List of people who died in aviation-related incidents

This is a list of celebrities that 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 - see September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Casualties

Note: the year after the names of some persons is the year of the plane crash that killed them. Within each section, people are listed in alphabetical order.

Table of contents

1 Entertainment 2 Sports 3 Politics 4 Religion 5 Royalty 6 Others

Entertainment

• Aaliyah, actor and singer
• The Big Bopper, 1959, singer
• Guido Cantelli, orchestral conductor
• Buddy Clark, singer
• Patsy Cline, country music singer
• Jim Croce, 1973, singer
• Marcel Dadi, French musician
• John Denver, singer
• Steve Gaines, musician, Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Carlos Gardel, Argentinian singer
• William Gardner Knight, actor
• Bill Graham, rock impresario
• Keith Green, singer
• Buddy Holly, 1959, singer
• Leslie Howard, actor
• Pedro Infante, Mexican singer
• Anna Jantar, Polish singer
• Carole Lombard, actress
• Glenn Miller, Big Band leader
• Grace Moore, opera singer
• Vic Morrow, actor
• Audie Murphy, actor
• Ricky Nelson, 1985, singer
• Otis Redding, 1967, singer
• Lionel Poilane, French baker and entrepreneur
• Jim Reeves, country music singer
• Stan Rogers, Canadian singer
• Will Rogers, actor, singer
• Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer
• Larry Shue, playwright
• Frank Tallman III, stuntman
• Melanie Thornton, singer
• Mike Todd, producer
• Ritchie Valens, 1959, singer
• Roger Van Zant, musician, Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Stevie Ray Vaughan, singer

• Davey Allison, NASCAR driver
• Marcel Cerdan, French world boxing champion
• Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rico baseball player
• Hansie Cronje, disgraced South African cricketer
• Carlos Cruz, Dominican world boxing champion
• Graham Hill, motor racing driver
• Alan Kulwicki, NASCAR driver
• Twenty three players of Manchester United
• Rocky Marciano, world boxing champion
• Thurman Munson, baseball player
• Rafael Osuna, Mexican tennis player
• Payne Stewart, golf player
• Nick Vanos, NBA player, Phoenix Suns
• Most members of the Puerto Rican national women's volleyball team (on the same flight as Carlos Cruz)
• entire US 1961 figure skating team
• 10 members of Oklahoma State University men's 2001 basketball team
• entire Zambian soccer team, 1993
• all members of the 1980 United States Olympic boxing team, except for Bobby Czyz, Marvis Frazier and Lee Roy Murphy.

• Abdul Salam Arif, 1966, president of Iraq
• René Barrientos, 1969, president of Bolivia
• Dzemal Bijedic, 1977, premier of Yugoslavia
• Barthelemy Boganda, 1959, president of the Central African Republic
• Hale Boggs, 1972, U.S Congressman
• Ahmed Ould Bouceif, 1979, prime minister of Algeria
• 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 Hammarskjöld, 1961, Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Aleksandr Lebed, 2002, Russian politician, governor of Krasnoyarsk
• 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
• Joel Rakotomalala, 1976, prime minister of Madagascar
• Jaime Roldós, 1981, president of Ecuador
• Francisco Sá Carneiro, 1980, prime minister of Portugal
• Madhavrao Scindia, 2001, Indian politician
• Omar Torrijos, 1981, Panamanian dictator
• John Tower, 1991, former Senator from Texas
• Paul Wellstone, 2002, Senator from Minnesota
• Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, 1988, Pakistani president

• Prince Christopher of Hesse - Nazi
• Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden
• Prince William of Gloucester
• George, Duke of Kent

• Kathleen Agnes Kennedy Cavendish
• Roald Amundsen, explorer
• Bessie Coleman, first African-American woman pilot
• Jessica Dubroff, young pilot
• Amy Johnson, British pilot
• Caroline Bessette Kennedy
• John F. Kennedy Jr, 1999, former U.S. first son
• Muhammad bin Laden, father of Osama bin Laden
• Jake LaMotta Jr, noted chef, son of Jake LaMotta
• Lance Reventlow
• Quentin Roosevelt
• Samantha Smith, young activist