Airplane crash Thomas Selfridge - September 17, 1908 Amy Johnson - January 5, 1941 Leslie Howard - June 1, 1943 Wladyslaw Sikorski - July 4, 1943 Glenn Miller - December 14, 1944 AC Torino soccer team (Superga disaster) - May 4, 1949 Busby Babes - February 6, 1958 Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens - February 3, 1959 Dag Hammarskjöld - 18 September, 1961 Otis Redding - 10 December, 1967 Ronnie VanZant, Steve Gaines - 20 October, 1977 (Lynyrd Skynyrd) Ricky Nelson - December 31, 1985 John Denver - October 12, 1997 Aaliyah - August, 2001 Balloon crash Maxie Anderson 27 June 1983 Helicopter accident Vic Morrow - 23 July 1982 Helicopter crash Francis Gary Powers - 1 August 1977 Stevie Ray Vaughan - 27 August 1990 Marie Rossi - 1 March 1991 Bill Graham - 25 October 1991 Davey Allison - 13 July 1993 Svyatoslav Fyodorov - 2 July 2000 Alexander Lebed - 28 April 2002 Related links Index of lists of famous deaths by cause List of people who died in aviation-related incidents
