Le, My-ca Dinh
Disasters
Age 7
January 7, 1975 - July 23, 1982
Forest Lawn Memorial Park / Cypress / California / USA / North America
In 1982 top film directors and producers, including Steven Spielberg, John Landis, Joe Dante, and George Miller all contributed to what was to become The Twilight Zone: The Movie. During what was to be the final scene in the final...
Ruby, Jack
Crime and their Victims
Age 55
April 25, 1911 - January 3, 1967
Westlawn Cemetery / Norridge / Illinois / USA / North America
American nightclub owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, while Oswald was in police custody after being charged with both the assassination of incumbent United States President John F. Kennedy, and murder of Dallas policeman J...
Tolley, Rick
Sports
Age 30
January 6, 1940 - November 14, 1970
Spring Hill Cemetery / Huntington / West Virginia / USA / North America
Rick Tolley was an American football coach who served as the head football coach at Marshall University during the 1969 and 1970 seasons. He died in the 1970 plane crash that killed all 75 crew and passengers aboard, including mos...
Greene, Lorne
Show Business
Age 72
February 12, 1915 - September 11, 1987
Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery / Culver City / California / USA / North America
Lorne Greene was the imposing Canadian-born actor who served as a surrogate father to a vast television audience for years as the patriarch of the on-screen Cartwright family in the western series "Bonanza". From the success of th...
Van Zandt, Townes
Music
Age 52
March 7, 1944 - January 1, 1997
Dido Cemetery / Fort Worth / Texas / USA / North America
He was a reckless drunk and a hopeless idealist, but he is considered by many the greatest Texas songwriter of his generation. He wrote numerous songs, such as "Pancho and Lefty", "For the Sake of the Song", "Tecumseh Valley", "Re...
Dawson, Richard
Show Business
Age 79
November 20, 1932 - June 2, 2012
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Richard Dawson, the original and longtime host of “Family Feud” known for planting kisses on female contestants was also a regular on television appearing in Hogan's Heroes (a hilarious sit-com about prisoners in a Nazi German...
Lamarr, Hedy
Show Business
Age 85
November 9, 1914 - January 19, 2000
Der Wiener Zentralfriedhof / Simmeringer Hauptstraße 234 / Vienna / Austria / Europe
Hedy Lamarr, the raven-haired Viennese beauty who became one of the reigning temptresses in Hollywood films in the 1930's and 40's, especially as Delilah vamping Victor Mature's Samson was was an Austrian-born Austro-Hungarian-Ame...
Curie, Marie
Science
Age 66
November 7, 1867 - July 4, 1934
Le Panthéon / Paris / France / Europe
Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twi...
Auger, Arleen
Music
Age 53
August 13, 1939 - June 10, 1993
Ferncliff Cemetery / Hartsdale / New York / USA / North America
Arleen Auger was an American soprano opera singer known for her melodic voice and interpretations of works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi, Mozart, and Schubert. Auger won a Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Performance in 1994 f...
Barrow, Clyde
Crime and their Victims
Age 25
March 24, 1909 - May 23, 1934
Western Heights Cemetery / Dallas / Texas / USA / North America
Clyde Barrow was part of the infamous criminal couple 'Bonnie and Clyde'. Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were known for their bank robberies that captured the attention of the American press and public during the "public enemy era...
Arden, Eve
Show Business
Age 82
April 30, 1908 - November 12, 1990
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / United States / North America
For nearly six decades Eve Arden was a Hollywood legend and star of film, radio, stage, and television. She performed in leading and supporting roles in such classics as Mildred Pierce, Anatomy of a Murder, Having Wonderful Time, ...
Nimoy, Leonard
Show Business
Age 83
March 26, 1931 - February 27, 2015
Hillside Memorial Park / Culver City / California / USA / North America
After leaving Boston and a short stint in the Army, Leonard Nimoy pursued his passion of acting and appeared early in his career in such films as Queen for a Day, Rhubarb, Monk Baroni, Zombies of the Stratosphere, Them! and The Br...
McGavin, Darren
Show Business
Age 83
May 7, 1922 - February 25, 2006
Hollywood Forever Cemetery / Los Angeles / California / USA / North America
Seasoned actor of stage, screen and television, Darren McGavin has notched in excess of 200 performances and is most fondly remembered as Ralphie's father in A Christmas Story. On television, McGavin portrayed the title character ...
Conigliaro, Tony
Sports
Age 45
January 7, 1945 - February 24, 1990
Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum / Malden / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Tony C was a phenomenal baseball player who, in his first at bat for the Boston Red Sox hit a towering home run on the first pitch. During his 1964 rookie season, Conigliaro batted .290 with 24 home runs and 52 RBI in 111 games. A...
Caillebotte, Gustave
Artists
Age 45
August 19, 1848 - February 21, 1894
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Gustave Caillebotte was a French painter who was a member and patron of the Impressionists, although he painted in a more realistic manner than many others in the group. He was noted for his early interest in photography as an ar...