People declared dead in absentia

Evelyn Grace Hartley was an American teenager who mysteriously disappeared on October 24, 1953, from La Crosse County, Wisconsin. Her disappearance sparked a search involving 2,000 people. In the year following her disappearance, investigators questioned more than 3,500 people though as of 2026 the case remains unsolved.

American aviation pioneer and author (1897–1939)

American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist (1842–1914)

Russian mercenary leader, oligarch, restaurateur, former owner of Wagner PVC (1961–2023)

Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and humanitarian (1912-1947)

Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer (1922-2014)

Australian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (1908-1967)

Cuban revolutionary fighter and guerilla (1932–1959)

incident of Adolf Hitler's death

American labor union leader (1913 – disappeared 1975)

American computer scientist (1944–2007/2012)

Polish Jewish resistance fighter

Welsh guitarist (1967–1995)

Lebanese Shiite jurist and political activist

American anthropologist and art collector (1938–1961)

Russian free diver (1962-2015)

declaring person legally dead despite the absence of direct proof of the person's death, such as the finding of remains

American attorney, politician, novelist and activist (1935-1974)

Swiss environmentalist (1954-missing since 2000)

Dutch-American artist (1942–1975)

Union Army sergeant

Austrian archduke (1852-1890)

German footballer (1892-1945)

American basketball player (1969–2002)

American photojournalist

Chernobyl pump operator, the first casualty of the incident on April 26th, 1986.

Japanese military officer

American politician (1932–1972)

British peer and missing murder suspect (born 1934)

Indian activist who was falsely declared dead

American politician (1914–1972)

American criminal, escapee from Alcatraz

American flight navigator, sea captain, and aviation pioneer

American missing person (1986-2005)

Italian actress and showgirl

Swedish film director, screenwriter and producer (1969–2011)

American basketball player (1947–1985)

Hawaiian surfer and lifeguard (1946–1978)

German singer (1985–2018)

German water polo player (1905–1945)

German Nazi SS gas chamber executioner and Holocaust perpetrator

German politician (1893-1945)

United States Army general (1888–1945)

FBI and CIA agent

Indonesian politician (1897–1945)

German SS

Fransiskus Xaverius Soeprijadi, also known as Supriyadi or Soeprijadi (born 13 April 1923 – disappeared 14 February 1945, declared dead 9 August 1975), was an Indonesian national hero who rebelled against the occupying Japanese in 1945.

American singer-songwriter

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1884-1921)

American journalist who disappeared on June 27, 1995

British silent film actor with unexplained disappearance

Estonian wrestler (1892–1933)

Brazilian civil engineer and politician who disappeared during the military dictatorship

Italian economist (1914-1987)

American disappearance case

Iranian diplomat

Double agent for the British in World War II

English socialite and aviation patron and enthusiast (1864–1927)

Greek philosopher, writer and university professor (1942-1998)

German swimmer