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| x Robert Gould Shaw |
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Robert Gould Shaw (October 10, 1837 – July 18, 1863) was the colonel in command of the all-black 54th Regiment, which entered the American Civil War in 1863. He is the principal subject of the 1989 film Glory. He was killed in a failed attempt to...
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| x Anne Brontë |
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Anne Brontë (pronounced /ˈbrɒnti/) (17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.
The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her...
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| x Robert Murray M'Cheyne |
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne (pronounced, and occasionally spelled as "McCheyne"; 21 May 1813 – 25 March 1843) was a minister in the Church of Scotland from 1835 to 1843. He was born at Edinburgh, was educated at the University of Edinburgh and at the...
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| x Hank Gathers |
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Eric "Hank" Gathers (February 11, 1967, in Philadelphia – March 4, 1990 in Los Angeles) was an American college basketball star at Loyola Marymount University who collapsed and died during a game. He originally played at the University of Southern...
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| x Rico Yan |
Ricardo Carlos Castro Yan (March 14, 1975 – March 29, 2002) was a Filipino matinee idol, model and actor. He was under an exclusive contract in the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Network. Yan was a member of ABS-CBN's circle of homegrown talents named Star...
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| x Sammy Babitzin |
Aleksandr "Sammy" Babitzin (11 July 1948, Helsinki – 29 April 1973, Jyväskylä) was a Finnish popular music singer, the brother of Kirka.
Babitzin started his professional career in a band called The Stealers. Its line-up also included Remu Aaltonen....
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| x Christoph Probst |
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Christoph Hermann Probst (born November 6, 1919 in Murnau am Staffelsee – executed February 22, 1943 in Munich) was a student of medicine and a member of the White Rose (Weiße Rose) resistance group.
White Rose was the name of a resistance group in...
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| x Yaki Kadafi |
Yafeu Akiyele Fula (October 9, 1977 - November 10, 1996) was a rapper who was part of the American rap group Outlawz, who are best known for their collaborations with Tupac Shakur. Yaki was a long time friend with Tupac since childhood. While part...
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| x Fabio Casartelli |
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Fabio Casartelli (August 16, 1970 – July 18, 1995) was an Italian cyclist and an Olympic gold medalist, who died in a crash on the descent of the Col de Portet d'Aspet, France, during the 15th stage of the 1995 Tour de France.
He was born in Como,...
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| x Josh Hancock |
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Joshua Morgan Hancock (April 11, 1978 – April 29, 2007) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals. Born in Cleveland, Mississippi, he lived in St. Louis...
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| x Jean Vigo |
Jean Vigo (26 April 1905 – 5 October 1934) was a French film director, who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s and was a posthumous influence on the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Vigo was born to Emily Clero and...
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| x Gift Leremi |
Mpho "Gift" Leremi (October 13, 1984 – September 3, 2007) was a South African football midfielder for Mamelodi Sundowns, in the Premier Soccer League, and South Africa. Leremi died in a car crash on September 3, 2007 near Johannesburg, South Africa....
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| x Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor |
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Otto III (980 – 23 January 1002) was the fourth ruler of the Saxon or Ottonian dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire. He was elected king of Germany in 983 on the death of his father Otto II.
Otto was born in Kessel, near Goch, in what is now North Rhine...
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| x Novalis |
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Novalis (German pronunciation: [noˈvaːlɪs]) was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism.
Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg was born...
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| x Ryan Shay |
Ryan Shay (May 4, 1979 – November 3, 2007) was an American professional long-distance runner. He was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and attended the University of Notre Dame. He was married to Alicia Craig, also an American distance runner.
Ryan Shay ...
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| x Pete de Freitas |
Pete Louis Vincent de Freitas (2 August 1961–14 June 1989) was a musician and producer, best known as a drummer with Echo & the Bunnymen.
In 1961, de Freitas was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and educated by the Benedictines at Downside...
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| x Timothy Birdsall |
Timothy Birdsall (10 May 1936 in Cambridge, England – 10 June 1963 ) was an English cartoonist.
Birdsall appeared on the BBC’s That Was The Week That Was. He was shown behind a glass panel improvising drawings on it with an ink-marker. While at...
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| x Alexander Fu Sheng |
Alexander Fu Sheng (simplified Chinese: 傅声; traditional Chinese: 傅聲; pinyin: Fù Shēng 20 October 1954-7 July 1983) (born as Chang Fu-Sheng, 張富聲) was a major Hong Kong martial arts film star in the 1970s.
Alexander was born as Cheung Fu-Sheng in 20...
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| x Terrence Kiel |
Terrence Dewayne Kiel (November 24, 1980 — July 4, 2008) was an American safety in the National Football League. He played his entire career for the San Diego Chargers (2003-2006) after being drafted by them in the second round of the 2003 NFL Draft...
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| x David Strickland |
David Gordon Strickland, Jr. (October 14, 1969 – March 22, 1999) was an American television actor best known for playing the boyish rock music reporter Todd Styles in the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan.
Strickland was born in Glen Cove, Long Island, New...
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| x Jason Thirsk |
Jason Matthew Thirsk (December 25, 1967 – July 29, 1996) was the former bass player of the California punk rock band Pennywise who grew up in Hermosa Beach, California.
Thirsk, who had been in rehabilitation for alcoholism and also suffered from...
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| x Teddy Diaz |
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Teodoro de Villa Diaz, more popularly known as Teddy Diaz (April 1, 1963 - August 21, 1988), was the founding guitarist of the Filipino rock band The Dawn. At the height of his career and at the peak of The Dawn's popularity in the late 1980s, he...
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| x Sándor Petőfi |
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Sándor Petőfi (pronounced [ˈʃaːndor ˈpɛtøːfi], 1 January 1823 – most likely 31 July 1849), Hungarian poet and revolutionary, was the author of the Nemzeti dal, the poem said to have inspired the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, in which he played a key...
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| x Lillian Board |
Lillian Barbara Board, MBE (13 December 1948 – 26 December 1970) was an athlete from Great Britain, who won the silver medal in the 400 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and two gold medals at the 1969 European Championships in...
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| x Christopher Pettiet |
Christopher Lee Pettiet (February 12, 1976 – April 12, 2000) was an American television and film actor best known for his role as Jesse James in the Western TV series The Young Riders and as Zach Crandell in the cult comedy film Don't Tell Mom the...
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| x Tommy Taylor |
Thomas "Tommy" Taylor (29 January 1932 – 6 February 1958) was an English footballer, who was known for his aerial ability. He was one of the eight Manchester United players who lost their lives in the Munich air disaster.
Taylor began his career...
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| x Merritt Butrick |
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Merritt R. Butrick (September 3, 1959 – March 17, 1989) was an American actor who was known for his role as Captain James T. Kirk's son David Marcus in the movies Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. He also...
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| x Maria Malibran |
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The mezzo-soprano (although she commonly sang soprano parts) Maria Malibran (March 24, 1808 – September 23, 1836), was one of the most famous opera singers of the 19th century. Malibran was known for her stormy personality and dramatic intensity,...
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| x Hillel Slovak |
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Hillel Slovak (April 13, 1962–June 25, 1988) was an Israeli-American musician best known as the original guitarist and founding member of the Los Angeles rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Prior to his death of a heroin overdose in 1988, Slovak...
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| x Jean Harlow |
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Jean Harlow (March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937) was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Platinum Blonde" and the "Blonde Bombshell" due to her platinum blonde hair, Harlow was ranked as one of the greatest movie stars of...
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| x Jarno Saarinen |
Jarno Karl Keimo Saarinen (December 11, 1945 in Turku, Finland – May 20, 1973 in Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Italy) was a Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He is the only Finn to win a road racing World Championship.
Early in Saarinen's...
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| x Timo K. Mukka |
Timo Kustaa Mukka (17 December 1944 - 27 March 1973) was a Finnish author who wrote about the lives of people in Lapland.
Timo Mukka was born in Bollnäs in Sweden. During his life Mukka studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and completed...
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| x Jesse Belvin |
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Jesse Lorenzo Belvin (December 15, 1932 – February 6, 1960) was an American R&B; singer, pianist and songwriter popular in the 1950s, whose success was cut short by his death in a car crash aged 27.
Belvin was born in Texarkana, Texas, and moved...
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| x Carol Willis |
Carol Willis (April 17, 1951 – November 24, 1971) was an American model.
She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1970 issue and her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.
Willis was part Cherokee. She was born in Texas...
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| x Andrea Feldman |
Andrea Feldman (April 1, 1948 – August 8, 1972) was an American actress and a Warhol superstar. A native New Yorker, she starred in several of Warhol’s underground movies, such as Trash, before committing suicide in 1972.
Feldman was a regular in...
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| x Marc-Vivien Foé |
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Marc-Vivien Foé (1 May 1975 – 26 June 2003) was a Cameroonian international football player, who played in midfield for both club and country. With success in the French League, and stints in the English Premier League, his sudden death, while in...
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| x Christopher Marlowe |
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Christopher Marlowe (c. 26 February 1564–30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching...
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| x Aaliyah |
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Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), who performed under the mononym Aaliyah (pronounced /əˈliːə/), was an American recording artist, actress and model. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in Detroit, Michigan....
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| x Ashleigh Aston Moore |
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Ashleigh Aston Moore (September 30, 1981 – December 10, 2007) was a Canadian child actress. She is best known for her role in the 1995 film Now and Then.
Moore was born Ashley Rogers in Sunnyvale, California. She had two younger brothers, Aeron and...
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| x Brian Jones |
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Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was an English musician and one of the founding members of the rock group The Rolling Stones. Jones was known for his use of multiple instruments, his flamboyant attire and his recreational...
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| x Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder |
Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (13 July 1773 – 13 February 1798) was a German jurist and writer. With Ludwig Tieck, he was a co-founder of German Romanticism.
Wackenroder was born in Berlin. He was a close friend of Tieck from youth until his early...
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| x Lucille Ricksen |
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Lucille Ricksen (August 22, 1909 – March 13, 1925) was an American motion picture actress during the silent film era.
Born Lucille Ericksen in Chicago, Illinois, Ricksen began her career as a professional child model. In 1920 she arrived with her...
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| x Euronymous |
Øystein Aarseth (March 22, 1968 – August 10, 1993), who went by the pseudonym Euronymous, was a guitarist and co-founder of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem. He was also founder and owner of the extreme metal label Deathlike Silence Productions...
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| x Adam Petty |
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Adam Kyler Petty (July 10, 1980 – May 12, 2000) was a professional racing driver. He was the first fourth-generation driver in NASCAR history.
Petty was born in High Point, North Carolina into stock car racing "royalty." The son of Kyle Petty, he...
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| x Caligula |
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Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( 31 August AD 12 – 24 January AD 41), more commonly known by his cognomen Caligula (pronounced /kəˈlɪɡjʊlə/), was the third Roman Emperor, reigning from 16 March 37 until his assassination on 24 January 41....
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| x Valentina Zimina |
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Valentina Zimina (1 January 1899 — 3 December 1928) was a silent screenplay actress.
Russian-born, the daughter of a Moscow stage actress, Zimina served with the Women's Battalion of Death for three years. She was in a Siberian prison, from which...
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| x Peter II of Russia |
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Pyotr (Peter) II Alekseyevich (Russian: Пётр II Алексеевич or Pyotr II Alekseyevich) (23 October [O.S. 12 October] 1715 – 30 January [O.S. 19 January] 1730) was Emperor of Russia from 1727 until his death. He was the only son of Tsarevich Alexei...
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| x Henry Kirke White |
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Henry Kirke White (March 21, 1785 - October 19, 1806) was an English poet.
He was born in Nottingham, the son of a butcher, a trade for which he was himself intended. After being briefly apprenticed to a stocking-weaver, he was articled to a lawyer....
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| x Tokugawa Ietsugu |
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Tokugawa Ietsugu; 徳川 家継 (August 8, 1709-June 19, 1716) was the seventh shogun of the Tokugawa Dynasty, who ruled from 1713 until his death in 1716. He was the son of Tokugawa Ienobu, thus making him the grandson of Tokugawa Tsunashige, daimyo of...
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| x Howell Davis |
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Captain Howell Davis (or Davies) (ca. 1690 – June 1719) was a Welsh pirate. His piratical career lasted just 11 months, from July 1718 to June 1719, when he was ambushed and killed. His ships were the Cadogan, Buck, Saint James, and Rover.
Born in...
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| x Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers |
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Franklin Joseph "Frankie" Lymon (September 30, 1942 – February 28, 1968) was an African American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of a New York City-based early rock and roll group, The Teenagers. The...
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| x Saima Harmaja |
Saima Rauha Maria Harmaja (May 8, 1913 – April 21, 1937) was a Finnish poet and writer. She is known for her tragic life and early death, which are reflected in her sensitive poems.
At the age of 15, Harmaja contracted the lung disease tuberculosis....
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| x Alan Wilson |
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Alan "Blind Owl" Christie Wilson (July 4, 1943 – September 3, 1970) was the leader, singer, and primary composer in the American blues band Canned Heat. He played guitar and harmonica, and wrote most of the songs for the band.
Wilson was born in...
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| x Willi Graf |
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Willi Graf (2 January 1918 in Kuchenheim near Euskirchen; - 12 October 1943 in Munich) was a member of the White Rose (Weiße Rose) resistance group in Nazi Germany.
Willi Graf's family moved to Saarbrücken in 1922, where his father ran a wine...
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| x Gaius Caesar |
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Gaius Julius Caesar (20 BC - AD 4), most commonly known as Gaius Caesar or Caius Caesar, was the oldest son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder.. He was born between 14 August and 13 September 20 BC or according to other sources in 23...
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| x Ernst Mielck |
Ernst Mielck (24 October 1877 – 22 October 1899) was a Finnish composer who was born in Vyborg. He started piano lessons at the age of ten and in 1891 he was sent to Berlin, where he studied music under Max Bruch. Mielck returned to Finland in 1896....
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| x Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga |
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Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola (January 27, 1806 – January 17, 1826) was a Spanish composer. He was nicknamed the "Spanish Mozart" after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was also a child prodigy and an...
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| x Billy the Kid |
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Henry McCarty (November 23, 1859 — July 14, 1881), better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and William H. Bonney, was a 19th century American frontier outlaw and gunman who participated in the so-called Lincoln...
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| x Sauli Lehtonen |
Sauli Tapani Lehtonen (10 April 1975, Jyväskylä, Finland – 9 September 1995, Sipoo, Finland) was a Finnish tango singer. In 1994, he was crowned the tenth Tango King when he won a Finnish tango competition Tangomarkkinat. He was killed in 1995 when...
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| x Ernie Davis |
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Ernest Davis (December 14, 1939 – May 18, 1963) was an American football running back and the first African-American athlete to win the Heisman Trophy. Wearing number 44, Davis competed collegiately for Syracuse University before being drafted by...
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