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Death of a Famous Actor
Death of a Famous Actor (Mingyou zhi si) is a 1927 Chinese spoken drama by Tian Han about a Peking opera star who dies on stage.
Death of a Gunfighter
Death of a Gunfighter (1969) is a 94-minute Universal Western starring Richard Widmark and Lena Horne, the first film credited to the DGA pseudonym Allen Smithee, standing in for directors Robert Totten and Don Siegel after a production dispute.
Death of a Naturalist
Death of a Naturalist is a poem by Seamus Heaney, and the title of his first major poetry collection, published in 1966 and containing "Digging" and "Mid-Term Break".
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman is Arthur Miller's 1949 Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning Broadway tragedy of Willy Loman, a 63-year-old traveling salesman destroyed by his flawed pursuit of the American Dream; revived on Broadway in 1984, 1999, 2012, 2022, and 2026.
Death of a Unicorn
Death of a Unicorn is a 2025 A24 horror-comedy, the feature directorial debut of Alex Scharfman, starring Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, Téa Leoni, and Richard E. Grant; released March 28, 2025, it earned $16 million worldwide against a $15 million budget.
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 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 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 Jimi Hendrix
Death of Jimi Hendrix: the guitarist died September 18, 1970, aged 27, at London's Samarkand Hotel from barbiturate intoxication with inhalation of vomit; an open verdict, disputed red wine evidence, and murder allegations keep the case controversial.
Death of Marilyn Monroe
Death of Marilyn Monroe: the actress (Norma Jeane Mortenson) found dead August 5, 1962, age 36, in Brentwood, Los Angeles, of acute barbiturate poisoning, ruled probable suicide; a 1982 district attorney review found no evidence of murder.
Death of Me (film)
Death of Me is a 2020 folk-horror thriller directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, starring Maggie Q and Luke Hemsworth as a couple in Thailand who find a video of an apparent ritual murder. Released by Saban Films on October 2, 2020; shot in Krabi and Bangkok; 33% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Death of Sushant Singh Rajput
Death of Sushant Singh Rajput: Indian Bollywood actor (Kai Po Che!, MS Dhoni: The Untold Story) found hanging in his Bandra, Mumbai home on June 14, 2020, aged 34; ruled suicide by postmortem and AIIMS, and the CBI's 2025 closure report found no foul play.
Death of the Author (novel)
Death of the Author is Nnedi Okorafor's 2025 metafiction novel (William Morrow) about Zelu, a disabled Nigerian American writer whose hit sci-fi novel Rusted Robots escapes her control; Locus, NAACP Image Award winner, Hugo finalist.
Death of Vincent van Gogh
Death of Vincent van Gogh: the Dutch painter, shot on 27 July 1890 near Auvers-sur-Oise, died 29 July at the Auberge Ravoux, aged 37. Long accepted as suicide; Naifeh and Smith's 2011 biography and a 2020 forensic reevaluation contest it.
Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (5 December 1791, Vienna): the composer's fatal 15-day febrile illness at age 35; registered as miliary fever, debated as streptococcal nephritis, chronic kidney disease, or rheumatic fever; Salieri poisoning myth unfounded.
Death of Wolverine
Death of Wolverine: 2014 four-issue weekly Marvel miniseries by Charles Soule and Steve McNiven in which Logan, having lost his healing factor in the 3 Months to Die storyline, dies coated in liquid adamantium, followed by a four-year canonical absence.
Death on the Installment Plan
Death on the Installment Plan (Mort à crédit) is a 1936 novel by French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a prequel to Journey to the End of the Night.
Death on the Nile
Death on the Nile is Agatha Christie's 1937 Hercule Poirot novel, expanded from a 1934 Parker Pyne short story, in which Linnet Doyle is murdered aboard the steamer Karnak on her Nile honeymoon, and the killers are her husband Simon and Jacqueline de Bellefort.
Death on the Nile (1978 film)
Death on the Nile (1978) is John Guillermin's Agatha Christie adaptation starring Peter Ustinov in his first of six Poirot appearances, with Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, and Maggie Smith; it won the Oscar for Best Costume Design.
Death on the Nile (2022 film)
Death on the Nile is a 2022 mystery thriller directed by Kenneth Branagh, adapted from Agatha Christie's 1937 novel and the sequel to Murder on the Orient Express (2017).
Death Parade (デス・パレード)
Death Parade (デス・パレード) is a 2015 Madhouse anime, 12 episodes on Nippon TV, created and directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa. It grew from the 2013 short Death Billiards: dead souls play games at bar Quindecim while arbiter Decim judges them to reincarnation or the void.
Death poem
Death poem (jisei, 辞世), the Japanese farewell poem to life, composed on the deathbed in tanka, kanshi, or haiku form; shaped by Zen, practiced by monks, samurai, and poets, and distinct from wills and ordinary late-life verse.
Death Proof
Death Proof is a 2007 American exploitation-horror film directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike, a stunt driver who murders women with his car.
Death Race (2008 film)
Death Race (2008) is a Paul W.S. Anderson action film for Universal, loosely remaking Death Race 2000, starring Jason Statham as framed prisoner Jensen Ames racing as Frankenstein.
Death Race (franchise)
Death Race franchise: dystopian racing media starting with Death Race 2000 (1975, Roger Corman/Paul Bartel), Exidy's controversial 1976 arcade game, Paul W.S. Anderson's 2008 remake with Jason Statham, and the prequels, Death Race 2050, and comic Death Race 2020.
Death Race 2
Death Race 2 (2010) is a direct-to-video action prequel to the 2008 film Death Race, directed by Roel Reiné, starring Luke Goss as Carl Lucas, the origin of Frankenstein, released January 18, 2011.
Death Race 2000
Death Race 2000 (1975) is a Paul Bartel dystopian action comedy produced by Roger Corman, starring David Carradine as Frankenstein and Sylvester Stallone, in which Transcontinental Road Race drivers score points by killing pedestrians; a cult classic remade in 2008.
Death Race 3: Inferno
Death Race 3: Inferno (Death Race: Inferno) is a 2013 direct-to-video American sci-fi action film directed by Roel Reiné, starring Luke Goss as Carl Lucas/Frankenstein in the first Kalahari Desert Death Race; a prequel to the 2008 Death Race.
Death Race for Love
Death Race for Love (2019) is Juice WRLD's second studio album on Grade A/Interscope: 22 tracks in 72 minutes with guests Brent Faiyaz, Clever, and Young Thug; it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and was his last album released in his lifetime.
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy (2018) is the fourth Death Race film, a direct-to-video action movie directed by Don Michael Paul, starring Zach McGowan as Connor Gibson infiltrating the Sprawl prison to defeat Frankenstein.