| Wrestler |
Date |
Cause |
Age |
| Matt Grace |
04/05/1883 |
Unknown |
41 |
| Clarence Whistler |
11/06/1985 |
Internal Bleeding From Eating
Glass |
29 |
| Sorakichi Matsuda |
08/16/1891 |
Illness |
32 |
| Carl Abs |
02/18/1895 |
Unknown |
44 |
| Youssuf 'The Terrible Turk' Ishmaelo |
07/04/1897 |
Drowning |
41 |
| William 'Farmer' Baldwin |
02/24/1911 |
Dies in Ring |
?? |
| Kara Ahmed |
05/27/1912 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Youssouf Mahmout |
??/??/1915 |
Unknown |
66 |
| Joe Acton |
06/27/1917 |
Unknown |
65 |
| Frank Gotch |
12/16/1917 |
Uremic Poisoning |
40 |
| Jacob Koch |
02/18/1918 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Evan 'Strangler' Lewis |
11/03/1919 |
Unknown |
59 |
| Heinrich Eberle |
12/22/1919 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Elmer 'Pet' Brown |
05/15/1923 |
Unknown |
36 |
| Jack Carkeek |
03/12/1924 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Hassen 'The Terrible Turk' Nuhammed |
01/29/1929 |
Car Accident |
38 |
| Matty Matsuda |
08/01/1929 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Big Wayne Munn |
01/09/1931 |
Kidney Failure |
35 |
| Dimitry Demetroff |
05/09/1932 |
Blood Poisoning |
37 |
| August Brylla |
01/17/1933 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Oswald Buchheim |
01/22/1933 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Jack Hurley |
03/14/1933 |
Fell From Hotel Window |
?? |
| Dr. Benjamin F. Roller |
04/19/1933 |
Pneumonia |
57 |
| William Muldoon |
06/03/1933 |
Cancer |
88 |
| Charlie Manoli |
06/29/1933 |
Blood Poisoning |
?? |
| George Kotsonaros |
07/13/1933 |
Car Accident |
45 |
| Billy Severe |
07/13/1933 |
Car Accident |
?? |
| Fred Beell |
08/05/1933 |
Shot In Line Of Police Duty |
57 |
| John 'Doc' Krone |
02/08/1934 |
Heart Attack |
?? |
| Jack 'California Red Devil' Lewis |
02/25/1934 |
Heart Attack After Match |
?? |
| Joe Shimkus |
05/31/1934 |
Concussion From Match |
?? |
| Charley Hanson |
07/??/1934 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Tex Wright |
03/11/1935 |
Chronic Myocarditis |
28 |
| Jim Browning |
06/19/1936 |
Pulmonary Embolism |
?? |
| Mike Romano |
06/25/1936 |
Coronary Occlusion & Chronic
Diseases |
36 |
| Farmer Burns |
02/09/1937 |
Unknown |
75 |
| Willi Halmann |
04/10/1937 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Eddie Baker |
05/14/1937 |
Heart Attack |
36 |
| Jack Curley |
07/12/1937 |
Unknown |
61 |
| Tokugoro Ito |
01/22/1938 |
Cerebral Haemorrhage |
58 |
| Phil Taggert |
04/21/1938 |
Unknown |
48 |
| Frank Speer |
06/10/1938 |
Bronchial Pneumonia |
32 |
| Tom Connors |
??/??/1939 |
Unknown |
77 |
| Charles 'Ibem Seleem' Harvey |
02/17/1939 |
Car Accident |
27 |
| George Altmann |
03/??/1939 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Leo Pardello |
08/16/1939 |
Bled to Death |
72 |
| John Stevens |
03/01/1940 |
Heart Attack |
50 |
| Aulus Britt |
05/09/1940 |
Unknown |
63 |
| 'Irish' Jack Donavan |
05/27/1940 |
Car Accident |
?? |
| Pete Loch |
12/20/1940 |
Unknown |
61 |
| Buddy O'Brien |
??/??/1941 |
Dies in Ring |
?? |
| Billy Edwards |
01/21/1941 |
Car Accident |
51 |
| Dutch Mantell |
01/31/1941 |
Cancer |
59 |
| Mitsuyo Maeda |
11/28/1941 |
Unknown |
63 |
| Jim Clinstock |
01/29/1944 |
Unknown |
38 |
| Gus Sonnenberg |
09/12/1944 |
Unknown |
63 |
| Ben Rueben |
03/03/1945 |
Plane Crash |
?? |
| Gaius W. Young |
03/03/1945 |
Plane Crash |
?? |
| George Mack |
03/03/1945 |
Plane Crash |
?? |
| Hal Sabath |
03/03/1945 |
Plane Crash |
?? |
| Jack Ross |
03/03/1945 |
Plane Crash |
?? |
| Lester 'Kid' Chapman |
03/03/1945 |
Plane Crash |
?? |
| 'Irish' Jerry Monahan |
01/10/1947 |
Unknown |
45 |
| George Godfrey |
08/13/1947 |
Unknown |
50 |
| Artur Ackermann |
02/09/1948 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Don Carver |
08/18/1948 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Joe Lynam |
09/25/1948 |
Plane Crash |
31 |
| Ali Aliba |
12/18/1948 |
Unknown |
40 |
| Ralph Mondt |
??/??/1949 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Phil Lawson |
05/30/1949 |
Unknown |
48 |
| Jaan Jargo |
08/??/1949 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Ivan 'The Terrible' Maximovich
Poddubny |
08/08/1949 |
Unknown |
78 |
| Ray Steele |
09/11/1949 |
Heart Attack |
54 |
| Rudy Laditzi |
??/??/1950 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Bull Montana |
01/24/1950 |
Unknown |
62 |
| Earl Caddock |
08/25/1950 |
Dies At Home |
62 |
| Danno O'Mahoney |
11/04/1950 |
Car Crash |
37 |
| Rufus Jones |
??/??/1951 |
Unknown |
51 |
| Janet Boyer |
??/??/1951 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Curtis 'Spike' Pieterson |
05/??/1951 |
Fractured Neck |
?? |
| Jeanette Wolf |
07/??/1951 |
Dies In Ring |
18 |
| August Ahrens |
07/20/1951 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Helmut Kreisch |
09/18/1951 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Charlie Cutler |
??/??/1952 |
Unknown |
69 |
| Tugger Larsen |
??/??/1952 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Terry McGinnis |
03/30/1952 |
Dies After Match |
41 |
| Don McDonald |
05/24/1952 |
Unknown |
57 |
| Alex Kasaboski |
06/13/1952 |
Blood Clots In Lung |
41 |
| Don Sugai |
10/14/1952 |
Car Accident |
39 |
| Fritz Clemens |
01/23/1953 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Jack Forbes |
04/03/1953 |
Unknown |
64 |
| Puther Khan |
05/07/1953 |
Executed By Hanging |
?? |
| Charro Aguayo |
09/22/1963 |
Unknown |
67 |
| Geneva 'Lady Angel' Huckabee |
??/??/1966 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Ace Abbott |
??/??/1970 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Vittorio 'Argentina' Apollo |
08/02/1984 |
Heart Attack |
46 |
| Angle Blanco |
04/26/1986 |
Unknown |
49 |
| Adrian Adonis |
07/04/1988 |
Car Accident |
34 |
| Daniel Aldana |
12/31/1990 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Gene Anderson |
10/31/1991 |
Heart Attack |
58 |
| Andre the Giant |
01/27/1993 |
Congestive Heart Failure |
46 |
| Anibal |
03/19/1994 |
Unknown |
53 |
| Paul Anderson |
08/15/1994 |
Unknown |
61 |
| Art Barr |
11/23/1994 |
Drug Related Causes |
28 |
| Tiny Anderson |
01/??/1995 |
Unknown |
42 |
| Big John Studd |
03/20/1995 |
Hodgkin's Disease |
48 |
| Herb Arbrams |
07/23/1996 |
Drug Overdose |
41 |
| Ray Golden Appollon |
02/04/1997 |
Unknown |
72 |
| Mitsu Arakawa |
04/17/1997 |
Unknown |
69 |
| Fritz Von Erich |
09/10/1997 |
Cancer |
68 |
| Big Daddy |
12/02/1997 |
Heart Attack |
67 |
| Bobo Brazil |
01/20/1998 |
Heart Problems |
74 |
| Louie Spicolli |
02/15/1998 |
Carisoprodol Overdose |
27 |
| Junkyard Dog |
06/01/1998 |
Car Accident |
45 |
| Rick Rude |
04/20/1999 |
Heart Attack |
41 |
| Owen Hart |
05/23/1999 |
Accidental Fall |
33 |
| Al Amezcua |
11/04/1999 |
Unknown |
81 |
| Gary Albright |
01/07/2000 |
Heart Attack |
34 |
| Yokozuna |
10/22/2000 |
Heart Attack |
34 |
| Terry Gordy |
07/16/2001 |
Heart Attack |
40 |
| 'Gentleman' Chris Adams |
10/07/2001 |
Shot |
46 |
| Bud Adams |
02/17/2002 |
Unknown |
67 |
| Randy 'Pee Wee' Anderson |
05/05/2002 |
Cancer |
42 |
| Ben Alexander |
05/07/2002 |
Unknown |
51 |
| Shoichi Arai |
05/16/2002 |
Suicide |
36 |
| British Bulldog |
05/17/2002 |
Heart Attack |
39 |
| Don 'Ox' Anderson |
01/18/2003 |
Heart Failure |
71 |
| Curt 'Mr. Perfect' Hennig |
02/10/2003 |
Acute Cocaine Intoxication |
44 |
| Tony Altimore |
02/18/2003 |
Heart Attack |
74 |
| Duane Allen |
05/07/2003 |
Unknown |
65 |
| Eddie Guerrero |
11/13/2005 |
Heart Failure |
38 |
| Don A. Evans |
11/28/2005 |
Unknown |
88 |
| John 'Jack Carter' Lakey |
12/06/2005 |
Cancer |
90 |
| Chazz Rocco |
12/10/2005 |
Heart Attack |
37 |
| Eddie 'Flash' Barker |
01/01/2007 |
Natural Causes |
91 |
| Cowboy Lang |
01/04/2007 |
Heart Disease |
56 |
| Coco Samoa |
01/09/2007 |
Unknown |
62 |
| Scott 'Bam Bam' Bigelow |
01/19/2007 |
Heart Disease & Overdose of
Cocaine & Benzodiazepine |
45 |
| Doug Gentry |
01/26/2007 |
Heart Attack |
34 |
| Bob Luce |
02/08/2007 |
Long Illness |
78 |
| Jim Melby (Editor) |
02/11/2007 |
Heart Attack |
57 |
| Mike Awesome |
02/17/2007 |
Suicide |
42 |
| Jesus Perez |
02/23/2007 |
Natural Causes |
91 |
| Luigi 'Orca' DelBove |
02/24/2007 |
Unknown |
39 |
| Debra 'Tracey Richards' Newkirk |
02/25/2007 |
Cancer |
50 |
| Ray Stern |
03/06/2007 |
Complications From Heart Surgery |
74 |
| 'Bad News' Allen Coage |
03/06/2007 |
Heart Attack |
63 |
| 'Black Shadow' Alejandro Cruz
Ortiz |
03/08/2007 |
Pneumonia |
82 |
| Ernie Ladd |
03/10/2007 |
Cancer |
68 |
| Arnold Skaaland |
03/13/2007 |
Natural Causes |
82 |
| Angel Azteca |
03/18/2007 |
Heart Attack |
43 |
| Steven 'Axis' Ranton |
03/26/2007 |
Suicide |
22 |
| Abe Coleman |
03/28/2007 |
Kidney Failure |
101 |
| Darren 'Dynamite D' McMillan |
04/11/2007 |
Cancer |
38 |
| Mephisto LePhanto |
05/05/2007 |
Heart Attack |
31 |
| Sonny Myers |
05/07/2007 |
Long Illness |
83 |
| Sandy Barr |
06/02/2007 |
Heart Attack |
31 |
| El Caballero Rojo |
06/14/2007 |
Unknown |
72 |
| 'Sensational' Sherri Martel |
06/15/2007 |
Accidental Overdose |
49 |
| Princess Tona Tamah |
06/15/2007 |
Natural Causes |
72 |
| Rickey Raye Fowler |
06/18/2007 |
Illness |
52 |
| Nancy 'Woman' Toffoloni |
06/22/2007 |
Asphyxiation |
43 |
| Boogie Woogie Brown |
06/23/2007 |
Lupus |
54 |
| Biff Wellington |
06/24/2007 |
Heart Attack |
42 |
| Chris Benoit |
06/24/2007 |
Suicide |
40 |
| Moondog Nathan |
07/04/2007 |
Unknown |
37 |
| Devil Bhudakhan |
07/15/2007 |
Suicide |
31 |
| John Kronus |
07/18/2007 |
Heart Failure |
38 |
| Eugene Stezycki |
07/19/2007 |
Cancer |
82 |
| Lita Merez |
07/21/2007 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Ronnie P. Gossett |
07/23/2007 |
Complications From Colon Cancer |
?? |
| Tor Kamata |
07/23/2007 |
Heart Disease |
70 |
| Karl Gotch |
07/28/2007 |
Natural Causes |
82 |
| Scott 'Scotty Williams' Dumas |
08/??/2007 |
Unknown |
44 |
| Bronko Lubich |
08/12/2007 |
Natural Causes |
81 |
| Brian 'Crush' Adams |
08/13/2007 |
Accidental Overdose |
43 |
| The Missing Link |
08/16/2007 |
Cancer |
68 |
| El Soberano |
08/18/2007 |
Unknown |
59 |
| Frank Butcher |
08/22/2007 |
Natural Causes |
84 |
| Frank Fozo |
08/23/2007 |
Natural Causes |
79 |
| Fineaso 'Lightning Leni' Po'a |
08/23/2007 |
Unknown |
50 |
| 'Iron' Mike Steele |
08/28/2007 |
Hit & Run |
?? |
| Karloff Lagarde |
09/01/2007 |
Natural Causes |
79 |
| Billy Darnell |
09/06/2007 |
Natural Causes |
81 |
| Keith 'Monty' Black |
09/09/2007 |
Unknown |
45 |
| Enrique Torres |
09/10/2007 |
Natural Causes |
85 |
| Big John Radocaj |
09/14/2007 |
Murdered |
43 |
| Zack Murray |
09/23/2007 |
Unknown |
61 |
| Dave Diamond |
09/24/2007 |
Unknown |
51 |
| Dean Ross |
09/24/2007 |
Cancer |
64 |
| Sean 'Shocker' Evans |
10/02/2007 |
Lung Cancer |
36 |
| Isak 'Rain' Bjerknes |
10/10/2007 |
Car Crash |
22 |
| Rey 'Great Kabooki' Urbano |
10/16/2007 |
Natural Causes |
78 |
| Tom Stanton |
10/22/2007 |
Brain Tumour |
?? |
| JR Hogg |
10/27/2007 |
Unknown |
59 |
| El Santanas |
11/08/2007 |
Unknown |
78 |
| El Gran Markus |
11/16/2007 |
Diabetes |
64 |
| Countess Victoria de Beaulais |
11/17/2007 |
Cancer |
71 |
| David 'Little Andre' Casey |
11/19/2007 |
Unknown |
43 |
| Thomas 'Jack Dempsey' Moore |
11/20/2007 |
Natural Causes |
87 |
| David 'Angel of Death' Sheldon |
11/24/2007 |
Unknown |
43 |
| Tim 'The Equalizer' Foster |
11/27/2007 |
Unknown |
46 |
| Boyd Rowell |
12/17/2007 |
Unknown |
42 |
| Greg 'Mr' Gillies |
12/23/2007 |
Heart Attack |
44 |
| Arman Hussein |
12/31/2007 |
Natural Causes |
61 |
| Jim 'Del Adams' Raye |
01/??/2008 |
Unknown |
59 |
| Randy Barber |
01/01/2008 |
Heart Attack |
49 |
| Heather 'Roxxy Lunnar' Maurray |
01/02/2008 |
Unknown |
?? |
| Nick Haplin |
01/06/2008 |
Unknown |
28 |
| Ernie Holmes |
01/17/2008 |
Car Crash |
59 |
| Tony 'Elephant Boy' Olivas |
02/06/2008 |
Natural Causes |
86 |
| Johnny Weaver |
02/16/2008 |
Natural Causes |
72 |
| Don Curtis |
03/05/2008 |
Stroke |
78 |
| Joe Price |
03/06/2008 |
Colon Cancer |
37 |
| Gary Hart |
03/16/2008 |
Heart Disease |
66 |
| Chase Tatum |
03/23/2008 |
Accidental Drug Overdose |
34 |
| Sarah 'Sara Lee' Miquet |
04/05/2008 |
Complications From Alzheimer's
Disease |
76 |