Death conspiracy theories

Chilean poet and politician (1904–1973)

Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy, which was formed from his experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense—as well as eclectic, Zen Buddhist, and Taoist philosophies—as a new school of martial arts thought. With a career spanning Hong Kong and the United States, Lee is regarded as the first global Chinese film star and one of the most influential martial artists in the history of cinema. Known for his roles in five feature-length martial arts films, he is credited with helping to popularize martial arts films in the 1970s and promoting Hong Kong action cinema.

American singer and poet; lead vocalist of The Doors (1943–1971)

The tenth Emperor of Russia (1777–1825)

Indian nationalist leader (1897-1945)

Prime Minister of India (1964-1966)

American singer and songwriter (1931–1964)

British multi-instrumentalist, founder of The Rolling Stones (1942–1969)

negation, distortion or minimization of the Holocaust

terrorist mass shooting that occurred at a nightclub in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, on 1 January 2017

Ex-President of Haiti (1943-2017)

Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)

26th king of Joseon, first emperor of the Korean Empire (1852–1919)

American entertainer (1949–1984)

President of Chile (1911-1982)

niece of Adolf Hitler (1908–1931)

On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk, an American right-wing political activist, was assassinated at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, while speaking at an outdoor campus debate planned by Turning Point USA, the conservative youth organization he co-founded and led. Kirk, aged 31, was a close ally of US president Donald Trump and a highly influential figure in the MAGA movement.

Austrian association football player (1903-1939)

urban legend suggesting that Paul McCartney died and was replaced by a look-alike

Ukrainian activist and politician (1937–1999)

American computer scientist and entrepreneur (1942–1994)

Soviet politician (1918-1990)

murder taking place on 8 December 1980

American actor (1914–1959)

Rwandan politician, 1st and former President of Rwanda (1924-1976)

death and state funeral of Hugo Chávez

American film producer (1882–1924)

Mexican anarchist and social reform activist (1874–1922)

2000 shooting of a Palestinian boy in the Gaza Strip

American intelligence agent (1920–1996)

German politician (1889-1940)

Kazakh politician (1962-2015)

February 1986 murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme

circumstances of Mussolini's death

disappearance and death of a Chinese-Canadian student in Los Angeles, California, US in 2013

Italian philosopher (1897–1937)

Romanian-Argentinian explorer and mercenary, accused of genocide (1857-1893)

Chinese KMT general (1897–1946)

Labor union activist, chemical technician (1946–1974)

Nazi concentration camp in Warsaw during World War II

Polish writer (1934–1969)

German footballer (1956-1983)

death of American actress

conspiracy theories as to Hitler's death

Soviet spy (1899-1941)

Japanese activist (1903-1926)

Chilean-American novelist, filmmaker and blogger (1968–2024)

Pallywood (a portmanteau of "Palestine" and "Hollywood") is a derogatory term used to falsely accuse Palestinians of staging scenes of suffering and civilian death in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It has been described as a conspiracy theory and a prominent element of Israeli disinformation in the conflict. Gazawood, a variant of the term, refers to similar footage originating in the Gaza Strip.

German hacker and phreaker (1972–1998)

The death of Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier and child sex offender, occurred on August 10, 2019. Guards claimed to have found Epstein unresponsive in his jail cell at 6:30 a.m. at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, hanging off the side of his cell's bed, where he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. After prison guards reportedly performed CPR, he was transported in cardiac arrest to the New York Downtown Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:39 am. The New York City medical examiner and the Justice Department Inspector General ruled that Epstein's death was a suicide by hanging. Epstein's lawyers challenged the medical examiner's conclusion and opened their own investigation, hiring pathologist Michael Baden.

conspiracy theory

American politician (1944-2002)

aviation accident in Northern Rhodesia on 18 September 1961

any conspiracy theory that disputes official accounts of JFK's death

1994 assassination

death of Nirvana singer and guitarist

In the early morning of June 14, 2025, Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman was assassinated at her home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States. Hortman, the leader of the state House Democratic caucus, was shot and killed alongside her husband, Mark. Less than two hours earlier, state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot and seriously injured at their home in nearby Champlin and hospitalized. Police responding to the attack on the Hoffmans checked on the Hortmans' home, where a man fired at them. The shooter escaped, sparking the most extensive manhunt in Minnesota history.

On December 13, 2025, a mass shooting occurred at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, during the second day of final examination week for the fall semester. The shooter, Cláudio Manuel Neves Valente, entered the Barus and Holley Building and killed two students and wounded nine other students who were attending a review session, and then fled the scene before police arrived.

American rock musician (1942–1966)

Serbian poet (1934–1961)