21st Century
- 2000: Actor Renato Di Paolo was portraying Judas in a play outside of Rome on the day before Easter. During the hanging scene he accidentally hanged himself.
- 2001: Conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli died of a heart attack while conducting Giuseppe Verdi's Aida at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.
- 25 June 2001: Argentine actor Pablo Lisazo, 34, died of an aneurism while practicing for a theatrical play at Buenos Aires.
- 20 February 2003: Ty Longley, guitarist for the band Great White, died in The Station nightclub fire, which led to the deaths of 100 people in West Warwick, Rhode Island .
- 11 September 2003: While filming the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, John Ritter was stricken with a previously undiagnosed aortic dissection. He was rushed to hospital, but died soon afterwards.
- 26 November 2003: Scottish Actor Gordon Reid collapsed and died on stage from a heart attack at the Finborough Theatre, London halfway through Act Two of a performance of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
- 8 December 2004: Ex-guitarist of the groove metal band Pantera, "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, was murdered on stage by a gunman while performing with his new band Damageplan at the Al Rosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio.
- 3rd October 2005: Franco Scoglio, Italian football manager and sport TV commenter, died of a heart attack at 64 years of age while on the air during a program on the Genoan private TV station Primocanale, after a heated discussion over the phone with Genoa chairman Enrico Preziosi. He passed out in his seat while Preziosi continued with his call.
- Feb. 22, 2006: Classical/Gospel Pianist and Multi-Award Winner Anthony Burger had a massive heart attack while performing a piano piece entitled "Hear My Song Lord". during a cruise aboard the Holland America cruise ship, the Zuiderdam.
- 4 September 2006: Steve Irwin, known as "The Crocodile Hunter", was stung and killed by a stingray while filming an underwater documentary entitled Ocean's Deadliest.
- 26 September 2006: Academic Craig Ewert completed an assisted suicide during filming a documentary about his final four days of his life, called Right to Die?.
- 3 October 2007: M.N. Vijayan, an Indian writer, orator and academic, died of cardiac arrest during a televised interview.
- 9 November 2008: Miriam Makeba suffered a heart attack shortly after singing her hit song, "Pata Pata" in a concert held in Castel Volturno, near Caserta, Italy.
- 13 April 2009: Philadelphia Phillies Lead Announcer and NFL Films Narrator Harry Kalas collapsed of a heart attack in the broadcast booth at Nationals Park while preparing for an afternoon game. He later died at George Washington University Hospital at 1:20 PM.
- 3 March 2011: Swedish comedian Lasse Eriksson died during the final number of his show Fyra lyckliga män 2 (Four happy men 2) at Reginateatern in Uppsala, Sweden. He was one of Sweden's first stand-up comedians.
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