As of April 14, 1912, 1503 people died as a result of the RMS Titanic sinking. This includes 1st, 2nd, 3rd class and crew. Unclaimed bodies recovered by other ships were interred in the Fairview Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia , Canada.

It should be noted that these are the estimates of the British Board of Trade (under whose regulations the Titanic operated). Because American lives were lost, the U.S. Senate conducted an inquiry and estimated 1,517 lives lost. Confusion over the number of fatalities was exacerbated by the official reports to the US Senate and the British Parliament that revised the numbers to 1,490 and 1,500. Press reports included numbers as high as 1,523. Additional revisions cement the conclusion that we will never know exactly how many people died on the Titanic, although we do know there were 705 survivors. Only one child died in 1st class, Miss Helen Lorraine Allison, then aged 2. The mother of the child stayed with her husband, and they died together. Their nurse, Miss Alice Cleaver, had previously and without warning escaped the ship with the Allison's baby, Trevor, then aged just a few months. He died in 1929. In contrast, several dozens of children from third class perished in the disaster. Annie and John Sage, of Peterborough and both aged 44, died along with their nine children, aged between 20 and 4. In some cases, women declined to get into a lifeboat, often to remain with their husbands. First Class passenger miss Edith Evans, aged 36, gave her place to her companion, Mrs John Murray Brown, who had "children waiting at home", but failed to find a place on another boat and drowned in the disaster.

The numbers below sorted by class and sex make one thing very clear. Class had a large influence on the probability of surviving, but sex had a far larger one. 46% of third-class women survived, compared to 33% of first class men.

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!colspan=1 |Class
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!colspan=1 |Men
!colspan=1 |Women
!colspan=1 |Children
!colspan=1 |Total
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|1st Class ||Died||118||4||1||123
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|||Survived||57||139||5||201
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|2nd Class ||Died||154||15||0||169
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|||Survived||14||79||23||116
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|3rd Class ||Died||387||89||53||529
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|||Survived||75||76||26||177
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|Crew ||Died||693||3||0||696
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|||Survived||194||18||0||212
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External Links

Full Biographies of Titanic Victims