3. Jayne Mansfield Killed After Suffering "Severe Head Trauma" In A Car Accident
Who Are They?: A Playboy playmate and inimitable sex symbol of the 1950s and 60s, best remembered for The Girl Can't Help It, The Wayward Bus and Too Hot to Handle.
Cause of Death: While being driven from Mississippi to New Orleans on June 29th, 1967, Mansfield, her lover Sam Brody, their driver and three of her kids were involved in a car accident, crashing into a tractor trailor that instantly killed the three adults, while the children all miraculously survived because they were seated in the back. Rumours persisted for years that Mansfield had been decapitated - due to an image that circulated of blonde hair caught in the car's windshield, which was actually likely a wig or "just" her scalp - but she was in fact killed by a crushed skull.