Category:Dead people
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This is a hold-all category for deceased people. Please do not add individual people to this category; instead add them to the appropriate year of death category. If the year of death is unspecified add to Category:Year of death missing; if the year of death is lost to history, add to Category:Year of death unknown.
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- Recent deaths (within the last 10 years), by year: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
- Category:Year of death missing
- Category:Year of death unknown
- Category:Date of death missing
- Category:Date of death unknown
- Category:Place of death missing
- Category:Place of death unknown
- Category:Possibly living people (not included here)
- Category:Missing people (not included here)
See also
- Category:Living people
- Category:Year of birth missing
- Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
- Category:Year of birth unknown
- Category:Date of birth missing
- Category:Date of birth missing (living people)
- Category:Date of birth unknown
- Category:Place of birth missing
- Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
- Category:Place of birth unknown
- Category:Missing middle or first names
Subcategories
This category has the following 23 subcategories, out of 23 total.
- Deaths by cause (39 C)
- Deaths by location (13 C)
- Deaths by period (10 C)
- Deaths by person (13 C)
- Deaths by war (34 C)
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- Recent deaths (4 P)
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- Fictional dead characters (4 C)
B
- Bog bodies (57 P, 5 F)
C
- Child deaths (7 C, 131 P)
D
- Date of death missing (2,384 P)
- Date of death unknown (1,351 P)
- Death-related lists (23 C, 142 P)
E
F
- Filmed deaths (10 C, 8 P)
M
- Migrant deaths (2 C, 5 P)
P
- People declared dead in absentia (2 C, 146 P)
- Lists of politicians who died in office (1 C, 18 P)
U
- Unidentified decedents (3 C, 28 P)
W
- Women deaths (1 C, 39 P)
Y
- Year of death missing (1 C, 20,029 P)
- Year of death unknown (1 C, 7,771 P)
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