how many people died the titanic
By Greg Daugherty. The sinking of the Titanic claimed some 1,500 lives, among them a gallery of early 20th-century A-list celebrities. Captains of industry John Jacob Astor IV and Benjamin Guggenheim both went down with the ship, as did Macyâs co-owner Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida, who refused to leave his side.