Famous Death by Car

• Allen, Steve

  The original host of The Tonight Show

• Boon, D.

  Guitarist and singer for punk band Minutemen

• Camus, Albert

  Nobel-winning author of The Stranger

• Chapin, Harry

  Singer of the 1972 hit "Taxi"

• Charles III

  The king of Great Britain, 2022-present

• Cruzan, Nancy

  The subject of Cruzan v. Missouri

• Dean, James

  Movie icon and star of Rebel Without a Cause

• Diana, Princess of Wales

  The "People's Princess" and ex-wife of Britain's Prince Charles

• Duncan, Isadora

  Free-spirited modern dancer of the early 1900s

• Earnhardt, Dale

  Nascar's "The Intimidator"

• Kelly, Grace

  The actress who became Princess of Monaco

• Kennedy, Edward (Ted)

  U.S. senator from Massachusetts, 1962-2009

• Kinison, Sam

  Screaming, round comic who recorded Loud As Hell

• Kopechne, Mary Jo

  The woman killed in Ted Kennedy's crash on Chappaquiddick Island

• Kovacs, Ernie

  Zany 1950s TV comedian

• Lopes, Lisa

  Rapper/singer for the group TLC

• Mansfield, Jayne

  The Hollywood bombshell killed in a 1967 car crash

• Mitchell, Margaret

  The author of Gone With the Wind

• Mix, Tom

  Fancy-dressin' silent film cowboy

• Patton, George S.

  Commander of the U.S. Third Army in World War II

• Pollock, Jackson

  The abstract painter who splattered his canvasses

• Prefontaine, Steve

  Oregon running legend and subject of the film Prefontaine

• Prince Rainier III

  Ruler of Monaco and husband of Princess Grace

• Smith, Bessie

  Classic blues singer dubbed "Empress of the Blues"

• Stephanie, Princess

  Monaco's former wild-child princess

See: All of our lists