The Richest Passenger
This is John Jacob Astor IV. His net worth was estimated to be around $85 million, which would be $2 billion in this day in age. He lost his life in the sinking when he was 47, but not without saving his pregnant 19-year-old wife of only a year. She gave birth to John Jacob Astor VI on August 14th, just four months later. Astor IV was a man of many trades. As an American businessman, he was also a real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, and lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War.