13 Celebrities Who Died Mysteriously

Marilyn Monroe

The world was shaken on August 5, 1962, when Marilyn Monroe was found dead at the age of 36 in her home in Los Angeles.

Natalie Wood

On November 29, 1981, the actress and movie star Natalie Wood drowned while on a boating trip with her husband.

Thelma Todd

American actress Thelma Todd died in 1935 of carbon monoxide poisoning. Todd, 29, was found slumped over the steering wheel of her Lincoln.

Tupac Shakur

In 1996, hip-hop star Tupac Shakur died in Las Vegas several days after a drive-by shooting that occurred while Shakur was leaving a boxing event. 

Elizabeth Short

The body of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short was discovered brutally murdered on January 15, 1947, in a vacant lot near Leimert Park in Los Angeles.

George Reeves

American actor George Reeves, who had played Superman in the 1950s television series Adventures of Superman, died of a gunshot wound to the head at the age of 45.

Johnny Stompanato

The 1958 stabbing death of Johnny Stompanato, a reputed mobster, was definitely a homicide, but what may never be known is whether it was committed by Lana Turner, who had been his girlfriend.

Bob Crane

The star of the campy 1960s TV sitcom, Hogan’s Heroes, Bob Crane was found brutally murdered in his Scottsdale, Arizona, apartment in 1978.

Virginia Rappe

In 1921, American silent-film actress Virginia Rappe died of internal injuries following a raucous party in a hotel suite at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.

Jill Dando

The murder of noted British journalist Jill Dando, who was killed by a single gunshot wound to the head on April 26, 1999, may well be the UK’s most famous unsolved murder.