Killed by Cars

                     120 Geniuses

                                                             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. african comedian) (m - refused treatment @ white hospital)

9/55            james dean

6/56            clifford brown and richie powell (jazz musicians, 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)

7/60            lawrence tibbett (opera singer)

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 (director)

11/99           ian bannen (actor)

12/99           desmond llewelyn (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 dancer)

12/02            william henson (chief animator for jay ward)

12/02            bob berg (sax for miles & 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 from 1966 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)

1/10              karen schmeer (documentary film editor)

7/10              pius njawe (senegal journalist) (m)

pedestrians

6/26             antonio gaudi

9/40             john wheelwright  (poet)

1/48             solomon mikhoels (russian actor - 'accident 'by kgb) (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)

2/80              roland barthes (philosopher, laundry truck)

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 (musician)

?/66               claudette orbison (roy's wife)

10/71             duane allman (allman brothers' lead guitar)

11/72             barry oakley (allman brothers' bass - 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

7/60              lawrence tibbett

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

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