Boone, Daniel
Historical Figure
Age 85
November 2, 1734 - September 26, 1820
Frankfort Cemetery / Frankfort / Kentucky / USA / North America
Daniel Boone, a bonafide legend during his own lifetime, was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone became famous for his exploration and settlement of...
Morgan Sr., John Pierpont
Business and Finance
Age 75
April 17, 1837 - March 31, 1913 (aged 75)
Cedar Hill Cemetery / Hartford / Connecticut / USA / North America
J.P. Morgan was a titan of American business. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries his position and connections put him squarely in the middle of the development of American industry. Of his generation John Pierpont Morgan (1...
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...
Burns, George
Show Business
Age 100
January 20, 1896 - March 9, 1996
Forest Lawn Memorial Park / Glendale / California / USA / North America
George Burns was a beloved American comedian, actor, singer, and writer and one of a few who made the successful transition from vaudeville to radio to television and films. Immensely successful with his wife and partner Gracie Al...
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...
Borge, Victor
Music
Age 91
January 3, 1909 - December 23, 2000
Putnam Cemetery / Greenwich / Connecticut / USA / North America
Victor Borge was a Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist who achieved great popularity in radio and television in both North America and Europe. His blend of music and comedy earned him the nickname "The Clown Prince of...
Lonardo, Angelo
Crime and their Victims
Age 95
December 31, 1969 - March 31, 2006
Calvary Cemetery / Cleveland / Ohio / USA / North America
Big Ange, the son of Prohibition mob boss Joseph Lonardo, took control of the Cleveland crime family in 1962. He led the family until 1984 when he was convicted of running a drug ring and was sentenced to life in prison. He then b...
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...
Alamo, Frank
Music
Age 70
October 12, 1941 - October 11, 2012
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Frank Alamo was a French singer who achieved his greatest success in the 1960s. With his boy-next-door image and plaintive voice, the yéyé singer Frank Alamo was an engaging "idole des jeunes" – teenage idol – and a const...
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...
List, The Family of John
Crime and their Victims
Age
- November 9, 1971
Fairview Cemetery / Westfield / New Jersey / USA / North America
John List was a narcissistic mass murderer who suffered from obsessive-compulsive personality disorder who systematically murdered his mother, his wife and three children on November 9, 1971. Fired from his accounting position at ...
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Music
Age 36
September 24, 1893 - December 19, 1929
Blind Lemon Jefferson Memorial Cemetery (the former Wortham Black Cemetery) / Wortham / Texas / USA / North America
Neglected and ignored until recently by his own home state, Blind Lemon Jefferson is nonetheless revered internationally as a seminal figure in the history of the blues with 89 classic blues songs recorded in just 4 years time.
Broderick, Dan
Crime and their Victims
Age 44
November 22, 1944 - November 5, 1989
Greenwood Memorial Park / San Diego / California / USA / North America
In 1965 Betty met her future husband, Dan Broderick at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. After bearing him four children, working a variety of jobs and keeping the household running, Dan was able to graduate with both a law d...
Heard, John
Show Business
Age 71
March 7, 1946 - July 21, 2017
Old South Cemetery / Ipswich / Massachusetts / USA / North America
John Heard engaging, intelligent character actor in American film, television and theatre from the mid-1970s onwards. With well over 200 films and TV appearances he received two Obie Awards and an Emmy nomination for his work on t...
Hugo, Victor
Writers and Poets
Age 83
February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885
Le Panthéon / Paris / France / Europe
Victor Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside France, his most famous works are the novels Les Misérables (1862), and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831). In France, Hugo is renowned fo...