Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 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 Sports 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. Politics 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 Religion Royalty Prince Christopher of Hesse - Nazi Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden Prince William of Gloucester George, Duke of Kent Others 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 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.