List of people who died in their thirties

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This is a list of people who died between the ages of 30 and 39, who were historical figures or celebrities known for reasons other than their death.

Name	Nationality	Known for	Cause of death	Date
[edit] Aged 30
Domenico Alberti	Italian	composer	not specified	1740 (exact age at death not known; born c. 1710)
Steve Biko	South African	anti-apartheid activist	severe head trauma while in police custody	1977
Jimmy Blythe	American	jazz pianist	meningitis	1931
Emily Brontë	English	novelist, poet	tuberculosis	1848
Jeff Buckley	American	singer/guitarist	drowned in river	1997
Leroy Carr	American	blues singer and pianist	nephritis through alcoholism	1935
Rex Cherryman	American	actor	septic poisoning	1928
Gaius Valerius Catullus	Ancient Roman	poet	exhaustion	54 BC
Steve Clark	British	rock guitarist (Def Leppard)	alcohol and drug related problems	1991
Patsy Cline	American	country music singer	aircraft crash	1963
Jim Croce	American	songwriter/singer	aircraft crash	1973
Paul Dana	American	race car driver	car accident during a practice run	2006
Nicole DeHuff	American	actress	pneumonia	2005
Brandon De Wilde	American	actor	car accident	1972
Pretty Boy Floyd	American	bank robber	gunshot	1934
Mehran Ghassemi	Iranian	journalist	heart failure	2008
Talitha Getty	Dutch-British	actress	heroin overdose	1971
Andy Gibb	British	singer	heart failure due to cocaine abuse	1988
Fred Grace	English	Test cricketer, brother of WG Grace	pneumonia	1880
John Harvard	English	clergyman after whom Harvard University was named	tuberculosis	1638
Robert E. Howard	American	writer	suicide	1936
Little Willie John	American	musician	pneumonia	1968
Bronisław Malinowski	Polish	Olympic gold medallist (1980)	car accident	1981
Alice Martineau	English	singer, songwriter	Cystic fibrosis	2003
Valentino Mazzola	Italian	footballer (Torino)	Superga air disaster	1949
Davey Moore	American	boxer	brain injuries sustained during boxing match	1963
Lenny Murphy	Northern Irish	Loyalist paramilitary, leader of the Shankill Butchers	assassinated by the Provisional IRA	1982
Nero	Roman	emperor	suicide	A.D. 68
Ginette Neveu	French	violinist	plane crash	1949
Minamoto no Yoshitsune	Japanese	General (exact age at death uncertain)	Attack ordered by brother Yoritomo	1189
Nalan Xingde	Chinese-Manchu	Poet	unknown illness	1685
Lorenzo Odone	American	adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) patient	aspiration pneumonia	2008
Bobby Phills	American	basketball player	road accident	2000
Sylvia Plath	American	Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet and author	suicide by asphyxiation	1963
Proof	American	rapper	gunfire	2006
Kuljeet Randhawa	Indian	actress	suicide	2006
Virginia Rappe	American	actress	ruptured bladder and peritonitis	1921
Malik Sealy	American	basketball player	road accident	2000
Mieszko Talarczyk	Polish	singer and guitarist of Nasum	tsunami	2004
Oswald Teichmüller	German	mathematician	killed in action	1943
Henri Toivonen	Finnish	rally car driver	car accident during race	1986
Volodymyr Ivasyuk	Soviet	singer/composer	suicide	1979
Chuck Willis	American	R&B singer	peritonitis	1958
Sergei Yesenin	Russian/Soviet	poet/writer	suicide	1925
[edit] Aged 31
Caracalla	Roman	Roman Emperor	assassination	AD 217
Commodus	Roman	Roman Emperor	assassination	AD 192
Richard Beckinsale	British	television actor	heart attack	1979
Paula Björkqvist	Finnish	politician	homicide	2006
Branwell Brontë	English	painter	tuberculosis	1848
Guy Wetmore Carryl	American	poet	undefined illness	1904
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha	American	author	murder	1982
Michael Collins	Irish	revolutionary leader	assassinated	1922
Cyril Davies	British	harmonica player and blues bandleader	leukaemia	1964
Sandy Denny	British	singer	cerebral haemorrhage	1978
Bobby Driscoll	American	actor	drug-related heart disease	1968
Pete Duel	American	actor	suicide	1971
Eazy-E	American	gangsta-rap pioneer (NWA)	complications from unknowingly having AIDS	1995
Hans Fitting	German	mathematician	unknown	1938
Sidney Fox	American	actress	suicide	1942
Keith Haring	American	painter	AIDS	1990
Thomas Hansen	Norwegian	alt-country musician	combination of prescribed drugs	2007
Flo Hyman	American	Volleyball player	Marfan's Syndrome	1986
Zygmunt Janiszewski	Polish	mathematician	influenza	1920
Addie Joss	American	baseball pitcher (Cleveland Indians)	tuberculosis	1911
Terry Kath	American	rock musician (Chicago)	self inflicted gunshot	1978
Harold Lockwood	American	actor	Spanish flu	1918
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes	American	singer (TLC)	car accident	2002
Ettore Majorana	Italian	physicist	missing, presumed dead	1938
Stevens T. Mason	American	politician	pneumonia	1843
Renate Müller	German	actress	undetermined, suicide, or murder by Gestapo agents	1937
Smita Patil	Indian	actress	Childbirth	1986
Vijay Kumar Patodi	Indian	mathematician	kidney transplant	1976
Karen Ann Quinlan	American	Central figure in a right to die dispute	Eventual pneumonia after being in a persistent vegetative state	1985
Wallace Reid	American	actor	influenza	1923
Minnie Riperton	American	singer	cancer	1979
Lyda Roberti	Polish	actress	heart attack	1938
Franz Schubert	Austrian	Composer	possibly syphilis or typhoid fever	1828
Georges-Pierre Seurat	French	artist	unknown illness	1891
Sir Philip Sidney	English	poet and soldier	killed in battle	1586
J.E.B. Stuart	American	Confederate General	died of battle wounds	1864
Carl Switzer ("Alfalfa")	American	actor	homicide	1959
Yutaka Taniyama	Japanese	Mathematician	suicide	1958
Steve Peregrin Took	English	musician (T. Rex)	choking	1980
John Kennedy Toole	American	writer	suicide	1969
Eric Turner	American	NFL defensive back	intestinal cancer	2000
Nat Turner	American	rebel	execution	1831
Rudolph Valentino	Italian	actor	septicaemia	1926
Wenceslao Vinzons	Filipino	politician & guerrilla leader	execution during World War II	1942
Phillis Wheatley	American	poet, first African-American writer published in US	poverty	1784
Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev	Russian	mathematician	bacteremia	1878
[edit] Aged 32
Angela Aames	American	actress	sudden heart disease	1988
Norifumi Abe	Japanese	motorcyclist	traffic accident	2007
Alexander the Great	Ancient Macedonian	king, conqueror of "known" world	malaria, possibly poisoned	323 BC
Davey Allison	American	NASCAR racing driver	helicopter crash	1993
Aung San	Burmese	politician	assassination	1947
Florence Ballard	American	singer (The Supremes)	coronary thrombosis	1976
Duster Bennett	British	blues singer	car accident	1976
John Bonham	British	rock drummer (Led Zeppelin)	alcohol poisoning	1980
Milton Brown	American	Western swing bandleader	pneumonia following car accident, possibly due to narcolepsy	1936
Karen Carpenter	American	singer (The Carpenters)	cardiac arrest due to anorexia nervosa	1983
Cazuza	Brazilian	singer	AIDS	1990
Jim Clark	British	Formula One driver	car accident during race	1968
Hart Crane	American	poet	suicide	1932
Tim Crews	American	Major League Baseball pitcher	boating accident	1993
Hansie Cronje	South African	cricketer	aircraft crash	2002
Lya De Putti	Hungarian	actress	pneumonia	1931
Ernest Dowson	English	poet	alcoholism or tuberculosis	1900
J Dilla	American	hip hop producer	thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura	2006
Cass Elliot	American	singer (The Mamas & Papas)	heart attack	1974
Belinda Emmett	Australian	actress	breast cancer	2006
Soundarya	Indian	actress	plane crash	2004
Brian Epstein	British	businessman, manager of The Beatles	overdose, probably of sleeping pills	1967
Wyndham Halswelle	Scottish	athlete, 400m gold medallist at 1908 Olympic Games	sniper's bullet at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle	1915
Christine Hamill	English	mathematician	poliomyelitis	1956
Hibiscus	American	founder of The Cockettes	AIDS	1982
Bill Hicks	American	stand-up comedian	pancreatic cancer	1994
Andy Houts	American	television actor and production assistant	leukemia	1997
Attila József	Hungarian	poet	suicide	1937
Bruce Lee	Chinese American	martial arts actor	possibly allergic reaction	1973
Antonio Luna	Filipino	military general	assassination	1899
Magic Sam	American	blues guitarist	heart attack	1969
Mary II of England	English	Queen of England	smallpox	1694
Jim McGlothlin	American	baseball pitcher	leukemia	1975
Matthew McGrory	American	actor	natural causes	2005
Keith Moon	British	rock drummer (The Who)	overdose of anti-alcohol medication	1978
Thurman Munson	American	baseball player (New York Yankees)	aircraft crash	1979
Hugh O'Connor	American	actor	suicide	1995
Kim Perrot	American	WNBA basketball player (Houston Comets)	brain tumor attributed to lung cancer	1999
Rod Phillips	American	porn star	either AIDS or suicide	1993
Rob Pilatus	American-Afro-German	Milli Vanilli	overdose	1998
Glenn Quinn	Irish	actor	heroin overdose	2002
Srinivasa Ramanujan	Indian	mathematician	amoebiasis	1920
John Reed	American	journalist, Bolshevik	typhus	1920
Emily Remler	American	jazz guitarist	heart failure	1990
Charles Rolls	British	co-founder of Rolls-Royce	aircraft crash	1910
Sakamoto Ryoma	Japanese	politician	assassination	1867
Natasja Saad	Danish	reggae singer/rapper	car accident	2007
Diego Silang	Filipino	revolt leader	assassination	1763
Gabriela Silang	Filipino	revolt leader	execution	1763
Gilles Villeneuve	Canadian	Formula One driver	car accident during race qualifying	1982
Kim Walker	American	actress (Heathers)	brain tumour	2001
Robert Hudson Walker	American	actor	reaction to medication	1951
Alan Wiggins	American	baseball player	AIDS	1991
Ricky Wilson	American	guitarist (The B-52's)	AIDS	1985
James Wolfe	English	General, established British rule over Canada	killed during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham	1759
[edit] Aged 33
John Belushi	American	actor and comedian	overdose of cocaine and heroin	1982
Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy	American	wife of JFK Jr.	plane crash	1999
Big Moe	American	rapper	heart attack	2007
Big Mello	American	rapper	car accident	2002
Andrés Bonifacio	Filipino	revolutionary leader	execution	1897
Leigh Bowery	Australian	conceptual artist	AIDS	1994
Eva Braun	German	Adolf Hitler's lover	suicide	1945
William S. Burroughs, Jr.	American	writer	liver failure	1981
Eva Cassidy	American	singer	cancer	1996
Catherine of Siena	Italian	Catholic saint	not known	1380
Marcel Cerdan	French	boxer	plane crash	1949
Charlotte Coleman	British	actress	asthma attack	2001
William Kingdon Clifford	British	mathematician (inventor of Clifford Algebra) and philosopher	tuberculosis	1879
Sam Cooke	American	soul musician	homicide	1964
Roger Cotes	English	mathematician	fever	1716
Laurie Cunningham	English	footballer	car accident	1989
Steve Currie	British	bassist (T. Rex)	car crash	1981
Paul Laurence Dunbar	American	poet	tuberculosis	1906
Chris Farley	American	comic actor	accidental cocaine and heroin overdose	1997
Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach	German	mathematician	unknown	1834
Althea Flynt	American	pornographer's wife	drowned due to heroin overdose	1987
Blind Boy Fuller	American	blues singer and guitarist	bladder infection	1941
Sanjay Gandhi	Indian	politician, member of Nehru-Gandhi family	aircraft crash	1980
Gary Holton	English	Musician, actor	depression induced heroin and alcohol overdose	1985
Jesus (exact age at death uncertain)	Judean	founder of Christianity	crucifixion	ca. AD 30
Kay Kendall	English	actress	myeloid leukaemia	1959
Valery Kharlamov	Russian	ice hockey player	car accident	1981
Darryl Kile	American	Major League Baseball pitcher	coronary heart disease	2002
Al Killian	American	jazz trumpeter	murdered by landlord	1950
Mary Faustina Kowalska	Polish	nun and mystic	possibly tuberculosis	1938
Carole Lombard	American	actress, wife of Clark Gable	aircraft crash	1942
Hideto Matsumoto	Japanese	musician	hanged, possibly accidental	1998
Frank Melrose	American	jazz and blues pianist	probably fight, made to look like car accident	1941
Unity Mitford	British	fascist	meningitis	1948
Eva Perón	Argentinian	actress, wife of President Juan Perón	cancer	1952
Harry Nelson Pillsbury	American	chess player	syphilis	1906
Pimp C	American	rapper	Accidental codeine overdose in conjunction with sleep apnea	2007
Moana Pozzi	Italian	porn actress	liver cancer	1994
Roland Ratzenberger	Austrian	Formula 1 racing driver	crash during race qualifying	1994
Keith Relf	British	singer / harmonica player (The Yardbirds)	accidentally electric shock while playing his electric guitar	1976
Richard II of England	English	king, who was deposed and imprisoned by his cousin, Henry IV	probably homicide or starvation	1400
David Rocastle	English	footballer	non-Hodgkin's lymphoma	2001
Alma Rubens	American	actress	pneumonia	1931
Lev Schnirelmann	Soviet	mathematician	suicide	1938
Dutch Schultz	American	gangster	gunshot	1935
Bon Scott	Australian	hard-rock singer (AC/DC)	Acute alcoholic poisoning. Death by misadventure.	1980
Derrick Thomas	American	American football linebacker (Kansas City Chiefs)	car accident	2000
Wolfgang von Trips	German	Formula One driver	car crash	1961
Theo Van Gogh	Dutch	art dealer	syphilis	1891
Ray Vitte	American	actor	shot by police while resisting arrest	1983
John Wilmot	English	Restoration poet	syphilis and alcoholism	1680
[edit] Aged 34
Carter Albrecht	American	keyboardist (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians)	gunshot	2007
Rodney Anoa'i (Yokozuna)	American	professional wrestler	heart attack	2000
Richard Burns	English	rally driver	brain tumour	2005
Charles I of Austria	Austrian	deposed Emperor and King	pneumonia	1922
Alma Cogan	British	pop singer	cancer	1966
Maureen Connolly	American	tennis player	cancer	1969
Jeffrey Dahmer	American	serial killer	bludgeoning in prison by fellow inmate	1994
Georges Danton	French	revolutionary leader	execution	1794
Camille Desmoulins	French	revolutionary journalist	execution	1794
Thomas Anthony Dooley	American	activist	cancer	1961
Andreas Floer	German	mathematician	suicide	1991
Leo Ford	American	porn star	motorcycle accident	1991
Yuri Gagarin	Soviet	cosmonaut, first man in space	fighter jet crash during test flight	1968
Gioachino Greco	Italian	chess player	unknown disease	1634
Lil Green	American	blues singer	pneumonia	1954
Robert Greene	English	playwright	?	1592
Lorraine Hansberry	American	playwright	breast cancer	1965
Owen Hart	Canadian	professional wrestler	fall while being lowered to ring during live televised event	1999
Jesse James	American	outlaw and train-robber	gunshot	1882
Cal Jammer	American	porn star	suicide	1995
Toivo Kuula	Finnish	composer	homicide	1918
Eugenio Elia Levi	Italian	mathematician	killed in action	1917
Cory Lidle	American	Major League Baseball pitcher	killed when his plane crashed into a high-rise building	2006
Jayne Mansfield	American	actress and sex symbol	car accident	1967
Katherine Mansfield	New Zealander	writer	tuberculosis	1923
Maximilian I of Mexico	Austrian	emperor of Mexico	execution	1867
Lynn McGlothen	American	baseball pitcher	died in mobile home fire	1984
Howie Morenz	Canadian	ice hockey player	complications from broken leg	1937
Marco Pantani	Italian	cyclist	cerebral oedema and heart failure from acute cocaine poisoning	2004
Charlie Parker	American	jazz saxophonist	pneumonia and ulcer, brought on by drug abuse	1955
Ronnie Peterson	Swedish	racing driver	pulmonary embolism following racing injury	1978
Dana Plato	American	actress	prescription drug overdose	1999
James F. M. Prinsep	English	footballer, long-time holder of the record as England's youngest player	fighting in Egypt	1895
Joe Orton	English	playwright	bludgeoned to death by his lover Kenneth Halliwell	1967
Bo Rein	American	college football coach (NC State / LSU)	bizarre aircraft crash in Atlantic Ocean, presumed dead	1980
Tim Richmond	American	NASCAR racing driver	AIDS	1989
Chuck Schuldiner	American	death metal guitarist and singer (Death)	pneumonia	2001
Ayrton Senna	Brazilian	Formula One racing driver	crash during race	1994
Elliott Smith	American	singer-songwriter	multiple stab wounds to chest, possibly suicide	2003
Layne Staley	American	heavy metal/grunge singer (Alice in Chains)	cocaine and heroin overdose	2002
Robin Stille	American	actress	Suicide	1996
Michael Ventris	British	architect, classicist, linguist	Car accident	1956
Raoul Wallenberg	Swedish	humanitarian	unknown, possibly executed	1947
Simone Weil	French	philosopher	tuberculosis	1943
Weng Weng	Filipino	actor	heart failure	1992
Keith Whitley	American	country western singer	alcohol poisoning	1989
Paul Williams	American	singer (The Temptations)	suicide by gunshot	1973
[edit] Aged 35
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa	Japanese	writer	suicide	1927
St. Anthony of Padua	Portuguese	Catholic saint	illness	1231
José Burgos	Spanish-Filipino	nationalist Catholic priest	execution	1872
Ed Delahanty	American	baseball player	fell over Niagara Falls	1903
Guy Fawkes	English	explosives expert	hanged	1606
Josh Gibson	American	baseball player (Negro Leagues)	stroke	1947
Charles Griffes	American	composer	influenza	1920
Andy Kaufman	American	actor, comedian, hoaxer	lung cancer	1984
Jonathan Larson	American	composer	aortic dissection	1996
Meriwether Lewis	American	explorer	gunshot	1809
Patrice Lumumba	Congolese	first Congolese Prime Minister	assassinated	1961
Miguel Miramón	Mexican	general	execution	1867
Donnie Moore	American	baseball pitcher	suicide	1989
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Salzburgian	composer	Rheumatic fever	1791
Phil Ochs	American	singer	suicide by hanging	1976
Ol' Dirty Bastard	American	rapper (Wu Tang Clan)	accidental overdose of cocaine and painkillers	2004
Elis Regina	Brazilian	singer	overdose	1982
José Rizal	Filipino	novelist, National Hero of the Philippines	Spanish firing squad	1896
Jimmie Rodgers	American	country musician	hemorrage brought on by tuberculosis	1933
Philippa Schuyler	American	musician	aircraft crash	1967
Matthias Sindelar	Austrian	footballer	carbon monoxide poisoning	1939
Silk Smitha	Indian	actress and sex symbol	Suicide	1996
Bernadette Soubirous	French	visionary	tuberculosis	1879
Wolfe Tone	Irish	independence leader	suicide by stab wounds to throat while awaiting execution in British custody	1798
Stevie Ray Vaughan	American	blues guitarist	helicopter crash	1990
Kellie Waymire	American	actress	cardiac arrhythmia	2003
Lena Zavaroni	Scottish	pop singer	anorexia nervosa	1999
Sir William Wallace	Scottish	Knight & Scottish patriot	executed - drawn, hanged and quartered	1305
[edit] Aged 36
Nick Adams	American	actor	drug overdose	1968
GG Allin	American	punk rock singer	heroin overdose	1993
Alberto Ascari	Italian	Formula 1 racing driver	crash during testing	1955
Antonio Ascari	Italian	Formula 1 racing driver	crash during French Grand Prix	1925
Georges Bizet	French	composer	"acute articular rheumatism"	1875
Lord Byron	English	poet	tuberculosis	1824
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot	French	mathematician and physicist	cholera	1832
Iris Chang	American	author	suicide	2004
Cyril Collard	French	artist	AIDS	1993
George Curry	American	robber	justified homicide	1900
George Armstrong Custer	American	U.S. Army cavalry commander	killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn	1876
Paul Demayo	American	bodybuilder	heroin overdose	2005
Tip Foster	English	only man to have captained both England football and cricket teams	diabetes	1914
John Gilbert	American	actor	heart attack	1936
Veronica Guerin	Irish	journalist	homicide	1996
Joe Hall	Canadian	ice hockey player	Spanish flu	1919
Mary Hansen	Australian	musician in Stereolab	car accident	2002
Robin Harris	American	comedian, actor	heart attack	1990
Bruno Hauptmann	German	Lindbergh kidnapper and killer	electrocuted	1936
Doc Holliday	American	dentist, gambler, gunfighter	tuberculosis	1887
Blind Lemon Jefferson	American	blues singer, songwriter and guitarist	heart attack or hypothermia when disoriented during snowstorm	1929
Casey Jones	American	railroad engineer	train accident	1900
Loïc Leferme	French	free diver	drowning	2007
Debbie Linden	British	actress and model	heroin overdose	1996
George Lohmann	English	cricketer	tuberculosis	1901
Ada Lovelace	English	mathematician	uterine cancer	1852
Phil Lynott	Irish	rock musician (Thin Lizzy)	drug overdose	1986
Étienne Louis Malus	French	mathematician & physicist	unknown	1812
Bob Marley	Jamaican	reggae musician	melanoma, started in toe, spread to lung and brain	1981
Madhubala	Indian	actress	heart condition	1969
Milan Mladenović	Yugoslav	rock musician	cancer	1994
Marilyn Monroe	American	actress, sex symbol	barbiturate overdose, probably intentional	1962
Joe Morris	American	trumpeter and bandleader	cerebral haemorrhage	1958
Tom Murphy	Irish	actor	lymphatic cancer	2007
Kamala Nehru	Indian	wife of Jawaharlal Nehru	tuberculosis	1936
Kimmo Nevonmaa	Finnish	composer	cerebral haemorrhage	1996
Jaco Pastorius	American	bass player, former member of Weather Report	beaten to death by Luc Havan	1987
Patrick Pearse	Irish	nationalist	execution	1916
Arndt Pekurinen	Finnish	pacifist	execution	1941
Jack Pickford	Canadian-born American	actor	syphilis, alcoholism	1933
Evelyn Preer	American	actress, singer	pneumonia	1932
Herman Potočnik	Slovene	aerospace engineer	pneumonia	1929
C. P. Ramanujam	Indian	mathematician	suicide	1974
Rene Requiestas	Filipino	actor	tuberculosis	1993
Maximilien Robespierre	French	revolutionary leader	guillotined	1794
Óscar Carmelo Sánchez	Bolivian	football player	cancer	2007
Jessica Savitch	American	journalist	drowning	1983
Gaetano Scirea	Italian	footballer	car crash	1989
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec	French	artist	alcoholism	1901
Lupe Velez	Mexican	actress/singer	suicide	1944
Gene Vincent	American	rockabilly musician	liver damage from alcoholism	1971
Diana, Princess of Wales	British	royal, ex-wife of Prince Charles	car accident	1997
Nathanael West	American	writer	car accident	1940
Jacinto Zamora	Filipino	priest recognized as national martyr	execution	1872
[edit] Aged 37
Mike Bloomfield	American	guitarist	overdose	1981
Robert Burns	Scottish	poet	heart problems	1796
Colin Clive	British	actor	pneumonia	1937
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor	English	composer	pneumonia	1912
King Curtis	American	saxophonist	homicide	1971
Jill Dando	British	television presenter	gunshot	1999
Bobby Darin	American	singer, actor	complications during heart surgery	1973
Justin Fashanu	English	footballer	suicide	1998
Stephen Foster	American	composer	accidental fall	1864
Rosalind Franklin	English	DNA pioneer	ovarian cancer	1958
Alexander Friedman	Russian	mathematician	typhoid fever	1925
Lou Gehrig	American	baseball player (New York Yankees)	amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	1941
Albert Girard	French	mathematician	unknown	1632
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden	Swedish	King of Sweden	killed in Battle of Lützen	1632
Carl Gustav Axel Harnack	German	mathematician	unknown cause	1888
Jacques-René Hébert	French	revolutionary journalist	execution	1794
Mitch Hedberg	American	comedian	drug overdose	2005
Henry III of France	French	King of France	assassination	1589
Winifred Holtby	United Kingdom	novelist	kidney disease	1935
István Horthy	Hungarian	politician and fighter pilot	plane crash	1942
Qusay Hussein	Iraqi	son of Saddam Hussein and head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service	gun battle with US forces	2003
Michael Hutchence	Australian	rock singer (INXS)	suicide; hung himself by belt	1997
Jam Master Jay	American	hip hop DJ (Run-DMC)	gunshots from unknown attacker in recording studio	2002
Riku Järvinen	Finnish	bassist (Sir Elwoodin hiljaiset värit)	falling from a balcony	2004
Marie Antoinette	French	Queen, wife of Louis XVI	executed	1793
Joe Meek	British	record producer	suicide	1967
Marilyn Miller	United States	actress and dancer	complications from surgery	1936
Sal Mineo	American	actor	murder by stabbing	1976
Murat Nasyrov	Russian-Kazakh	singer	suicide by jumping	2007
Georg von Peuerbach	Austrian/German	astronomer, mathematician	unknown	1461
Drew Posada	American	comic book colorist	pancreatitis	2007
Ramon Power y Giralt	Puerto Rican	navy admiral	yellow fever	1813
Ernst Paul Heinz Prüfer	German	mathematician	unknown cause	1934
Aleksandr Pushkin	Russian	playwright, poet	gunshot during duel	1837
Raphael	Italian	artist	unknown cause	1520
Arthur Rimbaud	French	poet	gangrene	1891
Thomas Sankara	Burkinabé	President of Burkina Faso	assassination	1987
Franklyn Seales	Vincentian	Silver Spoons actor	AIDS	1990
Soraya	Colombian-American	singer	breast cancer	2006
Peter Stefan	Czech	mathematician	accident	1978
John Millington Synge	Irish	novelist	Hodgkin's lymphoma	1909
Irving Thalberg	American	film producer	pneumonia	1936
Vincent Van Gogh	Dutch	painter	suicide by gunshot to his chest	1890
Hidehiko Yamabe	Japanese	mathematician	stroke	1960
[edit] Aged 38
Guillaume Apollinaire	French	poet	influenza	1918
Caravaggio	Italian	artist	pneumonia	1610
Diana Barrymore	American	actress	suicide	1960
Blackbeard	English	pirate	justified homicide	1718
David Byron	English	singer, (Uriah Heep)	alcohol related complications	1985
Mary Kay Bergman	American	voice actress (South Park)	suicide	1999
Charlotte Brontë	English	novelist	tuberculosis (debated)	1855
Harry Chapin	American	singer-songwriter	car crash	1981
Roberto Clemente	Puerto Rican	baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates)	aircraft crash	1972
Jackie Curtis	American	actress	drug overdose	1985
Dimebag Darrell	American	guitarist (Pantera)	murder	2004
Osamu Dazai	Japanese	novelist	suicide	1948
Ted Demme	American	film director	heart attack	2002
Lolo Ferrari	French	porn star	drug overdose, possible murder	2000
George Gershwin	American	composer	brain tumor	1937
Eddie Guerrero	American	professional wrestler	heart failure	2005
Florence Griffith Joyner	American	sprinter	cavernous angioma, possibly caused by performance-enhancing drugs	1998
Imogen Hassall	English	actress	suicide	1980
Tubby Hayes	British	jazz musician	heart failure	1973
Minako Honda	Japanese	singer, actress	acute myeloid leukemia	2005
John F. Kennedy, Jr	American	journalist, publisher	aircraft crash	1999
Sam Kinison	American	stand-up comedian	car accident caused by drunk driver	1992
Aleksis Kivi	Finnish	author	borreliosis	1872
Alan Kulwicki	American	NASCAR racing driver	plane crash	1993
Mario Lanza	American	operatic tenor and actor	heart attack	1959
J. B. Lenoir	American	blues singer and songwriter	heart attack following injuries from car accident	1967
Sonny Liston	American	heavyweight boxer	drug overdose	1970
Louis XVI of France	French	King of France	execution	1793
Apolinario Mabini	Filipino	Prime Minister of the Philippines	cholera	1903
James MacCullagh	Irish	mathematician	suicide	1847
Anna Malle	American	pornographic actress	car crash	2006
John Matuszak	American	football player, actor	heart failure	1989
Vera Menchik	British	chess player	V-2 rocket	1944
Felix Mendelssohn	German	composer	stroke	1847
Jean Merlin	French	mathematician	killed in action	1914
Jeff Porcaro	American	drummer	heart attack	1992
Marie Prevost	Canadian-born American	actress	alcoholism, malnutrition	1937
Quorthon	Swedish	black metal songwriter	heart failure	2004
David Rappaport	British	diminutive actor	suicide	1990
Joseph Schmidt	Austro-Jewish	tenor	pneumonia	1942
Charles Kingsford Smith	Australian	pioneering aviator	presumed aircraft crash	1935
Joseph Smith, Jr	American	founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)	assassination (gunshot and fall from window)	1844
Herman Spöring Jr.	Finnish	explorer	dysentery complications related to food poisoning	1771
Leonid Stein	Russian	chess player	heart attack	1973
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes	Dutch	mathematician	unknown	1894
Johnny Thunders	American	glam-rock guitarist/singer (New York Dolls)	methadone and alcohol poisoning	1991
Bill Williams	American	game designer	cystic fibrosis	1998
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Pier Angeli	Italian	actress	Suicide	1971
Evald Aav	Estonian	composer	not specified	1939
Bill Black	American	bass player for Elvis	brain tumour	1965
David Bloom	American	reporter for NBC	deep vein thrombosis and a pulmonary embolism	2003
Frédéric Chopin	Polish	composer	tuberculosis	1849
Alfred Clebsch	German	mathematician	diphtheria	1872
Cleopatra VII	Egyptian	Queen of Egypt	suicide	30 BC
Davie Cooper	Scottish	soccer player	cerebral hemorrhage	1995
Crazy Horse	Sioux	warrior (exact age at death uncertain)	assassination	1877
Amelia Earhart	American	aviator	plane disappeared while crossing Pacific Ocean, presumed dead	1937
Mihai Eminescu	Romanian	poet	probable syphilis	1889
Carlo Farina	Italian	composer and violinist	not specified	1639
Brenda Fassie	South African	pop singer	cocaine overdose	2004
Gao Qi	Chinese	poet	executed for "inciting rebellion"	1374
Johnny Golden	American	golfer	pneumonia	1936
Felix Gonzalez-Torres	American	artist	AIDS	1996
Che Guevara	Argentinean	Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader	executed while in Bolivian army’s custody	1967
Tim Hardin	American	singer, songwriter	heroin and morphine overdose	1980
Jaroslav Hašek	Czech	writer	tubercolosis	1923
George Herbert	English	poet	tuberculosis	1633
Craig Heyward	American	former NFL running back	brain tumor	2006
Eldon Hoke	American	drummer	train collision	1997
Uday Hussein	Iraqi	son of Saddam Hussein	gun battle with US forces	2003
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson	American	Confederate Civil War general	pneumonia - result of friendly-fire	1863
Philip Jourdain	English	mathematician	Friedreich's ataxia	1919
Graciano López Jaena	Filipino	journalist and writer	tuberculosis	1896
Michael Kennedy	American	son of RFK	skiing accident	1997
Martin Luther King, Jr	American	Nobel laureate, minister, civil rights activist	gunshot	1968
Meena Kumari	Indian	actress	Cirrhosis of the liver	1972
Van McCoy	American	record producer	heart attack	1979
Colin McRae	Scottish	rally driver	helicopter crash	2007
Jean Baptiste Meusnier	French	mathematician	killed in action	1793
Veronica Micle	Romanian	poet	suicide by arsenic	1889
Carl Morton	American	baseball pitcher	heart attack after jogging	1983
Klaus Nomi	German	singer	AIDS	1983
Flannery O'Connor	American	Author	lupus	1964
Blaise Pascal	French	mathematician and philosopher	possibly tuberculosis or stomach cancer	1662
Barbara Payton	American	actress	heart and liver failure	1967
Howard Taylor Ricketts	American	pathologist	typhus	1910
Bernhard Riemann	German	mathematician	tuberculosis	1866
Bartholomew Roberts	Welsh	pirate	justified homicide	1722
Anna Nicole Smith	American	model and actress	overdose	2007
Davey Boy Smith (British Bulldog)	British	Wrestler	heart attack	2002
Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki	Finnish	musician	alcohol-related health ailments	1987
Jermaine Stewart	American	musician	AIDS	1997
Dylan Thomas	Welsh	poet	alcohol poisoning	1953
Evangelista Torricelli	Italian	physicist and mathematician	typhoid fever	1647
Georges Vézina	Canadian	ice hockey goaltender (Canadien)	tuberculosis	1926
Carl Maria von Weber	German	composer	tuberculosis	1826
Dan White	American	politician	suicide	1985
Dennis Wilson	American	rock & roll musician (The Beach Boys)	drowning due to intoxication	1983
Malcolm X	American	leader of militant black nationalism	gunshots	1965
Karen Young	American	disco singer	bleeding ulcer	1991
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi	Jordanian	Al Qaeda leader	bomb attack	2006
Guru Dutt	Indian	Actor and Director	suicide	1964

[edit] See also

• List of people who died before the age of 30

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