCAR driver
- Marcel Cerdan, 1949, French world boxing champion
- Roberto Clemente, 1972, Puerto Rico baseball player
- Hansie Cronje, 2002, disgraced South African cricketer
- Carlos Cruz, 1970, Dominican world boxing champion
- Graham Hill, 1975, motor racing driver
- Nile Kinnick, 1943, American football player
- Alan Kulwicki, 1993, NASCAR driver
- Tony Lema, 1966, champion golfer
- Twenty-three players, staff and associates of Manchester United football club, 1958
- Marshall University football team, 1970
- Rocky Marciano, 1969, former world boxing champion
- Thurman Munson, 1979, baseball player
- Ten people associated with Oklahoma State University men's basketball team (including two players), 2001
- Rafael Osuna, Mexican tennis player
- Most members of the Puerto Rican national women's volleyball team (on the same flight as Carlos Cruz)
- Payne Stewart, 1999, champion golfer
- Entire A.C. Torino soccer team, 1949
- Nick Vanos, (1987) NBA player, Phoenix Suns
- Entire US 1961 figure skating team
- All members of the 1980 United States Olympic boxing team, except for Bobby Czyz, Marvis Frazier and Lee Roy Murphy on the same flight of Anna Jantar.
- Entire Zambian national football team, 1993
- Knute Rockne, 1937, Notre Dame football coach
Others
- Roald Amundsen, explorer
- Muhammad bin Laden, father of Osama bin Laden
- Jake LaMotta, Jr, noted chef, son of Jake LaMotta
- Lance Reventlow
- Quentin Roosevelt, son of Theodore Roosevelt
- Samantha Smith, young activist
Kennedy family
- Caroline Bessette Kennedy, 1999, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- John F. Kennedy, Jr, 1999, son of John F. Kennedy
- Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr, 1944, older brother of John F. Kennedy
- Kathleen Agnes Kennedy Cavendish, 1948, younger sister of John F. Kennedy
- Lauren Bessette, 1999, sister of Caroline and sister in law of John Jr.