Space Logs > Deceased Spacepersons
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Listing includes only those who have made actual spaceflights.
| Gus Grissom | USA | 27 Jan 1967 | Apollo 1 fire |
| Edward White | USA | 27 Jan 1967 | Apollo 1 fire |
| Vladimir Komarov | USSR | 24 Apr 1967 | Soyuz 1 landing |
| Yuri Gagarin | USSR | 28 March 1968 | Jet crash |
| Pavel Belyayev | USSR | 20 January 1970 | Peritonitis |
| Georgi Dobrovolsky | USSR | 30 June 1971 | Soyuz 11 re-entry |
| Vladislav Volkov | USSR | 30 June 1971 | Soyuz 11 re-entry |
| Viktor Patsayev | USSR | 30 June 1971 | Soyuz 11 re-entry |
| Jack Swigert | USA | 27 December 1982 | Cancer |
| Dick Scobee | USA | 28 January 1986 | Challenger launch |
| Judith Resnik | USA | 28 January 1986 | Challenger launch |
| Ellison Onizuka | USA | 28 January 1986 | Challenger launch |
| Ronald McNair | USA | 28 January 1986 | Challenger launch |
| Donn Eisele | USA | 1 December 1987 | Heart attack |
| Anatoli Levchenko | USSR | 6 August 1988 | Brain tumour |
| David Griggs | USA | 16 June 1989 | Aerobatics crash |
| Ronald Evans | USA | 7 April 1990 | Heart attack |
| Vasili Lazarev | USSR | 8 January 1991 | Alcohol Poisoning |
| Manley Carter | USA | 5 April 1991 | Civil air crash |
| James Irwin | USA | 8 August 1991 | Heart failure |
| Deke Slayton | USA | 13 June 1993 | Brain tumour |
| Karl Henize | USA | 5 October 1993 | Pneumonia |
| Boris Yegerov | USSR | 12 September 1994 | Heart attack |
| Stuart Roosa | USA | 12 December 1994 | Pancreatitis |
| Georgi Beregovoi | USSR | 1 July 1995 | Natural causes |
| Reinhard Furrer | Germany | 8 Sep 1995 | Air crash |
| Charles Lacy Veach | USA | 3 October 1995 | Skin cancer |
| Robert Overmyer | USA | 22 March 1996 | Air crash |
| Georgi Shonin | USSR | 7 April 1997 | Unknown |
| Alan Shepard | USA | 21 July 1998 | Leukemia |
| Yuri Artyukhin | USSR | 4 August 1998 | Unknown |
| Lev Demin | USSR | Dec 1998 | Unknown |
| Pete Conrad | USA | 8 July 1999 | Motorcycle accident |
| Yuri Malyshev | USSR | 8 Nov 1999 | Unknown |
| Yevgeny Khrunov | USSR | 19 May 2000 | Unknown |
| Gherman Titov | USSR | 20 Sep 2000 | Heart disease |
| David Walker | USA | 23 Apr 2001 | Cancer |
| Vladimir Vasyutin | USSR | 20 Jul 2002 | Cancer |
| Nikolai Ruckavishnikov | USSR | 18 Oct 2002 | Heart attack |
| Rick Husband | USA | 1 Feb 2003 | Columbia re-entry |
| William McCool | USA | 1 Feb 2003 | Columbia re-entry |
| Michael Anderson | USA | 1 Feb 2003 | Columbia re-entry |
| Kalpana Chawla | USA | 1 Feb 2003 | Columbia re-entry |
| David Brown | USA | 1 Feb 2003 | Columbia re-entry |
| Laurel Clark | USA | 1 Feb 2003 | Columbia re-entry |
| Ilan Ramon | Israel | 1 Feb 2003 | Columbia re-entry |
| Oleg Makarov | USSR | 19 May 2003 | Natural causes |
| Andrian Nikolyev | USSR | 3 July 2004 | Heart attack |
| Gordon Cooper | USA | 4 October 2004 | Not revealed |
| Gennadi Strekalov | USSR | 23 December 2004 | Cancer |
| Gennadi Serafanov | USSR | 29 September 2005 | Surgery |
| Charles Brady | USA | 23 July 2006 | Suicide |
| Wally Schirra | USA | 4 May 2007 | Cancer |
| David Low | USA | 16 March 2008 | Cancer |
| Ron Parise | USA | 9 May 2008 | Brain Cancer |
| Yuri Glazkov | USSR | 9 December 2008 | Natural causes
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| Pavel Popovich | USSR | 31 September 2009 | Stroke |