Kennedy, Patrick Joseph
Historical Figure
Age 71
January 14, 1858 - May 18, 1929
Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum / Malden / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Patrick Joseph Kennedy (P.J. to his friends and grandfather to President John F. Kennedy) was the son of Irish immigrants. His father, Patrick Kennedy, died of cholera ten months after he was born while his mother, Bridget Kennedy...
Lake, Patricia
Historical Figure
Age 74
June 8, 1919 - October 3, 1993
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
American socialite, actress, and radio comedian, and suspected of being the illegitimate child of William Randolph Hearst Sr. and Marion Davies. Patricia Lake confirmed this shortly before she died.
Lincoln, Abraham
Historical Figure
Age 56
February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865
Oak Ridge Cemetery / Springfield / Illinois / USA / North America
As one of the greatest American presidents in all of American history, Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America from 1861 until his assassination in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln led the nation t...
Lincoln, Mary Todd
Historical Figure
Age 63
December 13, 1818 - July 16, 1882
Oak Ridge Cemetery / Springfield / Illinois / USA / North America
Mary Todd Lincoln was the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and as such the First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865.
Lodge, Henry Cabot Jr.
Historical Figure
Age 82
July 5, 1902 - February 27, 1985
Mount Auburn Cemetery / Cambridge / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and served as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam 1963-64, 1965-67, to West Germany 1968-69; chief U.S. negotiator at Vietnam peace talks in Paris 1969; presidentia...
Lodge, Henry Cabot Sr.
Historical Figure
Age 74
May 12, 1850 - November 9, 1924
Mount Auburn Cemetery / Cambridge / Massachusetts / USA / North America
With four degrees from Harvard and a highly published historian, Henry Cabot Lodge was an American Republican politician, historian, and statesman from Massachusetts. He served in the United States Senate from 1893 to 1924 and is ...
Malcolm X
Historical Figure
Age 39
May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Malcolm X was a Muslim minister and controversial human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. He is best known for his time spent as a vocal spokesman for the Nation of Islam. Malcolm X was als...
Masterson, Bat
Historical Figure
Age 67
November 26, 1853 - October 25, 1921
Woodlawn Cemetery / Bronx / New York / USA / North America
Bat Masterson was a U.S. Army scout, lawman, professional gambler, and journalist known for his exploits in the 19th and early 20th-century American Old West. He was born to a working-class Irish family in Quebec, but he moved to ...
Monroe, James
Historical Figure
Age 73
April 28, 1758 - July 4, 1831
Hollywood Cemetery / Richmond / Virginia / United States / North America
James Monroe was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat and Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. He oversaw major westward expansion of the U.S. and strengthened American forei...
Mungo, Saint
Historical Figure
Age 96
518 AD - January 13, 614
Glasgow Cathedral / Glasgow / United Kingdom / Europe
Kentigern, known as Mungo, was a missionary in the Brittonic Kingdom of Strathclyde in the late sixth century, and the founder and patron saint of the city of Glasgow. On the spot where Mungo was buried now stands the cathedral de...
Myer, Albert
Historical Figure
Age 51
September 20, 1828 - August 24, 1880
Forest Lawn Cemetery / Buffalo / New York / USA / North America
Albert Myers was a surgeon, a general, father of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, inventor of wig-wag signaling (or aerial telegraphy), and also was the founder of the U.S. Weather Bureau
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy
Historical Figure
Age 64
July 28, 1928 - May 19, 1994
Arlington National Cemetery / Arlington / Virginia / USA / North America
Former First Lady of the United States of America and style icon. She devoted much of her time to making the White House a historical museum of American History while First Lady. Following the assassination of her husband John F. ...
Pérignon, Dom
Historical Figure
Age 77
December 14, 1638 - December 4, 1715
Church of Saint Sindulphe / Hautvillers / France / Europe
Dom Pierre Pérignon was a French Benedictine monk who made important contributions to the production and quality of Champagne wine in an era when the region's wines were predominantly red. He is often credited erroneously that he...
Phillips, Mayor John
Historical Figure
Age 52
November 26, 1770 - May 29, 1823
Granary Burying Ground / Boston / Massachusetts / USA / North America
John Phillips was the very first mayor of Boston, Massachusetts and was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1813. John Phillips was also the father of famed abolitionist Wendell Phillips.
Pierce, Franklin
Historical Figure
Age 64
November 23, 1804 - October 8, 1869
Old North Cemetery / Concord / New Hampshire / USA / North America
Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States of America. He came into office during a period of growing tension between the North and South. A politician of limited ability, Pierce was behind one of the most crucial...
Putnam, Ann Jr.
Historical Figure
Age 37
October 18, 1679 - 1716
Putnam Family Burial Ground / Danvers / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Ann Putnam's short and miserable life is best remembered as one of the principal accusers in the “circle” of girls who claimed to be afflicted by witchcraft which resulted in the Salem Witch Trials. She is responsible for the ...
Putnam, Ann Sr.
Historical Figure
Age 37
June 15, 1661 - June 8, 1699
Putnam Family Burial Ground / Danvers / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Ann Putnam, her husband and one of their daughters (Ann Putnam Jr.) all levied accusations of witchcraft, many of them against extended members of the Porter family, and testified at the trials. She is responsible for the accusat...
Red Jacket
Historical Figure
Age 79
December 31, 1969 - January 20, 1830
Forest Lawn Cemetery / Buffalo / New York / USA / North America
Red Jacket, chief of the Wolf clan nation, became famous as an orator, speaking for the rights of his people. After the Revolutionary war, he played a prominent role in negotiations with the new U.S. federal government. The US pre...
Rickenbacker, Eddie
Historical Figure
Age 82
October 8, 1890 - July 23, 1973
Green Lawn Cemetery / Columbus / Ohio / USA / North America
Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker was called America’s Ace of Aces during World War I, the highest scorer of American aerial victories over the Germans. He could just as easily have been labeled the ‘luckiest man alive,’ howeve...
Robeson, Paul
Historical Figure
Age 77
April 9, 1898 - January 23, 1976
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Paul Robeson was an American actor, singer, and activist. Some of his best know work on stage included The Emperor Jones, All God's Chillun Got Wings, and Othello. Robeson best known movies include Show Boat (1936), Sanders of the...