List of people who have disappeared

1940
•   Eleanor Jarman was a convicted robber, one of the more violent female criminals of her time, who escaped from jail in 1940 and became a fugitive from justice. Although she was placed on the FBI ten most wanted fugitives list, she was not caught. In 1975, in an incident that was not disclosed for years, she secretly visited relatives. She refused to turn herself in or reveal how she had been living. She would now be well over 100, and is presumed to have died under an alias.
 1944
•   Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French author and aviator. Apparently died when his Lockheed P-38 Lightning crashed off the coast of Marseille. Though the aircraft was recovered in 2003, his body was never found.
•   Glenn Miller — popular American jazz musician and bandleader. Disappeared on December 15, 1944, en route from England to Paris to play for troops in the recently liberated city. Neither his remains nor the aircraft in which he was riding were ever recovered.
•   On 6 August 1944, a ship named the Island Queen vanished completely from Grenada. A second ship, the Providence Mark, which made the same journey on the same night arrived safely with no hint of trouble. Not a trace of the Island Queen or the people on board was ever found.
 1945
•   Raoul Wallenberg — Swedish diplomat who is cred with saving tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.
•   Charles Carroll Taylor — leader of Flight 19.
•   Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose — one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian Independence Movement; he disappeared after his plane crashed on August 18, 1945 (and is believed to have died), but this conclusion is the subject of great dispute.
•   Hans Kammler — SS general and perhaps the third-ranking member of the Nazi hierarchy during the last months of World War II. There are at least four differing accounts of his death, but his remains have never been located.
 1948
•   The passengers and crew of the Avro Tudor IV aircraft the Star Tiger disappeared on January 30, 1948 enroute from the Azores to Bermuda in an area of the Atlantic Ocean referred to as the Bermuda Triangle.
•   Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham — prominent passenger aboard the Star Tiger at the time of its disappearance.
 1949
•   The passengers and crew of the Avro Tudor IV aircraft Star Ariel disappeared while enroute to Kingston, Jamaica, in the Bermuda Triangle. Passengers Margeret Elsie Meade and Mark Marshall Meade
 1950
•   Richard Colvin Cox — a second-year military cadet who disappeared from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
 1953
•   Felix Moncla disappeared while hunting an unidentified flying object
 1955
•   Curtis Chillingworth was a Florida state judge who (together with his wife, Marjorie Chillingworth) disappeared from his Manapalan, Florida, home in June 1955. Authorities later learned that the couple were abducted, taken offshore and killed as part of a Murder-for-hire plot.
•   The crew and passengers of the Joyita, which disappeared in the South Pacific ocean; five weeks later, the Joyita re-appeared with no one on board.
•   Weldon Kees, poet. On July 19, 1955, Kees's Plymouth Savoy was found on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge with the keys in the ignition. He left no note and his body was never found, but he was known to have talked about picking up and moving to Mexico.
 1956
•   Lionel "Buster" Crabb — British frogman who disappeared during an MI6 mission investigating the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze in Portsmouth Harbour. A decapitated body was found some months later but never positively identified.
•   Jesús de Galíndez, a professor at Columbia University, the Spanish national, a critic of the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, disappeared in March 1956 in New York City and was never seen again. Many theorists believed that he was kidnapped from his apartment (15F) at 30 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan at the request of Trujillo, transported secretly back to Santo Domingo and tortured to death. The 2002 film Galindez discusses the investigation of his disappearance.1
 1957
•   Moira McCall Anderson was an 11-year-old schoolgirl who disappeared while on an errand for her grandmother in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland. She has never been found and it is surmised that she was abducted for child sexual abuse. The Moira Anderson Foundation has been established in memory of her.
 1959
•   Camilo Cienfuegos was a Cuban revolutionary born in Calabazar de Sagua, Las Villas Cuba. He disappeared and presumably died on October 28, 1959, in a Cessna accident due to bad weather while flying over the sea. However, neither his plane nor his body were ever recovered despite Cuban government efforts.
 1960
•   Emile Desportes — composer, inventor, painter and explorer — 1960s?
 1961
•   Masanobu Tsuji — Japanese soldier and politician.
•   David Kenyon Webster — American soldier, journalist and author, was a member of Easy Company during WW2 & portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band Of Brothers. An avid interest in sharks led to a popular book about them. He subsequently set sail alone from Santa Monica, California on Sept 9, 1961 to go shark fishing when he disappeared at sea. His boat was found 5 miles offshore with no trace of him.
•   Michael Rockefeller — son of Nelson Rockefeller, disappeared during an expion in the Asmat region of southwestern New Guinea.
 1962
•   Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz prison on June 11, 1962, and disappeared; authorities have presumed that they drowned, but no bodies were ever recovered.
 1966
•   The Beaumont children — Jane (9), Arnna (7) and Grant (4), all disappeared from an Adelaide, Australia beach on 26 January.
 1967
•   Harold Holt — Australian Prime Minister — disappeared while at the beach out on a swim.
•   Jim Thompson — a former U.S. military intelligence officer who once worked for the Office of Strategic Services and a designer famous for Thai silks, disappeared while out on a walk, in Malaysia.