List of people who died in aviation-related incidents

This list is sectioned by occupation. For a list of aviation-related deaths by type of aircraft see 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.

Table of contents

1 Entertainment 2 Sports 3 Politicians 4 Religion 5 Royalty 6 Others 6.1 Kennedy family

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, on TWA Flight 800) French musician
• 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, musician, (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
• Stevie Ray Vaughan, 1990, guitarist and singer

• 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

• Abdul Salam Arif, 1966, president of Iraq
• GM Balayogi, 2002, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, India
• René 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 Hammarskjöld, 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 Roldós, 1981, president of Ecuador
• Francisco Sá 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

• Prince Christopher of Hesse - Nazi
• Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden
• Prince William of Gloucester, 1972
• Prince George, Duke of Kent, 1942

• Roald Amundsen, explorer
• Bessie Coleman, first African-American woman pilot
• Jessica Dubroff, young pilot
• Amy Johnson, British pilot
• Muhammad bin Laden, father of Osama bin Laden
• Jake LaMotta, Jr, noted chef, son of Jake LaMotta
• Quentin Roosevelt, son of Theodore Roosevelt
• Samantha Smith, young activist
• Lance Reventlow

• Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr, 1944, older brother of John F. Kennedy
• Kathleen Agnes Kennedy Cavendish, 1948, younger sister of John F. Kennedy
• John F. Kennedy, Jr, 1999, son of John F. Kennedy
• Caroline Bessette Kennedy, 1999, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr.
• Lauren Bessette, 1999, sister of Caroline and sister in law of John Jr.