List of people who disappeared mysteriously
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The following is a compilation of people who have mysteriously disappeared, whose death is not substantiated, or whose whereabouts are unknown and who may be presumed deceased.
- Francois Villon - French author-provocateur - 1465
- Princes in the Tower sons of King Edward IV of England - 1483
- Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish count, lover of George I of Great Britain's wife Sophia, Princess of Zelle - 1694
- Benjamin Bathurst - British envoy - 1809
- Dorothy Arnold - Manhattan socialite - 1910
- Ambrose Bierce - Author - 1913
- Percy Fawcett - British archaeologist and explorer - 1925
- Joseph F. Crater - Associate Justice of the New York State Supreme Court - 1930
- Wallace D. Fard - Nation of Islam leader - 1934
- Amelia Earhart - aviator - 1937
- Ettore Majorana, Italian mathematician - 1938
- Andrew Carnegie Whitfield - nephew of Andrew Carnegie - 1938
- Richard Halliburton - author and adventurer - 1939
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - author and aviator - 1944
- Glenn Miller - bandleader - 1944
- Charles Carroll Taylor - leader of Flight 19 - 1945
- Jesús María de Galíndez - scholar and activist - 1956
- Michael Rockefeller - son of Nelson Rockefeller - 1961
- Jim Thompson - designer famous for Thai silks - 1967
- Harold Holt - Australian Prime Minister - 1967
- D. B. Cooper - skyjacker - 1971
- Whitey Bulger - leader of organized crime group, the 'Winter Hill gang' - 1971
- Hale Boggs - American Congressman - 1972
- Lord Lucan - dapper murder suspect - 1974
- Jimmy Hoffa - Union leader - 1975
- Andrew Fluegelman - programmer, considered the father of shareware business - 1985
- Richey James Edwards - member of Welsh rock band the Manic Street Preachers - 1995
- Persons missing after the September 11, 2001 attacks
- Osama bin Laden - terrorist - 2001
- Tooker Gomberg - Canadian politician and activist - 2004
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