Find-a-Grave

A vast, free database of burials, gravestone photos, and memorials from around the world, often including death dates and sometimes obituaries or biographical details.

FamilySearch

The world’s largest free genealogy website, offering a global index of millions of birth, marriage, and death records, including death indexes and certificates from many countries and U.S. states.

BillionGraves

Similar to Find a Grave, this site provides free images and transcriptions of millions of cemetery records worldwide, contributed by volunteers.

Interment.net

Offers free transcriptions of cemetery records and headstones, including death dates, from various countries.

USGenWeb

Volunteer-run site with free local resources, including cemetery lists, local death records, and obituaries for U.S. counties and states.

Cyndi’s List

 This is a comprehensive directory that links to thousands of free genealogy resources worldwide, including many with death records for various countries.

Online Parish Clerks (UK)

Volunteer projects offering free transcriptions of parish records, including burials and death entries, for specific counties in England.
This site takes time to learn how to navigate.

Free UK Genealogy

An umbrella organization providing free access to UK family history records, including death records through FreeBMD and parish burial records via FreeREG.

National Archives (UK, US, Ireland, Scotland, Wales)

Free searchable catalogs and some downloadable records, including wills, probate records, and some death-related documents.