Question: How many people died because the Titanic sank?
About the article "Sinking of the RMS Titanic", section "Casualties and survivors".

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Local Titanic Heroes.
Sir Arthur Henry Rostron.
In the West End's Old Burial Ground, Sir Arthur Henry Rostron is buried.
Famous for rescuing 706 passengers and crew when RMS Titanic sank on the 15th April 1912.
Arthur rescued 706 people on his ship RMS Carpathia and was awarded many honours, including being created a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE), as well as being awarded a Congressional Gold Medal There are plaques in West End Museum for Rostron and RMS Titanic crew member (from West End) James Jukes.
In the later parts of his life, he decided to have his retirement in West End where he stayed until he died in 1940. 
The first monument ever erected in memory of the Titanic in America, and possibly the world, was built in the small town of Libertytown, Maryland at St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church.
The Church at the time was beautifying their church cemetery by building a calvary crucifixion scene.
When news of the disaster reached Libertytown, the monument was dedicated to the victims of the Titanic on April 19, 1912 just one day after the first reports the ship had sank.
This little monument, unknown to most of the world, is a testimony to how great a tragedy the Titanic was in its time because it moved a tiny town with no direct connections to the Titanic to mourn the great loss of life.
An inscribed plaque in the Boston Symphony Hall commemorates "Titanic"s musicians with the dedication: "In memory of the devoted musicians who were drowned still playing as the "Titanic" went down, 15 April 1912".
Two "Titanic" memorials stand in New York.
On 13 April 1913, the Titanic Memorial Lighthouse was constructed on the roof of the Seamen's Church Institute headquarters at 25 South Street in downtown Manhattan.
It was later moved to a new location in the South Street Seaport area.
Straus Park in the Upper West Side district of Morningside Heights commemorates Isidor Straus and his wife Ida, who both died in the disaster.
The centrepiece of the park is the Isidor and Ida Straus Memorial, erected in 1915 to commemorate the couple.
Its dedication reads: "Erected by voluntary contributions from many fellow citizens and accepted for the City of New York by Mayor John Purroy Mitchel and Cabot Ward, Commissioner of Parks.
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"The Titanic Memorial in Washington, D.C. stands next to the Washington Channel near Fort Lesley J. McNair.
It stands high and depicts a male figure with arms outstretched.
The memorial was unveiled on 26 May 1931 by Helen Herron Taft, the widow of President William Howard Taft, who held office at the time of the disaster and whose military aide Major Archibald Butt died in the sinking.
It originally stood in Rock Creek Park before being moved to its current site on P Street SW in 1968. 
Michel Navratil (August 13, 1880 – April 15, 1912) was a passenger on the who died when the ship sank, and was the father of the so-called ""Titanic" Orphans". 
At 11.40 pm on 14 April (ship's time), lookout Frederick Fleet spotted an iceberg immediately ahead of "Titanic" and alerted the bridge.
First Officer William Murdoch ordered the ship to be steered around the obstacle and the engines to be put in reverse, but it was too late; the starboard side of "Titanic" struck the iceberg, creating a series of holes below the waterline.
(The official enquiry found that damage extended about 300 feet, but both Edward Wilding's testimony and modern ultrasound surveys of the wreck suggest the total area was perhaps a few narrow openings totalling perhaps no more than .
Considerable emphasis has also been placed on the quality and strength of the rivets securing Titanic's hull sections together.)
Five of the ship's watertight compartments were breached.
It soon became clear that the ship was doomed, as she could not survive more than four compartments being flooded.
"Titanic" began sinking bow-first, with water spilling from compartment to compartment as her angle in the water became steeper.
Those aboard "Titanic" were ill-prepared for such an emergency.
In accordance with accepted practices of the time, where ships were seen as largely unsinkable and lifeboats were intended to transfer passengers to nearby rescue vessels, "Titanic" only had enough lifeboats to carry about half of those on board; if the ship had carried her full complement of about 3,339 passengers and crew, only about a third could have been accommodated in the lifeboats.
The crew had not been trained adequately in carrying out an evacuation.
The officers did not know how many they could safely put aboard the lifeboats and launched many of them barely half-full.
Third-class passengers were largely left to fend for themselves, causing many of them to become trapped below decks as the ship filled with water.
The "women and children first" protocol was generally followed for the loading of the lifeboats and most of the male passengers and crew were left aboard.
At 2:20 am, two hours and forty minutes after "Titanic" struck the iceberg, her rate of sinking suddenly increased as her forward deck dipped underwater and the sea poured in through open hatches and grates.
As her unsupported stern rose out of the water, exposing the propellers, the ship began to break in two between the third and fourth funnels due to the immense strain on the keel.
With the bow underwater, and air trapped in the stern, the stern remained afloat and buoyant for a few minutes longer, rising to a nearly vertical angle with hundreds of people still clinging to it, before sinking.
For many years it was generally believed the ship sank in one piece, however when the wreck was located many years later, it was discovered that the ship had fully broken in two.
All remaining passengers and crew were plunged into lethally cold water with a temperature of only .
Life expectancy in such temperatures is often under 15 minutes even for people who are young and fit.
The victims would have died from bodily reactions to freezing water rather than hypothermia (loss of core temperature).
Plunged into freezing seas, around 20% of victims die within 2 minutes from cold shock (uncontrolled rapid breathing and gasping causing water inhalation, massive increase in blood pressure and cardiac strain leading to cardiac arrest, and panic), another 50% die within 15–30 minutes from cold incapacitation (inability to use or control limbs and hands for swimming or gripping, as the body 'protectively' shuts down peripheral muscles to protect its core), and exhaustion and unconsciousness cause drowning, claiming the rest within a similar time.
Almost all of those in the water died of cardiac arrest or others of these causes within 15–30 minutes.
Only 13 of them were helped into the lifeboats though these had room for almost 500 more people.
Distress signals were sent by wireless, rockets and lamp, but none of the ships that responded was near enough to reach her before she sank.
A nearby ship, "Californian", which was the last to have been in contact with her before the collision, saw her flares but failed to assist.
Around 4 am, RMS "Carpathia" arrived on the scene in response to "Titanic"s earlier distress calls.
About 710 people survived the disaster and were conveyed by "Carpathia" to New York, "Titanic"s original destination, while 1,500 people lost their lives.
"Carpathia"'s captain described the place as an ice field that had included 20 large bergs measuring up to high and numerous smaller bergs, as well as ice floes and debris from "Titanic"; passengers described being in the middle of a vast white plain of ice, studded with icebergs. 
John George "Jack" Phillips was born in Farncombe.
He was an early wireless telegraphist who died while serving as senior wireless operator on board the maiden voyage of the RMS "Titanic".
He continued working as the ship sank, trying to contact other ships that might be able come to the assistance of the "Titanic".
Phillips is commemorated by the Phillips Memorial Garden in Godalming, designed by the famous garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, and a memorial in the St. John the Evangelist Church in Farncombe.
"The Jack Phillips" pub in Godalming High Street is named after him.
The memorial garden which is situated next to the River Wey is one of the biggest memorial gardens in the world for a single Titanic victim.