All of the following died in an airplane exceptKnut Rockne Solution Charles Lindbergh Lindbergh spent his last years on the Hawaiian island of Maui, where he died of lymphoma on August 26, 1974, at age 72.The cause of death was cancer of the lymphatic system according to Dr. Milton Howell, a longtime friend. With him when he died at 7:15 A.M. local time were his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the writer, and Land, one of his three sons. remaining three died on an aircraft accident.