People who died in boat and ship accidents

Sandy Dempsey was born on 11 April 1949. She was an actress. She died on 24 May 1975 in the Gulf of Mexico.

José Fernández was born on 31 July 1992 in Santa Clara, Cuba. He was married to Alejandra Baleato Marichal. He died on 25 September 2016 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 in Field Place, Warnham, near Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK. Percy Bysshe was a writer, known for Fragmentia, The Cloud (1919) and Le Brasier Shelley (2018). Percy Bysshe was married to Mary Shelley and Harriet Westbrook. Percy Bysshe died on 8 July 1822 in at sea, off Italy.

Marquis Cooper was born on 11 March 1982 in Mesa, Arizona, USA. He died on 1 March 2009.

Champion surfer and lifeguard Edward Ryon Makuahanai Aikau was born on May 4, 1946 in Maui, Hawaii. The son of Solomon and Henrietta Aikau, Eddie was the third in a family of six children. Aikau grew up in Lahaina and attended St. Anthony School in Kailua. Eddie began surfing at age eleven and moved with his family to the Hawaiian island of O'ahu in 1959. Aikau dropped out of high school at age sixteen and bought his first surfboard with the money he made working at a Dole pineapple cannery. One of the first surfers to make a name for himself braving and besting the monster waves at the beach in Waimea Bay, Eddie in 1968 became the first lifeguard to be hired by the City & County of Honolulu to work on the North Shore. Well known for his exceptional courage and selfless nature as well as for the fact that no one ever drowned at sea on his watch, Aikau was named Lifeguard of the Year in 1971. Eddie won first place in the prestigious Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship contest in 1977. In 1978 Eddie volunteered as a crew member for a canoe voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti. After the canoe developed a leak in one of its hulls and subsequently capsized, Aikau decided to paddle back to shore on his surfboard in order to get help. Although all the other crew members were eventually rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard, Eddie's body was alas never found despite the efforts of an extensive manhunt. In honor of Aikau's memory the surf wear company Quicksilver has held the regular surfing tournament the Quicksilver Big Wave Invitational in Memory of Eddie Aikau in Aikau's beloved Waimea Bay.

Gian-Carlo Coppola was born on 17 September 1963 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Outsiders (1983), Rumble Fish (1983) and Apocalypse Now (1979). He died on 26 May 1986 in Annapolis, Maryland, USA.

Tim Crews was born on 3 April 1961 in Tampa, Florida, USA. He was married to Laurie Joan Elberg. He died on 23 March 1993 in Orlando, Florida, USA.

Don Gant is known for Factory Girl (2006), Last Orders (2001) and Running Mates (1985).

Reuben Kee is known for To Speak (2007), Little Brother (2006) and Final Gear (2007).

English songwriter and singer Kristy MacColl had hits with such albums as "Kite" (1989), "Titanic Days" (1994) and "Tropical Brainstorm" (2000). Her first hit as a songwriter was "They Don't Know" for Tracey Ullman in 1983. Her trademark style is a sharp wit allied to strong melodies. Her work combines these with Cuban and Brazilian rhythms, creating her most upbeat collection yet. She has written and performed theme songs for three British TV series. Surprisingly for such a gifted writer, her biggest single hits have been cover versions, notably "Days" by Ray Davies, Billy Bragg's "New England" and of course "Fairytale of New York" with The Pogues.

Edouard Michelin was born on 13 August 1963 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He was married to Cécile Gravel. He died on 26 May 2006 in Île de Sein, France.

Steve Olin was born on 4 October 1965 in Portland, Oregon, USA. He was married to Patti McKelvey. He died on 22 March 1993 in Clermont, Florida, USA.

Naya Rivera was an Afro-Latina American actress, model and singer known for playing Santana Lopez from Glee and Hillary Winston from The Royal Family. She also was in The Master of Disguise, Baywatch, CSI: Miami, American Dad, Batman: The Long Halloween Parts 1 and 2, Even Stevens and The Bernie Mac Show.

Vibeke Skofterud was born on 20 April 1980 in Norway. She died on 29 July 2018 in near Arendal, Sørlandet, Norway.

Doug Tompkins was born on 20 March 1943 in Conneaut, Ohio, USA. He is known for Im Fluss des Lebens (2012), Mountain of Storms (2018) and 180° South (2010). He was married to Kristine Tompkins and Susie Tompkins Buell. He died on 8 December 2015 in Coyhaique, Aysén Region, Chile.

Urmas Alender was born on 22 November 1953 in Tallinn, Estonia. He died on 28 September 1994 in Baltic Sea.

Earl Devore was born on 2 December 1889 in Macksville, Kansas, USA. He died on 12 November 1928 in Atlantic Ocean.

Gonçalves Dias was born on 10 August 1823 in Caxias, Maranhão, Brazil. He was a writer, known for Crime Delicado (2005). He was married to Olímpia Carolina da Costa. He died on 13 November 1864 in Guimarães, Maranhão, Brazil.

Hans Schönrath is known for Knockout - Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann (1935).

Fred McEvoy was born in 1907 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is an actor.

Justus Miles Forman was born on 1st November 1875 in Le Roy, New York, USA. He went to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut and graduated in 1898. He was a successful writer and Playwright. On 7th May 1915, he was on board the Lusitania when it was torpedoed by the German submarine, U-20. The liner sank in eighteen minutes taking the lives of 1,178 of the 1,952 aboard. Forman did not survive nor was his body recovered.

Many people today know the names of George M. Cohan and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., but Charles Frohman, though lesser known, reigned supreme in the theatrical world for over a generation. From a young age Frohman's heart and soul belonged in the theatre. His lower-middle-class family moved from Sandusky, Ohio, to New York City in 1874 and he landed a job as a night clerk for the New York Graphic. In 1876 the paper sent him to Philadelphia to expand its circulation during the Centennial Exposition, and it was there he first demonstrated his entrepreneurial talents by organizing newsboys to more efficiently exploit the market. He then moved over briefly to the New York Tribune and moonlighted by selling theatre tickets at night, soaking in everything he could learn about the theatrical business. In 1880, at the age of 20 with 50 cents to his name after paying for a seat for the hit play "Shenandoah", he successfully schmoozed its producers into selling him its road-show rights. From this point onward there was no stopping Charles Frohman in his desire to conquer the entertainment business, which at the time was headquartered in New York City with the Broadway theater district its nerve center.

He began by leasing an unprofitable house named Proctor's Theatre and gradually created a stock production company. In the early 1890s he built his own theatre, the Empire. He, younger brother Gustave Frohman and older brother Daniel Frohman became the leading theatre impresarios of the Gilded Age. By the turn of the century Charles Frohman was the #1 theatrical producer in the world. He solidified his position by creating a theatrical monopoly with a handful of Broadway and regional theatre owners, known as the Theatrical Syndicate, which would come to dominate virtually every aspect of theatrical production through its proprietary booking network. His syndicate controlled not only first-run and revival Broadway shows, but dozens of road-show companies that continuously traversed the US and Canada, in addition to a number of productions that almost always illuminated London and Paris.

Despite his titular status within his company, however, Frohman was always detail-oriented. He believed that a large degree of his success was due to his actors and paid an unusual amount of attention to their development (or non-development), billing, promotion, costumes, etc., down to the tiniest booking details. In brief, he was a hands-on producer and he held a seemingly hypnotic hold over his troupes (no less a legend than Ethel Barrymore idolized him). He also worked extensively in London and formed a separate stage company to fill his five leased theatres there. By the outbreak of World War I, he could claim to have produced over 700 plays and employed a staff that exceeded 1,000 on both sides of the Atlantic.

Back in the States he owned or leased six theatres on Broadway and some 200 across the country, and had dozens of road-show companies traversing the nation by rail at any given time. Oddly, he rarely attended opening nights at any of his theatres, preferring to keep tabs on audience reactions by employing dozens of runners who kept him informed at intermissions and final curtains. Few of his business associates knew him intimately; he was shy and steadfastly avoided socializing, preferring to remain ensconced inside his suite at the Knickerbocker Hotel whenever in New York City. By modern definition, Frohman would be considered moderately neurotic and perhaps mildly obsessive-compulsive. He was occasionally practically agoraphobic, had an intense fear of darkness and rigidly held to theatrical superstitions, all rolled into a shroud of secrecy surrounding his private life (accused of being a homosexual by his detractors, he was also rumored to be secretly married to Maude Adams, a stage actress who would be termed a "superstar" today). In business Frohman was considered cold and calculating, often ruthlessly crushing competitors to the extent that lesser producers only survived on Broadway because he let them. He suffered a debilitating fall while at his home in White Plains, New York, in 1912 and the resulting arthritis proved so painful that he required use of a cane. Back in the Knickerbocker Hotel, Frohman became a virtual invalid.

In 1915 he opted to make a European trip to check on the crop of productions in London with playwright Charles Klein and his valet. Unfortunately he chose passage on the Lusitania, then the fastest ship to London. His friends and associates were aghast at his decision and tried to dissuade him from making the voyage. The German Embassy had issued a proclamation declaring the Lusitania a military target; Frohman reacted by dictating his company's entire 1916 season in advance and dismissed their fears for his safety, telling his friend Al Hayman, "If you want to write to me, just address the letter care of the German Submarine U-4." By eyewitness accounts, Frohman remained characteristically calm after the torpedoing of the ship, dismissing offers of assistance and offering his life belt to a female passenger. Among his last reported words was a line from J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan": "Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life."

Frohman's body was recovered and arrived in New York on May 24, 1915. He was given two funerals (John Barrymore was one of the pallbearers), with simultaneous memorial services across the US and in London. Maude Adams retired from acting upon his death. By the following year, Frohman's all-powerful theatrical syndicate would be broken by the Shubert Brothers.

Elbert Hubbard was born on 19 June 1856 in Bloomington, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for A Message to Garcia (1916), A Message to Garcia (1936) and Justinian and Theodora (1910). He was married to Alice Moore and Bertha C. Crawford. He died on 7 May 1915 in off the coast of Ireland.

Charles Klein was born on 7 January 1867 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Gamblers (1929), The Lion and the Mouse (1914) and The Lion and the Mouse (1928). He was married to Lillian Gottlieb. He died on 7 May 1915 in off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland.