List of people who have disappeared

The following is a compilation of people who have mysteriously disappeared, whose death is not substantiated, whose remains have not been recovered, or whose whereabouts are unknown and who may be presumed deceased.

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K'inich K'an Joy Chitam - king of Palenque - 711. Ruled until August 30, then disappeared from history. Probably taken prisoner by Tonina.

900s

Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl, Toltec leader.

1174

Madoc - semi-mythological Welsh prince.

1463

François Villon - French poet and criminal - whereabouts unknown after banishment from the city of Paris.

1483

Princes in the Tower sons of King Edward IV of England.

1499

John Cabot - Italian explorer. Disappeared, along with four other ships, during a voyage to find a western route from Europe to Asia.

1501

Gaspar Corte-Real - Portuguese explorer - Disappeared on an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage from Europe to Asia.

1502

Miguel Corte-Real - Portuguese explorer. Disappeared while searching for his brother Gaspar.

1611

Henry Hudson - English explorer. Disappeared after a mutiny by his crew while exploring the Hudson Bay region.

1694

Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish count, lover of George I of Great Britain's wife Sophia, Princess of Zelle.

1872

Crew of The Mary Celeste.

1888

Charles E. Bolles a.k.a. "Black Bart" - Old West outlaw. Disappeared shortly after his release from San Quentin State Prison in January 1888.

1910

Dorothy Arnold - Manhattan socialite and perfume heiress, last seen in New York City on December 12, 1910.

1913

Ambrose Bierce - American author and journalist, disappeared without a trace during travels in Mexico. Last confirmed alive December 26, 1913 in Chihuahua.

1914

F. Lewis Clark Idaho businessman.

1917

Georges Guynemer - French combat aviator.

1918

Crew of The USS Cyclops.
Jüri Vilms, Estonian statesman.
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and her family. Her identity was claimed by Anna Anderson.

1925

Percy Fawcett - British archaeologist and explorer. Disappeared with his son Jack while searching for a lost city believed to exist in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil

1927

Charles Nungesser - French aviator who disappeared on May 8,1927 while attempting an east-to-west flight to North America, only two weeks before Lindbergh's successful flight from New York to Paris

1928

Roald Amundsen - Norwegian explorer - In 1928, his plane crashed in the Arctic Ocean and his body was never found.
Glen and Bessie Hyde - Grand Canyon rafters.

1930

Joseph F. Crater - Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court, last seen August 6, 1930, entering a New York City taxi cab. His disappearance became the subject of widespread media attention and a grand jury investigation.

1934

Wallace D. Fard, founder of the Nation of Islam. In 1934, after conferring leadership of the Nation of Islam to his protegé Elijah Muhammad, he left Detroit, where he had been living, and disappeared without a trace. The Nation of Islam maintained that he had returned to Mecca, but rumors persisted that he had been murdered by Elijah Muhammad.

1936

Joseph Rodriguez - 4-year-old child and resident of Spanish Harlem, New York City who disappeared in 1936 while playing with friends. Although Rodriguez' aunt received a telegram informing her that her nephew had been injured and would return home shortly, Joseph never appeared. There was never any further communication from the writer and to this day there was no trace of him nor his body.

1937

Amelia Earhart - aviatrix.

1938

Ettore Majorana, Italian physicist. Disappeared during a boat trip from Naples to Palermo.
Andrew Carnegie Whitfield - nephew of Andrew Carnegie.

1939

Richard Halliburton, author and adventurer. On March 3, 1939, Halliburton set off from Hong Kong aboard a custom-built Chinese junk, intending to sail to San Francisco in time for the World's Fair. On March 24, a typhoon overtook the ship, and neither the ship nor Halliburton were ever recovered.

1944

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French author and aviator. Apparently died when his Lockheed P-38 Lightning crashed off the coast of Marseille. Though the aircraft was recovered in 2003, his body was never found.
Glenn Miller - popular American jazz musician and bandleader. Disappeared on December 15, 1944, en route from England to Paris to play for troops in the recently liberated city. Neither his remains nor the aircraft in which he was riding were ever recovered.

1945

Charles Carroll Taylor - leader of Flight 19.
Raoul Wallenberg - Anti-Nazi activist.

1950

Richard Colvin Cox - United States Military Academy, West Point cadet.

1955

Crew and passengers of MV Joyita.

1956

Lionel Crabb - British frogman who disappeared during an MI6 mission investigating the Soviet cruiser Orkhonikidze in Portsmouth Harbour.
Jesús María de Galíndez - Colombian scholar and activist, taught at Columbia University.

1959

Camilo Cienfuegos was a Cuban revolutionary born in Calabazar de Sagua, Las Villas Cuba. He disappeared and presumably died on October 28, 1959, in a Cessna accident due to bad weather while flying over the sea. However, neither his plane nor his body were ever recovered despite the Cuban government efforts.

1960s

Emile Desportes - composer, inventor, painter and explorer - 1960s?

1961

Michael Rockefeller - son of Nelson Rockefeller.

1967

Harold Holt - Australian Prime Minister - 1967
Jim Thompson - designer famous for Thai silks.

1971

Whitey Bulger - leader of the Winter Hill Gang organised crime group. Fled FBI prosecution in 1971, included in the Ten Most Wanted list.
D. B. Cooper - skyjacker, true identity unknown - Jumped from a hijacked Boeing 727 over the Pacific Northwest on November 21, 1971.

1972

Nicholas Begich - American Congressman who disappeared October 16, 1972 when the Cessna 310 he was riding in went missing en route to Juneau, Alaska from Anchorage. Hale Boggs also disappeared in the incident.
Hale Boggs - American Congressman who disappeared October 16, 1972 when the Cessna 310 he was riding in went missing en route to Juneau, Alaska from Anchorage. Nick Begich also disappeared in the incident.
Roberto Clemente - Puerto Rican baseball player who died in a plane crash off the coast of Puerto Rico. Body was never found.

1974

Oscar Zeta Acosta - American attorney and Chicano activist - 1974. Most famous for portrayal as "Dr. Gonzo" in Hunter S. Thompson's book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Lord Lucan (Richard John Bingham) - British high-society figure and murder suspect.

1975

Jimmy Hoffa - Union leader.

1976

Bradford Bishop - bludgeoned his spouse, three children and mother to death in 1976. He was indicted for the murders and is still at large.

1978

Mel Lyman - cult leader - 1978. Claimed to have died 1978 by cult members, but no body, death certificate, or other proof ever produced, date of death and burial place unknown ouside the "Lyman Family".

1979

Etan Patz - schoolboy, disappeared while walking to New York City bus stop.

1980

Rosemary Tonks - poet, about 1980.

1985

Andrew Fluegelman - programmer, considered the father of shareware business.

1987

Licorice McKechnie, a.k.a. 'Likky Lambert', singer-songwriter from the Incredible String Band, disappeared from L.A..

1991

Barry Kumnick - software engineer who modified Promis.
Sarah MacDiarmid - young female, disappeared from Kananook station in Melbourne, Australia.

1995

Richey James Edwards - member of Welsh rock band the Manic Street Preachers.

1998

Mikelle Biggs - child from Mesa, Arizona.
Arlene Fraser - Scottish woman whose body was never found but is suspected to have been murdered by her husband Nat Fraser. The story has been covered extensively in the Scottish press since her disappearance.

2000

Trevor Deely - bank official who disappeared in Dublin, Ireland. After his disappearance he became a household name following a blanket poster campaign.

2001

2002

Bison Dele - former NBA player, thought to have been murdered in the Pacific Ocean by his brother, body never found.

2004

Tooker Gomberg - Canadian politician and activist.

2005

Natalee Holloway - U.S. teenager, disappeared on Aruba.
Ray Gricar - District Attorney in Bellefonte, PA

No year stated

Subhash Chandra Bose - Indian freedom fighter. The circumstances of his death are being investigated by the one-man Mukherjee Commission.
Albert Jennings Fountain disappearance.
Etta Place - associate of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Michael J. (Amico) Wallace - Harvard graduate, former Sun employee.

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