Aircraft 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

Dmytro Vitovsky - 1919

Bessie Coleman - April 30, 1926

Knute Rockne - March 31, 1931

Carlos Gardel - June 24, 1935 crash on takeoff of overloaded plane, Medellin Columbia.

Will Rogers, Wiley Post - August 15, 1935

Jose Sanjurjo July 20, 1936

Emilio Mola June 3, 1937

Amelia Earhart - July 2, 1937

Amy Johnson - January 5, 1941 - drowned after parachuting from her aircraft

Carole Lombard - January 16, 1942

Prince George, Duke of Kent - August 25, 1942, Scotland, on active service

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto - April 18, 1943 - plane shot down

Leslie Howard - June 1, 1943 - Bay of Biscay, plane shot down

Władysław Sikorski - July 4, 1943, Gibraltar at take off

Edward O'Hare - November 26, 1943 U.S. Naval Flying Ace, namesake of O'Hare Airport

Joseph Kennedy, Jr. - August 12, 1944

Glenn Miller - December 14, 1944, English Channel

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, 1948

18 Torino footballers, 12 guests (Superga air disaster) - May 4, 1949

Marcel Cerdan, Ginette Neveu - October 27, 1949

Richard E. Ellsworth, USAF Brigadier General - March 18, 1953

Jacques Thibaud, September 1, 1953

Kim Sigler - November 30, 1953

Wilbur Shaw, October 30, 1954

Guido Cantelli November 24, 1956, conductor, Music Director La Scala

Ramon Magsaysay - March 17, 1957

Busby Babes, 8 players from Manchester United; 15 others - February 6, 1958

Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens, Roger Peterson - 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] - 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

F. Nelson Blount - August 31, 1967

Otis Redding - December 10, 1967

Yuri Gagarin - March 27, 1968

Mohammed bin Laden - Sept 3, 1967

Rocky Marciano - August 31, 1969

14 Wichita State University football players, 17 staff - October 2, 1970

37 Marshall University football players, 6 guests [2] - 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

Prince William of Gloucester - August 28, 1972

Hale Boggs (U.S. House Majority Leader), Nicholas Begich - October 19, 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

Randy Rhoads - March 19, 1982

Keith Green - June 28, 1982

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

Rep. 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. - July 16, 1999

Mel Carnahan - October 16, 2000

2 Oklahoma State University 2 basketball players and 8 staff - January 27, 2001

Aaliyah - August 25, 2001

Barbara Olsen, David Angell - September 11, 2001

Melanie Thornton, Singer, November 24, 2001

Hansie Cronje - June 1, 2002

Paul Wellstone - October 25, 2002

Boris Trajkovski - February 26, 2004

10 Hendrick Motorsports team members (including family and pilots) - October 24, 2004

John T. Walton - June 27, 2005

Peter Tomarken - March 13, 2006

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

Maxie Anderson - June 27, 1983