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This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:1912 deaths. It includes 1912 deaths that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Victims of the RMS Titanic .
The sailors aboard the Mackay-Bennett, who were shocked by the discovery of the unknown boy's body, paid for a small white coffin, a proper funeral, and large headstone with the reward money received from Vincent Astor for recovering his father's body. The boy was buried on 4 May 1912 with a copper pendant placed in his coffin by recovery ...
James D. Vanover, a swing-arm contractor for United Space Alliance, fell to his death during preparations for a Space Shuttle mission. [148] [149] The death was later ruled a suicide. [150] 9 November 2013: Plesetsk, Russia: 2: Two workers cleaning out a propellant tank died when exposed to poisonous nitrogen tetroxide gases within the tank ...
The Titanic's sinking claimed over 1,500 lives. There were well-known people among the casualties. 12 famous people who died on the Titanic — and 11 who survived
Nargeolet was a famous Titanic expert and deep-water explorer who dived to the wreckage 37 times. Nargeolet, 73, was on board the submersible when it imploded during a trip to the wreck on June 18 ...
The last Titanic body recovered was steward James McGrady, Body No. 330, found by the chartered Newfoundland sealing vessel Algerine on 22 May and buried at Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax on 12 June. [252] 333 bodies of Titanic victims were recovered, which amounted to one in five of the over 1,500 victims. Some bodies sank with the ship ...
The Titan’s wreckage was seen for the first time in pictures after the Coast Guard announced on Thursday (23 June) that ROVs (remotely-operated vehicles) found its chambers in a sea of debris 1 ...
The physical appearance of each body—height, weight, age, hair and eye colour, visible birthmarks, scars or tattoos, was catalogued and any personal effects on the bodies were gathered and placed in small canvas bags corresponding to their number. [59] CS Mackay-Bennett, the first ship to arrive at the Titanic wreck site in search for bodies