Carolyn Bessette (January 7, 1966 - July 16, 1999) was the daughter of William J. Bessette and his wife, née Ann Messina. She and her sister Lauren Bessette died in an aircraft piloted by Carolyn's husband John F. Kennedy, Jr and their ashes were buried at sea on July 22, 1999

She was born in White Plains, Westchester Co., New York, and educated at Boston University. She married John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. on September 21, 1996 on Cumberland Island, Georgia. She died near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.