The numbers of the dead and surviving passengers have always been approximate because of the hand written passenger lists, etc. but as close as anyone has been able to estimate, the numbers of dead and surviving from the disaster were:
From the first class section of the ship, 130 passengers died and 199 lived.
From the second class section of the ship, 166 passengers died and 119 lived.
From the third class section of the ship, 536 passengers died and 174 lived.
There were 899 crew members and 685 of them went down with the ship while 214 survived.
Passengers came from many places, but the majority of travelers were from England, Ireland, and the United States. Wealthy passengers included Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Astor, Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus, Benjamin Guggenheim, the rich Philadelphian, Mr. George Widener, and Margaret Tobin Brown; the lady legend started calling "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" although it was likely she had never actually been known as Molly. She was possibly the passenger who came away from the disaster as the most well-known.
Maggie Brown's husband, J.J., had been a miner and a gold strike had suddenly made them quite wealthy. She decided to enrich her education and studied languages and the arts. Maggie was accepted to the Carnegie Institute in New York, one of the first women to have accomplished that. Maggie was returning home to America to be with her first grandchild, who had been ill. When the Titanic started sinking, Maggie dressed in some extra layers and grabbed a good luck charm. Maggie helped with rowing on the lifeboat she was a passenger on and helped keep other passengers calm after the survivors were picked up. Even after being returned to America, Maggie helped with fund raising for the victims of the disaster who had lost family members.