#1 Subhas Chandra Bose
Disappeared after a plane crash in Taiwan in 1945.
#2 Camilo Cienfuegos
Disappeared when his Cessna 310 went missing over the ocean during a night flight from Camagüey to Havana in 1959.
#3 William Morgan
William Morgan disappeared in 1826 after threats to publish a book exposing the secrets of the Free Masons.
#4 Ambiorix
Disappeared in 53 BC after Caesar invaded Belgium. He and his men are said to have crossed the Rhine River, never to be seen again.
#5 Francisco de Orellana
Disappeared while exploring the Amazon in 1546.
#6 Raoul Wallenberg
A symbol of humanitarian efforts during WWII, Raoul Wallenberg rescued tens of thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary by issuing protective passports and giving them refuge in Swedish designated areas in the country. Wallenberg was detained by KGB operatives in 1945 and disappeared later that year.
#7 John Cabot
Disappeared along with his five ships during an expedition to find a western route from Europe to Asia in 1499.
#8 Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa was a powerful Union leader who served as President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1958-1971. Hoffa had powerful ties to organized crime and was last known to have been attending a meeting with two mob leaders at a Detroit restaurant when he disappeared in 1975.
#9 Ambrose Bierce
A noted journalist and author, Ambrose Bierce disappeared while travelling with rebel troops to gain first-hand knowledge of the Mexican Revolution in 1914.
#10 Natalee Holloway
Natalee Ann Holloway disappeared on May 30, 2005, while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba. Holloway, an 18-year-old American, lived in Mountain Brook, Alabama, USA, at the time of her vanishing, and graduated from Mountain Brook High School on May 24, 2005, shortly before the trip.
#11 Madeleine McCann
Madeleine McCann disappeared in Portugal during a family vacation from the UK in 2007. The girl had been in a hotel room with her younger siblings just 160 feet away from a restaurant where her parents were dining when her mother discovered she was missing. The family fell under intense scrutiny when Portuguese police falsely concluded the girl had been murdered in the room. Madeleine remains missing to this day.
#12 Sean Flynn
Sean Flynn, the only child of actor Errol Flynn and Lili Damita, disappeared while on assignment for Time magazine in Cambodia in 1970. He and Dana Stone, reporting for CBS News, were captured by communist guerrillas and never seen again.
#13 Glenn Miller
Popular on the big band scene in the US, Glenn Miller joined the Army in 1942 to aid the war effort by creating a modernized Army band. Captain Miller was being flown via single engine plane from the UK to Paris, France when his plane disappeared in 1944 over the English Channel.
#14 Amelia Earhart
On the flight's final stretch across the Pacific, Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan lost communication and were never seen again.
#15 D.B.Cooper
The perpetrator of the only unsolved air piracy case in US history, D.B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 en route from Portland, OR to Seattle, WA in 1971. He indicated to a flight attendant on board that he had a bomb in his briefcase and demanded a $200,000 ransom be paid when the aircraft landed in Seattle. Cooper's demands were met and, after releasing the passengers and the bulk of the crew, the plane was reloaded and set off for Mexico (with a planned refueling stop in Reno, NV).
#16 Richey Edwards
The guitar player for the Manic Street Preachers disappeared in 1995 at the age of 27. While sightings and clues persisted for the weeks following his disappearance, the famed musician was never found.
