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Shit Happens
The following is a compilation of people who have mysteriously disappeared, whose death is not substantiated, whose remains have not been recovered, whose current whereabouts are unknown, and (except for the most recent cases) people who may be presumed deceased.
1499
* John Cabot - Italian explorer. Disappeared, along with four other ships, during a voyage to find a western route from Europe to Asia.
1501
* Gaspar Corte-Real - Portuguese explorer - Disappeared on an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage from Europe to Asia.
1502
* Miguel Corte-Real - Portuguese explorer. Disappeared while searching for his brother Gaspar.
1611
* Henry Hudson - English explorer. Disappeared after a mutiny by his crew while exploring the Hudson Bay region.
1694
* Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish count, lover of Sophia, Princess of Zelle (who was the wife of His Majesty King George I of Great Britain).
1788
* La Pérouse and his scientific expedition (two ships, La Boussole and l'Astrolabe, 220 crew members including 40 scientists) vanished near the island of Vanikoro in the Pacific Ocean.
1809
* Benjamin Bathurst a British diplomat vanished mysteriously at an inn in Perleberg [1]
1826
* William Morgan of rural New York disappeared around the time his book critical of Freemasonry was published.
1894
* Boston Corbett- Army sergeant who fatally shot the escaping John Wilkes Booth. Believed to have perished in a forest fire, although his remains were never found.
1896
* Albert Jennings Fountain - and his eight-year-old son Henry disappeared near Las Cruces, New Mexico.
1900
* In December, three lighthouse keepers working on the Flannan Isles (off the northwestern coast of Scotland) disappeared without any explanation.
1909
* Etta Place - associate of Butch Cassidy and the girlfriend to the Sundance Kid.
1910
* Dorothy Arnold - Manhattan socialite and perfume heiress, last seen in New York City on December 12, 1910.
1913
* Ambrose Bierce - American author and journalist, disappeared without a trace during travels in Mexico. Last confirmed alive December 26, 1913 in Chihuahua.
1914
* F. Lewis Clark Idaho businessman.
1917
* Georges Guynemer - French combat aviator.
1918
* Crew of USS Cyclops.
* Jüri Vilms, Estonian statesman.
* Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and her family. Her identity was claimed by Anna Anderson.
1924
* George Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine disappeared during a two-man climb toward the summit of Mount Everest. After missing for 75 years, Mallory's body was later found in 1999.
1925
* Percy Fawcett - British archaeologist and explorer. Disappeared with his son Jack while searching for a lost city believed to exist in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil
1927
* Charles Nungesser - French aviator who disappeared on May 8,1927 while attempting an east-to-west flight to North America, only two weeks before Lindbergh's successful flight from New York to Paris
1928
* Roald Amundsen - Norwegian explorer - In 1928, his plane crashed in the Arctic Ocean and his body was never found.
* Glen and Bessie Hyde - Grand Canyon rafters.
1930
* Joseph F. Crater - Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court, last seen August 6, 1930, entering a New York City taxi cab. His disappearance became the subject of widespread media attention and a grand jury investigation.
1934
* Wallace D. Fard, founder of the Nation of Islam. In 1934, after conferring leadership of the Nation of Islam to his protegé Elijah Muhammad, he left Detroit, where he had been living, and disappeared without a trace while in the custody of the Chicago police department. The Nation of Islam maintained that he had returned to Mecca, but rumors persisted that he had been murdered by the Chicago police or by Elijah Muhammad.
1936
* Joseph Rodriguez - 4-year-old child and resident of Spanish Harlem, New York City who disappeared in 1936 while playing with friends. Although Rodriguez' aunt received a telegram informing her that her nephew had been injured and would return home shortly, Joseph never appeared. There was never any further communication from the writer and to this day there was no trace of him nor his body.
1937
* Amelia Earhart - Famous American aviator; disappeared in the South Pacific (along with her navigator) while attempting to circumnavigate the globe. The theories, rumors, and legends regarding her disappearance are voluminous (to say the least).
1938
* Ettore Majorana, Italian physicist. Disappeared during a boat trip from Naples to Palermo.
* Andrew Carnegie Whitfield - nephew of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, disappeared while piloting a small airplane over Long Island, New York.
1939
* Richard Halliburton, author and adventurer. On March 3, 1939, Halliburton set off from Hong Kong aboard a custom-built Chinese junk, intending to sail to San Francisco in time for the World's Fair. On March 24, a typhoon overtook the ship, and neither the ship nor Halliburton were ever recovered.
1944
* Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French author and aviator. Apparently died when his Lockheed P-38 Lightning crashed off the coast of Marseille. Though the aircraft was recovered in 2003, his body was never found.
* Glenn Miller - popular American jazz musician and bandleader. Disappeared on December 15, 1944, en route from England to Paris to play for troops in the recently liberated city. Neither his remains nor the aircraft in which he was riding were ever recovered.
1945
* Charles Carroll Taylor - leader of Flight 19.
* Raoul Wallenberg - Anti-Nazi activist.
* Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose - one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian Independence Movement.
1948
The 29 passengers and three crew of the Airborne Transport DC-3 airliner, known as NC16002, which vanished on December 28, 1948 near the end of a scheduled flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida.
1950
* Richard Colvin Cox - United States Military Academy, West Point cadet.
1953
* Felix Moncla disappeared while hunting an unidentified flying object
1955
* Curtis Chillingworth was a Florida state judge who (together with his wife, Marjorie Chillingworth) disappeared from his Manapalan, Florida home in June 1955. Later it came to be believed that they were the victims of a Murder-for-hire plot.
* The crew and passengers of the MV Joyita, which disappeared in the South Pacific ocean, but then re-appeared five weeks later with no one on board.
1956
* Lionel "Buster" Crabb - British frogman who disappeared during an MI6 mission investigating the Soviet cruiser Orkhonikidze in Portsmouth Harbour.
* Jesús María de Galíndez - Colombian scholar and activist, taught at Columbia University.
1959
* Camilo Cienfuegos was a Cuban revolutionary born in Calabazar de Sagua, Las Villas Cuba. He disappeared and presumably died on October 28, 1959, in a Cessna accident due to bad weather while flying over the sea. However, neither his plane nor his body were ever recovered despite the Cuban government efforts.
1960s
* Emile Desportes - composer, inventor, painter and explorer - 1960s?
1961
* Michael Rockefeller - son of Nelson Rockefeller.
1966
* The Beaumont children - Jane (9), Arnna (7) and Grant (4), all disappeared from an Adelaide beach
1967
* Harold Holt - Australian Prime Minister - 1967
* Jim Thompson - designer famous for Thai silks.
1970
* William "Billy Batts" Devino - An American mafia member
1971
* D. B. Cooper - skyjacker, true identity unknown - Jumped from a hijacked Boeing 727 over the Pacific Northwest on November 21, 1971.
1972
* Nicholas Begich - American Congressman who disappeared October 16, 1972 when the Cessna 310 he was riding in went missing en route to Juneau, Alaska from Anchorage. Hale Boggs also disappeared in the incident.
* Hale Boggs - American Congressman who disappeared October 16, 1972 when the Cessna 310 he was riding in went missing en route to Juneau, Alaska from Anchorage. Nick Begich also disappeared in the incident.
* Roberto Clemente - Puerto Rican baseball player who died in a plane crash off the coast of Puerto Rico. Body was never found.
1974
* Oscar Zeta Acosta - American attorney and Chicano activist - 1974. Most famous for portrayal as "Dr. Gonzo" in Hunter S. Thompson's book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
* Lord Lucan (Richard John Bingham) - British high-society figure and murder suspect.
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