Necrology (animals)

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This is a year-long list of known animals, sorted by date of death .

See also the list of known animals sorted by species , the category: individual animal and the list of extinct species .

21st century

date of death	Surname	Animal species; known as	Age in years	receipt
August 25, 2020	Chilli Morning	German dressage horse (most successful eventing stallion of all time)	20th	[1]
August 6, 2020	Paula	Oldest sloth in the world	50-51	[2]
Announced 4th July 2020	Rubble	Probably the oldest cat in the world (tomcat)	31	[3]
June 27, 2020	Manduro	World best racehorse 2007	18th	[4]
June 15, 2020	bob	made famous by James Bowen's bestseller Bob the Stray and his film adaptation	> 14	[5]
2nd June 2020	Arrogates	Racehorse with the highest winnings to date	7th	[6]
May 22, 2020	Saturn	Mississippi alligator from the Berlin Zoo , in Moscow since 1946	84	[7]
May 2020	Maurice	Male domestic chicken in France whose loud crows brought its owner to court	6th	[8th]
April 2020	Elvis	White tiger, who lived in the film animal park in Eschede for years and was considered a special attraction	11	[9]
around March 16, 2020	Lotte	English bulldog on Sat.1 breakfast television	12	[10]
March 3, 2020	CC	First cloned domestic cat	18th	[11]
February 21, 2020	AP Indy	Successful racehorse and stallion in the USA	31	[12]
January 1, 2020	Massa	Western lowland gorilla in Krefeld Zoo , oldest gorilla in the European Conservation Breeding Program (EEP)	48	[13]
December 27, 2019	Fausta	Probably the oldest black rhinoceros in the world	57	[14]
3rd December 2019	Lady Gaga	Holstein-Friesian cow and multiple show winner	13	[15]
1st December 2019	Lil boy	Female cat that has become famous through the Internet because of its eye-catching appearance	8th	[16]
23rd November 2019	Iman	Last Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia	25th	[17]
November 14, 2019	Sana	The oldest rhino in the world, last lived in the Planète Sauvage zoo .	55	[18]
3rd September 2019	horst	Llama in the Leipzig Zoo	17th	[19]
3rd September 2019	Yvonne	Runaway cow that has not been caught for over three months	14th	[20]
July 30, 2019	Deep impact	Racehorse, winner of the Japanese Triple Crown	17th	[21]
May 14, 2019	Grumpy Cat	cat made famous through the internet	7th	[22]
April 22, 2019	Hoki	the first hand-raised kakapo	27	[23]
20th March 2019	jumper	Mold from Tamme Hanken	22nd	[24]
5th March 2019	Tsavo	White rhinoceros , circus animal, last lived in Circus Krone , before that in Circus Barum .	45	[25]
2nd March 2019	Mr. Pokee	An African white-bellied hedgehog from Wiesbaden who became famous through Instagram .	3	[26]
February 23, 2019	Rani	Asian elephant , Germany's oldest elephant. Lived in the Karlsruhe Zoo.	63	[27]
February 23, 2019	Douglas	Scarlet macaw ; had starred as Rosalinde in the film Pippi in Taka-Tuka-Land	51	[28]
End of January 2019	Trevor	Mallard , flown to the island of Niue , was considered the "loneliest duck in the world"	?	[29]
January 28, 2019	Kayla	Orca , at SeaWorld Orlando	30th	[30]
18th January 2019	Boo	Pomeranian and internet celebrity	12	[31]
1st January 2019	George	Last known specimen of the Oahu land snail Achatinella apexfulva .	approx. 14	[32]
around December 20, 2018	Leeluu	Well-known rescue dog from the Kronach police force of the breed Rhodesian Ridgeback . She died three days after taking poison bait in the week before Christmas in Stockheim-Haßlach.	8th	[33]
December 8, 2018	Roger	Kangaroo, known as the muscleman in Alice Springs Kangaroo Park, Australia. His story was filmed as a documentary in 2013 under the title Kangaroo Dundee .	12	[34]
22nd November 2018	Gundula	Griffon vulture female in the Salzburg Zoo	39	[35]
September 12, 2018	Susi	Female brown bear in Osnabrück Zoo , mother of the hybrid bear Tips, who died in 2017	38	[36]
4th September 2018	Seppl	Capuchin monkey in the Schwerin Zoo	41	[37]
August 21, 2018	Jeany	Chimpanzee females in the Hannover Adventure Zoo	41	[38]
20th August 2018	Fritz	Gorilla in Nuremberg Zoo, oldest male gorilla in European zoos	55	[39]
19th June 2018	Koko	sign speaking gorilla at the San Francisco Zoo	46	[40]
June 18, 2018	Puan	Sumatran orangutan, at Perth Zoo, oldest known Sumatran orangutan	approx. 62	[41]
June 12, 2018	Ruperta	African elephant in a Venezuelan zoo	approx. 48	[42]
7th June 2018	Goma	first gorilla born in a European zoo ( Basel Zoo )	58	[43]
June 1, 2018	Mike	Collared bear that broke out of its enclosure in the Eifel Zoo in Lünebach during a storm and was shot down	33/34	[44]
May 22, 2018	Nonja	Orangutan female at the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna	42	[45]
April 16, 2018	Chico	Staffordshire hybrid who bit two people dead and was put to sleep	approx 8	[46]
19th March 2018	Sudan	last known male specimen of the northern white rhinoceros	45	[47]
March 13, 2018	Samum	Horse of the year 2000	21st	[48]
March 8, 2018	Bento	Domestic cat and Youtube star	9	[49]
End of January 2018	Nigel	Australian booby and island pioneer	unknown	[50]
7th November 2017	Paddles	New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's domestic cat and social media star	unknown	[51]
October 13, 2017	Grape-kun	Humboldt penguin at Miyashiro Zoo in Japan	20th	[52]
October 11, 2017	Jeremy	Spotted garden snail with a left-rotating housing	unknown	[53]
22nd September 2017	Smurf	Shetland pony, Germany's oldest pony	52	[54]
13th September 2017	Gozubr	Polish bison , shot down in East Brandenburg	?	[55]
August 21, 2017	Loki	Walrus in Hagenbeck's zoo	2	[56]
28th July 2017	Cena	American bomb detection dog	10	[57]
23rd July 2017	Snooty	oldest known manatee ( manatee ), South Florida Museum in Bradenton, Florida	69	[58]
23rd July 2017	Stubbs	Hangover, "Honorary Mayor" of Talkeetna	20th	[59]
July 21, 2017	Pudsey	Border Collie, known from the talent show Britain's Got Talent	11	[60]
17th July 2017	Moritz	Orangutan in the Stuttgart Wilhelma	24	[61]
June 2017	Sieglinde	Well-known TV chicken, was killed by a dog attack in June 2017. Complex process until January 2020	2	[62]
April 2017	Tullamore	Internationally known lion, known as the last living musketeer of the once five musketeers of the desert kings - The Lions of the Namib . Was murdered in spring 2017 after filming Part 2, like his four brothers in 2015	8th	[63]
March 11, 2017	Tips	Hybrid bear in the Osnabrück Zoo	10	[64]
Found dead on March 6, 2017	Satao II.	Giant elephant	?	[65]
March 6, 2017	Fritz	Polar bear baby in the Berlin zoo	4 months	[66]
5th February 2017	Granddad	Australian lungfish , oldest known aquarium fish	Mid 90's	[67]
17th January 2017	Colo	oldest captive born gorilla	60	[68]
January 6, 2017	Tilikum	one of the largest captive orcas known from Blackfish	approx. 36	[69]
Declared dead on January 3, 2017	Granny	oldest known killer whale	approx. 105	[70]
December 29, 2016	Pan Pan	oldest male giant panda in captivity with more than 130 offspring	31	[71]
December 21, 2016	Shanti	second oldest elephant in Germany	60	[72]
December 9, 2016	Long Hui	Giant panda, father of four young animals in Vienna's Schönbrunn Zoo	16	[73]
approx. November 23, 2016	Aika	oldest polar bear in captivity worldwide according to Tierpark Berlin	35	[74]
between May and October 2016	Number 16	Trap door spider of the species Gaius villosus , oldest known spider	43	[75]
October 16, 2016	Jia Jia	oldest female captive giant panda	38	[76]
26th September 2016	Toughie	last known specimen of Ecnomiohyla rabborum	approx. 12	[77]
July 7, 2016	Bantu	gorilla	24	[78]
May 28, 2016	Harambe	gorilla	17th	[79]
April 14, 2016	Misha	Amur tiger in the Leipzig Zoo	17th	[80]
February 24, 2016	Rasputin	Siberian tiger in the all-weather zoo Munster	12	[81]
January 2016	Cu Rua	Yangtze giant soft turtle in Hanoi, "Supreme Turtle"	about 100	[82]
December 26, 2015	Khun Tongdaeng	Dog of the Thai King Bhumibol	17th	[83]
November 22, 2015	Nola	Northern white rhinoceros	41	[84]
18th November 2015	diesel	French police dog	7th	[85]
October 27, 2015	Tillman	Skateboarding dog	10	[86]
October 11, 2015	Snout	last city bear from Berlin	34	[87]
October 10, 2015	Shynghyz	oldest snow leopard in captivity	25th	[88]
7th August 2015	Uggie	Terrier, acted in several films	approx. 13	[89]
July 6, 2015	Max	Saltwater crocodile and mascot at Dresden Zoo	approx. 60	[90]
July 1, 2015	Cecil	Lion and mascot of Hwange National Park Zimbabwe	13	[91]
July 1, 2015	Overdose	Racehorse	10	[92]
23rd June 2015	Tosca	Polar bear in the Berlin zoo	29	[93]
June 22, 2015	Tama	Cat, Kishigawa station master	16	[94]
4th March 2015	Luena	Lioness in the Leipzig Zoo	16	[95]
January 12, 2015	Doriemus	New Zealand-English thoroughbred racehorse	24	Doriemus [96]
4th December 2014	Frank and Louie	formerly the longest living Janus cat	15th	[97]
2nd December 2014	Toy story	Most productive insemination bull so far	13	[98]
20th November 2014	Nancy	Polar bear in the Berlin zoo	24	[99]
November 16, 2014	Cassini I	Jumper and stallion	26th	[100]
November 16, 2014	Wankie	Elephant cow in the Opel Zoo	approx. 32	[101]
November 7, 2014	Solwhit	Racehorse	10	[102]
3rd November 2014	Araldo	Racehorse	7th	[103]
2nd November 2014	Admire Rakti	Racehorse	7th	[104]
October 24, 2014	Tugela	Racehorse, dam of the three-time Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva	19th	[105]
15th October 2014	Charly	world's oldest zoo orangutan ( Frankfurt Zoo )	57	[106]
October 14, 2014	Encke	Racehorse	5	[107]
7th August 2014	Buurtpoes Bledder	dutch domestic cat, local celebrity	approx. 2	[108]
June 21, 2014	Sapphire	Show jumper, successful with McLain Ward	19th	[109]
May 30, 2014	Satao	Giant elephant	approx 45	[110]
May 16, 2014	Miss Beazley	American Scottish Terrier (President Dog - George W. Bush)	9	[111]
5th April 2014	Azamour	Irish racehorse	13	[112]
March 19, 2014	Montecore	White Tiger by Siegfried and Roy	17th	[113]
Late February 2014	Quidam de Revel	Jumper and stallion	32	[114]
February 13, 2014	Hank the Cat	Candidate for the United States Senate 2012 in Virginia	12	[115]
February 9, 2014	Anton	Polar bear in Stuttgart	25th	[116]
February 9, 2014	Marius	Giraffe in Copenhagen	2	[117]
January 31, 2014	Greater	Australian greater flamingo	83
January 29, 2014	Colonel Meow	American Himalayan / Persian cat , internet phenomenon	2	[118]
January 7, 2014	Sunshine Forever	American racehorse	approx. 29	[119]
November 28, 2013	Elwood	Voted the ugliest dog in the world in 2007	8th	[120]
20th November 2013	Sara	African elephant, the oldest African elephant cow in a European zoo (Rostock Zoo)	51	[121]
18th November 2013	Mario	Finger animal ("Berlin's ugliest zoo animal")	14th	[122]
October 23, 2013	Gestion Bonfire	Dutch dressage horse, successful horse from Anky van Grunsven	30th	[123]
17th October 2013	Giant George	largest Great Dane	7th	[124]
October 1, 2013	Kenya	oldest black rhinoceros	46?
23rd August 2013	Maxi	Berlin city bear	27	[125]
22nd August 2013	Madame Nou	oldest pony in the world	50	[126]
August 20, 2013	Lando	Galopper of the year 1994 and 1995	23	[127]
August 2013	Sammy	Spectacled caiman in the Dormagener quarry pond	> 19	[128]
June 26, 2013	Attila	The oldest lynx in the Harz Mountains	19th	[129]
June 2013	Kian	Dutch insemination bull	16	[130]
May 18, 2013	King Arthur	Eventing horse, team Olympic champion with Dirk Schrade	17th	[131]
April 24, 2013	Storm Cat	Racehorse	30th
March 31, 2013	Pattycake	first New York City born gorilla ( Bronx Zoo )	40	[132]
21st March 2013	Sammy	University hangover in Constance	11	[133]
March 19, 2013	An eye	Germany's oldest free-living wolf in Rietschen	13	[134]
19th February 2013	M13	Brown bear M13, nephew of JJ1 ("Bruno"), known as "Inspector Bear" in Graubünden	3	[135] [136]
February 10, 2013	Lolong	largest crocodile in the world	50?	[137]
1st February 2013	Barney	Dog from George W. Bush and Laura Bush	12	[138]
January 15, 2013	Generous	Racehorse	25th	[139]
5th January 2013	Selkirk	Racehorse	25th	[140]
4th January 2013	ET FRH and Apricot D	Show jumpers, successful with Hugo Simon	27, 29	[141]
December 30, 2012	Belenus	Derby winner 1999 and Derby record holder	16	[142]
Mid December 2012	Max	Banded white stork, the most famous stork in Switzerland	13	[143]
November 30, 2012	Sleep Late	Eventing horse, successful with Ingrid Klimke	21st
September 27, 2012	Tiger Hill	Galopper of the year 1998 and 1999	17th	[144]
September 11, 2012	monsoon	Horse of the year 1993	22nd	[145]
August 25, 2012	Altai	Amurtiger -Kater at Cologne Zoo, was of zoo director Theo Pagel shot after the animal had killed a zookeeper.	4th	[146]
22nd August 2012	Bao Bao	allegedly the oldest giant panda in the world kept in a zoological garden	34	[147]
August 1, 2012	donna	oldest hippopotamus in the world	61	[148]
June 27, 2012	Bernhard	Kangaroo escaped from an enclosure in Lower Saxony	7th	[149]
June 24, 2012	Lonesome George	the last specimen of a giant tortoise subspecies from the Galápagos island of Pinta	about 100
June 20, 2012	Ali	Collared bear from the enclosure in Wiener Neustädter Stadtpark	32	[150]
June 2, 2012	Oliver	human-looking chimpanzee	53/54	[151]
May 4, 2012	Colonel Joel	largest bull elephant in the world ( Circus Krone )	approx. 60	[152]
May 8, 2012	Meow	obese hangover	?	[153]
May 2, 2012	Chumpol	Elephant cow (Cologne Zoo)	55	[154]
April 14, 2012	Synchronized	Irish racehorse	9	[155]
Late March 2012	Borgia	German racehorse, Galopper of the year 1997	18th	[156]
March 14, 2012	Til	German rabbit born without ears	3 weeks	[157]
March 10, 2012	Yoda	Chihuahua mixed breed dog ("ugliest dog in the world")	15th
February 22, 2012	Royal Academy	Irish racehorse	25th	[158]
February 16, 2012	Quax	wild pelican in Mannheim's Luisenpark	?	[159]
January 22, 2012	Lola	Elephant calves from Hellabrunn Zoo	3 months	[160]
17th January 2012	Mausi	Elephant cow from the Circus Voyage	31	[161]
December 24, 2011	Cheeta	allegedly the oldest chimpanzee in the world	80	[162]
December 10, 2011	Booie	smoking chimpanzee	44	[163]
November 14, 2011	Jabba	Dog and hiking companion from Nik Hartmann	12
November 6, 2011	Hickstead	Eric Lamaze's show jumper	15th
October 29, 2011	Charly	White rhinoceros of the Serengeti Park Hodenhagen	53	[164]
October 18, 2011	Püppi	TV bitch from the Stratmanns show	11	[165]
September 28, 2011	Heidi	cross-eyed opossum of the Leipzig zoo	3
August 1, 2011	Hippo	Breeding bull of Bayern Genetik GmbH and Fleckvieh bull of the year 2007	14th	[166]
July 30, 2011	Bruno	Brown bear, former circus bear, later best known animal of the Lübeck zoo	35	[167]
July 13, 2011	Ketzel	Domestic cat that won a music award	19th	[168]
June 28, 2011	Weltmeyer	Stamp stallion of the Hanoverian dressage horse breed	27	[169]
June 6, 2011	Shrek	New Zealand merino sheep	approx. 17	[170]
May 23, 2011	Sun Dance	fleeting pig	14?	[171]
May 7, 2011	Ming Ming	Oldest panda bear in the world	34	[172]
April 26, 2011	Sadler's Wells	Most successful European thoroughbred stallion so far	30th	[173]
March 19, 2011	Knut	Polar bear in the Berlin Zoological Garden	4th	[174]
February 18, 2011	For pleasure	Show jumper from Lars Nieberg and Marcus Ehning	25th	[175]
January 21, 2011	Ruby	Jack Russell mixed breed, via a weekly column in the Bild newspaper published	17th	[176]
January 21, 2011	Buschi	One of the last orangutans in a European zoo ( Wilhelma ) to be born in the wild	51	[177]
January 11, 2011	Joli Coeur	Franke Sloothaak's show jumper	25th	[178]
December 22, 2010	Ratina Z	Jumper from Piet Raijmakers and Ludger Beerbaum	28	[179]
October 26, 2010	Paul	Octopus, known as an oracle animal for predicting game results at soccer tournaments	2
October 8, 2010	Butch	fleeting pig	13	[180]
August 30, 2010	Lomitas	Galopper of the year 1991 and successful thoroughbred stallion	22nd	[181]
July 21, 2010	Okidoki	successful show jumping horse of the Dutch show jumper Albert Zoer with numerous titles	14th	[182]
July 10, 2010	Vilja	Elephant cow in the Stuttgart Wilhelma ; oldest zoo elephant in Europe	61
June 3, 2010	Miss Ellie	Chinese crested dog , considered "the ugliest dog in the world"	17th	[183]
March 11, 2010	Laroche	Winner of the German Derby 1994 and thoroughbred stallion in the Czech Republic	19th	[184]
January 14, 2010	Casper	bus driving tomcat	≈12	[185]
January 14, 2010	Otto	Dachshund male, oldest dog in the world	20th	[186]
2009	Calvaro Z	Holstein stallion, show jumping horse	22nd	[187]
December 30, 2009	Paco	The only Sotalia dolphin outside of South America, Munster Allwetterzoo	40	[188]
December 29, 2009	Big Shuffle	Multiple thoroughbred stallion champion	25th	[189]
December 25, 2009	Tanja	Hippopotamus, the oldest animal in the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam	49
November 9, 2009	Lavirco	Horse of the year 1996	16	[190]
September 23, 2009	Gigolo FRH	Isabell Werth's dressage horse	26th	[191]
September 22, 2009	Summer squall	Racehorse and winner of the Preakness Stakes 1990	22nd
September 14, 2009	Titus	male mountain gorilla, researched by Dian Fossey	35
September 2, 2009	Mr. Percival	Australian pelican and movie animal	35	[192]
August 7, 2009	Gibson	According to the Guinness Book of World Records, tallest dog in the world with 2.16 m	7th	[193]
August 6, 2009	Sam	Koala female that the symbolic figure during the bushfires in Victoria in 2009 was	4th	[194]
4th August 2009	Benson	At times the largest carp in Great Britain	approx. 25	[195]
May 28, 2009	Platini	Horse of the year 1992	20th	[196]
May 2009	Doretta	later also called "Schröder", known as "Chancellor goose"	8th	[197]
February 20, 2009	Socks	Cat; "First Cat" by former US President Bill Clinton	18th
February 19, 2009	Bolle	Dog; Actor in the German daily soap Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten	3 or 4	[198]
January 16, 2009	Hechti	Pike alligator; oldest animal in the Aquazoo - Löbbecke Museum	60
February 9, 2009	Chambertin	Holstein stallion, show jumping horse	approx. 15	[199]
January 4, 2009	India	George and Laura Bush's domestic cat	18th	[200]
2008	Rico	Border Collie, joined Wetten, dass ..? on		[201] , [202]
December 17, 2008	Gregoire	oldest known chimpanzee in Africa	approx. 66	[203]
November 17, 2008	Debby	Oldest polar bear in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records	42	[204]
August 13, 2008	Matzo	Landmark of the Frankfurt zoo ; oldest breeding gorilla in the world	approx. 51	[205]
April 14, 2008	JJ3	Wild brown bear in Switzerland and younger brother of JJ1 ("Bruno")	2
February 8, 2008	Ah Meng	Sumatran orangutan of the Singapore Zoo	47	[206]
December 29, 2007	Nonja	Oldest Sumatran Orangutan in the World; Miami Zoo	55	[207]
October 30, 2007	Washoe	Chimpanzee who learned sign language	42	[208]
October 8, 2007	John Henry	Racehorse	32
September 6, 2007	Alex	talking African gray parrot	approx. 31	[209]
July 26, 2007	Shambo	Bull with tuberculosis from the Skanda Vale Hindu temple in Wales	6th	[210]
July 22, 2007	Senkwekwe	male mountain gorilla, head of the Rugendo family	?
May 3, 2007	Hogzilla II	boar known for its size	?	[211]
March 26, 2007	Yan Yan	Female panda bear; Berlin Zoological Garden	22nd	[212]
February 17, 2007	Aiken Cura	Polo horse	11
February 16, 2007	Tanja	Walrus, Hanover Zoo	33	[213]
November 29, 2006	Dewey Readmore Books	Spencer, Iowa City Library cat	19th	[214]
December 23, 2006	Princess	White stork, has been observed for a television program and various books	approx. 16
November 13, 2006	Desert Orchid	Racehorse	27	[215]
October 24, 2006	Daisy	Yorkshire Terrier by Rudolph Moshammer	13	[216]
October 9, 2006	Apure (nickname: "Father")	the oldest river dolphin in the world, was kept in the Duisburg Zoo (only Amazon dolphin keeping outside of Venezuela)	> 40
September 13, 2006 (?)	Watermill Stream	Eventing horse, European Champion 1997 with Bettina Hoy	?
September 2006	Suma	Europe's oldest orangutan	53	[217]
July 11, 2006	Wiarton Willie	Canadian marmot, weather prophet from 1999 to 2006	8th	[218]
July 2, 2006	Tata	oldest crow in the world	59	[219]
June 26, 2006	JJ1 ("Bruno")	first wild brown bear in Germany for 170 years, was considered a "problem bear"	2	[220]
June 23, 2006	Harriet	Giant Galápagos tortoise, believed to have been caught by Charles Darwin	176	[221]
June 22, 2006	Mosses	Jack Russell Terrier, dog actor made famous by TV series Frasier	15th	[222]
March or April 2006	King Faruq's tortoise	oldest turtle	about 250	[223]
March 22, 2006	Adwaita	Aldabra giant tortoise, was thought to be the oldest living animal	256	[224]
March 15, 2006	Humphrey	Tomcat, until 1997 mouse catcher in the official residence of the British Prime Minister	18th	[225]
March 10, 2006	Luna	Orca, worshiped by the Mowachaht Muchalaht Indians	6th	[226]
2006	Ming	Icelandic mussel (Arctica islandica), longest-lived non-colony animal known to science	507	[227]
December 31, 2005	Meatball	Hippopotamus of the Berlin Zoological Garden	53	[228]
October 4, 2005	Minazō	trained elephant seal	approx. 11	[229]
September 26, 2005	Mondrian	Winner in German Derby, horse of the year 1989	19th	[230]
August 10, 2005	Fred the Undercover Kitty	worked as an "undercover agent" for the New York Police Department	1	[231]
August 6, 2005	Cream Puff	oldest known cat according to the Guinness Book of Records	38
April 2, 2005	Acatenango	Racing and breeding stallion	23	[232]
June 17, 2004	Hogzilla	boar known for its size	?	[233]
April 4, 2004	Timothy	Land turtle, British naval and military mascot	160	[234]
2004	humming-bird	Breeding stallion	25th
2004	Herman	world's first genetically modified beef	13	[235]
December 12, 2003	Keiko	Orca, movie animal ( Free Willy )	26/27	[236]
November 24, 2003	Copito	only known white gorilla in the world, Barcelona Zoo	40?	[237]
July 17, 2003	Antje	Walrus, mascot of the North German Broadcasting Corporation	27	[238]
February 14, 2003	Dolly	first mammal (sheep) produced by a cloning process	6th	[239]
2002	Cat Mandu	Tabby cat, leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party	7th	[240]
2002	Thunder	Dressage horse	20th
November 6, 2002	Heiyantuduwa Raja	Sri Lankan Elephant	approx. 78
August 19, 2002	Sunday Silence	Stamp stallion of the Japanese thoroughbred breed	16	[241]
May 7, 2002	Seattle Slew	Racehorse	28	[242]
January 25, 2002	Marjan	symbolic lion of the Kabul zoo	26th	[243]
December 2001	Maltschik	stray dog ​​that has been killed	approx. 5	[244]
October 30, 2001	Rembrandt	Dressage horse	24	[245]
January 2001	Caletto I	Holstein stallion, show jumping horse	25th	[246]

20th century

date of death	Surname	Animal species; known as	Age in years
2000	Waltz King	Jumping horse	approx. 21
August 27, 2000	Deister	successful show jumping horse	29
May 10, 2000	Bart the Bear	Kodiak bear, known for film roles	23
May 5, 2000	Cumulina	Mouse, first cloned rodent	2
April 27, 2000	Cor de la Bryère	Selle Français breed stallion	approx. 32
February 2, 2000	Willie B.	Western lowland gorilla at the Atlanta Zoo	41
January 5, 2000	Abdullah	Jumper of the Trakehner breed	29
December 11, 1999	Big Ben	Jumping horse	23
November 3, 1999	Surumu	Racing and breeding stallion	25th
4th July 1999	Milton	Jumping horse	approx. 22
1999	Nebos	English thoroughbred horse, racehorse, stallion	approx. 23
1998	Windthrow	English thoroughbred horse, racehorse, stallion	approx. 26
17th September 1998	Hanoverhill Starbuck	Breeding bull	19th
April 18, 1998	Luise	Addictive animal for drugs and explosives	13
1997	Alpine King	English thoroughbred horse, racehorse, stallion	approx. 30
1995	King's chair	Racehorse and stallion	19th
after 1994	Priam	English thoroughbred horse, racehorse, stallion	> 30
December 23, 1994	Sahib-Fridolin	Circus elephant	31
September 14, 1994	Lombard	Racehorse and stallion	27
1992	Ahlerich	Dressage horse	approx. 21
April 15, 1992	Nijinsky II	Racehorse and stallion, so far the last winner of the “Triple Crown” in Great Britain	25th
1991	pilot	Westphalia stallion, breeding stallion	approx. 17
November 16, 1990	Northern Dancer	Horse racing horse, most important breeding stallion of the 20th century.	29
1990	Burmese	Queen Elizabeth II's riding horse	approx. 28
1990	Gharib	Arabian thoroughbred horse, breeding stallion	25th
4th October 1989	Secretariat	Racehorse	19th
1989	Tuffy	Circus elephant, survived a jump from the Wuppertal suspension railway unharmed in 1950	approx. 43
1988	Crumples	Hippo from the Berlin Zoo	45
1988	Sassafras	English thoroughbred horse, racehorse, stallion	approx. 21
1988	Wilberforce	Hangover of four British Prime Ministers	> 15
1987	Lucy	Chimpanzee who learned sign language	23
1987	Feldmann	Mixed breed male and companion of Michael Holzach on his way through Germany	approx 8
1987	Lirung	German race horse	5
December 25, 1987	Star appeal	English thoroughbred horse, racehorse, stallion	approx. 17
March 20, 1987	Towser	Hangover is said to have caught 28,899 mice according to the Guinness Book of Records	23
1986	Petros	Pelican, mascot of the Greek island of Mykonos	> 28
1984	Caletto II	Holstein breeding stallion	about 6
October 14, 1983	Go Man Go	Racehorse and stallion	30th
October 10, 1985	Petermann	Chimpanzee of the Cologne Zoo, shot while trying to escape	38
November 29, 1984	Miss Baker	Common squirrel monkey, survived a space flight	approx. 26
October 16, 1983	Kelso	Racehorse, most successful thoroughbred gelding of all time	26th
February 1983	Shergar	Racehorse and stallion, killed after attempting to extortion	5
January 19, 1983	Ham	Chimpanzee, first higher primate in space	27
June 26, 1981	Luciano	Racehorse and stallion	17th
November 20, 1979	Red dog	Mixed breed dog hitchhiking in Western Australia	8th
July 19, 1979	Sweetheart	Crocodile attacking smaller outboard motor fishing boats in Australia	approx. 50
May 19, 1979	Halla	Horse with the most gold medals in the Olympic Games	34
July 21, 1978	Motty	the only known hybrid of the two elephant species to date	0
December 31, 1977	Digit	male mountain gorilla, researched by Dian Fossey	> 10
2nd December 1976	Guruvayur Keshavan	indian temple elephant	74
1975	Hadban Enzahi	Arabian thoroughbred, stallion	22nd
1975	Orsini	Racehorse and stallion	21st
April 5th 1974	Neckar	Racehorse and stallion	25th
After 1973	Christian (Leo)	famous lion from Harrods department store in London has been released into the wild	?
March 29, 1973	Rascal	Dachshund by Pablo Picasso	?
July 22, 1972	Chi Chi	Giant panda from the London Zoo, model for the WWF logo	15th
1972 (?)	Beauty	Horse who has appeared in many films	approx. 29
June 12, 1971	Bold ruler	Racehorse and influential sire	17th
August 8, 1970	Citation	first racehorse to win $ 1 million in prize money	25th
1968	Bamboo harvester	Horse Mr. Ed in the series of the same name	19th
August 13, 1968	Room 8	School cat of the Elysian Heights Elementary School	approx. 21
November 16, 1967	Native dancers	Racehorse	17th
1967	Pickles	Mixed breed dog who recovered the Jules Rimet World Cup trophy	?
1966	meteor	Jumping horse	23
after 1965	Pulpit	Bison	?
May 19, 1965	Tu'i Malila	Radiated tortoise	188 or 192
1965	Julmond	Trakehner stallion	27
1965	Trigger	Horse who starred in several Hollywood films with Roy Rodgers	33
1964	Congo	Chimpanzee, painted 400 pictures and drawings under Desmond Morris	10
5th November 1964	Peter the Cat	Domestic cat on Lord's Cricket Ground	14th
December 1963	Wojtek	Bear who served in the Polish Army	22nd
November 1963	Osborndale Ivanhoe	Breeding bull who is one of the five progenitors of modern Holstein breeding	11
April 1963	Colossus	longest captive reticulated python	> 14
4th November 1962	Enos	Chimpanzee astronaut	?
August 24, 1961	Huaso	Jumper with world record in power jumping	28
June 3, 1961	GI Joe	Carrier pigeon of the US Army, used in North Africa and Italy during World War II	18th
January 24, 1961	Elsa	Lioness raised by naturalist Joy Adamson	5
June 1, 1959	Able	Rhesus monkey, survived a space flight	1
1959	Was an admiral	Racehorse	25th
1958	Ticino	Racehorse and stallion	19th
3rd November 1957	Laika	Bitch who was the first living creature to orbit the earth	approx. 3
February 25, 1957	Rieke	Giraffe cow from the Berlin Zoological Garden	19th
1955	Bismarck's cat	Cat on board of the battleship Bismarck	> 14
April 5, 1952	Fala	Dog of the US President Franklin D. Roosevelt	11
March 23, 1952	Clarence	Sparrow known in wartime London	11
1950	Black gold	Racehorse	13
November 28, 1949	Simon	Ship's cat of the sloop HMS Amethyst	approx. 2
November 1, 1947	Man o 'war	Racehorse	30th
August 28, 1947	Islero	Bull that killed the Spanish bullfighter Manolete	2
May 17, 1947	Seabiscuit	Racehorse whose successful life has been filmed several times	13
March 1947	Mike	Hahn who lived without a head for 18 months	2
1947	Barry	Dog of Kurt Franz, the last commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp	> 5
1947	oleander	Racehorse and stallion	24
1945	alchemist	Racehorse and stallion	15th
1945	Herald	Racehorse and stallion	approx. 28
April 30, 1945	Blondi	Shepherd dog of Adolf Hitler	> 10
April 1, 1944	Just nuisance	Only dog ​​ever to be an able seaman in the Royal Navy	7th
April 22, 1943	Nereid	Racehorse and broodmare	10
October 10, 1942	Kidron	Horse of the General of the Armies of the United States John J. Pershing	approx 35
1936	Civilón	Spanish fighting bull saved by the sympathy of the audience	?
September 7, 1936	Benjamin	last known pouch wolf	> 12
August 1, 1935	Bobby	Gorilla in the Berlin Zoological Garden, heraldic animal of this zoo	7th
March 8, 1935	Hachikō	Akita dog from Tokyo is the epitome of the faithful dog and of loyalty in Japan	11
March 14, 1933	Balto	Lead dog in the last sled dog team in the Serum Run to Nome	14th
January 16, 1933	Temple keeper	Trakehner breeding stallion	28
August 10, 1932	Rin Tin Tin	German shepherd, starred in 26 films	13
April 5, 1932	Phar Lap	Racehorse	6th
January 16, 1932 (?)	The Light of Asia	Circus elephant	> 48
April 1931	Huberta	Hippopotamus, known for its migratory instinct	> 2
1930	Skowronek	Arabian thoroughbred, stallion	approx. 22
December 5, 1929	Togo	Dog, Siberian Husky	16
June 24, 1929	Strongheart	German shepherd, starred in 6 films	?
1928	Dark Ronald	English thoroughbred horse, racehorse, stallion	approx. 23
March 16, 1926	Stubby	the highest awarded dog of the First World War	9
November 18, 1922	Hattie	Elephant known for his feats	23-40
1920	Bauschan	Thomas Mann's dog, immortalized in Herr und Hund	4th
1919	Cher Ami	Carrier pigeon of the United States Army Signal Corps in World War I.	?
around 1916	Clever Hans	Horse, which supposedly could calculate and count	?
September 13, 1916	Mary	Circus elephant, was hanged	?
September 1, 1914	Martha	last known passenger pigeon	29
1914	Mimir	Leopard, has been used in many feature films	?
after April 1912	Pelorus Jack	Round-headed dolphin following steamers through Cook Strait	> 24
November 10, 1909	Haleb	Arabian thoroughbred, racehorse, stallion	approx 8
after 1908	Caucasus	Zuchtwisent, founder of the lowland-Caucasus line	?
April 2, 1908	St. Simon	Racehorse and stallion	27
February 27, 1904	Tiger by Sabrodt	last free-living wolf in Germany	?
4th January 1903	Topsy	Circus elephant, died from electric execution	approx. 27
August 1901	Erdmann	Dachshund of Kaiser Wilhelm II , buried on the Roseninsel in the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe	11

19th century

date of death	Surname	Animal species; known as	Age in years
September 1895	Nipper	Terrier on the His Master's Voice record label logo	11
May 11, 1894	Súlukongur	only albatross sighted on the Faroe Islands	34 (?)
November 7, 1891	Comanche	Cavalry horse	approx. 29
1890	Jack	Baboon was the assistance animal of a handicapped track keeper in South Africa	?
January 19, 1889	Reich dog Tyras	Mastiff Otto von Bismarcks, tore the trousers of a Russian Foreign Minister in Berlin in 1878	?
November 20, 1887	Toung Taloung	Circus elephant, white elephant	?
March 17, 1887	Kincsem	Miracle mare	13
March 16 or 17, 1886	Little Sorrel	Cavalry horse	approx. 36
September 15, 1885	jumbo	King of the elephants , is considered the most famous elephant of all time	25th
after October 5, 1879	Murciélago	Fighting bull	?
1878	Winchester	General Philip Sheridan's riding horse in the American Civil War	> 16
March 11, 1878	Obaysch	first hippopotamus in Europe since ancient times	approx. 29
October 26, 1877	Reichdog Sultan	Mastiff Otto von Bismarck	?
July 1, 1875	Lexington	English thoroughbred horse, racehorse	25th
1872	Greyfriars Bobby	famous Skye Terrier for his loyalty	> 14
1871	Traveler	General Robert Edward Lee's riding horse	approx. 14
September 23, 1871	Huddersfield Ben	Ancestor of the Yorkshire Terriers	about 6
before December 25, 1870	Castor and Pollux	two elephants, eaten by the Parisians as a Christmas menu	?
July 26, 1869	Gordito	Fighting bull	?
1867	Old Henry Clay	Racehorse and stallion	approx. 30
June 29, 1866	Elephant from Murten	Circus elephant who was shot with a cannon in Murten	?
October (?) 1865	Bummer	stray dog	> 5
October 1863	Lazarus	stray dog	> 2
February 15, 1857	Miss Baba	Fairground elephant	?
December 31, 1856	Crimean Tom	helped the British Army during the Crimean War	approx. 9
January 12, 1845	Zarafa	first giraffe in modern Europe	approx. 20
circa 1840	Baba	"Feasting" fairground elephant	?
1838	Bairactar	Breeding stallion, basis of the hamlet of thoroughbred Arabian breeding	25th
February 12, 1836	Copenhagen	Horse of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington	approx. 28
circa 1831	Marengo	Napoleon Bonaparte's riding and war horse	38
1829	Herodotus	Dapple gray, legendary stallion of the Ivenack stud	35
March 1, 1826	Chunee	Circus elephant	approx. 17
after 1824	Munito	trained dog	?
1819 and 1820	Garnier Elephants	Fairground elephants shot with cannons	?
1814	Barry	famous avalanche dog	14th
1804	Condé	Personal riding horse of Frederick the Great	about 38

Modern times

date of death	Surname	Animal species; known as	Age in years
around 1800	Fortune	Dog from Joséphine de Beauharnais	?
October 18, 1793	High flyer	English thoroughbred horse, racehorse, stallion	approx. 19
1790	Nelson	George Washington's horse	27
February 26, 1789	Eclipse	Racehorse that set world records, some of which are still unbroken today	24
1785	Alcmène	Bitch of Frederick the Great	?
Summer 1780	The Goethe elephant	His skull inspired Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to study intermaxillary bones.	approx. 7–9
around 1765	Hodge	Samuel Johnson's tomcat	?
April 14, 1758	Clara	rhinoceros presented in Europe	20th
December 1753	Godolphin Barb	Breeding stallion, one of the progenitors of the English thoroughbred	28 (?)
December 29, 1752	Biche	Bitch of Frederick the Great	> 8
around 1745	Trump	Pug by William Hogarth	approx. 15
around 1719	Darley Arabian	Breeding stallion, one of the progenitors of the English thoroughbred	> 19
1714	Byerley Turk	Breeding stallion, one of the progenitors of the English thoroughbred	approx 35
1681	Elephant of Louis XIV.	Gift from the King of Portugal	approx. 17
1655	Hansken	Elephant cow that became famous for her alleged docility	25th
1633	Streiff	Warhorse of King Gustav Adolf of Sweden	?
April 30, 1632	Swedish mold	Warhorse of King Gustav Adolf of Sweden	?
after 1631	Bernini's elephant	Fairground elephant	> 2
around 1606	Morocco	trained horse	> 25
December 18, 1553	Soliman	Elephant that was given to the later Emperor Maximilian II	13
around 1525	El Morzillo	Horse of the Spanish conquistadores who became a deity	?
1516	Hanno	Elephant that King Manuel I of Portugal gave to Pope Leo X as a gift	about 6
June 8, 1516	Rhinocerus	first rhinoceros in Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire	?

middle Ages

date of death	Surname	Animal species; known as	Age in years
around 1483	Schongauer's elephant	Diplomatic gift from John II of Portugal to his son-in-law Emperor Friedrich III. In Graz	?
around 1486	Medici giraffe	first giraffe in Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire	?
1477-1611	Burlage peat dog	Dog found in the peat	?
1258	Elephant of Louis IX.	first elephant in London	> 3
after 1241	Elephant from Cremona	Elephant of the Staufer Emperor Friedrich II.	> 12
810	Abul Abbas	Charlemagne's elephant	?
after 630	Qaswa	Favorite camel of the Prophet Mohammed	> 6
around 630	Muezza	Prophet Mohammed's cat	?

Antiquity and prehistory

date of death	Surname	Animal species; known as	Age in years
around 40 AD	Incitatus	Racehorse	?
326 BC Chr.	Bucephalos	Horse of Alexander the Great	30th
25-23. Century BC Chr.	Abutiu	ancient egyptian dog	?
about 20,000 years ago	Jarkow mammoth	Woolly mammoth	about 47
about 35,000 years ago	Blue babe	Steppe wisent preserved in ice	8 or 9
about 40,000 years ago	Lyuba	Mammoth mummy	1 month
about 67 million years ago	Sue	Tyrannosaurus rex	?
about 150 million years ago	Big Al	Allosaurus	?

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.gmx.net/themen/wissen/tiere/02b20uy-flamingo-greater-83-jahren-australien ( Memento from March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ http://www.mz-web.de/mitteldeutschland/aeltestes-spitzmaulnashorn-der-welt-ist-tot,20641266,24503822,view,asTicker.html ( Memento from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ http://msn.foxsports.com/horseracing/story/top-sire-storm-cat-euthanized-at-age-30-042413 ( Memento from April 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ http://www.st-georg.de/news/detail.php?objectID=13689&class=6 ( Memento from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-ecuador-tortoise-tv-pixl2e8ho4g7-20120624,0,4558768.story?page=1 ( Memento from June 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/15/yoda-obit-worlds-ugliest-dog_n_1346744.html ( Memento from March 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ http://www.bluewin.ch/de/index.php/7,491844/Nik_Hartmann_trauert__Jabba_ist_tot/de/entertainment/tvundvideo ( Memento from November 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ http://www.handelsblatt.com/weltklassepferd-hickstead-bricht-tot-z together / 5805298.html ( Memento from November 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ http://www.ovb-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/schielendes-opossum-heidi-zr-1424225.html ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
10. ↑ http://www.express.de/news/panorama/krake-paul-ist-tot-/-/2192/4776696/-/index.html ( Memento from October 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.wilhelma-trauert-elefantendame-vilja-ist-tot.c6c32761-45c4-4418-a1ad-5e76c909a92e.html ( Memento from May 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ http://nos.nl/artikel/125089-artisnijlpaard-tanja-dood.html ( Memento from December 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
13. ↑ http://www2.wjbf.com/news/2009/sep/23/legendary_horse_dies-ar-229087/ ( Memento from July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ http://gorillafund.org/Page.aspx?pid=492 ( Memento from July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
15. ↑ http://ww2.somdnews.com/stories/02202009/entetop133645_32246.shtml ( Memento from July 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
16. ↑ http://www.wdr.de/themen/kurzmeldung/2009/01/16/aquazoo_duesseldorf_trauert_um_hechti.jhtml?ofs=10 ( Memento from February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
17. ↑ http://www.bafu.admin.ch/aktuell/medieninformation/00004/index.html?lang=de&msg-id=18286 ( Memento from February 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
18. ↑ http://www.horseracing.ch/uslegende-john-henry-eingeschlaefert-nd-1659.html ( Memento from January 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
19. ↑ Senkwekwe from Deceased Gorillas ( Memento from October 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
20. ↑ http://www.lanacion.com.ar/885311-murio-aiken-cura-el-crack-de-cambiaso ( Memento from January 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
21. ↑ http://www.presseportal.de/story.htx?nr=925844 ( Memento from February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
22. ↑ http://www.wdr.de/themen/wissen/biologie/delphin/index.jhtml ( Memento from December 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
23. ↑ http://www.findo.de/nachrichten/57584.html ( Memento from February 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
24. ↑ http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-cat-ever ( Memento from December 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
25. ↑ http://www.horse-gate.com/kolibri/ ( Memento from December 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
26. ↑ http://www.horse-gate.com/donnerhall_nachruf/index_content.html ( Memento from December 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive )