Automotive Deaths
possibly suicide (s) or murder (m)
in cars
9/27 isadora duncan
9/28 italo svevo
9/37 bessie smith
10/40 tom mix
12/40 hal kemp (bandleader)
12/40 nathaniel west (and wife, eileen mckinney)
12/44 george steer (war correspondent - guernica, etc.)
12/45 general george patton
6/46 jack johnson
?/47 katy dos passos
11/48 stan hasselgard (clarinettist)
8/49 margaret mitchell
?/50 helen taylor (composer)
6/50 charles richard drew (developer of blood banks)
?/55? victor mkhize (s. africamn comedian) (m - refused treatment @ white hospital)
9/55 james dean
6/56 clifford brown and richie powell (jazz innovators, also powell's wife)
8/56 jackson pollock (s)
7/57 judy tyler (tv star - princess summerfall winterspring)
9/57 dennis brain (french horn virtuoso)
7/58 julia lennon
11/58 mel ott (ballplayer)
1/60 albert camus
4/60 eddie cochran (rock star)
11/60 johnny horton (rock star)
7/61 scott la faro (bill evans' bass player)
9/61 andrzej munk (director)
1/62 ernie kovacs (comedian)
2/62 doug watkins (jazz musician)
9/62 blind orange adams
5/65 david smith (sculptor)
7/65 porfirio rubirosa (playboy diplomat)
10/65 randall jarrell
8/66 joe gilbert (of folk duo joe & eddie) (s)
?/66 him (lyndon johnson's dog)
6/67 francoise dorleac (actress - sister of catherine deneuve)
6/67 jayne mansfield
?/67 nicole berger (actress - shoot the piano player)
? /69 rikki huston (angelica's mom)
6/69 martin lamble (fairport convention)
7/69 mary jo kopechne (possibly negligent homicide)
6/70 lonnie johnson (blues guitar originator)
7/72 brandon de wilde (movie actor - hud)
10/73 abebe bikila (marathon olympian - after 4 years of paralysis)
11/74 karen silkwood (m)
5/75 steve prefontaine (distance runner)
?/77 skeets millard (underground journalist)
9/77 marc bolan (musician - t. rex)
7/78 john d. rockefeller III
12/78 chris bell (musician - big star)
7/79 keith godchaux (musician - grateful dead)
7/80 bruce bechdel (alison's dad, possibly suicide)
11/80 andrei amalrik (russian dissident) (m)
7/81 harry chapin
9/82 (princess) grace kelly
10/83 jessica savitch (tv journalist)
9/84 janet gaynor (movie actor)
12/85 d. boone (punk rocker - minutemen)
9/86 cliff burton (metallica)
4/88 dave prater ( of sam & dave)
12/89 billy martin
6/90 stiv bators (punk rocker - dead boys)
10/90 barrie wilson (procol harum)
4/92 sam kinison
11/92 alexander dubcek (czech democrat) (m)
? /93 drazen petrovic (basketball player)
4/93 wallace stegner
5/93 julio gallo
8/97 (princess) diana spencer (m)
11/98 alan pakula (movie director)
11/99 ian bannen (movie actor)
12/99 desmond llewelyn (movie actor)
1/00 bobby phills (basketball player)
10/00 steve allen (comedian)
2/01 robert christie (drummer - oswald five-o, some velvet sidewalk, snakepit)
3/01 david mctaggart (founder of greenpeace)
12/01 w.g. sebald (novelist)
1/02 buddy (bill clinton's dog)
1/02 harvey matusow (witch-hunter)
4/02 linda boreman (lovelace - her film cost 30 G, made 600 mil, she was paid 0)
4/02 lisa lopes ("left eye")
11/02 william marrie (tharp lead)
12/02 william henson (chief animator for jay ward)
12/02 bob berg (sax player for miles davis & chick corea)
12/02 mary hansen (musician - stereolab)
12/02 ian macnaughton (original monty python director)
4/03 arthur guyton (doctor, educator)
7/03 franny reese (environmental activist)
7/03 chaim engel (sobibor revolt leader)
8/03 herb brooks (hockey coach)
1/04 spalding gray (monologist, suicide after disabling injury from drunk driver)
1/04 helmut newton
2/04 jean rouch (founder of cinema verite)
3/04 jan berry (of jan & dean, surf-music glorifiers of car culture ["dead man's curve"], died of lingering effects from1966 wreck)
7/04 irvin yeaworth (director, "the blob")
12/04 teofil peter (romanian rock star, by drunk american marine, who walked)
5/05 justo faison (hiphop star)
2/06 richard bright (actor)
8/06 evhen kucherevskiy (coached ukraine to world cup)
12/06 jared nathan ("zoom" star)
12/06 neville willoughby (jamaican dj)
4/07 bob clark (director, also son ariel by drunk driver)
4/07 david halberstam (historian/journalist)
pedestrians
6/26 antonio gaudi (architect)
9/40 john wheelwright (poet)
1/48 solomon mikhoels (russian actor - by kgb 'accident')(m)
8/49 margaret mitchell
7/66 frank o'hara (poet)
7/73 clarence white (musician - byrds)
6/77 marvin pontiac (bluesman - by a bus)
11/94 jerry rubin
3/02 susie stevens (founder of the thunderhead alliance, the national coalition of bicycle organisations)
5/04 reginald zelnik (free speech activist & russia historian)
on motorcycles
5/35 t.e. lawrence
? /66 richard farina (folk musician)
?/66 claudette orbison (roy's wife)
10/71 duane allman (allman brothers' lead guitar)
11/72 barry oakley (allman brothers' bass-player - 3 blocks away from duane's accident)
9/82 john gardner (novelist)
6/89 pete de freitas (musician - echo & the bunnymen)
7/99 pete conrad (astronaut)
8/04 indian larry desmedt (custom designer)
on bicycles
7/88 nico (musician - velvet underground, etc.)
12/02 mary hansen (musician - stereolab)
6/03 matthew sperry (musician - tom waits, black cat orchestra, etc.)
9/03 ken kifer (bicycle advocate - www.kenkifer.com)
5/04 phyllis hassan (texas bike activist)
8/05 gareth parker (oregon bike activist)
1/06 jan bouchal (czech bike activist)
12/06 galen martin (kentucky civil rights activist)
musicians
9/37 bessie smith
12/40 hal kemp
11/48 stan hasselgard
?/50 helen taylor
6/56 clifford brown and richie powell
9/57 dennis brain
4/60 eddie cochran
11/60 johnny horton
7/61 scott la faro
2/62 doug watkins
9/62 blind orange adams
? /66 richard farina
8/66 joe gilbert
6/69 martin lamble
6/70 lonnie johnson
10/71 duane allman
11/72 barry oakley
7/73 clarence white
6/77 marvin pontiac
9/77 marc bolan
12/78 chris bell
7/79 keith godchaux
7/81 harry chapin
12/85 d. boon
9/86 cliff burton
4/88 dave prater
7/88 nico
6/89 pete de freitas
6/90 stiv bators
10/90 barrie wilson
2/01 robert christie
4/02 lisa lopes
12/02 bob berg
12/02 mary hansen
6/03 matthew sperry
3/04 jan berry
12/04 teofil peter
5/05 justo faison
12/06 neville willoughby