1997 Jeff Buckley, musician, drowns at 30
1996 Tom Mees, ESPN sports anchors (NHL), drowns at 46
1995 Orville Reddenbacher, popcorn magnate, drowns in bathtub at 88
1993 Steve Olin, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 27
1993 Tim Crews, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 31
1992 Juris Podnieks, cameraman/director (Commandant), drowns
1983 Dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39
1981 Natalie Wood, actress (West Side Story), drowns at 43 (suicide)
1979 Josef Mengele, concentration camp doctor, drowns
1972 14" of rain in 6 hours burst Rapid City, South Dakota dam, drowns 237
1971 Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria
1969 Mary Jo Kopechne, in Ted Kennedy's car, drowns at 28
1969 Brian Jones, guitarist (Rolling Stones), drowns to death at 25
1967 Harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59
1964 Johnny Burnette, rocker, drowns at 30
1952 Arky Vaughn, infielder (Pirates and Dodgers), drowns
1943 Alexander Goode, rabbi who surrended his life jacket, drowns
1941 SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia
1940 Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic, drowns at 40
1931 French "St. Philbert" overturns off St. Nazaire France, drowns 450
1924 Pavel S "Paul" Urysohn, Russian mathematician, drowns at 26
1919 Enny Vrede, [Maria M Muller], Dutch actress, drowns at 35
1916 Horatio H Kitchener, British General (Sudan), drowns at 65
1916 Enrique y Campina Granados, Sp opera composer (Goyescas), drowns at 48
1886 Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, drowns, dies at 40
1883 Matthew Webb, English Channel swimmer, drowns above Niagara Falls
1882 Cyclone in Arabian Sea, Bombay, India, drowns 100,000
1871 Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns
1862 Louis Powell Harvey, U.S. governor of Wisconsin, drowns
1860 Excursion steamer "Lady Elgin" drowns 340 in Lake Michigan
1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (Prometheus unbound), drowns at 29
1782 Richard Kempenfeldt, English admiral, drowns
1711 Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange/(Nassau-Dietz), drowns at 23
1707 Cloudesley Shovell, Admiral, drowns at Scilly
1673 Francois Caron, admiral/governor (Formosa), drowns at about 72
1615 Pieter Both, Dutch admiral/1st Governor-General (East Indies, 1609-14), drowns
1576 Louis de Boisot, Dutch admiral, drowns at about 44
1574 Storm breaks Leiden dike; drowns 20,000 Spanish soldiers
1549 Lijsbeth Dirksdr, Fries antabaptist, drowns
1545 George Carew, English admiral, drowns
1545 Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose, drowns
1500 Bartholomeu Diaz de Narvaez (Novaez), Portuguese sea explorer, drowns
1500 Michael T Marullus, Greeks poet, drowns
1237 Jordanus of Saxon, 2nd general of Dominicans, drowns
1185 Antoku Taira, emperor of Japan (1180-85), drowns
1120 Countess of Perche, bastard daughter of English king Henry I, drowns
1120 William, English crown prince/son of Henry I, drowns at 17
939 Giselbert, duke of Lutheran, drowns at about 49
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