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 entrepeneur
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
Steven Ray Vaughan, singer

Sports

Davey Allison, NASCAR driver
Marcel Cerdan, French world boxing champion
Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rico baseball player
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.

Politics

Abdul Salam Arif, 1966, president of Iraq.
Barthelemy Boganda, 1959, president of the Central African Republic
Hale Boggs, 1972, U.S Congressman
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
John F. Kennedy Jr, 1999, former U.S. first son
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
Jaime Roldós, 1981, president of Ecuador
Omar Torrijos, 1981, Panamanian dictator
John Tower, 1992, former Senator from Texas
Paul Wellstone, 2002, Senator from Minnesota
Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, 1988, Pakistani president

Religion

Royalty

Others

Kathleen Agnes Kennedy Cavendish

Roald Amundsen, explorer
Bessie Coleman, first African-American woman pilot
Jessica Dubroff, young pilot
Amy Johnson, British pilot
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr
Caroline Bessette Kennedy
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

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