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.


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Name Nationality Known for Cause of death Date
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
Kenny Irwin, Jr. American race car driver accident practicing for race 2000
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
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
Natasha Collins British actress and model drug overdose 2008
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
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
Dana Hill American actress/voice actor stroke from diabetes 1996
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
Mark Priestley Australian actor suicide 2008
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
Jedediah Smith American Explorer Killed in fight with Comanche Indians 1831
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
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
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
Hermann Hankel German mathematician stroke 1873
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
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
Aged 35
Renée Adorée French-American actress tubercolosis 1933
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