DeStefano, Sam
Crime and their Victims
Age 63
September 13, 1909 - April 14, 1973
Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery / Hillside / Illinois / USA / North America
Notorious Italian-American gangster with the Chicago Outfit, Sam "Mad Sam" DeStefano was known to be one of its most vicious loan sharks, serial rapists and sociopathic killers in organized crime. DeStefano was too mentally unstab...
Dexter, Brad
Show Business
Age 85
April 9, 1917 - December 12, 2002
Desert Memorial Park / Cathedral City / California / USA / North America
Brad Dexter was an American actor and film producer whose very first film was the classic The Asphalt Jungle. From there he was known for tough-guy and western roles in such films as The Las Vegas Story (1951), Untamed (1955), Vio...
Dexter, Edmund
Business and Finance
Age 61
1801 - July 24, 1862
Spring Grove Cemetery / Cincinnati / Ohio / USA / North America
Edmund Dexter was a famous (well ... famous in the 1800s) whiskey maker and liquor distributor located in Cincinnati, Ohio. An immigrant from England, his first residency was in New York City. From there he moved to Cincinnati wh...
Dickinson, Emily
Writers and Poets
Age 55
December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886
West Cemetery / Amherst / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Emily Dickinson is one of America’s greatest and most original poets of all time. She took definition as her province and challenged the existing definitions of poetry and the poet’s work. Like writers such as Ralph Waldo Emer...
Dillinger, John
Crime and their Victims
Age 31
June 22, 1903 - July 22, 1934
Crown Hill Cemetery / Indianapolis / Indiana / USA / North America
John Dillinger was an infamous American gangster of the Great Depression. He led a group known as the "Dillinger Gang", which was accused of robbing 24 banks and four police stations. Dillinger was imprisoned several times but esc...
Dio, Ronnie James
Music
Age 67
July 10, 1942 - May 16, 2010
Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Ronnie James Dio was an American heavy metal singer, songwriter and composer who is considered by many to be one of the great heavy metal vocalist. He fronted or founded numerous groups throughout his career, including Elf, Rainbo...
Disney, Walt
Business and Finance
Age 65
December 5, 1901 - December 15, 1966
Forest Lawn Memorial Park / Glendale / California / USA / North America
Walt Disney was American entrepreneur, animator, writer, voice actor, and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, Disney ho...
Dixon, Willie
Music
Age 76
July 1, 1915 - January 29, 1992
Burr Oak Cemetery / Alsip / Illinois / USA / North America
Willie Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer proficient in playing both the upright bass and the guitar. However he is best known as one of the most prolific songwriters of his ti...
Doe, Butchie
Crime and their Victims
Age 59
April 26, 1959 - June 7, 2018
Pine Haven Cemetery / Burlington / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Arthur "Butchie" Doe was one of the most hated mobsters in all of Boston Mob history. Suspected in 3 murders he also survived 4 attempts on his life. Prone to bouts of unspeakable violence, he worked with a team of Charlestown tow...
Dolezal, Frank
Crime and their Victims
Age 51
May 4, 1887 - August 24, 1939
West Park Cemetery / Cleveland / Ohio / USA / North America
A Cleveland, Ohio resident who was suspected and awaiting trial as the Cleveland Torso Serial Killer when he was murdered in prison. His name was cleared almost 70 years after his death.
Dorléac, Françoise
Show Business
Age 25
March 21, 1942 - June 26, 1967
Cimetière communal de Seine-Port / Seine-Port, Seine-et-Marne / France / Europe
Françoise Dorléac was a beloved French actress whose father was Maurice Dorleac, a stage and screen actor and her mother, Renee Deneuve, re-voiced Hollywood movies (including Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz). However most Ameri...
Dorsey, Tommy
Music
Age 51
November 19, 1905 - November 26, 1956
Kensico Cemetery / Valhalla / New York / USA / North America
A highly respected and influential trombonist, Tommy Dorsey—both independently and with his brother Jimmy—led several of the most popular big bands of the swing era. He famously gave a skinny, big-eared Italian-American kid wi...
Douglas, Kirk
Show Business
Age 103
December 9, 1916 - February 5, 2020
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
The story of Kirk Douglas is the story of how an epitome of underprivilege had become world famous – recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur, fulfilling the roles of Van Gogh, Spartac...
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Writers and Poets
Age 71
May 22, 1859 - July 7, 1930
All Saints Church - Minstead Village / Minstead, Lyndhurst / United Kingdom / Europe
Over 125 years after his creation, Sherlock Holmes remains the most popular fictional detective in history. Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for the 60 stories he wrote about Sherlock Holmes. His body of work includes nearly 200 n...
Drake, Nick
Music
Age 26
June 19, 1948 - November 25, 1974
Church of St Mary Magdalene, Tanworth-in-Arden / Tanworth-in-Arden, Solihull / United Kingdom / Europe
Nick Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician best known for his acoustic, mournful, melancholy songs. With only three albums released to middling reviews, abysmal sales coupled with his descent into mental illness he f...
Drake, Pete
Music
Age 55
October 8, 1932 - July 29, 1988
Spring Hill Cemetery / Nashville / Tennessee / USA / North America
Pete Drake was one of the greatest pedal-steel musicians who played on 118 Gold and Platinum albums with artists ranging from Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, Marty Robbins, Elvis Presley, Ernst Tubb and George Jones. H...
Drucci, Vincent
Crime and their Victims
Age 29
January 1, 1989 - April 4, 1927
Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery / Hillside / Illinois / USA / North America
Sicilian-American mobster who succeeded friend Dean O'Banion by becoming co-leader of the North Side Gang, Al Capone's best known rival. Vincent "The Schemer" Drucci is the only US organized crime boss to have been killed by a pol...
Duffy, Hugh
Sports
Age 87
November 26, 1866 - October 19, 1954
Mount Calvary Cemetery / Roslindale / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Hugh Duffy was an American outfielder and manager in Major League Baseball. He was a player or player-manager for the Chicago White Stockings, Chicago Pirates, Boston Reds, Boston Beaneaters, Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phi...
Dugan, Joe
Sports
Age 85
May 12, 1897 - July 7, 1982
Mount Calvary Cemetery / Roslindale / Massachusetts / USA / North America
After a slow start with Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics baseball team, Jumping Joe Dugan eventually made his way to the fabled New York Yankees where he developed into one of the greatest defensive third baseman and played in...
Duggan, William
The Odd and the Interesting
Age 51
January 18, 1899 - December 22, 1950
Pleasant Grove Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery / Moultrie / Georgia / USA / North America
Even as a young boy, all William "Billy" Duggan ever wanted to do is join the circus. At age 12 he ran away from home to join the Sparks Circus where among his other duties, he was tasked with feeding the elephants. He quickly fe...