John Jacob Astor IV and his wife Madeleine Astor boarded the ship as the richest people on board. The Astors had vacationed in Egypt and France for their honeymoon, but when they found out that Madeleine was having a child, they headed back to the states. They never got there. John was lost in the sinking and Madeleine went on to have John Jacob Astor VI. John's body was identified near the sinking site
Margaret Brown, or Molly Brown, was aboard the titanic when it sank. She went over to Egypt and France with the Astors and was one who didnt shun their age difference. During the sinking, she climbed into a lifeboat and when the Titanic sunk, she told the women and children in the boat that they needed to go back for the drowning survivors. Her demand was denied, but it let her get her nickname: 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown.'
There were many people aboard the ship. Less than half of them survived the sinking. There were around 324 first classers, 285 second class, and 708 third class people who survived.
J. Bruce Ismay met with shipbuilders in 1907. He and the White Star Line began to plan the next great ship. Instead they made three. Ismay normally went with the ship on their maiden voyage and the Titanic was no exception. When the ship started to sink Ismay helped women and children into the boat before getting into one himself. Because he left his ship when women and children were still aboard, he was given the nickname "J. Brute Ismay."
Isidor Straus and his wife Ida went to Germany for a vacation and planned to return on the Titanic's maiden voyage. Their plan went well, they boarded as first class passengers. Unfortunatly, when the ship started to sink the officers started to say women and children go first. Isidor stood back as they took his wife to safety. Ida refused to leave without her husband and so the Macy's Department Store co-owner and his wife perished in the sinking.
Although the Goodwin family was hardly able to pay for their boarding passes, they joined as steerage - or Thrid Class - passengers. There was the mother - Augusta - and the father - Frederick. Then there were the six children. Lillian, 16; Charles, 14; William, 11; Jessie, 10; Harold, 9; and Baby Sidney. Each and every one of them died in the sinking.
