Steve Fossett

Steve Fossett

male, 65 years old
Aviation pioneer, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, aviator, fellow of The Explorers Club, sailboat racer, Balloonist…diedinairplanecrash, set 116 records in five different sports, airplane, Washington University in St. Louis alumni, Washington University in St. Louis
James Stephen Fossett (born April 22, 1944, in Jackson, Tennessee) is a American aviator and adventurer known for his appetite to set world...
Isoroku Yamamoto

Isoroku Yamamoto

male, deceased (1943)
midway, Pearl Harbor, p-38 lightning, Pacific War, Gamblers, Combined Fleet…Japanese World War II killed in action, diedinairplanecrash, born in Nagaoka, Japan
(4 April 1884 – 18 April 1943) was a Fleet Admiral (Gensui) and Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II, graduate of Im...
Fritz Todt

Fritz Todt

male, deceased (1942)
Nazi, civil engineer, nsdap, chancellor of Germany, hitler, World War II…diedinairplanecrash, born in Pforzheim, Germany, born in Pforzheim, Germany on 4th September, 1891
Fritz Todt (September 4, 1891 - February 8, 1942) was a German engineer and senior Nazi figure, the founder of Organisation Todt. He died in a...

Archie Twitchell

male
actor, diedinairplanecrash, Off Limits actor, West Point Widow actor, Web of Danger actor, Buck Benny Rides Again actor…Caught in the Draft actor, In Old Amarillo actor, The Fleet's In actor, Don't Fence Me In actor, born in Pendleton, Oregon
Twitchell was a licensed pilot, and after retiring from films he went to work for Douglas Aircraft. On Jan. 31, 1957, he was the co-pilot on a test...

Art Cohn

male
writer, Screenwriter, Unit Publicist, Born in New York, New York, diedinairplanecrash, Illegal Entry writer
Died in same airplane crash as Mike Todd, whose biography he was writing.

Jane Alice Peters

female
musician, actress, performer, Fairfax High School, diedinairplanecrash, Vigil in the Night actress…born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, In Name Only actress
Carole Lombard was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October 6, 1908. Her parents divorced in 1916 and her mother took the family...

Earl Carroll

male
writer, Playwright, film producer, composer, actor, associate producer…Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, diedinairplanecrash
Producer, director, composer, songwriter and composer; Earl Carroll was part Billy Rose, a little Busby Berkeley and part Michael Todd. He was a...

Gary Rhine

male
writer, film producer, film director, rhino, Film editor, Executive Producer…Born in San Francisco, California, diedinairplanecrash
Was an activist whose award winning documentaries focused on contemporary Native American struggles. A fifth generation San Franciscan he was also...

Leonard Stogel

film producer, Concert Producer, diedinairplanecrash, executive producer in charge of production, Leonard Stogel, Rock Flashback California Jam
Renowned "rock & roll" impresario and manager of Pop Music acts The Cowsills who were the original inspiration for TV's The Partridge Family. Also...

Robert Francis

male
actor, born in Glendale, California, diedinairplanecrash, They Rode West actor, The Long Gray Line actor, The Caine Mutiny actor
Relatively new to Hollywood, young Robert Francis, 25, was a rising young actor on the verge of film stardom in 1955 after making a solid debut as...