A gay student, Matthew Shepard, was brutally beaten and left to die in Wyoming, US.
Princess Diana of Wales was laid to rest with 2 billion people watching her funeral on TV.
Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot four times in Las Vegas, Nevada, US.
17-year-old Neville Ebbin was riding his electric cycle down a stretch of road in Bermuda when he was hit and killed by a taxi driver named Willard Manders.
Hollywood actor James Dean died aged 24.
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin died in his home after suffering from a stroke.
Vincent van Gogh shot himself at a wheat field in Auvers-Sur-Oise, France, and died from his wounds two days later.
Author Edgar Allan Poe was last seen alive. He was disorientated, lying in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland, US.
