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This is a list of well-known people who have died in aviation-related tragedies. This list does not include the approximately three thousand people who died in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack, nor the millions who have died from aerial bombardment during war.This list is sectioned by occupation. For a list of aviation-related deaths by type of aircraft see a separate list of famous deaths by aircraft misadventure.
The year after the names of persons is the year of the aviation-related death. Within each section, people are listed in alphabetical order.
1 Aviation
- Juan de la Cierva, inventor of the autogyro, on a fixed-wing plane
- Bessie Coleman (1892-1926), first African-American woman pilot
- Jessica Dubroff, young pilot
- Amelia Earhart, 1937, pioneer woman pilot
- Eugene Ely, 1911, pioneer pilot in U.S. naval aviation
- Guy Gibson, World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough pilot
- Amy JohnsonAmy Johnson ( July 1, 1903 January 5, 1941) was a famous English aviatrix who was born in Kingston upon Hull. Having graduated with a BA Economics from the University of Sheffield, Johnson went to work in London as secretary to a solicitor. She was introd, BritishEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England pilot
- William A. MoffettWilliam Adger Moffett ( 1869 4 April 1933) was an American admiral notable as the architect of naval aviation in the United States Navy. Biography Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1890. He was on the, 1933Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s Years: 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 See also 1933 in aviation 1933 in film 1933 in literature 1933 in mu, U.S. NavyThe United States Navy USN is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. Navy consists of slightly fewer than 300 ships and over 4,000 operational aircraft. It has over a half million men and women on active or ready re admiralThe word admiral comes from the Arabic term amir-al-bahr meaning "commander of the seas. Crusaders learned the term during their encounters with the Arabs, perhaps as early as the 11th century. The Sicilians and later Genoese took the first two parts of t, in crash of airship USS Akron
- Edward O'HareEdward "Butch" O'Hare ( March 13, 1914 November 26, 1943) was a pilot who on February 20, 1942 became America's first World War II flying ace. The O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois was named in his honor. Edward O'Hare was born in St., American World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough pilot
- Harriet Quimby (1875-1912), first licensed female pilot in the United States
- Isoroku Yamamoto, 1943, Japanese admiral who planned Pearl Harbor attack
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