List of aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents before 1916

This is a chronological list of pilots that died in crashes of their airplanes. The cutoff for this list is 1915:

1896

*1896 Otto Lilienthal on a glider in Germany on August 10, 1896

1899

*1899 Percy Pilcher in his glider The Hawk, October 2, Leicestershire England.

1905

*1905 Daniel Maloney in a glider in Santa Clara, California on July 18, 1905

1908

*1908 Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge at Fort Myer, Virginia was the first person to die in a powered aircraft and was the first US Army air casualty; September 17, 1908. Piloting was Orville Wright who was badly injured. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Wilbur Wright Weeps. Aviator's Brother Grieved by Fatal Accident. Deplores Officer's Death. First Thought Is Safety of Passengers, He Says, When News of Orville's Mishap at Fort Myer Reaches Him in France. Countermands Orders for Flights, to Regret of Waiting Crowd. |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/255654452.html?dids=255654452:255654452&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=SEP+19%2C+1908&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=WILBUR+WRIGHT+WEEPS&pqatl=google |quote=Le Mans, France, September 18, 1908. Wilbur Wright, brother of Orville Wright, and who has been conducting a series of experiments here for several weeks wit a Wright aeroplane, was very much perturbed when he heard this morning the news from Washington that his brother had suffered an accident, in which Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge lost his life. |publisher=Washington Post |date=September 19, 1908 |accessdate=2007-08-21 ]

1909

*1909 Eugene Lefebvre in Juvisy France, September 7. Fatal crash of new Wright biplane he was testing. Lefebvre is the first "pilot" to die in the crash of his plane.
*1909 Ferdinand Ferber at Boulougne-ser-mer France, September 22 in Voisin biplane.
*1909 F. Rossi, September 22.
*1909 A. Fernandez, December 6 at Nice, France.

1910

*1910 Léon Delagrange of France, January 4.
*1910 Hubert LeBlon at San Sebastian Spain April 2 1910
*1910 C. Zosily, June 2.
*1910 Thad Robl, June 18, German.
*1910 Daniel Kinet, July 10 in Belgium.
*1910 Charles Rolls in Bournemouth, England on July 12, 1910. He was the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident.
*1910 F. Logily, July 15.
*1910 Eugene Speyer, July 17, Boston Mass. USA, in a glider accident.
*1910 Nicholas Kinet, August 3, brother of Daniel Kinet.
*1910 Lieutenant Vivaldi, August 20, Italian Army.
*1910 Clement Van Maasdyk,born 9.aug in the Hague died 29.aug in Schaarsbergen.Buried in Arnhem on the Moscova cemetery.First Dutchman to be killed in air accident.
*1910 Edmond Paillet, September 23, French.
*1910 Jorge Chávez aka George Chavez, September 27, Domodossola, Italy, on Swiss border.
*1910 H. Flockmann, September 28.
*1910 W. Hass, October 1.
*1910 R. Maziewitch, October 7, break up of machine.
*1910 Captain Madiott, October 23, French, lost control.
*1910 Lieutenant Menthe, October 25, Prussia, lost control.
*1910 M. Blanchard, October 26, French.
*1910 S. Saglietti, October 27, Italian, lost control.
*1910 J. Petters, November 10, Dutch.
*1910 Ralph Johnstone November 17 in Denver.
*1910 Tod Shriver, December 2, San Juan Puerto Rico.
*1910 Cecil Grace December 22, disappeared and was never found, in the English Channel after leaving Dover.
*1910 John B. Moisant in Kenner, Louisiana on December 31, 1910
*1910 Archibald Hoxsey in Los Angeles, California on December 31, 1910. The New York Times listed him as the 32nd person to die in a powered heavier than air aircraft fatality.
*1910 Lieutenant Cammarotta, Italy, 1910.
*1910 Lieutenant Manazini, Italy, 1910

1911

*1911 Edvard Rusjan, January 9 1911 in Belgrade, Serbia
*1911 Lt. George E.M. Kelly, May 10, 1911 San Antonio, Texas.
*1911 St. Croix Johnstone in Chicago, drowned after crashing Bleriot into Lake Michigan August 15 1911.
*1911 William R. Badger, August 15 at Chicago, at Chicago Aero Meet
*1911 Édouard de Nié Port on September 15, 1911
*1911 Captain Paul Engelhardt, personally trained by Wilbur & Orville Wright to fly in 1909, September 29
*1911 Cromwell Dixon, 19 years old, in Spokane Washington October 2, fell 100 feet.
*1911 Eugene Ely in Augusta, Georgia on October 19, 1911
*1911 John J. Montgomery in Evergreen, California on October 31, 1911
*1911 C. Tenaud, Peru, 1911.
*1911 Lieutenant Byasson, France, 1911.
*1911 Captain Camine, France, 1911.
*1911 Lieutenant Caumont, France, 1911.
*1911 Captain Carron, France, 1911.
*1911 Lieutenant Chotard, France, 1911.
*1911 Lieutenat De Grailly, France, 1911.
*1911 J. Desparmet, France, 1911.
*1911 Lieutenant Dupuis, France, 1911.
*1911 Gaubert, France, 1911.
*1911 A. Laffont, France, 1911.
*1911 Lieutenant Lautheaume, France, 1911.
*1911 Level, France, 1911.
*1911 Louis Liere, France, 1911.
*1911 Lieutenant Loder, France, 1911.
*1911 Mommlin, France, 1911.
*1911 Noel, France, 1911.
*1911 Lieutenant Princeteau, France, 1911.
*1911 Captain Tarron, France, 1911.
*1911 Rene Vallon, France, 1911.
*1911 C.L. Wachter, France, 1911.
*1911 Tony Castellane, United States, 1911.
*1911 Dr. C.B. Clark, United States, 1911.
*1911 J.J. Frisbie, United States, 1911.
*1911 Dan A. Kreamer, United States, 1911.
*1911 F.H. Miller, United States, 1911.
*1911 Oxley, United States, 1911.
*1911 Marcel Penot, United States, 1911.
*1911 William G. Purvis, United States, 1911.
*1911 Louis Rosenbaum, United States, 1911.
*1911 R. Benson, Britain, 1911.
*1911 Lieutenant Cammel, Britain, 1911.
*1911 Napier, Britain, 1911.
*1911 H. Oxley, Britain, 1911.
*1911 T. Ridge, Britain, 1911.
*1911 V. Smith, Britain(killed in Russia), 1911.
*1911 Bockmuller, German, 1911.
*1911 Pierre Bournique, German(of French descent), 1911.
*1911 Choendel, German, 1911.
*1911 Dax, German, 1911.
*1911 R. Eyring, German, 1911.
*1911 Frh. v. Freytag-Loringhoven, German, 1911.
*1911 Laemmlin, German, 1911.
*1911 Lecomte, German, 1911.
*1911 Lieutenant Neumann, German, 1911.
*1911 Pietschker, German, 1911.
*1911 G. Schendel, German, 1911.
*1911 Lieutenant Stein, German, 1911.
*1911 Tachs, German, 1911.
*1911 Voss, German, 1911.
*1911 Ciro Cirri, Italy, 1911.
*1911 R. Marra, Italy, 1911.

1912

*1912 Rutherford Page in Los Angeles, California on January 22, 1912
*1912 Douglas Graham Gilmour, southern England, February 17, 1912
*1912 Calbraith Perry Rodgers in Long Beach, California on April 3, 1912. 127th airplane fatality since aviation began. He was the 22nd American aviator to be killed. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=C. P. Rodgers' Aero Plunges Into Surf at Long Beach. Hundreds See Tragedy. Hero of First Transcontinental Flight Victim of His Own Daring. When Lifted From Wrecked Machine His Neck Is Found to Be Broken. Birdman's Home in Havre de Grace, Maryland. Cousin of Lieut. Rodgers in Navy's Aerial Corps. Victim Author of Theory of 'Etherial Asphyxia.' |url= |quote=Long Beach, California, April 3, 1912. Calbraith P. Rodgers, the first man to cross the American continent in an aeroplane, was killed here almost instantly late today, when his biplane, in which he had been soaring over the ocean, fell from a height of 200 feet and buried him in the wreck. His neck was broken and his body mangled by the engine of his machine. |publisher=Washington Post |date=April 4, 1912 |accessdate=2007-08-21 ]
*1912 Ray Wheeler in St. Louis, Missouri on May 13, 1912
*1912 Fred J. Southard in Xenia, Ohio on May 21, 1912
*1912 Philip Orin Parmelee in North Yakima, Washington on June 1, 1912
*1912 Lieutenant L.W. Hazlehurst and A.L. Welch in College Park, Maryland on June 11, 1912
*1912 Julia Clark of Springfield, Illinois on June 1, 1912 as first woman to die in a crash
*1912 Harriet Quimby and William A.P. Willard, in Squantum, Massachusetts on July 1, 1912
*1912 Victor M. Smith, Jr. in Palo Alto, California on July 13, 1912
*1912 George Thompson in Denver, Colorado on August 21, 1912
*1912 William Chambers in Greene, New York on September 6, 1912
*1912 Paul Peck in Chicago, Illinois on September 11, 1912
*1912 Howard Gill in Chicago, Illinois on September 14, 1912
*1912 Russell Blair in Shenandoah, Iowa on September 20, 1912
*1912 Lieutenant L.C. Rockwell and Corporal F.S. Scott in College Park, Maryland on September 28, 1912
*1912 John L. Longstaff in Hempstead, New York on September 28, 1912
*1912 Charles F. Walsh in Trenton, New Jersey on October 3, 1912
*1912 Kondo of Japan in Hammondsport, New York on October 6, 1912
*1912 Louis Mitchell in Montgomery, Alabama on October 23, 1912
*1912 Andre Frey, Mourmelon, France on November 21, 1912
*1912 Lieutenant Aibata, Japan, 1912.
*1912 H.F. Kearny, United States, 1912.
*1912 C. Lawrence, United States, 1912.
*1912 J. Stevenson, United States, 1912.
*1912 H. Turner, United States, 1912.
*1912 G. Underwood, United States, 1912.
*1912 D.L. Allen, Britain, 1912.
*1912 J.H.D. Astley, Britain, 1912.
*1912 Lieutenant C.A. Bettington, Britain, 1912.
*1912 Lindsay Campbell, Britain, 1912.
*1912 R.C. Fenwick, Britain, 1912.
*1912 E.V.B. Fisher, Britain, 1912.
*1912 A. Hardwick, Britain, 1912.
*1912 Captain P. Hamilton, Britain, 1912.
*1912 Lieutenant Hotchkiss, Britain, 1912.
*1912 Captain Loraine, Britain, 1912.
*1912 Edward Petre, Britain, 1912.
*1912 Lieutenant W. Parke, Britain, 1912.
*1912 St. Serg. Wilson, Britain, 1912.
*1912 Lieutenant A. Stuart-Wyness, Britain, 1912.
*1912 Alig, German, 1912.
*1912 Altrichter, German, 1912.
*1912 Beissbarth, German, 1912.
*1912 Birkymayer, German, 1912.
*1912 Buchstatter, German, 1912.
*1912 v. Falkenhayn, German, 1912.
*1912 Frh. v. Schlicting, German, 1912.
*1912 Fischer, German, 1912.
*1912 Hamburger, German, 1912.
*1912 Hofer, German, 1912.
*1912 Hosli, German, 1912.
*1912 Junghans, German, 1912.
*1912 Konig, German, 1912.
*1912 Kugler, German, 1912.
*1912 Lachmann, German, 1912.
*1912 Lang, German, 1912.
*1912 Libau, German, 1912.
*1912 Meyer, German, 1912.
*1912 Preusser, German, 1912.
*1912 Pochmeyer, German, 1912.
*1912 Rheinle, German, 1912.
*1912 Rost, German, 1912.
*1912 Schmidt, German, 1912.
*1912 Schmigulski, German, 1912.
*1912 Stille, German, 1912.
*1912 Werntgen, German, 1912.
*1912 Witte, German, 1912.
*1912 R. Bertoletti, Italy, 1912.
*1912 A. Caramanalaki, Italy, 1912.

1913

*1913 Otto Brodie, United States, April 19.
*1913 Johnny Bryant, Victoria, Canada on August 6, 1913.(see earlyaviators.com)
*1913 Samuel Cody, Laffans Plains, England, on August 7, 1913.
*1913 Milton Korn, Shelby County Ohio, USA on August 13 {Died August 18}
*1913 Olivier de Montalent, France, August 24.
*1913 Lieutenant Moss Love, San Diego, North Island, September 4, Wright Model C. (**At his death 368 people dead from aeroplane accidents the world over since 1908)
*1913 Aurel Vlaicu, near Campina, Romania, on September 13, 1913, crashed while attempting to cross in flight Carpathian Mountains
*1913 Lieutenant Perry Rich, Manila Bay, Philippines, November 14, Wright Model C.
*1913 Lieutenant Eric Ellington & Lieutenant Hugh Kelly, San Diego, November 24, Wright Model C.
*1913 Lieutenant Kimura, Japan, 1913.
*1913 Lieutenant Tokuda, Japan, 1913.
*1913 Takeishi, Japan, 1913.
*1913 Lieutenant Argyropulus, Greece, 1913.
*1913 F.E. Boland, United States, 1913.
*1913 Lieutenant R. Chandler, United States, 1913.
*1913 Lieutenant T.D. Park, United States, 1913.
*1913 Lieutenant Desmond Arthur, Britain, 1913.
*1913 Paymaster Berne(Royal Navy), Britain, 1913.
*1913 G. England, Britain, 1913.
*1913 L.F. Macdonald, Britain, 1913.
*1913 Lieutenant L.C. Rogers-Harrison, Britain, 1913.
*1913 Held, German, 1913.
*1913 Schlegel, German, 1913.

1914

*1914 Lieutenant Henry Post in San Diego, California on February 9, 1914
*1914 Emile Vedrines, Rheims France April 1
*1914 Gustav Hamel, over the North Sea, disappeared while returning from France in a brand new Morane-Saulnier monoplane, May 23, 1914
*1914 Georges Legagneux, Saumur, France, July 6.

1915

*1915 Lincoln Beachey in San Francisco, California on March 14, 1915
*1915 Walter R. Taliaferro in San Diego, California on October 11, 1915

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