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This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in January 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision: Grand Canyon: Arizona: Douglas DC-7, Lockheed L-1049A Super Constellation: Both flights were operating under visual flight rules and failed to detect the other, leading to a mid-air collision. The accident spurred the creation of the Federal Aviation Administration. June 20, 1956 47 0 0
18 June – Bell 206 N6TC of Helitech collides with Grand Canyon Airlines Flight 6 in mid-air over the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States. All five people on board are killed, as are all twenty people on board the de Havilland Twin Otter that it collided with.
The major geologic exposures in the Grand Canyon range in age from the two-billion-year-old Vishnu Schist at the bottom of the Inner Gorge to the 270-million-year-old Kaibab Limestone on the Rim. Within that there is a gap, the Great Unconformity , between 1.75 billion and 1.25 billion years ago for which no deposits are present.
1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision: Accident – aircraft Grand Canyon, Arizona: Parts of wreckage still visible. Deadliest air disaster in U.S. at that time; led to creation of Federal Aviation Administration two years later. 125 1972 Buffalo Creek flood: Accident – dam failure Logan County, West Virginia: 123 1923 Dawson, New Mexico
For instance, the 165 deaths cited at Grand Canyon since 2007 are significant, but they represent a fraction of the more than 77.8 million people who visited the park over the same period ...
On May 17, 1968, a 15-year-old boy from Greensburg, Pennsylvania, fell to his death after standing up on the ride. [ 179 ] On July 9, 1999, there was an accident on the Thunderbolt when operators failed to brake an incoming train, which collided with the train being loaded. 35 people were injured in the crash.
[There were no deaths due to deterministic effects (i.e., people receiving a high dose of radiation, rapidly becoming ill, and dying); the 100–240 figure is an estimate of the number of people who died later in life due to cancer caused by radiation from the accident [30]]. 95–4,000+ [31] [32] 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.