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Death of Dale Earnhardt
Death of Dale Earnhardt: fatal last-lap crash of the seven-time NASCAR champion at the February 18, 2001 Daytona 500; basilar skull fracture after a wall impact that led to HANS device and SAFER barrier mandates.
Death of Darius III
The death of Darius III (مرگ داریوش سوم) was the murder of the last Achaemenid king of Persia by his own officers, led by Bessus, near Hecatompylos in 330 BC.
Death of David Bowie
Death of David Bowie: English singer David Bowie (1947-2016) died 10 January 2016 of liver cancer in New York, two days after releasing Blackstar; secret 18-month illness, global mourning, Brixton mural, V&A archive.
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales: fatal 31 August 1997 car crash in Paris's Pont de l'Alma tunnel with Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul, pursued by paparazzi; French and British inquiries found no conspiracy, 2008 inquest ruled unlawful killing.
Death of Diane Whipple
Death of Diane Whipple: January 26, 2001 fatal mauling of a San Francisco resident by Presa Canarios Bane and Hera owned by attorneys Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel, leading to California's first dog-mauling murder conviction.
Death of Dmitry Shemyaka
The death of Dmitry Shemyaka (Смерть Дмитрия Шемяки) was the poisoning in Novgorod in July 1453 of Prince Dmitry Shemyaka, the last serious rival of Grand Prince Vasily II of Moscow.
Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Death of Edgar Allan Poe: the writer's unsolved October 7, 1849 death in Baltimore at age 40, after being found delirious in another man's clothes at Gunner's Hall; no autopsy, no surviving death certificate, and competing alcohol, cooping, tuberculosis, and rabies theories.
Death of Elisa Lam
Death of Elisa Lam (藍可兒): 2013 accidental drowning of a 21-year-old Canadian student found in a Cecil Hotel rooftop water tank in Los Angeles; coroner ruled no foul play, bipolar disorder a contributing condition.
Death of Émile Soleil
Death of Émile Soleil: French toddler, two and a half, who vanished 8 July 2023 at Haut-Vernet, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence; skull found March 2024, 2025 experts found violent facial trauma, probable third-party intervention, no charges filed.
Death of Fyodor I and end of the Rurikid dynasty (1598)
The death of Tsar Fyodor I in Moscow on 7 January 1598 ended the Rurikid dynasty's ruling line, leading to Boris Godunov's election as tsar.
Death of Gareth Williams
The death of Gareth Williams, a Welsh GCHQ codebreaker on secondment to MI6, remains unexplained after he was found in a locked holdall in his London flat in 2010.
Death of Garry Hoy
Death of Garry Hoy: Toronto lawyer Garry Hoy (Holden Day Wilson) died 9 July 1993 after throwing himself against a 24th-floor Toronto-Dominion Centre window; the glass held but popped from its frame, and the firm later closed.
Death of Gilgamesh
The Death of Gilgamesh is a Sumerian narrative poem about the death, funeral, and netherworld fate of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, one of five short Sumerian Gilgamesh poems.
Death of Gloria Ramirez
Death of Gloria Ramirez, the 1994 "Toxic Lady" case at Riverside General Hospital, California, where ER staff fell ill from fumes during her treatment; official cause was kidney failure from cervical cancer, with disputed mass-hysteria and DMSO-to-dimethyl-sulfate explanations.
Death of God theology
Death of God theology, also called the Death of God Movement, is a 1960s American Protestant movement, led by Thomas J. J. Altizer and William Hamilton, holding that God died as a real historical event.
Death of Guo Chongtao
The death of Guo Chongtao (郭崇韬之死) was the 926 killing in Chengdu of Later Tang's chief minister, who had just conquered Former Shu in seventy days, on the empress's orders.
Death of Han Fei in Qin
The Death of Han Fei in Qin (韩非死秦) was the imprisonment and death of Legalist philosopher Han Fei in Qin in 233 BC, by poison sent by Li Si.
Death of Han Xin
The Death of Han Xin (韩信之死) was the execution of Han general Han Xin, lured into Changle Palace and beheaded on Empress Lü's orders while Emperor Liu Bang was away.
Death of Hank Williams
The death of Hank Williams refers to the American country singer-songwriter's death at 29 on January 1, 1953, found in his Cadillac in Oak Hill, West Virginia.
Death of Hannibal at Libyssa
The death of Hannibal at Libyssa was the Carthaginian general's suicide by poison around 183 BC at Libyssa in Bithynia, rather than surrender to a Roman embassy.
Death of Harry Dunn
The death of Harry Dunn was the 2019 killing of a 19-year-old British motorcyclist in a head-on collision with a car driven by Anne Sacoolas outside RAF Croughton.
Death of Hedviga Golik
Death of Hedviga Golik: Croatian nurse (born 1924, Rijeka) who died alone in her Zagreb attic apartment, found mummified on her bed in May 2008, 35–42 years later; cause undetermined, TV legend false.
Death of Hideyoshi and withdrawal from Korea
Toyotomi Hideyoshi died at Fushimi Castle in 1598; the Council of Five Elders concealed his death and withdrew the Japanese army from Korea, ending the war.
Death of Hu Yaobang
Death of Hu Yaobang (胡耀邦), former CCP General Secretary 1981–1987, who died of a heart attack in Beijing on April 15, 1989, aged 73; his public mourning sparked the 1989 Tiananmen protests.
Death of Islam Karimov
Death of Islam Karimov, first president of Uzbekistan (Islom Karimov), who died 2 September 2016 in Tashkent of a stroke after 25 years of authoritarian rule; succeeded by Shavkat Mirziyoyev after the December 2016 election.
Death of Jalal al-Din Mingburnu
The death of Jalal al-Din Mingburnu (مقتل جلال الدين خوارزمشاه), the last Khwarazmshah, came in 1231, when he was killed by Kurds while fleeing a Mongol army.
Death of James Cook
Captain James Cook was killed at Kealakekua Bay on the island of Hawaiʻi on 14 February 1779, in a confrontation with indigenous Hawaiians during his third Pacific voyage.
Death of James Dean
Death of James Dean: the actor's fatal crash on September 30, 1955, near Cholame, California, in his Porsche 550 Spyder "Little Bastard" at the Highway 41/46 junction, killed at 24 when Donald Turnupseed's Ford turned into his path; inquest ruled accidental death.
Death of James Yoo
Death of James Yoo: Arlington, Virginia homeowner, 56, who died December 4, 2023 when his duplex exploded during a police standoff; ruled a deliberate gasoline detonation, no terrorism ties. Distinct from Mukilteo businessman James Jae Yoo (died 2026).
Death of Jay Slater
Death of Jay Slater: 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle who vanished in Tenerife on 17 June 2024 after the NRG festival and was found dead in the Juan López ravine near Masca; a 2025 inquest ruled accidental fall.